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The Ringer Wrestling Show

Building the Perfect Wrestler. Plus, Swerve Strickland Discusses His Evolution at AEW Four Years Later and More!

The Ringer Wrestling Show

The Ringer

Sports, Wrestling

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

COLD OPEN QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Five years ago this week was AEW’s exploding barbed wire death match. If WrestleMania had that match, who would you want to see in it (0:30)? David and Brian open up the mailbag this week, respond to a few questions from the humanoids, and recap highlights from WWE ‘Raw.’ They discuss the following: Build a wrestler by picking from the legends' in-ring skills, mic skills, physical look, and signature moves (3:00) Brian’s perfect wrestler in MyRISE mode in 'WWE 2K26' (8:40) Is CM Punk working heel right now (20:33)? Whether or not David was one of the masked men on 'Raw' (50:10) Logan Paul’s WrestleMania and whether or not Tom Brady was involved (52:07) Oba Femi’s dominant win over Rusev (56:40) Cody Rhodes regains the Undisputed WWE Championship, and fans are buying bots to dislike the YouTube video (1:31:20) Then Ben speaks with AEW superstar Swerve Strickland, and they discuss the following: The total number of matches Swerve has had in his career (1:38:35) Looking back at his AEW debut four years ago (1:40:39) How he's evolved and become physically bigger since his debut (1:46:23) Reactions to Kaz’s description of his personality (1:49:34) Previewing his match with Brody King at AEW Revolution (1:52:30) His viral entrance with Prince Nana (1:57:24) Be sure to check out our videos on BlueSky, TikTok, Instagram Threads, and X. Hosts: David Shoemaker, Brian H. Waters, and Ben Cruz Guest: Swerve Strickland Producer: Brian H. Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A wise man once said in this world, nothing can be certain except death taxes and your boy Johnny Bananas.

0:07.2

Welcome to the brand new Death Taxes and Bananas channel where we'll be recapping season 41 of the challenge every week with all your favorite cast members.

0:15.6

I'm going to dive deep into the drama, get every side of every story, and tell stories about behind the scenes on set

0:22.8

antics. So, follow Death Taxes and Bananas on Spotify, where you can watch every episode

0:28.3

or subscribe to YouTube.com at Death Taxes Bananas on YouTube.

0:36.2

Cold open question of the week, Brian.

0:39.1

What is up, shoes?

0:41.0

It feels weird coming out of my mouth.

0:42.7

I choke over your name.

0:43.7

Not if there's anything wrong with you.

0:44.8

It just has just, you know how it is.

0:48.4

All right, five years ago yesterday,

0:50.8

uh-huh.

0:52.4

AEW had its infamous exploding barbed wire death match.

0:58.8

What was five years ago?

1:00.2

Can you believe that was five years ago?

1:03.0

I feel so old.

1:05.7

If WrestleMania, since it's coming up right now, was going to have a exploding barbed wire death match. Who would you

1:12.7

want to see in that match?

1:16.5

Oh,

1:17.0

what I want to see?

1:19.0

I mean,

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