Does The Rock Need Roman Reigns for His Last Match? Plus, CM Punk’s Turmoil Backstage at AEW | Wednesday Worldwide

The Ringer Wrestling Show

The Ringer

Wrestling, Sports

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This week, Khal adds a phrase to the wrestling dictionary as he, Ben, and Brian get into some top headlines, including the following: CM Punk and Jack Perry had a disagreement backstage at AEW 'Collision' (2:52) Booker T says Mark Henry is wrong—there is a WWE vs. AEW war (14:12) Lacey Evans is likely done with WWE (21:27) Later, in They Said What?!, they react to Brian Gewirtz’s appearance on the Masked Man Show where he discussed The Rock’s involvement in the Bloodline story (30:00). After the break, they react to hot takes from the Wednesday Worldwide Hotline about Ronda Rousey, the biggest debuts, and WWE’s current record-breaking title reigns (42:36). The crew closes the show with highlights from NXT (64:46) and a preview of tonight’s AEW ‘Dynamite’ (67:43). For an opportunity to have your hot take featured on They Said What?!, leave a voicemail at (202) 417-8160. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Football is around the corner and we are ramping it up, over here on the Ring or NFL
0:04.5	feed in the month of August.
0:06.3	Every week Ben, Solak and I will be bringing you not one but two extra point takins, that's
0:11.1	right, double the trouble as we predict, debate and analyze our way through camp and the
0:16.0	preseason every Monday and Friday.
0:18.0	But that is not all, Steven Ruiz and I will be coming to you every Wednesday, we'll
0:22.0	talk about everything in the world of the NFL, and who knows, maybe Steven will even
0:25.4	have something nice to say about your favorite spot.
0:27.6	So frankly I wouldn't count it.
0:29.0	Subscribe to the Ring or NFL show on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:33.6	And be sure to follow the Ring or NFL on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter at Ring or NFL.
0:58.1	What's up everybody, welcome to another episode of Wednesday World Wide.
1:13.8	World Wide.
1:15.4	A proud member of the faction known as the ringer wrestling show.
1:19.5	My name is Ben Cruz and I'm a producer here at the ringer and with me as always, my
1:25.2	tag team partners.
1:26.8	I've seen your editor at the ringer.com, Cal, Davenport and of course, the super producer
1:34.4	here at the ringer, Mr. Brian H. Waters, Mr. Waters, I see Jersey on you and that does
1:41.5	not look like a Baltimore Orioles Jersey and I have some questions.
1:45.5	It's a Seattle Mariners Jersey.
1:48.8	Please explain yourself.
1:49.8	Yes, please.
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