Drew McIntyre, Aleister Black, Zelina Vega, and Karrion Kross Join the Show

The Ringer Wrestling Show

The Ringer

Wrestling, Sports

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

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It’s SummerSlam weekend, and David, Kaz, Ben, and Brian are all together in New Jersey to sit down with a few WWE Superstars! Here is the second half of their interviews.Drew McIntyre explains why he was held up from returning back to the United States, why Jelly Roll doesn’t belong in a wrestling ring, his goal to get back to pursuing the WWE title, having a run in front of fans, and more (0:53).Aleister Black talks returning to WWE from AEW, what’s different in his current run, and a little bit of mythology about the depth of who he is (22:16).Zelina Vega joins and discusses growing up in New York, training as a wrestler in different regions, becoming the United States champion, becoming the first Queen of the Ring, and her match with Giulia on Smackdown (48:03)Last, Karrion Kross joins and discusses his viral moment after WrestleMania 41, his desire to reward wrestling fans who watch weekly, Bloodspot, and the craziest moment of the past six months (1:13:45).Be sure to check out our videos on BlueSky, TikTok, Instagram Threads, and X.Hosts: David Shoemaker, Kazeem Famuyide, Ben Cruz, and Brian H. WatersGuests: Drew McIntyre, Aleister Black, Zelina Vega, and Karrion KrossProducer: Brian H. Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Danny Hyphitz here from the Ringer Fantasy Football Show.
0:02.9	We're coming to you multiple times per week to tell you who to draft, who not to draft.
0:06.9	Honestly, that's kind of most of it.
0:08.3	The Ringer Fantasy Football Show.
0:09.4	YouTube, Spotify, wherever get your podcast, we had an episode, we had an episode where we talked to ChosieGrasem Sam
0:26.6	Show.
0:31.9	Welcome to the Mask Man Show, Summer Slam Spectacular, 2025.
0:37.2	In case you missed it, we had an episode yesterday
0:39.2	where we talked to Chossey Green, Art Truth, Damian, Brees,
0:41.3	and Meechin. Today, we are speaking to Drew McIntyre,
0:45.2	Alastra Black, is Alina Vega
0:46.9	and Carrying Cross.
0:50.5	Starting off with Drew. Please enjoy the show.
0:54.0	So they finally let him back in the country.
0:57.0	The one and only, Drew McIntyre, passport issues resolved.
1:03.2	Big match still intact, no replacements.
1:07.4	Drew, I can confirm to everybody listening.
1:10.0	Drew is in New Jersey. Good to have you here, brother.
1:15.0	It's good to be here. It's been quite the adventure the past week. I know nobody's more upset than
1:20.4	make the Mizzark. Sorry, brother. Missionary mic. Everyone's popping for that one online.
1:26.7	That's a missionary mic. So what happened? Like online that's a missionary like so what happened like i know
1:31.0	you went out for a friend's wedding right and then i guess uh you mentioned something on the video
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