DRUG ABUSE, NDA's, AND RETIREMENTS: THE MUSICAL (Frank & Gus 4.24.26)

WRESTLING SOUP

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4.3 • 753 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Anthony and Joe break down the latest in wrestling news, starting with a wave of retirement announcements including Pat McAfee, Nikki Bella, and Billy Gunn's take on his own career future. The guys discuss the dangers of wrestlers overextending themselves across too many ventures, debate which WWE women could pull off a hardcore match, and riff on the absurdity of The Rock producing a Fighting with My Family stage musical. They also get into the parasocial entitlement of wrestling fans, AEW's merch problems, MJF's ceiling in WWE, Dan Hausen's potential, and the security failures at WrestleMania 42 weekend — including X-Pac's assault claims at the MGM Grand.

Timestamps:

0:00 – Intro / Three WWE retirements in 24 hours
1:56 – Pat McAfee retirement breakdown
16:32 – The WrestleMania ads controversy
17:13 – Parasocial relationships
24:00 – Back to retirements: Nikki Bella
25:41 – Fantasy booking a hardcore Nikki Bella run
29:27 – Brit Baker at the NFL Draft
31:20 – AEW Boys & Girls Club
37:55 – Billy Gunn's retirement comments & his attitude
57:06 – The Rock producing a musical
1:05:10 – MJF's ceiling in WWE & Dan Hausen's future
1:11:24 – AEW merch problems & fired designers
1:17:59 – X-Pac assaulted at WrestleMania 42 weekend
1:23:17 – MGM Grand security failures & TKO cheapness
1:25:59 – Wrap-up

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0:00.0	So who?
0:10.9	Who can you tell me who it is that retired today?
0:14.6	All in one fell school.
0:15.5	Well, yeah, literally in the last, yeah, last day or two.
0:19.7	Pat McAfee announced his full retirement. Oh, yeah, but if he's done, that means, that means no more in-ring shit, right? That's good, right? You know, that is good. Well, wasn't that his whole thing in the past, like a couple days?
0:42.0	I did know that where he's now getting to be like, oh, that sucked.
0:43.7	I knew that it sucked.
0:45.0	It's like, oh, you really?
0:45.7	Yeah. You really knew that it sucked, dude?
0:47.3	Then what was that all about then?
0:50.4	You know?
0:50.8	Yeah.
0:51.4	You know, I think he was bitten with the Rhonda bug. I think he was bitten with the Rhonda bug.
0:56.7	I think he was bitten with the Ronda bug where when they finally got there and they got
1:02.7	in the ring, they just realized it wasn't everything they expected it to be.
1:09.4	Well, you mean when the endless praise and cheers ended,
1:13.3	he all of a sudden didn't like it as much anymore.
1:15.4	Which is really stupid because he could have just continued doing what he was doing
1:19.7	and received that endless cheers and praise forever.
1:24.0	Like Pat McAfee as a personality is just fine.
1:26.9	As a guy doing color commentary, he was just fine.
1:29.5	He was better than fine.
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