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Laps Fan Wrestling Podcast. Patreon listener request series 2017

as we embark on August 2017 and thus it's Summer Slam the

2003 edition from Phoenix Arizona Boss. Oh yes. Here we go. From the from the the the

America West Arena which is now called the Talking stick resort arena.

Great.

Talking stick.

Is that what they write on the format sheet now for the first segment of Raw every week?

Who's on the talking stick segment?

Isn't that, um, isn't that the Renee Young show that just got cancelled?

Isn't that a rock movie? Oh no, that's Walking Tall. Not Talking Stick.

Talking Stick. That's one way to refer to the microphone.

Oh, fucking hey. We have a heat match. Yes.

That, uh, that, that starts prior to, uh, to the slams, which is Ray Mysterio defeating Shannon Moore.

High stakes cruiser-weight action.

At one point originally planned to be Ray Mysterio versus Kidman but scratched in favor of this barn burner. This was after...

Wait, Kidman versus Ray? Yes. That would be great. Yeah, that was on the books.

Oh yeah, oh yeah. And they in fact had really good matches in W.C. W.

But this is a little while after a landmark Smackdown moment.

They actually headlined the June 5th 2003 Smackdown with Ray Mysterio taking the

cruiser white title off Matt Hardy at his peak version one heel gimmick

where Mysterio's kid and wife got involved in the storytelling and it was a

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