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Is WWE Slop? || Gatebusters (Part 2)

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🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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WHO YOU GONNA CALL? GATEBUSTERS!


In part two of this special two-parter, Michael Sidgwick & Michael Hamflett tackle the biggest debates in pro wrestling suggested by YOU!


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0:00.0

So, Gate 3 of 5 is WW Slop Gate.

0:07.7

Now, this is handful of suggestions,

0:10.3

so I feel like it's got something approaching a rant brewing.

0:13.2

But 2025 is either, as long as you're like a rational fan, I think.

0:20.4

You cannot say it's as successful as the period between... It's honestly like a rational fan, I think.

0:25.6

You cannot say it's as successful as the period between the run-up to WrestleMania 39 and the run-up to WrestleMania 40

0:28.4

and the Cody title reign and the Cody Drew, the Drew punk stuff and all.

0:35.5

They still get remembered as up there with the best stuff in WWB history,dh history whether i personally preferred you know late 80s early 90s and

0:42.2

attitude and what have you okay people loved it and ain't that and i think you're lying

0:46.0

to yourself or you're wrong-brained if you think it is now some people like you know the more

0:52.6

rational fed guys and hamlet is the most rational and he is the best

0:57.2

analyst of fed in my lifetime i think okay because i you say things about like goodmanth's character

1:02.4

arc and i'm like oh yeah they aren't doing something and this guy gets it other people would say no

1:08.4

it's not merely just not as good as it was last year in the air befow.

1:12.1

It is actual slop as exemplified by the push and dismal individual performance level of Jay Uso.

1:21.0

Of the return to long-suffering on-screen authority figures being pestered into giving matches to talent

1:32.4

who simply walk up to them and ask for them multiple times per TV show of the incredibly formulaic

1:42.1

barricade smashing, ref bump main event style um lots of reasons why people

1:50.8

would consider it slop WWE I would Hamphlet wouldn't he wants to go first I'll go first

1:58.7

if I may we have a laugh on this podcast, Sidge.

2:02.3

But IMO, when we talk in terms of slop, the laughter's got to stop.

2:09.8

Yeah?

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