James Stewart and Justin Barrasso, Sports Illustrated
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4.1 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2020
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
James Stewart and Justin Barrasso from Sports Illustrated, discussed their long time friendship, wrestling fandom and current and past issues in the Wrestling World.
Open: Justin's background and 18 year friendship.
5:45: The story behind the Bully Ray "Average Athlete" incident.
11:38 - Background and research into the Randy Savage feature story.
26:18 - Where does Randy Savage rank in wrestling history since 1984?
33:25 - Thoughts on NXT and Finn Balor's current status as NXT Champion.
40:22 - Would Fenway Park ever host WWE Summer Slam? If WWE did Summer Slam in Foxboro, what would the feature match be?
43:00 - "Rock is Wrestlemania or Bust" to face Roman Reigns and the character development of Roman Reigns.
53:26 - Could CM Punk return to fight Roman or is New Japan and Wrestle Kingdom in the cards?
1:02:31 - All Elite Wrestling's future direction of Kenny Omega.
1:10:30 - The Young Bucks and how they've been used in the first year of All Elite Wrestling.
1:21:10 - Our evaluation of Cody's time in All Elite Wrestling
1:31:25 - Random stories about Extreme Championship Wrestling
1:41:38 - Top Tag Teams since 1987 (Dudley's and Road Warriors)
1:49:25 - What's coming up in Sports Illustrated
1:53:45 - Thoughts on Jon Moxley and his story and how James had an interview with the then Dean Amborse the day after he won Money in the Bank and the WWE Championship.
2:00:45 - Re booking the WWE Championship picture with Edge, Orton, Drew, Miz and Otis
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| 0:00.0 | B-Pod Studios |
| 0:03.0 | Justin Marasso is the senior writer for Sports Illustrated. |
| 0:11.6 | He does at the very least a weekly wrestling column, but I feel like I see a new story or profile from Justin every day. |
| 0:19.9 | Justin has been my friend for the last 18 years or so. |
| 0:23.0 | And I had no idea that Justin was a wrestling fan until early 2013 when he called me |
| 0:28.5 | asking for input on a macho man Randy Savage story that ended up being published. |
| 0:34.3 | Before that, Justin was a production assistant at WE.E.I. Radio and transitioned to a job |
| 0:40.6 | that had him working at Fenway Park for the Boston Red Sox and later TD Garden working for the |
| 0:46.0 | Boston Celtics. Justin also spent time writing for the Boston Herald. Justin and I would sit in a closet |
| 0:52.9 | in the back of the press box at Fenway and just |
| 0:55.0 | talk for a few innings just about life and baseball and all sorts of fun things. |
| 1:00.1 | Justin has come a long way since being a production assistant and sitting in the back of |
| 1:04.5 | a Red Sox press box with our random sports conversations. |
| 1:08.7 | As the Randy Savage story was the launching pad for Justin to become one of the premier |
| 1:14.0 | wrestling scribes and one of my go-to sources for breaking pro wrestling news and opinion, |
| 1:19.8 | Justin Barrasso, did I get everything right there? |
| 1:23.3 | Wow, that was humbling. |
| 1:24.9 | But I appreciate it. |
| 1:25.5 | And the most important part of that to me was the friendship. |
| 1:28.4 | I don't know if people know that. |
| 1:29.3 | We go back to 2001 or O2, Jim. |
| 1:33.3 | We go way back because I remember calling you for advice on a Red Sox playoff internship in 2003. |
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