JUMPING JEOPARDIES or THE ART OF NOT CATCHING (Wrestling Soup 5.1.25)

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Wrestling Soup, Anthony Thomas and Joseph E. Numbers dive into the latest happenings in the world of wrestling, including a review of the recent TNA pay-per-view and a critique of WWE RAW's latest episode. The duo discusses a bizarre incident involving Leon Slater during a wrestling match, where he was uncaught after a jump, leading to a debate on wrestler safety. They also touch on Ricochet's recent comments about WWE ruining his passion, Samantha Irvin's claims of being shadow-banned on YouTube, and the launch of Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff's new wrestling venture 'Real American Freestyle Wrestling.' The episode wraps up with a mix of news, opinions, and humorous takes on the current state and future of wrestling.
00:00 Introduction and Recent Wrestling Highlights
00:32 The Leon Slater Incident
02:40 Critique of Dangerous Wrestling Spots
16:59 WWE and AAA Deal Speculations
20:22 AEW and WWE Talent Comparisons
34:08 Ricochet's Controversial Comments
41:58 Discussing Music and Shadow Banning
42:25 Comparing Music Video Success
45:19 Entitlement in the Music Industry
49:12 One Hit Wonders and Viral Songs
55:36 Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff's New Wrestling Promotion
01:17:16 Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up

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0:00.0	Wrestling soup for a mature audience.
0:05.0	Ragam all right.
0:07.0	Wrestling soup, I am Anthony Thomas and he is Joseph E-Numbers.
0:14.0	Ah, yes, I'm here and I'm ready to talk about all of the three or four exciting things that happened in the past week.
0:23.6	That's what we're going back to the TNA pay-per-view that happened over the weekend because Ra went down and Ra was, by all accounts, cuckadudu shit.
0:33.6	Right.
0:33.8	So we're really getting into some of the stray pieces of news, some of the little parts.
0:39.7	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, for sure. But yes, did you see that spot? I assume you did.
0:46.0	I did. Like I said, it was a weird thing. I was just browsing Twitter, trying to catch up to some DMs.
0:52.1	I got to get back to Phil, too. Phil hit me up. A lot of people hit me up
0:55.5	about the week and stuff like that. And I've just really been MIA because of all this. But in my
1:01.1	moment of being on Twitter for half a second, I saw this clip of what was the guy's name that jumped?
1:08.9	Flip, Flip McAllister. Flip McAllister, okay.
1:11.6	Yeah, I think that's what it was.
1:13.6	I think his name was Duky Matt Stain, because that's what he's going to.
1:18.6	Leon Slater, thank you, Eddie.
1:20.6	Well, I saw Leon Slater take this jump to the outside, and there was a bunch of people outside of the ring waiting for him to catch him.
1:28.2	And the main guy that I saw was A.J. Francis.
1:31.9	And A.J. Francis missed.
1:34.5	And this guy just went careening hard to the fucking table floor.
1:39.2	Oh, well, Mitch, to be fair, this is like a JFK kind of situation.
1:43.5	There were many shooters as far as ducking, dodging, getting out of the way of this kid. Dude, the spot itself is asinine. All right. So I'm not even going to. Oh, sorry, sorry. I was playing the clip. I was looking at it. Oh, you got big. All right. Yeah. So for those that haven't seen it,
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