Mercedes Moné’s Debut in AEW Is a Shift to Bigger Business. Plus, Dan St. Germain Joins the Show!| The Masked Man Show

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Wrestling, Sports

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Cold Open Question of the Week: Rank these modern-day debuts: Mercedes Moné, Cody Rhodes in WWE, CM Punk in AEW, and CM Punk back to WWE. David, Kaz, and Brian ring the bell and discuss the following: Mercedes Moné’s debut and what it means for AEW (8:40). Will Ospreay’s star power (17:30) Kazuchika Okada’s immediate impact on AEW (24:45) Darby Allin takes another bump (33:10) What is Kevin Owens doing at WrestleMania (40:10)? Then, as a bonus, Dan St. Germain comes on the show to talk about his upcoming comedy special, ‘Dance, Fatty Dance,' and share his WrestleMania XL hot takes, thoughts on Mercedes Moné, and more (59:11). They closes the show with the return of Sell or No Sell (1:15:06), plus Kaz has a few WaleMania guest announcements (1:28:42). Join the ‘Ringer Wrestling’ crew on Friday, April 5, from 5 to 7 p.m. ET for our meet and greet at Chickie’s & Pete’s in South Philly, located at 1526 Packer Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Be sure to check out our videos on the Ringer TikTok account @RingerWrestling, Instagram Threads, and X. Hosts: David Shoemaker, Kazeem Famuyide, and Brian H. Waters Guest: Dan St. Germain Producer: Brian H. Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.3	Instagram, Tik-Tock, YouTube and X at Ringer NFL. NFL. NFL. Cold open question of the week, Kaz.
0:57.0	What's up, shoes?
0:59.0	Rank these modern pro wrestling debuts. Mercedes Monet last night on dynamite.
1:07.0	Cody Rhodes in WWE.
1:10.0	C. M. Punk in W. W. E. Okay. And C. M. Punk in A. W. I'm gonna go. Number one, Cody Rhodes at Wrestle
1:23.9	Nia. That's bigger than Punk in Aew. You already got me shocked here.
1:28.0	I think, I think, with hindsight being 2020, I going to put puck in AEW after Cody and the high, yeah, we have the benefit of hindsight.
1:39.3	But in the moment, in the moment. In the moment. oh gosh, all right, well in the moment obviously,
1:45.1	like punk would probably be be an A. W.
1:47.5	Probably be number one, but I'm basing this off of like,
1:51.1	this is great, what came from it you know Cody is still the main event
1:55.4	at WrestleMania still extremely you know consequential to the biggest
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