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WRESTLING SOUP

RICKY STONKS! (Wrestling Soup 2.19.25)

WRESTLING SOUP

Wrestling Soup Network

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.4738 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, the hosts delve into various topics within the wrestling world, including controversies surrounding wrestler personas and name changes, the roles of different wrestling shows like AEW and NXT, and the emotional and psychological impact of wrestling content. They discuss the intricacies of wrestler personas like Ricky Starks' name change to Ricky Saints, and the wrestling community's reactions to these developments. The conversation also touches on the portrayal of female wrestlers and their acting skills, including a critique of the Rock's daughter Ava in NXT. Furthermore, they humorously explore the idea of making a deaf wrestler a heel, questioning the audience's reactions to such characters. The hosts aim to provide a deep and entertaining analysis of the current wrestling landscape.
01:10 AEW Coverage and YouTube's Role
02:03 Theatrics in Wrestling Commentary
03:05 Ricky Starks' Name Change Debate
04:40 Critiquing The Rock's Daughter in NXT
17:00 Ethan Page's NXT Journey
21:42 Setting the Scene: Rules and Contracts
22:29 Critique of Wrestling Personalities
24:52 Wesley's Character Arc
25:16 Tag Teams and Wrestling Dynamics
27:06 NXT's New Faces and Name Changes
29:47 Character Consistency and Fan Engagement
30:17 The Role of Gimmicks in Wrestling
32:21 The Importance of Storylines
33:35 NXT's Unique Approach
40:25 Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up


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0:00.0

wrestling soup i don't available the a w coverage and talking about anything involving them

0:09.8

that's really centralized i feel like to youtube i think youtube is really blown up on that i'm not so

0:16.7

sure how the stats do on regular a long audio podcast for it because people like to to do that

0:25.4

shit on YouTube. I mean, I don't know another way to explain it other than that. I feel like,

0:30.3

and especially when it's the YWC guys, they like seeing that kind of, you know, JD or any of the other dudes that do that kind of stuff all worked up about it, as opposed to just listening, you know?

0:44.3

Yeah.

0:44.8

No, it's part of the show.

0:46.1

Yes.

0:46.4

You give them part of the show, Joe.

0:48.4

Well, how do they, you have to think, too, like, it's real easy to get all worked up about this bad wrestling show.

0:58.8

If you got the red light on in front of you, you're going through the motions or whatever you want to call it.

1:03.7

But when we're talking about Monday Night Raw and we're going, yeah, most of it's just like mediocre.

1:10.7

It's really hard to kind of rile yourself up for something that's just, you know,

1:15.1

it's a headspace.

1:16.5

I mean, come on.

1:17.1

We know guys that will become more amplified as they talk about things.

1:21.9

So they'll take a little nugget inside themselves of information that they might not like and then they'll just ramp

1:29.2

it up. And they do that because they want other people to feel emotion. Matter of fact,

1:32.8

it's kind of funny sometimes. You get better emotion from listening to podcasts than you do

1:37.6

on some of these wrestling shows. And it's so if you can piss off your audience sometimes,

1:42.7

and this is just me observing how this shit works, but if you can piss off or impassion your audience about something that has no fucking intrinsic value whatsoever, then you've done your job.

1:56.8

You've earned your shekels.

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