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The Ringer Wrestling Show

Wednesday Worldwide | WTF Is a Pitch Black Match? Plus, Reacting to Nick Khan’s Ringer Interview.

The Ringer Wrestling Show

The Ringer

Sports, Wrestling

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Introducing Wednesday Worldwide, where Ringer dot com senior editor Khal Davenport and producers Ben Cruz and Brian H. Waters tackle the biggest headlines of the week in the wrestling world and chat with some of the biggest names in wrestling media before recapping the previous night’s 'NXT' and previewing AEW 'Dynamite.' This week, they discuss the following: Their wrestling fan origin stories (3:00) "Broken" Matt Hardy’s return (11:37) LA Knight not knowing what a Pitch Black match is (15:25) Jay Briscoe’s passing (21:08) Rhea Ripley being this generation’s Chyna (26:10) David Shoemaker joins to break down Nick Khan’s interview with Bill Simmons (33:00) Highlights from 'NXT' (45:44) Preview of tonight’s AEW 'Dynamite' (50:16) Hosts: Ben Cruz, Khal Davenport, and Brian H. Waters Guest: David Shoemaker Producer: Brian H. Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up, everybody? It's Austin Rivers from the Minnesota Temple Wolves. It's a new year, and I have a new podcast here at the Ringer off guard

0:06.7

hosted by me and my guy, Pasha Higigi. Austin and I go way back and talk so much through

0:11.6

already that we figured those time to fire up the mics and let you in on all of these conversations.

0:16.2

Every week, Pasha and I will head on to biggest stories happening in the league and get

0:19.9

Austin's perspective of someone currently hoping in the NBA. Tap into off guard every Friday on the Ringer NBA show

0:25.6

fee on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:55.6

Watch the smoke! Lately, he just hasn't been very oocy. What's up, everybody? Welcome to the day view episode of Wednesday Worldwide.

1:07.7

Worldwide? A proud member of the faction known as the Ringer Wrestling Show. My name is Ben Cruz, and I'm a producer here at the Ringer.

1:19.6

And I am here with my tag team partners, senior editor at theRinger.com, Cal Davenport, and of course, the super producer here at the Ringer, Mr. Brian H. Waters.

1:37.1

Gentlemen, we are here. They really gave us a podcast about the Ringer.

1:43.6

Somebody messed up now. Somebody messed up now. We are on the main roster. You guys, no more dark matches.

1:53.6

It's go time. How are we feeling? How are we feeling? We were kicking ass on them dark matches. I'll

1:59.5

tell you that much. I think we are confident that we are going to be a good addition. A great addition

2:07.4

to the already illustrious brand of Ringer Wrestling here on Spotify.

2:11.8

Yeah, man. I'm really excited. We've been here. We've been on Dave's show. So I'm ready to do our thing

2:20.5

every Wednesday. Let's get it. Let's get it. Let's get it. It's time to bring those five start dark matches

2:26.1

to the main roster. But before we get into the actual show, since we are technically the new faces

2:34.6

here on the Ringer Wrestling Show feed, I figured it was only polite that we introduce ourselves

2:43.2

to the fantastic listeners out there. As Brian said, we've dabbled here and there on Dave's show.

2:50.1

But I figured the best way to do some sort of introduction was for each of us to quickly answer

2:57.6

the following prompt. So here we go. What is your wrestling fan origin story and who is your

3:04.8

favorite wrestler of all time? And for clarity's sake, by wrestling fan origin story, I mean,

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