WHO NEEDS REALITY? or SCRIPTED SAGA AT TIFFANY'S (Wrestling Soup 4.10.25)

WRESTLING SOUP

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Comedy, Sports, Wrestling

4.3 • 753 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 67 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 wrestling world. They start by discussing a relatively dull week leading up to WrestleMania, the effect of losing their longtime partner, and the apparent decline of AEW's relevance compared to WWE and TNA. They focus on Jordan Grace's botch, the Evolve Show, and the curious case of Swerve Strickland's antics on Vlad TV. The conversation also shifts to explosive promos like the one between Charlotte and Tiffany Stratton, showing the wrestling dynamics at play. The hosts dissect the crowd's reaction, the possible off-script segments, and how these promos build tension. They mention Vince Russo and Stevie Richards’ takes on these controversies as well. Additionally, Anthony and Joseph address the latest comments from Chris Jericho about his potential WWE return and his current situation in AEW. Other topics include Samantha Irvin's unexpected shift to music, Ricochet's WWE complaints, and more.
00:00 Introduction and Weekly Recap
00:25 Wrestling World Updates
00:56 AEW's Decline and WWE's Stability
02:42 Kenny Omega's Analogy
06:57 Booker T's Response to Swerve
18:20 Ricochet's Career Reflections
24:52 Samantha Irvin's New Venture
33:00 Generational Differences in Music Preferences
34:02 The Struggles of Aspiring Musicians
34:50 The Competitive Nature of the Music Industry
37:53 Tiffany Stratton vs. Charlotte Flair Promo Analysis
43:43 The Role of Heels in Wrestling
01:01:17 Chris Jericho's Potential Return to WWE
01:05:31 Closing Remarks and Upcoming Shows

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0:00.0	Who's the big guy, butterkaker?
0:09.3	Butterkid.
0:14.2	Wrestling soup, I am Anthony Thomas, joined along with Joseph E-Numbers.
0:18.9	Here we are, back again Thursday night.
0:21.7	A whole lot of nothing seemingly has happened this week.
0:24.9	Just little shit that I feel like we missed from the weekend.
0:28.7	Yeah.
0:28.9	Then Monday, as far as wrestling is concerned, of course, no big things.
0:33.6	Feeling like going into WrestleMania a week and a half, not even, huh? I mean, obviously we can't just gloss over the fact that we lost our partner for many years, which has devastated all of us. But as far as the wrestling world goes, I was kind of thankful that it's been a dull week joke. Yeah, no new, like Vince lawsuits. Triple H didn't do anything too bad or something.
0:55.5	I don't know.
0:56.2	But that's it.
0:56.8	I feel like to some extent, Mish, we're kind of lucky.
1:00.7	And also it points obviously a little curse at the fact that wrestling is now becoming a little bit more sane, at least the W.
1:09.5	At least the W.E side of it.
1:15.9	And AW is becoming such a non-factor, non-issue,
1:22.5	that even when stuff happens over there, it's like, meh. Right. It's like the smallest town having some sort of problem. You're like, oh, no, I'm so worried. who gives you shit i saw jordan grace's botch getting
1:31.1	more traction than aewt talk this week i mean like that's where we're at now is that a
1:36.6	tv is now slipping to third place i think more people are excited to talk about t and a stuff
1:42.3	than they are even AEW stuff.
1:44.4	We even have the Evolve show.
1:46.3	I didn't get to watch it this week.
1:47.8	I know Jeff and Chocolate covered it, and they did their Evolve review and stuff.
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