WWE and TNA’s War With AEW. Plus, Dominik Mysterio’s Big Weekend at Triplemanía.

The Ringer Wrestling Show

The Ringer

Sports, Wrestling

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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COLD OPEN QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Who from the SmackDown tag team division would you book for the main event of WrestleMania (0:36)?David and Kaz kick off the show by discussing the latest on Karrion Kross after his interview about his WWE contract status (9:00). Then they discuss the following: Dominik Mysterio, Dragon Lee, and El Grande Americano vs. El Hijo del Vikingo at Triplemanía (14:57) Dominik Mysterio’s trajectory for the WrestleMania 42 main event (26:00) Is WWE attempting to put AEW out of business (32:14)? John Cena’s last match vs. AEW (47:30) Vince McMahon appears in a Hulk Hogan documentary (51:21) Be sure to check out our videos on BlueSky, TikTok, Instagram Threads, and X.Hosts: David Shoemaker and Kazeem FamuyideProducer: Brian H. Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A wise man once said in this world, nothing can be certain except death taxes and your boy Johnny Bananas.
0:07.2	Welcome to the brand new Death Taxes and Bananas channel where we'll be recapping season 41 of the challenge every week with all your favorite cast members.
0:15.6	I'm going to dive deep into the drama, get every side of every story, and tell stories about behind the scenes on set
0:22.8	antics. So, follow Death Taxes and Bananas on Spotify, where you can watch every episode
0:28.2	or subscribe to YouTube.com at Death Taxes Bananas on YouTube.
0:35.7	Cold open question of the week, Kaz.
0:38.4	What's up, Shoes?
0:39.4	I'm not going to...
0:40.5	We have a good segment to start the show,
0:42.5	but let me ask you my pre-prepared,
0:44.3	cold-open question.
0:45.6	Okay.
0:47.3	So looking at the Smackdown Tag Division,
0:48.9	getting hype for Smackdown tonight.
0:50.4	It's Friday, special recording day.
0:52.0	We got DIY versus Street Profits and Fraxium
0:56.8	against Mello Don't Mizz. Both those tag matches are happening tonight. But of course,
1:03.0	there's the great TLC match at SummerSlam. So I'm going to give you all of the names of the
1:07.6	people in that TLC match,
1:10.9	plus Mello and Miz for good measure.
1:14.0	All right?
1:14.7	Your question is, which of these 14 people,
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