WWE Clash in Italy Predictions!

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🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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COLD OPEN QUESTION OF THE WEEK: How Would You Turn Curtis Axel’s Arrest Into a Story Line? David and Kaz kick off the show by discussing Kaz’s upcoming commencement speech at his high school alma mater, and whether or not he should drop some wrestling references in his speech (04:33). After that, the guys discuss the mural of El Grande Americano in Mexico before asking why wrestling mural culture in America isn't a thing (06:38). Following that, David and Kaz run through their predictions for Clash in Italy this weekend: (16:03) - World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns vs. Jacob Fatu in Tribal Combat (20:47) - Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes vs. Gunther (26:33) - WWE Women's Champion Rhea Ripley vs. Jade Cargill (30:52) - Women's Intercontinental Champion Becky Lynch vs. Sol Ruca (38:56) - Oba Femi vs. Brock Lesnar 2 The show ends with some quick discussions about AAA’s Noche de los Grandes this weekend (51:41), an AEW Dynamite recap (56:15), and a preview of tonight’s 'SmackDown' (1:01:56). Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel! Hosts: David Shoemaker and Kazeem Famuyide Producers: Bruce Baldwin and Ben Cruz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Cold open question of the week, Kaz.
0:07.8	What's up, shoes?
0:09.5	Do you see that Curtis Axel got arrested?
0:12.9	I did see that, yes.
0:14.2	It was apparently a week ago.
0:15.4	Nobody's making a big deal with it, which is the right thing to do.
0:18.2	He's not a WWE employee.
0:19.8	He's just a former wrestler.
0:22.9	But we're going to talk about it anyway.
0:25.2	This comes hot on the heels of the Ludwig Kaiser arrest.
0:29.9	If you were booking WWE and Joe Hinnock was one of your stars,
0:36.5	how would you turn this McDonald's, this McDonald's drive-thru drunken incident
0:41.0	into, uh, into a storyline?
0:44.4	I wouldn't.
0:45.8	You don't touch it?
0:49.6	I wouldn't touch it at all.
0:51.2	Oh, come on.
0:51.9	I wouldn't think it.
0:53.6	You don't think it'd be funny if he just like rammed his car into the McDonald's, I wouldn't touch it at all. Oh, come on. I wouldn't touch it at all. You don't think it would be funny if he just, like, rammed his car into the McDonald's. I don't know. I don't know what happened. I'm imagining now. If he just, like, just rammed his car, like, you know, just headlong into the McDonald's, like, broke down a wall, caused a wreck. Everybody's going insane. And he just gets off and dusts off his shoulder. And he's just like absolutely perfect.
1:14.5	And just like, broke down a wall caused a wreck everybody's going insane and he just gets off and like dusts off
1:11.4	his shoulder and he's just like absolutely perfect and just like walks off that wouldn't know
1:17.3	the one time he he invokes the name of his much more famous and better at wrestling father
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