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Ashley Mann

Co-host of The WWE Podcast and host/creator of the wrestling KickAsh Podcast.

Sep 11, 2026

MattHOST
33:41
So do you have any other thoughts on this, or what's your prediction rather?
33:44
rather?[rock music] No, I think that's actually how he ended the last one too, by that same type of speech, so [laughs] yeah, and, and it's probably exactly how it's gonna happen this time too.
36:33
Who'd he face last time? Was it, like, Cesaro, someone like that, I think?

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MattHOST
99:31
[laughs]
99:32
It cracks me up every time, and especially that he's a, a baby face now and he can smile, and like he's just like he could be a little bit more animated and just like get into who he is as the Brock Lesnar character, which is like weird to say 'cause like you don't really think of Lesnar having a character, but you know, like who he is.
99:50
So it's just, man, like it just, [laughs] it just, I love it.
99:54
I, I, absolutely love it.
99:55
So that's why selfishly like I would love to see this whole thing play out with Heyman staying on Roman Reigns' side and, and tr- like have been telling the truth in regards to being, you know, with Roman and not having anything to do with Lesnar, and Lesnar just be having, uh, been playing mind games this entire time.
MattHOST
106:49
When roughly do you think they will finally get the split and see Sasha snap on Bayley?
106:58
Yeah, I think if it was a normal world, I think the seeds would have been planted at Money in the Bank.
107:08
I think Sasha would have won.
107:10
we would have had a story of who's she going to go after? Is she going to turn on Bailey? Bill would be like, of course, you know, she wouldn't choose me.
107:18
She's in, she's relieved that, you know, she doesn't worry about the contract holder.
107:22
So in my opinion, I, that, I think that's probably the initial route that they were going to go in.
107:29
And of course everything changed.

11 MINS LATER

MattHOST
118:39
How are you viewing this Matt Riddle call-up? Do you have any matches that you'd love to see or how they'll position him?
MattHOST
20:09
Yeah.
20:09
I was a huge fan of Riddle, um, in NXT, and I had, I, I had high hopes for him on the SmackDown brand.
20:17
I just felt like, give him a year, he could've gone through, had like a nice IC title run, or at least, you know, been in the contention for that, and just really built him up as this tough character, and just really built him as like a main event player.
20:31
And to see him walking around with bro nuts and just being a goof and just, like, not taking anything seriously, it, it's just, it's frustrating.
20:41
[laughs] You know? And, and I'm not saying that I need him to be Brock Lesnar serious, right? But he can still have his personality.
20:48
I feel like in NXT he was the perfect medium for someone like him.
20:52
I felt like we got just enough of who Riddle is as a human being and who he wants that character to be, but when he got in the ring, it was, it was go time, and it was serious.

45 MINS LATER

MattHOST
66:21
All right, I'll let you take this one first, and then I'll take Drew and AJ, so go ahead.

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