Ridge is back! July 20th, 2026

Well worth it.

And you know, we'll, we'll start at the top, like final X.

We haven't had a chance to talk about that.

Like you go out there, uh, New York, New Jersey, Prudential center, kind of talk about what that experience is like.

Like you said, like, Didn't go the way you wanted, but, you know, the experience of being able to wrestle in such a, you know, combat sports are huge in the Prudential Center.

I mean, that's the home of a hockey team in New Jersey.

But, you know, they've had UFC there.

They've had boxing matches there.

They've had, you know, just had Final X there.

What was it kind of like to kind of soak that all in and be a part of that to start this journey of this entire June to July month?

It was okay.

It was, it was, I'll say it was just okay.

Um, they had like the, we did like a press conference thing, but there's only like five guys in

the press

conference.

Okay.

It was like, we got 10 weights.

There's 20 people here, but only five of them are in the press conference.

So that was a little weird.

They did men's freestyle and women's freestyle at the same time.

So we were like splitting mats.

So like walkouts were quick.

They were just kind of trying to rush through that stuff, which I didn't really love, you know, a little bit, a little bit of it's the walkout kind of get your mind right.

They play your walkout music and it was like, it was real quiet.

It was real kind of pushed together.

Well worth it.

And you know, we'll, we'll start at the top, like final X.

We haven't had a chance to talk about that.

Like you go out there, uh, New York, New Jersey, Prudential center, kind of talk about what that experience is like.

Like you said, like, Didn't go the way you wanted, but, you know, the experience of being able to wrestle in such a, you know, combat sports are huge in the Prudential Center.

I mean, that's the home of a hockey team in New Jersey.

But, you know, they've had UFC there.

They've had boxing matches there.

They've had, you know, just had Final X there.

What was it kind of like to kind of soak that all in and be a part of that to start this journey of this entire June to July month?

It was okay.

It was, it was, I'll say it was just okay.

Um, they had like the, we did like a press conference thing, but there's only like five guys in

the press

conference.

Okay.

It was like, we got 10 weights.

There's 20 people here, but only five of them are in the press conference.

So that was a little weird.

They did men's freestyle and women's freestyle at the same time.

So we were like splitting mats.

So like walkouts were quick.

They were just kind of trying to rush through that stuff, which I didn't really love, you know, a little bit, a little bit of it's the walkout kind of get your mind right.

They play your walkout music and it was like, it was real quiet.

It was real kind of pushed together.