Road Trip After Hours w/ WWE Hall of Famer Teddy Long and Host Mac Davis
May 28, 2026 · 46 min · 11 segments
Wrestling has never had more athleticism, so why do so many matches feel like they slide right out of your memory? We dig into the uncomfortable answer: too many performers skip the fundamentals that…
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When it comes to wrestling today, and, uh, yeah, I'm looking through the news and there's not a lot of super big news really to talk about, but I'm curious, when it comes to wrestling today, you watch the product.

I, I know recently you watched, uh, one of these programs that's out there, and you didn't seem too taken with it at all.

What do you think's happened with wrestling today, and what do we need to do to fix it to make it more of that entertaining product that we used to get many years ago?
Well, what I think, some people have just taken it for granted, you know what I mean? Some people have just taken what started, uh, however many, many where- wherever years ago, is now just like it's something to play with and they don't take it serious.
You know, if you don't sell, you know what I mean, you really [laughs] you know...
And like I said, there are a lot of guys that are in our, still in our business that know how this works.
Uh, I don't understand why they won't, uh, put that out there and tell these guys exactly how this works.

You know, and, and I think part of it is, Teddy, and we've, we've talked about this before on the show, is that I think a lot of the younger talent almost feel like they pretty much know what they need to do and that they don't need the help of the older guys.

When it comes to wrestling today, and, uh, yeah, I'm looking through the news and there's not a lot of super big news really to talk about, but I'm curious, when it comes to wrestling today, you watch the product.

I, I know recently you watched, uh, one of these programs that's out there, and you didn't seem too taken with it at all.

What do you think's happened with wrestling today, and what do we need to do to fix it to make it more of that entertaining product that we used to get many years ago?
Well, what I think, some people have just taken it for granted, you know what I mean? Some people have just taken what started, uh, however many, many where- wherever years ago, is now just like it's something to play with and they don't take it serious.
You know, if you don't sell, you know what I mean, you really [laughs] you know...
And like I said, there are a lot of guys that are in our, still in our business that know how this works.
Uh, I don't understand why they won't, uh, put that out there and tell these guys exactly how this works.

You know, and, and I think part of it is, Teddy, and we've, we've talked about this before on the show, is that I think a lot of the younger talent almost feel like they pretty much know what they need to do and that they don't need the help of the older guys.
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