Cultaholic Wrestling Podcast 280 - What Was The Best WWE/AEW Match Of The Weekend?

[@JordanK14]

I am graduating from University in 90 minutes but just wanted to give people an idea about how long Jack has been dodging a real italian restaurant. My first day of in person classes after Covid was 633 days ago. Jack said he would go to an italian restaurant with his laptop and order nothing 9 days later. This has gone on long enough.

[@diabeticman2194]

Congratulations on graduating!

[@Disciple_of_Cthulhu]

Congratulations!

[@mutts.nutts1]

Congrats mate 🎉

[@georgeholloman9644]

Congratulations are in order. I graduated during covid as well. Much luck to you post graduation!

[@_Pauper_]

Congratulations !!!😮

[@derekwilliams1169]

The Italian bet was that Jack would go to an Italian restaurant sit down with his laptop order a drink (only a drink, no food) then leave. With one of the other Cultaholic guys filming it from another table. Nothing else but jack his laptop and a drink. So Jack eating pizza in the podcast studio doesn’t have anything to do with the actual bet. Do it right!!

[@Darro85]

This is now officially the longest Cultaholic Podcast in history beating the one after Mania 38 by around 15 minutes! I had an idea it was going to be given that 3 shows over the weekend had to be covered.

[@lazypaladin]

_People question wether RAW should be 3 Hours. Legends question if Cultaholic Podcast should be _*_5 Hours._*

[@angelcanez4426]

And this is without rampage 😂

[@Darro85]

@@angelcanez4426 Might have hit the 5 hour mark if it was included but I don't blame them for not covering it anymore anyway, as nothing happens on the show especially once Collision starts.

[@jordigan6060]

Hey, I have to say. This was an absolutely tremendous episode of this show. Like. These three blokes have a level of chemistry that is so rare. It's just a blast to listen to them talk for almost 5 hours, and it seriously made my Friday. Up The Cultaholic Wrestling Podcast!

[@conatser]

I had a 4.5 hour drive and popped this on a little less than halfway through thinking I’d finish by the time I arrived. I was floored when about 30 mins left of the drive I realized I was only HALFWAY through the podcast. Bloody brilliant.

[@EJAwesomo]

Nearly 5 hours long?! Better strap-in! I sure hope Jack addresses last week's controversy

[@DeaDGoD_XIV]

Woo Woo! A near five hour podcast! Nearly five hours for Jack to think of more ways to try and swerve his way out of going to the Italian restaurant with his laptop. But it will also be the best almost five hours of the wrestling week! P.S. I still love ya Jack, even though you did the unthinkable and turned heel last week

[@thefiggamehunt6946]

Closer and closer to the fabled five hour podcast. Maybe one day this will be less a weekly podcast and more a 24/7 live stream. We can dream!

[@rossomac21]

Dijak/Dragunov was really really good. A rare rivalry in wrestling where you can believe they only need to look at each other and start fighting.

[@rustiouk760]

Best match of the weekend.

[@Pretty_Diddly]

I was so scared when they were fighting😅

[@mattyrichardson5913]

Genuinely my favorite podcast. Thank you three (and Joel) for all the effort and entertainment!

[@diabeticman2194]

I cannot wait for the lads to talk about NXT Battleground, that show delivered. Unlike a ‘Hollywood’ jobber taking his laptop on a date to the Italian restaurant, despite his efforts to swerve us last week

[@thunderb4stard80]

5 hours my god, I love this podcast. Wouldn't make it through work most days without it

[@matthewfulton4863]

This is the last Tubman in Japan before I go to Japan. Here we go 🇯🇵

[@zubrhero5270]

You better be taking photos of meals and roads!!

[@matthewfulton4863]

@@zubrhero5270 I can’t top the content from big dck tubs we know this 😂

[@matthewfulton4863]

@@sameoldsameold9239 hell yeah make it a segment!

[@eliasreed5143]

My matches last weekend: 5: Anarchy In The Arena: AEW Double OR Nothing 2023 4: Roman & Solo vs Kevin & Sami: WWE Night Of Champions 2023 3: Brock Lesnar vs Cody Rhodes: WWE Night Of Champions 2023 2:Dijak vs Dragonouv: NXT Takeover Battleground 2023 1: MJF vs Jungle Boy vs Darby Allin vs Sammy Guevara AEW Championship match: AEW Double OR Nothing 2023

[@pelleheikki]

I'm same age as Jack And Ross and I'm sometimes just staring at words, making sure that I can still see perfectly. Dreading that I need to get glasses, all of my family has glasses and I'm the youngest. Great pod guys.

[@aarondale2175]

For clarification: Load management is a term used in basketball discourse meaning a team is resting their star players to avoid injury (managing the workload of the players), not a dirty term.

[@MewDied151]

Guys, you could of gone an extra 16 minutes...we were so close to the sacred 5 hour podcast. Either way, strap in everyone - they've gone all in

[@louisgray3650]

Didnt ross make a video about the story of jey uso being broken and having Jimmy used against him to keep him in-line, he seems to have forgotten that. Isn't the story that Jey is in an abusive relationship and trying to keep the peace to avoid roman killing him and his brother

[@gunarliepins]

At this rate, by 2026, the Cultaholic Wrestling Podcast will be a 24/7 program with only short breaks for different shifts of presenters taking over when the others go to get some sleep.

[@Joe90h]

And Jack STILL won't have taken his laptop to an Italian restaurant.

[@warensemblem8594]

Oh My God, almost 5 hours of wholesome content 🎉

[@leedog345]

Great start to the weekend with a nearly 5 hour podcast lets go boys

[@TomDesbrough]

Nearly 5 hours long. I'm so ready 🙌🏻

[@mutts.nutts1]

How long does Tubman have left on Japan? He must attend as a guest on the podcast when he finally comes home like - make it happen lads

[@cbennett_12]

Jack would rather skateboard down Everest than simply go to a restaurant, order a drink a do a little work. What a sad society we live in

[@Nbflowers1989]

NEARLY 5 HOURS!!! GO ON!

[@petersiddorn1369]

Load management is a US Sports terms mainly in Basketball I believe it's means that a players might play less time in a game / not at all because the team want to save them for in their mind what is a bigger game when they will need them more so Lash was basically saying Melo wouldn't face Dar because of this.

[@Tpelf]

Hope no ones got annything to do for the next 5 hours. Who am i kidding, we're wrestling fans! We dont have lives

[@DominicMalnar]

They finally broke the record for longest podcast

[@Nbflowers1989]

1:03:07 Lmao I don't know why but Jack's reaction to Maff slagging off Road Dogg aging made me *laugh.*

[@haydenwhite7352]

Commenting to help you guys out 👍

[@TheCurley]

Jack is such a sweetie getting so defensive of the crap he pulled last week. Like he’s got such bad social anxiety or something that he’d rather take the bullying of the internet than go to an Italian restaurant with a laptop. Bless his little cottons.

[@dyloosutherland3075]

I would just like to point out during frasers stream today I guessed how long the podcast would be that is all

[@kuyarami5030]

Load management might the thing they do in the NBA where some teams dont let star players play in smaller market games to rest up

[@conorhoward446]

Jack is such a let down. The Italian restaurant bet has not been honoured for near 3 year's

[@wickideazy]

The sides of Mt. Everest are littered with the corpses of climbers who died during their ascent. It's too dangerous to try and cart them back down, so the bodies are left where they lay.

[@Dr_1212]

Honestly probably the 4 pillars match in AEW & the Dijac match in WWE heard that was good

[@JordanK14]

I believe we have a new longest podcast

[@markbarlow3275]

Beat of Tubman in Japan!

[@sleepykupo9990]

Dijak v Dragun by all accounts was the best match of the weekend wrestling wise

[@alarcombe2000]

Took me until the 4 hour mark to notice Maffews mug 😂

[@Julian-xj6mh]

Diddler for H.O.F! Something something Jack's laptop

[@bryanwladkowski1236]

I’m going back watching old pods. Matthew thinking Harry was fighting a giant chicken is hilarious

[@AbhinavDutt]

Nooooooo........ I was hoping this one would go over the 5 hr mark. So close😂😂

[@joonermichael]

oooh. Big long THHHHIIIIIICCC podcast

[@vaibhavguptawho]

2:05:01 Jade tweeted something to the effect of "I went for Double and got Nothing". I think that sums up the story pretty well, she was going for the moniker of the show.

[@EphitD2]

Almost 5 hours?!

[@jasonjimerson7046]

Of course! They had 3 ppvs to cover plus the regular stuff as well.

[@lazypaladin]

_Someone gonna inform Becky Lynch that you only get _*_one_*_ push via convenient Injuries? Run it by Cidy Rhodes too, they're just getting greedy now-_ *_Ross with the Honeycomb Maze reference, get in!_*

[@JeiKuma]

Almost 5 hours??? Can’t wait for this one

[@broceratops1337]

4 hours. And 44 mins. Good gravy it's like I died and gone to heaven. ❤️

[@ShowdeQuetzal]

My highlight of the week is Ross mixing Chespirito with the song Despacito

[@calbarto7803]

Nearly 5 hours let's go

[@Marc_Graham]

Jeff Stelling is a legend. Also Super noodles are fancier than pot noodles because you actually need a saucepan to cook them - so its real cooking! *ahem*

[@JagerLange]

I'm sure Ron's well pleased at being nominated for HoF just because Jack had nothing else to offer (in a week with two PPVs).

[@Ronnabe_]

Never been happier.

[@JagerLange]

@@Ronnabe_ :D That's me told then.

[@matthewevans3543]

Do we know if it's in the Saudi contract that there has to be a title change at their PPVs? Feel like it happens alot

[@TheSubZer0HEro]

I don’t know if there’s a rule to say there needs to be a title change. When the Saudi shows started they were glorified house shows, now at least (other controversies aside) they are canon shows with relevant matches so it’s probably not as much of a surprise titles have changed hands on them.

[@diabeticman2194]

For me, the best matches of the weekend were: Four Pillars four way, Anarchy in the Arena or Ilya/Dijak, with honourable mentions to Rollins/Styles and the NA triple threat

[@Arjunnufc]

I don’t think I’ve laughed more than Ross saying he had a shoot pot noodle😭

[@TannerLikesStuff]

dunno if anyone has commented this, but Load Management is what they list for NBA players when they need rest, but aren’t injured. It’s a new thing that a bunch of oldheads hate lol. It’s to manage the load of the regular season

[@leroidepez]

Did the quiz, also a wolf!

[@damianbennett1214]

Jack could totally climb Everest. I heard there's an italian restaurant at the top.

[@georgeholloman9644]

Jack can put boo'ing in the hall of fame next.

[@misteraskman3668]

I actually love Tubman in Japan. When the gang enjoys it, it is very funny. When they hate it, it is very funny.

[@alexwalker9737]

Will this be the closest the game gets to the mythical 5 hour podcast??? Tune in next time to find out!!!

[@tiffanystrattonisthegoat1205]

finally the industry has a champion it can be proud of

[@lewis_g]

The 2 Brock vs Cody matches so far really haven’t done anything for me at all and I’m finding it really hard to keep myself invested and yeah that last match really made no sense with the kimuras

[@SLPrawn65]

guys, regardinNXT Roxanne was never stripped of the title they set up the ladder match just in case but then roxanne came back

[@dillerdime39]

Jack keep rocking like the young punk you are!

[@Seyfert_]

never expected el chapulin colorado and chespirito to be mentioned on the pod lol

[@johnface3474]

The 2 matches Noam Dar had this week made me a big fan.

[@ajmorley1519]

Nearly 5 hours long let's fucking goooooooo

[@MandalorianKat]

Florida has both alligators and crocodiles.

[@donjoncherrywon]

Load management is a basketball thing

[@riffraft]

Magical German man for the Hall of Fame! Up the Magical German man!

[@jonbruce6766]

Aska wining was the right call

[@emilygradyrko]

Has Maffew been playing the Witcher? Cockatrice and strumpet remind me a lot of it

[@michaelbacon4746]

Ross with the Bert joke

[@DragonHeart613]

Sami & KO vs Roman & Solo at Night of Champions. That twist at the end, Holy Crap. 2nd is AJ vs Seth also at Night of Champions.

[@parkerallen8124]

Oh man you couldn’t stretch it out for another 15 minutes??

[@Nbflowers1989]

Call me a sadist of sorts, but I freaking love when the lads can't get it together and are clunky. That HoF segment. Oof.😂

[@jamescurrall9341]

Best RBF: for men Solo's a good shout but to throw out another name Steve Blackman. For the ladies Sable, which I think was more shoot than in character don't think I saw her look even remotely happy on screen ever.

[@salvadoracosta4510]

As a basketball guy, look up Kawhi Leonard and Load management Jack 👍 biggest offender of load management is him

[@Carlos_Tacos]

Anyone got Jack's Letterboxd account name?

[@FretzlemaniaPod]

NEARLY FIVE FN HOURS?! YOU MAD MEN!

[@bobthekow7547]

If Darby ends up going to Everest, they should make him a champion in AEW and get that publicity

[@danbobby9393]

Why does jack wear a Dallas cowboys or Chicago bulls cap every pod ?

[@samwell147]

Katsu curry super noodle for the win, nuke them in the microwave then chuck it in some bread. A really classy dinner for a man of culture

[@ScottYoung29]

Five fucking hours

[@hello1721]

The pee smelling jeans is still a better segment than Tubman in Japan

[@angelcanez4426]

If you're really bad ass you don't do Everest you do K2 the second biggest mountain in the world.

[@KingRyeburn]

Dragon Lee came out because Noam and friends screwed him out of the match at Battleground Ross.

[@TheKyoput]

The only person Jericho puts over is Jericho.

[@MikeClaeys]

5 hour podcast.

[@IroquoisPliskin86]

Y'all (commenters) have to let this Italian restaurant thing die already. It's several notches below Tubman in Japan, and that segment is terrible.

[@Joe90h]

Y'all single commenter has to let this letting Jack renege on a bet thing die already. It's several notches below another thing on my arbitrary scale of how good or bad things are. If you have to address a collective in this way, you may have to take a step back and consider you might be in the minority.

[@IroquoisPliskin86]

@@Joe90h my dude, Tubman in Japan, which I hate, made the Hall of Fame. This stupid Italian restaurant thing would probably make the Hall of Fame too. I'm well aware that I'm in the minority. Just because everyone else likes something doesn't mean I have to though.

[@Joe90h]

@@IroquoisPliskin86 But you're talking as if the absence of these things ill make the podcast better, when it's only you actually advocating for these changes. "Am I so out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong."

[@IroquoisPliskin86]

@@Joe90h I mean, I can only speak for myself. And in my opinion, people spamming the same lame reference in the comments every week is dumb and unoriginal.

[@angelcanez4426]

A gay wolf 😂😂😂

[@roryalexanderm]

jack owes you plebs nothing

[@GylesNoDrama]

Of all the things to pick apart for realism and suspension of disbelief these days in wrestling, it’s Cody vs Brock, which had actual good storytelling? Love you lads but yikes

[@Drollpanther]

That chatgpt was dumb

[@wickideazy]

"UuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuGgGgGgGgHhHHHHhhhHhhh tHeY'Re gOnNa dO a CoNtRaCt tHiNg, iT's aLl tHeY dOoOoOo" Do you watch the product, man? AEW has only done contract storylines with Matt Hardy, because the Big Money Matt/Private Party "Hardy Family Office" thing established it as part of his character. And they've only ever done the contract thing twice. The first time with Hangman, and the second one with the Firm. Granted, this thing with the Firm has dragged on far too long. But extreme hyperbole like "contract stuff is all they do!" is like me saying "Ross is pissing and whining and shitting all over AEW again, it's all he does!" The negativity is grating. There's also the undeniable fact that if there was a contract storyline in NXT then Ross would be singing its praises to high heaven despite no one in the known world giving a crap, but that's whatever.

[@jakegreen94]

What a fucking mark.

[@harlequeen93]

4 hours and 44 minutes......babes hire an editor

[@yesman699]

The longer the better.

[@jargonblargontheflargonnog4885]

Been watching for years but yeah this is the last one I’m watching, it’s a shame really but I suppose everyone needs to earn their keep

[@yesman699]

Please explain.

[@jargonblargontheflargonnog4885]

@@yesman699 why?

[@yesman699]

@@jargonblargontheflargonnog4885 I didn't understand what you meant when you said everyone has to earn their keep in relation to the podcast. So I would have liked for you to elaborate on it.