Banned From Ringside #487: Crown Jewel recap/WWE; Full Gear predictions/AEW; NJPW review

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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Bill Vagy (0:15)

This is Banff and Ringside.

Tonight on the Banff and Ringside podcast, we have your 2026 Crown Jewel recap, Nobody Died. That's about the best thing you can say about it. We have the Survivor Series, USA versus Mexico coming up soon, and AEW is getting ready for Full Gear. We got your Full Gear predictions and go home show reactions. That and a whole much more tonight on the Banff and Ringside podcast.

Jason Cornelius Bell (0:46)

You said Nobody Died. They got the hell out of Dodge just in time.

Bill Vagy (0:54)

Ditch that 9 to 5 It's time to feel alive. Hello, Mark. Welcome to the Banff Ringside Podcast. As always, I'm your host, Bill Vagy, aka Kane Gendrell, and out there in South St. Louis.

Jason Cornelius Bell (1:10)

Go ahead.

Bill Vagy (1:12)

Out there in South St. Louis, my old buddy, James and Cornelius Bell. What's going on, JCB?

Jason Cornelius Bell (1:18)

Trouble, trouble. That's me.

Brown Lifts with Beefer Energy. And on that love, we know it. I'll ask the congregation about our heads as I read from the latest edition of the Banff Ringside Podcast, volume 487, chapter three, verse 14 in a good Mark Sands, hashtag boo the heels. It's all good, baby. Listen, share, subscribe, repeat. The Holy Trinity of BFR 13, lucky 13 away from the magical 500 This said nobody died. Somebody got hurt. We'll talk about that obviously here in a little bit. But yeah, Crown Jewel, ooh, I cannot wait to take a dump on this motherfucker.

Bill Vagy (1:56)

Jason, that aka, no Zach Knight. So Zach is traveling. We will be without him, but he will be back next week for our full gear recap. I'm sure with a lot of thoughts because it is shaping up to be quite the card.

But I gotta tell you, Jason, I almost didn't watch any wrestling at all this week because I have been absolutely devouring the shield on my...

Jason Cornelius Bell (2:21)

You got me watching it too. I'm just starting the first season. I'm like six episodes in.

Bill Vagy (2:27)

Well, I don't know when I first texted you and our old buddy Matula that I was rewatching it, but it was not that long ago. And I was on like, I was on like season two. I am two episodes away from the ending now.

Brother, I have been staying up late at night, and when the mirror falls asleep, I'm like, I can squeeze another shield in. I wake up the next day, I'm like, what am I doing? Why do I, like I should be going to sleep, but I'm just, and I know the ending, Jason. I know the ending well. I know all the beats. I've watched it. I have, this is not my first rewatch. It is so good that I, like, my jaw is dropping as we are nearing towards the end point now.

And I'm telling you what, Jason, spoiler alert, things ain't looking good for Shane, all right?

Jason Cornelius Bell (3:17)

Okay, so just real quick, and I'll talk about my part. So I started watching the first season again, and I saw the episode with the basketball player, and I always was like, man, why do I hate, you know, besides the fact of, you know, the betrayal, you know, and spoiler alert, for those who have not watched The Shield, you probably, if you ever want to watch it, you probably want to get away for the next five minutes, give or take. Anyway.

Bill Vagy (3:43)

Oh, you should watch it.

Jason Cornelius Bell (3:44)

A, you should watch it. B, when Shane called, oh boy, the nigga, I was like, oh, that's why I didn't like Shane from the jump. Totally forgot about that. So now, as I'm watching it, you know, the first season and all of these things are starting to flood back to me, I'm like, okay, yeah, okay. I forgot about this. This is what's going to happen. Oh, this is gonna get good. So yeah, I'm with you all the way. The Shield just, it's so quick to reel you in, especially if you watched it before and you enjoyed it. It's, I'm like I said, six episodes in, I'm just like, oh shit, here we go.

Bill Vagy (4:17)

You know, all due respect to Breaking Bad, but people talk about how propulsive Breaking Bad is, and it was propulsive, there's no doubt. But I remember a lot of stuff when Breaking Bad came, it's very Shield-ish, like honestly, like the way that it ramps up and like every thing, like every single thing that starts at the beginning, they try to outrun and they just, I mean, that's what the Shield is, it's the Armenian money trade, and then they just can't, they just try, and it's five seasons of them trying to get away from it.