DEADLOCK Podcast #354 (Video)
"We are wild...and young!"
A moment in time so incredible that it has both been remembered & forgotten, and then remembered again, over the course of the last 16 years. It's time for us to head back to the world of NXT, during an era where the WWE just really wanted to make some people look really dumb on television.
NXT Season 2 comes to an end here on this episode, and we get to find out who is the NEXT BREAKOUT WWE SUPERSTAR! They can only be so lucky. Not Lucky Cannon, though. Who in the end did the best keg races, and kissing, and punching a bag, and running around the ring, and cutting a promo?! Will it be Kaval, Michael McGillicutty, or Alex Riley?
During the night, we are also introduced to the participants of the next season of NXT, which is an all divas season.
There is so little wrestling on this show, like really none at all. We get one match, with all of the finalists in a triple-threat contest. Their job is to win the match but also impress the WWE Pros (Cody Rhodes, Zack Ryder, MVP, Kofi Kingston, Michelle McCool & Layla, Mark Henry, John Morrison, & The Miz) that are watching (kinda) on the stage. Of course, all of the losers of this season are at ringside, including Husky Harris (Bray Wyatt), Percy Watson, Eli Cottonwood, Titus O'Neil, and Lucky Cannon (?).
There are some big time moments on this, including Michael McGillicutty's greatest speech of all time, and the complete disaster of a show-ending angle.
All of that, and SO much more, on this episode of the DEADLOCK Podcast.
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Comments (33)
How have neither of you ever seen The Frighteners???
The funniest part of that ending bit is they never follow up on any of that again, they just put a few of them in the Nexus and called it a day.
I watched every episode of this crap as it aired and I have zero memory of Lucky Cannon. Just looked up a photo of him and thought "I have never seen this man before in my life."
HI YES How do I join the patreon chat in the discord? I wish I knew how to use Discord better lmao
I was literally just thinking about this after Joe Hennig got arrested a few weeks ago. I had the image in my mind when he was released from jail that he was cutting this exact same promo. 😭
James with the +44 shout was so based, I had Jacob Cass coming out to No, It Isn't in WWE 12 from a burned CD in between backstage handicap brawls with Vader and Animal
AIW mention got a hometown sports team pop from me
It's pretty on the nose that the theme song for the show about becoming a WWE superstar includes the line "Slow it down, you move a little too fast."
I know that I get my history about 2000s bands and the other groups they formed after breaking up exclusively through Deadlock.
That is some seriously fucked fucker pod art.
They added "Everyone has a price!" to the intro in the place of "Hulkamania is running wild!" because Hogan was in TNA
Lucky Cannon legit sounds like an auto generated Mdickie name
How did UFC not shut down after this?
Are videos ai generated now too?
I swear they got so disrespectful on commentary for S2 and S3 of game-show era NXT. I recall michael cole just banging a gong sometimes during S3 when the women were boring him too much. just insane shit lmao
That "Oh Yeah!" at the end where the screen fades to black had me dying 😂😂
Top shelf zaza got me feelin like Curtis Axel coming out to SOS
I lost my shit when Johnny's pic moved 🤣
I think I'm about to witness an all timer
OH YEAAH!!
holup a-ry kinda lookin like roddy here
personally I was really pulling for Eli Cottonwood's Mustache this season. them's the breaks, I guess.
Travis Barker also had The Transplants
Aw dude
Seeing as they wore similar gear at the time, do you ever think MVP and Low ki looked at each other and Low ki said "THAT'S MY GIMMICK" like a caveman? Questions only thought of in the DEADLOCK Patreon and in the genesis of Axelmania of course.
MVP does the Ki Crusher one time and Low ki gets himself fired from five different promotions at once out of revenge
Here’s to hoping my name is just delayed by a lot 😂 I think this was the third week I was expecting it.
There is quite a queue of names, we'll get to it!
This fucking show was used to embarrass the call-ups. It had to be.
WARRIOR.
OH HELL YEAH
Reloaded patreon and nearly shat myself seeing KAVAL staring into my soul
From this moment on, this’ll be the moment, starting now, of the genesis…OF DEADLOCK