Carmelo Hayes Joins to Talk Going at It With Bobby Lashley on Social Media, His Match With Cody Rhodes, Drake-Kendrick Beef, and More | The Masked Man Show The Ringer Wrestling Show

COLD OPEN QUESTION OF THE WEEK: If you had to pick one WWE wrestler to be in the rotation for the Knicks, who would it be?
David and Kaz are joined by the SmackDown first-round draft pick Carmelo Hayes who discusses the following:

Elevating the NXT brand (6:48)

Responding to Bobby Lashley on social media (10:55)

Challenging Cody Rhodes on his first night on the SmackDown roster (13:24)

His thoughts on the Drake-Kendrick beef (21:04)

What it means for him seeing Trick Williams win the NXT title (25:00)

Shawn Michaels’s influence (31:30)


Then David and Kaz close out the show with the following:

King and Queen of the Ring tournament with a few predictions (46:26)

NXT highlights (63:53)

Mogul Embassy betraying Swerve Strickland on AEW ‘Dynamite’ (70:38)

WWE ‘Raw’ staying on USA through the end of 2024 (76:40)

Kofi Kingston says he wants to wrestle Barack Obama (84:42)


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Hosts: David Shoemaker and Kazeem Famuyide
Guest: Carmelo Hayes
Producer: Brian H. Waters

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