2023 WWE Draft recap and WWE Backlash Preview | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #690 – 5/4/23

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It's still up. Welcome everybody.
Welcome to this week's edition Too Realte Show

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EPISO number six hundred and nineteen from
May four, two hundred twenty three.

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Because you're w WE draft rerecap and
review and definitely backlash preview and predictions edition

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of ass Team You. I am
one app the show. I am Jeff

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back to join you every single week, my coast one on Goustomer Franklin,

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Doctor Trey. Why did you become
a free agent, my friend? Well,

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I had this nagging injury. I
have a fractured foot, so until

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I'm medically cleared to compete, there
is no point in assigning me to a

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roster um. So as of this
time, I'm kind. I guess maybe

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I'm going to be in the uh
the supplemental supple mental round or just wait

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to see who offers me the most
money. I mean, I gotta I

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gotta get a cool nickname, like
a you know, daddy Magic or you

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know, cool cool handge. Yeah, I need something. It was weird.

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By the way, Do we ever
figure out why they named him Angelo?

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No, no, no clue at
all is that the real name?

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No? I mean, because I
was just it was. It was it

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was it I think I thought was
something Parker. It was Jeff Parker.

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Yeah, they were terrible names for
two point nine. So I just know

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how they're from Jeff to Angelo like
that just seems like a stretch. But

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anyway, I just they're on my
TV right now, so I had to

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ask the question, No, no
spoilers. We are recording under an aw

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dynamite. I am not watching.
I have the Yankees on, which I

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the way they've been playing lately,
I wouldn't mind spoilers, just so I

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can not watch them, uh and
then go to bed if they're playing like

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shit, or turn on aw dynamite. But we will, we will recap

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and review w WE Draft. We
will pre even predictive toe back here all

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on this week's edition of the show. We're talking a little bit off air

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about the draft here and trying to
make sense of some of the stuff,

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and we'll go round by round,
not by night by night here momentarily.

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But I'm just gonna kick it off
with this. Going into the draft,

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Doctor Trey, I was very like
excited, intrigued looking forward to the draft

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itself because I really like the concept. You know, it's there's a point

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more than just like a normal rawn
SmackDown to sit down and watch both week's

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edition the show, because it's it's
gonna be different, different feel, and

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then it transcends the ww rosters for
both brands, including NXC three brands for

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the next year plus maybe even longer
because the last time we did a draft

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with it was in twenty twenty one, and that was the fall once the

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draft was over, and this will
be a theme for me at least a

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night. I thought it was extremely
underwhelming and a little bit lame. I

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gotta be honest with you. That's
that's my that's my preface initial thoughts on

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US. I feel like I need
to get that out of the way now

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before we get into and looking at
each round and then some surprises things that

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we liked, all that stuff moving
forward here. I think my expectations were

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a little lower than years because really, I think we talked about it like

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last week's show, like really since
like the first couple of drafts, like

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the first couple of drafts are kin
of exciting, Like at this point it

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is kind of okay, we're probably
gonna switch the mid card champions or probably

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going to switch the women. Is
like that's kind of the norm, Like

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I'm kind of used to that.
I think for me this year, the

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amount of NXT draft picks was kind
of surprising, and it wasn't so much

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on the Oh my god, I
can't believe this guy is called up because

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a lot of these people that were
draft were people that we've talked about for

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a while. It's just, oh
my god, this sheer number of people

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moving up to the quote unquote main
roster. That means nxc's gonna be really

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influx. And does that mean we're
gonna get the budget? Because like I'm

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just kind of like just blown away
by the sheer volume of NHT people making

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the jumps are either raw or SmackDown. So we're gonna go through the draft

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here, round by round. Afterwards, I'm going to talk about pick picks

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that were most excited for and then
surprises from the draft as well. So

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I don't know if we want to
like give you know, quick initial thoughts

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here or like we'll be here all
day talking about this doctory. So I

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don't know how you want to go
about this, but we'll go from night

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one SmackDown round one, which to
me like another thing with this and I

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feel like we've said this in the
past, but they do these rounds and

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they don't make sense because it's like, why would they choose Austin theory over

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seth freaking Rollin's, Like that just
makes sense. Why is tris Stratus a

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Hall of Famer a seventh round pick? Like why no disrespect? But why

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is the LWL so far up ahead
of like Hall of Famers and stuff?

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So there's a lot of head scratchers. And then I think the thing that's

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gotten away from the brands over the
years is there's there's no figureheads. I

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liked when they had the general managers. It made sense. I'm someone that

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remember the first ever W draft within
two thousand and two, you had Rick

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Flair overseeing Raw and you had Vincikman
overseeing SmackDown and then obviously Bischoff and Stephanie

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for a little bit, and I
think Bischoff and Paul Hayman. Then I

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think it was Bischoff at Teddy Long
for a long time, and then they

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had the tandems where it was Mick
and Steph and Daniel, Brian and Shane.

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Like I liked when they did that, Like we have no clue who

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the hell's picking from Ron SmackDown.
In the past, it was like network

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network executives from USA, network executives
from Fox. But you just had random

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w hall of famers popping out of
what they called war rooms. But who

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the hell was in the war room? Like the concept we're sports fans,

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Doctor Trey and I and we just
came off the NFL draft, like we

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know who's making picks. I think
that's something that's been lost and all this

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is like there's no true figureheads anymore. It's it's kind of pointless as to

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why and who was making these picks. I guess, like why are they

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mystery and the anonymous GM's back.
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I just picture like Jerry Jones in
one war room. I pictured Jerry Jones

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in the SmackDown war room and Daniel
Snyder in the rod just because the color

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schemes. I guess. I don't
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things, like one of the things
that we give AW crap for and w

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a lot of credit for is like
storylines and tying up loose ends, and

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then it's like, wait, we're
just randomly selecting for this, Like if

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they're gonna do this, Just do
a lottery. Just do a straight hopper

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draw at least like they used to
do with like the ping pong balls for

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the rumble, you know, like, just do a straight hopper draw at

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least, then I'll feel like,
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then you don't get an LWO getting
picked ahead of Hall of Famers. You

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don't get Austin theory getting drafted for
seth Rods, where it's like somebody chose

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that, like no, no,
no, just let the chips fall with

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the bay and even if it's predetermined, at least I'll feel like it's a

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better way to tie up the storyline
than just going, hey, here's a

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Sean and Road dog to make this
pick these round of picks, because they're

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just announcing them as it is now, I will say, if you're doing

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that, like, you know,
the NFL did have a bunch of like

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former players come out and make their
team's picks or random fans or you know,

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make a wish kids or whatever it
was. That's fine, you could

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have set it up that way,
you know, but still, like I

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kind of want to know who do
I blame for? Somebody picking Austin theory

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over seth Rowlands, Like who do
I blame for some of the stuff if

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they make bad picks and we hate
them, I don't have some I can't

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yell at Son, I can't yell
at somebody else, and for making a

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bad pick, I just have to
yell at Fox in USA. Apparently I

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don't know. I forgot that there
was a period of time where it was

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like this random generator that was just
making picks for no reason at all.

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I love that one because then you
did story like it made no sense at

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all. I mean, man,
I was not a fan of that,

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Like I like general managers and commissioners
making picks. Well it's it's it's to

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me that was the throwback to the
old WCW when they did the lethal lottery

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and it was supposedly quote unquote random
drawings. So like just call a draft

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lottery and it's like, you know, you're or just called a lottery,

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like, oh, you know,
Ron's getting x amount of ping pong balls

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versus smackdowns x amount of ping pong
balls, and who was pink? And

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then you just have like a giant
hopper with everybody's name on it and then

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just like, if you really want
to be a good creative genius to try

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that, just go out there and
be like, Okay, we really don't

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know who's gonna show what the ping
pong balls aside, and then Roman rains

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ends up on NXT. I will
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as we're like Rown SmackDown, like
seeing two legitimate different promotions and there was

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really no times that they intersected with
one another's. That was like the two

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thousand and two to two thousand and
four, maybe even later two thousand and

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six era, and it was just
a different feel for both shows. Then

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now it's like you can't really tell
the difference, and you know, here's

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the Bloodline, here's randomly Austin theory
on SmackDown. When he was on Raw,

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It's like, why are we Why
is this happening? And there's no

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reason why. Nonetheless, let's get
into it round by round. So night

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one SmackDown. Round one SmackDown picked
Paul Hayman, Solo Sekoya and Roman Reigns

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from the Bloodline. Cody Rhodes went
to Rob Bianco. Bel Air went to

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SmackDown Who and she's the Roman's Champion
right now, and then Raw got Becky

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Lynch. Obviously, the big thing
here was that Hayman, Solo, and

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Roman were picked from the bloodline but
not the usos, and it was like,

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hmm, could the USO's end up
on another brand? Interesting? That's

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round one, Doctor Treys there anything
you want to talk about that or should

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we just keep rolling along now?
Well? I mean, the only thing

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I would question on this is it
was weird that they said, hey,

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these are the only people that are
able to be selected for this night and

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then the resumes like a rock because
it's like, well, if I draft

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Bianca, why wouldn't the follow up
take automatically be Ria. It's like no,

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no, no, we're gonna say
Ria for Monday. But that just

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makes no sense to me. Is
just do like, hey, you know,

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like these are the people, like
the people that are able to I

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don't know, we just do it
in one night, Yeah, just do

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like what we do in fantasy football
and have like a like you know,

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Raw and protect so many people on
this night and SmackDown if you want to

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save some stuff. Like there's ways
they're doing it to make it a little

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better. But um, like you're
looking going okay, like to these four,

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like because in my head, the
first four picks are your cornerstones of

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your franchise. They're they're they're your
cornerstone people. And to me, that's

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like, okay, Well, Spacdal's
got you know, Roman, Schoa and

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Paul, and then then they get
Bianca and then Raw gets Cody and Becky

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was like, wait, does that
mean rhyas farther down the food chain than

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Bianca and Becky Like, it's just
confusing on that aspect. And I would

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also say that I think championship just
remain exclusive to the brands, which used

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to be a thing at one point
as well with a draft like the Raw

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Women's champions should not be able to
be drafted to SmackDown so that we get

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that stupid title swash that they did
with Becky and Charlotte back in twenty twenty

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one, and I guess nearly turned
to blows behind the scenes. Round two

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SmackDown got the Street Profits, Raw
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Raw drafted Matt Riddle. That is
Round two from SmackDown. So once again,

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like I mean you're looking going okay, I mean you're going okay,

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So SmackDown's third pick of all the
people they could pick was the Street Profits.

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Yeah, ahead of Edge. Yeah, I mean literally ahead of like

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you will get dorming. But like, here's like that seems a little bit

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high. I will say, picking
stables. Like if I was a GM,

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that's all I would do, is
I just picked stables. I'm like,

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I'm getting three or four people over
the price of one. That's brilliant.

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Well here take a look at this
right round three you're talking about like

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the Street Profits, where the third
pick for SmackDown Um, SmackDown picks Bobby

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Lashley, Raw picks Drew McIntyre,
SmackDown picks the oc AJ styles, Luke

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Alice, Carl Anderson, and Meechin
and Raw picks them in. So the

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street Profits, and I'm a huge
fan of the Street Profits. Don't get

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me wrong, they were picked ahead
of in round two and three, one,

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two, three, four, five
different former w champions, Edge,

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Bobby Lashly, Drew mcatyre, AJ
styles of the oc mms. Yeah,

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I mean, and all those guys
are probable Hall of famers, and it's

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like, well one of them is
yeah Edge. Well I'll be saying,

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but I mean just in general,
like AJ's gonna be a Hall of Famer,

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Lashly McIntyre, mit all potential Hall
of Fame guys, but riddles above

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all of them who just came off
the suspension. Yeah, okay, all

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right, guys. Round four SmackDown
Drafts, Damage Control, Eo Sky,

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Dakota, Kai and Bailey, Raw
Draft Shinsky Kaka Morris, SmackDown Drafts,

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Alba, Fire and Island Don the
NEXC Women's Tag team champions and Raw drafts

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the now former NEXE Women's champion Indie
Hartwell, yeah, so Indie drops her

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Felt, Island Alba end their belts
against a tag team that gets later drafted

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to Raw. But they're not dropping
those belts, are we are? We

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gonna end emerging the NXT tag Women's
tag belts and the women's tag team.

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I'm just confused more than that a
little bit maybe. And then SmackDown Lowdown

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one of Doctor Trey Servert shows on
Peacock Um. SmackDown gets hit Rowan Lacey

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Evans, and then Raw ends up
getting Viking ratings and Viking Raiders and Valhalla,

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Dexter Loomis Kansas Lay, Maxim Male
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Massei Natalia Apollo Cruz from NXT,
Chelsea Green and Sonya deville Zoe start from

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NXT. JD McDonough from NXT,
and then just random free aging groups Omas

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Mustafa Ali, Dolph Siegler, and
von Wagner from NXT. So is that

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the group of the Hey, here's
some guys we don't know what the hell

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to do with, so we'll just
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So strange, right, like what? Um? Why call up von Wagner

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if he's a free agent? Like
what what? Because he can't he just

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go right back to NXT, which
he did this past Tuesday. They continue

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to storyline. So that was from
SmackDown, Lowdown is what it is?

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H Night two Raw Round one,
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Raw takes Seth Freakin Rollins, SmackDown
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was also announced in this round that
brock Lesner is going to become a free

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agent. He was not drafted Round
one, he elects free agency. That's

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round one. I do love the
Rea pick. I do think that you're

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sending a message as a company saying
that Ria Ripley is a top tier talent.

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So I do like that, pick
doctor Trey. See here's here's my

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thoughts. Here's another thought. Instead
of like trying to criss cross between two

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shows, how about we do,
Hey, all the men will be drafted

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on SmackDown, women get drafted on
Raw. M that's an interesting one,

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and then you can see what the
ratings really do and see if the women

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actually can match up to the men
drawing power. And then you know,

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hey, the first, you know, four rounds will be first five rounds

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be the men, first five rounds
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last few rounds will be the tag
teams or the stables, you know,

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and then create some intrigue. But
this whole like, you know, hey,

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why you know Becky can get drafted
while she's you know, on the

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SmackDown, but Seth can get drafted
until Monday night. Like that's just you

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know, some of that stuff's just
like the rules on this are weird to

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me and in my brain can't comprehend
how they do this and not on Yeah,

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but then at that point we knew
that that you know, Seth was

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going to end up on Raw once
Becky was drafted. So are we k

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faving that Dexter and Indy are actually
married because of the fact they both ended

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up on Raw Or is this like
they know that we know this, so

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they say, Hey, we storyline
of plights too. I guess. I

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guess we're k faving on that one. I don't know. I mean,

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I like the ending the NX Day
this past Tuesday as well. I don't

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know if you saw it, but
I thought that was like a really good

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weight of tying it up. We're
talking about a lot of interesting, confusing

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creative on this episode. I thought
that was like a good way to do

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a call back and tighten things up. So round two Raw gets Kevin Owens

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and Sammy Zane SmackDown gets the USO's
Raw gets the Judgment Day, SmackDown gets

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the LWO. So like they didn't
even harp on hmm. I wonder if

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the USOS could land on Raw at
all during the TWEE draft, Like I

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thought that was one solo Hayman and
Roman were drafted together and the US's were

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left out to dry. Like,
I thought that should have been a really

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big storyline for them into Night two, and they didn't address at all and

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then they just like, oh USO's
good drafted to the SmackDown. So that

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was round two, Doctor Trey,
Yeah once again? Still yeah, once

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again. Yeah, you go back
to you go back to the draft itself,

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and you're looking at going, wait, so the SmackDown got the OC

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and the LWO and they're baby face
grooms, but Raw gets Imperium and Judgment

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Day that are heel factions. I'm
like it's a little confusing on that as

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well, Like you would think that
if one show gets a baby face faction,

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the Shadows show would get a get
the other baby face faction, but

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they didn't go that route. The
straight Yeah, we're just gonna figure it

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out as we go. That sounds
like w creative. So round three,

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Raw gets Live Morgan Rockel Rodriguez,
the w W Women's Tack Team Champions,

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SmackDown gets Oscar, Raw gets the
New Day, SmackDown gets the Brawling Brute

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Shamus Butch and Rich holland anything there. Doctor Trey. Uh, it just

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kind of feels at this point,
I'm like, are we just taking the

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rivalries that run SmackDown and moving into
Raw and vice versa, because you know,

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we just had Bianca and Oscar both
Now it's SmackDown. Uh, you

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know, it just feels it just
feels like, hey, if we put

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a new coat like it, literally, if we put a new coat of

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paint on it, it makes it
fresh, like we're just gonna change the

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color schemes. And then that's we
can go right back to Byak and Oska

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because nobody on SmackDown watch that rivalry. We'll just go right back to it

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again if we have two. Yeah, there's some confusing stuff there. Um

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round four and I said earlier,
I thought it was round seven. I

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was wrong. Um Trip Stratus goes
to Raw. SmackDown gets Carrying Cross,

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Raw gets Ronda Rowsy and Shanna Basler. SmackDown gets La Night. I mean

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Shana and Ronda going to Raw along
with Raquel and Live and not surprising,

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but we do get Becky and Ronda
on the same brand. So that's maybe

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a WrestleMania forty teaser. Maybe who
knows? Round five five gets Bronstrom and

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a Ricochet SmackDown gets SHOTSI Raw gets
Bronson, Read SmackDown gets pretty deadly for

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men X Day, I am sup
pretty sad word street profits and pretty deadly

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I'm not gonna lie. I'm a
super stoke for this one. Yeah,

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that's gonna be a lot of fun. I'm a big fan of Pretty Deadly.

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They've it felt like main roster talents
for some time. And then finally

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Round six Rackets Alpha Academy SmackDown gets
Rick Boogs, Rackets, Katana Chance and

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Kadan Carter from NXT. SmackDown gets
Cameron Cribs from NXT, but he hasn't

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been there since November. So that's
the last round on the Raw broadcast before

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we get to Raw. Talk a
little surprised that, and it will get

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into week cover the Freedom, but
Boogs is selected by himself. That's a

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little I was a little bummed about
that. I that'd be a tandem pick.

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But you know, we still get
Lashly. So we have Lashly Bronson

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read an Austin theory at a triple
threat coming up this weekend. But theories

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now on SmackDown, as is Lashly
Bronson reads on Raw and the icy titles

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now on Raw. So does that
mean we just take Bronson read means he

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has no shot at winning this weekend? We prove him predict backlash towards the

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end of the Show, Stay Tuned, Folks, and then Raw Talk the

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supplemental Draft. I guess, Raw
gets Dana Brook, Nicky Cross, Johnny

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Gargano, Angel Garza on Particlario of
Los Lotharios, Karatzawa, Piper Niven,

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Zia, Lee, Tega Knox,
Emma Riddick, Moss no longer Madcap,

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Induce Sheer and Gender Mahal from NXT
Odyssey, Jones from NXT SmackDown gets Tamina

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and Grayson Waller from NXC and then
again Free Agency, Baron Corbyn Shelton,

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Benjamin Cedric, Alexander Elias, and
then from NXT Zion Quinn. Those were

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the picks from Raw Talk. I
still did not know Zion Quinn. It's

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still part of WWE, so um, and it makes me sad that once

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again we're kind of hopping around the
whole, Like Shelton and Cedric are kind

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of floating now, like maybe the
most underrated tag team in WWE, and

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their time of the her business was
fantastic, and like, a aren't we

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all just kind of like going,
hey, just put Bobby Omas and Cedrica

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Shelton didn't get together again? Like
why do we guy to keep dancing around

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this thing? Um, but so
is it Corbyn's losing streak making him a

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free agent, and then nobody just
said. Everybody just said no, we're

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good. I got. I don't. I don't I understand free agents when

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they're hurt. I don't understand the
free agency when they're active participants on the

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roster, and then all of a
sudden they're just like, yeah, we

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got. It's literally I don't want
to work here anymore, so I'm leaving

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this. Can they go to?
Can they go to? Aw these guys

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it literally is a creative has nothing
for you at this time type move.

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It's bizarre, right, Yeah,
I mean makes no sense. The first

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night when I looked at the free
agents, you go, oh, Mustaph

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Ali Dolph Szigler, Like it could
be like, hey, we can put

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these guys in either show and they
make they can make anybody look good because

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they're absolutely fantastic workers and sellers.
Let's say when you get into you know,

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the Baron Corbyn's and the Aliases,
you're like, oh, okay,

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we just need fodder for some of
these guys, and so we just bounced

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them back and forth like it really
should they should just do Barren and Alliance

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as a tag team and be the
guys on the street, like playing money

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for playing guitar for money and loose
change would be fantastic. I think that

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they should call the tag team like, um, you probably thought we were

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going to be main inventors. If
you went back to twenty eighteen, I

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would call them the street urchins.
Ooh, okay, street urchins. W

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We'll test now and see if W
creators really listening, because if they come

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out and there the street urchins or
will wrestle for food and then you just

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use the use it as an acronym. Yeah wwff okay, not bad,

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not bad. I don't think they'll
be sued for that one. Um.

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So graving the W draft, I
gave it like a D plus doctor try.

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I don't know about you, but
I was. I was a C

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minus D plus. I was like
right in the same range. It was

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just like it was lackluster. There. You kind of saw where the picks

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were going. You're like, yeah, we know, Like I mean like

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it was literally every married couple still
together. I don't think they splip a

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single couple between the two shows,
which hey, I give them credit.

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I mean it's a it's it that's
the right thing to do. Yeah,

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work life balanced type situation. You
know. Can I say that the one

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that I thought was like thrown,
I was like, oh, Ricochet went

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to raw. So that means like
Samantha Irvin his fiance, she's on SmackDown,

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She's gonna stay there. No,
it was announced afterwards that Mike Roman

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her at Switch. Yeah, we're
I mean, she's fantastic by the way.

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I love how she does the imperium
intro us. She's great and I'm

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not knocking that, but I do
miss when you know, Cole and j

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R got drafted that one year.
Oh that was terrible when and neither one

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of them knew about it, and
Jim Ross was so yeah. No,

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I mean, if you ever watched
JR. Watch read Jr's book, he

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talks about it and then I still
check it out from time to time on

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YouTube where he's like shocked he's drafted
and you hear him say like, yeah,

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I'm getting up. Like so he
was clearly set in the headset like

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it up, you gotta go Switch, and he liked it, not like

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he was legitimately pissed because he thought
that was they were putting him out to

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pasture there and they did basically with
that move. But I'm not gonna like

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I was kind of hoping Cole would
go to Raw and uh, Kevin Patrick

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will go to Smackdowndown. I mean, I like Kevin Patrick, but he's

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had a rough couple of weeks.
Kevin Patrick Waite Barrett though it would make

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smackdowns sound way more legitimate and fancy. It would be n xcuk's back the

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whole thing. So we're gonna break
down picks that were most excited for surprises

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from the W Draft. So starting
with it, picks that were most excited

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for I've got a couple of year
Doctor Trey. So first one being is

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Imperium on Raw. I think Gunther
becomes an eventual contender and possible holder of

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the w Worldweight Championship. I like
this move. I think this is a

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better move for Gunther in the long
run and Imperium as well. Not to

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mention, depending on who they put
the title on at Night of champions I

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mean we saw a little bit of
a prelude a prelude for that at the

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Royal Rubble with Cody and Gunther closing
out the Rumble. Uh, you could

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have Cody. You know, Cody
had to go through all of Imperium,

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you know to win that channel.
I mean look at that. If Cody

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has to go through like Roman reigns, brock Lesner and then Imperium, that

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those are some obstacles overcome. So
that's that's a pretty I'm excited about that

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pick as well. Plus, like, are we going to get like gang

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warfare between Judgment Day and Imperium for
control of Raw? So I think it's

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interesting because who's the most dominant heel
stable because that's the way the guys set

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it up. UM on SmackDown,
I like edge Bobby Lashly in AJ styles

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plus the OC on SmackDown because I
look at it and I'm like, Okay,

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are these guys that are gonna be
challenging Roman now for the next three

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six nine months. Yeah, the
Bobby pick was really good because you need

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a credible challenger for Roman. AJ
can fill any role you need on the

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show. Um you know those those
are and then uh, theory kind of

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being second fiddle to Roman will be
interesting. So we saw a little bit

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that with the money the bank cassion
opportunity, So we saw a little bit

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of that contrast there So are you
disappointed that the Cody Roman few maybe split

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up now from Raw SmackDown with Cody
go on a raw. Yes, and

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no, I mean I'm not because
we've kind of seen it and they can

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always come back to it at some
point because I don't know about you,

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but I just know, Comrade,
Rumble time, the brands will be kind

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of merging again. That's just typically
the MOO Like once we get to Rumble,

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as you hit into WrestleMania, those
lines get blurred, so you could

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always circle back to it again.
So it's a way to kind of increase

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anticipation for the eventual and then you
can do like, hey, it's Cody

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versus Roman once in a lifetime.
Again, Yes, we've not like we've

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never heard that before. I like
Drew Mcatar and Schinska Nackamore on Rob because

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those to me aren't w World heaweight
championship tenders. So I like that move.

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Those are good, Um shinsk Now
a couple of questions for me,

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like and and so we saw the
mis good draft, and we've seen the

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lists of free agents. Um,
they said there's some people were ineligible because

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of injuries than Bray Wyatt's the Randy
Ords. There's no mention of it's Muscle

397
00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:18.440
Champa, so I'm hoping that he's
another one on that list too. Yeah.

398
00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:22.079
So, um, you know,
the little interaction between shins K and

399
00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:26.000
Mis on Raw I thought was pretty
good too. And then you know Raw

400
00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:30.920
is kind of the entertainment show,
and when you have something like shinsk who's

401
00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:33.559
he's a great wrestler, but you
can do more stuff with him with more

402
00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:40.039
time on Raw than maybe trying to
squeak because he's not a great promo guy,

403
00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:44.039
but he's got such a dramatic entrance
it kind of fits better for me

404
00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:47.000
on Raw with him. So yeah, I think he's going to be in

405
00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:51.839
a better spot under Triple H's creative
tutelage than he was in the previous regime.

406
00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:55.000
Um. And then speaking of Raw, Doctor Trey, I was taking

407
00:27:55.039 --> 00:27:56.279
a look at the draft and I'm
like, man, the Raw Tag team

408
00:27:56.319 --> 00:28:03.039
division is deep loaded. You've got
Perium, Maximum, Mail Models, Viking

409
00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:06.680
Raiders, New Day, bron Stroman
and Ricochet, Alpha Academy, Indu Sheer

410
00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:10.519
Loth Sarios, and then you've got
Kevin Owens and Sammy Zaine. So that

411
00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:14.079
made me wonder I'm wondering if the
tag team titles now are going to be

412
00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:17.880
exclusive to Rob with KAO and Sammy
there, because there's not many tag teams

413
00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:22.599
on SmackDown right now. I do
think we may see this on Friday Night.

414
00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:26.599
And this is I have not read
this anywhere. I don't know anything

415
00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:33.799
about this, But if raw can
create a new world championship, could you

416
00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:38.759
not see Paul Hayman petitioning Adam Pears
for a SmackDown Tag Team Championship to then

417
00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:44.480
put on the USOS. But then
you just have the USO's Street Profits and

418
00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:47.960
OC just feud for the next year. Well, I mean you can always

419
00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:51.519
make tag teams too. I mean, Ricochet and broun Stroman weren't a tag

420
00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:56.480
team like four months ago, and
also Naturn, so it wouldn't be as

421
00:28:56.559 --> 00:29:00.319
difficult. I mean think about this, like, let's take let's put the

422
00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:03.200
us title on Bobby Lashley and then
y also can put Austin Theory and Grayson

423
00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:07.920
Waller together as a tag team.
Yeah, yeah, that wouldn't be bad.

424
00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:10.920
I mean that would be like I
don't know, egomaniac annoyance. I

425
00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:15.079
guess they would call it, oh
my gosh, like I mean then they

426
00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:18.000
would have competing talk shows at the
same time, you know, that would

427
00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:22.599
be fine. Yeah, and that
was one of my guys. Like one

428
00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:26.240
of my people I'm excited to see
about is Grayson Waller on SmackDown, Like

429
00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:30.039
he just kind of fits that miss
role. Uh, just a younger version

430
00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:33.519
of Miss Maybe on SmackDown. I
think that's gonna be really good for him

431
00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:37.640
as well. Yeah, is there
anything else that that excites you, because

432
00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:40.640
I want to actually when when it
comes to Grayson Waller, that or something

433
00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:42.400
that surprised me about that. So
is there anything else that sticks out to

434
00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:47.440
you then? Over I mean I'm
interested to see what they do with the

435
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:52.319
women's tag team titles when you see
you know, because the one thing we've

436
00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:55.359
been talking about is I've heard of
people say this, like the women's tag

437
00:29:55.359 --> 00:30:03.079
team division in W two B has
been lackluster. Best since probably Sasha and

438
00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:07.319
Bailey, Yeah we're together, since
the pandemic time. I mean, everything

439
00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:11.079
else has been kind of like it's
injured, like Becky and Leed. It

440
00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:14.119
was interesting for a little bit heading
into WrestleMania, but outside of that has

441
00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:17.680
been met. But what you call
up, you know, Albafira, I

442
00:30:17.799 --> 00:30:21.440
La, don you call up Kaden
in Katana which still Katana chance maybe my

443
00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:26.960
new least favorite name in professional wrestling. Um, But it's just it's interesting

444
00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:30.440
to see them get called up bring
up the NFC Tag team champions as well,

445
00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:33.880
that maybe now we're gonna start working
on getting some depth to that division.

446
00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:37.680
UM. I still think Live in
Shotzi would be a better tag team

447
00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:41.079
than Live in Raquel, but that's
just personal. Um. But yeah,

448
00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:45.279
like that, like that's the one
that guys sit out, just something like

449
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:48.680
you're like, where does Cameron grind
fit into the SmackDown? You know,

450
00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:51.759
we haven't seen him in like six
months, but where does he fit in?

451
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:56.799
Like is he just gonna be kind
of fodder for you know, building

452
00:30:56.799 --> 00:31:00.960
guys. Are they actually gonna give
him a push some of the more interesting

453
00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:03.000
picks like that, like what do
you do with the carrying cross? Like

454
00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:07.559
you know you took you know he's
we already seen a few with Bray and

455
00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:10.640
if you with Ray, he's like
do you put a fresh coat of paint

456
00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:11.680
on him and do something else?
In them? Does he stay a heel

457
00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:18.079
because SmackDown's kind of heal heavy with
with Roman and theory kind of running that

458
00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:21.920
show, like where does a guy
like carrying cross and la Knife get into

459
00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:23.880
the mix? So a lot of
the points that you made there are some

460
00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:29.400
of the things that surprised me from
the w E draft. So some things

461
00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:33.440
here just going off on what you
said over the last couple of minutes.

462
00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:37.279
So starting with Grayson Waller, I
was surprised that Grayson Waller getting called up

463
00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:42.319
from NXC to SmackDown was during a
supplemental pick during Raw talk Like how did

464
00:31:42.440 --> 00:31:45.880
that not happen during one of the
main shows. I thought, that's that

465
00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:51.359
should have taken precedence over no disrespect, but like Albafire and Ila Down,

466
00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:55.039
Andy Hartwell, I would say of
like all the NXC talent, like that

467
00:31:55.839 --> 00:31:59.960
is one of the guys that was
drafted from NXC to WE to rawer smack

468
00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:02.039
Down. Then I felt like should
have gotten an opportunity even more than pretty

469
00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:06.920
Deadly, Like I thought Grayson Waller
should have been like the top pick from

470
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:13.200
NXC to Raw or SmackDown. Yeah, I mean Cameron Grimes being announced,

471
00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:16.400
but Grayson Waller not being announced.
You know, like we have ay like

472
00:32:16.640 --> 00:32:22.240
and you and I love Cameron Grins
but as far as for the fans,

473
00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:23.880
out of sight, out of mine, we haven't seen him since November.

474
00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:29.400
So at this point we're going on
almost six months since we've seen him on

475
00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:32.440
TV. And we just saw Grayson, you know, with with Carmelo Haze,

476
00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:36.880
Yeah, in the main event,
and so I was like, why

477
00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:39.160
why is that pick? And then
plus to tie in with Sean Michaels,

478
00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:44.400
Like how great would have been on
Raw for Sean to be the one to

479
00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:49.119
announce that Grayson got drafted, you
know, and you get that awkward tie

480
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:52.200
and then Waller actually has a match
on a Raw like that would have made

481
00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:55.920
up a lot more sense and you
could have tied up that storyline right there

482
00:32:57.079 --> 00:32:59.519
and not had to worry about anything
on NXC. You could have tied it

483
00:32:59.599 --> 00:33:01.920
up into a little bow right then
and there moved on. Um. So

484
00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:07.880
yeah, like him being kind of
like a throwaway pick, it makes me

485
00:33:08.039 --> 00:33:13.279
worry also that like are we viewing
him as a throwaway pick that like,

486
00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:15.920
oh his time and aches he's up, let's throw on the main rosters if

487
00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:17.480
he can do anything like that.
It makes me where they don't have a

488
00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:22.880
plan. Other things that surprised me, And after there was. It was

489
00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:27.480
teased that there may be some splits. The Street Profits, Damage Control and

490
00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:31.480
Alpha Academy don't split. Actually nobody
splits at all. Re is still with

491
00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:35.960
the Judgment day View. Soos are
still with a bloodline. Zero splits,

492
00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:39.000
no fresh go to pain. Everybody
is still together. I thought that was

493
00:33:39.039 --> 00:33:45.119
pretty lame. Yeah, I mean
it is. Sorry, Stanley just came

494
00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:49.000
in and decided to hit me with
a bowl. Uh we're watching aw and

495
00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:52.519
talking wrestling. I figured I think
he just yes, I'm okay, okay.

496
00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:55.599
He just gave me the foreign object
and then asked me if I was

497
00:33:55.640 --> 00:34:02.000
okay. Um, top five home
and potentially of all time? Do you

498
00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:08.920
need me to call the authorities?
They just said try again. So anyway,

499
00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:14.920
it's all because he wasn't cheesy proofs. Oh never mind until next week

500
00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:21.360
for doctor Franklin. Oh my gosh, this Maid's hop it's almost as good

501
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:23.760
as the police be showing up what
I'm doing. It's definitely up there.

502
00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:28.599
But yeah, to not have Indians
tag teams to break up. Now here's

503
00:34:28.599 --> 00:34:31.880
the thing. If I'm not mistaken, they did the heavy Did they draft

504
00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:37.599
heavy machinery separate or together? A
couple of a few years ago they did

505
00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:40.039
the draft I don't even remember,
dude, I'm gonna say separate. I'm

506
00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:44.960
gonna say separate. So I kind
of thought they did it together. And

507
00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:46.880
then they split up on the show
The Fun Week. So there is that

508
00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:52.000
possibility that, you know, we
see the Street Problems come out and talk

509
00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:54.119
about how high a draft pick they
were, and then all of a sudden,

510
00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:58.920
you know, Angelo Dawkins takes out
montest Ford. So I mean they

511
00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:01.960
could still do some something like that, just to try to create a little

512
00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:05.679
more bouncing baby faces and heels as
we were talking about, like you know

513
00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:09.480
some size of some shows are a
little more one sided than others. It's

514
00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:14.199
still a possibility. I mean,
can we say, Alphaca they got drafted

515
00:35:14.199 --> 00:35:17.119
to draw or SmackDown was hit.
Then again Alpha Academy got drafted to Raw.

516
00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:22.480
Okay, so you still have all
the stuff with Alpha and Maximum Mail

517
00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:27.360
Models still on the same show.
Yeah, you still that tie and though

518
00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:30.480
I mean, but I mean I
thought it would have made more sense,

519
00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:32.559
like all right, Chad Gabel gets
drafted to SmackDown. Oh it's gets drafted

520
00:35:32.599 --> 00:35:37.079
to Raw, like that's how and
then everybody from Maximum Mail Models is on

521
00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:42.239
raw, Like that's how it tightens
up until you have Chad Joy maximum male

522
00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:44.920
models and they beat down to ODIs. You make ODIs a baby face.

523
00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:47.280
Okay, because I don't know.
I just thought that was strange after all

524
00:35:47.320 --> 00:35:52.400
that teasing, not even damage control. I mean damage control I thought was

525
00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:54.519
an easy layup, Like there's no
way Bailey, EO and Dakota Kai stay

526
00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:58.679
together. And I think there are
obviously, as you're pointing out with Alpha

527
00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:02.000
Academy, potentially there are some teases
going on there with damage controlling. Maybe

528
00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:07.440
you're on, You're you're onto something
there that the storyline split is more important

529
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:10.000
than the draft split. Yeah,
I mean you could have EO and Dakota

530
00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:13.360
jump Bailey all of a sudden,
Bailey's back to being a baby face,

531
00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:16.280
you know, Like there there are
ways of doing it and kind of evening

532
00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:22.079
out the roster and stuff like that. But it is weird that. Oh,

533
00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:27.480
as I'm saying that, I'm just
watching a car shoot to join no

534
00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:32.280
no spoilers, say, um,
but yeah, there are ways of doing

535
00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:35.280
it and trying to evening you out
things, and they typically do that.

536
00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:37.639
We've seen that with other people in
the past. We're like mizz and Morrison.

537
00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:40.079
We've seen that in the past as
well, where happening like right after

538
00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:44.480
the draft. So there are ways
of doing it, but it's just awkward

539
00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:49.599
and to tease it for so long
that hey, one side could get drafted

540
00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:51.800
to the other, one side could
get drafted the other, and that it

541
00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:55.719
never plays out that way. You
mentioned Albifier and island On. They're the

542
00:36:55.800 --> 00:36:59.800
NX Human Tech Team champions. They
retain on Tuesday. Ever, Katana Chance

543
00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:02.920
and Kadan Carter they now take those
titles to SmackDown. I'm wondering, is

544
00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:07.719
it time to make Raw and smackdow
Wen's Tag Team Championships with Ricrell and live

545
00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:12.280
On raw Ila and Alba on SmackDown. I mean, could they do that?

546
00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:15.480
Could they morph the NXC Women's Tack
Team titles to the SmackDown Woman's Tack

547
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:20.639
Team titles? But then are you
taking the NXT tag team titles off of

548
00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:22.639
NXT? I think you, I
think you would. I don't think they've

549
00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:28.119
really done anything with them unfortunately,
I mean, in general, really has

550
00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:31.800
it with the women's tax Team division. I don't know. I could see

551
00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:36.679
Sammy's upset by the fallon Keaner feud
in man, I know, I know.

552
00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:42.239
To me at this point it is
just like, hey, just you

553
00:37:42.280 --> 00:37:46.480
don't really need the tag titles on
NXT for the women. They really they

554
00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:51.320
really haven't done anything on it,
Like nobody's really jumped up and like captured

555
00:37:51.320 --> 00:37:53.559
our imagine. I mean honestly,
Ila and Alba are the closest thing to

556
00:37:53.719 --> 00:37:58.400
look like, Well, Toxic Attraction
was fantastic and when they were doing it,

557
00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:02.880
but really outside Toxic Attraction and maybe
albert Island now like nobody's really went

558
00:38:04.039 --> 00:38:06.159
ooh. I want to see them
on a RAW or I want to see

559
00:38:06.159 --> 00:38:10.159
them on SmackDown as a tag team, and they've had opportunities to capitalize on

560
00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:15.079
them, they just haven't done it
yet. Other surprises, Andy Hartwell reunites

561
00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:17.719
with Candice Larray, Dexter Loomis and
Johnny Gargano and Raw. Hopefully they make

562
00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:22.840
that a storyline and to be shocked
if they don't, or at least Indian

563
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:28.760
k this is a tag team,
like we know, we do know Indie

564
00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:31.000
Harwell has a high ankle spring.
She did get entered in last week's match

565
00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:35.480
and then she confirmed on Tuesday's NXC, so maybe a little bit before we

566
00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:37.199
see her on TV. But not
to mention, don't you feel like there's

567
00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:40.360
like a little bit of a disconnect
still between the NXT and the main roster

568
00:38:40.519 --> 00:38:46.400
because you just put this title one. Yeah, then right away you're going,

569
00:38:47.199 --> 00:38:51.159
yeah, it sucks. It sucks
for her. I gotta be honest,

570
00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:55.719
like one title defense, yeah,
because she's not in that vein when

571
00:38:55.800 --> 00:39:02.199
like they called up Oscar and Becky
and Bay and Charlotte and Sasha like she's

572
00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:05.840
I love her, She's great Indie
Hartwell, but she did not get that

573
00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:08.519
run as NXC Women's Champion where you're
like, she immediately joins it now can

574
00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:13.800
become a legit contender now. In
the past, people like Bianca Belair have

575
00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:15.880
been very successful and people like Shana
Basler were not on the main roster.

576
00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:20.880
But I don't know, I think
Indy Hartwell could be a little bit more

577
00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:24.320
Shana than she could be Bianca.
Yeah, and and not to man,

578
00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:28.840
she like like we're gonna like just
not a lot of not a decent run

579
00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:31.039
with it. And I mean even
heading into that match where she won the

580
00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:36.480
ladder match, I don't know,
she was my last pick to win.

581
00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:38.199
Like, I like, if I
would have taken any of the other four

582
00:39:38.239 --> 00:39:40.960
women in that match before I picked
Indy just on the way she'd been booked

583
00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:45.199
leading into that match, And it's
like, I almost feel like they gave

584
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:49.239
her the belt to give her a
little bit of credibility to get her drafted

585
00:39:49.239 --> 00:39:52.159
to the main roster as like it's
it was almost like a reward for being

586
00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:57.000
there for so long, getting drafted
up, as opposed to actually the title

587
00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:00.280
win. Matt Rynold, Kevin Owens
a sam he ain't all on Raw with

588
00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:05.039
the bloodline on SmackDown. Does that
mean the storyline is ending this Saturday at

589
00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:09.280
Backlash? Possibility? But does that
mean we could lead into like Gunther Gunther

590
00:40:09.400 --> 00:40:13.440
and Riddle wouldn't be a bad matchup, but then you get Imperium versus Kevin,

591
00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:19.840
Sammy and Riddle. Maybe maybe more
storylines ending LWL on SmackDown, Judgment

592
00:40:19.880 --> 00:40:22.599
Day and Raw. I guess this
is coming to an end. I mean,

593
00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:27.239
in theory, that really wasn't any
different because the brands those guys are

594
00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:30.840
on before the draft, very true, very true, they didn't have borders

595
00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:35.559
drawn up, so maybe now with
borders drawn up, it does end the

596
00:40:35.639 --> 00:40:37.760
rivalry. But you know, it's
just like they're like, oh my god,

597
00:40:38.039 --> 00:40:42.239
It's like, well, there was
no borders, so you could have

598
00:40:42.280 --> 00:40:46.679
all these crazy matches and matchups are
across brands, and now it's a little

599
00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:52.199
bit more organized. I guess something
that I was disappointed in what you alluded

600
00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:54.480
to before tra La Night not going
to RAW. I figured that three hour

601
00:40:54.559 --> 00:40:57.280
show would be good for him,
and then you put him in that World

602
00:40:57.280 --> 00:41:01.039
Heavyweight Championship title chase. Yeah,
and once again, when you have a

603
00:41:01.039 --> 00:41:02.960
two hour show and a three hour
show, at three hour show is a

604
00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:06.840
more promo time. To me,
Raw always be that got like our best

605
00:41:06.920 --> 00:41:10.360
talkers should be on RAW. You
have more time to kill. So you

606
00:41:10.400 --> 00:41:14.960
put an La Night on Raw because
that dude can cut a promo with the

607
00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:16.599
best of them. And you know, some of the other guys that aren't

608
00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:21.719
great talkers, Hey Lee wants to
backdown because they're wrestling. Does it for

609
00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:24.400
them? You know? But then
again, Raw gives people a chance to

610
00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:28.519
grow because I don't think four years
ago he was at Chad Gable was a

611
00:41:28.559 --> 00:41:31.880
great talker, but now he's one
of the best promos in WWE because he's

612
00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:37.280
had time to develop on the microphone. Other surprises Odyssey Jones just being called

613
00:41:37.320 --> 00:41:40.400
up from NXC to Raw Odyssey Jones, who has the charisma and looked to

614
00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:45.920
be a raw or SmackDown superstar.
Absolutely true, but he's been away from

615
00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:47.840
injury for almost a full year in
NXC, and since his return he's been

616
00:41:47.840 --> 00:41:52.000
taking a lot of el's. That
was a surprise. Yeah, once again,

617
00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:53.880
I kind of felt like, hey, this is one of those things

618
00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:58.719
where like, I mean, I
think what Breaker beat him in like under

619
00:41:58.760 --> 00:42:00.840
three minutes, not too longer,
Yeah, like a quick match. So

620
00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:05.480
it's like, what like he gets
called up, but the guy who beat

621
00:42:05.559 --> 00:42:07.360
him in three minutes and still in
NXC, or the guy who beat him

622
00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:13.360
in them the Breakout Tournament, Carmelo
Hayes as still as NXC, and he's

623
00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:17.800
he's now going to ROW. I
will say, if you if if the

624
00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:22.360
old adage of hey, the people
that kind of run now we all know

625
00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:25.360
is in charge of all creative.
But when you have the print Charns and

626
00:42:25.400 --> 00:42:30.719
the Michael Hayeses and the old school
guys still on raw, honestly, Jones

627
00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:36.679
looks like a WW superstar. He's
big, he's fast, he's charismatic,

628
00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:38.440
and maybe he's one of those things
where they looked at when hey, we

629
00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:44.480
could do something with him where maybe
he doesn't fit in with the NXT mold

630
00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:49.239
of you know, faster, quicker, more agile kind of guys. Fair

631
00:42:49.480 --> 00:42:52.559
fair, Yeah, maybe he's better
suited on rowan SmackDown for his development then

632
00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:55.679
on NXC. I mean, I
think that's a very fair point as well.

633
00:42:57.039 --> 00:42:59.760
Um, so that was a surprise. And then we've talked about this,

634
00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:00.800
it's of all times here, but
this just surprised me, Like,

635
00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:05.519
what the hell does free agent status
mean? Von Wagner appeared on NXC this

636
00:43:05.559 --> 00:43:08.719
week to continue his storyline about his
background and it got like very deep.

637
00:43:09.159 --> 00:43:14.239
They went through a picture where he
had some sort of potential brain surgery when

638
00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:16.440
he was a child, but he
was drafted as a free agent, and

639
00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:21.400
then why the hell do this to
Dolf Corbin, Alias Mustaf ali Et,

640
00:43:21.400 --> 00:43:24.079
Cedric Shelton, etc. Etc.
Well, not to mention when we were

641
00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:29.840
talking about the tag teams and how
Raw is absolutely loaded and smackdowns, maybe

642
00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:35.159
a little weaker Alias and Booze,
if you put them on the same page,

643
00:43:35.199 --> 00:43:39.159
would be a really fun tag team. And yet Booze goes to SmackDown

644
00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:44.400
Alias is a free agent, so
it just makes it kind of odd.

645
00:43:44.519 --> 00:43:46.360
Like to me, it's either,
hey, these guys, we know these

646
00:43:46.360 --> 00:43:51.880
guys can work with anybody and sell
their asses off, so let's keep them

647
00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:55.119
kind of floating and use them where
we need them. But it is kind

648
00:43:55.119 --> 00:43:59.320
of, I don't know, like
kind of a kick in the balls to

649
00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:01.239
those guys. Is that, like
we're not even good enough to be on

650
00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:05.719
one brand. We have to kind
of float around and kind of make a

651
00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:09.480
name for ourselves. Again, it's
just weird. It's it's surprising, and

652
00:44:09.559 --> 00:44:14.400
that's why it fell into the surprising
bucket. Is there any other surprises that

653
00:44:14.440 --> 00:44:17.239
we haven't covered here? Doctor try
that stood out to you, So to

654
00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:21.599
me it is where things were like
when you look at like who gets drafted

655
00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:24.320
is like we can draft up like
once you get the logic, and we

656
00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:29.639
can draft up the NXC Women's champion
and the NXC Women's Tag team champions,

657
00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:35.119
but the North American Champion and the
XT champion and the former NC champion are

658
00:44:35.239 --> 00:44:38.880
not good enough to get called up
like that, Like the logic behind it

659
00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:43.320
doesn't always make sense to me,
And I think that's kind of where we're

660
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:46.119
at now, is like they just
just just called a lottery, Like,

661
00:44:46.239 --> 00:44:51.519
just do something different, because the
draft picks don't make sense to any of

662
00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:54.239
the fans. Once again, why
in the hell would you draft Austin theory

663
00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:58.760
before you draft seth Rollins, Like
I think, I think, I think

664
00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:00.639
I agree with you on the her
and roll and stuff. I think we

665
00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:05.880
would point out towards the NXC thing
that they said it would be select NXC

666
00:45:06.039 --> 00:45:08.760
talents. Now we didn't know who
those select talents were, but they said

667
00:45:08.760 --> 00:45:12.760
select, which makes it all in
all. Like you and I are just

668
00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:16.719
very common sense wrestling fans. We
just want logic with our creative creative and

669
00:45:17.039 --> 00:45:22.000
we get it. It's it's wrestling, it's still real to us type stuff.

670
00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:23.599
We just want some logic and common
sense behind it. And that's not

671
00:45:23.639 --> 00:45:29.119
what we got with the w draft
unfortunately. Like the rules are very convoluted,

672
00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:31.840
confusing, and then when the picks
happen, it just does not some

673
00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:36.079
of them, most of them,
they don't make sense. Yeah, I

674
00:45:36.079 --> 00:45:39.719
mean because when they say it's select
NCS, who's the site like you were

675
00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:44.280
talk about with a fancy draft,
like you get your keeper leagues and it's

676
00:45:44.320 --> 00:45:46.760
like, well, what does anyc
get to keep three guys, and they

677
00:45:46.760 --> 00:45:50.360
say, hey, we're keeping Carmelo, Braun, and West, but the

678
00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:54.199
girls you can pick any of them
you want. Don't worry about us,

679
00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:58.679
We'll just make more I don't know. Yeah, and then if you're if

680
00:45:58.719 --> 00:46:01.760
anybody from nxc's available, why aren't
you doing a long term pick here,

681
00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:06.000
like a Roxanne Perez, a Cora
Jade, a Tiffany Stratton, Like I

682
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:08.800
don't know, or why why does
an NXC get included so where they could

683
00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:13.519
draft these free agents and bring them
down NXC. I've always thought that that

684
00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:16.119
would be really really beneficial of the
draft, as if you started treating NXC

685
00:46:16.280 --> 00:46:19.920
like a third brand. They were
doing that at one point, especially the

686
00:46:19.920 --> 00:46:22.519
time that they were in the Survivor
series, then got away from that once

687
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:28.199
two point o relaunched and pandemic app
and all that crap. The pandemic I've

688
00:46:28.239 --> 00:46:31.880
always said, I felt like the
pandemic killed the NXT black and Gold era

689
00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:36.920
that we loved, and that was
one of the bad things, a real

690
00:46:36.960 --> 00:46:40.320
bad things from a wrestling perspective when
it came to the pandemic we've been going

691
00:46:40.320 --> 00:46:46.159
through the last three plus years.
With that said, Trey let's switch gears

692
00:46:46.199 --> 00:46:50.519
to w W Backlash, will preview
and predict it. It comes to us

693
00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:54.039
live this Saturday on Peacock from Colosso
de Puerto Rico and San Juan, Puerto

694
00:46:54.119 --> 00:46:59.360
Rico. Let's start with the first
match here, the San Juan Street Fight.

695
00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:01.000
Bad Bunny gets back into the ring
for the first time since Russe Many

696
00:47:01.079 --> 00:47:06.760
thirty seven, that performance that was
pretty damp historic quite honestly. He takes

697
00:47:06.800 --> 00:47:09.800
on Damian Priest. I've got bad
Buddy in this one. Yeah, I've

698
00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:15.280
got bad Bunny also because the entire
Cologne family runs into help him, the

699
00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:21.880
Cologns, Yeah, Primo, Carlito, Epico, Carlos, my entire Cologne

700
00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:24.159
family. It's a San Juan street
fight, so yeah, I mean,

701
00:47:24.440 --> 00:47:30.559
you can't have a San Juan street
fight without at least somebody from that family

702
00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:32.639
making appearance. So I'll go with
I'm a bad Bunny just in general,

703
00:47:32.679 --> 00:47:36.280
but I really would love to see
Carlito come out and spit an apple when

704
00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:39.519
Damian Priest's face, and Bad Bunny
gets the roll up for it. Carlito

705
00:47:39.639 --> 00:47:43.760
did always said say he spits in
the face of those who are not cool,

706
00:47:43.880 --> 00:47:46.039
so it's always possible. I thought
you're gonna say all I like the

707
00:47:46.039 --> 00:47:50.880
Cologns. I think that'd be cool. Next match here for the Raw Women's

708
00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:53.840
Championship. Bianca Belair from SmackDown defends
against EO Sky Who do you like this

709
00:47:53.840 --> 00:48:00.159
one? Not to try? I
will take Bianca because they're all on SmackDown.

710
00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:02.519
Is the Raw Women's title match,
I'll take Bianca. I'm gonna take

711
00:48:02.519 --> 00:48:06.559
Bianca Belair as well. I can't
see EO getting the victory. I think

712
00:48:06.559 --> 00:48:09.920
the EO storyline with damage control and
potentially split up is more important than her

713
00:48:09.960 --> 00:48:15.639
winning a championship unfortunately right now,
but she will someday soon. Austin Theory

714
00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:19.480
defends the United States Championship in a
triple threat match against Smackdowns Bobby Lashly.

715
00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:22.880
Ros Bronson read, I'm gonna take
Bobby Lashly in this one, doctor try

716
00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:28.719
and keep the United States Championship on
SmackDown. So I've gone kind of back

717
00:48:28.719 --> 00:48:32.880
and forth on that one because I
might For me, I think I'm gonna

718
00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:38.119
take Theory retaining just because I think
Bobby can get tangled up with Roman and

719
00:48:38.199 --> 00:48:43.159
Solo, so I will take because
that might be a way to kind of

720
00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:49.199
move you know Cedric and you know
Shelton to kind of back up Bobby against

721
00:48:49.239 --> 00:48:53.159
the Bloodline and the USOS. So
I'll take Austin Theory retaining the US title.

722
00:48:54.039 --> 00:48:58.119
Next match here is the match that
makes no sense of just is randomly

723
00:48:58.119 --> 00:49:01.760
announced with no creative behind it and
made people think that Vince is definitely back.

724
00:49:01.800 --> 00:49:05.639
Seth Freaking Rollins taken on Omas Doctor
Trey. Who do you like?

725
00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:10.760
So I'm gonna take Seth because he's
on a brand and Omas is a free

726
00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:15.559
agent. So I will take Seth
because that, to me makes more sense

727
00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:19.760
than the random free agent getting a
win over the guy who is highly drafted

728
00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:22.920
to RAW, I too, am
gonna take Seth Freaking Rollins because I think

729
00:49:22.920 --> 00:49:24.800
he'll be in the World Heavyweight Championship
title hun towards the end of the month

730
00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:30.519
and getting an l now will not
be good for that that chance. Next

731
00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:37.079
match here is Ria Ripley from RAW
defending the Smacked Holman's Championship against Zelena Vega,

732
00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:40.840
also from RAW. I'm gonna take
Ria Ripley and this one so this

733
00:49:40.840 --> 00:49:44.440
one's hard because it is a little
bit of Puerto Rico. But once again,

734
00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:50.079
Rio was the number one pick of
Raw Monday Night, and Zelena was

735
00:49:50.119 --> 00:49:54.519
included in a stable that we almost
forgot to choosing an end. So I

736
00:49:54.519 --> 00:49:59.199
will take Ria getting the win,
even though maybe they just want Red to

737
00:49:59.199 --> 00:50:02.480
get heat by killing Zelena in Portico
Bud. If you ever gone back and

738
00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:09.079
look at the memes Rhea and Jelena
and how reapens her every time is quite

739
00:50:09.119 --> 00:50:13.320
beautiful. I'll put it that way. It's a beautiful, beautiful pinning combination

740
00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:15.599
for those too. I hope Selena
puts on one hell of the performance because

741
00:50:15.599 --> 00:50:19.760
I think she's a very talented wrestler, and I hope that this is a

742
00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:22.599
breakout for her. She's always been
looked at more as a manager than a

743
00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:24.599
performer, and I think she is
just as good as a performer as she

744
00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:29.119
has been as a manager at her
time in dode OUI. That takes us

745
00:50:29.119 --> 00:50:31.000
to our next match here, Cody
Rhodes taking on Brock Lesser doctor Trey.

746
00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:35.800
Who do you like in this one? This one's been hard, Jeff,

747
00:50:35.880 --> 00:50:39.920
I once again back and forth on
this one. I think I'm gonna take

748
00:50:39.960 --> 00:50:44.119
Brock. So I will take Brock
in the win, and then they have

749
00:50:44.159 --> 00:50:50.320
the rematch in Saudi Arabia. Interesting. Yeah, I'm gonna take you.

750
00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:52.320
Go ahead, I'll go Brock.
I was trying to figure a way out

751
00:50:52.360 --> 00:50:54.679
of that because I think Cody will
be in the World Championship match. But

752
00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:59.440
I think I'll take Brock. Yeah, And that's why I'm taking Cody is

753
00:50:59.480 --> 00:51:01.360
I think he is in that World
Heavyweight Championship title hunt. I actually think

754
00:51:01.400 --> 00:51:07.440
maybe Brock costs him the title or
costs him in the tournament rather than um,

755
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:10.119
you know, hands him in l
right now heading into that. So

756
00:51:10.119 --> 00:51:15.079
I'm gonna take Cody taking the win
over Brock and Brock and doctor Trees gonna

757
00:51:15.119 --> 00:51:19.559
take Brock taking the victory over Cody. You know, I would like,

758
00:51:19.719 --> 00:51:22.159
you know, Brock's gonna be a
crown jewel because the page Yeah, Night

759
00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:24.960
of Champions, Night of Champions.
So then you guys figure out what is

760
00:51:25.039 --> 00:51:28.960
Brock going, Like, what's Brock
going to do to justify the payout?

761
00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:30.199
I just think they have to have
the rematch. So and that's what I'm

762
00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:35.760
thinking is maybe Cody gets the victory, they have the tournament, Brock interferes

763
00:51:35.800 --> 00:51:37.920
in a match on raw, cost
Cody a match in the tournament, and

764
00:51:38.039 --> 00:51:42.960
that sets up the match at Night
of Champions makes sense too, I like,

765
00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:45.960
I like your thinking, So I'm
still taking Brocks because it's Brock and

766
00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:51.880
he now has added a duster to
his repertoire of articles of clothing. And

767
00:51:51.960 --> 00:51:54.039
then finally, what I presume will
be the main event, six man tag

768
00:51:54.039 --> 00:51:58.440
team match Matt Riddle, Kevin Owens, and Sammy Zain taken on the Bloodline.

769
00:51:58.960 --> 00:52:01.639
I'm gonna take on Riddle, Owens
and Sammy to send the Bloodline spinning

770
00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:07.079
on SmackDown, where then we start
seeing the dissension between the USOS and Roman

771
00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:12.840
and Solo. I like that,
But then I also like my idea earlier

772
00:52:12.880 --> 00:52:16.840
about making new tag team champions on
SmackDown like brand specific. So I'll take

773
00:52:16.960 --> 00:52:22.079
the Bloodline getting the I'll take the
USO's getting the wind so that we ham

774
00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:24.960
I can come out on SmackDown.
Is that we need to have SmackDown or

775
00:52:25.039 --> 00:52:30.039
tag team jo SmackDown, and the
USOS just defeated the other guys, so

776
00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:34.920
they clearly deserve their own tag team
belt. So there you go. There

777
00:52:35.159 --> 00:52:38.320
is our w Backlash previeum predictions.
We recapped and review the WW draft for

778
00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:43.440
you as well on next week's edition. The podcast, we will recap and

779
00:52:43.480 --> 00:52:46.519
review ww Backlash, then obviously everything
else that is going on the waeful world

780
00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:50.920
of professional wrestling. We you have
a better idea about aw All, in

781
00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:53.480
which as we record this, I
think they've gotten over forty three thousand tickets

782
00:52:53.480 --> 00:52:58.320
sold at Wembley Stadium, which is
very exciting and great news for them.

783
00:52:58.400 --> 00:53:00.920
So lots of discuss here each and
every week on SRTU in the world of

784
00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:05.679
profession around saying before we close up
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785
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up May twenty and from Hazel Green,

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Alabama at the Run to City Arena
this year headline by you, the crowds,

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the Bullet Club, Jays Owens,
Dalton Castle and the Boy Action,

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Mike Jackson, Sin Body. So
many people on the show this year.

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We're excited about and looking forward to
it. Just coming up here in three

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weeks, so yeah, right out, three weeks out, twenty sixteen days.

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There you go, support of the
great things that support s r TU

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and once again spread the word about
the Storrealtha show as well. Thank you

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for DOWLONEI thank you for making us
part of your week until next week.

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For Dutre Franklin who was hit with
a bowl by his son, I'm Jeff

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Pack. This is the Storalta Show. Better, Better,