AJ Styles’ Future Revealed?! Elimination Chamber Predictions & WrestleMania 42 Chaos | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #837 – 2/26/26

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It's still real to be damaged!

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What up, you!

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Ooh, welcome everybody!

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Welcome to this week's edition of the Storilla Show,

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of Summer 837, or February 26th, 2026.

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This is your WWE elimination chamber, preview, and predictions edition of S-R-T-U.

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I am one half-the-shelf, I am Jeff Peck,

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joined every single week in my co-hostly role in "Dr. Franklin".

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Dr. Tre, I am a way beyond officially done with SNOW, my friend.

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I was wondering where you were going to make the joke about.

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Really, I don't think SNOW has been a relevant rapper since the early two-thousand-year-old.

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But, you know, I totally, I am done with, right now we talk about the road to WrestleMania,

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I am on the road to North Carolina, I am done with RAIN,

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like it's just been raining non-stop for like three days.

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Would you take RAIN or SNOW at this point?

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I can deal with SNOW because my rule on living in the North was I can always put on more layers,

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and yes, like you could only get so naked in the South before people start calling the police on you.

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So in the North, I could say bundled up, if I can't get out, okay I can't get out, I'm stuck at home, that's fine, I like my house.

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The RAIN, just no matter what you do, is just always annoying.

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Like the only good thing about the RAIN is when it ends, your grass looks nice and green and lush.

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What's the highest north of you lived where you've had like snow?

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Oh well, no, no, I mean, you got there like all the years I was traveling, like I'd been in Maine,

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and I remember I was in Marlboro, Massachusetts, and we got hit with like 36 inches of snow in one night while I was there,

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and then traveling to Minnesota and Cleveland in January, like I got pretty accustomed to snow being around me all the time,

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but living in the South, I just feel like I've been misplaced, I should have lived in the North most of the time.

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I would absolutely switch with you.

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So I say to my wife all the time, and I'm not, I'm nowhere near retirement age folks, I'm approaching year 40 here in several months,

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but yeah, I'm like, if I could, I wouldn't move down South immediately.

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Snow, I haven't given a shit about snow since I was like 18 when it affected my school, right?

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And I guess I commuted to college, so I worked, still worked, commuted to college, so maybe that was another time too when I gave a damn,

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but outside of that, like I could care less, like I, I spent a decent amount of time cleaning off cars,

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and I'm not even kidding, Dr. Tray, because of the snow drifts, I legitimately cleaned at least three to four feet off of the top of my personal vehicle, like no joke.

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Wait, wait a minute. Yeah, go ahead. Does Connecticut not have this Connecticut not have that job program New York just passed,

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or it's like, hey, we can hire you to shovel snow.

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That's New York City.

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Yeah, that's the New York City thing. No, no, no.

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We don't have that in the burbs. No, no, you don't have that.

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You depend on plow trucks and your family members.

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Like I had to shovel out my mom, and again, no joke, snow drifts.

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I'm about five foot eight, and I was I level with some snow drifts.

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I mean, it's just like absurd.

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I remember recording the show a couple times in the winter, and I'd be in a parking lot that had just been, you know, plowed,

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and there's like 10 foot tall snow drifts piled up in parking lots, and I'm like,

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oh, I just kind of feel like I'm in an ice castle right now and just surrounded and can't escape.

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And all I could think was like, it'd be so much fun to roll down that.

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I will say snow has given us some good wrestling moments in chaos.

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If you're a long time, most of the podcast, you know I love times, and it's a few and far between where there's a little bit of chaos

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that throws our regular programming into whack, like the early days of COVID, and then like shortly thereafter I was done with it, obviously.

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Because at that very time, we only thought it was gonna be two weeks, is one of those moments when the WWE stars were stranded in Saudi Arabia,

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and they had to ask, they basically had to fly NXT up that morning to go to that Smackdown episode to take on anybody who refused to go to Saudi Arabia,

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which was basically Daniel Bryan in Sammy Zayn, is an all-time favorite of mine.

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But I was reminded of this recently on YouTube, I saw this in like a recommended feed.

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One of my favorite episodes, or chaos moments of all time, is Raw is Stanford because of the Blizzard.

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They did not, they were unable to perform at the then known as XL Center.

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I think it's like people banks are reenin' out, it's old, Hartford Civic Center, I've seen a couple shows there,

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and they could not do Raw that evening, so they did it from Stanford Connecticut, I remember like Dean Ambrose trying to get inside.

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They basically aired the entire Royal Rumble match, and then I think there was like a sit-down interview with maybe Roman Reigns and Seth Rounds, that was on that episode.

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Funny behind the scene story about that, so I used to do radio in Hartford Connecticut, and my old radio station,

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that morning they were interviewing Dean Ambrose to promote that night's Monday Night Raw, and it was snowing then, as it was a blizzard,

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and he was stuck at the radio station for two hours, waiting to hear what they were doing that night, and he was just hanging out with like my former co-workers.

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And then he was there when he got the word like we're doing the show in Stanford, and he was basically like, "Alright, I guess I gotta get going and drive down to Stanford Connecticut in this now."

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And then he made his way down to Stanford Connecticut, which is about, geez, maybe 45 minutes on a clear day, so probably took him almost two hours.

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So yeah, Raw is blizzard, it's one of those moments I think he's often forgotten, Dr. Trey, but did give us a pretty cool chaos moment in professional wrestling.

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Yeah, don't forget, WrestleMania is ranked.

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Yes, that's a good one, the first one back.

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Yeah, and I remember Samoa Joe was on commentary that night, and I think Michael Cole was in a poncho the entire night one, so that's what a my go to his mother.

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Because you and I have jokes for years, especially when they were bringing WrestleMania to New Jersey.

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I'm like, there's always a chance you're going to get snow in New Jersey in April. Like they've tempted fate quite a few times.

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Like WrestleMania in Seattle is always tempting fate, and that one WrestleMania is the only one I think that has been weather delayed in 41 years now.

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Yeah, and of course it was like the one back from COVID and a delayed the show like a good 40 minutes to an hour. And I remember I was on a delay watching it, and I was like, this is the coolest thing ever.

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Just basically say, I like that type of stuff because I like to see how when you're thrown into adversity like that, like how a company and organization, the wrestlers themselves, anything in general, right, how they respond.

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And I've always given them like a massive hat tip. I think WWE's always responded very well in those situations. Raw is blizzard. The first couple weeks of COVID-19 and then lasted for a long time. Same with AW as well, hat tip.

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The show where they had to get NXT up there is a classic episode of SmackDown. I think Adam Cole defeats Daniel Bryan in the main event, which was awesome.

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And then yeah, the WrestleMania that Dr. Trey just pointed out gave like a good 40 minutes to an hour where you could tell they were scrambling and they did a really good job and it was a lot of fun.

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So yeah, completely done with winter at this age. I was probably done about eight weeks ago, but here we are almost to the end. I saw Dr. Trey were supposed to get some 60s.

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But we'll save that for weathercast. We'll drop on patreon.com/srtupodcast. Let's begin the show with a big moment this past Monday on Raw.

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We knew going into this Dr. Trey that they were going to be doing a tribute to AJ Styles. I don't remember if you and I were predicting, do you think they'll announce him for the Hall of Fame.

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But it was a fun night. It was like a really nice ode to TNA because most of the guys from TNA during those glory years now work with the company, whether it be Chris Park Abyss, Bobby Rude, Jeremy Bourache, PD Williams, like all these guys, all time guys they brought in Frankie Kizarian.

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I thought it was a nice ode to the TNA days as they should be because AJ Styles had a phenomenal all pun intended career there.

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Cuts a great promo crowds out. You know, the crew was out there giving them props and then we hear the gone undertaker comes out and announces him for the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2026.

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The genuine expression for AJ Styles made my night. That to me was awesome. According to all reports, he had no clue that that was going to happen and you could just tell it was a very, it was a moving thing to watch just the genuine reaction of somebody that I've watched the last 20 plus years of professional wrestling.

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I'm not the biggest like TNA guy. I'm not the biggest AJ Styles fan. I've certainly seen a lot of his work in TNA in New Japan and now seeing it WWE.

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I wouldn't say he was like my guy because I wasn't a TNA guy to begin with, but have always appreciated everything that he does and he is a beloved figure behind the scenes.

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I mean, I mean, nobody says a bad word about him, which is kind of the vibe that I've always gotten about AJ Styles is that just a good genuine human being, people call him Uncle Allen.

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I think he's absolutely happy for him. He's a guy that I think we could all kind of model ourselves to be and I say that we're at, I think he's like 48 years old, Dr. Trey, but he is the main reason why he's retiring not only is his body starting to feel that he makes mention of some neck issues on an interview with talk and shop live with Goulson Anderson, but he wants to be home for his family.

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He wants to see his kids, he wants to see them grow up, you know, in the amount of times that he's missed and you could just tell how much he loves his family and I just found that extremely admirable and inspiring in a way for a guy who has a young family just to see that.

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I mean, completely different professions obviously and I get to see my family all the time, but just the amount of love and joy that he has with his family really, really stood out to me and it's pretty cool that like the human moments is what stood out to me from the tribute to AJ Styles on Raw This Past Monday, Dr. Trey.

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Yeah, I mean the AJ speech, seeing the love from everybody out there and yeah, it was real and pun intended for the show, but it was real to him.

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It was real to everybody he's worked with, it was real to the audience, I think that came through.

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Like, I mean, we got to see a this, not Chris Park, we saw a this, you know, on Monday night Raw, like that's that's pretty crazy to me.

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We got to see Frankie Couserry and all everybody else from TNA that can make it up, that works with the company was there.

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Like, I know like Jeff always goes that I was the resident TNA guy and I as much as I appreciate AJ's work, I'm kind of with you.

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I wasn't always the biggest AJ fan, but like I've never heard anybody say anything bad about him.

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One of our local independent darlings, a guy named Kabaneman Dan who's wrestled all over the southeast shared a really great story about how he was working an independent wrestling show and AJ was on it and AJ sat there and watched their match, unprovoked.

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And then like behind the scenes was like, hey, you know, if you work on this and do this and that it, it like gave free advice and you know, there's a lot of people in the Alabama Georgia wrestling community that, oh, a debt of gratitude for everything that AJ styles is done for this wrestling community.

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And I think what's really beautiful about this, about this whole thing was, you know, for a guy that wasn't a homegrown WWE talent or a lifelong WWE talent to get this kind of send off is really admirable on the company's part.

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And then also just goes to show the kind of character, what kind of character AJ styles has as well.

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Oh, 100%. I mean, absolutely beloved by people in WWE again, which is, which is really cool.

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It's one of those things where that's how you can, it's the measure of a man, right? The measure of a person is what they may meant and the impact they made is when they, you know, there's two things, right?

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You are able to get your flowers when you're with us or in your passing when you're unable to get those flowers and it's good to see moments like this where a human being, a good human being is able to receive these flowers like AJ styles did this past Monday night.

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Put the vest down, put the gloves in the ring. He has come out and interviews said, yep, that's it. I'm done. I mean it. Reports were out there that AJ styles camp knew that AW is ready to make a substantial offer to him to join corner reports that the deal that he was going to be offered would have given him the opportunity to still be at home, which is basically AW model as is, right?

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We see that with Brian Danielson. We see it with other various stars Adam Copeland guys that, you know, they got one fit foot into retirement or in for some of those guys both feet and they want to stay home and want to see their family and AW is is very, very good company to accommodate that.

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He decided to stay with WWE because according reports Mike Johnson on PWInsider Elite reported today, quote, multiple sources have confirmed that WWE and AJ styles have come to terms on a new deal that will keep him officially with the company.

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The belief among those spoken with is he'll be helping with the development of new talent and quote. Dr. Trey, I love this move for him. I think this is a perfect role for him. I've always thought that when his career ended, you've even heard him say this in interviews that this would be a great role for him.

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Let's just assume that this means he is going to be at the WWE PC whether it be five days a week or maybe once or twice a month.

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Just imagine being a young wrestling talent right now where at some points, with all due respect to all the great trainers that are down there as well, but at some point you look out to a ring and you see that you're getting advice from both Sean Michaels and AJ styles.

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I love that he's saying with WWE, I think it's the right thing to do. I don't need to seem continue to wrestle on AW and I think his finish while it was very fast and I would have liked a longer time, get a couple more dream matches under our belt.

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The conclusion of it all in the last three, four weeks has been pretty perfect.

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Yeah, I mean, I'm with you like, you know, there's still some dream matches out that we didn't give, but you're absolutely right. And it's ironic enough that for a long time people were calling, you know, AJ styles the best in-ring performer since Sean Michaels.

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You're actually right like to be a young kid at the PC and actually be able to bounce ideas off, especially in-ring stuff off to the best ever to lace up boots is fantastic.

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I love the fact he's sticking around. I don't think he'll be there five days a week because he doesn't want to move to Orlando to do that.

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But I do think the guest coaching spots where he goes down for a few days and does that kind of thing, make appearances, stuff like that, promote the brand, promote the company.

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That's going to be right up his alley because it still gives us flexibility because the funny thing is, you know, you look at the tattoos of his kids on the side and he came out on, I don't know if you saw the interview he did with Stephanie McMahon, but he literally came out and was like, yeah, I got the boys, but my daughter runs everything that I always thought that was a pretty cool thing.

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He's just like, no, he's going to go home and be a girl dad more than anything else, you know, kind of going forward.

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Yeah, I think there was something that was posted online today. Was it on Instagram? Yeah, on his Instagram, AJ styles posted, what are you doing right now now that you're retired?

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Well, I'm currently getting my hair done by my daughter and it's a picture of him sitting in his daughter's chair.

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You could tell he's a girl dad. He carried his daughter out on some of the exclusives that we've seen heading out of the ring from this past Monday segment.

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A really nice segment. Great send off. Cannot wait for him and his speech at the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2026.

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According reports, WWE is trying to push for John Cena to induct him. Is that the right choice, Dr. Trey?

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I mean, it's not a bad choice. I mean, he had a great rivalry with him. I thought the fact that Undertaker was the one to announce his induction might lead us to believe that it might be Undertaker, but, you know, either one of those two is a great choice because that's kind of what WWE does.

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It's not always the guy who at the great rivalry is not always the person that you most logically think of when it comes to that. Sometimes it's, you know, like, hey, we do, like getting AJ inducted, having seen a do it is kind of combining two of our biggest stalwarts in the last 20 years of the company into one event.

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Should get some more eyes on the Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

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Switching gears here, keeping with Monday and I raw a huge unfortunate news after trade during the triple threat match with Jusso, the original El Grande, Maricano and Bronson, read the last qualifying match for the men's elimination chamber match, Bronson, read suffered an injury, a distal bicep tear.

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He is due to have surgery. He will be out indefinitely no timetable yet. According to Russell votes on Twitter, he was supposed to win that match.

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Due to his injury, Russell votes also reported today on the radio show and fight full select that due to Bronson reads injury, heavy rewrites are expected for the masked man storyline.

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This is now combined with Braun Breaker being out with injury. The expectation is that Seth Rollins is on his way back. This is another tough break and for everybody here for Bronson read to have an opportunity with Braun Breaker potentially being out and being the guy, the focal point hinting in the rest of May 1942.

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Could have catapulted his career. Seth Rollins is like completely, let's just assume that Seth Rollins was supposed to be his opponent, is completely snake-bitten.

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The amount of times this guy has been hurt or gets hurt on the road to WrestleMania or an opponent gets hurt is insane. This is reminiscent of the Adam Cole MJF storyline in A.W. to me where everything was looking really good and now the original three members of the vision are all on the shelf right now.

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Heading into WrestleMania season. We'll see where this clears up. Next month, next month is March. There's only a couple more like five, six weeks left for build.

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Is Rollins going to be back? Is Logan Paul Austin theory going to be put in there? Could Braun Breaker make his way back sooner rather than later from the surgery he had on the hernia?

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This is just all around bad, Dr. Trey. My heart breaks for Braun Starrid who is a phenomenal in-ring worker, great character, and is always on the verge of breaking out.

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And then something terrible happens like he breaks his foot in war games and now this. My heart breaks for Big Braun Starrid Dr. Trey.

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Yeah, I mean the Braun Starrid thing is it's the I mean the guy I mean look at everything he's gone through like the last like just a few years like from getting you know signed in Steve but then getting released getting brought back.

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Kind of being in the middle like in the middle tier during the Vince McMahon end of his run.

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To getting elevated up by triple age to then breaking his foot in war games to then coming back taking out Seth Rollins joining the vision and then now a fluke injury because I think I saw the video where it was like he was breaking up the pinfall attempt and that's what is bicep torn.

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Like that to me is like the flukeiest of all injuries so but the vision has felt like it's naked. I mean you got Seth's injury which was not that it was unexpected but I mean Seth's been battling injuries for the better part of a year and a half two years at least.

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But then you know Braun Breaker getting hurt by flipping a table you know and then the Bronson Reed injury does kind of throw the dance party for WrestleMania for Seth Rollins up in the air and that means that look they might not even bring him back now for WrestleMania and hold them off until everybody's healthy and just kind of save that storyline.

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And everybody's back because otherwise like are you excited about Seth Rollins and Logan Paul again are you excited about Seth Rollins and Austin theory. I'm really not so why not just hold it off until either Braun Breaker or Braun some Reed is back from injury as well.

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Yeah I agree with you if Braun Breaker there's been so many clouded reports on Braun's timeline right and he is an animal I mean it could be as early as next month. Some people are saying to three months to nine months depending on the hernia surgery the hernia surgery he reportedly got is very severe and the timeline is expected to be long.

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The Braun Breaker Bronson Reed by September I would imagine that is a six to nine month recovery as well very gnarly video when he goes to break up the attempt and he looks at his arm and you just kind of see his arm flap basically of the by September that was pretty wild yeah I'm in agreement with you I think you wait.

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Now at this point for one of those two guys to be back before he brings Seth Rollins back because then what's the point I don't want to see Logan Paul Seth Rollins again I don't want to see Seth Rollins Austin theory I don't think either one of those guys are positioned right now to take that mantle.

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Braun's and Reed was which was great I mean the build for him made sense like okay bronze out let's move Braun's and in that made sense it makes no sense whatsoever to move Logan Paul or Austin theory into that spot right now because I just don't think it has the same impact doctor.

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Yeah no it really doesn't I mean we have they haven't built up Austin theory enough he's been the guy that's like yeah he's in our group but he's the one that kind of takes the pin falls for the most part so he's the wheeler you know.

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Yeah he's wheeler you know the group like Logan Paul I mean if if this injury happens a couple of months ago maybe you have time to elevate Logan Paul and because he has all the tools he maybe just not ready yet but this is the guy who may may have been it you know a Saudi Arabia match against Roman right I mean and he's wrestled Cody that made events but he's been in main event spots is just a question of like is either right guy for that so.

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Right now I just like I said to me I would just hold everybody off and come back for like the raw if everybody's healthy the raw after WrestleMania or bring Seth back to attack Logan Paul at the raw after WrestleMania to lead up to backlash like that I'd be good with and then gives it time to get to Bronson and Braun.

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Speaking of WrestleMania let's get to this week's edition of the WrestleMania 42 card roundup by this time next week Dr. Trey we will have four official matches on the card the two that are official obviously CM Punk versus Roman Reigns we had an official official match made now from this past Monday Dr. Trey as you and I felt this is going to be the direction based on the build it will be Stephanie Valkour defending the women's world championship against Liv Morgan the women's Royal Rumble winner at WrestleMania 4.

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I felt like they executed this like a week or two to late I think some of the stuff that we've seen the last two weeks on this build could have been done like like immediately after the Rumble rather than wait as long as they did but here we are Stephanie Valkour versus Liv Morgan is official Dr. Trey.

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Yeah what was the point of Jay Cargill actually being in the ring like she did nothing you know it's like what was like it was just because what she love I mean I know she lives in Atlanta what she was just there they'd have to pay any travel expenses for like hey just come over the arena hang out for a little bit we'll pay a little bit of money for coming over like you could have easily done this a couple of weeks ago and then even then started sending more and more of a build and then on the flip side built up the elimination chamber for the women a little bit more too.

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So like I didn't really get it and then lives like sincere a poly like I was a live over like lives with the best or the most improved Mike workers or the last five years like from where she first started out on the microphone to where she's at now she's much much improved but just booking that angle was not well done.

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No I'm not a fan of like going back and forth from both shows to make you know your intentions unclear as to who you're going to pick when you win the rumble because Liv looks weak because like Jay Cargill was like you don't want the smoke and basically Liv Morgan's like you're right yeah no I don't I want the week your champion like that's why I think the immediately the night after that is when they need to make the decision like that should be a new rule they creatively it does no favors whatsoever for Liv Morgan.

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Even as a heal does no favors for Stephanie Valkyrie's the baby face because it's like okay so Stephanie's just weaker that's why live Choser or she said some mean words to live Morgan and that's what cause it like Liv Morgan who has been the queen mean girl for several years the stuff that she said to real Ripley like I'm supposed to be like okay that makes sense as to why she would pick Stephanie Valkyrie like live could hold her own especially on the microphone like it just may no sense but nonetheless here we are Stephanie Valkyrie.

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Here we are Stephanie Valkyrie versus Liv Morgan is official we have three matches now Dr. Trey that are expected we've got Drew McIntyre defending the MVP to WWE championship against the men's elimination chamber winner we've got Jade Cargill defending the WWE Women's Championship against the women's elimination chamber winner and we have Brock Lesnar I like the Paul Heyman actually refer to it as this he said that the Brock Lesnar matches is what the old Undertaker match was in WrestleMania it's like the one A or one B for the main event of WrestleMania.

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Making it a big deal so those are three matches that we are expecting will obviously preview the men's and women's elimination chamber matches later on we'll get to Brock here momentarily but I will just add here real quick on the Drew McIntyre stuff Dr. Trey Russell votes reported on the radio show on Fightful Select today that Jacob Fatou has creative support to be involved in the WWE title scene at WrestleMania not not creative creative support is the way to do it.

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So what does creative support mean to you someone on the creative teams like I think Jacob should be in the match and we're like yeah that's not a bad idea I guess but that's it so that's like that weird scene and unreal where they do that.

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Yeah yeah like see a function should win the Royal Rumble a couple years ago yeah yeah okay like it's not it's not crazy because I mean he's been featured with your two top guys for the last you know two months it came back

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so I would totally understand why there's creative support but then that begs the question what do you still do with Sammy Zane?

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I still feel like we're getting a for way at WrestleMania with all four guys because to me you can come out of that match with two top baby faces and two top heels and then now you have your programming set for the next six months.

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So that's still kind of where Eileen with I don't know what your thoughts are but that would be my way of kind of putting it all together.

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I'm with you because I had written this down as part of the rundown and I really like this segment the Sammy Zane Cody Road segment on Smackdown backstage where Trick Williams was also involved I thought was foreshadowing where it looked like Sammy was going to snap on him and then he went up to him and he said listen you know just remember me when it becomes your time to win the championship

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everybody expects you to win the title I thought that was some foreshadowing I do feel like a Sammy Zane heel turns coming I think it should be a fatal for way though at many I hope they don't do a heel turn with Zane because I think Sammy as a baby face champion is more impactful than as a heel.

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Yeah but then you got to go well do they want to win Jacob because Jacob is moving a lot of merchandise and then do they want to pull the trigger on Cody you know so it's like it's a creative direction that they got to figure out.

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But getting you know when you're having when you're elevating guys like Trick Williams into that mix it may be their and their mind they're trying to get to three top heels and three top baby faces and kind of set a pecking order and create a years worth of you know programming out of those top six guys as opposed to maybe just the top four.

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Hey listen when you have three baby faces in one heel and a fatal for way that does make for good match psychology as well so I'm not against seeing a three baby face I want to see fatal for way and I don't know how we get there especially with everything in second place this weekend that will preview just a little bit and then the Brock Lesnar match doctor tray I liked the comparison to the that this is the undertaker match.

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Do you like that comparison as well does it have is it in the same realm as how you used to look at the undertaker match the Brock Lesnar match or WrestleMania is a big deal.

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Yeah I do think the Brock Lesnar match is a big deal despite what you know some of the younger pundits say but like people like us that have grown up you know watching Brock in the ring in the ass of chaos and destruction he can cause like yeah whoever they put in there with him it's a big fight field and the only thing I'm wondering about now.

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Who's the person you put in there with him because you know to the top logic well I mean you got a lot of the top up and coming people are are heels brawn breaker brawns reading their out with injury Paul Heyman's associate that you can't do Logan Paul or Austin theory you got to find a baby face that you think some of the guy to kind of go up but if this is the undertaker match the undertaker only lost twice the WrestleMania he didn't put brain wire over he didn't put CM Punk over.

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The only part of a Roman and Brock so who's that person that they're going to elevate into that spot potentially for Brock to beat.

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Yeah I don't I would love to see Gunther I think it could be oboefemi I think LA nights a good case as well.

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I promise though.

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Jay Uso. Well I don't think he's winning the chamber and he's a great merch mover so he's got to have a match at WrestleMania.

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I think they're saving the Uso's for the tag team title scene.

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I mean probably I was just trying to think of like the top baby faces you get through it because Brock and Gunther unless you're making a Gunther kills Brock's career like I don't see the benefit to that.

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What is the most appealing Brock Lesnar match to you if you were booking it. It's WrestleMania you want to tune in you want to see what is it.

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The most likely match or what I want to see what I want to see is that one oboe.

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Yeah I want to see Brock and oboe the match has most likely I still think it's going to be in Brock and LA night.

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Which I think is fine and I think that's what Heyman is getting at is making this a big deal is if LA night gets a victory they have got to do some with LA night right now like it's just it's a waste.

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I mean there's part of me and this is kind of shutting light on to the predictions later on in the show.

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There's part of me that thinks that that Chicago crowd is not going to be happy if Cody Rhodes wins and like I just think it's time to see LA night get involved there but it makes zero sense for LA night to be.

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For LA night to win that match based off of all the creative we've seen to this point like the only person that has had creative with Drew McIntyre are to say people are Cody Rhodes, Jacob a two and Sammy Zayn that's it and Rany Warren Rany Warren at the end of Smackdown this past week.

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The only people in that but that was only like a brief thing right.

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So everybody else in depth creative has been those three the only person with in depth creative around Drew McIntyre that's in the limited chain matches Cody Rhodes.

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I mean it's like this makes if it's LA night I'm going to be like okay well what did we just deal with with Cody Jacob and Sammy the last month but I feel like we're going to say that way anyway.

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Yeah and not to mention we just saw LA night come out and say he was going to try to go through the vision to get to you know the use of the other run to the vision well.

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Brox associated with the vision not maybe not in it but and if you already have Braun Breaker and Bronson read out and we had Logan Paul and LA night a couple of you like a couple of years ago for US title.

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LA night Austin theory feels like another let down like it just kind of makes sense that it lines up that way.

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Yeah it's interesting the Brock Lesnar match where that may be going and then I will just switch over here to rumored what we are thinking the only update that I have right now Dr. Trays I am getting the vibe Domester defense the intercontinental champ to be against Finn Balor.

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I think I said that last week I'm not I'm not sure I don't know if I put it out there in the ethos but I'm like I kind of feel like that's where we're going to try especially Don Dom being double champ.

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If Finn loses at the limits in chamber I can see Don making a power play and then potentially expelling Finn from the judgment day for consistently letting the group down because he's had multiple world title shots and has it been able to pull the trigger on it so I can see them doing like the little

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you know the vision beat down of Seth Rollins I can see the judgment day doing the same thing to Finn to make Finn the baby face coming after Dom and WrestleMania.

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Yeah I think people want to cheer Finn right now I think that's the time to strike while the honor and thought is there.

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Yeah go ahead the old music is super baby face and bringing that back I thought was kind of foreshadowing because even when he's a heal and he does throws the arms out everybody does it so I'm interested in seeing what the reaction in Chicago is going to be the Finn Balor in that match with punk because I think that's a good barometer of what they do with Finn adding in the WrestleMania.

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Anything else that you notice in the past week Dr. Shrey I felt like it was a lot of calm before the storm quite honestly I did not see many things.

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I still think we're going to get some kind of incarnation of Randy Orton Alcord Black and WrestleMania.

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Agreed.

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Even though Black defeated him at WrestleMania I agree with you or excuse me it's Macken.

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Yeah and then maybe it meant maybe I mean we have Damien Priest a former World Heavyweight champion not in the chamber match because he lost a trick way.

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So maybe we get Priest and trick at WrestleMania or some combination of Carmelo trick priest and Ilya for the US title at WrestleMania.

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There's reports out there right now WrestleVotes have reported that WWE is waiting to turn Trick Williams baby face which I think is the right move.

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I mean he is getting some of the loudest reactions right now.

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Looks like a completely different star on the main roster.

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Does it feel weird that Carmelo's the US champ and Trick already out Shines him on SmackDown?

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Carmelo is a baby face does not work for me.

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No he's better as a cocky heel.

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Yeah much better much much better for sure.

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But that means Trick has to lose that white rabbit fur jacket coach.

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No no no no.

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No no no no.

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No you gotta keep it it's like the rock with his old shirts.

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Wow I'm just doing that and that's that might be the closest comparison we have to trick is basically like the he's the cross of rock and book.

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He's yeah and it's it's it's not like the immediate like oh he's just imitating the rock like he's pretty original.

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Yeah.

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Lemon Pepper Stappers and let's talk about it.

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I mean it he's getting there.

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I mean it's it's he's doing really really well.

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I'm happy for trick.

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There's been certainly times where I've enjoyed a stuff and not enjoyed a stuff.

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I've really enjoyed a stuff since he's come up to the main roster of the last month or so.

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Going down to his old place his old stoppy ground doctor tray NXT they had some massive shakeups this past week as the vanity project of one NXT Titan gold.

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I'm a big fan of those guys I enjoy their work they them in Jackson Drake remind me of a more boy banish.

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Boy band-ish type of like undisputed air.

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Zaria finally turned on soul rukin cost soul the match for the women's championship.

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We've been basically waiting for that for months.

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Miles Bourne wins the North American championship.

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What an amazing story.

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The death wrestler.

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You can't even tell that he's deaf.

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It's amazing.

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Wins the NXT North American championship and I think this guy's limits for him.

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And then NXT stand and deliverers off of WrestleMania 42 weekend doctor tray was announced for April the 4th in St. Louis.

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I love that move.

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We have a little bit more about that in just a few moments here.

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But some massive shakeups this past week doctor tray new tag champs vanity project.

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Zaria finally turns on soul rukin and Miles Bourne becomes a light of inspiration and wins the North American championship.

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Yeah and also I like Miles Bourne just to be that North American title should be kind of like what the intercontinental title on the main roster was back on the 90s or 2000.

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Like that stepping stone like this is the proven title like hey, we think you have potential to be more.

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And Ethan page did a fantastic job of elevating that title.

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But to me Ethan should be either on the main roster or consistently challenging for the NXT championship.

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So good for him.

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I also like the it was the vanity project win which at least it tied into the Hank and Tang stuff and everybody else with with dark state.

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Because I'm not once again you know this I'm not a big fan of heel versus heel matchups but.

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Those guys are so dislikable that that it makes sense to kind of help elevate them because I think there's quite a few members of dark state that don't really need to be an NXT.

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So and that whole thing is kind of fizzled out over the last few months.

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Like that move sorry as a heel kind of works for me better anyways here might be a lot of ball and a conno from the 90s just with her look and her demeanor and I'm like yeah she just scream natural heel so I mean small children are scared of her why would you want to make her a baby face.

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So yeah a lot of changes coming to it and then you know moving stand and deliver off a wrestle me weekend I think is good because we were I mean wrestle me weekend was.

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Getting over saturate there was just so much that I think a lot of people just kind of skipped over the NXT stuff that weekend if you can save it towards stands on its own I think that's a good move for the brand.

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Yeah PWInsider is reporting the following quote NXT standard liver was moved off wrestle many weekend as the time and holding the show on the west coast last few years worked against WWE scheduling for the biggest week of their year.

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The show had been internally planned for Vegas initially remember those shows started 11 a.m. East or is it 11 a.m. on the west coast they are starting when when that show airs the feeling was that by moving the show stand delivered would have a stronger chance of not being lost among other WWE events taking place plus the schedule change could free up the production crew from having to produce three events in a 24 hour span before WrestleMania night one that would be smack down the hall of fame and stand liver.

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It was also caution at the move from WrestleMania weekend should be considered permanent year by year WWE will evaluate make a decision to the placement of the show I got to be honest with you I like the move a lot as well I think stand deliver NXT takeover whatever you want to call it was basically was losing its time on the WrestleMania weekend once they went to two nights so it made for a very long day for wrestling fans and I think a lot people basically tuned out of that just to get the show.

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And then watch stand and deliver whatever after the fact when WrestleMania was just on Sunday yet makes sense run takeover or stand deliver on that Saturday but to run it that afternoon or that morning depending on where you are leading into night one of WrestleMania makes a very long day for wrestling.

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And that's a lot I remember sitting live doing the show during the shows it would be like start at 2 p.m. East and it would end around 4 4 30 and then they would go into the pre show from like 5 to 7 and then you have night one and I basically didn't want the pre show because I just use as a break to like show my family I was still alive during WrestleMania weekend so I like the move it makes it for a less intense weekend and allows the fans to really focus on WrestleMania overall doctor.

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Yeah, I mean not to mention you throw a smack down in the mix on Friday nights and then you know raw on Monday that I mean like we we knock a w for 5 hour pay reviews but when you run one two three four five event in four days that's just a lot for any but consume and then you're diluting the product by over saturating it and people are going to tune out of certain things.

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And this way you can kind of focus on smack down a WrestleMania raw everybody's having.

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Yeah, absolutely so there you go NXT stand and deliver off of WrestleMania 42 weekend announced for April the 4th in St Louis Missouri switching gears to all the wrestling doctor trade MJ F versus hangman pages set for a Texas death match at revolution and I just want to give another shout out to another strong episode of a W Diamond if you've not watched Wednesday nights episode yet highly recommended very very fun show.

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This is been great for a W I know I sound like a broken record but I'm given the major props doctor trade I've really been enjoying the programming for for some time now and I thought that I just remember at one point like in the middle the Darby Allen Gabe kid match or excuse me orange Cassie Gabe kid match for Darby interfered I'm like this is a really strong show and it's not even over yet and then they ended with that mild high madness match which was basically like anarchy in the arena with jungle boys theme song playing over and over again.

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And it's like that was just a really really fun show and I'm glad AW's back to those types of roots of the roster's healthy and they're just having fun again and you could tell so just a shout out for another strong episode of dynamite we get MJ F versus hangman page Texas death match at revolution.

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Yeah and we got to see a double sided coin Jeff like how often do you see a double sided coin get used in wrestling I just love that that was the mechanism to kind of get to where we need to be at.

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You know see him Brody King seen all those other guys come out to kind of put MJ F back in the ring to face off with hangman like that was really good it keeps all those guys fresh towards the top of the list you know ties into hangman's AEW Thai team trios championship.

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But it also gets that stupid MJ our hangman can challenge for the AEW that stipulation out of the way and it also opens up for MJ F winning a Texas death match potentially as well.

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Yeah now it we talked about that stipulation last week I have a feeling that the whole Swarth Strickland character reboot refresh whatever you want to look at it plays a role in this which I thought Swarth had a great promo on Wednesday's dynamite as well I'm back I'm happy they just back to that character.

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I just don't I don't like the idea of hangman not challenging for the AEW World Championship I think that is a very bad stipulation it does not intrigue me as a fan because it's like then what do you do with them because I mean he's not leaving it go to WWE I just can't see that but I mean I could have said the same thing about Cody Rhodes and look what happened so.

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I don't know not a not a not a big fan of that so there you go AEW revolution in a couple weeks but before we get to AEW revolution we do have WWE elimination chamber PLE this Saturday on ESPN Dr. Trey it'll be this Saturday from the United Center in Chicago Illinois is the first time WWE is aired a live event from the United Center since summer slam 1994 I believe.

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I just pull that off the top my head I'm pretty sure that was the show so this is typically a place that's known with WCW and then later on AW ran obviously the return of CM Punk when he debuted in the United Center this was a WT Ratory WWE at the Rosemont Horizon so this is a big deal that they're back in the United center the home of the Chicago Bulls and I think the last time.

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Well summer slam 94 and I do have that right there you go I am a loser yeah my wife would be proud of me yeah I can't remember to take the laundry out but I can tell you where summer slam 94 was alright would that be in set WWE elimination chamber let's get to the men's eliminated chamber match with the winner earns an undisputed WWE Championship match at WrestleMania 42 being that this is the start of the year both Dr. Trey and I are two and two Dr. Trey I'll go first I will take Cody Rhodes to win this match what say.

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I'm going Cody Rhodes as well that's the most logical choice I can't see anybody else winning I will say that my bet is that J.U. so gets to let me at first because he wasn't supposed to be there to begin with that would make sense that would certainly make sense next match here is the women's eliminated chamber match to earn a WWE women's championship match at WrestleMania 42 we have Tiffany Stratton real Ripley Alexa Bliss Oscar Keanu James and Raquel Rodriguez before I get your thoughts on this Dr. Trey.

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Real quick here I mean I think the most one of the most shocking results in professional wrestling in 2026 is that Keanu James won the qualifying match the Charlotte Flair was in I had Charlotte Flair pegged for this match and she's not in there so your thoughts on Keanu James the throning Charlotte Flair and then your prediction on the match.

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I mean the way they did it made sense like Charlotte had the the figure eight locked in Keanu comes in just to wait on it so it made sense I'm just amazed at how much faith they're putting in her from going from facing being you know the full time spokesperson for Julia to now her being in this match in Julia in Charlotte not is kind of a crazy thing I give you say that three months ago you said before nuts so it's they they do like throwing the young up and comers

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that they have faith into these things at times you know go back a couple years going Austin theory was in it when he was on his first run up you know before Brock F five them off the top of the cell so you know those things are pretty cool but yeah just really happy see her to me this comes out like I I want to pick Raquel Rodriguez but there's not been a ton of interaction her and Jay so I'm taking Tiffany Stratton to get the win to set up their rematch at WrestleMania

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Wow so we're going to differ here I'm going to take rear Ripley I have a feeling that real Ripley is going to be doing double duty at WrestleMania I could see her defending the tag team titles in one night and then going into this match the second night against shade card go I think we've seen Tiffany and Jade I think if there was a little more build on the return of Tiffany after she got her ass kicked by Jade leading into this that would make a lot of sense I could see that happening Dr. Trey but obviously with all the attendance issues that are going on I think if you did rear Ripley

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versus Jade Cardgill right now that is some money that I think fans want to check out and see so I'm taking rear Ripley Dr. Trey taking Tiffany Stratton and then that takes us to our next match here for the World of the Way Championship CM Punk Defends against Finn Baller

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there's no way CM Punk is dropping the championship in his hometown Chicago heading in WrestleMania Dr. Trey so this is an easy one but maybe we'll sit here we can go can you believe that happen I've taken CM Punk though

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Yeah I'm taking Punk as well like I've seen some whispers that people have you know that there's been people that have thought about maybe putting the belts on Finn to then Punk take it right back off of him but in the United

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Center in Chicago I'm taking CM Punk

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And that takes us to the WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship match as Becky Lynch defends against AJ Lee who will be making her first singles match

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participating in her first singles match in nearly 11 years and her first title match I think it's like 10 years first singles match 11 years title match

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Either way it's it's double digits Dr. Trey for the last time we saw AJ Styles in a singles match and let alone a title match who do you like in this one

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I've gone back and forth on this one because I'm still trying to figure out how to get to WrestleMania so but it being in Chicago we can kind of have the you know that the really memorable moment

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With Husband and wife holding titles hugging in the center of the ring so I think I'm going to take AJ with maybe potentially the upset in this I think AJ wins and we get the rematch of WrestleMania

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I'm with you Dr. Trey I'm taking AJ Lee I think the image of CM Punk and AJ Lee holding championships in Chicago is what we left to see at elimination chamber as well so I am taking AJ Lee to win the Women's Intercontinental Championship then we'll get a rematch at WrestleMania between these so I'm looking forward to this one

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I hope we get to see it's AJ Lee's been back now for like five six months hopefully I'm sure she's been practicing the ring and I hope we see vintage AJ Lee in the ring against one Beckin Lynch

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We will recap review elimination chamber for you on next week's edition of SRT you and I guess we will also preview predict look towards NXT Vengeance they'll be right around the corner as well

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