Brock Lesnar Returns, AEW TV Rumors & Double or Nothing Predictions | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #849 – 5/21/26 In

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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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Episode 849 from May 21st, 2026.

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Welcome to your AWD or nothing.

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And WWE Saturday's main event preview and predictions edition of SRTU.

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I am on app to show I am Jetpack joined every single week.

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My coach is the one only Dr. Trent Franklin.

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Dr. Trey, when you left your gloves and boots in the ring,

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did you think you'd ever be back, my friend?

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No, because I don't think I can fit into my gloves and boots anymore.

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Like usually if I leave clothes behind, it's usually because the husband came home early.

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Fair enough, fair enough.

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So, Dr. Trey not retired, but one Brock Lesnar we thought,

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at least from the WrestleMania standpoint, was retired.

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Dr. Trey lots to cover this week.

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Let's get right into it.

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This past Monday night on RAW, Opa Femi comes out for the open challenge

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and is interrupted, attacked by the returning beast himself,

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the one and only Brock Lesnar about five weeks ago.

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We were talking about, do we think Brock is really retired?

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Following WrestleMania, the vibe was no.

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We think he has one match left in him.

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While this isn't surprising, I would say the timing of it is,

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I did not foresee a potential Brock Lesnar Opa Femi match

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on the horizon here in less than 10 days or so.

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When WWE goes overseas for clash in Italy,

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your thoughts on the Brock Lesnar return and challenge for Opa Femi at Clash in Italy.

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Yeah, I'm not surprised on the return.

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Like you said, we all kind of thought Summer Slams in Minnesota this year.

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We all kind of figured he's going to make an appearance at Summer Slams in Minnesota.

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That's his old stomping grounds before he decided to go stomp moose in Canada.

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But that's his home.

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This was surprising, not only because he was so soon after the supposed retirement

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after WrestleMania, but it's also for a match in Italy.

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That is a really, I don't see Brock as a spaghetti and meatballs and chicken-free mavera type of guy.

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Well, venison, how about venison?

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Yeah, I didn't see him going, "Hey, I want to come back because I really want to go rest."

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Maybe he does want a wrestling Italy.

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Maybe that's on his bucket list, but it just kind of seemed odd that

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the return is for a pay-per-view in Italy so soon after the WrestleMania.

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I mean, I'm not sure what the next pay-per-view is.

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I know usually we got money in the bank coming up at some point here soon.

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Also, usually it's in the summer around June or July.

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I kind of thought that would be when we might see him pop up if it all before Summer Slams,

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but to have him come back to challenge Oba for clash in Italy,

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just maybe it's because Brock thinks that since Italy's shaped like a boot,

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he can get some nice cowboy boots there.

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I don't know.

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Just to quickly unpack there.

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So I believe the next pay-per-view is night of champion Saudi Arabia.

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We don't know if they're going to be going over there.

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WWE says they are despite what's going on with the conflict in the Middle East.

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I don't believe money in the bank right now is until September.

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I want to say Dr. Trey, I feel like it's in New Orleans in September.

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I thought they changed when it was, which I believe reportedly,

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or maybe he's even said it, yes, Sunday September 6 in New Orleans.

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Money in the Bank is, I feel like Triple H said that he's not like the biggest fan of Money in the Bank,

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because it kind of screws things up.

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Am I wrong though that typically it was in May June July in New Orleans?

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Oh yeah, no, you're 100% right.

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Okay, I just want to make sure I wasn't wrong in my time,

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because I always kind of remember Money in the Bank being the precursor to Summer Slams,

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because people would tease about cashing in at Summer Slams or hold until WrestleMania.

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That's why it's a little weird that's not till September.

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But if you're not a fan of the event, just get rid of it.

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It is, but I'm great if I'm wrong, but I mean, or what your thoughts are.

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It is weird for Brock to come back at a B.

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I don't know where Clash in Italy is kind of like Clash of the Castle in those sense.

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Where do you, this is a B thing?

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I have a theory on this, Dr. Trey.

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So, I think five weeks ago WWE was like 50/50 pessimistic, optimistic, whatever,

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that they were going to be going to Saudi Arabia in June based on what was going on during that timeline.

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And they were like, let's run the retirement angle.

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That way if Brock comes back, let's say after June, come July leading Summer Slams,

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they can build towards what I believe to be will be a match with Gunther.

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And I'll have more on my feelings on that actually with the next topic we discuss.

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Once WWE got the vibe that they are probably going to end up going overseas now for Saudi Arabia,

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they wanted to get like a trifecta series here, free matches in a series.

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It's kind of like the way WWE does things.

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I think they did it with Brock and Cody a couple of years back.

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And I think they're going to do it with Oma and Brock right now.

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So, Oba gets the big win, WrestleMania.

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I think at Clash in Italy, Lesnar gets the win over Oba.

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And then they go to Saudi Arabia for the third and final match where it's Brock versus Oba.

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And then I think you get the quasi, like a mixture of what we saw at WrestleMania this past year with Lesnar.

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And I'm going to leave the boots and gloves in the ring.

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But also a mixture of when he gave respect to Cody at Summer Slams several years ago,

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Shakes Oba's hand, passed the torch, they move on.

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And I think that's where we come up with the idea that maybe we have like a retirement ceremony or

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something like that on Raw, where Lesnar is honored and then that's where Gunther comes out.

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Because this is going to bleed into the next topic a little bit.

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Heyman's favorite job was to have Gunther sign a contract to join Smackdown and

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have a title match at Clash in Italy against Cody.

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If you watch Smackdown this past Friday, Gunther did not sign that contract.

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Adam Pierce comes out says you let that are, excuse me, Nick, all this comes out and

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says you let the time go by way too fast.

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Now you're going to have a number one contender's match and you're going to fight Royce Keys.

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And he ends up winning and he's going to be taking on Cody at Clash in Italy and

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he didn't need to sign that contract that was guaranteed to him to do so.

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And that's where I think the doors opened down the line now, some a little bit of foreshadowing or

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put this kind of this nook and cranny in the back of your brain.

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Where then the favor is is I want to retire the beast.

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And that's what leads us in the Summer Slams.

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So I think all along they wanted to do three matches with Lesnar and Oba and they may have

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ran that angle because they weren't necessarily sure are we going to get to Saudi Arabia to get

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Lesnar that one last massive payday from Saudi Arabia.

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I mean he gets a considerable payday for going down there and that's where I think we get

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the third and final match.

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So I say he wins at Clash in Italy and we go for the tiebreaker at night of champions.

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So that is my theory in creative booking or fictional booking however you want to do this.

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Fan fiction Dr. Tray on the Brock Lesnar path for the next three or four months.

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The trio of matches makes sense.

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Mishirai, like definitely he loves trios.

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They love, they love not as far as tag teams but they do loves three in a row matches.

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I mean near God I mean Roman during his five year run.

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I mean he had three in a row with like everybody to try and stretch some of these rivalries out.

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My question that would be this leads into a little bit into what you're saying is does

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that mean in your mind is Gunther going back to Raw is he staying on Smackdown like what

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is I am curious to hear your fancy booking for what you do with Gunther to get through

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Summer Slams for that potential match with Brock.

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Yeah I think I don't think Gunther wins the title.

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I mean I would want to put the championship on Gunther right now.

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I don't think you make it a title match or anything like that.

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I think Cody's the golden boy.

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I think the original I mean there's so much that happened after WrestleMania that we believe

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was supposed to happen.

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The belief was the Cody and Randy feud was going to continue that it was going to lead to

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Cody and Jelly Roll versus Pat McAfee and Randy Orton at at Backlash Tampa.

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And then I would figure maybe that spawns off into a match.

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I would say Clash and Italy with Orton and Cody going at it one more time.

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They left that feud open ended with a punt of the head to close out WrestleMania.

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Randy is reportedly back at home, nursing the back injury.

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I don't think that they're done with that.

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That or they're kind of an awaiting period where we're back to it unfortunately like Randy

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or never wrestle again.

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Or we're just going to give him some rest.

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We'll pick it back up maybe in at night of champions, carry it over to Summer Slams.

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I think there's more likely chance in my brain that there's a Randy Orton title run because

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according reports he was going to win that match at WrestleMania if he wasn't injured.

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Then there is a Gunther championship run right now.

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So I say he loses Clash and Italy goes back to Raw for a little bit.

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Yeah, because I was curious because you know with Jacob Fattu being on Raw.

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This was kind of like a one for one trade Fattu for Gunther.

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And then but if Gunther goes back to Raw, just Jacob go back to Smackdown.

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And like there are so many weird moving parts right now post WrestleMania that you're trying

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to fear where everything's going to land.

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Because originally I thought Gunther might win in Italy and you get title versus career at

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Summer Slam that Payman comes in and goes, hey I did you the favor by getting you in line

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to win this championship now UOMI.

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Rock wants a title match.

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And Gunther goes well that's fine but he also retires so if he wants title match he's got

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to put his career on the line so I can end here.

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So that was kind of my initial thought but you're right like they do have the Horde in

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the back round and maybe Cody retains Gunther goes back to Raw, Blaine's Hayman for the

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loss and then that's how he gets to Brock and Gunther at Summer Slam.

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Yeah maybe who knows maybe the vision gets involved in that match with Cody or something

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like that right.

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I will say I was thinking about this before the show as I was prepping tonight.

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Because I do feel like WWE has some seeds planted for some good long term storylines in WWE

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that we haven't seen in a little bit of time.

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So maybe they're listening to the feedback of like hey the fans are not really digging

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these storylines because you are one of the things that I did not enjoy about the Vince

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McMahon era generation whatever you want to say because it's stretched for 40 plus years

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was the only time they really listened to the fans was when their backs were up against

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the wall.

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They spawned the attitude era if it wasn't for WSW kicking their ass and ECW becoming very

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popular with a lot of people in the Jerry Springer era of 90s pop culture.

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I still think TL Hopper and Passion Booker would be on like my television screen.

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They were not evolving and they went into a really really weird era of PG wrestling in

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the mid 90s.

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And what I like about what you're seeing right now from WWE is they're taking the criticisms

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and instead of there is time where they're like hey the fans don't know what we're talking

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about.

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I mean Nikon I guess they're in a town hall coming out of WrestleMania like pointed out

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fans tweets that were complaining about something.

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Well, you know, it's very easy to find someone complaining about anything on the internet

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about anything that you're doing.

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It could be a bright sunny day and someone will still complain.

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I mean, most recently not to get too sad.

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>> Only redheads, only redheads complain about bright sunny days, Jeff.

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>> That is true.

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I mean, I have to stay inside.

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But I mean, we just had a nasty winter and we finally had a stretch of days where it was

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like 80 degrees and above and I had family members that were like, "Ah, it's too hot out,

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I'm not going outside."

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It's like, "Do you remember we were like locked inside for about four months?"

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Like, "I'm going out."

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Even with Dr. Trace saying, "I still put a hat on, a lot of it's a sunblock and I still

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go outside."

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It's like, still people will find something wrong with something.

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But WWE, they're rolling back the ticket prices as they showed.

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I mean, it costs an arm and a leg to go to WrestleMania this year.

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They're bringing back house shows to at least a wave of them to help get some of the younger

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talents trained and keep reps going.

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They're just listening to the fans more.

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And that's what I like to see and hopefully that's something that we're seeing with the

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long-term storytelling right now.

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There's a lot of seats planted.

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I think Fat 2 and Reigns, Gunther and Cody, Lesnar and Opa Reignow are some of the big

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storylines.

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Rollins and Braun Breaker, those are the storylines you could really take a look at.

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And even some of the ones that are like on the mid-level right now, I think there's some

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stuff from looking at Saturday Night's main event.

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Like, the Becky Lynch-Stole Rooka stuff, I think, has the possibility of being a good three

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to four-month program right now.

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I think there's a lot of good seats being planted.

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So it's exciting times.

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And that's just something I'm noticing right now that at least I'm excited about Dr.

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Trait.

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It feels like there's some good storytelling being told or the early stages of it in WWE

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right now.

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Yeah, and even some of the Easter eggs.

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You're seeing the LA night, Jimmy and Jay backstage stuff.

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You're seeing a different Jay-o's, so this Jay-o's, so it's kind of like an unhinged pit

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bowl that Jimmy has to control.

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But then you see the interaction of LA night and Seth Rollins.

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You brought this on yourself.

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And you're going to need help, but don't come to me.

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And you're seeing this going like, well, maybe this is foreshadowing LA night turning at

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some point.

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Where you see the weird back behind people's stuff, where you see like Maxine Dupri always

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out with Austin Theory.

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Like those little subtle things like that.

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And WWE two years ago was fantastic at this.

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You and I sat there and you're like, hey, did you see what was going on in the background

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of that stuff?

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Even when the riots were coming on, you see rambling rabbits sitting on a shelf somewhere.

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You're like, wait, does that mean something?

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That stuff was what, for die-hard fans like us, we ate that stuff up.

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But then you still have the casual storyline going off for your regular fans.

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And I don't know what happened in the last 18 months where that kind of went away.

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But now we're starting to see that develop out more and more and more.

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And you're like, ah, there could be some deeper storytelling in here that keeps us engaged

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over the next nine months to a year based on how this plays out.

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I don't know, the idea that Pat Mack, if you'll never be back at WWE again, I think is bullshit.

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We know Pat's going to be a good soul.

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I agree.

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You know, Randy being off TV, but I'm still pissed that he punted Cody in the head, which

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took people out for nine months a decade ago and Cody's back on TV a week later.

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And I'm like, there's got to be a little bit more to this as well.

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So like, yeah, I do like their storytelling right now is decently consistent.

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But we're starting to see them get back to what made them really hot.

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You know, two years ago with some of this sub story telling these Easter eggs, these little

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hints that people are picking up on, that's what really made the product two, three years

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ago really, really enjoyable and engaging.

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Totally great, totally great.

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And I think we saw some interesting seeds planted with going back to Smackdown from this past

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Friday.

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So I want to talk about the Royce Keys Gunther stuff, which we've kind of dabbled in and

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we're talking about good story lines.

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You've got some really good story line stuff with Royce Keys and Solusico and the MFTs,

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the remaining MFTs.

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Where does Royce Keys sit on this entire thing?

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What is the relationship of Tamatanga and Shinsuke Nakamura and this entire thing as well?

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And then it's bleeding into what we're seeing with Gunther.

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So to me, the big discussion around this is not necessarily story lines, Dr. Trey because

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as we know now, Gunther is the new number one contender defeated Royce Keys on Friday

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Night Smackdown after involvement from Solusico, but I thought the point of this match more importantly

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was this was the first and true WWE test for Royce Keys.

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Could he hang with one of the best wrestlers in WWE in the main event spot?

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Is this somebody that WWE should be looking at and investing on?

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And you could just feel that this was the test for Royce Keys.

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And I thought he brought it, but what did you think?

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Did Royce Keys pass the test because I think we've always liked Royce Keys powerhouse

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Hobbs and AEW?

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There were times that he had great runs with the TNT Championship and then there were times

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he was kind of a background player, whether it was with Team Taz or even most recently

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with the Ops as a Trio's Champion.

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They never felt like they wanted to see him break through that maybe upper mid card at

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best into the main event picture.

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Here he is working a main event with one of the best in-ring workers today in Gunther.

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Did Royce Keys pass the test in your mind as being a big player for World Wrestling Entertainment

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moving forward?

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Yeah, I mean I think he passed the first test and I say that because we've seen the backstage

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interactions with Solusico and he sounds comfortable, he sounds good talking, he's not stumbling

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over words, getting in the way of Gunther and looking like a player, like looking like you

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belong and I think he passed that test.

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Now we've seen WWE in years past, move guys up a little bit and then they kind of fall on

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their face.

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So I would say the initial test, he's passing, I mean when flying colors, I thought the

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match was really good, it was hard hitting, those guys brought it, you actually had a couple

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moments where you're like, man they might let Keys win this thing.

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I don't think, because if Keys wins you get Keys and Cody, well Cody and Royce Keys love

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each other, that's one of Cody's guys.

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So we saw what he's saying, it makes sense to put him with a guy that he feels comfortable

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with for him to get in the ring with Gunther, somebody who's probably never wrestled before

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his life and have a hard hitting, competitive match, look the part, look believable, I think

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is a testament to him.

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And the other thing I love about this whole thing Jeff and I don't know if you've noticed

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it, but let's look at Royce Keys, Ricky Saints, Saul Rooka, who are all being featured,

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Ricky Saints, what, has beat Matt Cardona, but lost to Cody, Saul Rooka hasn't won a match

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yet, and Royce Keys now is I think two in one on the main roster, they're not letting

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these guys get these big long undefeated streets, they're putting them to the test and seeing

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how they handle adversity as well.

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So I kind of like their new approach with their NEC call ups, this most recent round of it

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at least.

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Yeah, there's really no dominant force unless there's Oba Femme, right?

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I mean, even Javon Evans, I would say Ethan Page has been on a little bit of a winning streak,

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we'll cover his match with Penta for the Intercontinental Championship this Saturday, it's

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Saturday and it's main event in just a little bit, but I agree with you, I think there's

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some really good tests that are being played out here and they're not making them look

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too dominant, it books them into a corner because I think you can kind of book them more as

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underdogs or middle of the pack so that when they do start to break through a little bit

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and pick up some momentum, and also WWE does these things where they do test them with

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losses, see how they react, see how the crowd reacts, see how the crowd still behind them.

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It's an interesting test because I think one of the worst things WWE always did with

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the debut was just like winning tricks, oh there are no winning tricks, winning trick, winning

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trick, and sometimes people came out of those winning tricks really, really well and sometimes

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they eventually fell down the ladder and were not in the spot where they were when they

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first debuted with the company, so yeah, it's something that I've been noticing, I thought

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Royce Keys passed the test this past Friday night against Gunther, I thought he performed

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well, would be interesting to be a fly on the wall when you know somebody came up to him,

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maybe Paul of EctriBlade, right, came up to Gunther and was like, what do you think?

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Royce Keys, it'd be very interesting to see what Gunther said because I think he's someone

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that obviously has an amazing amount of talent, find extremely entertaining and ring really

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a throwback in ring work, I really enjoy watching him work from a methodotical standpoint and

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would love to hear what he had to say about Royce Keys.

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From a fan standpoint, I thought he did a great job, I thought he passed the flying colors

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and we'll see if that sticks, we'll see if he continues to stick and that main event

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spot on Friday nights back down as he got that big test against Gunther for number one

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container for the WWE Championship at Clash in Paris.

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Moving forward here to this Saturday, Dr. Trey, a quick little preview of Saturday nights

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main event from the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, we've got

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five matches on the card, it'll be airing on Peacock or as Peacock, how does it go?

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What did Peacock, as Conrad Thompson would say?

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Five matches we've got Pente Defending Intercontinental Championship against Ethan Page, the

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Vision, Logan Paul and Austin Therry defending the World Tag Team Championship against the

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Strait Prophets.

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We've rippedly shot Flare and Alexa Bliss taking on Jade Cargill, Meetion and B-Fab in a

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six-woman tag team match, Becky Lynch versus Soul Rook and a non-title match, and Page and

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Bree Bell at a Fend the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship against the Interresistible

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Forces of last legend and Nia Jax.

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Dr. Trey, your thoughts on the card and what matches to count to you?

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I mean, it stands out to me that we're having five matches and three of our women's

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matches.

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I mean, that just shows once again the faith they have and the women's division to put on

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not only good matches, but compelling television.

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I'm also really interested in the Penta, I almost said love Penta.

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The Penta Ethan Page match because I like how they're presenting Ethan Page.

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I really enjoy it.

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I love the little sit down in everything Michael Cole.

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Like I like how they're presenting him because that was always how I envisioned presenting

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Ethan Page.

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You go back a year ago, I said man, bring Ethan Page up, pair him with the Miz and then with

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the Miz retires you have your new Miz.

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So I'm really intrigued to see where they go at that match.

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But that's, yeah, like on paper, it's the women's matches in that Ethan Page Penta match

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that have me really interested.

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I'm really interested in what they do with Bree Bell in Page because yeah, we know they're

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friends, but those styles don't really mesh up well and I'm kind of curious like how

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long do you keep them in the tag team before you break Page off on your own?

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You know, the six woman, the six ones match is interesting because it's like on paper,

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like how do you beat Ria Charlotte in Alexa?

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But then if you're trying to get back to Jade and Ria too, you kind of like they have to

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win that match.

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And then Becky and Saul's interesting because I don't know if this is a popular opinion.

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I feel like Becky has owned this verbal rivalry so far.

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I don't think Saul sounds good on the mic yet.

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And Becky's trying to carry her a little bit, but Saul's had a couple of missteps in the

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ring as well.

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So it's coming to me and Ross for some.

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This is a chance for her to really shine and I'm afraid if she has a bad match, she's

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going to get kind of ostracized for it.

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So that was the fit.

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I already forgot the fifth match.

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What's the fifth match ever got?

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You talked about you talk about Paige and Bree Bella.

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Becky Lynch and Saul Rukko, Ria Ripley, Charlotte, did you not bring up vision?

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In Street Profits?

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Yes, that was the one I missed out on.

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And I'm interested because you saw a little bit of storytelling Monday night where Montez

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is not happy that Angelo came to Seth's defense.

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But he still took the...

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So does that?

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We've been teasing tension with the Street Profits for I feel like five years.

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And they're still together.

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Is that more tension does Montez end up being the one that turns heal?

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Is this big pop-up-pump Rick Steiner type break up where the company sees so much potential

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in Montez and not enough in Angelo that you have to break them up?

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Or is this a chance for the profits to jump back to the top of the tag division because

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dear God, they're one of the best tag teams we've seen in the last five years or last

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ten years.

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So I'm really interested where they go with that match as well.

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Like all five of the matches have compelling stories to them.

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So it's a solid...if there's not a main event level match on here, it is a very, very solid

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B plus card.

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That's interesting that your thing is Street Profits being potentially a break up based on

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everything that you see right now.

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That's not something that I'm watching or figured, but it's interesting to point that you

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make.

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Did you see that spot on Monday night or like Montez comes to him for the save on Angelo,

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but then he starts yelling at Angelo.

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I told you this happens when every time people get involved with Seth, and then he took the

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spear from Rob Breaker.

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I could see Montez for joining the vision.

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I'm looking at it more as Dawkins is being the one that's breaking the barriers of anybody

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that's like anti-Seth Rollins based on everything that he did and is trying to give him a chance

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while he may be able to turn Montez over.

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But I'm not knocking it at all.

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I think that's an interesting point.

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I think that's a different look that I had on it than I originally thought of with Montez

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maybe there is a turn because if Vince was still in the chair, I mean Montez Ford and

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Angelo Dawkins would not be attacked him anymore.

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Who knows where Angelo would be.

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They were starting to prep Montez Ford.

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They were running a storyline just before Triple H got the book that there's been tension

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with his free profits.

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Everybody feels like Montez Ford is a breakout star and then blah, blah, blah, blah.

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Then it just ceased because Triple H took the book and Vince McMahon abruptly retired.

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That was always, it looked like the P the plan and maybe it is one day.

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I like the free profits together more than separate honestly.

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For me, the matches that I'm looking most forward to is Penta versus Ethan Page for the

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Intercontinental Championship.

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I almost think there could be an upset there.

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I think Ethan Page could walk out of there as the Intercontinental Champion.

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He reminds me of somebody that could be that mid 90s Intercontinental Champion that

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I grew up with, that would be a throwback with that championship.

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Then it is Becky Lynch versus Soul Rooka.

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I think interesting point to me is by you, Dr. Trey, Soul Rooka not well known for the

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Mike skills.

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Definitely, Becky is eating her alive on the microphone and there have been some slip-ups

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in the ring with her interactions.

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I think she like nearly slipped a couple of times with doing a soul satcher.

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I think she bounces back this Saturday and we get a great match.

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I just love this run of Becky Lynch.

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I love that she's trying to elevate a lot of women along the way, whether it be Maxine

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to pre, Lyra Valqueria.

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I think that the one knock is and this maybe you listening at home right now or even Dr.

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Trey is that Becky does these things where she's elevating new stars, new women to climb

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the ranks in the women's division and then what does WWE do with them afterwards?

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Not much.

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Alright, Maxine is probably joining the vision but that's slowly burning out.

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Lyra Valqueria is in an infrequent tag team with Bailey that gets TV time infrequently right

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now and I think they should have had a run with the Champion Chep and Lyra was showing

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in that Becky feud.

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This is someone that you could put the top women's Champion Chep on in my opinion and let

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00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,600
her run until the WrestleMania.

441
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,680
And it was unfortunate that they have not done that yet.

442
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,760
So big test for Soul Rooka, once again just love that Becky Lynch run.

443
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:35,280
Saturday it's main event this Saturday on Peacock and we will recap it all here on next

444
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,320
week's edition of SRTU.

445
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:44,600
Switching gears off of WWE and into a W Dr. Trey, there was a little bit of a story

446
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:49,800
that's been a slow burn over the last couple of weeks in regards to AW's TV deal.

447
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:56,200
I saw some stuff online from some sources that were saying that AW already is aware that

448
00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:01,760
when their deal expires with Paramount Skydance that they are not returning to TNT TBS, all

449
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,680
the Paramount own channels.

450
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:09,320
That had picked up some momentum with obviously a reputable source and Dave Meltzer from

451
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:15,600
the Wrestling Observer who reported earlier this week the following that one person in

452
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:20,600
WWE noted that were to spread in the company among some, if not many, that AW won't be on Paramount's

453
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,480
last Skydance when their current deal expires.

454
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:29,160
And question if they can get a viable deal elsewhere saying quote, one person that they're

455
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:33,520
noted that people at the highest levels are talking like AW won't get another deal.

456
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:37,280
But those kind of stories spread previously at the last negotiations not that they wouldn't

457
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:41,040
get a deal, but that their deal would be at the same level or perhaps a lower level than

458
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:48,360
the prior deal and said they had a 2.3 times increase.

459
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:53,080
Tonecon addressed this while promoting the ROH Supercar of Honor event saying that he saw

460
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,240
the reports not sure why WWE was saying this.

461
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:59,200
He said the old him would have fought back and argued but he's like a man of faith now,

462
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:03,520
it doesn't do all that stuff.

463
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:04,520
Whatever.

464
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,480
I mean I liked that approach from Tonecon.

465
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:07,480
I know, I know.

466
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,800
It's just the man of faith.

467
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:16,120
To me, WWE is not like openly, there's no Paul the Vec quote that's like, "Hey, AW sucks

468
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:17,600
and not going to be renewed."

469
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:22,360
It's just these reports that are circulating and Tonecon addressed it and I like their

470
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,560
approach that they're not paying any mind sense to it as they should.

471
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:26,560
Just do your own thing.

472
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,960
Stay in your lane and it's worked out very, very well for AW.

473
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:33,640
MJF, I believe, was on aerial Hualani this week and he went a little bit more into it basically

474
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,680
saying that those reports are incorrect.

475
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:37,680
They tried to do this the last time.

476
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:43,080
Basically, he said that that was Nikon doing it and went a little bit harder into it than

477
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,160
Tonecon did.

478
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:49,480
Nonetheless, there is some smoke to this, Dr. Trey, I have no idea if there's any fire.

479
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:54,280
But if Paramount Sky Dance, if they're not renewing AW to their current TV deal, this is not a good

480
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:55,720
thing for professional wrestling fans.

481
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:57,640
This is not a good thing for professional wrestling.

482
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,480
We need AW to survive.

483
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,640
We need them to stay on Warner Brothers discovery.

484
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:06,480
This Paramount Sky Dance is going to be the new owners of Warner Brothers discovery as

485
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,640
my understanding.

486
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,640
If it's true, not good.

487
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:16,480
If it's not true, this is, I guess, WWE trying to get people to think that AW is less than,

488
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:17,480
which is weird.

489
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:21,000
Yeah, I mean, two degree.

490
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,520
They're going to take their...

491
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,520
Everybody takes their little shots over the years.

492
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,520
AW has always been kind of a bit more poking the bear.

493
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:32,840
WWE's kind of been like, they're inferior, they don't matter.

494
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:33,840
Type approach.

495
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,160
And that's kind of the part of the course.

496
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,520
So they're like, yeah, they lose their deal.

497
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,520
I don't know if they're going to get another one.

498
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,760
It's like, dude, TNA got a deal.

499
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:48,720
Right now in the era that we live in, somebody would be like, hey, there's a crap ton of

500
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,240
content.

501
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:51,240
We can put out.

502
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:57,000
Amazon, I think Amazon Prime would jump on there trying to get AW if Paramount decided

503
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,000
not to redo.

504
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:04,960
And Netflix had interests in bringing AEW on board when the Universal deal was first on

505
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:05,960
there.

506
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:12,280
So I think even if Paramount Skydance decides not to redo AW, there are other entities out

507
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,360
there that would jump at the chance.

508
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:15,360
It's not a profession.

509
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:17,080
It's literally a content thing.

510
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:18,680
We just need content.

511
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:26,000
And the fact that AEW can occupy five hours of your network broadcasting every week makes

512
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,000
scheduling your other stuff pretty easy.

513
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,560
So I mean, if you go on Amazon, you go on Road, because there are channels.

514
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:38,240
I mean, they're broadcasting like men's division to baseball.

515
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,600
I mean, there are markets for products if there's content.

516
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:49,320
So I am now my brain went to like Tony Khan 316.

517
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,720
I just got a TV deal.

518
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:55,360
Like the man of faith line just, it cracked me up.

519
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:56,360
I don't know.

520
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,360
What did he say?

521
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,360
What religion he found faith in?

522
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:02,360
I'm curious now.

523
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,560
I want to know what God Tony Khan has.

524
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:09,240
I don't want to make obviously a joke of faith, but he did.

525
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,600
He did give a shout out to Jesus.

526
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:12,600
Jesus.

527
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:13,600
So, OK.

528
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:14,600
Yeah, Jay Z.

529
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,120
Yeah, so he praised Mark of Philip Reck.

530
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:18,120
He did.

531
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:19,120
He did.

532
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:25,280
So, yeah, it was interesting tidbits and news there with everything going on.

533
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:29,080
I think they're deal expires in 2028.

534
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:30,960
I think they have like an option here.

535
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:32,760
So, 2027, 208.

536
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:37,360
Again, not a good thing if they're coming off of the TNT, TBS platforms.

537
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,360
But we'll see where that goes here.

538
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:43,760
But it's definitely gained momentum this past week of that story, which I originally just

539
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:44,760
saw in a song.

540
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:48,560
I was like, ah, this sounds just like the streets on Twitter, just like making up shit.

541
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,000
And then like Meltzer reported on it.

542
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,520
And I was like, oh, maybe there's something to this.

543
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:59,680
Something that caught my eye this past week as well in regards to AW, Dr. Treya, I was watching

544
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,480
Saturday night collision.

545
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,640
And I don't remember this match being promoted.

546
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,960
Maybe, no, it was promoted on Dynamite now that I think about it.

547
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:12,840
For the AW World Championship, in a no count out match, it was Darby Allen defending against

548
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:14,880
Sammy Guevara.

549
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:20,640
And Sammy Guevara, who has not been on AW television in like months, has felt like him.

550
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:26,440
And if he has, it's been sporadic here and there was in a world title match out of nowhere.

551
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:30,120
And if you had just started watching AW, you're like, why the hell is this guy getting a title

552
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:31,120
shot?

553
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:35,800
But if you're like me and you've watched AW since day one or like Dr. Treya and you've watched

554
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:43,440
AW since day one, you knew that at one time, Sammy Guevara was one of the biggest stars and

555
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:47,720
names in all lead wrestling and one of the homegrown guys that they were pushing.

556
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:54,720
And he is referred to as a pillar along with MJF Darby Allen, Jack Perry and Sammy Guevara.

557
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:59,320
The three other guys that we just talked about are frequently pushed on television.

558
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,120
Jack Perry, MJF and Darby Allen.

559
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:02,560
Sammy Guevara is not.

560
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:06,640
Plenty of reports out there as to why he may or may not be pushed anymore or if this is

561
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,200
like he's in time out for, I don't know, three years.

562
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:16,160
I think he was injured for a period of time, but he developed a bad attitude according

563
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:17,160
to reports.

564
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:18,160
He's never seen it.

565
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,520
We don't have no idea if this is factual or not.

566
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:24,600
But there was a story, I guess in like 2020-21 where he'd quit AW.

567
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:29,880
I think he was working with the inner circle of Chris Jericho and he was supposed to go

568
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:33,600
over to TNA and work there for a little bit and really pushed the angle.

569
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:39,720
And it stopped abruptly because he like no showed or he was an asshole and just ended right

570
00:34:39,720 --> 00:34:40,720
there.

571
00:34:40,720 --> 00:34:42,440
And then you heard these reports about Sammy doing stuff.

572
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,480
He's been suspended before for things that he said online.

573
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:49,520
He's been suspended before for things that he did in matches like I think he still wrestled

574
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:55,040
with the concussion, the got him in trouble and basically AW took the ball out of his hands.

575
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,560
And we've seen this with people in the past.

576
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,320
So I'm not sure to talk about the match itself because I thought the match was good.

577
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,120
Sammy had a couple of points where it looked like he could have won the match.

578
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:07,960
He had the four and O record on Darby Allen which was something I think should have been

579
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:12,080
hyped a lot more leading up to that match.

580
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:16,920
And all I could think about is who is your favorite forgotten AW star doctor because we just

581
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,920
had Sammy Kavar in an AW World Championship match.

582
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,000
To me there are some other names out there.

583
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,600
Eddie Kingston right?

584
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:25,520
Eddie was one of the most popular guys.

585
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,440
He's working R.O.A. right now with Ortiz I believe.

586
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:29,600
Britt Baker.

587
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:33,600
She had a stroke, came back, wrestled Mercedes, had some attitude.

588
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,120
Issue is reportedly was taken off television.

589
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,880
She hasn't been on TV in almost like two years.

590
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:43,120
He returned from being gone for a while.

591
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,480
He filled the American Gladiators last summer.

592
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,480
Joins Adolton, John Calis family.

593
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,880
And I think tears his bicep like a week or two later and he has been gone this entire time

594
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:52,960
of injury.

595
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,960
There's been Camille who is working with Mercedes Monet.

596
00:35:55,960 --> 00:36:00,280
She came back recently to wrestle Willow Nightingale but we haven't seen her since.

597
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:04,480
Butcher and the Blade, a tag team that was featured very early in A and A that we haven't

598
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:06,160
seen in years.

599
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:12,440
Naila Rose, R.O.A. these two women were like number one and number two first A.W. women's

600
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:13,440
world champions.

601
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:18,080
I think they wrestled in the finals to crown the first ever A.W. women's world champion.

602
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:19,080
And they like come and go.

603
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,480
I haven't seen Naila Rose in a long time.

604
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,480
Rio pops up occasionally and then goes away for a while.

605
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,880
Like to me it's like crazy.

606
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:31,360
If you watched A.W.6 years ago, seven years ago when they first launched the dark order.

607
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,360
Dark order is barely on television in A.W.A.

608
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:40,440
Johnny Hungie walked by MJF this past week when they did that bald angle for Dynamite.

609
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:41,760
And then lastly Rick Flair.

610
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,440
Like Rick Flair is still signed to A.W.

611
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,600
He hasn't been on television for A.W. in months.

612
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,960
So we know A.W. shells a lot of folks and they'll still continue to pay them and then it's

613
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,600
basically like we're just going to write out your contract at this point.

614
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,440
They also do a very shitty job of letting fans know when somebody's injured.

615
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,920
But with Sammy Guevara in the main event of Dr. Trey, I just list a bunch of names.

616
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:07,160
Who are some of your forgotten A.W. stars that you liked watching, especially those early

617
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,160
days of A.W.

618
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:10,840
Jake the snake robberts.

619
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:12,240
I love when good luck.

620
00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:13,240
Red debuted.

621
00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:16,160
Yeah, I was like, oh God, we couldn't get Jake robbers on TV.

622
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,560
Like he could literally, in my head, he could be the answer to Paul Heyman.

623
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:20,880
His promos are fantastic.

624
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:25,400
And then they just kind of let it go and let it slide.

625
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,400
Remember he was with LFI?

626
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:28,400
Yeah.

627
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:29,400
Yeah.

628
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,840
Well, wasn't there that weird tray where he had Lance Archer and then he traded?

629
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:33,840
He made a tray.

630
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:34,840
Lance Archer, he made a training.

631
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,600
That's how he got LFI and then he's not with LFI.

632
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:43,440
So that was a big one.

633
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:50,080
There was the Japanese girl in between Rio and Minasura Carr, like the one that had the

634
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,080
Kendo stick all the time.

635
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,480
He cares, he cares, he cares, she does?

636
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:55,480
He cares, she does.

637
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,640
Yeah, she still pops up every now and then.

638
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,680
She's on a match on double or nothing.

639
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:04,080
Oh, okay, well, for a while, we hadn't seen her like six months.

640
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:08,080
It is kind of where they push somebody then they disappear.

641
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:11,280
I mean, you can go into the people that have been let go.

642
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:18,520
Like I was never a big Joey Janela fan, but right now, we really haven't seen much

643
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:28,600
from the Kip Sabian, Nick Wayne stuff since that whole, the patriarchy kind of broke apart.

644
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:33,760
No, Nick Wayne just lost the ring of honor television title, but we really haven't seen them on

645
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:34,760
AEW tell.

646
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:38,360
We see more, we have seen more Penelope for this year than Kip Sabian really.

647
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:39,360
Yeah.

648
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,040
Which is kind of shocking.

649
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,800
You know, I can bring out like a Joey Janela.

650
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:45,800
Oh, what was her now?

651
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:50,840
I kept trying to think of the girl, the trans girl with the blonde, the black girl, the

652
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,760
blonde hair.

653
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:54,760
The concrete rose.

654
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:55,760
Oh, Naila Rose.

655
00:38:55,760 --> 00:39:02,760
No, no, not Naila Rose, the smaller one, smaller black girl, blonde hair.

656
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,760
Oh, what's your name?

657
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:06,760
Yeah.

658
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:10,560
No longer with, no longer with AW.

659
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:11,960
Yes, I know where you're talking about.

660
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:13,760
There are some of the people that we let go from AW.

661
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:19,040
I mean, you could bring in the Marcos stunts of the world, but really, like to me, like

662
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:20,360
you named off the big ones to me.

663
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,040
Like as you were running through your list, I'm like every time you were naming one, like

664
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,680
that's one, yep, that's one.

665
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:31,000
I mean, the dark order may, I mean, the Brody Lee's passing kind of killed, sorry, that sounds

666
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,560
bad, but kind of ruined the dark order.

667
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:38,760
Like they were on pace to be super huge in AW, then losing Brody Lee, you just kind of way

668
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,560
like who's the focal point?

669
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,520
Like you never even see Kenny Omega talking to them anymore for a while.

670
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:51,000
I'm not getting a mega hangman page talking to him and that was kind of a thing for a while.

671
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:56,600
Yeah, it is weird to me that they do this where they bring somebody up, they push them really

672
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:01,240
hard, then they fall by the wayside and then they just pay them.

673
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And that to me is like, if you're not going to use somebody, let them go.

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You know, like I love Shane Taylor and he's really gay to Ring of Honor, you know, all

675
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the time and we never see him on, we've seldom see Ring of Shane Taylor promotions on,

676
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you know, dynamite or collision.

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Like it is like telling Shane Taylor promotions against the Hercinnickit wouldn't be fun.

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Or the Hercinnickit absorbing Shane Taylor promotions wouldn't be fun.

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But yeah, like it's it is kind of like I'm sitting there thinking about like what action figures

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thunder rosa we don't, I mean we see her now a little bit more but then she was out injured.

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But I'm thinking of like all the action figures I see in Walmart or in Target for AW and

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like half them are people we haven't seen.

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I've seen war glowing Camille more on American gladiators over the last month than we've seen

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the last year on AW television.

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Of course it is also nice to watch Rick letters as the Rick Boog's still being entertaining.

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Yeah, it's it just got me thinking it's like Sammy Guevara, there's all these forgotten

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star some of them are on our way to know we don't even know about or they're so infrequently

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used on AW television and it was just like it's something I've always like man remember

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like I would never have figured Sammy Guevara and Bert Baker would be bit players in

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all the wrestling right now like you just think that they would be like first ballot hall

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of famous for that company.

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Was it it wasn't it Sammy who got it wasn't Sammy was it one of the ones who got into

693
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a fight with Andrade?

694
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I believe so yeah you're right and that's one of the other things that came up.

695
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That was where his bench came from yeah.

696
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He's been suspended multiple times.

697
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Oh yeah I mean he's his career path early on an AW is very reminiscent of Randy Orton

698
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in the early in his early days of WWE whereas like injury and suspension kind of kept killing

699
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momentum but they just WWE just kind of kept trusting Randy maybe a little bit more than

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what and then plus Cody leaving that was Sammy's guy also and Cody always had Sammy's back

701
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and when Cody left I don't think there's anybody there who really championed the Sammy

702
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Guevara cause.

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Yeah there could be some of that for sure it's it's just odd I mean so many talented people

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not being really utilized when they were featured so heavily I mean there's you've heard things

705
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off the record on the record that basically there's an island of toys that Tony Khan likes

706
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to play with and if you watch Dynamite in collision each week you know who those are and I

707
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love Tomasso Champa but Champazam TV all the time like you see it Devon Dominion it's there's

708
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:40,400
a group of people he loves to watch the conglomeration Mark Briscoe and those are who is being featured

709
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while some get regulated to R.O.H. which I don't watch and then some get regulated to the

710
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sidelines whether they're injured or just don't want to be used anymore then their contract

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runs out so feel free to chime in over at patreon.com/srtupodcast with some of your favorite

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quote forgotten AW stars under this available downloaded podcast and then lastly here Dr.

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Trey this Sunday from Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens New York we do have AW double or nothing

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we have Darby Allen defending the AW World Championship in a title versus hair match against MJF

715
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Teclid offends the AW Women's World Championship in a four-way match against Akar as she

716
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did Jamie Hayder and Chris Stattlander Kazitskyo Khan offends the AW International Championship against

717
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:29,080
Kenosuke Tikeshka FTR offends the AW World Tag Team Championship in an Iquate Street fight against

718
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Cop and Cage if Cop and Cage lose they must to span as a team if I never tag ever again John

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Moxley defense call the AW Continental Championship against Kyle O'Reilly in a no-time women match

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Swarth Strickland versus Bandino in an Owen Hart Foundation tournament match Willosper versus

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Smow Jones Owen Hart Foundation tournament match Jericho Jack Perry Kenny Omega Matchax and

722
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Nitchaxe in Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin take on Ricochet Bishop Khan Toa Leona

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Mark Davis and three partners from the Don Calls family in a stadium-stay of Pee match

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a Thea versus Mina Shirakawa and women's Owen Hart match divine Dominion defend their

725
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they have a five-minute tag team eliminate or match against Zeta Steele and Viva Van

726
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:17,320
is stealing Van last five minutes they earn a future AW Women's World Tag Team Championship match

727
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Dr. Shrey what matches are you looking most forward to for AW double or nothing?

728
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I mean off the top of the Darby on MJF match because I was too much of a day like I saw people

729
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:34,360
posting this like Darby's had what like six seven title defenses in his 50 days as champion and then

730
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:41,720
you see Cody Cody's had one in 73 Romans had one in like 16 I'm like yeah but he defended against

731
00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:47,720
Sammy Guevara that half of you didn't even know it's still in AEW like it's not always a quantity

732
00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:53,240
of a quality so that that makes me wonder like hey are we putting all these title defenses for Darby

733
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so that way of MJF wins you can still say Darby had six successful title defenses

734
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so I'm interested to see how that goes and then I'm also just like if they shave MJF's head

735
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like I am kind of interested to see if that how that plays out uh stadium-stampied matches are

736
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always fun I do like this like yeah it's uh the uh oh ricochet you know and his guys

737
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:22,440
Mark Davis and then we don't know who the other couple guys are going to be like we're not sure

738
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but they'll be there they'll be two guys from down Calis has 27 people in his family so it's easy to

739
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pick two third cousins to be involved in the match. Oh Cotta Tikeshta I'm excited for this match

740
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:38,280
because I think this is where Tikeshta comes down top and then you can move O'Cotta to the top of

741
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:43,800
the card and see how that goes uh Moxley and O'Reilly I'm excited about because I'm just glad they

742
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:49,720
remember that O'Reilly has not or Moxley hasn't defeated Kyle if they were able to bring that back up

743
00:45:49,720 --> 00:45:56,280
so except for those um the women's foray match I'm interested in because is this a way for them

744
00:45:56,280 --> 00:46:02,280
to take the belt off that claw and put it on somebody else without feck maloosing or technical losing

745
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:07,480
so that's interesting to me uh just overall I think it's a really really solid car from top to bottom

746
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:12,520
I mean not even talking about Swarov and Van Dito which I don't I don't get those guys to wrestle any time

747
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:17,640
I don't care what the reason is those guys are health competitors so just overall top to bottom

748
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:23,720
really really solid car and arguably maybe better than Sennheiss main event and clash nearly combined

749
00:46:23,720 --> 00:46:29,480
interesting interesting thoughts are Dr. Treyah I'm excited for AW double or nothing this weekend

750
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:35,640
obviously my biggest issue with them and the maybe this is the I could be in the minor in this

751
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:40,600
or maybe it's ADHD Jeff here just way too many matches I mean I don't need to watch a four hour

752
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:45,080
wrestling pay-per-view I mean I think two and a half to three hours a good sweet spot give me six

753
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:49,400
solid matches and I'm locked in um the rest of the stuff you could sprinkle on collision or dine

754
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:56,040
a mic quite honestly so I mean it's uh it's a loaded car that's what AW does that's what they love to do

755
00:46:56,040 --> 00:47:01,560
and more power to them and and they have a base that really enjoys that and and cannot come for it

756
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:05,640
not necessarily my cup of tea but when you look at the card it's like they're bringing it and AW has

757
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:10,520
been bringing it all year with the creator really the less six seven eight months have been fantastic

758
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:15,560
Darry versus MJF is a big one can't wait to see that one O'Cottah versus to Kesha is a big one

759
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:22,840
FTR Copen Christian looking forward to Moxley and Kyle Riley again Osprey and Joe again

760
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:29,240
Swerven Van Dito the stadium stampede I mean top down I mean this this this is a great card and I'm

761
00:47:29,240 --> 00:47:34,200
excited for it so AW double or nothing this Sunday from Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens New York

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we will recap that show here on next week's edition of SRTU with that said let's get a couple plugs

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