Is Vince McMahon being squeezed out of WWE? | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #714 – 10/19/23

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It's still welcome everybody. Welcome to
this week's edition is The Real Does Show

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Epsomber seven and fourteen for October nineteen, twenty twenty three. Welcome at this

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week's edition of SR to You.
I am one after the show. I

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am jackon pect joints. Every single
week my post Norman, doctor Gray,

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Franklin, doctor Tray had everything squeezed
out of a company. My friend,

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let's see, squeezed out. I
mean I worked for Blockbuster. Does that

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count? Like I was during SRT
you days, right, yeah, like

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right when we first started. But
yeah, like I mean, companies started

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closing up shops and they kind of
kept bouncing me around to keep me around

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for a while. Then finally it
was like, yeah, you got nowhere

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else to go, so uh squeezed
out because of lack of money. But

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yes, that's probably about the closest
I've come. And I tell you,

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Jeff, I miss Blockbuster. Do
you miss like like working or going to

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a Blockbuster? Is it's both?
I'm weird. I loved my time working

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at Blockbuster, Like I got a
blast, like hanging out talking about movies,

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talking about video games, you know, up selling people. You had

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your regulars but then I also just
miss on a Friday night as a kid

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going with my parents, walking around
the store, trying to find something to

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watch, trying to find a game
to play. It's a shame that,

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you know, Sammy will never get
that. Like Carmen, my oldest,

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she got to hang out with me
the store, so she'd go through the

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kids section pick up movies. You
know, poor Sammy never see that.

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Sammy just has to like go off
of peacock, which he loves to say.

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He loves to say pecock. Now, if I tell you be kind,

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do you know how to finish it? Rewind? Here's Rewind. I'm

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with you, and I know that's
at the point of this week's the podcast

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to talk about video rental stores.
But I remember as a kid Fridays,

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my parents would take me to the
local video rental store. Wasn't a Blockbuster,

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though I did at a Blockbuster nearby, and I would go and pick

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out movies or video games, have
them the entire weekend. The key was

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you would like rent them on either
a Friday or Saturday. They were closed

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on a Sunday, so then you
got an extra day with them, so

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it was like you were stealing a
day by having the movie or the video

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game, and that was always really
cool. And I remember one of the

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first things I ever rented as as
a kid was the nineteen ninety one Royal

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Rumble pay per view. That was
like one of the first ones I ever

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saw, and I remember that pretty
vividly, and it was It's like one

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of those things that it was fun
to do on a Friday or Saturday night

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was to go to the Hey,
you want to go rent a movie,

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Let's go do that, and you
had the membership and uh it was great.

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But that times have actually passed us
on that one. Doctor Try.

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Yeah, I was wondering, like
so like as a kid, like I

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remember going to like video stores like
eight, nine, ten years old.

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And the first thing it is because
wrestling never really had like when I first

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started going, wrestling didn't have its
own section. It was lumped in with

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all of sports. Uh so I
would immediately go right to that section and

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see what they had. And I
remember the first thing I think I read

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it was the eighty seven Survivor series
because I think, well it was a

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seven, No, it was eighty
six Survivor series because at the time Circle

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K had a tie in where if
you like bought a slushy, you got

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a trading card. So I got
to match the cards up to watching the

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Survivor series. So, uh,
that was pretty cool. And then my

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you know, my parents were always
like, why are you guys, why

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are you guys over here hanging out? Look at sports. I'm like,

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no, no, no, it's
all Titan Entertainment wrestling stuff I was buying.

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And then I think I got,
uh eighty seven War Games was right

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after that was the one I got
next out of that store. Yep,

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yep. Things that people most people
have no idea what we're talking about now

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and makes us feel old. Video
rental stores, Yes, you would actually

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have to go to a store,
have a membership card and rent a movie

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or video game. Now you don't
have to just like walk to your television

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and watch whatever the hell you want
to watch, or go to your console

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and buy whatever you wanted to buy. So those were the days. That's

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another podcast that Doctor Trey and I
do called those were the Days, and

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we just sit on a porch and
we yell at clouds and remember the good

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old times when we were growing up
as kids. So started off the show

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asking doctor Tray if he was squeezed
out that led us down the video rental

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discussion that brought back a lot of
nostalgia. However, there is someone that

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is feeling potentially squeezed out right now
by the company that he helped blow up,

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and that is the one and only
Vince mc mann. We talked about

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it on last week's show that Triple
H reportedly was running ninety nine point nine

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percent of WWE Creative, and there
was a ton of follow up reports this

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past week that told us how that
happened. A report comes to us from

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Sports Illustrated via Wrestling Inc. That'
set. According to the report, already

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Emmanual, the CEO of Endeavor TK
Group Holdings, is behind the change of

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Triple H overseeing Creative as he believes
that everyone in the company should focus on

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the jobs they've been assigned. McMahon
is currently an executive chairman and his main

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focus for now is to oversee media
rights and negotiations at We's Chief content offerer,

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howeverts the VEX role to spearhead the
creative direction of WE Raw and We

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SmackDown. Interesting point there, Doctor
Trey that the CEO of Endeavor is the

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one that is behind this reported change. What do we get him? Do

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we send him in an edible arrangement? Do we send him chocolates? Do

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we write him a card? Like? What do you think we should do

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here? Uh, Vince should be
glad he's got a job like that's typically

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what happens in these kind of environmental
things. I don't even know if I

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feel bad for him, because you
know, he was I don't want to

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say he was squeezed out of WW
to begin with, because he was kind

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of forced into retirement because of his
actions, and he found a way back

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in to help facilitate this sale to
where he can make a bunch of money

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off it and still have a role
within the company. But you know,

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when you're being investigated for multiple charges
of hush money basically alluding to sexual misconduct,

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it's a publicly traded company, like
they don't really want that guy out

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in the forefront really making decisions.
I'm not surprised by it. I just

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I'm kind of shocked it's kind of
happened this quickly. I thought they would

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kind of milk the Vince mcman cow
for a little bit longer. But you

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know, like I said, when
you're a big giant conglomerate. You got

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to make sure that your public image
is held to the highest regard. Otherwise

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you'll lose stockholders and shareholders and your
shares, a plument and all that stuff.

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So does Vince eat fruits? I
mean we could do. I mean

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we could come together. I mean, you're not that far away from Titan

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Towers. I mean we could.
We could arrange something. Maybe maybe I

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don't know. I'm sure Ari Emmanuel
has a desk there and I would love

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to. I don't know, said
I'm a gift car to Chili's or something.

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Oh by the way, by the
way, by the way, have

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you gone by to see the new
statue. I have not gone by to

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see the new statue. I have
actually been in that building before it was

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owned by W W W. And
that is a massive building, like I

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clearly drive by it from time to
time, and it's a massive building,

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and there's a bunch of W signs
on top of it. I was always

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very nostalgic for the old building though, to be honest with you, I

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mean the story I always tell as
I watched Sonia seventeen no excuse me,

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eighteen and nineteen from we headquarters because
I had a friend of mine whose dad

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worked there. But yeah, I
mean that was always That's like a big

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staple in Stanford, Connecticut. Is
that building, Titan Towers. I think

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I told just a couple of years
ago. But the last time I was

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up there, like I was always
afraid to drive onto the property, like

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just show up, be like,
hey, I like to get tour,

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Like I was always I was always
worried about that. But there's a really

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crappy hotel right by the building,
and so I would park at the hotel

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and then walk up to the fence
line and then take my pictures of Titan

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Towers from the backside this like really
shady looking motel, And that was as

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close as I would get. Use
I just didn't do what the rules were.

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I didn't know if you could just
show up and be like, hey

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can I get a tour? Is
Shane around? I know he's not doing

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anything, you know. I just
didn't know what the rules were, and

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I don't think anybody could go in
there. But yeah, I know the

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big story was that people put flowers
out there when they all thought Vince died

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back when the limit blow up blew
up. But yeah, there is a

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very crappy hotel that's there, like
a very CD hotel. It's pretty wild.

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And the WWE buildings are spread out
everywhere in Stanford, Connecticut, So

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I think the whole purpose of this
was to bring them closer together, Like

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there are buildings that are I think
the employees have to take a bus to

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We're getting down a weird rabbit hole
here on the headquarters. Nonetheless here keeping

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up with the story, it was
reported this week by Dave Meltzer wrestling reporter

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Dave Meltzer from Wrestling Observer Radio that
McMahon's power in ww is clearly marginalized.

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He said on the latest edition of
Wresting Observer Radio via Wrestling Inc. That

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Dave Meltzer noted that it shows McMahon's
power in ww's limited now that the company

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has merged with UFC to form TKO
Group Holdings, Meltzer saying, quote,

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McMahon was the guy making all decisions
and now Vince was in fact overruled.

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Even though when he merged the company
was told would not happen, it did

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happen. It's a really interesting thing. In that statement, when Ari Emanuel

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was talking about the reasons the stock
is down, and he mentioned Vince's name

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is very interesting. I think what
is going to happen. But Vince's power

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is clearly marginalized. There's no way
around that. So, as Melcher mentioned,

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TKO's stock value has dropped recently.
McMahon may also be to blame for

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the decreasing value in the stock because
he is being currently investigated by the federal

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government following is well documented hush money
scandals. Additionally, WA's relationship with Saudi

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Arabia's Bleeddo contributed to the current situation, as has the company's inability to secure

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a media rites seal for raw and
NXT with NBC Universal. So Vince is

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getting potentially blamed for a lot of
things, and that could be why he's

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being squeezed out. There was a
lot of interesting in reports a couple of

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weeks ago that Vince had filed with
the sec the purpose of selling his stock

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in TKO Group holding all of it, and that typically means someone's cashing out,

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they're retiring, they're leaving. That
was out there. It's starting to

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seem like that maybe Vince's play was
to just sell the company, stick around

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for a little bit and then either
retire or I guess I doubt he would

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be fired. It would be a
retirement. I'm not giving even say that

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he would be fired by TK Group
Holdings, but it certainly seems like that

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maybe Vince is on the way back
out of being retired, whether it be

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forcibly or that was the plan all
along, Doctor try Well, I mean

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those that was kind of the rumors
we had heard when Vince had started to

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make his power play to come back
into WWE. Was he wanted to sell

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the company. That was that was
the whole thing. And even in his

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current role now, like his role
is basically oversee meteorites and you know,

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and and basically things like that.
So you know, to me, we've

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never I don't think we've ever seen
time where the meteorites deal is taken this

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long, and maybe Vince is kind
of just letting it linger for a little

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while so he can stick around for
a bit, knowing that once this is

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done, there's really nothing for him
to do for the next you know,

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three four years other than international deals
and things like that, and most of

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those are kind of set in place. So it does kind of feel like

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he came back in to get his
basically his version of a golden parachute,

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like get his payout from the sale
of the company and then cash stocks out

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and then you know, it's almost
like a big f you to the family

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because nobody in the family is getting
the company. It's like nobody's mine.

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It reminds me of when he brought
Hogan Hall of Nash in when he had

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the rivalry go with Flair about the
company and he said, you know,

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if anybody's going to take down WW, I'll inject it with my own poison.

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It kind of reminds me of that, like, Okay, well,

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if I can't have it, nobody
in the family can have it. I'll

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make my money and then I'll take
my Gomez Adam's mustache and right off into

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the sunset. Man. That mustache
sucks. Keeping up here with the full

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circle now back to we Creative.
A new report from Fightful Select this awsuit

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also comes to a Sevia Wrestling,
Inc. Has confirmed previous claims that Ari

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Emanuel's given control of w Creative entirely
over to Paul Triple H Levek as a

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manual prefers both men, meaning Triple
H and Vince focus on their assigned positions

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in the newly formed TKO Group holdings. According to Fightful, McMahon hadn't been

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overseeing Creative directly, but some felt
the product was being geared toward for his

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vision and his preferences, Knowing that
the entire process feels more relaxed without having

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to take McMahon's preferences into consideration,
a change some see as having happened overnight.

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The last two to three episodes of
w RA in particular, have seen

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several wrestlers returned to TV now that
Creative is not afraid of any kind of

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backlash for booking or pushing superstars that
weren't McMahon's favorites. One source told Fightful

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that rest has been able to focus
on match quality with the recent changes,

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with some feel has helped rob become
a much better product than the ring,

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citing Kobe Kingston's recent match with Ivar, which was an awesome match, and

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Monday's Intercontinental title match between Gunthor and
Bronson Reid, another great match, as

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examples of the heightening quality of matches. It has been reported throughout the year

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that McMahon was changing ideas and scrapping
storylines remotely having only been physically president for

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the creative process of the Raw after
WrestleMania. One storyline McMahon reportedly scrapped was

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reunion of the popular attack team DIY
to Muscle Champion Johnny Arcano, which has

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recently happened on WATV in McMahon's absence. Again, that comes to us from

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Frightful Select as well as Wrestling Inc. Douta Tray. I think this report

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is absolutely spot on if you have
watched the last two to three episodes that

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they're pointing out here Monday Night Raw. There has been this different change on

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WWE programming lately that reminds me of
a year ago when it was a very

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exciting time the way that creative was
going for we. They have been very

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good episodes of Raw. Matches are
getting two three segments. The matches from

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something that I expected and Conthor and
Bronson Reid held up and was a great

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match. Something I did not see
coming in KOFE Kingston and Ivar was a

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really great match. It's noticeable right
now, and that's crazy. We talked

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about this a year ago. It's
like it's noticeable that Vince is not in

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charge of creative again. It is
noticeable, and now you're kind of seeing

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a full circle moment because it's been
like, man, raw has been really

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good lately and I can't figure out
why. Well it appears this is why

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Doctor Trey. Well, you know, how many years have people been saying

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Vince was out of touch with what
the wrestling fans wanted And we've seen it

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over the last year where we had
these ebbs and flows and you can kind

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of feel like direct pivots. It
was always kind of like, well,

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that feels like a Vince move.
Like you go back to you know,

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Omas and brock Lesner. You know, it's like that feels like a Vince

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match. I don't I couldn't see
Triple H putting Omas in brock Lesner in

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the ring together, but you know, it is what it is, and

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you can kind of see it also
with who being featured on TV, Like

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did you ever think in the like
like in the last three years, is

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is your think Tigan Knox would get
a featured spot on Monday Night Row.

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You know, it's like you can
kind of see those people that Triple H

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is fond of getting, I mean, Bronson Reed getting a feature spot.

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D I y coming back together,
you know, Kevin and Sammy being featured,

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Knackamora being feature, you know,
Ballor being featured like. These are

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a lot of Triple H guys from
the NXT days that you know, and

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a lot of these guys have been
through hell back you look at like the

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Bronson Reids, the Carrying Crosses,
you know, getting released, Tigan Knox,

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you know, like the thing Gosh
you stuck around despite like gets released,

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comes back, you know, to
go to Kai get a release and

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coming back like these are a lot
of Triple H guys that you know,

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a year and a half ago or
two years ago were gone from the company

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and we thought we'd never see him
again. Yet they're back in prominent roles

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in this company because of the Triple
H leadership, and the product is much

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better, and we're seeing diverse city
in the programming. You're seeing you know,

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Indy Hartwell and everybody else, you
know popping up on a raw and

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challenging Becky Lance. You got all
this stuff going on with you know,

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Rhea Ripley now in a five way
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with half those women not really even
being featured for a while under the Vincent's

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regime, so you just see the
quality of the match work changing, you

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know, focus more on the wrestling
as well. That we're always going to

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have the entertainment part of it,
because that's what makes ww special. But

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to see how talented these people are, how they can put together really great

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matches in the ring. Along with
Cohesion's storytelling, he just makes the show

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that much better. Yeah, I
can't remember a time Doctor Trey that,

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like Raw, NXC and SmackDown,
we're all firing very well on all cylinders.

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Like right now, it has felt
like, at least in the short

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term, from the last month,
every single WWE programming show has been really

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really good lately. Yeah, in
the three hours of Raw, I have

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not heard you complain about how long
Raw is in quite a while because you're

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engaged in the show the entire time, Like I'll watch it. I'm like,

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damn it, it's been three hours. Like there's still guys who aren't

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on the show that I'd like to
see. So when they spin back the

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next week and you can actually space
guys out a little bit, keep them

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fresh for the house shows. Your
injuries are kind of down too. Under

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the Triple Ah regime as opposed to
the Vince regime. So that's something else

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to keep in mind. It'll be
interesting to see if this next story I'm

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gonna bring up here has anything to
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Illustrated is reporting that there are currently
no plans for Roman reigns versus the Rock

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to happen at wrestle A forty.
According to multiple sources close to Wue,

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the decision about the WRESTLEMANI forty main
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nor is it the main event a
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Even if the match was offered,
it would not be certainly that Rock would

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even accept Doctor Trey just tying things
that we just discussed here for the first

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you know, seventeen twenty minutes of
the show. Do you think that this

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story being published by Sports Illustrated or
this note has anything to do with the

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creative change in w Willie right now
to a degree. Look, if the

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Rock calls Triple Ah, and we
know they have history, the Rock calls

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Triple A says, hey, WrestleMania, I'm in. We're getting the Rock

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in Roman rings because that's like a
huge money making match. He thinks,

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well, you can't. I still
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for one, look, everybody,
like if the Rock was running for

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president, the Rock would be leading
in the polls. Like he's pretty much

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universally beloved by people across the board. So if that was the right,

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like and if they did the storyline
it you and I talked about last year

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where like Rock's mom shows up and
Realma gets in her face and talks about

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how he's the one carrying the family. Yeah, people would buy into that.

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So I mean, but you can't
bank on it, because they've tried

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banking on it for two years now
to get that match. So you have

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to have, you know, alternative
plans in place until that phone call comes

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in. Uh. I mean,
hell, the Rock you know, is

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in the middle of it of a
merger with the XFL and uh the other

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one with the US was the USA, you know, you're right, yeah,

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USFL. Yeah, so there.
I mean, he's got stuff going

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on his play, so you know
in the and the writer strikes ending,

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but the actors strike is still going
on that you know, you so eloquently

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eloquently reminded me of last week.
So he ain't got nothing going on with

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football. If he gets that call, If if trimp Place gets that call

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and says, hey, me and
Roman WrestleMania Philadelphia, I'm in Yeah.

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What who else on the roster do
you put in the ring of the Roman

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that's going to get a better buy
rate? Because at the end of the

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day, you're still trying to get
subscribers to Peacock and you know who else

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is going to draw people to that
more than Rock and Roman. So if

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the Rock versus Roman reigns is reportedly
no longer happened in wrestlemin at forty,

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now, then what should do we
do? You're thinking it's not going to

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happen? You think you're thinking that
it if the Rock makes the call despite

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the report that they're gonna still go
forward with that match, nonetheless, but

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let's just say Rock reigns at wrestleminting
forty, whether Rock is good to go

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or not good to go doesn't happen, then what what should will we do?

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I mean, you got it's it
comes down to La Knight and Cody

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like whoever they feel like has the
hot hand heading into WrestleMania season, That's

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who I think they put there in
the Ring of the Rock, because I

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don't know if there's anybody else on
the roster that. I mean, you

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can't do Roman to Brock again,
I mean Roman stone Cold. But then

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again I think there go there's not
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You got to kind of look and
go, Okay, is there somebody

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on this roster that we can put
the red of the Roman that's hot,

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that is the hot hand, that
if we make the title switch, or

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at least make it believable that the
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in. I mean, I don't
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I don't think it's Kevin. I
don't think it's you know, I

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don't think it's any of those guys
that we've seen floating around the top of

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the car. It's got to either
be Cody or La nine. I just

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think it comes down to whoever the
hot hand is heading into WrestleMania season.

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Once we get to you know,
you know, rumble time, like what's

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probably end of December, will probably
a better idea just kind of who the

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hot hand is. And right now
it feels like La Knight crazy enough that

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sounds well, I think they're gonna
do La Night versus Roman for a Crown

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Jewel, though yeah, I don't
know. I think they're gonna blow that

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load like in a couple of weeks
here. Then I think it goes back

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to Cody. So I think there
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I actually think the road to WrestleMania, unknowingly to all of us, may

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have kicked off on Friday SmackDown and
Monday's Raw. And I'll start with the

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Friday SmackDown. Roman Reigns returned season
premiere of SmackDown, Cody and Jay Uso,

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the now former tag team champions,
defended against a town under Austin Theory

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and Grayson Waller and leaving the ring, Roman Raiins' music plays and we have

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a face to face with he and
Cody, like there is unfinished business.

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If we all remember the night after
WrestleMania, Cody Rhodes was supposed to wrestle

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in a tag team match, Roman
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and that didn't happen because they started
going down. Brock obviously turns,

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and then that leads to the Brock
Cody feud for the last four months,

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which I thought was brilliant creative because
one of the things that I often struggle

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with as a wrestling fan is when
a contender, a baby face contender,

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has such a big match they lose. What happens with them after losing that

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title match that you sometimes expect that
they're going to win, Like, what

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do you do with them? They
flounder a little bit and they get hurt.

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They did a great job of protecting
Cody all the while protecting the Cody

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Roman rematch than being like, I
challenge you next month that whatever it was

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after that, hell in a sell
what have you? WrestleMania Backlash? We

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saw that on Friday SmackDown Doctor Trey. Do you think that was the first

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tease as to what could be happening
in six months time in Philadelphia and in

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the Universal title main event between Roman
Reigns and potentially Cody Rhodes. Yeah,

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I mean, and that's what I'm
saying. It's very, very possible and

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likely. But once again, what
if Elie Knight comes out of Crown Jewel

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and he's even hotter than he was
before? Do you not want to run

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with the guy that you know if
he's selling more merch than anybody else on

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the roster, how do you not
have him win the Rumble? In January

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he headlines WrestleMania. You know it
at the end of the day. As

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much as we love, you know, the fandom part of it, everything

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else, it is a business.
And to me, they're going to take

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the next you know, two months
to kind of gauge who the hot hand

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is heading in to WrestleMania season.
I mean, La Knight might go to

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Crown Jewel Face. Roman reigns lose
because of Solo. He gets side tracking

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a few with Solo while they do
something else with Roman. But you know,

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once again, they're gonna watch the
merchant numbers, and to me,

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it is gonna We've seen it in
the past, like whoever the hot hand

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is they kind of run with heading
into WrestleMania season, whether it's Drew m

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double ed Sword here though, dotch
Troy February of last year, who had

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the hot hand? I don't even
remember February come on, man handing an

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elimination chamber posts Royal Rumble, Oh
Sammy, yeah, yeah, I mean

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we were literally talking this podcast,
like I think we could be run into

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a Daniel Bryant situation. Yeah,
but then I also said the odds,

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I don't think they viewed Sammy as
the main event guy, and I just

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don't think that, And I still
think I think the whole storyline going on

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him and Drew now is kind of
playing back a little bit to that where

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hey, he says he wants to
be a world Chamming. Look, Sammy

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could get hot again. You know, Sammy used the Underground, and Sammy's

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kind of owed a rematch with Roman. He's got unfinished business with Roman as

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well. So uh, I mean, we could see Sammy pop back up

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and be the hot hand. To
me the Cody thing, it was always

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gonna be Cody regardless of Sammy's rush, but since Cody got hurt and got

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sidelined, we didn't get that big, long build to it like we wanted.

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It was kind of, you know, shoved in there, and then

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they had to kind of counterbalance how
hot Sammy was with what they wanted with

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Cody. And this might have been
their plan for the last years, to

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get back to Russell Mania and have
the rematch with Roman and Cody. But

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once again, like if La Knight's
out selling everybody, like, and look,

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I'm not the biggest La Knight fan
in the world, but if he's

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out selling everybody else and he's gonna
draw more subscribers to Peacock than Cody,

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why wouldn't they take that chance.
I think the likely scenarios right now for

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Russ May and forty Universal Championship is
either Rain's Roads Too or Rains Rock.

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I don't think La Knight gets that
spot right now. I don't think Drew

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gets that spot. I think it's
Rains Roads or Rock Rains. I think

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that's the same. I think I
think Rhodes Rains too. That's hard to

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say Roads Rain is the safe pick
out of everything, you know, But

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once again, like I mean a
year ago, we didn't think La and

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I would be a main event guy. He was still maxim male models.

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You know, it's it's crazy how
fast he has as sended. The fact

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that he fieling up as the fastest
rising star in WWE tells me they're also

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trying to see how far they can
push this. So uh, and they

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may learn from the Daniel Bryan Sammy's
Ay type stuff in the past where hey,

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somebody's gotten too hot. We either
did or did not pull the trigger.

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Let's see how this plays out between
now in Rumble, I give w

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W credit because I think in Vince's
world they would do rains Rock if it

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was on the table, and forget
Rain's Roads too. But Rain's Roads too

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at WrestleMania makes sense because that's the
story. There was no rematch. It

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was that one match. He got
screwed and he's been held out this entire

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time, and he has to finish
his story and we can get into the

404
00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:23.640
interestacies of like, Okay, well
what do you do when that match happens?

405
00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:27.359
Do you want to keep the rain
going? Or does Cody finally win

406
00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:33.519
the big one a year later at
another time. But it's very interesting because

407
00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:38.119
I thought, like the season premiere, which I think is typically late or

408
00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:41.079
earlier, I feel like that's a
September thing for a lot of shows,

409
00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:45.000
and it was interesting they chose this
week and they had one segment that I

410
00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:48.599
felt like was planting seats for Wressellmania
on SmackDown. As I just mentioned.

411
00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:56.119
The other one Doctor Trey mentioned during
his response about the entire thing, and

412
00:28:56.160 --> 00:29:02.680
that was Sammy Zain's opening segment on
Raw talking about becoming a world Champion Doctor

413
00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:07.279
Trey. I feel like if we're
gonna be talking about the Universal Championship match

414
00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:11.000
for wrestum at forty, well we
might as well start thinking about the World

415
00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:15.119
Heavyweight Championship match at wrestlmating forty.
After that interesting segment, could we be

416
00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:22.200
seen Rollins versus Zayne? Could it
be Damian Priest versus Zayne? Could it

417
00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:26.759
be Rollins versus Gunther title for title? Could it be Rollins versus CM Punk

418
00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:36.440
methinks Sammy Zain is the one at
WrestleMania forty right now that celebrates winning a

419
00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:40.640
world championship. And we go back
to that segment from this past week's edition

420
00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:44.519
of Monday Night Raw. What are
your thoughts here? Did we get some

421
00:29:44.599 --> 00:29:48.400
seeds planted in the brains of US
wrestling fans this past Monday when it comes

422
00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:55.599
to Sammy Zain in the Worldweight Championship. I think he'll be in the picture.

423
00:29:56.279 --> 00:29:57.960
It's gonna be weird, like one
of the things. And as I

424
00:29:57.960 --> 00:30:00.680
mentioned this, I don't know we
got into it or not, but kind

425
00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:06.440
of the hot potatoing of some of
the titles lately. But we're right now,

426
00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:11.640
we're in late October wrestle MANI is
almost six months out, a little

427
00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:15.400
less than six months out. How
would you do you like as much as

428
00:30:15.400 --> 00:30:19.599
we I'd love to see rawlins in
Sami Zaying in a thirty minute match at

429
00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:25.839
WrestleMania. Babyface. Babyface at wrestle
Maania doesn't really go very well usually,

430
00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:27.880
Uh, that means you have to
get the belt off, seth on to

431
00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:32.880
somebody else and look, I like
Damian Priest, but to me, Damian

432
00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:37.839
Price, Samy's ay and at WrestleMania
doesn't have that kind of stroke to it

433
00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:41.519
doesn't have that main event feel to
it. So do you have to move

434
00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:42.920
the title around a couple of times
to get to it? Do you do

435
00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:47.799
Drew in Samy at WrestleMania? You
know? And that way Drew kind of

436
00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:52.799
gets the WrestleMania moment he deserves from
the pandemic era. So I think it's

437
00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:56.119
laying the groundwork. And one of
the things that they've always did really well

438
00:30:56.160 --> 00:30:59.599
in an x t heater in the
Black and Gold era was start building people

439
00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:03.200
up to main event slots a little
bit early, so that way they had

440
00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:07.680
some depth in that division. So
I think it's just a way of kind

441
00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:11.480
of elevating Sammy. Plus, here's
the what do you do with Kevin Owens

442
00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:15.440
on Spackdown. We've already seen Kevin
Roman reigns like you know three, like

443
00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:18.440
what four times? Five times during
Roman's run. I mean, if you're

444
00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:22.319
going to elevate Sammy, you might
want to be elevating Kevin as well.

445
00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:26.039
I'd love to see Sammy's saying Kevin
Owens in a match at WrestleMania for one

446
00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:30.880
of the world titles. And maybe
that's maybe Owens wins the Rumble and Sammy

447
00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:33.640
wins the world title and we get
Owens zaying world title match. I'm with

448
00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:37.559
you. I think that would be
great. Part of me. Thanks,

449
00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:40.839
And I can't believe I'm saying this, especially like two years ago. My

450
00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:42.359
mind would be blown when I said
this. But the guys really are my

451
00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:47.799
respect. But I think there's something
to Logan Paul challenging for the United States

452
00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:51.920
Championship, and he's taken a lot
of l's lately. I wouldn't be surprised

453
00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:57.839
if he has that championship, goes
into WrestleMania with that championship still and a

454
00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:05.559
guy like Kevin Owens would a perfect
challenger for Logan Paul at the grandist age

455
00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:08.039
that is wrestlemaning. I mean,
I was very much bummed that they broke

456
00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:12.599
up the Kevin Ohens Samy's Ain pairing
the tag team, But after what I

457
00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:15.119
saw on Monday's raw, I was
like, Okay, this is why they

458
00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:19.599
have big plans for Sammy's Ain,
and we're starting to see this happen right

459
00:32:19.640 --> 00:32:23.720
now because he's saying he's never been
a world champion. It's October, mid

460
00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:30.359
October, and we start seeing the
gears start churning for WrestleMania. Like now,

461
00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:35.079
they start to slowly pick up,
and with the each passing pay per

462
00:32:35.160 --> 00:32:39.920
view Crown Jewel Survivor series that takes
us into Royal Rumble and then it's like

463
00:32:40.039 --> 00:32:45.920
full steam ahead. I would not
be shocked if Sammy's Ain is the Royal

464
00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:51.400
Rumble winner this upcoming year. Next
year, I think Rolins holds onto that

465
00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:57.319
championship for a while. It's a
very interesting situation ahead here, Doctor Trey.

466
00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:01.640
But I think, to rapp everything
that we've seen here in the last

467
00:33:01.720 --> 00:33:09.200
week, I felt like those segments
on Friday and Monday were very poignant and

468
00:33:09.240 --> 00:33:17.319
purposeful. As for the long term
creative of WWE heading into WrestleMania. Yeah,

469
00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:21.240
no, absolutely, and they and
and one thing we've seen from Triple

470
00:33:21.359 --> 00:33:24.759
H creative over you know, NXT
time and then up in the the last

471
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:30.400
year and a half is they do
love planting those seeds early and kind of

472
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:34.480
letting it sprout out. And they
are big on long term storytelling, so

473
00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:39.880
nothing is done on accidents on WW
television with Triple AG and Charge. So

474
00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:44.759
they'll plant those seeds early, let
it you know, slowly grow, and

475
00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:49.559
then when it comes time to to
bear fruit, they're getting the juiciest ones

476
00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:52.599
of the bunch. Is it weird
we're talking about WrestleMania booking right now,

477
00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:57.400
Doctor Trenia, It doesn't make sense. No, it makes sense because it

478
00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:00.119
was thirty nine degrees here today,
so let's me get Yeah, it was

479
00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:04.279
it was cold this morning. So
once we started getting cold at Alabama,

480
00:34:04.279 --> 00:34:07.759
I started thinking about WrestleMania. So
yeah, I'm to me, it feels

481
00:34:07.239 --> 00:34:09.760
about right. I mean we're a
month af from Survivor Series, and then

482
00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:14.159
once you get Survivor Series, it's
wrestling, it's rumble, and then we're

483
00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:16.119
on the I mean it's not that
far. I mean we're two and a

484
00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:20.679
half months after the word Rumble,
so it's not that far out because that's

485
00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:24.719
the official kickoff. It just really
feels like that w IS is faring on

486
00:34:24.760 --> 00:34:28.719
all cylinders. Again, there was
there was a really long stretch there.

487
00:34:28.840 --> 00:34:30.400
Then there was a brief period of
time that it was like hit or miss.

488
00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:35.039
But they just have been putting out
solid programming after solid program and and

489
00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:37.199
aw has as well. I know
this is going to be a very w

490
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:43.480
centric episode of SRTU, but AW
has as well. I think the big

491
00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:46.760
thing with them is some of their
follow ups isn't the best or the follow

492
00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:52.239
throughs isn't the best. And I
would say that Tony Kahan, like tweeting

493
00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:58.079
rampage is not something that I care
for as a wrestling fan. Yeah.

494
00:34:58.280 --> 00:35:00.960
And then also I didn't know.
I didn't know he starts with Vanilla.

495
00:35:00.639 --> 00:35:04.079
I just I didn't know that one. I learned that this week. Well

496
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:07.119
are you talking about the Edge promo? Yeah? When I was called him

497
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:09.119
the Vanilla Dwayne Johnson, I didn't
know if he actually meant like color scheme

498
00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:14.639
or just bland. I think he
means blanned. Oh okay, But like

499
00:35:14.719 --> 00:35:17.679
I love I love Adam Copeland giving
clothing advice to somebody. When he looks

500
00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:22.840
like he just got out from under
a bridge, It's like, dude,

501
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:25.280
you dressed like a homeless guy.
So I don't know if you should criticize

502
00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:30.360
somebody else's dress. Does it feel
like that Adam Copeland run so far in

503
00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:35.679
AW is like it was very exciting
and then kind of has fallen off a

504
00:35:35.719 --> 00:35:39.800
cliff a little bit, like it's
worn out very quickly for some reason.

505
00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:45.719
What I think the issue I have
with it is his promos have not been

506
00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:51.320
that great. Uh, and I
think maybe he might be those guys that's

507
00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:54.039
better when he has a little bit
of a guideline like that back and forth

508
00:35:54.079 --> 00:35:59.000
with him and Ricky Stars, to
me just felt like really like indie.

509
00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:00.920
I mean, I've gotten those debates
at an indie show, like you don't

510
00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:04.760
see that happen at a WWE show. So I thought it was pretty good.

511
00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:07.360
Actually yeah, but it's just you
know, them taking shots at each

512
00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:10.039
other using you know, tongue in
cheek stuff like, oh, I guess

513
00:36:10.039 --> 00:36:13.519
that comment is a little bit over
the edge, you know, it's a

514
00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:16.719
little bit you know, like we
criticize AW when they do stuff like when

515
00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:21.360
Tony KNDA stuff like that, or
when somebody's taking shots at the other company.

516
00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:23.639
I just I felt, I don't
know, it just feels like they're

517
00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:28.880
trying to shove him in everywhere at
times, and it's like, yeah,

518
00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:32.760
it's it's like I'm waiting for Adam
and or Adam and Christian to go off

519
00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:37.840
because Lord knows they just have great
chemistry and and getting to that I get,

520
00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:39.400
but you know, now it's like, oh, let's put him in

521
00:36:39.400 --> 00:36:44.239
there with Brian Daniels or with Daniel
Bryan or Brian asking me, you know,

522
00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:45.920
let's squeeze him in here, and
squeeze him in here. Let's it's

523
00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:50.199
just like, all right, I
get it. They're trying to maximize their

524
00:36:51.199 --> 00:36:54.760
edge in the their leverage, I
guess, so to speak. But it

525
00:36:54.840 --> 00:37:01.280
does seem a little bit just just
just all over the place, which the

526
00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:07.119
time is aw creative, really good
injering stuff. Creative can be very scattered,

527
00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:10.519
and I think that's what we're we're
seeing right now. With that said,

528
00:37:10.599 --> 00:37:14.679
that'll do it for this week's nition
of the podcast. I was saying

529
00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:15.719
to the doctor off air, I
was like, man, it's kind of

530
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:19.960
refreshing that we're doing a show where
there's no pl e or pay per view

531
00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:23.719
that we've got a preview and predictor
or recap and review. That will soon

532
00:37:23.880 --> 00:37:29.679
change because Crown Jewel and Full Gear
and Survivor series will be right around the

533
00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:31.199
corner, but at least for the
time being, at least for this week's

534
00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:36.079
edition of the podcast and next week, we are just talking professional wrestling,

535
00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:38.599
things that we're seeing in the news, things that we're liking disliking, all

536
00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:43.239
here each and every week on SRTU. So with that said, let's get

537
00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:45.280
a couple plugs and sponsored out of
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541
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542
00:37:59.239 --> 00:38:04.559
Trey and of course don't forget to
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543
00:38:04.639 --> 00:38:07.159
With that being said, what's going
on the Oneful World of Doctor Trey

544
00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:10.360
Franklin this week? I do love
that you have officially just gone to straight

545
00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:15.400
X. You're just dropped trying.
You're just going with the Elon Musk train.

546
00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:20.280
I got you. It was like
retraining myself when I called you Captain

547
00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:23.400
Obvious forever. Oh yeah, right
when we did the big name change.

548
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:27.920
Yeah, I remember those days.
You can't do it again. You can't

549
00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:29.599
do it again on me. No
no, I was like, I was

550
00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:31.800
like, Jeff, I'm actually in
independent wrestling. Can we use my name

551
00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:36.519
please? We did no more,
No More, Trey Captain Obvious Dent.

552
00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:39.360
Yeah, that's that's well, and
then throwing Franklin in there. So yes,

553
00:38:39.480 --> 00:38:43.159
it's a whole thing. I feel
like I'm like running from the government

554
00:38:43.239 --> 00:38:46.519
right now. But like Jeff said, you can follow me on ex Twitter

555
00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:51.719
at the Doctor Trey. You can
find me on Facebook and Instagram Doctor Trey

556
00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:55.119
Franklin. Be sure to take out
Rockety Championship Wrestling and Spartan Championship Wrestling on

557
00:38:55.159 --> 00:39:00.639
Facebook as well two shows in Alabama
I'm affiliated with. Actually maybe back at

558
00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:04.599
ROCKETSTA this weekend. Not entirely sure. It's also the wife's birthday weekend,

559
00:39:04.639 --> 00:39:07.239
so happy birthday to her. But
I'm pretty sure if I don't do some

560
00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:09.679
thing for her birthday and go to
wrestling instead. I might get divorce,

561
00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:13.599
so keep that in mind. Jeff. This is marriage advice for you down

562
00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:15.800
the road. But hey, we
just go on Facebook check out those shows.

563
00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:19.519
Also check out your locally in dependent
wrestling shows. Independent wrestling is up

564
00:39:19.559 --> 00:39:23.199
and booming. I mean hell,
Tyler Breese is popping up everywhere right now

565
00:39:23.239 --> 00:39:28.000
on the independent scenes. So go
out there and see Dirty Dango and Tyler

566
00:39:28.039 --> 00:39:30.039
Brady's team up and be the Dirty
Breeze as I think they'll be referred to

567
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:32.400
you at the next year in Tennessee. I seek the mats, all right,

568
00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:37.280
very very cool. Support all the
great things that support SRTU. Thank

569
00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:39.559
you for downloading our show this week. Spread the word. You got wrestling

570
00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:45.480
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571
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:49.599
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572
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Facebook dot com. Slash this to
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573
00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:58.400
you for downloading. For Doc Troy
Franklin, I'm Jeff Pack. This is

574
00:39:58.760 --> 00:40:07.599
this to ROTO show. I supposed
to have a few shrouds. Pulls him

575
00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:15.719
out where all her shoes, y'all
beware, said y'all looking, then Lisa

576
00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:22.199
jump Welcome to the day. Mister
Red fan out a lot on YouTube leading

577
00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:29.880
no fag red world where this always
be flatten sham? Who's chacking? He

578
00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:34.360
even knows where the hippos knows that
again the many woman in the world,

579
00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:46.480
he wants to. Who's sitting over
there? Sports napping underwear? Oh?

580
00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:52.559
Sorry's bed in the head? All
your pretenders? Where you're at anywhere?

581
00:40:54.000 --> 00:41:01.400
Jacka's name consprisedly had a snake all
the are your head paint on his face?

582
00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:07.679
Has Tim Duggan had a two by
four? Who with sty like this?

583
00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:13.480
Man, you don't need no more. Got a lot of friends.

584
00:41:14.239 --> 00:41:19.159
I've got a lot of poones be
quing of the boos when I be bouncing

585
00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:24.800
off the boot, lots of people
talking feel them. You gotta have to

586
00:41:24.920 --> 00:41:34.840
tell you you want me that?
Whoa? Who's that sitting over there?

587
00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:45.320
Wow? Spooking nothing underwear? Who
oh Cody is crackling? Head? Are

588
00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:50.159
you all for tis? Where are
you? Gus? Beware? Should find

589
00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:53.400
the thing? Crash? Should I
be shot by lighting them on the drive

590
00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:59.360
of the finers car it dies to
find? And dynam trying to sit side

591
00:41:59.400 --> 00:42:04.519
don't matter. A witch country be
emaginal mass success. But the length is

592
00:42:04.559 --> 00:42:30.280
the lea who let's wear it stylible, flegated, but it musbody that's listening

593
00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:35.880
on the first side. I'm not
dancing, oh not not just dealer,

594
00:42:38.719 --> 00:42:50.480
such a medically only one. Who
who said no day smoking that thing on

595
00:42:50.679 --> 00:42:57.719
the way. Well, oh,
bis, run the pay while you us

596
00:42:58.039 --> 00:43:15.239
turn where you've got me? Whoa, whoa, whoa morsing a home now? Who