Okada Is A Free Agent, RAW is Netflix and Royal Rumble Preview | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #728 – 1/25/24

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It's still libited. Welcome everybody.
Welcome to this week's edition. In this

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Still Real Dost Show Episumber seven and
twenty eight one for January twenty fifth,

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twenty twenty four. Welcome to your
WWE Royal Rumble pre and Prediction edition of

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apps R to you. I am
one affter the show. I am chaff

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pet Peck joined every single week my
cost only Doctor Trey Franklin Dtor Trey.

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Welcome to the Road to Wrestle Madia
forty my friend. Yeah, no detours,

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all gas, no break traving them
from the other analogies. Uh,

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make sure you say the lead the
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traffic to the right. Make sure
you merge properly. Zipper effect for merging.

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By the way, I'm already got
car analogies here, Jeff. If

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there's a white line around your stop
sign, it's stoptional. Ah, right,

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know that one. Know. I
thought, at least live in California,

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briefly, I thought all stop signs
were optional. Uh that is,

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Yeah, that is that's law.
That's law. If there's a white line

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around the stop sign, yeah,
it's stopped. I've literally had Please tell

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me that people have told me they
did at California. Stop. Yeah,

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yeah, it's just rolling on through, keep rolling, rolling, rolling.

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As Fred Durris once said, Welcome
to this week's edition of SRTU. The

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Road to Wrestling. He forty has
begun. Before we get into wrestling,

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let's get into what we talked about
the beginning of the last week's show.

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Congratulations to the one and only Doctor
Trey and his San Francisco forty nine ers

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now five and oher in the playoffs
and the history of the story of the

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show against my team, the Green
Bay Packers, Doctor Trey, I did

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not know that the Niners Packers in
the playoffs was the most common game in

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the playoffs. I didn't know that. I was thinking Niners Cowboys or Steelers

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Raiders, but I didn't know that
that was the tenth meeting or level.

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I think it was the tenth yeah, because I think it was Niners relieving

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five fours and now at six four. Yeah. So I mean, once

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again, you guys own the farv
Era. So that is true. We

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just get a little bit of payback
here. But that I think I text

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you like again in the game,
like you had me so nervous last week.

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It's always it's the same thing I
do with work or everything else.

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I undersell it because it's like,
oh, if they win, it's fantastic,

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but if they lose, I ready
lowered my expectations and I was like,

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damn it, Jeff's using the reverse
psychology on me. So now I'm

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all stressed out and nervous. I'm
also very superstitious, so I typically don't

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watch nighter games until they get comfortably
ahead. And wow. Of course,

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yeah, so first quarter and I
I so you only watched the last minute

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in seven seconds. Yes, so
I think I told you a few weeks

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ago. I have never ordered a
jersey from any forty nine or quarterback ever,

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because you're talking about your Jordan Love
jersey and everything else. My dad

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made me order. My dad got
me a rock party jersey for Christmas.

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Wow, And so I got one
in and I had also I had ordered

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the wrong size, so Sammy Franklin
has one in as well. And I

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wore my party jersey earlier in the
week. And then I kept the game

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picks off and your Packers jump out
in front, and I'm like, no,

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Jackson, the team shut the game
off. So I followed it on

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CBS Sports game cast and didn't turn
it on until McCaffrey score is touchdown at

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the end of the game. Wow
wow wow wow. I mean I could

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not do that, but more power
to you. Oh it was killing me.

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It was killing me. But yeah, well, I mean you walked

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away with a victory. I mean
what was killing me was the fact that,

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like, green Bay had San Francisco
on the ropes at least two to

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three times and did not execute.
So green Bay season is over. Doctor,

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train your San Francisco forty nine ers. They'll they'll battle it out this

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Sunday Sunday night against the Detroit Lions, which would be a really fun game

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on Sunday night. Yeah, and
I was, And it's funny. We

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were so my steps on Saturday or
Sunday, we had Sammy Franklin's actual birthday

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party and the Packer or the Buccaneer
Lions game was on, and I looked

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at Peyton, I'm like, I'm
like, I don't know who to root

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for because I like both those teams. I like the Lions are scrappy and

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I like seeing the team that's always
struggled kind of be well. But the

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Bucks have Baker Mayfield. It As
an Oklahoma kid, I root for Bakers.

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I didn't know who to kind of
pull for in that game. But

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it's weird, like I don't have
any like Barry Sanders is one of my

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favorite players of all time, so
I'm like, I I don't have any

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animosity towards either of these teams.
So I'm like, all right, well,

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the Lion's the one. I feel
better for Detroit because I mean,

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dear god, they hadn't won the
championships. There's what fifty one or fifty

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six something like that, So if
they were playing to anybody else, I'd

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be pulling for the Lions. But
I got to pull for my Niners and

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just put again. Oh of course, of course. I mean it's gotta

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be a fun one. Yeah.
I really don't root against anyone anymore,

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like after my team's eliminated, unless
it's like a rival team like the Chicago

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Bears, maybe the Minnesota Vikings,
but even Detroit being in the same division.

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I don't dislike Detroit at all.
So I don't dislike the Niners even

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though they eliminated my Packers. Again, don't like the don't dislike the Detroit

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Lions. Don't dislike the Chiefs or
the Ravens, so I guess I'm gonna

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have a very easy Sunday coming off
of Saturday Nights royal rumble. But tip

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of the cap again here to Doctor
Trey and his San Francisco forty nine ers

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forgetting victory once again here in the
history of SRTU over my Green Bay Packers.

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But the future is bright for my
Green Bay Packers. I'm excited and

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hopefully they can capitalize on it next
season, which is three hundred and sixty

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five days plus from now, which
really sucks to say outs out loud,

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but that's that's how it goes.
I tell everybody. I was telling some

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people on Sunday morning. They were
like, how you doing? Some folks

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that I saw and there was like, listen, I have come to the

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grips. Come to grips that I
am a sports fan and I watch something

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that there is like a ninety percent
chance every year that I'm going to be

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upset, frustrated, pissed off and
like what am I doing by the end

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of the season. And that happens
every year unless my team wins the championship,

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and it's like the most sick thing
that I think a human can do

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to themselves is be a diehard sports
fan, because it's it's like either the

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chance of happiness is like, so, yeah, this is what we do.

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I guess this is why I watch
profession and wrestling Doctor Trey. Yeah,

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I was about his earlier. I
was like, you know, on

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the AFC side, you have the
Chiefs and the Ravens. Those are the

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two teams that have beat the Niners
in the Super Bowl the last two trips,

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and both of those games basically came
down think the last couple of minutes

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in the fourth quarter. So I'm
like, I'm still I'm already stressing out.

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If we get past Detroit, then
I don't want to repeat at that.

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But you say that, and then
wrestling fans are just as bad as

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sports fans because they will complain and
bitch and moan about my guy's not getting

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a push, my guy's not winning
the Rumble. Once again, if you're

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a fan of somebody in the Rumble
coming up, there's thirty guys in there,

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only one person's getting the spot.
So unless you're a fan of that

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guy, you're probably gonna watch end
up watching the Rumble and be going yeah

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that it was okay, but I'm
just really bummed down now, Doctor Trin.

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I will make our first pl pay
per view predictions towards the end of

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the show for the Royal Rumble,
And let me just tell you right now,

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I'm looking at my computer screen and
I have down for my notes for

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the Men's Royal Rumbo Match. I
have three people that I've still not that

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I this is fantastic and this will
be a theme on the show. I

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have no idea who's going to win
the Men's mom Royal Rumbo Match, and

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it is literally going to be a
game time decision. So more on that

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in a bit. The big news
that took place towards the end of last

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week was, I believe Thursday night, it was announced by New Japan Pro

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Wrestling that one Kazitchka Okada will be
leaving New Japan Pro Wrestling once his contract

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wraps up on January thirty first.
He will have some dates in February working

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for New Japan, but he is
going to be leaving New Japan Pro Wrestling

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and awnwe will be looking for his
services. This comes to us from Wrestling

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Inc. Quote. In the wake
of this announcement, New Japan Pro Wrestling

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has also provided Okada's official statement about
his upcoming exit from New Japan Pro Wrestling,

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I saying I have nothing but gratitude
for having been part of New Japan

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Paro Wrestling since two thousand and seven, for New Japan bringing me from a

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nineteen year old kid off the plane
in Mexico to the rain Maker I am

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today. Okada said thank you to
the best of companies in New Japan par

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Wrestling, to the best of opponents
that I've been able to face here,

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and to the best fans that have
cheered and booed over the years. I

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promise to make it rain every match
I have left, so keep watching.

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Despite his impending entrying to the free
agency market, Okada is still scheduled to

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be president at a trio of New
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After he completes his appearance at the
New Beginning event in Osaka on February

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eleventh, the rain Maker will head
to Saparro as the New Beginning series continues

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on February twenty third and twenty fourth. I believe at the February eleventh show

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he will be taken on Hiroshi Tanahashi. No word yet if he is wrestling

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on the shows on February twenty third
and twenty fourth, and it is very

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well possible by then that he could
be signed to one company. So it

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appears Okada is either aw or we
bound will continue to peel this onion a

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bit, Doctor Trey. But on
the initial port of Okada hitting free agency

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and leaving New Japan World Wrestling,
I know I was shocked. It's something

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that we did discuss late last year, but nonetheless something that you just didn't

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really think was gonna happen until it
actually happened. And now it's happening because

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it's Gookada will be a free agent
and he will be coming to the United

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States. Doctor Trey, Yeah,
I don't know if I was shocked by

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it, but it was a little
surprising, to say the least. Like

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it's kind of one of those things
where you kind of look at it and

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you go, well, you know, like comparing it to baseball, you

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get those you know, the Japanese
players that accomplish everything in Japanese baseball and

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they want to test their merits against
the best in America. And for somebody

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like Okada who's had a taste of
Aw. He's got, you know,

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friends in WWE, there comes that
time where you're like, Okay, I've

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accomplished everything in Japan. I want
you what would I do in the in

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the in the States, And so
yeah, I guess he's taken his shot.

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So much like each Row back in
the day, or Dice Kay or

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any deserved Japanese players have come over, He's gonna take a shot and see

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what he can do. And I'm
really looking forward to seeing how the American

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audience responds to him, how he
responds to American people, and how the

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rain Maker character translates over because I
fully expect no matter where he goes,

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he's going to be the rain Maker. Because there's so where does AW and

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we stand there's a lot to peel
back here from this past week. This

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comes to us from Wrestling Observer newsletter
saying it was believed that AW has made

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the strongest first offer to Kazisco Okada, but no contract has been signed at

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press time. W W was of
the belief that they have a strong shot

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at getting him, with the idea
that they convinced him he had done all

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he could in Japan and because the
economic differences in wrestling, the American scene

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is far more lucrative. More on
this from I will Select earlier this month,

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AW had been very hopeful that they'd
land because it's Gokata and ideas had

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been tossed around, but it's far
too early to determine where he'll actually land.

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WW sources has spoken to, had
not yet heard of any talks involved

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in two sides, but expected that
at least to be explored. WW weren't

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sure if he would want to make
the move over. And then finally again

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from Dave Meltzer over at wrestlum Server
Radio, saying quote, I've heard from

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people and talk to people who know
him very well, who have talked to

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him in the last day or two, and he has not decided. It's

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not like a secret, he just
hasn't decided yet. I know people in

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AW who think they've got him.
I know people in AW who hope that

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they've got them, but don't think
that they've got them. I know people

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in w who hope that they're going
to get them and who believe that he

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wants a legacy, and it's kind
of like that they're like, well,

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maybe we can pay him less but
you could have your wrestle Ina moment and

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again what his goal is in life. You know for some people that means

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more. And either way, he's
going to make great money. That comes

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to from Dave Meltzer. Some reports
out there this week that have been refuted

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that he had signed with w He's
gonna be going in NXT to start.

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There was I believe it was a
Japanese outlet sources in w who said that

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that was a surprise to them.
It seemed to me that when this story

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first broke, Doctor Trey that it
was like a slam dunk that AW was

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going to sign him. It's eerly
reminiscent to the Will Osprey stuff where WW

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did come into the discussion as a
possibility. I would say the percentage chance

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of Okata going to WWE is higher
than Osprey. I mean full disclosure here.

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I would prefer to see Okada in
WE because I think it would be

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something new and different, something we
haven't seen. We have seen Ocada in

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AW. We have seen New japan
Stars crossover to AW, and it's not

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much of a crossover. I think
Okada in WWE would be very intriguing and

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interesting. But my expectation is that
he still ends up in AW. Doctor

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Trey. Yeah. I mean,
if we are doing percentages, I'm probably

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sixty five thirty five that he ends
up in AW. I. I just

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I don't want to see him go
there. I And you know, our

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fans might call me the ww homer
or whatever, but the AW roster is

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so loaded, and you know,
you and I have talked about this off

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air many times. They really have
not elevated anybody who came into their company

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from outside AW. Like you can
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bit, but really nobody has come
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than they were when they came in. And so for somebody like Okata who

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may struggle a little bit getting over
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ww' is a better fit because I
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in RING and I'm not knocking his
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he's the most Him and Tan of
Hashi, we're probably the most flamboyant characters

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in New Japan, and I think
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than say, you know, even
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everybody else has come over in the
past. Yeah. Again, to me,

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it's just a matter of seeing something
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coming to AW is anything different.
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which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
It's a comforting blanket for him.

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he came over in October. I
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was actually the one where Brian Danielson
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like working for AW. So obviously they

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have the edge in all this,
and that is where I expect him to

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land. But it is the intriguing
opportunity of Okada in we that entices me

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as a wrestling fan. It's like
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happen because I don't know what it
would be like. It would be bigger

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than when Knackamra came over in twenty
sixteen. It would be bigger than when

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aj Styles came over in twenty sixteen. It would be ww's biggots, non

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former WE talent free agent signing since
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this would be a massive get and

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it's one that I would love to
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love to see perform under the WA
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would want to see how successful he
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and how they're presented on WE television
going forward, and it would be really,

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really different and intriguing, and that's
why I want to see it.

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I wouldn't be upset off Okada signs
with AW. I just would prefer to

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see him sign with WW, because
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I did predict at the first show
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forty this year that obviously he still
has a true possibility of happening. This

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is this is big Doctor Trey.
I felt that the will Ospray free agency

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from late twenty twenty three was the
biggest name on the market and a big

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game changer. I'm starting to feel
like Okada because I never thought he would

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become a free agent, would be
a bigger get than Ospray for whoever sciences

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services. Yeah, I agree.
I think I think Okada has more name

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value in you know, the Asian
community than maybe than will Osprey did.

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I also think Ocata is just a
better entertainer than Ospray. Osprey might be

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a better entering performer, but for
what WW likes to do and for how

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they present their talents. And you
know, there were rumors years ago about

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an XT Japan and an XT UK
and we've seen how global they're trying to

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go. It just makes more sense
in the long term. If you want

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to really hit that marketplace hard,
you need somebody to go up against a

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knock a Ray. You know.
I don't want to use gender Mahal as

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an example, but that was their
big push when they were trying to get

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an idiomore was the Gender Mahal great
colleiges of And we've seen them do this

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every time they go to a market
where they wait. In the UK,

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they went out and signed the biggest
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which was goodther So this is kind
of their mo by doing this, And

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I just think that out of everybody
they could get for to really integrate into

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that area even more, it would
be Okada. I don't know about you,

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but I did. I saw that
reported by him going to NXC that

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I can't see them standing Ocatta to
the NXC either. I was thinking of

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the AJ Styles tree bit like if
you're gonna pap um up pop up up

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on a big stage right away.
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name value than just even shins K. He has more name value right now

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than what k had in twenty s
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Yeah, if he's coming to the
United States, he's performed and signing with

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w W, he's performing at Wrestlemaning
and Wrestleman. He's forty this year,

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and it's like either kaz Ocado's taken
on either AJ Styles or shinsk in that

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spot. So that's where I feel
like it's I just can't see them bringing

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them in and he's like, Okay, you're gonna go to performance stand in

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the liver, you know what I
mean? Like that would be a waste.

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we both think he goes AW,

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but hope he goes WA. Is
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mean he's got I mean, I
know him and shins K are good friends,

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Him and Oscar are friendly eo.
But really, I mean he's competed

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against a lot of the guys in
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them from their time in New Japan. But you know, he also knows

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aj and Finn, you know,
and you know and Cody from their time

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in New Japan as well. So
I still tend to lean if you're going

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to move to the States, you
want to go so where we're you're familiar,

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at least in with AW, he
has that familiarity. But it just

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kind of depends on what his ultimate
goals are and if it's you'll perform on

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the biggest stage, which we saw
how much the biggest stage can you know

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make you know, with TV rights
EWD still the biggest stage you go jump

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on, speaking of which is going
to become a very expensive to become a

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wrestling fan come January twenty twenty five, as we continue to monitor the because

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it's go Kada story here, I'm
sure in the coming weeks, his free

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agency, but this story Doctor Trey
was massive. It broke on Tuesday morning

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on social media. As w RAW
will be streaming on Netflix starting in January

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twenty twenty five. This report comes
to us from ESPN dot Com. Ww's

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flag chap flagship weekly program Raw will
stream live Monday nights on Netflix beginning in

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January twenty twenty five. The deal
announced Tuesday is worth more than five billion

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with a B over ten years.
Raw originated on USA Network in nineteen ninety

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three before shifting a TNN the Nashville
Network in two thousand. Roberts turned to

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USA in two thousand and five and
had been has been a three hour program

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since twenty twelve, which is mind
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on Friday nights, will shift to
USA in October part of a five year

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deal worth approximately one point four billion
with a B. As part of wwa's

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deal with Netflix. These streamer plans
that developed scripted television films from the wrestling

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promotions intellectual property. In its relatively
short history, Netflix as engineer phenomenal track

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record for storytelling, said w president
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of the world's leading Entertainment Brands is
the ideal long term home for Raw's live,

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loyal, and ever growing fan base. Wwa's monthly premium live events are

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currently streamed on Peacock, part of
NBC Universal, USA Network's parent company.

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W and UFC are part of TKO
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company. They also recently added Dwayne
the Rock Johnson to the board of directors

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this past week. But Doctor tre
Hey WWE Raw will be on Netflix starting

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January twenty twenty five. I don't
know about you, but that is one

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of the streaming services I don't have
an annual subscription or a subscription in general

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with, so I guess I'll be
adding another fifteen eighteen twenty bucks to my

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bill. Your thoughts here on this
monumental shift for WE programming. I think

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it's a good move long term for
the company, because as we all get

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older, we all like I don't
like I know, I cut my cable

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satellite ties about two years ago now, So I mean I haven't been able

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to watch Raw live in quite a
while because I don't have the USA Network

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anymore. But I do have Netflix
and Peacock and Hulu and everything else that

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wt' has been a part of since
then, so, but people are going

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more to streaming services for their content. So for something like WWE, it

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makes a lot of sense because there
is a large group of people that already

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have Netflix. For Netflix, it's
fantastic because it's so much more programming they

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can do. So I think it's
a good move for both companies. And

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I also love the fact for professional
wrestling is when people tell me that wrestling's

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down, I'm like, well,
WW got one point five billion for four

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years, and they just basically doubled
that revenue to get to you know,

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basically two billion a year, well
a little lesson double bit two billion a

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year for the next ten years or
no, sorry it was it, No,

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half a billion, half a billion
for for Fox. You're saying this

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EA be SmackDown. They got what
one billion for four years on Fox?

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So SmackDown got one point four billion for

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five years. Yes, so that's
three hundred million a year right roughly,

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and now they're gonna be at five
billion for ten years. So they go

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they're gonna get half a million dollar
or half a billion a year, So

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they almost doubled their revenue their TV
deal for for just off what they got

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off Smacktown. So I just long
term wise, it shows that people are

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willing to invest in your product for
content if it's a good product and it

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has a long track record. So
it always amazes me when I hear about

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other wrestling companies having a hard time
finding a home, and I'm like,

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yeah, because w's you know,
kind of monopolize everything in a sense because

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everybody's competing for their product, And
do you really want to be playing B,

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plan C, play and D for
somebody else, Like, oh,

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we missed out on WWE, Well
they got a half, they got a

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half a billion a year. Yeah, we'll give you a few fifty you

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know, we'll give you thirty million
a year. So it's a huge difference

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in those those numbers. But if
somebody's gonna give you a half a billion

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a year for just one show,
and then that's not even the library yet,

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that's just one show in the PLS, that just shows you how much

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PL's outside of the US. In
the US, it'll still be on Peacock

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until twenty twenty six. Oh yeah, and so they still have to bid

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on the pl They still have to
give W four for plees and the library

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content. Then at that point as
well, Yeah, if they want to

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make a full shift over to Netflix, which I know as a consumer of

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WWE, I would appreciate more.
Now, did you say you have a

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Netflix subscription, Doctor Trey? Yeah, I do. Okay, so I

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don't I have Peacock. I play
pay the annual fee, which is like

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one hundred and twenty bucks or something
right now, which is a steal at

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the end of the day. Actually, as we record this, my wife

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is watching some sort of Peacock streaming
show with Paris Hilton on it in our

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living room, so she yes,
that's right, that's hot. I mean,

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anybody that is listening to the show
for after two thousand and five is

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like, why are they saying that? Why are two grown men saying that

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right now? But I guess just
google why Paras Hilton says that. But

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yeah, I mean this is already
on top of so like for my own

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personal bills, So I have the
Peacock. I'll have that for another annual

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fee that I'll do, which I'm
sure will go up. I pay my

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monthly streaming so I could watch television
shows and DV out so I could watch

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SmackDown in October and my Yankee Games
or what have you, so I could

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watch regular television. And then I'm
gonna have Netflix and Disney Plus and Paramount

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Plus and all this other stuff.
Before I know it, all the reasons

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why we went to streaming to cost
cut is now completely out of the door.

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looking at Netflix subscriptions to be like,

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well, should I buy it now? Should I get an annual subscription?

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And they don't offer that, which
I didn't realize. And if I

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want the really good stuff, it's
twenty two bucks. If I want like

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the ten eightp no ads, it's
fifteen bucks a month. Yeah, I'm

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at the twenty two level with Netflix. And a lot of it was I

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was wanting to get rid of Netflix
for a while. But there's a few

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shows that the kids watch on there, like Samy it'ss Everything. He comes

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home, walks into my bedroom and
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lot of the kids shows on Netflix. They've been my Sun loves a few

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of the shows on there. Then
the wife was all about Discovery and Paramount

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and me, I'm like, I
really don't care, Like I'm happy to

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watch the Roku channel that I pay
a Roka job, pay nine bucks a

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month for that, but it gives
me my you know, local channels plus

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all their other stuff they have,
so you watch the Impact Wrestling or now

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TNA Wrestling channel. I every time
I go to put it on, Sammy

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yells at me because that means I'm
turning off Flippy. Okay, fair enough,

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and we who we know who?
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Some more news on this deal from
Brandon Thurston, who tweeted the following

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on x He wrote, Netflix has
the option to cancel the ten year deal

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with w WI after just five years, and has the option to extend the

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deal for an additional ten years,
according to a filing from TKO, meaning

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the w Netflix term could end up
being five years, ten years, or

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twenty years, whichever Netflix chooses.
The company discloses the value of the deal

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over ten years would be in excess
of five billion as reported, so this

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could very well be the home for
WWE RAW for a very long time.

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Doctor try. I mean ten years
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extended in additional ten years, meaning
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forty four and will be knocking on
the door of wrestling. He is sixty

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and this will still be a weekly
wrestling podcast where Doctor Try and I are

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talking about our hip replacement that we
just received as we get older and older.

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But this is a very big deal, Doctor Trying. I think the

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days of Raw being on your regular
television programming is ceasing at this point.

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Yeah, and so a couple other
things I thought about with this is you're

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not going to see ratings reports for
Raw anymore. True, So when people

404
00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:52.920
tell you that the ratings are down, you can't you can't tell that,

405
00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:56.440
So you have you have to look
at streaming numbers, which is something that

406
00:28:56.200 --> 00:29:03.680
ww's been talking about for years anyway, to offset those ratings numbers. The

407
00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:07.079
other thing I thought about with this
is both these companies had to have long

408
00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:11.240
term game plans because if I'm WWE
and I'm going to a streaming service,

409
00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:17.759
We've already seen HBO Max get shuffled
and redone and bought out and rebranded and

410
00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:22.039
all that stuff. Disney Plus after
their Dinitial launch has lost a lot of

411
00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:26.559
viewers. So Netflix had to have
a really good game plan in mind for

412
00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:30.839
long term success. For w to
sign that potential option deal. On the

413
00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:34.000
back end, at the same time, they had to show aw how they

414
00:29:34.119 --> 00:29:38.119
planned to grow because otherwise that deal
is getting cut shortened five years. So

415
00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:44.880
that means both companies had really good
strategic, long term plans for this to

416
00:29:44.960 --> 00:29:48.880
be successful and well thought out for
them to come to this kind of agreement

417
00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:51.920
with those option years available. The
same you and I look at sports and

418
00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:56.440
we get guys that get player options
and club options and mutual options and things

419
00:29:56.480 --> 00:29:57.599
like that, and it's like,
Okay, you have to have a good

420
00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:02.279
game plan in mind in order for
those options you'll be exercised with they're mutually

421
00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:06.119
beneficial. And then finally, the
last thing in regards to the story,

422
00:30:06.279 --> 00:30:11.920
WWE's current deal with NBCU has Raw
airing on USA until October twenty twenty four.

423
00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:15.079
According to an individual with knowledge of
the situation, exactly where Raw will

424
00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:18.480
air between the end of that deal
and the beginning of the Netflix deal is

425
00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:23.359
still being determined. This according to
Variety doctor Trey, that would be funny

426
00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:26.519
if Raw has nowhere to go for
a couple months and then they just kind

427
00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:30.599
of reboot during the Netflix era.
I would imagine, I mean, they're

428
00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:36.759
going to have a deal in place
with SmackDown already airing on USA Network again,

429
00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:41.480
I would be shocked that if Raw
has nowhere to go after October twenty

430
00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:45.839
twenty four, that it doesn't stay
on the USA network for another two months,

431
00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:48.720
eight weeks? What have you?
Yeah, and then not to mention,

432
00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:51.880
like like I said earlier, they
have deals with Hulu, they have

433
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:56.799
deals with YouTube, so they have
outlets to put their show on for just

434
00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:02.160
those two months. And then you
know, if you're NBC Universal and Raw

435
00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:07.359
or WWE is a big part of
your Peacock deal as well, you don't

436
00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:08.880
want to burn that bridge and'd be
like, all right, guys, October's

437
00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:11.200
here, get the hell out.
No, no, no, we still

438
00:31:11.240 --> 00:31:15.720
got another part of your brand here. We still got your pls. Airy

439
00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:19.119
got our network for another couple of
months after that deal. So you're going

440
00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:23.759
to work something out that once again
as Buccy beneficial for both companies. Switching

441
00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:27.880
gears here, the face of Monday
Night Raw right now is the World heavyweight

442
00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:33.519
Champion Seth Freaking Rollins. He was
injured in his match with Ginger Mahaal on

443
00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:40.680
last week's edition of Monday Night Raw, and we had all speculated what was

444
00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:42.440
going to be going on with him, what was the injury, how would

445
00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:47.960
he miss wrestle Mania. There's a
lot of costs of concern. Rollins came

446
00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:52.200
out on Raw announced that an MRI
show that he suffered a Grade two MCL

447
00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:57.559
tear and a partially torn medial meniscus
in his left knee. In the same

448
00:31:57.640 --> 00:32:05.440
promo exchange Doctor tru with gunther Who, which was a surprise and is all

449
00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:07.519
of a sudden climbing the charts of
someone who may be winning the Rumble this

450
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:13.680
Saturday, he said that he is
not going to be coming off of television

451
00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:17.359
and will not be dropping the championship
and will be performing at WrestleMania forty in

452
00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:21.640
all intents and purposes. And there's
more clarity this story here that I'll cover

453
00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:24.559
in just a second. But it
definitely seems like we as wrestling fans,

454
00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:30.000
dodged a major bullet by not losing
Seth Freaking Rollins. We did, and

455
00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:32.279
of course Seth Freakings Rollins did,
which is good news all around, because

456
00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:37.400
we definitely want one of the best
wrestlers on the planet performing at the biggest

457
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:40.720
show of the year. Yeah,
and you know, I had flashbacks to

458
00:32:42.039 --> 00:32:45.119
I can't remember what year was,
but when he tore his ACL that match

459
00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:51.359
with Kaine and hadn't missed Wrestlmania.
It was November of god like twenty fifteen,

460
00:32:51.400 --> 00:32:53.400
twenty sixteen. He was the champion
and he had to drop the championship

461
00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:58.319
and it screwed up the whole entire
Survivor series, which was right around the

462
00:32:58.359 --> 00:33:02.039
corner. Yep. So I had
flashbacks to that. But so I have

463
00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:07.400
a partial tear of my meniscus.
I've had it since two thousand and four,

464
00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:12.119
so it's it's one of the things
like the partial tear in your meniscus

465
00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:16.680
is usually they will tell you that
it's actually stronger with the partial tear than

466
00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:21.240
it would be for them to actually
go in and repair it, which is

467
00:33:21.400 --> 00:33:25.960
crazy, but that's actual science.
The MCL tear. Thank god it was

468
00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:29.279
the MCL, because the MCL is
the one that runs over the middle of

469
00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:31.279
your knee. If it was an
ACL or a PCL, like you and

470
00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:36.079
I with again, sports fans,
ACL tears, you're out for a year.

471
00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:38.799
Again. Pcls are usually about nine
months. Well, look at what

472
00:33:38.839 --> 00:33:45.000
happened with Charlotte Flair. Oh yeah, I mean she's out. She's out

473
00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:47.680
a year. Yeah, Dakota Kai
is dealing with that. I mean,

474
00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:55.000
ww's had a Yeah, we just
lost coor Jade. The women seem to

475
00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:58.640
have the ACL tears right now more
than the men do so, which yeah,

476
00:33:58.680 --> 00:34:01.680
I've seen as a problem. Yeah, So I'm just I'm thankful for

477
00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:07.000
Seth. That's the MCL one.
I Am gonna be interesting how he performs

478
00:34:07.199 --> 00:34:12.079
when it's time. Does you perform
with the MCL's here, because it does

479
00:34:12.519 --> 00:34:15.639
kind of loosen your knee up,
but the stability in your knee is based

480
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:17.679
on your pcls and your acos.
Your MCL just kind of hold your knee

481
00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:22.400
gap in place, which is still
kind of important. But this is the

482
00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:24.960
first time like the doctor portion of
your name is coming out. Doctor Treuit.

483
00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:29.960
That's unbelievable. It's not just a
clever gimmick. I actually know some

484
00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:35.079
shit. Unbelievable. He did say
at a holiday and last night, Doctor

485
00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:37.559
Trey. This reminds me. You
bring up a great point when he got

486
00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:43.239
injured in November heading into that year's
WrestleMania. I remember the one where he

487
00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:47.320
got hurt like four or five weeks
before Wrestlmingia leading into the WrestleMania thirty three

488
00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:51.800
match with Triple H. Remember,
like Samoa Joe came out from the side

489
00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:54.039
and he injured his knee and everyone's
like, how's he gonna wrestle? And

490
00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:59.639
then he wrestled Triple H and like
his knee was clearly heavily protected, and

491
00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:01.639
he did he gutted it out and
it was he did the best he could.

492
00:35:01.679 --> 00:35:06.000
And but you know, obviously kind
of hurt that entire build in that

493
00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:08.599
match in general. I mean,
this guy has definitely had some tough,

494
00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:15.639
tough moments heading around to WrestleMania season. But it seems like, according to

495
00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:22.559
reports here because he was on a
podcast with Daniel Cormier and ESPN has has

496
00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:27.320
this quote from him, it doesn't
seem like it may be as bad as

497
00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:30.639
it was said on television this past
Monday, As Seth Roland said the following

498
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:36.760
on ESPN, dodged a bullet.
The ACL is intact. So anybody who

499
00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:39.079
knows anything about ligaments and the knee, the ACL is the big one.

500
00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:43.480
That one is good. The MCL
will heal with time. We'll get it

501
00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:45.800
in there to do some stuff,
check out the PRP and do some rehab.

502
00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:50.199
I'm hoping to be back at full
strengthen around a month. Around a

503
00:35:50.199 --> 00:35:52.920
month is kind of is like kind
of my timeline, and we'll see what

504
00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:54.880
happens. We're going to take it
day to day. I'd like to be

505
00:35:54.960 --> 00:35:58.639
back in a month. I don't
want to walk into WrestleMania that be my

506
00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:01.000
first match in two to three months, whatever it is, that's not gonna

507
00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:07.280
be good for me. So it
seems like there's a lot more confidence that

508
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:10.039
he will be performing at WrestleMania.
He did keep it a little bit of

509
00:36:10.039 --> 00:36:14.360
a gray area where it is day
to day and they do want to see

510
00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:19.840
how he adjusts and obviously heals,
but he seems confident in his ability to

511
00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:24.639
perform Doctor Troy at WrestleMania forty.
Yeah, and I'm glad you said that

512
00:36:24.679 --> 00:36:29.519
because I actually did not read that
report. So it makes my doctor's skills

513
00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:35.559
look even better. But if he
can perform and be safe, like great,

514
00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:39.159
you want set at WrestleMania, whether
it's you know, him winning a

515
00:36:39.199 --> 00:36:43.519
match, him losing the match,
whatever. But you know, this guy

516
00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:46.079
is a workhorse. This guy wrestles
all the freaking time. And you know

517
00:36:46.119 --> 00:36:50.599
he talked about during that rival is
shinsk the legitimate injury that he has in

518
00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:53.719
his back. Now he's got the
kN issues. If anybody deserves some time

519
00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:58.480
off after WrestleMania, it's going to
be Seth. And you know, we

520
00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:02.440
talk about the show sometimes taking time
off to heal and recover is actually good

521
00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:06.880
for the character because now you're not
shoved down our throats for a while.

522
00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:09.639
You make that absence makes the hard
grow fonder approach. So I kind of

523
00:37:09.639 --> 00:37:14.519
expect Seth after WrestleMania to take some
time off to kind of heal and recover

524
00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:16.559
and you know, go home,
just be dead. Be dead for a

525
00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:19.880
while. So there you go.
Yeah, I mean, I guess he's

526
00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:25.119
legitimately walking around with a broken back
like that was not a storyline with Chins

527
00:37:25.159 --> 00:37:30.320
Kay knockemore that he has been fighting
hurt for some time, an injury that

528
00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:34.760
he suffered when he first I think, either before or after won the World

529
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:38.000
Heavyweight Championship. Seth, for Rollins, has always been a workhorse and has

530
00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:44.159
worked his tail off to give the
fans his best. And you know,

531
00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:50.039
you just commend his toughness and his
ability to put his performances and wanting to

532
00:37:50.119 --> 00:37:53.760
do what's right for the fans above
his own health. So I hope everything

533
00:37:53.800 --> 00:37:57.880
works out for him, and I
hope that in a month's time he has

534
00:37:57.920 --> 00:38:00.079
wrestled maybe a couple of matches on
Monday Night Raw. We're looking full steam

535
00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:05.000
ahead to Wrestlemaning forty and are confident
and are in the clear that he will

536
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:08.920
be okay to perform at the biggest
show of the year. With that said,

537
00:38:09.400 --> 00:38:14.519
we have the first kickoff to the
biggest show of the Wrestlemaning forty,

538
00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:20.840
Doctor Trey, The Road to Wrestlemanning
forty takes place. It starts this Saturday

539
00:38:21.159 --> 00:38:24.960
with the WWE Royal Rumble preview predictions
that we will do here this Saturday from

540
00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:30.079
Tropic Canna Field in Saint Petersburg,
Florida. Tropic Canna Field, which was

541
00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:35.039
a part of the Thunderdome era.
There actually was a Royal Rumble held there.

542
00:38:35.320 --> 00:38:40.239
The twenty twenty one Royal Rumble was
held there, which is which is

543
00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:44.800
mind boggling to think. I think
that was won by Edge and Bianca bel

544
00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:47.840
Air that year. Also, Doctor
Trey and I have both been to Tropic

545
00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:52.840
Canna Field at the same time watching
a Yankees Tampa bay Rays game back in

546
00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:59.960
twenty seventeen. So oh En didn't
get shot because that neighborhood around Tropic Cana

547
00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:01.760
was not good when you and I
were there. No, no, it

548
00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:06.280
was not a beautiful area, but
no, yeah, it's surround by a

549
00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:08.000
lot of weird stuff. Had a
great grilled cheese that night, if I

550
00:39:08.039 --> 00:39:13.199
remember correctly, I think we got
grilled cheeses there and watch some baseball.

551
00:39:13.639 --> 00:39:15.719
Very weird place to watch a baseball
game. First time I had ever been

552
00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:19.039
in a dome. It felt like
I was in an ice skating rink.

553
00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:23.119
But here we are. Doutch Trade
is going to be hosting The Royal Rumble

554
00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:27.440
this Saturday, and I kind of
dig it because it was part of a

555
00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:31.559
very bad time in the world,
the Pandemic era professional wrestling, and it's

556
00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:34.880
nice to see that they're going to
be able to fill that up with fans

557
00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:37.880
and kind of give a little bit
of a hat tip to that period of

558
00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:40.199
time as well. So as it
stands right now, there have only been

559
00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:44.480
four matches announced for this show on
Saturday night, which I kind of dig

560
00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:46.960
give a lot of time to the
Rumble matches themselves, as there should be

561
00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:53.079
the first match on here Doctor Trey
is Logan Paul defending the w United States

562
00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:58.719
Championship against Kevin Owens. I am
looking forward to this one. I do

563
00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:01.480
expect Logan Paul to continue to be
the United States Champion and have him win

564
00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:05.400
this match against Kevin Owens. And
I just have a feeling that he will

565
00:40:05.639 --> 00:40:08.840
win this match. Thanked to somehow
from Austin Theory and Grayson Waller. Yeah,

566
00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:12.679
see, I thought that too,
but then Waller in Theory seem to

567
00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:15.320
be having some issues, so I
don't know how that comes into play.

568
00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:21.400
But this one, I think was
my WrestleMania US title match prediction, and

569
00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:25.559
they jumped it early. So that
being said, I guess we'll go with

570
00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:29.840
your thought process, which is Logan
Paul goes into WrestleMania with the US title,

571
00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:34.679
because I'm taking Logan Paul to retain
as well with some chacknery to say

572
00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:37.760
the least. Next match here is
the fatal four way match for the w

573
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:44.400
WE Undisputed the Undisputed WA Universal Championship
as Roman reigns defense against Randy Or and

574
00:40:44.440 --> 00:40:47.760
aj Styles and La Knight Doctor Trey. Who do you like in this one?

575
00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:53.400
You know, every time I hear
you talk about alternative booking. It

576
00:40:53.400 --> 00:40:57.840
gets my head all all all fuzzied, and then I want to make weird

577
00:40:57.920 --> 00:41:01.559
random choices. But that'd means said, I'm going, I gotta go with

578
00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:05.960
Roman reins. I think you put
it, you put aj Or Eli Ni

579
00:41:06.039 --> 00:41:07.800
this match to take a loss,
that we can always hold up Randy Orton

580
00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:12.800
and him for something else. So
I'll take Roman reigns to retain because I

581
00:41:12.840 --> 00:41:16.559
think you and I talked about it
off air that if Roman wins at the

582
00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:21.079
Rumble, he jumps all the way
up to like second all time and longest

583
00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:24.119
rains, which is a huge beat. Yeah, I think he makes it

584
00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:28.800
to if he makes it past this
and WrestleMania, if he makes it to

585
00:41:28.920 --> 00:41:31.719
next WrestleMania, he'll pass back Wand
and Hogan, if I believe I'm correct.

586
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:37.199
Yeah, I think that's how.
I think one of Hogan's reigns definitely

587
00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:39.719
back when and I think one of
Hogan's rains he would surpass the Bruno reign

588
00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:44.119
was like eight years, so I
mean it's always possible, but uh,

589
00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:47.519
that would be something. I think
these two first, these first two matches

590
00:41:47.519 --> 00:41:51.719
are the easier ones to predict.
Now that I'm saying that you know both

591
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:54.079
of them will lose, but I
too, am going to take Roman reigns

592
00:41:54.119 --> 00:42:00.280
to retain the undisputed Universal Championship on
Saturday night at the Rumble. The next

593
00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:06.320
two matches are are going to be
tough. These are tough to choose.

594
00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:09.880
It's the Women's Royal Rumble Match and
the Men's Royal Rumble Match. I dig

595
00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:14.519
that it's not as predictable that as
it has been in the past. There

596
00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:15.880
have been years that Doctor Trey and
I have sat here and are like,

597
00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:20.719
yeah, I think it's going to
be blah blah blah, and they end

598
00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:25.639
up winning the match. There are
some years where it is unpredictable, but

599
00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:30.320
we kind of have an idea of
who it may be. When it comes

600
00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:35.599
to both these matches, I truly
don't know, and I had to like

601
00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:39.599
really think it out and go and
look forward towards the elimination chamber and how

602
00:42:39.639 --> 00:42:44.960
they would handle the next Championship match
to kind of figure out, like,

603
00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:49.320
okay, who would win the Rumble
match. So, starting with the Women's

604
00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:55.039
Royal Rumble Match, my prediction is
that Bailey wins the match, which may

605
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be a surprise. I think a
lot of people are thinking Becky Lynch wins

606
00:42:58.920 --> 00:43:02.159
it, decides to choose use Rhea
Ripley. But I'm gonna go with Bailey

607
00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:08.079
because I think it makes better creative
sense for the next couple months to like

608
00:43:08.280 --> 00:43:15.480
build up who is Bailey going to
choose, because obviously Damage Control is going

609
00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:17.360
to push her to go after Rhea
Ripley, and let's just say, and

610
00:43:17.719 --> 00:43:22.239
she's like, I think she's calling
herself like the mommy hunter right now,

611
00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:27.920
which may be a little bit too
dirty for my liking or PG for w's

612
00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:31.119
liking, But nonetheless, let's just
say that, you know, she wins

613
00:43:31.199 --> 00:43:35.639
the rumble, they're pushing her to
go take on Rhea Ripley, and she

614
00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:40.239
overhears the rest of Damage Control saying
like, we know that she couldn't beat

615
00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:44.639
you, you know, to EO
Sky. You know this plan is working

616
00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:47.239
perfectly. She'll probably lose to Ria
Ripley and then we'll be done with her.

617
00:43:49.079 --> 00:43:53.559
And then Bailey turns babyface and decides
to choose EO Sky. I don't

618
00:43:53.599 --> 00:43:58.719
see a situation where if it is
going to be Bailey versus EO Sky at

619
00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:02.079
Russell Manny forty, that Bailey earns
that right at the Elimination Chamber because it's

620
00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:06.599
like, why would she enter that
match to take on EO Sky in the

621
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first place. So that's how I
rationalized decision, Doctor Trey, and I'm

622
00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:15.440
going to go with Bailey to win
the Women's Royal Rumble match. You almost

623
00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:20.440
had me convinced. You almost had
me, and then I remembered they did

624
00:44:20.440 --> 00:44:25.440
the same thing with Batista. Batista
it was an evolution that he won the

625
00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:30.519
Rumble. He heard over her flare
in Triple H getting him to go challenge

626
00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:36.320
the champion on SmackDown, and he
turned around and challenged Triple H. So

627
00:44:36.400 --> 00:44:38.239
you almost had me convinced, Jeff. So I'm going to go with my

628
00:44:38.559 --> 00:44:42.400
number one choice for this whole thing, which was going to be Becky Lynch.

629
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So I'm gonna take Becky. I
assume that Bailey is going to lose

630
00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:51.440
based on something Damage Control does,
and then she'll started questioning him. They'll

631
00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:52.760
turn on her, take her out
of action for a little bit. She'll

632
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:59.239
return Elimination Chamber in a modified hugger
role to then challenge EO. So I

633
00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:01.519
will take Becky Lynch winning the Rumble. Jeff, you almost had me.

634
00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:05.719
Yeah, No, I know,
we've seen that play out before. It

635
00:45:05.760 --> 00:45:10.960
would be a nod to the Russel
Mating twenty storyline with Batista. But yeah,

636
00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:14.719
I just was like, Okay,
how would this play out? So

637
00:45:15.079 --> 00:45:19.679
I dipped into the old pool of
the Batista storyline from Estumating twenty one.

638
00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:22.960
So Doctor goes with Becky Lynch,
I go with Bailey, and now it's

639
00:45:23.039 --> 00:45:27.360
the men's royal rumble match Doctor Trey, which I literally, as we sit

640
00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:30.280
here, have no idea which direction
I'm gonna go yet, So I guess

641
00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:32.280
take it away, my friend.
So you said you had it down to

642
00:45:32.400 --> 00:45:37.280
three, I have mine at four. I have about three or four.

643
00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:39.920
I have, yeah, three or
four. So I mean, I think

644
00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:43.639
for most people it comes down and
I mean two of them are a little

645
00:45:43.639 --> 00:45:46.760
bit long shots. I think it
comes down to Punk and Cody. As

646
00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:51.239
much as I want to say realistically
it's somebody else, I think it comes

647
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:55.519
down to those two guys, and
Ugh, I think I'm gonna go with

648
00:45:55.559 --> 00:46:00.199
Punk just because he's been kind of
a model citizen since he came back.

649
00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:05.639
I think this sets up a good
way to kind of keep seth off TV,

650
00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:09.760
because it's not set that they're they're
friendly ish, right, now like

651
00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:13.679
they're they don't like each other,
but they're kind of on the same side.

652
00:46:14.239 --> 00:46:17.880
So I think this way you're gonna
have kind of have Punk protect Seth,

653
00:46:19.119 --> 00:46:22.880
so to speak, and they can
just cut promos leading up to their

654
00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:25.960
match, and then that way,
everybody else gets dumped into the elimination Chamber

655
00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:30.840
match to see who challenges Roman.
So I will take see him Punk winning

656
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:35.360
the Rumble this year. Yeah.
Uh, he is one of my four

657
00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:40.039
names, so I have see him
Punk, Cody Rhodes, Gunther, and

658
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:45.559
the Rock were those your fore names? Yeah, but I see I see

659
00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:52.159
brock Lesnar entering the Rumble and eliminating
Gunner because I know as we went into

660
00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:53.840
the recording tonight, there's a lot
of reports out there right now that the

661
00:46:53.920 --> 00:46:59.760
direction is gunn Thro is a favorite
to win the Rumble and to challenge Seth

662
00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:06.639
Rong. Hence the promo they did
that Cody versus Cmpunk is a WrestleMania forty

663
00:47:06.679 --> 00:47:09.039
match on paper right now, which
is part of the reason why they did

664
00:47:09.079 --> 00:47:15.000
their promo on Monday, and then
Rock and Roman would be the other match

665
00:47:15.039 --> 00:47:19.119
as well. And while I could
totally understand that, I think that the

666
00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:22.559
booking that they did on Monday is
to get us off the beaten path a

667
00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:30.400
little bit. So I would be
surprised if those are the matches that they

668
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:35.440
were leaked like this because w has
been so tight lipped. I've gone back

669
00:47:35.480 --> 00:47:40.159
and forth CM Punk Cody Rhods,
CM Punk Cody Rhodes. At the end

670
00:47:40.199 --> 00:47:44.559
of the day, one of the
things that we talked about is if they

671
00:47:44.679 --> 00:47:50.280
go forward with The Rock versus Roman
Reigns, how do they get there and

672
00:47:51.079 --> 00:47:54.519
does that mean The Rock is wrestling
Elimination Chamber in that number one contenders match.

673
00:47:54.960 --> 00:47:59.719
Possibly. We've heard Perth Australia wants
them to be there. However,

674
00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:04.480
I think the easiest way for that
to happen is for The Rock to win

675
00:48:04.519 --> 00:48:10.840
the Royal Rumble this Saturday night,
So Buzzer Beater game time decision. I

676
00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:15.559
was probably gonna go with cmpunk as
well, but I'm going to go with

677
00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:20.599
the Rock because I feel like that
they can get to who will be taking

678
00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:24.599
on seth Rollins via the Elimination Chamber
match in Perth, Australia. They have

679
00:48:24.599 --> 00:48:30.360
announced Cmpunk for that show and that's
maybe how CM punk gets to that.

680
00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:32.559
I still feel like right now,
Doctor Trey. We do have Rock,

681
00:48:32.679 --> 00:48:38.199
Roman, seth CM Punk, and
what we do with Cody right now is

682
00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:43.840
anybody's guests. Maybe he gets added
in that triple threat match which has been

683
00:48:43.880 --> 00:48:46.519
rumored as well with the Rock and
Roman reigns. As much as I want

684
00:48:46.639 --> 00:48:51.199
he Brock and Gunther, you could
do Cody and Gunther and Cody be the

685
00:48:51.239 --> 00:48:53.559
one to take the icy off Gunther. You could do that. I would

686
00:48:53.760 --> 00:48:58.920
love to see Brock Gunther as well. The cool thing about this again is

687
00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:01.079
that we are entering this royal Rumbo
pay per view, have no idea.

688
00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:06.000
It's been a very long time where
it has felt like this, and by

689
00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:08.480
a week from today, as you
and I sit here and record this,

690
00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:12.639
I think we will have a very
good idea what some of the matches will

691
00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:15.199
be for WRESTLEMANI will certainly have idea
for at least one match who will be

692
00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:19.840
an opponent in a wrestlem AI forty
championship match. But I think that this

693
00:49:19.880 --> 00:49:22.239
is gonna be one of those old
school rumbles where, like you had pointed

694
00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:27.519
out, maybe Rock returns, he
eliminates gunthor that leads to their match at

695
00:49:27.519 --> 00:49:31.239
wressel Many forty. You see,
like sprinkles of potential matches all throughout this

696
00:49:31.360 --> 00:49:35.960
Rumbo match, which will be very
excited. I'm very excited for this show.

697
00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:42.000
I'm very excited for the Rumbo matches. This is my favorite match matches

698
00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:45.079
to watch all year long. It's
the most fun I have sitting on the

699
00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:47.519
couch as a wrestling fan and really
getting into it. And I know a

700
00:49:47.559 --> 00:49:51.840
lot of wrestling fans feel the same. So enjoy the show this Saturday.

701
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:55.400
Before we get our plugs and sponsors, Doctor Trey, we did have a

702
00:49:55.440 --> 00:50:00.000
big reveal on our Facebook page which
is available right now as we record this.

703
00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:06.159
People hopefully have seen this after they
before they have downloaded this week's edition

704
00:50:06.159 --> 00:50:10.079
in the podcast. But what is
tradition here the now? Did he turn

705
00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:14.480
five this past week? Yep?
He turned five. Yep. Let's get

706
00:50:14.480 --> 00:50:19.840
old, folks, the five year
old Sammy Young Sammy Franklin made his annual

707
00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:23.599
predictions for both the Women's and Men's
Royal Rumble official predictions, and then he

708
00:50:23.599 --> 00:50:29.880
gave his non unofficial predictions, which
he typically does, which I'll let you

709
00:50:29.880 --> 00:50:31.360
you know, explain a little bit. You know, obviously direct people to

710
00:50:31.639 --> 00:50:36.400
the to the videos. But my
favorite thing is that for some reason,

711
00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:39.920
the buff bag well ww theme song
is just playing underneath the entire time.

712
00:50:40.519 --> 00:50:43.800
Well, I mean, Sammy is
buff and he is the stuff, so

713
00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:45.199
I thought the music was appropriate.
So yeah, you can go to our

714
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Facebook page Facebook cut dot com.
Slash is still real to this show and

715
00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:52.440
Sammy's picks her up. There.
They are in two parts if you're listening

716
00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:55.639
to the show. First, watch
the video for the women's Rumble, because

717
00:50:55.800 --> 00:50:59.960
we were going to do one big, long video and then Sammy, being

718
00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:04.880
the uh Kevin Dunn of my life, decided to cut the video off and

719
00:51:04.920 --> 00:51:07.800
so we had to do it in
two parts. But so what we do

720
00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:12.400
is we take everybody who's on the
WT roster or who is an actual free

721
00:51:12.440 --> 00:51:15.480
agent not signed to anybody, out
of all his wrestling figures, who put

722
00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:20.199
them in a ring. He picks
out who he thinks is going to win

723
00:51:20.360 --> 00:51:22.800
based on wit booking. We do
the same thing for the men, and

724
00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:25.760
then we take all his wrestling figures. And I think I even threw in

725
00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:34.320
the Incredible Hulk in some stretchy dragon
guy into his pile and basically said,

726
00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:37.239
Okay, Sammy, if you were
booking the Rumble, who would you have

727
00:51:37.360 --> 00:51:42.599
win and then he makes his picks, not as I mean, I think

728
00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:45.920
the women's pick, who was maybe
not as strong as the men's pick,

729
00:51:46.559 --> 00:51:52.760
but him going off the books again
for picking the men's rum a winner this

730
00:51:52.840 --> 00:51:55.519
year was pretty great. His women's
pick I was kind of sad because I

731
00:51:55.559 --> 00:52:00.719
believe the person has just announced their
retirement from entering competition. So but you

732
00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:04.760
can go to our Facebook page at
facebook dot com slash is Still Real to

733
00:52:04.760 --> 00:52:07.360
a show and check out Sammy's pigs
for the Rumble this year. So there

734
00:52:07.400 --> 00:52:10.400
you go. Go check out those
videos. Hopefully you've seen them before you

735
00:52:10.639 --> 00:52:14.960
downloaded this week since the podcast.
If not, go there now and check

736
00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:19.000
out one of my favorite traditional things
we do here on SRTU, the annual

737
00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:22.920
Sammy Franklin Royal Rumble Predictions. With
that said, let's get a couple plugs

738
00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:25.880
and sponsors out of the way.
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739
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741
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742
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743
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course don't forget to follow the show
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being said, was going on the
Oneful World of Doctor Trey Franklin this week.

745
00:52:47.400 --> 00:52:50.880
Well, like Jeff said, you
can follow me on X at the

746
00:52:51.079 --> 00:52:53.079
Doctor Trey. You can find me
on Facebook and Instagram Doctor Trey Franklin.

747
00:52:53.440 --> 00:52:57.639
When you're on Facebook, be sure
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Spartan Championship Wrestling, the two shows
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749
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Alabama. We have a couple of
big shows coming up as we get closer

750
00:53:05.039 --> 00:53:09.320
and closer to Wrestling Con five six. I forgot. I always track the

751
00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:14.280
numbers. I know Sammy's five,
so I think Wrestling Con is six coming

752
00:53:14.360 --> 00:53:19.519
up, because yeah, Wrestling Con
won. My lovely wife was pregnant with

753
00:53:19.559 --> 00:53:22.960
Sammy, so I think it will
be six coming up. But that's just

754
00:53:23.159 --> 00:53:25.880
a few months down the road.
I think that comes up in late May,

755
00:53:27.440 --> 00:53:29.519
so be sure to keep an eye
out there. You go check out

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wrote this show and join us next
week on January thirty first, as we

759
00:53:42.320 --> 00:53:49.239
will be recapping and reviewing everything that
took place at wrestle excuse Me at Royal

760
00:53:49.360 --> 00:53:52.159
Rumble twenty twenty four. Excuse me, that'd be Thursday, February first,

761
00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:57.199
will be the next week's edition of
SRTU, so it'll be recapping, viewing

762
00:53:57.280 --> 00:54:00.920
Royal Rumble, and looking towards the
Road to Wrestle forty all on next week's

763
00:54:01.039 --> 00:54:06.679
edition of SRTU. It is the
most fun time of the year and it

764
00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:10.159
kicks off this Saturday, and we
are going to be your home for Road

765
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to WrestleMania forty coverage throughout, joined
Doctor Trey and I as we cover our

766
00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:22.000
fourteenth WRESTLEMANI in the history of the
Still Real the show, fifteenth overall in

767
00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:24.320
my history of podcasting. So it's
gonna be a lot of fun. Really

768
00:54:24.360 --> 00:54:30.000
looking forward to this Saturday show.
And professional wrestling continues to be red hot

769
00:54:30.079 --> 00:54:32.039
right now, which is only making
things great for US wrestling fans. So

770
00:54:32.920 --> 00:54:37.000
until next week, thank you for
making a part of your week, Thank

771
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you for downloading, thank you for
supporting, and for doctor Trey Franklin for

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Young Sammy Franklin. Happy fifth birthday
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