Royal Rumble Recap & Vince McMahon Allegations | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #729 – 2/1/24

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It's still welcome everybody. Welcome to
this week's edition. It's the Real Do

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Show episod number seven and twenty nine
for February first, twenty twenty four.

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Welcome to your WAE Royal Robo Recap
and Review and NXT Vengeance, a preview

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and predictions edition of ass r T
You. I am one aff the show.

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I am Jabtack joined every single week
my coast, the one only Doctor

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Try Franklin, Doctor Trey. Welcome
to the Road to WrestleMania forty my friend.

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Yeah, and uh all, like
we've already got a little couple of

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bumps in the road, a couple
of tours already. I'm not going back

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into road analogies. That was last
week's show, So uh yeah, apparently

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it's all sailing from here on interrest. Oh yeah, say yes yes.

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Lots of ups, lots of downs, lots of bummer things going on in

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the world professional wrestling, lots of
exciting things going on in the world professional

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wrestling. It was a wild past
week, especially for world wrestling entertainment,

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and we're here to recap it all
for all of you on this week's edition

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of SRTU. And there's no better
way to kick it off, Doctor Trey.

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But looking back at the Royal Rumble, pl I almost call the pay

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per view premium live event. This
is uh, this is a show that

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I think you can always go back
to. I was thinking about this,

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like, there's not many matches that
you can go back to and rewatch and

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like be into it and excited about
it. I always have felt like I

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could pop on the two thousand Royal
Rumble tomorrow, I could pop on the

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ninety seven Royal Rumble, ninety five
Royal Rumble, twenty eighteen Royal Rumble.

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I could put on this past weekend's
edition Royal Rumble Match. I always can

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watch Rumble matches and be highly entertained
and attentive the entire time. Do you

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feel the same way when it comes
to the Royal Rumble. Yeah, I

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would say the vast majority of them. Yeah. Plus you get to go

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back and look and see like,
oh my god, I've never realized these

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two guys actually kind of squared off
or had an interaction or a bubble bent.

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You know. It's like you think
of all the surprise entrance over years

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past. You know, the mister
perfect, so you know the times that

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you know, Bully Ray or Devon's
been in or some the other guys that

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popped in. You're like, oh
my god, I forgot these guys actually

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touched in a WW ring. So
you know, obviously, much like watching

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you know, your favorite scary movie
or your favorite drama, you kind of

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know the ending. But sometimes it's
kind of good to go back and reflect

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and still, you know, have
those moments where you're like, oh my

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god, this was really really good. I really enjoyed this. Yeah,

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a good rumble typically represents a really
good time parent professional wrestling, and I

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feel like that's what we got this
past week with the Royal Rumble pay per

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view. Let's get into it,
Doctor Drury. This came to us this

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past Saturday from Tropiccana Field, the
former one of the iterations of the Thunderdome

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back in the COVID nineteen era of
WI which I hope we never go back

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to again, in Saint Petersburg's,
Florida, a place where Doctor Trena actually

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watch to baseball at the game together
at one time. Bailey wins the Women's

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Royal Rumble match. I had Bailey, Doctor Trey, you had Becky Lynch.

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Fun Royal Rumble match. I really
enjoyed seeing Jordan Grace TNA Knockouts Champion

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Grace getting a chance performed as that
was a cool surprise. Not only did

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she get an opportunity perform, but
she lasted twenty minutes and had a really

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good showing in that match. Naomi
returned to w W WI in this match.

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That was awesome. She was extremely
emotional. Jade card Gil made her

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WI debut and her face off with
Bianca bell Air was a great moment too.

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That makes me want a wrestling media
match between the two. And then

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lastly, it was nice to see
Bailey win the Royal Rumble Match and get

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the opportunity and the headline wrestling at
forty, she has just about done everything

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in her WE career now incredibly well
deserved for Bailey to get this moment,

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Doctor Trey Bailey is your Royal Rumble
winner. Yeah, it was nice because

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you know, you and I went
through the pandemic era and talked about how

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Bailey and Sasha Banks kind of carried
not just the women's division, but he

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carried a lot of you know,
w programming at times. Though. For

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her to come back to this venue
and win the Royal Rumble. It was

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great for her. It's good television
because it's like, okay, where do

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we go? We saw the Kubuki
Warriors women Tag Belts the Friday night before

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the Rumble, so damage control kind
of has control over the SmackDown at least,

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you know, women's division. So
it makes for good storytelling, It

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makes for good TV to see how
this all plays out. I will say,

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I don't know if you saw this, but after Bailey won, she

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did kind of tighten up the ponytail
for a little bit, So I didn't

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if that was a little foreshadowy for
worthing for to go. But overall,

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just really happy for Bailey because I
think she's maybe, you know, out

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of all the main stays of the
women's division the last few years, she's

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kind of almost the forgotten soldier in
all that we talk about Charlotte, we

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talk about beck and we talk about
Sasha, we talk about Rod three you

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kind of forget how good Bailey really
is, Yeah, you do. And

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she is a solid worker. She
is a very deserving wrestler to get this

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opportunity. She will at times take
a back seat. Sometimes she'll be a

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vocal sometimes she'll just be mid level, help get people over. She is

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a workhorse and she's, like I
said in my recap of the match,

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has just about done everything now in
her WWE career. Very very happy for

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her. The last couple of things
that she has not had an opportunity need

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to do is headline WrestleMania and win
the Royal Rumbel Match. And now she's

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accomplished at least half of that,
and hopefully we'll get an opportunity to accomplish

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the other half of that come.
She's like eight to twelve weeks from now

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with Resumania forty, which is got
to be here quicker than we can imagine.

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What was your favorite non Bailey winning
moment from this match or what was

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your favorite moment from the match?
Doctor for because for me, I felt

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like it was too really a nice
surprise to see Jordan Grace get that opportunity

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and then the Jade card gild debut
her face to face with Bianca Bellair.

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The fans really ate that up.
Yeah, so Jordan Grace because the TNA

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tie in, you know, longtime
TENA fan, and the fact that she

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looked phenomenal, Like I know I
as people are like, well, I

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didn't know who Jordan Grace was,
but damn she came out and she was

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just a house of fire and she
looks fantastic and didn't realize how Jack she

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was like. He's like, yeah, she looked like she belonged in WW.

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So if they ever if here it
makes that move, we all can

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understand why My thing was. I
love the double press slam spot where Bianga

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and Jade both had people up over
their heads and they were kind of showcasing

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that, like just like the Jade
Cargio spot once again, Merchi, like

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Jordan Grace, you see here and
you're like, yeah, this is where

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she belongs. She fits in with
this crowd. And then also like when

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when Night got a Limit, Becky's
sitting on the ropes just kind of waving

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at her with Jade looking over her
shoulder. I thought that was pretty cool.

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Also, yeah, very very fun
match there. The Women's Royal matches.

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Bailey is your winner. Next match, Roman Reigns defeats Randy Orton,

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AJ Styles and La and I in
a fatal four way match to retain the

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undisputed w Universal Championship. Dutch stray
But and I both had Roman Reigns I

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liked this match. I just didn't
love this match completely. I felt like

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the purpose of this match was to
get a Roman Reigns title defense on one

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of the biggest shows of the year
while kicking off feuds between Randy Orton and

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Solos and La Knight and AJ Styles. I would have liked to see some

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more offense from Rains in this match, as it followed the blueprint I've been

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complaining about the last several months,
the last several Roman Rains matches. Rains

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is really good, and not every
one of his matches has to go like

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this where not a lot of offense, some chicken shit stuff, Solo comes

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out, interferes and Roman Roman gets
the victory. Like it's I like the

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blueprint when it makes sense, but
it's like overkilling this blueprint. Rains is

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a hell of a worker. Make
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I like this match, Doctor Trey, I just didn't love it because the

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whole blueprint being followed time and time
again with Roman Reigns. So I'm with

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you, it says, I like
the match. I didn't love the match.

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I thought it was I thought it
was good. I thought it did

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enough for everybody involved, like,
like you said, set up future rivalries.

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Everybody still looks like they could be
a made event star. And I

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think sometimes when you matches like this, it's okay to have the chicken shit

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wins so speak, because it still
makes all the challengers still looks strong,

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like it was kind of a flukish
thing for you know, La Knights to

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hit the rope and aj falls down
and boom, there's a spear. It

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fits because it saves everybody and you
can still kind of build off that post

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WrestleMania, you know. And I'm
old school like the NWA. I grew

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up on Rick Flair with the horsemen
around him. This is basically the m

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over every Rick Flair match during the
eighties and into the nineties, and then

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Hogan in the nWo for the most
part. So when you get those moments

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where the challenger is or the challenger
actually wins, it's much more meaningful.

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I mean, hell, like Hogan
losing the Lex Luger made Luger a star.

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Hogan losing to Goldberg made Goldberg a
star. Hogan losing the Sting at

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Star Kate basically elevated Sting to that
you know, upper icon echelon here and

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the same thing with Flair. I
mean, who would have ever heard of

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Rugged Ronnick Garvin had it not been
for Rick Flair losing to him. So

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I don't hate it. The difference
is when you're at three years, you

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haven't really built anybody up off of
this, so much like the Undertaker's streak

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at WrestleMania, whoever they decide to
get the nods to should be positioned to

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have a huge future of the company, just unfortunately for Taker, and they

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did with Lesner. So yeah,
I think the stuff that's been lost is

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like Rains was getting people over and
elevating them to his level when they weren't

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doing the same blueprint. Right now, it just feels like they're coasting and

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they're just trying to get to WrestleMania, and I don't know, maybe he

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drops the title at that show,
depending on the creative direction that does the

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same. I mean, do you
think it's because they didn't know which direction

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they were going to WrestleMania. No, I just I just feel like it's

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they don't I don't know if they
know what to do with him because he's

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not there as often as he used
to be. Because when they the Bloodline

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storyline has always had purpose, and
the purpose was is the building of the

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bloodline when he was on his ascension
upwards, adding Jay and Jimmy and Solo

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and then adding Sammy, and then
it was the defection of Sammy that carried

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them for a period of time.
Then it was the defection of Jay and

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Jimmy that carried them for a period
of time. Ever since Summer Slam with

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the match with jay Usso where Jimmy
turned on him and then like realigned with

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the Bloodline for no reason after starting
the whole split and friction and all that

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stuff. It's just and he hasn't
been around on television. It's been just

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different. It's just it's not serving
a purpose right now. And I think

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they've like we can compliment w creative
a lot, but I feel like they

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have been kind of lost since the
SummerSlam match with jay Uso because they went

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and stuff with La Night, similar
blueprint. He went away for a while.

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Now he's come back and then had
this feud and then it was the

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same blueprint basically as the La Night
match. Yeah, I don't know.

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I feel like they're just trying to
coast a little bit with this title Reign.

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Yeah, I think you know,
the stuff we mentioned some of the

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great stables of all time, whether
it's the nWo, whether it's the Horsemen.

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When you've got those those moments,
usually there's also a defection, but

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there's also an addition. You know, you could have the Big Show,

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you could have Paul White, the
Big Show, the Giant drop out and

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slide somebody else int in turn.
So you can always do one for one

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swamps and I think that the issue
sometimes with a group like the Bloodline,

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where it's family, you can't you
can't do that. It's hard to There's

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only so many people you can add
into the Bloodline. And they did build

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main event stars off of it because
they you know, not to mention that

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his Challengers, but the same He's
Aids and the Jay Hussos. So they

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have built some main event level characters
out of it. But right now,

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to me, I think part of
it is I feel like they didn't know

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and I don't know. I say
the Rock helped them up, but you

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know, for the last few months, we didn't know if they're going to

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Cody en Rollman or Rock and Rollman, So it kind of kind of maybe

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holds up their storyline progression really since
Crowdjewel at least, Yeah, I have

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the vibe just the way you're starting
to see the seeds being planted, with

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the tribal air of Solo so CoA, all that stuff, his getting involved

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in Romans matches, which is maybe
this is all purposes. At some point

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Solo is going to turn on Roman, and probably Roman's going to be away

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for a while and return as a
babyface, and then Solo's going to go

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on this like rocket ship run in
the period of time is a top heel,

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probably unless he gets a baby face
reaction for doing it. So like

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you could see those seeds being planted. But yeah, maybe there's something to

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it where they wanted to do Rock
and Roman at thirty nine and then probably

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carry this over to forty with Cody
and Ben drop the title to him rather

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than potentially repeat performance of Cody and
Roman. Again, it's just it's felt

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off this year. It started red
hot with the Sammy Roman stuff started and

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continued with a great co Roman feud
match it and maybe whether you like the

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result or not, and then that
carried on with the friction of Jay and

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Jimmy starting to split from the bloodline, and then we've reached SummerSlam and it's

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just been like they don't know what
to do from here for some reason,

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and it's because lack of TV time
with him, and there's like no purpose

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with the bloodline. And I also
feel like something they can't be lost here

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about the bloodline. And I don't
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this is how I perceive it,
Doctor Tray. Every time Roman goes away

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and Solo and Jimmy are left to
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like they're lesser than They're not as
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the show, and I don't take
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next to Roman Reigns carrying on the
bloodline Torch. Yeah, I think part

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of it is that you know it, we'll kind of go into a living

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where you get the rubble a little
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like the kind of like he doesn't
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hate saying that because they're twins.
But Jay has a little more pizzazz,

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a little more charisma, a little
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from a little bit from like Umagasvivia
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and those post where when he does
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wow, okay, you can talk. We Sunday they see they do can

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cut a promo. But it's just
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main level, It's like, Okay, he's just kind of a henchmit,

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he's kind of a monster, and
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respond to monsters who don't speak,
so maybe that's why they're just kind of

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looked at as you know, B
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equal footing as to Row but or
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that rage at least right now.
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think we're going to be talking a
lot about room in here in the month

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of February, especially hiding in a
WrestleMania and his creative direction maybe becomes a

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little bit clearer on Friday. But
that's that's a really interesting twist as well,

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which we'll obviously get to to here
in a little bit. Next match

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is Logan Paul defeating Kevin Owens by
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We both had Logan Paul getting the
victory. Solid wrestling match and something

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that really tested the innring ability of
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of the best, and Kevin Owens. Kevin Owens throwing Logan Paul's plans to

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use the brass knuckles only get caught
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and I did love Pat mcafe's line
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you have twenty twenty vision end quote. I thought that was hilarious creative booking

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and ending for this match, and
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last week's show. We both predicted
this match to be a WrestleMania match and

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figured, well, that was not
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the rumble, I feel like this
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Doctor Trey. Yeah, and you
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would get involved and they did so. Yeah. Like, I'm on board

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with this running out because I think
this is Look, we all know Triple

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Ah loves Kevin Owens and he typically
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he's gotten in the last couple of
years under the triplay to watch. I

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mean, if you get a logan
Paul Kevin Owen's WrestleMania match, who better

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to represent the blue collar, you
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promos on social media and you know
all the TV stuff they're going to do

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leading up to wrestle media. Because
if that's the route they go, he's

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the right guy to have in that
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there's something we don't see very often
anymore. This was something that happened quite

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a bit during the nineties and early
two thousands when you and I were coming

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up watching blutching the business the good
guy. Typically when he cheats, he

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gets away with it. This time
he got caught. So it's a good

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blueprint to kind of run this angle
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path they go down, and where
I'm on board for it. Next match

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is Cody Rhodes winning the Men's Royal
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Trade CM Punk another great Royal Rumble
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final four into the final two win. I don't recall them ever doing the

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part of the rumbles for that long, it did feel like it could go

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either way between Punk and Roads,
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first back to back winner since nineteen
ninety eight when Stone Cold Steve Austin did

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it. Now this begs the question
will Cody Roads finished the store at restamenty

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forty against the Manny point at the
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We'll talk about that in a little
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come out of this one. Nonetheless, Cody Rhoades wins it for back to

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back years. Yeah, I thought
it was a solid rumble. Maybe not

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you know, upper echelon level rumbles
we had to pass, but I thought

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it was very solid and arguably kind
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know, some of the interactions and
this rumble were great, and Cody getting

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the way for people that kind of
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but I've heard who say like maybe
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or maybe he's maybe since Vince left
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being the same to do something to
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the first time in twenty five years. Just shows you that they love this

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guy, they have faith in this
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future of this company around. So
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you know, I thought it was
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it came down to Punk and Cody, it maybe went a little long.

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But I don't think that was Bookie's
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of shape and then apparently also injured, so it just kind of felt a

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little long. But outside of that, overall just a very very solid rubble.

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out of shape, and maybe,
you know, a little bit rusty because

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I was like, man, he
looks like when did hear he's out of

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shape? And then you come to
find out what happened to him, which

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we'll cover here. Momentarily I was
like, oh, that makes sense.

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little heavy, but I think he's
been putting on some size. I mean,

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his shoulders have gotten really big since
his aw run. Well, everybody

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in WW seems to be getting bigger
the last fourth, last few much look

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at Randy and AJ and like,
okay, all the other guys are seem

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to be getting put on a little
bit of muscle. I never thought i'd

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hear Randy Orton laying at two seventy
five by the land. I forgot to

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mention that earlier. But that's that's
the biggest wait I think I've ever heard

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r Randy Orton technically weighs in more
on the announcements than Kevin OHA's doing.

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Interesting. Yeah, I know you're
seeing a lot of guys put on a

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lot of muscle lately. All right, pay per view prediction record. I

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went three and one, Doctor Trey
went two and two. It is the

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first one of the year, Match
of the night and event rating. I

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gave the show a four point two. I really enjoyed the show. Is

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a lot of fun, good evening
of wrestling on a Saturday night. And

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my match of the night was the
Women's Royal Rumble. Doctor try really okay,

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I went three point eight and my
match of the night was the Men's

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Rumble. So a little bit of
different opinion there, ok And I wouldn't

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have guessed that because you made it
sound like it you didn't enjoy the match

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all that much. Well, the
women's match, I would say about the

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middle of it, and I guess
it is kind of what Ivy Nile,

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Vaccine Duprix and those ones kind of
got in the middle there. It was

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not good. Like I'm literally watching
like Bailey try to carry Vaccine Duprix around

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the ring for the head scissors and
the like this is. Yeah, some

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of the girls you can kind of
tell still aren't ready for prime time,

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So that kind of I thought the
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minutes OTHERWIS match was really good,
but there was a middle section there that

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was kind of bad. Yeah,
I know what you're talking about, because

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I felt that way too. And
then it did pick itself up. I

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felt like so and with the men's
rumble, outside of Jimmy and Jay squaring

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off, I just didn't feel like
there were any like just great. I

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mean, the broad Breaker appears.
I thought broad Breaker looked fantastic. I

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was going to bring that up.
I felt like he was the breakout so

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far of that match, and that
was a short notice reportedly. Yeah,

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but for for the most part,
I thought the men's rumble was you know,

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like I said, it was a
solid Rumble. I just don't think

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it's a great rumble, I guess
so. To me, it was like

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above average everywhere, like the Tires
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it was a of average, but
just not as good as maybe some rumbles

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of the past. All right,
Interesting, Usually we're not that far apart

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on ratings. I really thought the
show was fantastic, So it's interesting.

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Four point two for me, three
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say that's probably one of the wider
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I was usually we're with it.
A point one or a point two

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point four is kind of far off
for us. All right, So coming

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out of Royal Rumble, there is
a lot of flux. And I don't

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mean any offices of Stanford Cannetic here, which we will unfortunately have to cover

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here. I'm going to talk about
something that's a little bit more inclined to

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what we typically talk about here on
this week each week's edition of SRTU,

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and that is the WRESTLEMANI forty cards. So it's in a bit of flux

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right now, and I want to
figure out a way for Doctor Trey and

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I to fix this. So as
CM Punk announce on Monday's Raw he suffered

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a torn triceps during the Rumble match. Hears it happened during him receiving the

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Future Shock DDT from Drew McIntyre.
He is headed towards surgery. The belief

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is that he will be out for
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September as a timeframe, which would
put it at nine months as a potential

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return for him. So on top
of that, right now, you've got

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Cody Rhodes at the end of the
Rumble. He points to Roman Reins and

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it seems like slam dunk. That's
what they're gonna do. It's gonna be

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Cody and Roman. Then obviously on
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that Punk was injured. I think
that was like Monday afternoon. Then Punk

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confirms it on Monday, as I
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is not going to happen now at
the Royal Rumble. Seth Ronds, who

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was injured a couple of weeks ago, We've talked about his injury. His

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status for the for Wrestmania is a
little murky, but the expectation is he

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will be there. He cuts a
promo which makes a ton of sense from

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a storyline standpoint where it's like,
hey, don't forget about me. Also,

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you know, consider me for your
championship match Cody face me at WrestleMania,

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which, if you take another step
back, you're like, Okay,

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this is interesting because if Cody is
like, you know what, You're right,

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I'm going to go after the Workhorse
title. I'm going to take on

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seth Rons at WrestleMania, there might
be a slight bit of disappointment, but

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then that slides in the rock to
take on Roman Reigns at WrestleMania. Then

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you have filled out both roles.
But according to wrestle Votes, and we'll

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get to this, we're kind of
talking about this particular wrestler out of order

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wrestle Votes tweeted on Monday or excuse
me, Tuesday, between the Unfortunate Injury

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to see Him Punk, No,
this was Wednesday or Tuesday morning. Excuse

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me. Wow, I can't get
my days right, because it's like,

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what the hell? Between the unfortunate
Injury to see mpunk, the questionable status

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of seth Rons, and the pulling
of brock Less, which he has been

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pulled due to the allegations set Forth
about him and vinsick Man, which we

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will talk about. The WRESTLEMANI card
has took a sharp turn, so I

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said, there are a number of
brand new card variations on the table,

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including some superstars who were not pegged
towards the top just days ago. I'm

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being told they will take their time
to figure things out and just consider quote

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just about everything, end quote.
So the reports out there in regards to

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Brock, who reportedly is now out
of the rumble excuse me, out of

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Wrestlemanian and was not in the rumble
and bron Breaker took his spot, was

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that he was going to take on
Dominic Mystereo at Elimination Chamber and then take

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on Gunther at WrestleMania, which is
something Doctor Trey and I predicted. So

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they're been saying, people saying,
well, Punk's out, Brock's out,

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do Gunther and Seth. You know, pitch that in an angle on the

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last week's edition of Raw, previously
heading into the Royal Rumbles. So a

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couple of innerations here, Doctor Trey, you could go Cody Roman, you

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could go Cody Seth, you could
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Seph because Punk Seth and gunther Brock
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It's in flux. There's a lot
of balls in play. We're gonna be

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out there on Friday. Cody's going
to address who his selection is going to

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be. Maybe he makes the announcement, maybe he carries it over again to

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the next edition of Raw. What's
the direction that you would take right now

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if you're heading up w creative?
How do you move forward with some of

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the top matches at Wrestmania forty.
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to whether or not you have the
Rock and Play or not. Like to

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me, that's and I don't know, we haven't really got a definitive answer

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on this, because if the rocks
on the table, you do Rock and

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Roman. That's that's your super Bowl, that's your money match, that's your

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Rock Sena for the previous generations.
You have those two guys square off and

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you're gonna get a ton of Poe
buys and subscription buys for Peacock wherever long

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you have it or whatever you want
to do, and then you slide Cody

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over to Seth. If you don't
have Rock, then you do Cody and

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Roman. And to me, you
it would make sense to slide Gunther into

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that spot and do you know workhorse
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kind of almost like a winner takes
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like Hogan Warrior from Wrestlemedia five six, which I can't remember that for Hogan

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and Warrior was six six. Yeah, so, but yeah, I would

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do Rollins and Gunther because then if
you have Gunther go over, now you

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have a built and dominant champion on
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on SmackDown. That that to me
is the most logical thing because the one

402
00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:48.759
thing I love I don't know about
you. I loved Seth's promo with Cody

403
00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:53.960
from Monday Night the one the one
thing he left out is he should have

404
00:27:55.039 --> 00:27:56.920
also sounded desperate to beat Cody.
He could have. He could have also

405
00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:00.359
played there and you're the only guy
I haven't beat. I am ozer and

406
00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:04.720
three against you, I need to
beat you. You know, if he

407
00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:08.480
had thrown that in there, alluding
back to a Cody first debut and the

408
00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:14.039
torn pectorial muscle, telling a sell
match we all love, then that would

409
00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:17.000
have added a little more gravitas to
it. If that's the direction to go.

410
00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:18.039
They go Okay, the crowd goes, oh, yeah, that makes

411
00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:22.759
sense. Seth needs to be Cody
because Cody Basy beat him with one arm

412
00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:26.240
and hell of a cell. Yeah. It's It's interesting because I felt like

413
00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:29.400
when Rumble went off the air,
I was like, all right, well,

414
00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:32.319
I guess we're not getting Rock Roman
at Russell Manning, which I'm fine

415
00:28:32.359 --> 00:28:36.000
with. I mean, this makes
this makes sense to do the Cody because

416
00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:38.720
if I'm Cody Rhodes, I want
revenge. I want to finish my story

417
00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:42.559
at Roman Reigns and then the punk
stuff comes out and then they cut that

418
00:28:42.599 --> 00:28:47.160
promo on Raw, which I agree
with you. I thought the segment was

419
00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:51.200
really well done and made a ton
of sense. Seth coming out there and

420
00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:53.759
saying like, hey, don't forget
about me makes a ton of sense.

421
00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:57.319
And I liked that they did that. I like they opened that door up,

422
00:28:57.359 --> 00:29:03.759
They opened that door up for this
opportunity. However, this reminds me

423
00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:08.559
of the Ronda Rousey rumble win a
couple of years ago that I was like

424
00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:15.079
completely against because storyline said Ronda and
at the time Becky Lynch was champion like

425
00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:19.000
Ronda's been chasing Becky Lynch. That
was the match we wanted to see time

426
00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:22.000
and time again, and it was
like this is this is it? Two

427
00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:26.880
rivals and then she goes and they
have her choose Charlotte Flair, which storyline

428
00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:33.119
wise made zero sense to me unless
w creative can really make this compelling and

429
00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:37.480
interesting and give it a nice little
plot twist. I still think as much

430
00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:42.279
as that segment was really well done, and I like Seth's compassion plea to

431
00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:47.079
be like, hey, choose me, it doesn't make sense for Cody Rhodes

432
00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:51.000
to do that touch tray like he
has to avenge that loss from thirty nine.

433
00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:55.960
That's how you finish the story.
And the lineage of the w Championship

434
00:29:55.960 --> 00:30:00.920
which he is chasing is in that
title. So maybe they're serving us a

435
00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:03.759
little bit. Maybe they're, you
know, trying to shift towards the direction

436
00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:07.200
of Cody Seth. But ultimately,
while Seth's point of view makes sense to

437
00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:11.319
me, Cody going, you know
what, you're right to Seth, I'm

438
00:30:11.319 --> 00:30:12.839
gonna choose you and we're gonna go
one on one at Wrestle many forty,

439
00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:17.559
that doesn't make sense because then he
would be dodging Roman reigns, which doesn't

440
00:30:17.559 --> 00:30:22.319
make sense. And that's also why
I think they missed out on the opportunity

441
00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:27.480
to bring up their pass of Seth
and Cody because Cody debuted at WrestleMania at

442
00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:33.000
thirty eight against Seth and Seth lost. So as much as Cody wants to

443
00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:37.240
finished his story, Seth could have
been like, I need to finish mine.

444
00:30:37.960 --> 00:30:41.279
You know, you ruined my WrestleMania
at thirty eight. You beat me

445
00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:45.720
two more times afterwards. I have
to finish my story. If I want

446
00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:48.319
to be the workhorse champion, I
have to, you know, beat you

447
00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:52.839
to show that I am the best. You know that I'm the best.

448
00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:56.200
Norman, you know where you're chasing
Roman, I'm chasing you. That to

449
00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:59.720
me, I thought would have been
just the extra layer on it. But

450
00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:03.319
you know, if if Rock's not
in the cars and Cody's you know,

451
00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:08.680
and Cody chooses Roman, that sets
up elimination Chamber to pick Seth's next challenger,

452
00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:14.759
and then you could throw in McIntyre, Sammy Gunther, Uh, you

453
00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:18.279
know, Jay and whoever else you
want to throw into the mix, you

454
00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:21.720
know, for that chamber match to
get the chance to challenge Seth at wrestle

455
00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:25.000
Media, and then you could have
Gunther go over. Basically, if he

456
00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:27.799
enters number one, beats everybody,
much like Oscar did a few years ago.

457
00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:30.759
And she got in there and I
think she limited everybody in the chamber

458
00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:33.319
match to get hersh out of the
title. It makes a lot of sense

459
00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:38.240
to go that round as well.
So I just have this Kakamami idea hear,

460
00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:41.359
And when it comes to the World
have aweight Championship, are we in

461
00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:45.640
agreement Cody needs to move forward with
Roman or are you thinking Cody Seth?

462
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:48.319
I mean storyline wise, yeah,
Cody needs to go off for Roman.

463
00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:52.279
It makes the most sense to finish
a story is to chase down the guy

464
00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:59.440
that beat you last year. So
we're making the idea that rightfully, so

465
00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:02.079
that the gonna pick because they've done
this last you know, God knows how

466
00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:06.799
long. The eliminated chamber match is
the way that you picked the next challenger

467
00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:09.720
for the title that's not being challenged
for or the Rumble winner hasn't selected for

468
00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:15.160
WrestleMania forty. So will you presume
that there's gonna be a World Away Championship

469
00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:22.160
match? Why not? At this
point Doctor Trey w w WEE does a

470
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:27.079
like to protect Seth with his injury, even a fatal four way match,

471
00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:32.680
you do Seth, Gunther, Big
Drew and Sammy Zain for the title at

472
00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:39.720
WrestleMania forty. Yeah, you could. Or the other route is you have

473
00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:45.359
the chamber or you have the chamber
match. Because we still have mister Money

474
00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:49.920
in the bank floating around too.
You could do the four way. Damian

475
00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:54.319
Priest comes in, cashes in in
Australia and then wrestle Maya sets up whoever.

476
00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:59.960
You think Seth should drop the title
before Mania? Oh, I say,

477
00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:01.960
and then you put him back into
it, make it a three way.

478
00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:05.440
Okay, So you're saying to say, face a little bit. Then

479
00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:10.720
you do like Damien and Seth at
WrestleMania. Yeah. Or and then if

480
00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:15.359
you need a factor in somebody who
wins the wins the chamber match. You

481
00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:19.359
know you could. There's ways of
time I'm trying to so, yeah,

482
00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:22.079
they could do the chamber match and
that person wins. Seth is defending the

483
00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:27.720
title in Australia, Damien cashes in
on Seth and then Seth demands to be

484
00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:30.519
put in the match. Because let's
just say Guntherer wins that match, so

485
00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:35.200
then it's Damien versus Gunther. But
then Seth's like, well, I want

486
00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:37.640
to revoke my opportunity to get in
there, then he gets in there.

487
00:33:38.119 --> 00:33:43.519
I just feel like, unless WWE
wants to move forward with putting the championship

488
00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:47.319
on Gunther, he's not going to
take the pin. So I'm with you

489
00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:51.920
right now. I would take I
would take Punk the Punk, Seth,

490
00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:55.599
Gunther Brock. It's not happening,
So take Seth, take Gunther. If

491
00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:59.200
you did one on one, that
would be an epic match. But unless

492
00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:02.319
you're putting the title on Gunther for
a period of time, then I would

493
00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:07.920
look towards doing a triple threat or
a Fatal four way, or maybe you

494
00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:14.199
pull a WrestleMania thirty one on the
Gunther Seth match and then you know,

495
00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:20.119
towards the end Damien cash is in. You could It's interesting, you could

496
00:34:20.119 --> 00:34:22.840
have the fatal four wheel, like
you talked about Damien cashing in and doing

497
00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:28.840
basically heisting sets title from him.
Yeah, pulling the WrestleMania thirty one on

498
00:34:29.480 --> 00:34:31.239
pulling the Heights of the Century on
the guy who pulled the Heights on the

499
00:34:31.239 --> 00:34:37.960
Century exactly it's interesting. I mean, it's it makes it fun as a

500
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:39.960
wrestling fan to figure this stuff out. I just wish it was a little

501
00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:43.199
bit more cut and dry, Like
I wish we were sitting here this week

502
00:34:43.239 --> 00:34:45.960
going Cody Roman slam Dunk. I
guess they're not going to do Rock Roman

503
00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:50.119
and then obviously they're gonna do Punk
Seth and I think that would have been

504
00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:52.559
a lot of fun. Is Damien
has to cash in before July? Yes,

505
00:34:53.239 --> 00:34:58.519
the bank is is July, yep
yep so, and by WrestleMania that's

506
00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:01.039
April. So if he doesn't cash
in, that only gives them a two

507
00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:04.199
month window. And if you're gonna
pull a title change, like if you

508
00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:07.079
rot pull up Strift, let's say
gun thor Win. Let's say they do

509
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:10.320
Gunther Staff gun their wins. Are
you gonna have Damian Cashion on gun Thro

510
00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:15.440
Between WrestleMania and money in the bank, it doesn't make sense that cash it

511
00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:20.480
has to come either in Australia or
in or at WrestleMania. Yeah, and

512
00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:23.079
I think Bash at Berlin is in
late August. I think like August thirty

513
00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:25.760
first, and I just have the
feeling that GUNTHERER is either going to be

514
00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:30.840
walking into that show as the World
of a Weight Champion or he's walking in

515
00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:34.960
as the challenger for the World of
a Weight Championship match, that would make

516
00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:37.559
the most sense to me. Yeah, especially if they want to show something

517
00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:42.920
European that can look. It's not
gonna beat all In or Wembley. As

518
00:35:42.920 --> 00:35:44.599
far as tenants record, I don't
think that. No, no, no,

519
00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:46.719
no no. They're in a much
considerably less arena as well. But

520
00:35:47.159 --> 00:35:53.400
if you can pull forty like look, Cardiff was not attendance wise what Wembley

521
00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:58.039
Stadium was, but that was one
of the most rocking venues that we have

522
00:35:58.079 --> 00:36:00.320
seen on television. If you know, you pull the same thing off in

523
00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:05.159
Berlin, that just shows Yeah,
you guys can draw eighty thousand in London,

524
00:36:05.239 --> 00:36:08.360
but you know, we actually still
hold the europe mark. So we'll

525
00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:13.519
see where things are going here with
the top men's matches and on the women's

526
00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:16.840
side. It still looks to me
Doctor Trey to be going Eo Bailey,

527
00:36:17.599 --> 00:36:22.840
Ria Becky and Bianca car Gil That's
how I look at it right now.

528
00:36:23.199 --> 00:36:27.239
Yeah, those would be by if
I was picking. Well, I still

529
00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:30.840
think that I still think Naya gets
factored in somewhere. Well, I think

530
00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:35.559
they're doing the Ria Naya match for
Perth Australia, so that Rhea goes into

531
00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:38.519
that because she she was looking like
a babyface on Monday's Raw. I mean,

532
00:36:38.599 --> 00:36:42.880
she is a full blown heel,
but she's getting beat down by another

533
00:36:42.920 --> 00:36:47.320
heel and getting babyface sympathy reaction.
They're getting her ready for Perth Australia for

534
00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:52.559
homecoming there. I think they might
do a triple threat with them with Ria,

535
00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:58.239
Becky and Naya, since that makes
sense because I mean, you got

536
00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:00.199
Naya the Naya Beckay Robert because you
saw that at the end of the rumble,

537
00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:05.039
like but then but then you presumably
got the elimination chamber as well.

538
00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:08.159
Yeah, so, but I mean
I still think that you can still Like

539
00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:12.599
Becky gets her shot, but then
Naya comes out and basically squashes both of

540
00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:15.079
them. She demands it and both
the women go, yeah, we want

541
00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:19.480
you as match too. So there's
also return and Live Morgan out there as

542
00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:23.119
well. She's been rumored to potentially
have an opportunity. But do you think

543
00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:28.119
Eo Bailey is happening and do you
think Bianca Cargill is happening? I think

544
00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:32.440
Eo Bailey is definitely happening. I
just don't know what they're gonna do with

545
00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:36.880
Jade yet because she kind of worked
as a babyface in that match in the

546
00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:39.880
rumble, like she's the one whatever
Naya eliminated Naya. You know, Becky

547
00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:44.559
turned her back on her and she
didn't eliminate Becky in that moment, So

548
00:37:44.639 --> 00:37:46.760
that could have been a very healthy
to do. And if Jane's a babyface

549
00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:52.840
and they just turned the profits lastly
group with a babyface. So I don't

550
00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:57.039
know if you can do Bianca and
Jake straight up one on one if you're

551
00:37:57.039 --> 00:38:00.559
trying to establish I think I could. I think you could do babyface babyface

552
00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:05.039
in this one. I think they
might do Bianca and Jade against like in

553
00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:07.199
the tag if they do the women's
tag team gauntlet thing you might throw.

554
00:38:08.280 --> 00:38:13.920
Do you think that would be the
like the WrestleMania debut, it's pot I

555
00:38:13.960 --> 00:38:17.159
think they're I don't think that's a
good idea. Well, you need something

556
00:38:17.239 --> 00:38:22.599
for you know, Osca and Kyrie
to do, and like why like those

557
00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:25.679
are two dominant women, Like do
you want to see the Kabuki Warriors against

558
00:38:27.360 --> 00:38:30.920
Piper and Chelsea again or against Kai
Ni Kaitana or do you want to see

559
00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:36.199
Osca and Kyrie against Bianca and Jake. I prefer to see Bianca versus Jade.

560
00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:38.559
Well, yeah, I'm not.
I'm not thinking that. I think

561
00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:44.400
you need to go into like I
think we're forgetting that while she was green,

562
00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:46.320
obviously she's been training, she's been
training at the PC, she's been

563
00:38:46.360 --> 00:38:52.800
training with Natalia enticing kid. I
would hope Jade is ready to go for

564
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:58.119
a singles match at WRESTLEMANI against Bianca. Yeah, I don't think you do

565
00:38:58.239 --> 00:39:01.760
that spot at WrestleMania or because in
the Royal Rumble match if there wasn't some

566
00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:06.840
sort of plan between those two,
but it wasn't really anything more than like

567
00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:10.280
it was more like a mutual respect
spot at the Rumble. It wasn't like

568
00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:15.840
the crowd got loud they want to
see it. I just I typically I

569
00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:19.639
know how WD likes to do these
things, and they might save it for

570
00:39:19.639 --> 00:39:22.920
forty one. You know, God, that'd be nuts. Man, you

571
00:39:22.920 --> 00:39:25.679
think so well, I'm not saying
they go together the entire so well over

572
00:39:25.719 --> 00:39:29.760
a year. Yeah, I just
I don't know, because once again you

573
00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:34.000
have to establish because of the law, you have to establish Jane as a

574
00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:37.599
heel between now and WrestleMania. But
I don't think you need to establish her

575
00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:43.360
as a heel. That's what they
don't. Why can't you do if we're

576
00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:46.320
doing heel versus heel with Rihan and
Naya, why can't they do a baby

577
00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:51.559
face baby face at WrestleMania because you
forget Riya is not a heel in Australia.

578
00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:53.599
She's gonna get a baby face real. I mean, I know,

579
00:39:54.039 --> 00:39:57.599
of course, I don't forget I
said that, but that's what they're doing

580
00:39:57.719 --> 00:40:01.480
on on television. Yeah, like
she works as a as a heel in

581
00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:07.239
the US. Yeah, I know, you're right. It's a tough call.

582
00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:09.719
No, I see them, I
can see them doing it, but

583
00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:14.159
I also know, like, hey, we also have there's there is a

584
00:40:14.159 --> 00:40:16.800
limited number of matches we can do, so we may have to you know,

585
00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:20.199
that's when we get four ways in
three ways and stuff that wrestling,

586
00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:22.239
and sometimes they kind of get everybody
on the card, so hey, maybe

587
00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:27.480
you have them work together and then
you know, I guess Kyrie and EO

588
00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:30.519
and then they get a little run
as tag team champions, they have a

589
00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:36.519
breakup and then let's not forget they
just brought back Naomi and Live Morgan as

590
00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:39.239
well, so I would imagine that
they're involved in the WrestleMania fold at some

591
00:40:39.639 --> 00:40:44.559
level. Maybe they're this mixed mash
tag team. I did feel like at

592
00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:47.920
one time, when it was starting
to look like maybe Sasha Banks was coming

593
00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:52.039
back to w WE, that the
direction would have been Bailey and Sasha reuniting

594
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:55.719
to take on the Kabuki Warriors at
WrestleMania. But it would appear that she

595
00:40:55.920 --> 00:41:00.599
is aw bound, and obviously they've
they gone the direction of Bailey being out

596
00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:05.239
on her own to take on EO
in the Wrestlemanium main event. I think

597
00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:07.800
I think we'll get some clarity up
Friday, like, oh yeah, no,

598
00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:10.480
it's it's gonna get clear here if
we if we, if Jade shows

599
00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:14.400
up on back Down, we get
some clarity as to what her character is,

600
00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:17.199
because we really haven't had other than
her, you know, those pop

601
00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:22.559
ups once she first signed. We
really haven't had any clarity on what the

602
00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:25.920
Jade Cargill character is going to be
going forward. It sounds very similar to

603
00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:30.639
the a W one. I mean
that that theme song was like nearly identical.

604
00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:32.880
Yeah, I mean did they did
they just I don't know who many.

605
00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:37.880
I don't know if if Mikey made
that one or if that was something

606
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:40.119
they could license, because it was
really really close. It was very very

607
00:41:40.119 --> 00:41:43.440
close. So this is what the
fun time of the year is is like

608
00:41:43.480 --> 00:41:45.119
looking at the card, especially after
the Rumble, and like figuring out what

609
00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:50.119
they're going to do because you see
a bunch of tea leaves. There's obviously

610
00:41:50.119 --> 00:41:54.719
the unfortunate injury stuff. There's the
allegations that with Vince mcman, John Laurnidis

611
00:41:54.760 --> 00:41:59.760
and allegedly brock Lessener that we'll talk
about here. So there's a lot of

612
00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:02.239
things that have kind of turned the
WRESTLEMANI card upside down. And as a

613
00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:06.280
wrestling fan, that's what makes it
fun to figure out, Okay, what

614
00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:09.800
does WWE do next? Because this
is this is one of the only shows

615
00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:14.360
that you could really sit out like
two months from now and look at it

616
00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:15.400
and go, all right, how
they got to build this out? Because

617
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:20.079
that's what makes it really intriguing in
fun, because hell, it's it's fucking

618
00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:23.000
WrestleMania. And I always knew with
these conversations that we have coming out of

619
00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:27.199
shows like the Rumble and this will
be something that we talk about week to

620
00:42:27.199 --> 00:42:30.239
week. I mean, it's only
a matter of time before we start giving

621
00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:35.400
our WrestleMania card update updates here on
each week's edition to the show as matches

622
00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:38.760
are announced, and becoming a little
bit more official and fine tune as the

623
00:42:38.760 --> 00:42:44.079
weeks go on towards WrestleMania forty,
which I'm also digging that they're back giving

624
00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:47.880
Roman numerals again, which reported the
events, was against calling the WrestleMania like

625
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:52.119
thirty six, thirty seven, thirty
eight, what have you, because I

626
00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:54.119
think at one time the report was
that he made it sound like it made

627
00:42:54.119 --> 00:42:58.880
it sound like WRESTLEMANI was too old, and I was like, that's absolutely

628
00:42:58.960 --> 00:43:04.360
absurd. But that's that is one
finsic man speaking of one vincic man,

629
00:43:04.360 --> 00:43:07.719
doctor Dray. By this point,
everybody has heard, read, seen the

630
00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:15.880
news about the sexual assault sex trafficking
allegations that were levied by former w employee

631
00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:22.440
named Janelle Grant towards vincick man John
Larnidis. Several WA executives that were not

632
00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:28.800
named were implicated in it. A
former UFC champion, which we would all

633
00:43:28.840 --> 00:43:34.599
believe is brock Lesner, was alleged
into it. Very very serious allegations being

634
00:43:34.719 --> 00:43:37.320
levied at vincick Mann. We're not
going to like pick apart the lawsuit because

635
00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:40.239
at this point it's nearly a week
later, and I think everybody knows about

636
00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:47.159
at this point, it is a
massive black eye on WWE right now.

637
00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:52.760
If these allegations are deemed to be
true, it's extremely disgusting, it's deplorable.

638
00:43:54.760 --> 00:44:00.199
We would ruin any type of legacy
Vincent Man ever had because of the

639
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:05.159
type of allegations that are being in
levied against him. If there's a remote

640
00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:09.079
opportunity for any of this to be
true. It did lead to him resigning

641
00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:15.000
from W and TKO on Friday night, actually during SmackDown. This is the

642
00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:20.000
first time since the nineteen fifties that
a member of the McMahon family hasn't been

643
00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:24.400
involved with the wrestling organization, going
back to vincick Man's grandfather, doctor Trey.

644
00:44:25.039 --> 00:44:30.159
I read the lawsuit, actually I
read all like sixty pages and it's

645
00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:36.800
insane to read. You know,
there's a bunch of spark notes out there.

646
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:40.119
Your thoughts on these allegations and vincick
Man resigning from W and TKO,

647
00:44:40.880 --> 00:44:51.480
I mean, the allegations are absolutely
horrible I don't know. I hate commenting

648
00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:55.000
on this type of stuff because like, I don't like lawsuits like this because

649
00:44:55.079 --> 00:45:01.079
a they're civil lawsuits and they're not
criminal lawsuits. Because to me, it's

650
00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:07.800
if it's when it's labeled sex trafficking, that's criminal, that's somebody who should

651
00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:09.960
be arrested and thrown in jail.
When it's a civil situation like this,

652
00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:15.559
it's labeled sex trafficking, yet there
were payments and gifts involved that it just

653
00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:21.679
it makes it sound dirty and in
scheming, but it's it almost gives sex

654
00:45:21.719 --> 00:45:28.440
trafficking like it almost diminishes what actual
sex trafficking is in a sense, I

655
00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:30.840
guess. And then that's kind of
my take on it. Like to me,

656
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:37.440
this is something between two adults that
got passed around the office, and

657
00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:40.519
that's in it self horrible and gross. But when it was coming out as

658
00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:44.159
like sex, I don't know.
If I saw a report like Bismic man

659
00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:46.360
name in sex traffic lawsuit, I
was like, dear God, is that

660
00:45:46.360 --> 00:45:51.400
what the Saudi Arabian Talians are?
And like is there something they find something

661
00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:54.719
going on between WWE and the Saudi
princess? And then I read this,

662
00:45:54.800 --> 00:46:00.079
I'm like Oh, okay, it's
a different thing. I just I didn't

663
00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:05.199
like the way it was labeled.
But as far as like as a publicly

664
00:46:05.280 --> 00:46:09.159
trading company and having this going on
behind the scenes is you know, atrocious

665
00:46:09.159 --> 00:46:14.360
and deplorable. But I really hate
it the way it was kind of put

666
00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:19.639
out into the media before you actually
read the actual litigation part of it.

667
00:46:19.920 --> 00:46:22.880
Yeah, it's important to read the
lawsuit obviously, for everybody to go out

668
00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:28.480
there then make your own judgments.
But this is obviously a very big black

669
00:46:28.519 --> 00:46:32.519
eye, and I don't know,
I don't enjoy talking about these things.

670
00:46:32.519 --> 00:46:35.800
We don't want to turn a blind
eye to them. But again, they

671
00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:39.760
are allegations, and there is innocent
improvement until proven guilty. If they are

672
00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:45.519
deemed to be true. It's a
deplorable situation and there's going to be a

673
00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:50.400
huge rift in culture change in we
and maybe they're already doing that right now.

674
00:46:50.440 --> 00:46:53.400
But yeah, it's something we need
to talk about here. You can't

675
00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:58.679
turn a blind eye on it.
And not a great situation obviously, and

676
00:46:58.719 --> 00:47:01.920
we'll continue to all this as it
moves forward. I'm sure, just like

677
00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:06.880
any lawsuit, it'll take some time
to bubble back up again. But it's

678
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:09.599
it's out in the face of the
public eye right now and definitely cast it

679
00:47:09.679 --> 00:47:15.079
a dark cloud, as Cody Rhoades
said in the Post Royal Rumboldt press conference

680
00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:19.639
over the entire weekend, and everything
good W has been doing lately and hopefully

681
00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:22.559
as a entertainment tament brand and as
a company that can move forward a little

682
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:29.119
bit here and continue to just themselves
from fitzsick Man, should this all be

683
00:47:29.199 --> 00:47:31.599
deemed true, and like I said, we'll continue to keep an eye on

684
00:47:31.679 --> 00:47:37.400
it as this story develops. With
that said, let's give our preview predictions

685
00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:40.880
for NXT Vengeance Day. It comes
to us this Sunday from the F and

686
00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:46.000
M Bank Arena in Clarksville, Tennessee. Doctor Trey, that that's kind of

687
00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:50.079
in your neck of the woods,
right, Yeah, Clarksville's is actually only

688
00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:52.840
a couple hours away from me,
So that was kind of like I didn't

689
00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:58.199
know it was literally about like it
was Saturday when I actually found out that

690
00:47:58.599 --> 00:48:00.559
an excuse me, I mean Clarkswell, like man, I mean there's a

691
00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:04.199
lot of people that run inby shows
up in that area, so I'm not

692
00:48:04.239 --> 00:48:08.079
sure how big the venue is,
but uh, it's Tennessee. We they

693
00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:12.800
love wrestling at Tennessee and they'll they'll
pack it out, so uh looking forward

694
00:48:12.840 --> 00:48:16.440
to to how it's presented, and
hopefully they present clarks You know, we

695
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:22.079
get these really cool shots of like
Saint Petersburg in in Los Angeles at Miami

696
00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:25.519
with the droll coverage. I don't
know what they're going to shoot in Clarksville

697
00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:30.840
to make it look good interesting.
Okay, that's good to know. Yeah,

698
00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:34.960
here's here's the local Wendy's there.
Yeah all right, here's here's the

699
00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:38.719
Walmart. Yeah, yeah, it's
uh, I'm gonna be keeping a close

700
00:48:38.760 --> 00:48:43.559
eye on that. Now. Well, I'm just gonna this is all about

701
00:48:43.639 --> 00:48:45.079
education. But you know, uh, you know I told you off air,

702
00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:47.559
like I've actually headed to Memphis this
week, you know, this week,

703
00:48:47.639 --> 00:48:51.320
so that would be fun. So
uh, we'll be able to like

704
00:48:51.639 --> 00:48:53.360
maybe I can get some better shots, uh, and I can sell them

705
00:48:53.400 --> 00:48:57.159
to WB and be like, hey, so this is not Clarksville, but

706
00:48:57.440 --> 00:49:00.360
most people don't know where Clarksville is. So just use these, just just

707
00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:06.599
do like random photos and post it
on your Instagram or for Twitter and tag

708
00:49:06.719 --> 00:49:08.559
w W and say hey, use
this for your you know, package for

709
00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:13.920
Clarksville, and it's like, I
don't know a rest stop. What's those?

710
00:49:13.920 --> 00:49:17.480
What's those big uh like rest stops
down south? Puppies, BUCkies?

711
00:49:17.599 --> 00:49:21.400
Yes? Have you not been to
one? Debt? No? Haven't we

712
00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:23.320
talked about this? I didn't.
No, I didn't know you had not

713
00:49:23.360 --> 00:49:25.679
been. No, they don't have
them up my way. It's like the

714
00:49:25.719 --> 00:49:31.440
closest is is well down in maybe
like the New Jersey Delaware area. If

715
00:49:31.480 --> 00:49:35.079
you go like when you go to
Florida, there's one, Like when you

716
00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:37.960
head down ninety five. There's actually
one on ninety five when you cross from

717
00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:42.800
North Carolina South Carolina, so there'll
be one on your path if you drive

718
00:49:42.840 --> 00:49:45.519
down, if you fly down,
you're on your drive down, take the

719
00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:50.239
scenic drive on I ninety five.
You'll pass at least one, if not

720
00:49:50.280 --> 00:49:52.800
two, on your way down the
floor. I heard their life changing?

721
00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:58.320
Would you agree? The It's it's
kind of like it's like walmarts in the

722
00:49:58.320 --> 00:50:00.039
Northeast are different than they are the
South, Like they're a little smaller,

723
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:04.880
little more condensed. It's like the
first time you walk into a superseder or

724
00:50:04.920 --> 00:50:07.880
you walk into a super target,
like it's like, WHOA, this is

725
00:50:09.199 --> 00:50:14.639
really amazing, Like it's just there's
just a lot of everything. I mean

726
00:50:14.679 --> 00:50:17.039
there's literally like the one like there's
two in Alabama now and there's literally like

727
00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:22.199
forty eight to sixty gas pumps at
one. Wow. It's just it's massive.

728
00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:24.760
Yeah, I'm sure when people heard
me say, like, let's get

729
00:50:24.760 --> 00:50:28.639
to our NXC vengeance Previeus predictions,
they did not think we were gonna get

730
00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:30.559
do in this rabbit hole. But
here we are. I'll try to steer

731
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:32.679
it back on the tracks. Here
I will say, at least I didn't

732
00:50:32.679 --> 00:50:36.639
start singing. Take the last train
to Clarksville and I'll meet you at the

733
00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:38.000
station. We'll say that. We'll
say that for the end of the show.

734
00:50:38.920 --> 00:50:43.159
Show first match here is die Jack
taking on Joe Gasey in a no

735
00:50:43.239 --> 00:50:45.960
disqualification match. This has been kind
of a little fun minifew they've been doing

736
00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:50.599
on NXC, and nonetheless, I'm
gonna take Joe Gasey here. I've really

737
00:50:50.639 --> 00:50:52.840
enjoyed his character development on NXC the
last couple of weeks. Yeah, I've

738
00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:55.360
been trying to figure out what they're
doing with Joe Gazy, says the diead

739
00:50:55.480 --> 00:51:01.159
less and then am I became GM
like left him, but I did like

740
00:51:01.400 --> 00:51:06.519
him coming out of the dumpster spot
on NXT, so I'm taking Joe Gacy

741
00:51:06.519 --> 00:51:09.639
as well. Next match here is
the Family taken on OTM and a six

742
00:51:09.719 --> 00:51:13.639
person mixed tag team match, Doctor
Trey. Who do you like this one?

743
00:51:14.480 --> 00:51:16.840
Uh? Since the titles aren't on
the line, I'm gonna take OTM

744
00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:21.519
to kind of establish them. And
I'm still trying to figure out the mud

745
00:51:21.840 --> 00:51:25.760
that they're getting out of the explained
that yet they have not they I think

746
00:51:25.800 --> 00:51:31.360
it's just like a social analogy that, like the Mud is trying to get

747
00:51:31.360 --> 00:51:36.559
out of the like where they grew
up. Okay, I'll go with that

748
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:40.239
one. I'll ask my friends,
I'll ask please, please do Yeah,

749
00:51:39.440 --> 00:51:44.119
We're down with it. Doctor Trey
and I. I had a tough one

750
00:51:44.360 --> 00:51:45.760
picking this one. I wanted to
take OTM, but I'm gonna go with

751
00:51:45.760 --> 00:51:50.320
the Family because OTM has kind of
gotten the best of them as of late.

752
00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:54.679
Next match is ob defend the NX
North American Championship against Dragon Lee.

753
00:51:54.719 --> 00:51:59.639
I'm gonna take obafeming Doctor Trey.
Yeah, I'm a huge fan of Oba

754
00:51:59.679 --> 00:52:02.480
faming this. He might be the
most dominant like athlete we've seen in quite

755
00:52:02.480 --> 00:52:07.000
some time, Like he's got you
know, the bron Breaker brock Lesner type,

756
00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:09.199
you know, attributes. We're like, yeah, this guy's gonna be

757
00:52:09.199 --> 00:52:14.000
a huge star. And I like
putting in the imagine the smaller guy because

758
00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:15.440
it still makes him look larger than
life. So I'll take Oba Femmy as

759
00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:17.920
well. Yeah, Oba Femi looks
like he's gonna be a good wrestler.

760
00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:23.679
Man, He's he's got that in
factor. Next match is Lyra Vikiia defend

761
00:52:23.679 --> 00:52:28.039
the NAC Women's Championship against Roxanne Perez. I had a tough time picking this

762
00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:30.920
one as well, Doctor Trey,
who do you like in this one?

763
00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:34.840
Yeah, I've kind of gone back
and forth on this one because I mean,

764
00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:37.320
I don't know about you. I
kind of feel like Roxanne deserves the

765
00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:39.800
belt back after the weird way she
kind of lost it. But I mean

766
00:52:39.840 --> 00:52:44.400
you also had Lyra beat Becky Lynch
to win it, and her reign's only

767
00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:46.920
been a couple of months, So
I think I'm I think I'm gonna go

768
00:52:46.920 --> 00:52:51.400
with Lyra to retain because Roxanne is
getting kind of a little bit of you

769
00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:52.599
know, we start at the row
Bull. She's been on there a couple

770
00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:55.519
of times. I think she might
get moved up, so I'll take a

771
00:52:55.599 --> 00:53:00.960
Lira to retain. I'm gonna go
with Roxanne Perez winning the NXC Women's Championship

772
00:53:01.679 --> 00:53:07.480
because I think Taam Pasley gets involved
and accidentally costs Lyra Vakiri in the match.

773
00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:09.960
This is a tough one to call. NXX shows are always very tough

774
00:53:09.960 --> 00:53:14.480
to call, so and they take
and press. You can also circle back

775
00:53:14.480 --> 00:53:15.880
and bring into Blair devonport Angle as
well, because I don't think Blair and

776
00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:21.039
Lyra are done either, So there
youre true. Next match is Baron Corbin

777
00:53:21.119 --> 00:53:23.559
and Bron Breaker taking on Carmelo Hayes
and Trick Williams and the Men's Dusty Roads

778
00:53:23.559 --> 00:53:28.119
Tag Team Classic Finals. I'm gonna
take Baron, Corben and Bron Breaker in

779
00:53:28.119 --> 00:53:30.320
this one. Doctor Trey, Yeah, I with it. Baron needs something,

780
00:53:31.239 --> 00:53:37.480
hasn't won anything that's money in the
bank, so and I love their

781
00:53:37.559 --> 00:53:39.199
dynamic. I don't know if this
this is a long term tag team,

782
00:53:39.199 --> 00:53:43.159
but they love doing mixed match,
you know tag team wins. I mean,

783
00:53:43.159 --> 00:53:45.599
hell some Mo with Joe and Finn
Balor won this thing one year,

784
00:53:45.679 --> 00:53:49.920
So I'm taking Broad and Baron as
well. And then finally, Elia Dragon

785
00:53:49.960 --> 00:53:52.719
Off defends the NXC Championship against Trick
Williams Doctor Trey. Who do you like

786
00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:59.360
in this one? Uh, Trick
may be the hottest wrestler in all of

787
00:53:59.519 --> 00:54:01.159
w B right now. But with
that being said, I think the money

788
00:54:01.159 --> 00:54:05.880
is still gonna be in Carmelo and
Trick going at it. I think all

789
00:54:06.079 --> 00:54:09.360
Carmelo blames Trick for losing in the
Dusty Roads Finals, he gets involved,

790
00:54:09.800 --> 00:54:14.159
leaving Elia to retain it. So
I'm taking Ilia Dragon Off to retain I

791
00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:16.559
am with you, Doctor Trey.
I'm gonna take Elia Dragon Off retaining the

792
00:54:16.639 --> 00:54:21.599
NXC Championship, and I think they
obviously we agree that they will lose the

793
00:54:21.639 --> 00:54:24.880
Man's Dusty Road Tag Team Classic,
which then leads to Carmelo Hayes getting involved

794
00:54:24.880 --> 00:54:30.519
in this match one way or another, whether it's trying to help out Trick

795
00:54:30.599 --> 00:54:32.639
and costing the match or he turns
on Trick and costing the match. So

796
00:54:32.679 --> 00:54:37.320
both of us taking Elia Dragon Off
to retain the NXC Championship, and we

797
00:54:37.360 --> 00:54:42.519
will recap and review this nx Vengees
State pay per view on the next edition

798
00:54:42.559 --> 00:54:45.559
of SRT on February eighth. With
that said, let's close up shop on

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this week's edition of srt you and
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s RTU Jeff, and for Doctor
Trey Franklin at d Doctor Trey and of

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course don't forget to follow a show
on X at SRTU podcast. With that

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being said, what is going on
in the one for world of Doctor Trey

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Franklin this week? Well, like
Jeff said, you can follow me on

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can find me on Instagram and Facebook Doctor

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Trey Franklin. When you're on Facebook, be sure check out Rocket Stay Championship

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Wrestling is they have a big show
coming up this Saturday, and Spartan Championship

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Wrestley, the two shows I work
with in the state. You can also

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check out pictures and videos for both
those shows. By the way, we

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didn't recap Samy's picks. By the
way, Sammy Franklin picked two people to

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win the Rubble who did not even
get in the Rumble. So yeah,

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Brock Lesner, Nicky Cross, Yeah
continues Yep, no, yeah, I

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can't believe Nikki Cross and make the
rumbo man. I completely forgot that because

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that would have been a slam dunk
that you would have been in it.

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Obviously, the stuff with Brock that
took place last week clearly changed directions.

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Back in the old Wheelhouse Bower Show
days that tray, we would call this

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the touch of duty, and that's
what it sounds like young Sammy Franklin has

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when it comes to picking the Royal
Rumble winners each year, because they clearly

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don't even make the match. Fun
show, good way to start kicking off

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the road to WrestleMania forty. We'll
have a lot more on the WrestleMania forty

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card as we move forward again,
we will recap interview NXDVENG should say and

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if anything else that goes on in
the world professional wrestling, like because at

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Jo Kata effective today is a free
agent. We were recording this just before

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his free agency runs out in New
Japan and who knows by the time this

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show drops, maybe he's already signed. Maybe a week from now we talk

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about where he is signed. So
a lot of fun times going on the

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world Professional Wrestling until next week for
Doctor Trey Franklin. I'm Jeff Pack.

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