SummerSlam 2026 Predictions, AEW Redemption Fallout & Wrestling’s Ticket Crisis | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #859 – 7/30/26

0:00 It's still real to be damaged in it! [Music] Welcome everybody! Welcome to this week's "The Sanusto Rillow Show" episode of "Anner 59" for July 30th, 2026. This is your AW in redemption recap and WWE Summer Slam weekend for the preview and predictions edition of SRTU. I am one half of the show "I am Jeff Pack" joined every single week my coach the one on the Dr. Trey Franklin. Dr. Trey, do you miss the biggest party in the summer tagline, my friend?

0:46 Oh, is that the one that you have to playboy mansion in the grotto? Oh, no, the wrestling one, yes. I don't know if you play the online game, WWE Supercar, but they do like... It's basically a car gathering game similar to Pokemon, but for wrestling cars and stuff like that. The car is inter- I would say. But the background for the Summer Slam 26 is kind of that old throwback, Miami Summer Slam kind of vibe to it. It's like you said that and it is that you're reminding of like, "Yeah, nobody's calling it the biggest party of the summer." But then again, nobody is calling it...

1:27 What did Jeremy Piven call Summer Slam? Summer Fest, Summer Fest. Yeah, I haven't heard Summer Fest this year. I always feel like we hit that reference. Every time we talk about Summer Slam, one of us hits it. And at some point I feel like people are going to be old and have no idea what we're talking about. But back in the days of the RAW guest Ulster, that was what Jeremy Piven, who was he promoting, Otterosh? Was it the movie? Otterosh, the movie? He was pro, there was a movie he was in... About used car salesmen. That makes sense for him. And it was like... He was like the slimy used car salesman that had a heart of gold. Yeah, it's like the classic Christmas Carol, but just a car salesman.

2:10 So yeah, he called it Summer Fest and a long time fans continue to reference that at least. Every time around Summer Slam. A big weekend, obviously for professional wrestling, big week for professional wrestling. Coming off of the AW paper view, headed into the WEPLA, everything that was sandwiched in between. To hype up Summer Slam, to recap and decompress from AW Redemption. Let's start here, Dr. Terry, with AW Redemption recap. It was this past Sunday from the Bell Center in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The results we have the conglomeration, defeating a lethal twist to retain the AW World Trio's championship. They obviously ended up dropping that to the demand this past Wednesday on Dynamite. Speedball Mike Bailey defeats Jack Perry, Commander of the Beast Mordos, Nick Wayne, and El Clone in a six-way ladder match to earn an AW International Championship opportunity, which will be this Wednesday at Grand Slam Mexico on Dynamite.

3:00 The Young Bucks defeat Will Ospreay and John Moxley, Kyle Fletcher retains the AW International Championship against Bandino, the dogs, David Finley and Clark Honors defeat the Bag-Bang-Gang of Jay White and Juice Robinson in a double chain match. My world defeats the Carl Sheeted to win the TBS Championship, Cope and Kade to defeat Pock and Claudio Cassing, only to retain the AW World Tag Team Championship. The pain maker Chris Jericho defeats the Mosul Champion and holds Bard Match, Andre El-Elo defeats Mark Davis to win the AW National Championship, Will Nightingale defeats Teclat to win the AW Women's World Championship, and Cade Omega defeats Kevin I and the main event to retain the AW World Championship. Some talking points here, Dr. Trey coming out of redemption. Will Ospreay finally breaks away from the Death Writers, but Cade Omega still does not trust him. That was a great close for redemption this past Sunday, and then obviously what we saw with Wednesday, a great back and forth between Will Ospreay and Cade Omega to set up their match for all in as we are now full steam ahead.

3:57 What did you think of the last two seconds there for Will Ospreay and Cade Omega coming from redemption, as well as the stuff that we saw in Dynamite, whether it be the Ospreay interactions with the Death Writers or Ospreay interacting with Kenny Omega? I mean, I love the closer redemption, you know, moxley bringing out the bag again, and this is what I loved this segment because it harped back to the Bryan Daniels and stuff, and it gave Ospreay a chance to break away. So I like that. It also, once again, kind of clearly defines the Death Writers as he owes again and not that. Well, John's kind of a good guy, but Pox a bad guy, you know, it once again kind of gives those clear defined roles, which most old people like me like to have.

4:40 I still don't like shades of gray. The interaction on Dynamite, I thought was really good with Ospreay and Kenny going back and forth into slaps from Kenny into Ospreay fired up. Like all that to me once again was really good. Plus it sets the line of Omega and Ospreay is like professional rivals and one guy just wanting to be better. So you don't need the deep storyline unless you want to dig into it, but it also sets the background of like what's moxley's going to roll going to be in this as well because this now by proxy has put him back into the main event title pictures. Well, the only thing I didn't like was Ospreay struggling to fight the plastic bag.

5:28 Yeah, hey, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose some. I liked what happened this past Sunday and on Wednesday. We're recording this before collision. So I don't have anything to add from collision on Thursday. I just will say I would have liked to see in the Death Writers things play out a little bit more closer to all in or maybe take place at all in, but you know, they know the creative better than I do. Dr. Trey maybe getting out of this now makes sense, but you know, that's kind of the issue that I have with AW at times when it comes to the creative is they'll have some really good stuff. And then you they like abort the mission like way too early. And that's what I felt like here with Ospreay and the Death Writers. Yeah, I mean, I could have easily seen them still play up the moxley influence all the way to London. And then if Ospreay loses, hey, it's a natural progression for him to kind of like from moxley to say you failed us. Lava blot if Ospreay wins, you know, mox wants a shot. You know, there's a natural tie into it kind of aborting this early, just kind of makes you feel like it doesn't give it a clear path, which maybe for some folks like we having that ambiguity to the situation is great, but not that I want to know the story progression, but I kind of want to see a path to where it's going so to speak. Maybe this is a situation, Dr. Trey, where it leads to Ospreay like siding with the the the death writers again. Like I think that's

7:06 a possibility in this entire thing. Like that wouldn't surprise me. I do think to myself like that may not be the direction they want to go because you know, Ospreay has got to be the hometown boy in London, England and there's enough of that type of reaction than they don't really need to play out the death writers thing, but I do think that the window is cracked open here for a reunion of sorts between Ospreay and the death writers. Anything it could always be a swirp. I mean, you could always add, I mean, the wrestler, but it could always be a swirp. Yeah, that break up, you know, was actually a ploy for Ospreay to use the death writers to win and London and Ospreay could easily say, look, I was sincere in what I did at redemption, but the way Kenny acted towards me made me realize John was right all along. And then you can kind of play back into that. I just have this feeling that Ospreay defeats Omega at all and Omega goes away for a little bit and we get Ospreay moxly feud for like the last couple of months of 2026. That's what it just feels like to me is pass the end of the torch.

8:16 Omega goes away for a little bit, takes some time off, whatever. And that's what we get with Will Ospreay. Other talking points that came out of redemption, Dr. Trey did Kevin Knight come out of the main roster, excuse me, the main event looking like a bigger star. He pushed Omega throughout the match, survived several major attacks and nearly stole the championship after handing Crash Landing onto the TNT title. Omega ultimately retained with the one wing in Angel, but the discussion is whether night was elevated or overshadowed by the post-match Ospreay angle. What do you think? Did Kevin Knight come out of the main event looking like a bigger star? In ring, yes, with the surrounding storyline. No, because you kind of blew up his spot with the post-match angle. You know, I would have been perfectly fine with like Kenny retaining, slowly walking back to ring, just kind of giving Kevin Knight the nod, you know, or saying, "But then he and Knight's a heal and maybe you don't want to elevate him storyline-wise, given everything else we can all end." I think in ring wise, he showed he can hang with Kenny Omega. And that's for me, if I'm looking at that show and this is my talent, that's what I'm looking for the most. Can this guy stand in the ring with Kenny Omega in the main event of the paper view? Physically and technically look the part, we can always add in a storyline later on to make him a bigger star. I just want to make sure the spot isn't too big for the kid, and he did a great job in this. Three championship changes reshaped AW heading in, heading towards

9:49 all in, Willow overcame, Sky Blues interference of Pentechla with the backside, backslide to capture the AW Women's World Championship. Maya World upset her car or she'd on her birthday to capture her first AW Championship. And Roddy won his first AW title by defeating Mark Davis while Willow's victory placed her directly to one of all in's featured matches. Dr. Tre, what do you think of the three championship changes and how will it affect all in here towards the end of the month? I like Willow winning. I don't like how they had her win. I mean, when was the last time you saw something when it titled the backslide? Yeah, it's got to be like the early 90s. Yeah, I like I'll tell my head. I'm like, I'm thinking like was it worth like Texas wrestling or like that's how far back my brain would. I'm like I can't even realize was it a Ricky steamboat match? Like that's how far back my brain wins. I mean, Willow's a big thick girl and to have a big strong thick person win with that type of maneuver kind of lessons the gravity of what they actually are as an in-rate performer. I mean, you can always have Fecla make a mistake to lead into the finisher to put her down. We see that all the time.

11:02 You don't have to reinvent the wheel. So I like the position because Willow and Mercedes have history. You know, and that's what you kind of want on the big stage. The Maya Whirl that just kind of felt like a reward for her doing so well, you know, kind of jumping into the spot in the in the own cup tournament. I'm just I watched that six person tag match they had a couple of days ago. I don't get it. I don't see it yet. She's got great energy, but outside of that I don't get it yet. And the on-draw team like I'm just happy for Andrade the guys. I don't know about you. He feels like a completely different person this time around as opposed to his last WWE Rod in his previous AEW. He just feels fresh. He just he feels almost like Andrade NXT. This is the closest thing we've seen to that since that run. Yeah, I would agree with you Andrade. It definitely seems the closest to the NXT style of Andrade. I think he's a main event level talent and he just hasn't tapped into it. And I think that's in a case because there was failures of both AEW and WWE runs.

12:16 At times you just got to point that to the person themselves and he just seems so. Yeah. He also say I don't make a drop. He also needed a gimmick. He needed a hook. And as crazy as it is, how you know has become that hook to get the audience to buy in there. Yeah, and they're running with this whole real Latino man thing. Yeah, it's just amazing how like if you find the right hook and the right catchphrase at the right time. I mean, it's amazing. I saw it something right there day about Kitt Wilson. How was four months ago? Kitt Wilson was the hottest star in wrestling. And then I was sitting now. He's in the Danhausen. I don't say even Bore tags, but it's kind of like, maybe like guys have something really hot and then you kind of killed it. That's usually an AEW thing with this new on Draughtay. They're like, no, he's hot. Let's run with it and see how far we can go with it.

13:08 And it's fans been great. Yeah, I was going to bring up here that like I think how you know is creeping into top five most annoying taglines. I mean, still what by Steve Austin is, but it will make him a ton of money. So props to on Draughtay for finding something that's sticking. And he definitely is looking like he's rejuvenated and motivated as well. The My World stuff, I mean, I watched the match with Persepity on Don and Mike this past Wednesday. And I'm with you. I mean, I feel awful what happened to her and her family. I thought it was a nice little Cinderella run outside of that inring wise microphone stuff as just a fan watching at home. It's just not, it's not on the same level as some of the others that are in the AEW women's division and props to AEW for trying to build a new star. I don't know. I just don't know if the if the storyline is catching with fans. It's not something that like I'm truly interested in to be honest with you because My World as I've mentioned before on the show since she's had this run own cup all that stuff.

14:10 She was working with high-end and tag teams where they would have no introduction. And it was a big deal when they finally got one on an episode of collision like last summer. And they were basically jobbers for the tag teams. So for her to come out of nowhere and get this title, it's like I would like to see in a little bit of a of a nicer client that would have gotten people behind this. But it is wasn't she so weren't they supposed to be paired up with Mercedes last year? I don't I don't know. I know she was working with a Fina on a H. Or that was the Renegade twins that were supposed to be there's that rumor that Mercedes was going to get her a little faction. Maybe it was the Renegade twins. I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. So I can't remember if it was my and high-end or the Renegade twins. But it almost hey saying this but it almost feels like a little bit of like a favoritism nod to Mercedes because they are pretty good friends like Mercedes like Maya's actually said that Mercedes kind of like you know been a mentor to her since she kind of got on the scene and Mercedes came back. But yeah I is really really hard to play up a real life death situation into a compelling storyline. You've seen it. I think the the failures far outweigh the number I mean Chavo after Eddie died that never really caught fire you know even even the Wyatt 6 after Bray Wyatt. But when you when you link in that real life family stuff it's really hard. The fans will get behind you for a

15:40 little bit but until unless you can't make a genuine connection yourself it's going to die on the line really. Well yeah I mean I think from a storyline and like human aspect people are happy for her. I mean I'm a stag that she's she's getting this shine and all that stuff but when you watch it as a performer it's like I just I don't think it's there yet comparable to from what I'm seeing on the AW brand or you know any of the WWE NXT brand stuff too it's just it's not there yet but happy for yeah it's it's a weird thing to talk about because you kind of understand why they're doing it and you just kind of wish that the talents is what shown through rather than just basically like trying to really get into this storyline. So anyway there we go. AW Redemption this past Sunday from Montreal Quebec Canada. Dr. Trey on last week's show we talked about the Summer Slam ticket sales that were struggling it's a Saturday and Sunday Minnesota Minnesota. It's not just that now it's AW all in London too. Russell Ticks reported last week the 33,504 tickets were distributed with 8,000 and 39 still available in the current 41,543 seat set up for all in London. The complete seating map contains 93,556 seats. There is this viral thing going around that if you have an eligible blue light card I don't know what that is in the in the UK quite honestly I guess it's for emergency services healthcare and public service workers not the general public that's what they hand

17:10 out in the UK. You can get one dollar and 50 cent pound seats for the tickets. AW has also offered standard tickets starting around 31 I keeps 31 pounds and 70 cents and promotions such as summer 26 for 50% off selected seats WWE meanwhile has promoted summer Slam tickets starting at $25 with the Jets code. All in added 1,522 distributed tickets over the three days approximately $500 per day but it remains unclear how much of that increase came from Omega Osprey versus the discounts. And then the question here Dr. Trey is a 40,000 plus at Wembley a respectable recovery or would it still feel disappointing compared with the 53,922 tickets distributed for all in London 2024.

18:03 It's a letdown. I mean obviously like you would want to think that you're basically building off your success of your previous endeavors and you kind of it's business. I mean you and I both work in businesses where like every year like you look back at your last year tolls the company wants to add 10%. Like it's a letdown but then you have to look at the status of the worldwide economy and kind of go hey there you almost I don't say it's it's not a COVID era pass but it's like look every country in the world right now is in some kind of form of financial issues. Like I don't I don't know if you saw this but like living year in Alabama we have we had the Birmingham sellings UFL team. They just put out an announcement today that they're moving the stallions out of Birmingham because we're only drawing like 15,000 people in a 40,000 seat stadium and they're like we just need you guys to get a smaller stadium. It's like what we got to go smaller that makes no sense but that's kind of the you know equation I was watching Cubs Cardinals one of the best maybe second best rivalry in baseball 20,000 people at Bush Stadium. You know it's like that's not normal like usually it's 30,000, 35,000 people so it does kind of show that it's not just wrestling being affected it is kind of worldwide but you would think for London to really only get one big show a year or one big show a two years that they would pull out all the stops to pack the

19:38 arena much like it was in 2023 when they did what 70,000 it went well I think they went over 80,000 right because they were saying they defeat they beat the WrestleMania 3. Yeah so I mean if you're saying you did 80,000 three years ago and now you're only coming in at 40 yeah it's gonna be a disappointment but you also have to look at what the financial status of everybody around there is right now and hey lowering it for you know you said blue light I thought it came more but then again I'm old and that's my you know my go-to for blue light specials but doing something to promote the show among people that normally would be able to come to the show to try to hook a larger fan base in the long run and they actually be beneficial to them maybe a year or two from now when they come back to them. I think this is a representation of obviously ticket sales are way too high I don't think it is reflective fully of the promotion because I think the I think AW is doing really well I think the car they're putting together is strong I would make the same case for WWE as well there may be just a little bit of like stadium fatigue right now and I know for me and my family and and you know I'm not poor by any means but we're cautious with what how we spend our money especially with children right now and there's I just don't think it's economically it's it's a good time for people to be showing out $500 ticket for a two-night show

21:11 and for WWE this weekend or whatever they're calling it costing it and the same for you know AW I'm not going to London with my family to go watch this show I'd rather watch it at home so I do think that's a representation right now of kind of the economics of where they're doing these shows unfortunately and you know overall in the world and and I think WWE and AW need to be mindful of that I think they need to be mindful that their consumer their customers are not willing to shell out that type of money we're seeing inflation in plenty of other different places and this is not to get political or economical or business standpoint but you're seeing that the gas pumps grocery stores what have you so it's just not it's not an easy time for folks and you know I don't know if I'm going to take some of my disposable income doctor train go pay you know 40 40 40 40 50 bucks for you know one ticket for one night and then do it again for the second night it's just it was crazy it was crazy with what things got and you know I think there's a little bit of maybe stadium fatigue as well doctor try yeah because I and you you've did you deal with this more than or things that I do in Alabama says but like like it's not easy to get to a stadium venue like there's traffic there's headaches now you gotta jump 50 60 70 bucks for parking a two night event you're dumping in another because trust me the hotel's know what events are going in town so that hotel that's normally 120 bucks is now 240 so now you're paying the hotel costs on top of it and then it's super crowded so just

22:43 trying to get a nice place to eat while you're there also like there's some like do the benefits outweigh the difficulties for a lot of folks like you and I where it's like yeah we're not poor but we're not you know filthy rich like we have to look at all those dynamics when we're deciding whether or not we want to spend our money to go to a show like for for summer slam like if I could go to Minnesota would I go probably not because I know it's traveling downtown Minnesota trying to get to the stadium all of that stuff is a huge headache the cost is there I can stay home and watch it in the comfort mount home get the food I want if I need to get up and leave and go do something else I can do it like it's just easier in that experience now WrestleMania comes to Nashville yeah I'll probably put all the stuff for Nashville but to do something you know four or five states away or across the pond as people like to say it just the juice is not worth the squeeze absolutely not absolutely not so it's just weird times right now for for wrestling shows take it wise and hopefully some of both companies really take taking to account with how people are spending their money right now uh dr. Tray there's some pressure coordinate reports on Nikon and triple H that may be looming here and we'll rest in entertainment the rest of the news letter reports that 2028 could become a major checkpoint if WWE's ratings remain weak TKO leadership including Mark Shapiro may begin applying greater pressure to Nikon and triple H Paul Leveck J.F. U. Morgan

24:17 reportedly considers that fan dissatisfaction worth monitoring but not yet a structural business problem premium live event viewing appears to be growing while raw ratings are declining year over year our traditional television ratings so the proper measuring stick when WWE's audience is increasingly divided across broadcast television Netflix ESPN and other platforms the larger concern is whether online dissatisfaction eventually becomes lower viewership we could ticket demand declining merchandise sales or subscription at churn i think the big question here dr. Tray does triple H need to change WWE's creative direction now or are the companies revenue and premium live event numbers strong enough to stay the course i think for me if i was running a business you gotta look at revenue and not just you have to also factor in the cost the increase cost of it dear god this is turning into a business podcast it is but when you're looking at like the cost of inflation you know we've talked about years before they're like this was the biggest gate ever well yeah you're charging three times as much for a ticket as you were 10 years ago so if you get if you get half the audience you're making more money for me it would be like it would be buy rates it would be uh netflix contract viewership on raw and you see how many eyeballs are getting on it you can see it on the on the PLEs you can see it in uh amount of merchandise sold and may not be the actual revenue numbers but like hey how many shirts is Dan houses selling right now versus what

25:50 Cody was selling two years ago are those numbers comparable or are those numbers way down like that those are the metrics i would kind of look at uh before you look at viewership because of your ship we've been bitching about viewership since streaming era and all that stuff started coming into play because you know hbo max does not give out viewership numbers uh peacock did not give out how many viewers there really was and then there's always that delayed reviewers like yeah we can see how many people are tuning in live but we're not we don't really know how many people are watching it on the replay on the backside so you the numbers are going to be skewed because the viewing habits are so different so but you can track it on the metrics of like items shipped or items sold or ticket sold or things like that you can still track it that way um because that will be a much more key indicator of how well you're probably connected uh and then here next topic dr. trade to discuss as uh things have been looking bleak and back to back i think there was a bright spot moment this past Tuesday night when grace and waller cut his own little pipe bomb promo to open up NXT this week waller made a surprise NXT return and admitted that the previous two years of his career had been an embarrassment immediately presenting this as a personal reset uh he attacked awesome theory as the weak link of eight down down under described his time alongside the new day as a comedy role that was killing his career waller called nxc men's division softening a place in arguing that the women were out performing them and that very few men were ready for the main roster he ignored producers ordered a

27:20 wrap up challenge on michael's to stop him and target at nxc champion Tony de angelo and newcomer the former mike santa and now known as cruise montana did one promo instantly restore waller's credibility and should this become a permanent nxc run built around an eventual championship match does one promo changes correct is no because honestly he was cutting a lot of i don't want to say shoot style promos during his first xt run but he was much more off the cuff than what he was when he got the main roster i if the promos great but he loses his first four matches does the promo matter um you know the old ww thing was always like wins and losses don't matter but credibility does you can be allowed mouth but if you lose every single match nobody's going to take you seriously this you almost have to be a completely different version of yourself is i think that is still yet to be determined where they go the grace of the waller but i mean you and i like i think he even said in that promo like he felt like there was always something missing i've said the same thing about grace of all and i athletically charisma wise he's got all those rules his presentation there's always something out of his the baggy shorts or what like i don't know if he looked like he was auditioning for a role in white men can't jump to i don't know what it was but i always feel like the presentation of grace and waller there's always something missing uh but he has all the other tools it's just can you find the right fit for those tools to really work

28:55 hey you kind of forget how much of a silver tongue he has on the microphone he's he kind of great promo um i do think that this could be a a life changing promo for him um and what he does from this point forward is going to be extremely telling him what doubta belief does with him and with how the fans embrace him is going to be very telling he's always had that in him he's always had that on an xc he's always had that on ron smack down the the the stuff with eight down down under i i really didn't dislike it at all the stuff of the new day was kind of like a throw away and i thought it was very very disrespectful that he was shunned away and austin theory got the shine on the vision because i think grace and waller's just as talented like i think he would have been great for the vision pairing up with logan paul austin theory brown breaker bronzer re what have you um so he gets that reset in xc and and sometimes we we see this reset work in an xc like fin baler and then there are times dr. tray that this reset does not work we've seen that with a polo cruise we've seen that with baron corbin it led to releases for both those guys one who is now back in on the summer slam card somehow um so i mean this is this is across from moment but for the first night back in nxt uh this is a a huge step forward and we will see where things go i i think he's a guy that's marketable i think he's a guy that could be a great heal in do we we i think he's the closest thing to that natural heal that we see from like an mjf i think there's certainly

30:26 comparables there um and i'm happy for grace waller i find him entertaining and i find him talented and i hope this is is the right step forward for grace waller as he cut an amazing promo to open up nxt this past Tuesday it's just it's funny how you answered it dr. tray it's like uh no i mean i i knew that was in there i think a lot of people were surprised because they've forgotten but i'm with you like i knew that was in there for grace waller yeah i mean that's what god i'm never sitting in in the beginning it was it was his promo he's a natural on the microphone um what i was gonna say also about the promo is the promo itself like we know that was not a shoe promo like he did not come up some of that stuff was i mean i'm sure that he put his own spin on it but some of the things that he was pointing out also means that yeah wwe does pay attention to your social media wwe does pay attention to their their consumers because a lot of the things he was saying is things that we have seen people post online like oh tony dee got the shot because everybody else was gone like he was the last man in the room so they gave him the belt you know you and i have said you're saying yeah the the women are running laps around the men in nxt and they're run and that comes out so it does show that although we may not always agree with that with wwe does they do pay attention into their consumers because promos like that show they pay attention uh so dr. tray we are sandwiched in between a big uh two shows from a w and summer slam this this week um at the end

32:00 of the month we'll have what i would say is a w's answer to resolmania in all in london um summer slam is the second biggest show of the year for wwe i think wwe in their minds knows or thinks it's comparable uh a one you know like a one b to the one a that is resolmania since it's a two night event a hell of the summer and we've got some really strong men's main events we've got rains and ralands pumpkin roads and omega and osprey and i want to talk a little bit about ranking each one of these these main event matches on the men's side you got Roman rains versus Seth ralands that offers the deepest personal history dating back to the shield ralands wrestle many betrayals and the unresolved 2022 Royal rumble finish cm punk versus Cody roads is a genuine dream match and their first one on one meeting in nearly 18 years we the underspeed wwe championship on the line kennel mega versus will osprey completes their trilogy at wembley stadium with the eight of a world championship and osprey's long-awaited coordination potentially on the line i want to rank all three based on storyline star power championship stakes and expected match quality uh which will be the best match which feels like the bigger spectacle and which outcome is the hardest to predict so three two one how do you see it the way you broke that down is really difficult if i'm going off star power i'm probably going in kody and pop number one if i'm going off storyline it might be set the enrollment and if i'm going off expected in-ring action it might be osprey and omega so it

33:32 is kind of a toss up for me personally the way i'm ranking these right now i have ralands and rains number one just because of the history of their rivalry the expected in-ring action and then i need to go with the fallout of this is going to be which part who's the actual baby face here in this whole thing and where do their characters go from here i got omega and osprey actually at number two because their their rivalry is pretty strong going back to new japan in ringwise they're arguing to the top five in the world and star power wise these are two of their three biggest stars right now so and then i have uh punk and roads coming in at number three because other than personal rivalry and a little the a w story that you can't really allude to uh and punks in ringwork hasn't been fantastic since he came back to w it's been solid above average but not as good as you know he was 15 years ago obviously so i'd have them number three i think for me i would have number three it's a tough it's a tough call i think it's number three is rains ralands two is osprey omega one punk and roads because i think that they're and the way i'm looking at this is the possibilities at the shows themselves and what the fallout is i think the fallout for punk roads could be something special like i think it could be a top storyline we talk about on next week's

35:08 show i think there's a lot of people thinking that potentially something major may happen out of the match i think rains ralands just pushes the bloodline storyline forward and like i said earlier i feel like osprey omega like i just see the torch pass to osprey omega goes away for a little bit osprey goes into a new feud like i don't think this isn't a follow up at all out in chicago and i maybe totally wrong so that's why when i went three rains ralands two osprey omega one punk roads what was your three two one again so i had your i had the wwe matches flipped i had an ome osprey two but i had rains ralands one punk roads three mainly because i don't think we're getting the coat the only reason for me punk and roads would be number one is if i thought we were getting the Cody yields heard i just don't think we're getting the end um they got a shake of tv right they got a shake of tv yeah but i'm more intrigued by what we're not i don't say i'm intrigued it's because there's more moving parts with the bloodline stuff um in the sense of you have the usos and Jacob basically playing heels to li9 solo seco which by the way solo fantastic baby face not in he is he is how far he's gone in the last two and half solo dolo yeah and and roise he's so you have you have the bloodline playing heel in that match romans kind of been the heel in this storyline but then you had to mass square garden thing where he's kind of the baby face i i just and then what do

36:42 you do is Seth after this you know this this Seth turn heel the Seth rejoining the vision like where does that go like i'm just the the there's so many branches to what that has maybe more so than Cody and punk um that's just why maybe and then you know we saw it you know last Friday night rains gets the chair to emulate you know the shield turn from you know a decade ago because he's still harping on that and it's sets the one guy that's been the randy savage to his whole kogan you know this entire run so i think that's why i have that i think i'm more visited in rolleys rain that i am punk and Cody right now no no it's it's fair enough i it's going to be interesting you know a month from now early september where we sit with both those show both the all three of those matches i will say like the fact that we are having this conversation about these three main event matches also tells you how far a w's come this year yeah because like it's i mean when i'm splitting these it's really close like i can't if you if you had said omega osprey one Jeff i couldn't argue with i i really couldn't it's just personal preference for these three i mean that's how close all three of these matches are heading into the next couple weeks yeah and i and i would argue that i think the top matches that they've announced so far for all in are on the level plain field as summer slam as well so you know i think there's been some ground loss by wwe and some ground gained by w and

38:15 that's just a good thing for professional wrestling fans it's just funny economically going on to the earlier parts of the show where it's like even with all that and and there are obviously strong points on both shows and there's points on both shows where there's just fresh frustration it's like fans are still not they're like fatigued a little bit about all these stadium shows speaking of stadium show dr. tray let's preview and predict wwe summer slam it's a saturday and sunday from us bank stadium in miniapolis minnesota home with a minnesota viking to have never won a super bowl uh... sorslam streams at six p.m. eastern on both nights that doesn't sound like a packer's fan right with six matches scheduled if they didn't know you were a packer fan before they do not with six matches scheduled for saturday and six for sunday saturday is headlined by cm punk defending against kody roads and the third broccalizer oba femi match this time inside hell in a cell sunday is headlined by roman rains defending against saith wrongs along with the latter match to crown an interim doubly women's champion uh... we've got plenty of great stuff here dr. tray let's look at the saturday show august first and give our predictions let's start with the bell twins and page taking on fatal influence uh... in a six woman tag team match i'll start first i'm going to take the bell twins and page in this one dr. tray yeah i'm taking the bell twins and page as well because that's how you get the bell is back after the tag belt and you can kind of move page off on to something else and give her some rest so yeah i'm taking the bell twins the bell twins and page as well uh... next night is elay night solosako and rois kis taking on the

39:51 bloodline jg of hot two and the usos dr. tray who do you like in this one i'm taking solo dolo elay night and rois kis in this one i think the baby face is kind of need a win not so much they need a win but also you can still play into the disengent of jacob and j uh... and kind of go from there so i'm taking uh... the the good guys in solo dolo and is nice red suit to get the win uh... i'm with you i think i well i'm with you in the sense that uh... the the baby face need a win however i am taking the bloodline jg of hot two and the usos i think there's a turn in this match and i think the turn is coming from rois kis i think rois kis a lines with the bloodline and joins up with them despite the new bloodline t-shirt i think everybody feels like solos get a turn on them but you're seeing reports that the the creatives like shocked at how much the baby face run for solos going over it was supposed to be very they said it was supposed to be very short which tells me that something was planned so i'm going to take jg of hot two and the usos in this one uh... next match is gun through take it on nick all this um props to nick all this magnus whatever you want to call him for getting back in the ring i hope he shows out i really do there was a great interview we had with christian volet where he got emotional talking about having this opportunity in this match so i really hope he shows out for for himself um but with that said you can't bet against got there i'm taking got through in this one how do you have the gm of smacked down pin the guy who ended the career of johnson yeah like i

41:23 this is one of these like yeah i hope nick all like i was a big magnus fan back in tn a days i love nick all this one the nicest guys and wrestling but yeah like i just i hope he gets a strong performance but booking wise gun there has to win this match next match is for the women's world championship and i got a met dr tram disappointed the bill for this one it's live morgan defending against eo sky who do you like in this one yeah like lit i don't know about you it just and it's it's just it's odd like i haven't really enjoyed it that much i'm gonna take eo and mainly i'm picking eo because they put the ic title on ruck out and i just feel like somebody's gonna get somebody in the judgment day women's size gonna get pissed off and cost to live the match so i'm taking eo sky to win the raw women's cheek uh i'm gonna take live morgan to retain i think she's having a women's wrestler of the year type year like eo had uh previous years um dr tre live has been the champion since russ almania over 100 days now how many title offenses do you think she's had with that championship one she has had none this seven Saturday will be the first one that's not good booking no it's really not and that's and that's why it's like if you're not gonna have her defend the title or not have a little guy like john like a strong champion put the belt on eo have rock sand cost or the match then you can have live in rock sand and do eo with somebody else just to kind of break up the monotony of the blood

42:53 of the judgment day a little bit so yeah i knew it was law i couldn't remember if she actually had wrestled um liar up for the title or not like after that Stephanie ruck el match so i couldn't remember next match here is how on a cell it's oba femey taking on Brock Lesnar dr tre i'm taking to open this one this is reminiscent to me the Cody Rhodes Brock stuff i mean it only it like Brock's going away for a little bit put over oba hell on a cell in his hometown uh they said Brock is not retire he may wrestle again and the next time we may see him will be in early 2027 following this one so you know pass the torch let'll run with it and let his build continue on in the rest of 2026 i don't know how you Jeff i want to even though you're a packer fan i kind of want to see Brock wear his like in jersey to the ring number 69 i pay now yeah i want to see if he's i want to see if he's still got that line around i'm with you i'm taking oba oba has shown if not only can can the guy win a king or any tournament can he hang he's showing that he can he can headline a uh uh uh you know one b pay per view with a guy like Brock Lesnar i mean he's he's held his own in this feud so i'm taking oba as well uh and then finally in the main event here you've got CM Punk defending the end speed of WWE championship against Cody Rhodes dr. Trey who do you like in this one i'm this hard i'm gonna take punk just because you just put the belt on him so to me that means you had

44:25 a storyline in mind you had a path in mind so i'm gonna take punk retaining uh as summer slam i don't know where the storyline go i don't know i don't think you turn Cody heel here i think you cycle sammy back up to challenge punk so uh i'm taking i'm taking punk to retain i'm gonna take punk to retain as well i don't feel like this is 1998 where it just goes person to person every month where it would go from Cody to sammy to punk to Cody in like almost a one month span so i'm with you i i'm in agreement with all your thoughts there that you you put this title on punk for a reason and the reports after punk won the championship was the expectation is he'll have a pretty decent run with it that universal NBC universal wanted him back on television we'll have a chance with the championship and here we are so i'm taking CM Punk as well to retain the end speed of WWE championship and then that takes us to night two on august the second this sunday dr. Trey you have trick Williams defending against baron corporate for the united states championship i hope they push this a little bit more on smack down this friday because basically it's been some stuff that you just see on um television like excuse me on social media after the show is over or brief run and uh with that said i don't think you bring baron carbon back to to lose so i'm gonna take baron corp and to shock the world here and become united states champion yeah i went back and forth on this one because i mean trick just got the belt to wrestle mania so he's only had the belt for about a hundred as long as lives had her belt he's actually has some defenses um but i'm gonna

45:57 take baron corp and because i want to trick and car mellow get back i want to trick mellow get back together so i want to take baron corp and and maybe because little yaddy turns and little yaddy sides of baron corp and we get happy corp and i don't know i don't know i i'm just taking baron corp and here um yeah so there you go both of us taking baron corp and um next match is dan house versus dominant mysterious and i can't believe i'm saying this uh human money is on a pull match winner take all dr. trahoody lacking this one okay so at least human monies is better than viagra on a pull which i have seen done and judy bag well on a pull so at least it's human monies on a pull i don't know how long the dan house thing runs but i don't think it ends here so i'm gonna take dan house and i just hate that dom was the biggest heal in wrestling six months ago and now he's in a human monies on the back which i love dan you know you know i love dan house yes i just don't like sacrificing dominant to dan house and maybe literally man like maybe dom gets sacrificed and gets executed and they have to cut his hair and shave off his muscles i just love that too baby face dom i just love that we keep saying human monies on a pull match it's like w-999 or 2000-2001 i guess i'm taking it no no no wait wait wait wait wait wait go i don't know i don't know you have not used it so you just say tell me you have not said human monies though at least once in every day life

47:27 since that came or i haven't yet no i haven't really yeah i do it with sammy all time samuel so you may you may be you may be ahead you may be ahead of me now i'll tell you guys a funny story at the end of the show okay right on uh next match here is we both take a dan house and next match is sammy's aim versus fin baller for uh the number one container of the nsb wwe championship um dr. tr i'm taking fin ball and this one i think it's fin is pushing the ten-year stuff it's been ten years since he won the championship and i think it's more entertaining with sammy's current character that he lose this match okay you know i think you got me to change my mind sammy loses because somebody else screws up and samy blames them so fin wins i can't argue it because we you saw the the the fin cm punk match from irland uh fin actually i think i'm chris family shows that that was his fate maybe his favorite or second favorite match he's had in his entire w w run uh they had great chemistry so and that gives you maybe punk wins to get a couple title defenses on his belt before the next big things uh comes up into play so you change my mind Jeff i'm gonna take fin baller as well next match is pentadefending intercontinental championship against chad gable dr. tr i who do you like uh i i'm gonna take chad gable here it's in minnesota you're on the heels of arguably his break up excuse me break up performance in triple a um i just don't know if chad stays baby face oh wow

49:00 if there's something there's something about his smile that is so dishinguous at times he's great as a baby face he's just better as a heal but i i see chad gable winning his first intercontinental title at summer slender i i think he stays baby face right now i think uh the nickelback style theme song that he has and clapping doing the skull chance and smiling and all that stuff is what they want to do and i'm i agree with you i'm with everything else i think miniapolis minnesota has home down all that stuff i think that is the spot for when the i see title so i'm happy for chad gable way way over do long overdue that this is he's in the spot it'll be his first singles championship which is just absurd and then the five woman ladder match for the inner drum WWE women's championship something we've never seen WWE do before you got Tiffany strad and jade carcass all the player Chelsea green and two we determined no idea who the tbd is yet i think the last time they did an interim champion was like when punk left in money after money the bank 2011 and they had that little tournament rame is terrier won the championship then he dropped in the same night on rod john cna so that it was c numbers as punk it's summer of 2011 and punk return that night i think before that the last time must have been like razor and shaw michael's 94 i see championship so very few times that we see the inner interim title thrown around there uh with that said i think this is one of those summer slam moments after the people are going to be talking about i'm going with Chelsea green to win the interim w e women's championship yeah i was thinking about this earlier i was like man like you know you

50:30 could you could have jade or charlotte win to set up a match between them at the next pay review which is what they were trying to do for summer slam anyway um Tiffany strad and it's from mini appalice she's from minnesota like you can't have every minnesota person lose in minnesota but we picked chaggable so that takes to Tiffany off the page i like the Chelsea pick um because of the backlash wb kind of got from you know the uh unreal program uh so i'm with you like i i i'm gonna take i'm going instead of going with my logic i'm gonna go to my heart i really want to see Chelsea wins i would take Chelsea's world there you go both of us taking Chelsea green uh then that takes us in the mid event here roman reigns defends the world of weight championship against sathra on stop to try who do you like in this one i'm taking roman like it's just one of those things it feels like five years ago it's just hard like it's hard to pick against roman especially when the guy he's wrestling doesn't need the title um you know this is a i mean set the top guy says a hall of favor he doesn't need to beat roman i i still kind of feel like whoever beats roman for this title is somebody who either needs it or we're watching them into the next stratosphere with like a lot of Cody Rhodes you know from a couple years ago i'm i'm taking roman reigns to retain i'm with you i like your logic i like your theory behind it as well i'm gonna take roman reigns to retain i think the next person that

52:02 deframed him is oboe feme and i don't think that's happening until april and saudi rapian next year unless the rock decide he wants to come out and wrestle again um so you know we could see that happening again with like mark shepero and tk i'll really screw up one more main event storyline heading in wrestle mania so you're gonna have to trade that is our preview and predictions for w e summer sand we obviously recap interview the show on next week's edition of s r t u uh with that said let's get a couple plugs and sponsors out of the way you could download the show at patreon.com/srt podcast and there's still where that show feed on apple spotify wherever you download this podcast don't forget to rate review and subscribe you could follow us individually on x for myself at srt ujf and for dr. franklid at d dr. tre and of course don't forget the follow show on x at srt podcast with that being said what is going on the wonderful world of dr. franklin this week well like jeff said you can follow me on x at the dr. tre you can find me on facebook and instagram dr. tre franklin when you're on facebook go check out rock n se jb she's wrestling uh big show coming up this Saturday night so we're competing against summer fest i mean summer slam we're competing against them Saturday night uh you can check out rock n se jb youtube page rock n se jb jb on youtube with the funny story before we wrap up so last show one of our young wrestlers uh at rock n se jb named a john comes out with one of those uh money guns you know the ones you pull the trigger the money shoots out he's gone and done the young bucks thing and got all the money made with his face on it

53:34 so he runs out there he's shooting the gun off and the money is just scatting everywhere sammy franklin runs up and grabs two of these bills these are million dollar bills so for the last three weeks or two weeks sammy franklin has been going around to un everybody he's a millionaire and so now that's the right joke is hey so now the right joke is how you know how you know how much money you got how much human monies do you have in your bank and he'll tell you he has two million dollars in his in his biggie bank because he got it from wrestling hey there you go i think the last time a million bucks was given away vincex man had a stage fall on them so the more you know folks the more you know congratulations to young sammy franklin i'm becoming a uh not only millionaire but two millionaire whatever you want to do multi-millionaire so congratulations young sammy franklin uh with that said we will close up shop and say goodbye to all of you enjoy this weekend's summer slam enjoy summer fast whatever you are watching joy collision tonight depending on whenever you're downloading this podcast and uh enjoy your weekend it's it's august it's let's enjoy the summer while we can't folks before you know we'll be trapped inside again with cold weather's some places gets now some places get cold nasty weather like dr. tre so enjoy the weekend thank you for downloading thank you for making this part of your week and for your dr. tre Franklin i am Jeff Beck this has been this terrible show