WWE Draft Preview & AEW Dynasty Recap | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #741 – 4/25/24

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It's still emited. We welcome everybody. Welcome to this week's edition The Star

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Realta Show. Episomber seven forty one
for April twenty fifth, twenty twenty four.

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Welcome to your aw Dynasty recap and
review edition of ass rt You.

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I am one alf of the show. I am Jeff Peck joined. Typically

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every single week my cost you want
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Trey is unfortunately not here this week. My friends, doctor Trey getting tied

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up with his nine to five or
the thing that pays the bills. Unfortunately

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that is not SRTU. We all
wish it was. If you'd like to

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help make that happen us know at
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this is one of the rare occurrences
of the year where it's a solo show.

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I always kind of make fun of
this one because it's like what I

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grew up on in the Northeast WFAN
sports radio, where Mike Francesa would just

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talk into the microphone by himself for
four to five hours of the day after

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Matt dog Russo left him, shared
his thoughts, took some calls. The

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only difference here is I'm not taking
calls. Unfortunately, it's just strictly my

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thoughts, which is, you know, I'm gonna miss my man, doctor

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Trey Franklin. I wish he was
here talking to me W Dynasty, talking

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to we draft. But we will
move forward here without the very own doctor

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Trey Franklin here. So we will
recap review AW Dynasty. We will take

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a look at W's draft that is
beginning Friday night and carrying over to Monday.

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What we would like to see or
what I would like to see I

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should say coming up here with the
twenty twenty four we draft and more,

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we'll try to make the best of
it here. When it's the solo shows,

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they're not the easiest ones to do
in the world, but for everybody

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that downloads this podcast each and every
week, I will certainly do my best

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to make sure my voice isn't give
out and at some point, uh,

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you know, I just keep it
moving, I guess as best I can

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without like losing my voice here and
wanting to take a breath while getting really

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excited talking about professional wrestling. So, beginning with AW Dynasty recap interview,

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we started when it was the restum
A forty recap where kind of just ran

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through the card the results and just
gave some thoughts about the entire card.

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So I will start here with the
pre show matches, that being Trent Bretta

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defeating Matt Siddell, Orange Casside defeating
katzi Ori Shabata excuse me, Orange Casting,

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and catsi Ori Shabada defeating Shane Taylor
and Lee Morio already a Bullet Club

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Gold defeating the Acclaim to win the
AW Trios titles and retaining their ROH Trios

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six Man titles to unify the Trios
Championships. Those all took place on the

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pre show. The main card,
you Kaziko Okada defeating Pak to retain the

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AW Continental Championship. You had the
House of Black defeating Adam Copeland, Eddie

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Kingson, and Mark Prisco in a
trios match. Will A Knightingale defeats Julia

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Hart and a House Rules match to
win the AWTBS Championship. Roger Strong defeats

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Kyle O'Reilly to retain an AW International
Championship. Chris Jericho defeats Hook in an

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FTW rules match to win the FTW
Championship. Timeless Tony Storm defeats Thunder Rosa

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retaining AW Women's World Championship, Will
Osprey defeats Brian Danielson, The Young Bucks

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defeat FTR in a ladder match to
win the vacant AW World Tag Team Championship,

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and Swerve Strickland defeats Samojo to win
the A World Championship. Doctor Trey

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and I both went ten and zero
at this pay per view, which,

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well, it was an easy,
predictable pay per view, but still really

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fun night. Overall, myvent rating
in my match the night, I gave

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AW Dynasty a four point zero out
of five and my match to night was

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Will Osprey and Brian Danielson. We
have to get Doctor Trey's thoughts on AW

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Dynasty on next week's edition of SRTU. So some matches and moments that I

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wanted to discuss here. So I
watched AW Dynasty the next day, and

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by the time I sat down and
watched it, all the results had been

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spoiled. At that point. To
me, I mean, you can't go

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on like social media now and not
see the results. So one of the

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things that I saw was people absolutely
shitting all over the hook Christierico match,

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and I was really intrigued to check
this out. The build for the feud

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itself wasn't the best. The match, you know, the build for the

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match wasn't the best. The feud
has been kind of okay. And I

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said on the last week's edition the
podcast without t Trim, like, I

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think Jericho is doing this purposely,
and we got confirmation obviously in this past

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week's edition done to that is the
case. The Learning Tree edition of Chris

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Jericho is so corny and so bad
that it may really be good playing out

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on our television. So I watched
this match. Everybody's crapping on it,

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and I thought it was fine for
what it was. It told a story

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and it helped elevate Hook na Loss. I was completely dumbfounded that people were

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like losing their mind online that this
match was awful, terrible, it was

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time for Jericho to retire. I
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I was pleasantly surprised. People aren't
gonna like to hear me say this,

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But it was like a WWE styled
match taking place on the aw card,

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and the purpose of that was a
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Hook and Chris Jericho and putting over
a guy in a losing effort, and

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that's what they accomplished with Hook.
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in aw is very important and especially
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a wrestler as he moves forward.
And I think this was really the first

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time that we saw that actually take
place with Hook, So I was totally

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fine with what it was. If
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with Hook, it's a presentation of
that bat signal that takes place every single

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time he comes out of the ring, comes down to the ring. You

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got Tony Sivanni going it's Hook,
you know it's It's like, that's really

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corny, and I don't think that's
a joke. Chris Jericho during the Learning

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Tree. Stuff is corny purposely and
it's damn good. Number two Will Ospray

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Brian Danielson. It was amazing,
right, I mean that's what we all

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kind of expected. Dare I say
two things that I wish were different here?

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A right? Well, one of
them is of all the match,

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and then the other one is is
kind of like a bold take here probably

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not popular. I thought the match
with Kenoski Tekeushka was from Revolution the month

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prior was better than the one with
Brian Danielson. And that's like picking one

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A and one B between one another, because the Ospbury matches in AW since

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becoming a full fledged member of the
roster have been phenomenal. I thought that

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Takesha one was really good and I
thought it was a step below Danielson,

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and I think the reason for that
is because I expected Well Lost Bray and

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Brian Danielson to put on a hell
of a show on Sunday Night at AW

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Dynasty. So I don't know what
else could exceed my expectations from that one.

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While the match with Kenoski Takeushka I
was excited for, but it didn't

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obviously have the same like excitement level
that I had for Ospray and Danielson taking

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place, being that it was a
dream match. In regards to the match

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itself, I loved everything about the
match. I think it's a match that

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we all talk about in regards to
match of the year conversations at the year

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end. But I did not like
the injury angle at the end. I

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thought that negatively affected the match.
I didn't think it was necessary. I

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get and I'm the guy that's always
like character development, storyline development, blah

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blah blah blah. I wish there
was a little bit more entertainment value with

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aw They focus so much on in
rings blah blah blah blah blah. But

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I feel like in a match that
we all expected would be an amazing performance,

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I don't think that they should have
executed an injury angle to take place

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at the end of the match while
the match was still ongoing. What I

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think would have been really good.
And I hate to say this because I

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never truly like when wrestling does this, especially with the wrestlers that you're as

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a wrestling fan, actually concerned about
their well being and health nearly every time

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they step in the ring, which
is you know, Daniel Brian, Brian

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Danielson checks all those boxes right now. So what I would have done?

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Hit the Tiger Driver ninety one,
hit in blade, he's showing a little

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bit affects Brian Danielson one two,
three, They celebrate Danielson, you know,

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goes to lift up oss Bray's hand
and has that Sean Michaels owen Hart

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nineteen ninety five in Siguri moment where
maybe he grabs his head, goes down

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to a knee a little bit,
doesn't have to be a dramatic like Sean

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Michaels, does not necessarily need to
be does not need to be taken out,

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not necessarily, not at all,
does not need to be taken out

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on a structure like we've seen with
Sean Michaels, and share the injury angle

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postmatch that way, I think when
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of the match itself, especially for
the finis, it does take away a

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little bit from it. Let's have
the match front to back, be amazing

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and then afterwards execute your injury angle. So I felt like it negatively affected

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it, you know, like maybe
five percent of the match, but enough

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where when I thought about it,
compared with the Kenoski to Kashka one,

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I felt like the one with Kenoski
was better from Revolution. And I don't

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think that is going to be opinion
that a lot of people are going to

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say third thing from the show,
and this is going to bleed into some

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of the stuff that we saw from
Dynamite on Wednesday night. So Jack Perry

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is back in aw helps the Young
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I talked about this angle on a
podcast, the Bragman Breakdown, that we'll

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put up on all of our social
media channels. Earlier today with Jackson Bragman.

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I've been on his show before,
a great kid. Really enjoyed the

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interview and you know, all encompassing. Now, we talked about from the

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all out footage segment of the air
on Dynamite two weeks ago, what took

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place on at Dynasty. Then obviously
what took place on on Dynamite. I

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would have just ran an angle where
Jack Perry makes a surprise appearance and costs

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FTR of the match and helps the
Young Bucks leave a little bit of question

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marks in there. Don't don't tease
the scapegoat, don't tease Jack Perry,

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any of this stuff leading into the
pay per view, because we all expected

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that this was going to take place, that Jack Perry was going to show

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up cost them the match. The
reports were out there that he was wrapping

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up with New Japan Pro Wrestling,
and I wanted done it that way.

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People love a good surprise angle.
I think that would have been This was

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an angle we all expected, you
know, that way, he interferes and

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then you tease on Dynamite like,
is Jack Perry aligned with the elite?

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What is the elite tied up with
Jack Perry? And maybe you start the

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show up with Nicholas and Matthew Jackson
going into Tony Khan's office talking with Tony

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Kahan, telling them that they had
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Maybe Tony Khan says something where,
well, I've got some correspondence from Jack

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He texted me and said he wants
to meet in the ring tonight. Should

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I let him in the arena?
Should I take this? And the young

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Bucks are like, yeah, you
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him. I think there's some stuff
that needs to be aired, some grievances,

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and we need to mend some fences
and move forward. And I think

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that would have been a really creative
way to execute the Angle on Dynamite.

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The Angle on Dynamite this past Wednesday, where they take out Tony Kahan,

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I think was long overdue for AW. I think it's something that fans wanted

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to see happen. I know Tony
Kahan did not want to be involved physically

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in any type of wrestling angles,
because he's come out and said that in

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interviews. But I think this is
what fans expected at some point, and

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I think it's really too short ordered
right now to sit there and say,

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what's the longevity of this angle.
I saw people saying that it was like

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the nWo angle for AW and this
could, you know, recharge the brand

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and everything like that, and I
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But what I will say on the
second part of that is I do

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believe an angle like this can recharge
the brand and get people excited and wanting

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to tune in each and every week. Because me as a fan, I

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want to tune into Collision. I
want to tune into Rampage. I want

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to tune into next week's Ynamite when
Kenny Omega returns. I want to see

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more about this angle. As an
NFL fan, I want to see Tony

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Khan wearing the neck brace, and
by the time this podcast has dropped,

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it probably he probably is wearing the
neck brace on the NFL Draft Special.

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People are going to be talking about
that, and that's going to put new

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eyes and a buzz around the AW
product. That probably showcase the angle either

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on ESPN or NFL Network on Thursday
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when a lot of people are watching, people who aren't necessarily wresting fans,

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and they want to check out AW
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They've heard about the Jaguars ownership being
involved, but like, what exactly

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is this all about? So that's
how I kind of would have gone about

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things. I think the angle was
executed very well. We saw it play

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out. I think a couple of
negatives on the entire thing is why would

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the roster come out after the fact
that Tony Khan got laid out and the

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elite you know, exited through the
main entrance way that everybody you know,

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came out thirty seconds later of to
check on Tony Khan? Like where everybody

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in the locker room when that was
going on? Because I was like a

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good five minutes, you know,
I would have had the roster come out

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as the injury the angle was taking
place, and then let the elite run

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through the crowd and people are like
flipping out or explaining a little bit more

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maybe on the commentary side, like
the reason why the roster didn't come out

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right away is because they don't know
what to do. Because the young bucks

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are just as equally their bosses,
as Tony Kahan is as the owner and

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founder of All Lade Wrestling. So
you can't knock AW, will you,

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everybody? You can't just knock AW
for being boring or lacking creative, and

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then when they try something creative completely
knock it. There's always going to be

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tweaks as a wrestling phantom, and
how I would like to see it executed.

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Overall, the angle from Dynasty that
was then carried over to Dynamite I

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thought was well done, and more
importantly, it's showing that AW was trying

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to be entertaining, get a little
bit outside of their comfort zone, outside

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of their box, and have an
angle that has people talking, because I

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think that is something we have desperately
wanted to see out of AW for quite

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some time. In all honesty,
again, how we get there is left

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up to the viewer and the beholder, because obviously I'm poking some holes into

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it, but I don't want to
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what AW has executed over the last
couple of days was the right course of

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action for some entertainment, get some
eyeballs on the brand and make fans like

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me want to tune into Collision and
Rampage and see how the rest of this

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plays out, or tune into Dynamite
next week or this week when Kenny Omega

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returns to see how he responds to
everything going on with the Elite. Also

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from aw Dynasty, I'm very happy
and it's long overdue for Strickling. We

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crown the aw World Champion, doing
so in dominating fashion over Samoa Joe.

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I mean, go back and watch
that match. I don't know if there

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was a time crunch. I always
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pay per views that there is because
the maiden Event matches typically unless they go

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out of their way like they did
with the Revolution to make sure staying Darby

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and the Young Bucks out a lot
of time feels at times to be a

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little bit rushed. Go back to
World's End with samo Joe and MJF and

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I felt the same thing. And
I thought this match was a little bit

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similar to that where the challenger who
later became the Champion dominated the champion in

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a fashion that I did not see
coming, where it was not as a

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competitive match as you would have thought. With that being said, we talked

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about on last week's show, Like
if they didn't execute with Short Strickland becoming

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the world champion, when exactly would
AW have done it? I mean,

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they really backed themselves into a corner. If they left Dynasty and Simojo was

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sold champion Strickland loss unless they ran
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taking a lot of win out of
the sales. This move should have happened

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months ago. I think you could
have made a case that Swert Strickland should

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have been the champion following MJF even
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too far invested into the other stuff
with Samojo and MGF to really do that

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sort. Strickland has been one of
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has cooled off some, but this
opportunity putting the championship on him can definitely

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help raise that meter a little bit
more in the popularity of Swarp Strickland now

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as AW World Champion. With that
said, I'm thinking, you know,

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short term here a little bit long
term. I think all in Wembley this

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year, I always have felt like
would be an opportunity for will Ospray to

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win the AW World Championship. Now
that they've done the title switch with Swerve

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Strickland. I don't know if that's
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more of what they're doing with will
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won the Casino Battle World, which
was a really fun and different match concept

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then we've seen play out in professional
wrestling, and he will now vye for

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the AW International Championship against rogerck Strong
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envision will Ospray winning that match and
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lot can change, but maybe that's
the direction that they go right now,

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and that would be the safe bet
to keep will Ospray away from the AW

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World title and not necessarily vie for
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and take on Swarp Strickland because I
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I feel like Osprey would win the
championship that night, and then that would

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be a very short title reign for
Swart Strickland, which then hurts his star

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as the world champion, and I
don't want to see Swerve be a transitional

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champion like Somemojoe kind of was.
More so Somemojo was a veryt is a

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very established professional wrestler. Swart Strickland
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don't think he should be, especially
in his first world title reign as a

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transition champion, to just get the
title of will Ospray in his home country

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at all. In so we'll see
how that all plays out. I think

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the direction of swart Strickland right now
and the direction of will Osprey are two

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things I am watching specifically coming out
of AW Dynasty, and then the last

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thing from this is AW is proving
that their TV can be a tough watch,

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but their monthly pay per views always
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Revolution was a great show Dynasty.
I gave it four point zero out of

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five. Very good, solid show. I think it's a step below AW

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Revolution, but a great product,
great show front to back. How we

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get there? The build for these
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needs a lot of tweaking, still
needs a lot of looking over, a

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lot of organization, a little bit
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and I think if they're able to
improve that build and then go to

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the pay per view and execute as
well as they have for the last two

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shows. With Revolution and now Dynasty, you will have a product that is

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going back upwards and not on a
downtrend, which is kind of feeling they've

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been over the last couple of years. We know the attendance woes, the

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viewership woes, and the stop start
the certainly the stuff that we all complain

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about when it comes to the creative. AW can right that ship. They

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can right that wrong by making sure
Dynamite, Collision and Rampage always deliver.

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And they have a purpose. They
have a build, there's a vision,

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there's an organization, there's a structure, there's a foundation around it that gets

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the fans excited to then go and
buy the pay per view and then watch

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the match itself take place, because
we got to know why person A is

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wanting to fight person B and why
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whether there's a title involved or not. So very basic fundamentals professional wrestling.

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But we know that AW can deliver
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a matter of improving the television.
And what we saw in this past week's

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edition of Dynamite, I thought it
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and I think it has an opportunity
to if they continue forward with that,

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have a really good build towards double
or nothing, because aw really needs

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it right now. They're getting hitting
the teeth a lot. W is running

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circles around them as a company,
as a promotion, with the revenue,

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with viewership, with creative, I
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playing field for AWWE right now is
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with WWE means more because there is
a better fundamental creative direction behind it rather

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than the stuff that you're seeing AW
Whorich just like these are really good performers.

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I got to put on a great
match for you for the next ten

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to twenty minutes on a show that
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on it, and we'll run for
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out of aw Dynasty. Once again. I gave it a four point zero

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as my event rating match of the
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So I have to get some of
that stuff there from Doctor Trey. The

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pay per view prediction, and we'll
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forty five and eight. Doctor Trey
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that is still pretty tight between he
and I. And that's everything with all

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Elite Wrestling aw Dynasty in the books
here. Feel free to chime in on

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anything that I just discussed there in
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Slash is still Realth show or on
Twitter at SRTU podcasts. The other big

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news here in the world professional wrestling
is obviously starting on Friday night, is

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the w WEE Draft, the twenty
twenty four edition of w Draft. We'll

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give some previeum predictions for that on
the outset here. There are some rules

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already that were announced by WWE,
and this is what I'm talking about when

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it comes to the stuff that I
respect as a viewer, as a professional

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wrestling fan, that they have rules
for the draft. There's a way to

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understand it before going into it,
and sometimes they did that with a draft,

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and most of the times they did
not during the vincik Man era of

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the creative process of worldwrest Entertainment.
The rules are as follows. There are

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going to be four rounds sixteen total
picks on this Friday's edition of SmackDown.

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On Monday's Raw, there will be
six rounds twenty four total picks. I

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love this part right here. Champions
on each brand are protected. So it's

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not like Damian Praise and Cody Rhoads
can switch, or the women's champions can

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switch. They are staying on SmackDown. They are staying on Raw. The

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women's tag team champions are eligible.
SmackDown picks first on Friday, Raw picks

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first on Monday, and then I
like this right, a roster's lock on

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Monday five six. So there are
rules, there are guidelines. These are

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things that we as a fan already
going into Friday's edition of SmackDown when the

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draft begins, can get our heads
around and understand. Okay, so is

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a town down under eligible to go
to Raw? Now? I mean,

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like, what are we doing here? Sidebar? All of this being that

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the champions are on each brand are
protected, and I saw this recently play

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out, especially with the tag team
titles being reintroduced, like one is the

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WA Tag Team Championship, the other
is the World Tag Team Championship. I

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would love to see where they name
Raw and SmackDown differently, right. I

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don't want the brands anymore. And
I understand it's been like this for twenty

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two years since they did the brand
axtension in twenty twenty two. I have

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always wanted to see them go and
name one brand. Let's say WWA E

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Raw I was called the WF W
E Raw and like WCW SmackDown, right,

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Like that's the old nostalgia fan of
me. Bring back one of your

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three letter promotions that you have in
your under your hat or your your guys,

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is your umbrella of WW, and
that way it's WW Champion and WCW

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Champion. I think that would be
really cool. I would love to see

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that play out someday. But I
think the farther and farther we get away

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from this during the Triple H creative
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And I think in w's mind that
they look at as Raw as the

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brand and SmackDown as a brand,
and I think I would just and it

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all is under the W umbrella.
I just would like to see if they're

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going to do that, then you
name the titles the Raw World Champion,

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the Raw Intercontinental Champion, like make
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going to call it a brand,
then make it the brand. Like WWEE

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and the World Championships. It's just
it can be a little bit confusing sometimes

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as to why they named the championships
like that, But I digress overall.

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So with that said, who could
use a change of scenery and a benefit

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from the draft? Well, looking
back at this past weeks WW programming,

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dating back from SmackDown to Raw to
NXT, I think there were some tea

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leaves that were showcased as to where
the change of scenery or the benefiting from

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the draft will be taking place following
Friday and Monday's edition of SmackDown and Raw,

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where the draft is completing. I
think the first one being Ludwig Kaiser,

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So imperium is done, it's it's
over. He took out gian Avanni

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Vinci on Monday's edition of Raw,
gave a little bit of a to Gunther

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and they appear to move on from
their friendship. Dare I say so?

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Ludwig Kaiser could use a change of
scenery to SmackDown, get him farther away

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from Giovanni Vinci, or if you're
going to keep him on Raw, make

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sure he is showcased prominently, which
I feel like WWE will now do moving

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forward. What do you do with
Giovanni Vinci? I don't know. He's

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extremely talented. I think he's somebody
that I could see going back to NXT

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and getting a run, and they
like restart that run that they were trying

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with him when they brought him back
to Imperium two years ago at Clash of

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the Castle. So Louwig Kaiser's definitely
one. I'd like to see Chad Gable

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go to SmackDown. There's been some
talk that he would be paired up with

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the Creed Brothers, but if you
watch Raw this past week, you saw

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that Alpha Academy is still a thing, and I think if the eventual plan

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is for the Creed Brothers to align
with him, I like this direction of

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him belittling in Alpha Academy and trying
to be like more ruling with an iron

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fist and the positive reinforcements that he's
been doing for the last year plus with

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the Alpha Academy angle. I'd also
just like to see Santos Escobar and the

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Gado del Phantasma completely move from SmackDown
to Raw. The entire group get them

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away from the LWO and that angle, because I just think it's played out

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as far as it could go,
and let's see where the Santo stuff goes

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with the Judgment Day moving forward.
I will say that I think Judgment Day

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needs to remain altogether by the way
as well, keep them together. It's

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not time to break them up,
especially with the rear Ripley being injured.

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But I think they were kind of
teasing that a little bit, where Damian

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Priest was kind of turning on the
Judgment Day a little bit and telling Jad

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McDonald, Donal mcmasterio and Monday's Raw
that they need him more than he needs

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them. So maybe the championship has
changed. Damian Prason, you see a

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split take place later on. I
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eventually lead to him feuding with Cody
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I think the Gunther Cody feud is
one that we see play out later

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this year. I would not be
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I think gets followed up at Bash
of Berlin, where the Austrian is a

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little bit closer to the hometown area. That he grew up in damage control

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to Raw, similar to Santa Sisco
on Lake outa del Fantasma. Let's move

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damage Control away from Bailey, move
on from that feud, and let Bailey

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focus on some new stuff. We're
seeing this already. I think the Final

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Testament carrying cross aop, all of
them are going to be going from SmackDown

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to NXT and maybe they'll be the
latest main roster group to take place there

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and we'll see where things go with
the Final Testament going forward. I think

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that's a step back for them,
but it does add a little bit of

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star power to NXC that I think
is going to be completely depleted coming out

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of this draft, which, by
the way, I love if you look

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at the graphics that Tibodywe's doing for
the draft, it was the rule where

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they had the rules and then they
showed like which roster pool would be eligible

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each night, and then at the
bottom, I think left corner it says

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like plus NXC stars are certain NXC
stars are eligible for the draft, or

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something along those lines. So I've
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I think are going to be going
out there. I think Blair Davenport is

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on her way to the main roster. I think her taking the EL to

403
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soul Ruka in that Beach Brawl match
at Spring Break in this past week was

404
00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:41.720
pointing to her being called up to
the main roster. Same with Baron Corban.

405
00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:45.240
He took the ELF from the Lexis
King. I think he's going back

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to Raw and SmackDown at some point
at this draft. I think fight Full

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Select also reported that Elia dragonoff drops
the NX Championship to Trick Williams. He

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is a main roster talent in NXC
that should be on Raw or SmackDown.

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Roxane Perez she retained. I think
this is one of those cases where she

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gets drafted but holds onto the title
and then drops into the next pl while

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kind of still being involved with NXC
here and there, like bron Breaker just

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did with the tag team titles,
and we've seen several times previously. Carmelo

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Hayes. Time for him to get
up there. His feud with Trick Williams

414
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is buying him. He took the
l in the cage match, took the

415
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elt that standon liver. It's time
for him to be up by the main

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roster and then these two groups I'm
very iffy on, but I think the

417
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way that it was played out,
I could see them being called up,

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one being the DiAngelo family all four
members, and then all four members of

419
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Metaphor from NXT. I just feel
like both those groups, both those acts

420
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have run their course in NXT and
it's time for them to be showcased on

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the main roster. So I could
see Blair Davenport, Baron KORbin Ely,

422
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Dragon Off Rox, Dan Perez,
Carmelo Hayes, the d'angela family, and

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Metaphor all being called up from NXT
and going to the main roster following the

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draft on Friday and Monday. Some
folks that could get you can be used

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00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:07.839
a little bit better and go to
NXC. How about Omas and MVP give

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me an Omas Obafemi match in NXC, or maybe Obama being managed by MVP.

427
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Maybe Oba and Omas pair up with
one another. But I'm probably one

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of the rare wrestling fans that actually
likes Omas. We know what he is.

429
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He's not this like grandiose, all
world in ring worker, but he's

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a great character. He's a throwback
character. He's got the height, he's

431
00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:37.319
got the power, and it's just
something that you tend to see in professional

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wrestling every now and again, whether
it be Andre the Giant, the Big

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Show Great Colleague, or now the
next incarnation of Omas So. I could

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see them being utilized better in NXT. I'd like to see Bronson Reid go

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to SmackDown, d I Y go
to SmackDown, feud with a town Down

436
00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:56.680
Hunder. Jimmy Usso I had down
as going to Raw, but I just

437
00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:00.440
read earlier on tonight that he is
injured and will not be all for the

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00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:05.400
show be eligible for the draft.
I think if Naomi ends up on Raw,

439
00:32:05.480 --> 00:32:08.960
then obviously we will see Jimmy USO
there go there and be eventually reunited

440
00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:13.440
what I would believe to be with
Jay us. I think Jay should remain

441
00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:17.960
on Raw, keep the bloodline on
SmackDown, keep those apart from one another

442
00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:22.119
for right now. So wherever Jimmy, wherever Naomi goes, is where Jimmy

443
00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:27.920
USA will end up being that that's
her husband, aj Styles and La Knight

444
00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:30.799
to Raw. I'd like to see
them go over there be showcased a little

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00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:32.599
bit more on the three hour show
than rather than the two hour show on

446
00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:38.279
SmackDown. I think that they are
top level talent and can use that extra

447
00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:45.319
time that they get on Raw to
continue forward their current character development that has

448
00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:49.279
taken place on SmackDown car that over
to Raw. I think Ellae Knight needs

449
00:32:49.319 --> 00:32:52.440
to get away from Cody as well, because Cody's a big babyface. If

450
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:53.680
they want la and Night to be
a big babyface, you gotta put him

451
00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:57.200
on the opposite brand. So I
could see him going to Raw and then

452
00:32:57.279 --> 00:33:01.720
finally Pretty Deadly from SmackDown to Raw. I think they are great talent.

453
00:33:01.839 --> 00:33:06.039
I think there are a talent that
would be probably tag team champions. Under

454
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Vince mcmann's reign of Creative, they've
fallen behind a little bit, but I

455
00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:14.920
still think that Creative doesn't like them. They were involved in a couple of

456
00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:19.839
vignettes like where they previewed the rust
Man forty tag team match, and then

457
00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:23.000
I saw some like internet exclusives where
they were like talking about the matches that

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00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:27.960
were taking place that evening on SmackDown, and I thought that was good and

459
00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:30.720
it made me think, Okay,
so there's still something there that Creative sees

460
00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:35.559
that they enjoy from Pretty Deadly finds
them entertaining, and I could see that

461
00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:38.920
being played out better on Raw and
SmackDown because I think they've they've fallen through

462
00:33:38.920 --> 00:33:43.599
the cracks a little bit. And
that's how I always look at these drafts,

463
00:33:43.640 --> 00:33:46.440
and that's all the changes I'd like
to see change scenery and those who

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00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:53.759
can benefit from the draft. I
always feel like people send wrestlers from SmackDown

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to Raw to expand their character a
little bit because of the time that Raw

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00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:05.400
has versus then what's on SmackDown.
And I think when you see people move

467
00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:09.000
from Raw to SmackDown, it's because
they're a little bit more established and doesn't

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00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:13.800
necessarily have to be featured each week. They don't need two or three segments.

469
00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:15.760
They could get into a segment and
go and they're over with the fan

470
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:22.159
base already, and I think that's
where you see why I want to shift

471
00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:27.079
some people around a little bit.
I think that could be a little bit

472
00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:31.519
conducive to like my ideas of moving
Bronson, Reid and DIY to SmackDown,

473
00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:36.519
because they could get lost in the
shuffle. But I think there's big things

474
00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:39.360
ahead for those those three wrestlers,
and I like to see that play out.

475
00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:42.800
I think with DIY, there was
a little bit of a tease,

476
00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:45.639
maybe of a split with Demuscle CHAMPI
walking out in the match after they lost.

477
00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:50.079
Awesome truth, I would not like
to see that, but it would

478
00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:53.280
not shock me if under Triple H's
creative rain that he feels its time for

479
00:34:53.360 --> 00:35:00.519
Tomuscle Champion Johnny Amganda to be more
successful as single stars rather than showcased as

480
00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:06.840
a tag team right now. So
it'll be a very interesting night. I'm

481
00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:12.760
really excited for its draft season in
the world of the NFL, so perfect

482
00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:16.639
time by WWEE to capitalize on that
and having their WEE Draft taking place during

483
00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:22.159
the NFL Draft weekend on Friday Night, starting on SmackDown and then carry itself

484
00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:27.599
over to Monday's Raw. People who
I think should stay on the brands,

485
00:35:27.599 --> 00:35:30.800
I think Drewmacturrency and Punk should remain
on Raw. It would not shock me

486
00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:37.360
if their few somehow ended up over
on SmackDown. I think Seth Rollins and

487
00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:42.079
should remain un Raw, and I
think Becky Lynch winning the championship basically cemented

488
00:35:42.119 --> 00:35:45.119
that. I think I was in
the camp that I could see Seth Rollins

489
00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:49.559
being called over to SmackDown, but
as we know, they don't like to

490
00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:58.320
split up real life couples and rightfully
so, so I could see that happening

491
00:35:58.360 --> 00:36:01.800
where Seth just stays now where originally
it was looking like maybe he ends up

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00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:06.079
on SmackDown, And that's where I
kind of changed around a little bit with

493
00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:12.159
Ludwig Kaiser going to SmackDown. You
know, reportedly or unreportedly, it's well

494
00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:15.800
known that he's dating Tiffany Stratton.
Stratton, so major hat tip to him

495
00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:21.320
there, and they'd like to see
them get back together as a couple.

496
00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:23.840
So it can't be easy where one's
on Raw and ones on SmackDown and they're

497
00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:28.119
not seeing each other all that much. Putting together on the same brand could

498
00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:30.880
be that way that they do that. So you could see either Tiffany Stratton

499
00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:35.119
going to Raw if Ludwig Kaiser stays, or Little lug Kaiser being moved from

500
00:36:35.239 --> 00:36:39.920
Raw to SmackDown if Tiffany Stratton stays
on SmackDown. I would typically say someone

501
00:36:39.960 --> 00:36:44.559
like Tiffany Stratton and Jade Cargo could
also benefit a move to Raw, but

502
00:36:44.679 --> 00:36:47.519
I think it makes sense that they
stay on SmackDown being that Nick Aldus just

503
00:36:47.800 --> 00:36:52.400
signed them in the last six months, and that's something that I always kind

504
00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:53.719
of like scratched my head a little
bit, and we talked a little bit

505
00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:58.119
on last week's tition of the podcast. Is SmackDown just made like this big

506
00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:04.000
run of signing Nick bron Breaker,
Jade car Gill, Tiffany Stratton rawed the

507
00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:07.000
big signing to see him punk.
It's like, why are you doing these

508
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:12.400
big signings with like three months later
they could be drafted to the opposite brand,

509
00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:15.880
Like that doesn't make much sense to
me. I'd like to see Kevin

510
00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:20.400
Owens, Randy Orton stown SmackDown.
I think you need that. And I

511
00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:23.440
think this is kind of one of
the few times going into a W draft

512
00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:28.880
where I don't think that there needs
to be as many tweaks as we've seen

513
00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:35.079
in the past. I don't think
there's like this huge abundant point of the

514
00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:37.559
roster that needs to move around.
Like I think it's kind of good where

515
00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:42.400
it is right now, especially even
more so with a champion staying like keep

516
00:37:42.519 --> 00:37:46.480
Orton and Owens feuding with Logan Paul
keep that going. Maybe that carries over

517
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:51.039
to them feuding with Atown down under. They don't need to move so I

518
00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:52.719
would not be shocked if when we
sit here for next week's dition to the

519
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:58.960
podcast. If there's not as many
moves in this year's W Draft, then

520
00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:01.639
there would be in years past.
There'll be enough where the so the fans

521
00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:07.079
don't complain online. But again,
I would not be shocked if there's not

522
00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:12.639
as many as we're accustomed to.
I think my only other bugaboo about the

523
00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:17.639
W Draft is I would like to
see NXC beyond equal footing with Ron SmackDown

524
00:38:17.639 --> 00:38:20.920
at the draft, and there were
reports out there that that was the plan

525
00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:23.719
or the belief that that's the direction
they were gonna be going, and unfortunately

526
00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:28.960
that did not play out as it
stands right now prior to even watching the

527
00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:31.280
draft the way that it's at least
being promoted with the W Draft, I

528
00:38:31.320 --> 00:38:36.039
think if they were promoting that would
be Ross SmackDown and NXT all drafting.

529
00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:38.920
Maybe it's a different story. I
would like to see NXC get back to

530
00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:45.280
that twenty nineteen Survivor series run where
it was a formable third brand and being

531
00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:47.960
viewed as a third brand, and
make them on equal footing when it comes

532
00:38:49.039 --> 00:38:53.360
to Ron SmackDown. Funny enough,
they did do to that at one time

533
00:38:53.519 --> 00:39:01.039
with Ross SmackDown and then wwwe's version
of ECW, and I could see that,

534
00:39:01.599 --> 00:39:05.159
you know, I think they should
go back to that. Make NXT

535
00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:09.599
look as the third brand and not
the little brother or little sister that they

536
00:39:09.719 --> 00:39:14.880
tend to make it look like,
or just the quote developmental brand in it

537
00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:16.760
all. I mean, that should
be a goal and a focus in twenty

538
00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:22.760
twenty four they got a new contract
with the CW coming up later this year.

539
00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:27.159
Make them look like they're on equal
footing as Ron's and SmackDown, and

540
00:39:27.199 --> 00:39:30.199
I think that would be a very
exciting time for professional wrestling fans. Of

541
00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:32.599
course, that would also mean taking
them out the WEPC, which is something

542
00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:36.639
I can't see them doing right now, but I do would not be surprised

543
00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:39.519
if they do take NXC on the
road at some point in the near future

544
00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:43.639
here over the next three years and
actually make it a touring brand, because

545
00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:46.760
I think that should be the goal
for WE is is in fact making it

546
00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:52.440
a touring brand at some point.
So with that said, the WE Draft

547
00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:58.039
starts Friday night, depending on when
you're listening to this podcast. Hopefully it's

548
00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:00.239
before the WA Draft, if it's
after one of the draft, hopefully the

549
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:05.639
predictions I just share there are right, and I look like a genius if

550
00:40:05.719 --> 00:40:08.079
not the opposite side of that is
I look like a damn fool and people

551
00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:12.239
are laughing at me and like,
I can't believe he said that DIY would

552
00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:15.360
break up and go to or potentially
break up and then go to SmackDown,

553
00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:21.760
Like what is he thinking? Like
final Testament to NXC, Roxane Perez going

554
00:40:21.880 --> 00:40:23.840
to Raw or smack then, what's
he thinking about here? Damnage Control should

555
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:27.840
continue to feud with Raw? What's
he thinking gun through the feud with Cody?

556
00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:31.519
That's ludicrous. So we'll obviously cover
everything from the w draft on next

557
00:40:31.639 --> 00:40:37.960
week's edition of SRTU, and of
course we'll also be preview and predicting WWE

558
00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:42.760
backlash in France on next week's edition
of The Story Real To Show. And

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00:40:42.840 --> 00:40:45.280
of course, the very only,
our one and only doctor Tref Franklin will

560
00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:52.280
be hopefully back on next week's edition
of SRTU, barring any other work emergencies

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00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:54.159
that will be taking place. So
with that said, before I close up

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shop on this week's edition of srt
a little bit shorter edition in the podcast,

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will previeing predict we backlash in France
on next week edition and of the show,

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we will recap and review everything from
the WE draft and more importantly,

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