WWE Elimination Chamber Recap & AEW Revolution Preview | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #733 – 2/29/24

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It's still libit. Welcome everybody.
Welcome to this week's edition. It's a

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real do show. EPISOE number seven
hundred and thirty three for February twenty nine,

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I think twenty twenty four. This
is your we Elimination Chamber of Recap

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and Review and aw Revolution, Preview
and Predictions edition of ass r T to

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you. I am one after the
show, I am Jeff Pack joined every

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single week on My Coast go only
Doctor Trey Franklin, Doctor Trey. I

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think this is the first time we've
done a show on Leap Day, my

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friend, which is crazy the thing
because we've been going for twelve years.

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I mean we've had at least three
Leap Days pop up, so uh yeah,

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I think this is the first time. So I think we like,

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this is one of those things were
like, I think we're running out of

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do like first times and new things
for us, So to do the show

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on Leap Day is pretty pretty freaking
special, I think. I don't know.

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I was watching Good Morning America this
this morning and they had a whole

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thing about there was some cruise going
on and everybody on the cruise was a

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Leap Day baby. So people are
like oh, I'm turning eleven, which

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really means I'm forty four, or
I'm turning fifteen, which means I'm sixty.

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So there you go. All right, Okay, you know I did

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think like that would really suck if
you were born on a leap day because

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you never really get to actually celebrate
your birth date except for every four years.

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Yeah. Except I don't know if
you're at this point now, but

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like even my family, they don't
celebrate my birthday on my birthday. It's

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always on the weekend somewhere. So
yes, yes, yes, I just

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look at it like it'd be in
that same vein. I know people on

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the show saying some people around the
twenty eighth, and some people celebrate the

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first, and some people just celebrate
it on the twenty eighth and also on

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the first, so they get a
two day birthday. So it's just it's

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just kind of all about perspective.
My birthday lands on Mother's Day some years,

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and then I'm just bad all day
because I have to share it with

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somebody. You know, it's like, yeah, forgets you, Yeah,

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she has her birthday, Like why
do I want to share money. I'm

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just I'm just freeding when he comes
to So let me ask you a question

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on real quick birthdays, what would
you rather have? Would you have your

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birthday on Leap Day or would you
rather have your birthday on like Christmas,

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where there's you're already getting gifts and
celebrations. I'll take leap Day just because

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you know, both of my kids, Carvin and Sammy, their birthdays are

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within three weeks of Christmas. So
Carmen's two weeks after Christmas. SAMs it's

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three weeks. I always kind of
feel bad for them because a lot of

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people will load up on Christmas and
then on their birthday they just get a

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card, and I'm like, it
kind of sucks. I'm like, I'll

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take a leap day just because,
you know, I think my family would

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still celebrated on a day other than
Leap Day, other than the once every

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four years, and then I would
assume they would just go all out on

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that fourth year. Yeah. Yeah, I guess I would pick the leap

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day as well, because I think
it would be pretty cool versus having your

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birthday on Christmas where it gets completely
overshadowed because everybody else is opening gifts.

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It's like there's no spotlight on you, there's no cake. It's celebrating Christmas

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and other people are getting gifts and
celebration as well. Sometimes it's nice having

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your own day and be a little
egotistical. Yeah, what holiday would you

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like to have your birthday? Lay
it on? If you could pick a

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holiday, July fourth, Memorial Day? I mean I'm a summer birthday already.

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Yeah, I would like something where
there's like a big barbecue already taking

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place. Yeah. I was torn
between Saint Patrick's Day because March is one

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of my favorite months and it's just
used to drink and I don't drink that

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often. So if I have a
holiday where I could base and around and

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nobody could get mad at me.
But I also like New Year's Day because

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midnight fireworks go off. True,
it is just like a celebration for the

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entire day. That is a good
one as well. That is a very

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good one as well. Loough Trey, I like to pick there for New

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Year's Day. Other weird factoids,
speaking of years days, what have you

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so? I recently came across that
we have done enough episodes now where if

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someone listened to the Still Real to
Us show every day an episode every day,

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it would take them two full years. We've done enough episodes now where

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someone could listen to the entire history
of the still real of the show one

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day, every single day, listened
to one episode for at least two years

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straight. Now, Yeah, we
really got to get one of our crack

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team of super fans to actually dig
into the oh the Book of Records,

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the Gaateest Book of Records, to
see what number of how many podcasts of

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new episodes? We're gonnas qualified because
I think we're we're happy. I mean

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we're prettydamn close. Like we've never
done a rew now and we're what episode

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whatever you say? We are down
seven, we're seven thirty three. I

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mean, we've never done a best
of We've done a new weekly episode every

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single week for fourteen years straight.
Yeah, I think we're probably knocking on

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the door. And then we were
doing podcasts before. It was like a

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very niche popularity deal at that point, it was very very I guess it

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was very niche before it became very
popular. So on average, we're on

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average an hour, I mean take
out those some of those wrestled media shows

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we did that were like two and
a half hours. Yes, but if

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you just took. You know,
seven thirty three divided by twenty four,

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you're looking at roughly thirty some hours. So some can listen to this show

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NonStop for a day and a half
and not sleep and listen to us all

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like that'd be what thirty Yeah,
no that's wrong, No, no,

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no, I think it's a little
bit more than that. So you do

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seven thirty three divided by twenty four, right, it would be six days,

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like thirty it would be it's just
thirty and a half, So thirty

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and a half days, so roughly
almost entire straight of no sleep till Jeff

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and I sleep. Basically, that
would be that you would be starting at

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like the original launch of the NXC
game show that Wade Barrett and Daniel Brian

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were in until today's episode. If
you listen to us for no sleep every

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episode for about thirty days straight.
So if you have a month that you

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just hate, just I hate January
and February, no offense to January and

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February lovers out there, Yeah,
February is probably by least there a month

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because most of sports have either ended
or not really started. So like,

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I think you're like me, Like
I'm a big baseball fan and a big

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football fan. So when one season
ends, the other one hasn't started.

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Us I'm stuck watching NBA. I
mean, sports are great in January.

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You've got college football, You've got
NFL playoffs. If NBA is your thing,

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You've got the Royal Rumble for your
wrestling fans out there. But yeah,

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I mean I could do without February. I mean we can just completely

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blast that one off the calendar.
March is definitely my jam. March Madness

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baseball, starting the build up to
WrestleMania, March, April, May,

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June, July, August, parts
like halfway through August probably my favorite stretch

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of the entire year. Do you
remember now, going into your radio history,

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do you remember there's an old sports
radio host. It was something the

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sports Babe. Oh yeah, I
remember sports Babe. Yeah. And she

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once said, this is back when
I was a kid. I mean I

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was probably eighteen years old at in
your show, and she said, as

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a radio person, February was the
worst thing. It was terrible. Broadcast

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it was it was terrible. It
was definitely one of the hardest things I

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used to have to do when I
was in sports. When I was in

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Sports Radio in Hartford, Connecticut from
twenty twelve to twenty fourteen. That was

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brutal, and then the podcasts before
that, we would do a daily podcast,

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the Wheelhouse from nine to twenty twelve
started becoming like once a week towards

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the end of that show, and
that was difficult as well during this time

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because it's I remember, we would
do like a bait. We would cover

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a baseball team a day in Hartford, Connecticut, and we're gonna bring on

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like a beat writer and talk about
the Oakland A's. It was not riveting

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stuff. And then you would try
to do Mount Rushmoor's, which I know

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a lot of people like parody now
at this point and rightfully so, and

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that would get people like their juices
flowid flowing a little bit. But while

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it was the worst, I think
it was some of the most creative stuff

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that you could come up with,
and kind of how podcasting has revolutionized the

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talk radio industry at this point.
Yeah, it's always funny me when I'm

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listening to because I like, for
me in Alabama we get a Greg McElroy

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and called Kublick's Our Mooring Show really
good, Like they're really entertaining funds.

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They always want to link stuff to
their podcast. I'm like, guys,

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I just listened to you for three
hours. I don't know how much money

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can take in one day. So
but it does. It does lend creativity

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because you know, you have to
figure out something to talk about every single

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day. So that's when you know, those February months are when you come

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up with stuff and you're like,
ooh, we could follow this up,

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you know, with something else for
the podcast. And I mean you and

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I were I've always talked about that
too, with other stuff like drough the

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pandemic era, and we were just
trying to stay busy and there's nothing to

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talk about. It's like, let's
try this, let's try this, let's

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try this. So, you know, February and you know pandemics creativity.

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Yeah, well, I mean this
is one of those shows that's definitely very

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easy. We will recap w W
Elimination Chamber, we'll preview aw Revolution,

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we'll look at the latest updates of
the wrestle Media card, and we'll also

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pay tribute here to Sting. So
this is one of those shows that is

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a layup for dout Trey and I. But again which I've said here from

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time to time on the podcast.
One of my favorit favor episode or my

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favorite episodes to do is when we
don't have anything really to talk about,

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and that's what makes it a lot
of fun. And there's a lot of

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ples, a lot of pay per
views coming our way here in these next

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couple of weeks. But give me
a show where it's like blank canvas,

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look at what's going on the news, have some like rhetorical conversation about your

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fandom as a professional wrestling fan,
like before the show ever recorded. Tonight,

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Doctor Treyn and I spent like ten
minutes about live events we've been to

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and things that have happened at them
that are kind of memorable and or very

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memorable in some of the cases.
And that's like a podcast that I'll now

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keep in the back of my brain
that we could always do and have a

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lot of fun with. So it
is WrestleMania season. It is a lot

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of stuff to cover. Let's get
to Elimination Chamber. Pl recap review of

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this past Saturday from Optus Stadium in
Burstwood, Western Australia, Australia. Doctor

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Trey, did you watch live?
No, I actually got along with my

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wife all week. Good man,
I didn't get kicked out of the bedroom.

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I almost made it because I've had
a bit of asomnia lately. I

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don't know if I told you before
like this the last month and a half,

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I was figured like three to four
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then I'll have one day week where
I crash. It just so happened.

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I made it till about two am
Saturday morning before my brain just completely shut

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down. So I almost made it
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not quite. I did wake up. It was seven thirty eight am on

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the East coast at that point did
put it on, and I saw that

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they were in the middle of the
men's Elimination Chamber match. I then,

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you know, reound it a little
bit, watch a little bit of the

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pre show for a little bit,
and then carrying on my day. And

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then about lunchtime on Saturday, I
sat down because there was really nothing to

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do, still cold here in the
Northeast, and was sitting down watching Elimination

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Chamber, and I loved it.
I thought it was great. More We're

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gonna have more pay per views that
have really bad time or the United States

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folks, because I think this is
outside of WrestleMania. There's a string coming

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up here where it's just a bunch
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At this point, I think right
after WrestleMania in Philly will be backlashed in

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France. But yeah, it's it's
different. I'm not opposed to it,

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doctor Trey. I'm just laughing at
the like the contrast and perceived stereotypical fandom

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between Philadelphia and France. Yeah,
it's gonna be does line up with Philly.

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They're kind of a rough like roughneck
crowd. They like their fights,

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but France just kind of seems like
it needs to be sophisticated. Like they're

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drinking cappuccino slightly. Uh you know
applause there smoking a cigarette probably would be

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my guess. So some bringing cheese. Yeah. Yeah, they're all wearing

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the the hats and the and the
scarves in the stands. And there's a

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mine. There's just a random mine
doing the box. Yeah. If there's

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not a mine at this pl E
in France, I will be sorely disappointed.

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Like Kevin Owens, stun's a mine
at the p l E. This

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is gonna be something we're gonna go
back into be Like, remember we talked

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about this in late February and the
leap day, and here we are.

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It's Kevin Owens stunning a mime uh
pre show match Kabookie Warriors if he Indi

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Hartwell and Cannas Larray to retain the
WA Women's Tack Team champions. If we

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did not predict that match. It
was announced on Thursday Friday by WI dot

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Com. I thought this is a
great start to the show. Dowt to

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Trey. I was very happy for
Indy Hartwell to get this opportunity in front

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of the hometown crowd. H that's
basically the whole point of this match was

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to give her a hometown pop and
a memorable moment in her home country,

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which I'm down for it. Kabookie
Warriors should be going in the WrestleMania as

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the champs. And shout out to
Cannis Laray for having some Bluey inspired gear

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at this is like she had Wow, did not recognize that it was Bingo

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Bluis sidekick, Like apparently Johnny Johnny
had the Bluey gear somewhere else, but

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she got to wear a biggo gear. I I only saw that because I

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saw Johnny posted on Instagram and I
was like, as the father of a

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toddler, I can appreciate the the
fandom for it, but yeah, it

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was a I don't know about you, but like just the overwhelming number of

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Australians that WW has brought onto the
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to when you and I were kids. It was like out Back Jack and

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that was basically it. Yes,
yes, yeah, basically, Well,

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Skinner was from Florida. That's Steve
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Skinner was supposed to be an Australian
character. That was Florida. He was

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a gator hunter. Okay, okay, so a little bit different to the

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Outback Jacket and Skinner, but just
uh, they just had a white trash

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it up a little bit more to
go from out Back. He was like

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Louisiana or something, right. Yeah, yeah, but like just the fact

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that you could basically almost have entire
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every single match. I thought it
was pretty cool. So and no iconics

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and you know which is which may
be sad, no, but the iconics

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made their impact felt on NXT on
Tuesday when the chairman from aw now is

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back in NXT. It was iconics
by proxy, true true true. Next

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match year is Becky Lynch defeening Biancabella
Live Morgan, Tiffany Stratt, Naomi and

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ra Kel Rodriguez in the elimination Chamber
match to win a shot at the WE

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Women's World Championship at WrestleMania forty.
Not surprised by this result, as Doctor

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Tray and I both predicted Becky Lynch. They did hype it up on the

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the event to kickoff WRESTLEMANI in Las
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I thought Tiffany Stratton had a breakout
performance in this one. It did feel

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like that this match was a little
bit step or two behind. I don't

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know if that's the jet lag,
what have you. Just wasn't as smooth

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as it normally is among the ladies. But definitely you have to figure that's

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ultimately tough because you know, days
prior they were in the US and here

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they are eighteen hours later. It
feels like in Australia. I did enjoy

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the match, nonetheless, I did
like the finishing sequence and now Becky's on

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her way to Wrestle Many forty Doctor
Trey. Yeah. And just when I

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was, you know, going through
this whole match and watching everything, I'm

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I'm paying attention to who pins who
and everything else like that, and I

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was like, Okay, Tiffany,
of course, I just said, breakout

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match for her on the brand.
I mean, the crowd was totally in

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the Tiffany Stratton as well. And
she's got, like if she's not who,

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this brand is built around the women's
division, like her and Riha in

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Bianca in five years and in Jade
there was the boat she's got. I

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mean, she's the prototypical female wrestler
for WW. Just beautiful and actually getting

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much much better in the ring.
Liv Morgan getting getting a roll up,

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getting a victory over Bianca bell Aer, I thought I was pretty chung.

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And how many people can say they
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mean there's just a handful of people
at most, not many, not many.

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So I think that's big for Live
as well. Who I learned today

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was a Hooters girl at one point
in New Jersey. Didn't know that,

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but and then Becky in the way
I forgot that. Becky and Rhea faced

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off once before. I thought they
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but they faced off once before.
But were they face off? Do you

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remember it was NXT actually was it
one of those deals where Becky came over?

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was like during that Survivor series built

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up when they first launched on live
on Wednesdays. Yeah, I think.

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I think you're absolutely right. So
they've only faced off once before. But

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for me, if we never got
Becky and Ronda, this is probably the

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next best on paper matchup if they
keep it a singles match, which we'll

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probably talk about later on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so we'll definitely

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talk about that. Yeah, I'll
have to find I feel like that it

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did. It took place November twentieth, twenty nineteen. It was live on

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NX towards the Road to Survivors series. So I can't remember what I did

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yesterday, but I'll remember when Becky
and Rhea wrestled each other Judgment Day defeats

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New Catch Republic to retain the Mute
Watag Team Championship. Doctor Trey and I

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both at the Judgment Day. I
thought this was a great tag team match.

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I am super happy for baiting done
to get this opportunity in Perth.

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Finn Baler must really respect the hell
out of Pete Dunn because he really sold

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the joint manipulation move on his fingers, which is not the first time he's

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done that. He did it during
a I think it was NXT Vengeance Day

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during the pandemic era of NXC when
Finn came back and Finn sold that pretty

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hard as well. Priests and Ballor
have really become a great tag team over

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time after being thrown together. You
have to figure that the window on them

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remaining the tag team is probably closing, especially with that briefcase deadline coming closer

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and closer. So I think if
you're a fan of watching these two guys

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tag with each other, which I
am, you should be enjoying this right

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now. Fun match to Trey as
Judgment Day retains. You know, I'm

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watching this match, it went like, okay, if they had this match

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four months ago, probably not as
much offense given to the New Catch Crew

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No New Catcher Republic Public. Yeah, sorry, it's it's the it's the

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whole no quarter Catch Crew and the
New Catch Republic is messing me up.

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But I think Finn loves giving you
fellow United Kingdom wrestlers some love and his

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matches, I mean and plung you, I mean you, with only four

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matches on the main card, you
got to go kind of give some time

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to some other matches. But this
was a fantastic match and a way to

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really help get Tyler Bait and Pete
Dunn over together to keep them as a

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strong tag team going forward, especially
when either they split the tag belts or

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you know, somebody new gets the
tag belt. And just a really really

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phenomenal tag team match. And and
you know, like you said, Priests

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and Balor have become a very very
solid tag team. I won't put them

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up in the hierarchy of great tag
great yeah yeah, but entertaining. But

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for a tag team that was thrown
together in not an odd ballpairing, they

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coagulated very well together. Next match
here is Drew McIntyre defitting Randy Orton and

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Bobby Lashley, La Night, Kevin
Owens and Logan Paul in the eliminated chamber

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match to win a w World aweight
Champion match against Seth Freakin Rollins at Wrestuming

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forty dout Tray and I both had
Drew mcatyre in this one. This is

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a great chamber match. I felt
like there were spots that were intentional to

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welcome Logan Paul into WWE, into
their world, like lastly spearing them through

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the chamber pod. He I felt
like he was initiated during this match.

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I loved how the La Night Aj
Styles story moved forward, while the surprising

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Logan Paul Randy Oran story maybe beginning
from this match. Fun match. I

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felt like all six guys did an
awesome job. I am happy that Big

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Drew gets another WrestleMania title shot as
his storylining character development the last several months

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has really been good and really captivating. You almost forget that Drew and Seth

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fought each other until they mentioned it
during their promo on Monday, just a

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couple of months ago at Crown Jewel
in November, and I enjoyed that build.

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I was looking forward to that match, and I fully expect that this

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is going to be very entertaining and
fun match at WrestleMania. Very happy with

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Drew McIntire, Doctor Troy he is
right now, I would say early February

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twenty ninth. If you're saying to
me, okay, who's been the twenty

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twenty four Wrestle of the Year so
far, I'm saying Drew McIntyre. That's

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interesting. I can't knock it because
Seth really hasn't wrestled, Cody's been tied

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up with a hist of Roman,
hasn't been on TV the AW. I

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mean you could throw someone with Joe
and Christian Cage up in that list as

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well for just early year. But
for WWE, yes, I probably leaned

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Drew. Still not quite sure.
Excuse me for sick. Sorry, Oh

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Katie Perry's on TV. I had
to stage for something. It makes sense

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you're allergic, Yeah I am.
Maybe you're a firework Jeff, but you

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know, for for what they have
going on, Like, I'm still a

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little confused by Drew's promo afterwards.
Wow, I sneeze in pairs. If

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I sneezed once, I have to
sneeze twice. So but that promo was

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kind of a little bit baby facious
face it. I don't know what they're

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quite doing with Drew, I think, and when we get to wrestle Ani

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predictions, I think I have an
idea of what they're doing. But overall

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that, you know, that match
was fantastic. It was great. I

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love like I love the analogy about
the welcoming the WW like the emission chamber

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because it mission. It may be
immediately think of like Austin Theory and Broclesner

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in the chamber from a couple of
years ago with theory got f five off

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the top of the chair, off
the top of the pod. But yeah,

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like it's I'm wondering because you're you're
kind of continuing on the Kevin Owens,

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Logan Paul stuff, but now logan
pause, the Randy Orton stuff,

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and then you have the aj Eli
and isup. I wonder if they're gonna

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do multiple matches or just tie all
that into one big giant the United States

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title match as well, So that'll
be interesting which way they go with that

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for those five guys at WrestleMania,
because it was five SmackDown guys and one

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Raw guy in that match. Yeah, Drew's character has definitely been interesting lately.

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I mean, if you notice on
Raw two he was high fiving fans

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on his way to the ring.
It's a tweener character, which if anybody

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can get this reference, props to
them. There's very few times where you

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see heel kind of portray a Babyface
is right in his conviction as to why

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he's behaving the way he is because
he's been so ruffled by what the Bloodline

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did and everybody accepting jay Uso and
immediately forgetting everything that he did, even

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though he took advantage of the bloodline
helping him a couple of weeks ago against

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Cody Road. It reminds me a
lot of nineteen ninety five Diesel, which

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is a little bit surprising. I
remember that because Diesel said he would not

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high five anybody unless they had Diesel
gloves, which obviously led to some nice

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probably merchandise sales for him. I
am someone who owns those Diesel gloves.

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I still have them somewhere in my
house. And yeah, it's it's interesting

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because you don't know if he's a
heel, you don't know if he's a

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Babyface. Sometimes it's a natural tweeer
and I'm kind of digging it. I'm

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happy for Big Drew he gets this
opportunity again, and we'll talk about a

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little bit more about the path of
Russell mainety forty coming out of this match

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in just a few moments. And
then finally, Dot Trey Rea Ripley defeats

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Niajax to retain the WA Women's World
Championship. You and I both had Ria

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Ripley. It was a solid,
hard hitting, physical match straight to the

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point. The build up for this
match was really good. We talked about

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on last week's podcast. Nia Jacks
was like one of the most equal competitors

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heading into a match with Rie Ripley
sometimes since he actually probably won the title

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and Rustlman A thirty nine. It
was great to see if Rhea overcoming insturmutable

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odds to win this match in her
own country, and it was a good

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opportunity for her to celebrate his career, her career, her successful career in

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her own country. So Ria Ripley
retains Doctor Trey. Yeah, that's it's

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exactly. The match is exactly kind
of what I thought. It's kind of

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the old h I use the term
hoss fight for the men. I don't

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know if that's an appropriate term for
a women's match, buddy. It was

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like just, you know, two
tough, strong women just beaming the crap

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out of each other. For all
the knocks that Naya gets, the believability

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factory of what she does, whether
it's actually killing the person or not.

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Uh, it always looks like it
does, so I give her a lot

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of credit for that, and then
booking Ria like a babyface in Australia makes

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a ton of stay as the crowd
went home happy. Uh but yeah,

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just a good solid performance by both
those ladies in that match and the carryover

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on to Raw this week I thought
was well done as well. Pay per

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forview prediction record from Elimination Chamber we
both went four and oh coming out of

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this one. Now we are I'm
at eleven and three. Doctor Trey's at

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ten and four. Match of the
night and event rating. My match of

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the night was the men's chamber match
and I gave the event a solid four

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point zero out of five Doctor Trey. I think on paper I would say

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that the men's match as well,
but I think for the crowd, I'm

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gonna give it to Rea and Naya, just because I thought that was a

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really hard hitting match and that crowd
was super amped up for it as well,

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like they were so into Ria and
by proxy hating Naya. Energy wise,

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I thought that match, especially to
follow the men's chamber match, they

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maintained the energy, if not amped
it up a littpit so I give those

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girls a lot of credit, so
I'll give them the match that I and

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I was at a four point two, so I really enjoyed the elimination chamber.

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Yeah, it was a very very
fun, solid pl to watch at

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any point you wanted to over the
weekend. So props to WWE for del

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delivering in Perth, Australia this past
Saturday. Coming out of this one.

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Now the WRESTLEMANI forty card roundup,
like we'd like to do here every single

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week. Confirm now doctor Trey re
Ripley defending the WA Women's World Championsip against

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Becky Lynch and Seth Freaking Ronds defending
the w W World aweight Championship against Drew

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McIntyre. Your thoughts on those two
new confirmed matches. So Seth and Drew

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is interesting to me because of the
way Drew's booking himself, because this is

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where I can see Damian Prize cashing
in, Because if Drew wins the match,

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then Damien cashes in. That makes
Drew kind of the babyface. Gives

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Seth a little bit of time off
to fully recover from everything he has going

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on, and then Drew can feel
screwed over again and still make him kind

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of the anti hero, which w
loves to book one anti hero out of

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stuff, So it'll be interesting if
that's the route that go, especially if

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Seth gets tied up in bloodline stuff
on night one, it has to come

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back and wrestle on night two.
That gives Seth an excuse to lose,

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Drew a reason to win, Damien
a reason to cash in, so it

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ties a lot of ends together.
And then Becky and Ria on paper is

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one of those dream matches that we
haven't really had featured, but with the

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stuff we saw many night, with
the live Morgan stuff, with the Nya

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Jack stuff, this could easily become
a four whee match, which on paper,

402
00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:22.559
once again, I'd be fine with
it because all four of those girls

403
00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:26.519
have really deserved the liveline because they've
Nya's had Nya might be my MVP of

404
00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:32.119
the women's division if Ria wasn't on
the show like the last few months,

405
00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:36.839
Like Nya's character has been really really
good for about six months now, which

406
00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:40.880
I never thought I would say.
So, Nya has been phenomenal live coming

407
00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:44.480
backs phenomenal, and then Becky and
Ri are just stalwarts of the division.

408
00:28:44.839 --> 00:28:48.640
I can see that being sniffed out
here right now of Live and Naya Jacks

409
00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:53.039
being added to this one, I
ultimately don't think they will, and I

410
00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:57.359
don't think they should because I think
Ria and Becky on its own is a

411
00:28:57.359 --> 00:29:03.599
wrestling equality match. Maybe that's something
that you do to follow up coming out

412
00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:07.160
of Wrestlemanni at Backlash in France.
But I would not be surprised by that

413
00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:11.440
direction either, Doctor Trey. If
they decided to add Ni Jackson or and

414
00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:15.079
Live Morgan to this one, well, I'm just I'm just I'm hoping Wie

415
00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:19.160
learns from their previous wrestle mating and
I'm gonna say mistake where we had Becky

416
00:29:19.240 --> 00:29:22.160
and Rawda and Charlotte got added to
the match. Yeah, that was bad.

417
00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:26.920
So I'm hoping we just get Ria
Becky one O one and we don't

418
00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:30.319
get Nigh and Live added to this
match. But yes, in France,

419
00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:33.279
it would make a ton of stence
to do a four week Well, if

420
00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:38.319
I remember correctly it, I think
it was Becky added to the match.

421
00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:44.119
They went to Ronda Charlotte Path for
three five right, Well, Becky got

422
00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:48.240
banned, yes, and was injured. Remember that bullshit that they pulled in

423
00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:52.240
creatively, yeah, and then so
it became Charlotte and Rauda, but in

424
00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:56.000
reality we don't really think Becky was
injured. It was storyline, Yeah,

425
00:29:56.079 --> 00:30:00.920
that was That was just very very
bad booking, all right. So then

426
00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:07.079
rumored expected. I fully expect this
podcast drops on Friday morning. I fully

427
00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:11.720
expect Roman Reigns on the Rock versus
Cody Roads and Seth freaking Rollins to probably

428
00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:17.960
become official tonight on SmackDown Doctor Trey
uh is Rock going to be have they

429
00:30:17.960 --> 00:30:19.319
said Rocks on the show or now
he is? He's on the next three

430
00:30:19.359 --> 00:30:22.279
smackdowns? Actually, Okay, then
I think there. I don't know if

431
00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:26.559
it will get you officially added yet, but I think this will start to

432
00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:30.039
lead to it being officially eye because
they still have to breakdown where they're going

433
00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:33.519
to do it. So there are
rumors that Cody and Seth are confirmed for

434
00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:38.119
SmackDown tonight as well. Well,
they should have at least have the confrontation.

435
00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:40.839
If they do tonight, they want
to surpribed. But I think you'll

436
00:30:40.839 --> 00:30:42.480
be confirmed with them the next two
smackdowns, So either this one or the

437
00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:47.720
next one. And then we talked
about La Knight and aj styles and Logan

438
00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:52.200
Paul defending the United States Championship assuming
right now against Randy Orton being added LA

439
00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:56.319
Knight AJ Styles not a surprise.
That's been something on our list for a

440
00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:00.799
while. Logan Paul and Randy Orton
direction is something that's very yeah, because

441
00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:04.720
I still think Kevin Owens gets added
to the match. At some point.

442
00:31:06.279 --> 00:31:07.319
You may have to do a three
way, you may do a five way.

443
00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:11.039
I mean, wrestle Mania was always
big on ladder matches, you know,

444
00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:14.599
thing for the interkind title ladder matches, all this stuff back in the

445
00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:18.559
day. I wouldn't be surprised to
see you like l A. Knight and

446
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:22.400
AJ get added into that to make
it a much bigger match. Because Triple

447
00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:29.279
H doesn't like super like like match
counts. He likes smaller like, shorter

448
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:33.440
like, less matches more time.
So I could see them just combining all

449
00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:37.359
five of those guys into one match
or one triple threat for the US title

450
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.799
and then L A. Knight in
AJ Styles on their own. I wouldn't

451
00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:45.400
be surprised if you see six six
matches each night of WrestleMania right now.

452
00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:51.440
To your point, I don't think
you're gonna get like a grandiose card like

453
00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:55.200
we've had in recent memory. Yeah. Even last year, he's kind of

454
00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:59.039
cut the match number was cut down
from previous wrestle MANI so we've seen that

455
00:31:59.079 --> 00:32:01.000
progression. I mean, hell,
it was like fifteen but spread out over

456
00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:04.680
two nights. Yeah, I mean, I mean hell, I mean we

457
00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:07.240
just did. We just did a
pay per view with four matches. Yeah,

458
00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:09.519
and the one before that was four
matches. Yeah, like that that's

459
00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:14.039
crazy load number of matches, but
you're given the guys more time than before.

460
00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:15.920
We're back in the day, you'd
have eight matches, but some of

461
00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:17.759
these matches would be five minutes,
seven minutes, and that's it. So

462
00:32:19.160 --> 00:32:23.160
it's what made takeovers so successful back
in the day under Triple H's rain and

463
00:32:23.319 --> 00:32:27.799
NXD, I mean, granted,
chamber matches and the Rumble were going to

464
00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:30.039
take close to, if not longer
than, an hour. Definitely the Rumble

465
00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:35.079
will I think both chamber matches nearly
took an hour as well. One of

466
00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:37.519
these days. What they said down
I kind of go back through previous chamber

467
00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:38.519
you know, let us your chamber
shows and be like, look, they

468
00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:42.480
had two chamber matches, they shot
four or five matches in around it.

469
00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:44.799
Yeah, yeah, you know,
and it's like, oh, they had

470
00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:46.759
eight matches, but two of them
were chambers. How the hell they fit

471
00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:51.720
that? Where we just did a
ple with four matches and it still hit

472
00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:57.839
three hours. I used to be
that the quantity outweighed the quality at the

473
00:32:57.920 --> 00:33:00.039
end of a show, which I
guess could be up for an aw debate

474
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:06.640
as well. But I've been totally
fine with the amount of matches that they've

475
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:08.599
put up there because the quality of
the shows that they've been putting up have

476
00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:10.519
been a lot of fun. I
think that was the same thing that we

477
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:15.079
saw with wargames back at Survivor series
as well. I think the last three

478
00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:19.440
WWE pay per views, if I
without anything in front of me here,

479
00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:23.720
I think they were a maximum four
matches each one of those cards. Yeah,

480
00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:29.200
I think I'm I'm a little bit
on the fence to me. I

481
00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:31.279
think I would like to have maybe
one or two more matches, But you

482
00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:34.960
can still even at six. I
think you get tired, though, I

483
00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:37.880
think you get tired. Well,
I think you can still, Like I

484
00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:39.880
mean, back in the day,
we'd have eight to ten, like eight

485
00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:44.000
matches on the w pay per views. You know, I'm a. I'm

486
00:33:44.039 --> 00:33:46.559
with you, But our biggest complain
about aw cards, which we will cover

487
00:33:46.599 --> 00:33:51.519
here shortly, is like they're way
too long. Like that show will start

488
00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:53.680
at six thirty with the pre show
and it won't get done until midnight,

489
00:33:53.720 --> 00:33:57.880
And that is way too fucking long
for a company that wants to do nine

490
00:33:57.880 --> 00:34:00.960
to ten pay per views this year. That no, I agree that.

491
00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:02.559
I'm saying, like, for WW
if they did six matches, but maybe

492
00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:06.680
hey, take two of the matches, cut five or ten minutes off those

493
00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:10.159
matches that are taking twenty five thirty
minutes. Yeah, honey, add those

494
00:34:10.599 --> 00:34:15.039
because you, once again you're getting
some guys who aren't being on plas enough

495
00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:19.639
to be featured. You know,
I think the sweet I think the sweet

496
00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:22.840
spot for pay per view length is
like three hours, doctor Troy. No,

497
00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:25.679
no, I'm saying you can still
do six matches in three hours.

498
00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:29.400
You're just taking a little bit of
time from Do you think you have the

499
00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:32.239
same quality? Yeah? I thought
think the quality would be would be pretty

500
00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:36.599
damn good. I just don't know
if it would be the one. I'll

501
00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:39.639
say this, the one thing they've
been doing lately to compensate for that is

502
00:34:39.719 --> 00:34:45.199
having bigger raws and bigger smackdowns and
featuring some of the guys who aren't going

503
00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:49.320
to be on the ple in prime
spots on those shows, which kind of

504
00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:51.360
offsets in a little bit. At
least it makes it a little bit more

505
00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:53.599
even. It was just, you
know, if I'm spending you know,

506
00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:59.480
luckily I'm not spending sixty bucks for
a pay per view for WWE, but

507
00:34:59.519 --> 00:35:01.840
if I was, I just you
know, we didn't hear the women's tag

508
00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:07.079
bells to see you know, Guph's
not on the show. Uh, you

509
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:09.400
know, the US Champions and you
know, like he's in the match,

510
00:35:09.519 --> 00:35:13.800
but he's not featured in the I
mean, well his match, his title

511
00:35:13.840 --> 00:35:15.679
isn't on the line. You still
got some of the younger guys that we're

512
00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:19.400
seeing on a ross backdown not on
the pl I'm just saying, like,

513
00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:22.480
you could you know, squeeze one
maybe two more in there, because your

514
00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:27.480
roster's much bigger, you know,
on the main roster than he was at

515
00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:30.679
NXT. NXC was like, yeah, let's focus on the four good quality

516
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:34.920
matches we know we're going to get, and everything else can stay on TV.

517
00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:39.000
I think I think outside of like
the gimmick stuff that we've seen lately,

518
00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:42.639
Like the last three pay per views, you will see like a maximum

519
00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:46.360
of six car matches. And I'm
actually like really digging that. Maybe a

520
00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:51.199
week or two before the pay per
view, like the big matches that week

521
00:35:51.320 --> 00:35:54.280
is like the Intercontinental Championship on the
line or the tag team titles, Like

522
00:35:54.320 --> 00:36:00.239
I really like that. I think
that's a really smart business sense to do

523
00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:04.079
those types of matches as well.
Kind of it's making up for those guys

524
00:36:04.119 --> 00:36:06.519
not I mean, you know,
when was the last time dom was on

525
00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:08.880
a PL. You know, Domin's
probably the most hated you know, wrestling.

526
00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:12.119
Yeah, it's been a while,
so it's like, you know,

527
00:36:12.159 --> 00:36:15.440
that's what I'm saying, Like you
could tatle Yeah, you could add another

528
00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:19.800
match or two. I don't count
the rumble, everybody's in the rumble,

529
00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:23.559
but you could add another like you
didn't have broad Breaker on this PL and

530
00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:28.079
that's like your big New SmackDown Superstar. You know, you can squeeze another

531
00:36:28.199 --> 00:36:32.599
match or two in and give those
guys a little bit of feature time and

532
00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:37.079
still get the same quality. You
might have one squash match, one quick

533
00:36:37.159 --> 00:36:40.679
match, but you know, if
you threw Braun out there against a mid

534
00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:45.760
card SmackDown heel and he won in
seven miss just to be featured on the

535
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:47.079
pl E to show that, hey, this is the guy we're pushing.

536
00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:52.079
Then that would be horrible either.
See. I think you and I look

537
00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:54.719
at pl e's like the way that
the pay per view model has always been.

538
00:36:54.800 --> 00:37:00.480
I think WWE has changed their mindset
on PLS hence the name change,

539
00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:05.639
and looked at it as just like
an extra raw or a bigger raw or

540
00:37:05.639 --> 00:37:08.159
SmackDown for that month that brings in
a lot of money and it's gonna be

541
00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:12.119
in a huge venue. I don't
think that they look at it like they

542
00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:15.719
used to. I think for the
aw does I think the Big four they

543
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:20.400
may stield to me like once again
in my And it's also because it's on

544
00:37:21.199 --> 00:37:23.719
with it being on Peacock and gout, spinning sixty bucks and the like.

545
00:37:23.719 --> 00:37:28.320
The payouts and the wrestlers are different
now as well, you know, because

546
00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:30.920
they used to get pay per from
bonus money, and I think they still

547
00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:35.320
get a pl bonus money, but
you know their cuts getting they're getting money

548
00:37:35.320 --> 00:37:38.320
cut in from the networks or the
Peacocks have scription right, So yeah,

549
00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:42.559
I think the model of payouts is
different because if I had that's back in

550
00:37:42.599 --> 00:37:45.599
the day, they used to throw
everybody on WP on WrestleMania just that way,

551
00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:50.199
everybody got a bonus, and they
don't really do that as much anymore,

552
00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:52.760
all right, and then some other
matches here. I think we got

553
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:57.960
to keep going here with the WRESTLMANI
card forty card round up coming out of

554
00:37:57.960 --> 00:38:06.480
this one elimination Chamber, maybe Grayson
Waller versus Austin Theory possibly. Did you

555
00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:08.960
see Bishop's comments about taking Theory off
TV? Yeah, I didn't. I

556
00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:13.400
didn't necessarily agree with that. I
think you've got to figure out what you're

557
00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:15.039
doing with Theory, uh, in
one way or the other. Like,

558
00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:17.280
I think Waller's one of those guys
that you can look at, this guy's

559
00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:22.039
gonna be like the United States Champion
by the end of the year. Like

560
00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:24.760
I think they feel like he's the
personal heel that they could build a big

561
00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:30.000
card division around. But Theory's just
gotta get better as promos. That's what's

562
00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:31.719
I think to me, that's what's
really holding it back. I think like

563
00:38:31.719 --> 00:38:35.440
like Als is kind of a Basebob
says, like he has a look,

564
00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:37.679
he has the moves, he can
do everything. You want to got to

565
00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:40.280
be of a wrestler. He just
like it's like Stina said back before there

566
00:38:40.280 --> 00:38:44.519
wrestling namaction. He just has doesn't
feel like he has a heart or a

567
00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:47.800
soul and that part's not connecting with
the crowd again. Uh, and then

568
00:38:47.920 --> 00:38:52.800
I think one that may be building
here from Raud this past week, Doctor

569
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:59.360
Trey is Gunther defending the Intercontinental Championship
either against an individual or multiple people names

570
00:38:59.400 --> 00:39:02.679
that were throwing a Sammy's Ain,
Dominic Masterio, Chad Gable, Bronson Reid

571
00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:07.239
from this past week's edition of RAW. I wouldn't be surprised if they bring

572
00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:10.000
back the ladder match for the Intercontinental
Championship at WrestleMania. Yeah, if they

573
00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:13.679
don't do it for the US title, I can see them doing it for

574
00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:15.760
the inn cond Zone. And by
the way, if they do that for

575
00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:20.960
the airdo title. What a better
way to get the belt off Gunther without

576
00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:24.239
having him take a pitfall, because
then you can fill them up as the

577
00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:29.880
next heeled champion challenging whoever the babyface
champion is. And the guy hasn't been

578
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:35.480
pinned in a singles match since he's
been in WWE, so that's a good

579
00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:37.920
way for him to take a take
kind of take a loss and not actually

580
00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:43.159
get pinned in the title. Yeah, it would be interesting if they're looking

581
00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:45.320
to take the championship off of them, I guess that would be the time

582
00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:47.920
to do it. Would be in
the match where he can't get pinned,

583
00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:52.280
which is always the easy way around
it. Anything that we're missing here Doctor

584
00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:54.760
Trey from the WRESTLEMANI forty card round
up, I felt like those are the

585
00:39:54.760 --> 00:40:00.760
ones that I saw this past week
for rumored or expected. Yeah, because

586
00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:05.280
some of the ones that we've talked
about before. Lastly, the profits against

587
00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:07.840
wasn't really showing on this on the
PLA, things like that we haven't really

588
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:10.679
had that They're still going back and
forth, but it wasn't really any build

589
00:40:10.719 --> 00:40:15.800
up on any of these undercard matches
I was talking about earlier switching gears to

590
00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:20.559
AW. We'll preview predict AW Revolution
here in just a few minutes. But

591
00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:24.039
the big news on this one,
Doctor Trey is obviously Sting's last match.

592
00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:30.559
You never say never in professional wrestling, just ASPC Flair, but this is

593
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:37.639
going to be his last match this
Sunday in Greensboro, North Carolina, Greensboro

594
00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:45.400
Coliseum, in North Carolina. I
have probably a shorter history, which is

595
00:40:45.719 --> 00:40:50.239
going to sound ludicrous because I'm going
to like say, it's forty years or

596
00:40:50.280 --> 00:40:53.559
thirty years at this point for me
that I've been watching Sting as compared to

597
00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:59.159
you, as a guy who watched
NWAWCW growing up. I was introduced to

598
00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:05.159
WCW once the Northern kid here,
once Hulk Hogan went over to WW in

599
00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:07.719
nineteen ninety four. That's how I
got introduced to Sting, and then Sting

600
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:15.280
became one of my favorite homegrown WW
guys standalone WSW guys for the rest of

601
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:21.000
the entire time that I watched WW
from ninety four till two thousand and one

602
00:41:21.039 --> 00:41:25.360
when they closed. Obviously, Sting
was the face of w CW. I

603
00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:30.239
did not watch him much in TNA
and Impact Wrestling the run that he had

604
00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:35.440
there, but his run in TNA
Impact Wrestling was phenomenal as well. Another

605
00:41:35.480 --> 00:41:38.719
thing that you can speak to on
this one. Doctor Trey obviously never thought

606
00:41:39.199 --> 00:41:45.000
he would end up in WWE.
He did. He wrestled at WrestleMania,

607
00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:47.599
something I never thought he would do. Lost against Triple H. We're not

608
00:41:47.679 --> 00:41:51.880
here to talk about that result and
what he did what happened that day,

609
00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:57.719
but obviously his career was at that
point in time cut short as he got

610
00:41:57.719 --> 00:42:01.320
injured in the match at Night of
Champions with I Guess against then just seth

611
00:42:01.800 --> 00:42:07.480
non freaking Rollins, and then he
was doing We Cameos, joined the Hall

612
00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:10.719
of Fame, spoke on DVD specials
Now and Again, and then popped up

613
00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:16.599
in AW in December twenty twenty at
Winter's Coming. Has been aligned with Darby

614
00:42:16.599 --> 00:42:20.559
Allen this entire time. I think
his first match back was one of those

615
00:42:20.599 --> 00:42:25.880
cinematic matches at AW Revolution twenty twenty
one against Brian Cage and Ricky Starks in

616
00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:30.760
a match that was pretty cool when
you look back at the cinematic matches that

617
00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:34.199
were taking place during that time.
And then his entire run with AW being

618
00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:37.719
typed with Darby Allen has been really
well done, really well executed. The

619
00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:42.519
times that he does wrestle, they
make it count and it's impactful and it's

620
00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:45.800
fun and you kind of forget that
he is what I just read today,

621
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:50.639
sixty four years old. I don't
know if I have that right. Is

622
00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:55.960
he really sixty four years old?
Which is amazing for sixty four years old,

623
00:42:57.159 --> 00:43:01.159
but his run in AW has basically
capped sixty four years old, nearly

624
00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:07.159
sixty five. He'll be turning sixty
five on March twentieth. AW really allowed

625
00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:09.199
him to go out on his terms. Whether you like AW or not,

626
00:43:09.440 --> 00:43:14.519
I am a fan of AW,
and they did him right since he joined

627
00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:16.760
the company in December twenty twenty,
and they did him right on his way

628
00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:22.960
out so far. Really looking forward
to this Sunday's match and how this all

629
00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:27.320
takes place. But Doctor Trey,
that's what Sting has meant to me in

630
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:30.199
professional wrestling. When I look back
at Sting's career, I think I'm gonna

631
00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:36.719
most remember him being the face of
WW. And obviously I later watched his

632
00:43:36.760 --> 00:43:42.639
stuff pre ninety four in WCW thanks
to WA Network DVD's YouTube what have you,

633
00:43:43.679 --> 00:43:46.000
and I'll also remember this AW run. Quite honestly, I'll remember him

634
00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:50.920
as the face of WW. Loved
when he transformed to the Crow gimmick,

635
00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:55.440
even though Starr K ninety seven to
not have a great payoff him showing up

636
00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:59.039
in WI Shock the hell out of
me. That was really cool and a

637
00:43:59.039 --> 00:44:04.840
lot of fun. I think that
was Series two thousand and fifteen, and

638
00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:07.480
then the AW run, I think
is how I almost remember him. How

639
00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:13.239
do how will you most remember Sting
as we prepare for his prepare for his

640
00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:17.119
last match this Sunday. Oh so, for me, I have been watching

641
00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:23.039
Sting Russell for nearly forty years.
I was watching Mid South wrestling when he

642
00:44:23.079 --> 00:44:28.800
first debuted as the Blade Runners with
him and the Olga Warrior, who at

643
00:44:28.840 --> 00:44:31.360
the time I believe was known as
Rock or both is Rock and I think

644
00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:37.119
was Rock and Blade, and then
they changed Sting's name the Sting right on

645
00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:39.159
the time. And then he joined
up with Ednie Gilbert and Rick Steiner as

646
00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:45.119
part of Hot Stuff Incorporated and then
transitioned over into w CW. Had been

647
00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:51.039
from there. So yeah, it's
been He's the last remnant, the last

648
00:44:51.079 --> 00:44:54.960
active wrestler to my initial wrestling fandom
is State and so for me, this

649
00:44:55.039 --> 00:45:01.119
is kind of literally like the end
of an era for me. For me,

650
00:45:01.400 --> 00:45:04.320
like the imprint of the State.
I remember what, you know,

651
00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:10.559
Clashing Champions eighty seven going sixty minutes
to a draw, you know, and

652
00:45:10.599 --> 00:45:15.360
then just his progression through w CW
becoming the face of the company. I

653
00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:22.519
thought that the introduction of the Crow
character was just so such a great actual

654
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:24.920
changing Where are you? Where?
Where did you? Did you fall off

655
00:45:24.920 --> 00:45:31.840
a cliff? Yeah? Sorry,
I have trading time too. So it

656
00:45:31.960 --> 00:45:34.840
was I mean we had to point
it out. It was like all of

657
00:45:34.880 --> 00:45:38.480
a sudden, It's like doctor Trey
is yelling in the back of an auditorium.

658
00:45:38.679 --> 00:45:43.840
Yeah, those dads multitasking one trying
to make sure your kid doesn't pee

659
00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:45.960
his pants while you're talking about wrestling, even though peeing your pants I once

660
00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:54.039
heard was the coolest it is.
He wants to brush his teeth. Wait

661
00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:58.400
so but yeah, like but staying
the stuff at the crow gimmick, the

662
00:45:58.440 --> 00:46:00.679
coming down, that isscending from the
know, all that stuff was so far

663
00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:06.920
I have his time. Even you
know you mentioned Dark ninety seven. I

664
00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:12.159
remember when they tried to turn k
Hee for like two months. It was

665
00:46:12.199 --> 00:46:15.000
just awful. But even the stuff
in TNA, even when he when he

666
00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:19.280
came in and he was doing more
like the Joker sting and that stuff was

667
00:46:19.480 --> 00:46:22.280
just fun, silly stuff. And
then the w W stuff and into the

668
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:28.119
Amaw stuff has been really really well
done. And I give a ton This

669
00:46:28.239 --> 00:46:30.599
is where like me and Tony Khan
don't agree on a lot of stuff that

670
00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:35.079
comes to pro Wrestling. But the
way he has treated Staying since coming to

671
00:46:35.280 --> 00:46:39.800
AW is something I will always be
forever grateful to Tony Kahn and AW four

672
00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:45.800
because they presented him in his best
light given what he can do in a

673
00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:50.079
wrestling ring at this point. And
the stuff with Darby Allen's been good.

674
00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:52.440
The stuff you know, coming on
with you know, you mentioned this stuff

675
00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:57.199
with Brian Cage and Ricky Stars and
even having matches with you know, all

676
00:46:57.199 --> 00:47:00.599
these other guys throughout the four years
he's been with the company has been phenomenal.

677
00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:04.719
And it's sort of things you know, you play to your strength and

678
00:47:04.760 --> 00:47:07.199
minimize your weaknesses. And I think
they've done a fantastic job with Staying and

679
00:47:07.239 --> 00:47:13.519
giving him the proper sendoff, And
to do the sendoff in Greensboro, North

680
00:47:13.519 --> 00:47:16.960
Carolina, an area that has almost
been kind of forgotten about by professional wrestling

681
00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:22.239
when it was huge through the eighties
and into the nineties is also a great

682
00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:27.440
way to do his final match for
AW as well. Yeah, I think

683
00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:30.119
you hit the nail on the head
there, doctor Trey. If you look

684
00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:34.840
back at this five year AW run
and you say, like, who,

685
00:47:35.480 --> 00:47:38.880
what is one of the best things
Tony Kahan has booked or AW creative is

686
00:47:38.920 --> 00:47:45.400
done. It is the way that
they've handled letting stings career close out.

687
00:47:45.559 --> 00:47:50.039
It has been nearly perfection. It's
been respectful. It's been the right way

688
00:47:50.079 --> 00:47:52.639
to do it. In my opinion. I think the way that his WE

689
00:47:52.800 --> 00:48:00.239
run or his original run of retirement
ended was it wasn't It was a shame,

690
00:48:00.480 --> 00:48:01.639
is what it was. On so
many levels, the way that he

691
00:48:01.679 --> 00:48:06.440
was booked and then the way that
he went out by injury. It was

692
00:48:06.559 --> 00:48:10.880
just an overall shame and that will
definitely taint the WE Run for a little

693
00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:15.880
bit. But his original appearance at
that Survivor series like still blows my mind

694
00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:21.239
and I think that was Survivor Series
twenty fourteen if I corrected it myself now.

695
00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:25.039
But the AW run has been phenomenal, really really good. The only

696
00:48:25.079 --> 00:48:30.360
thing now that matters is how do
they close it out on Sunday? Do

697
00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:35.199
they close out this book respectfully?
And that's something that we will get to

698
00:48:35.360 --> 00:48:40.360
now here as we preview and predict
AW Revolution this Sunday from Greensboro Coliseum in

699
00:48:40.360 --> 00:48:45.760
Greensboro, North Carolina. The first
match here Doctor Trey that will preview Chris

700
00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:49.559
Jericho taking on it's gonna be an
all star scramble match where the winner receives

701
00:48:49.559 --> 00:48:52.920
a future AW World Champion match.
You've got Christ Jericho, Wardlow, Powerhouse

702
00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:58.239
Hobs, Lance Archer Hook, Brian
Cage, and two spots to be announced

703
00:48:58.320 --> 00:49:01.400
a match on Rampage Match, and
that will decide that. I'm gonna take

704
00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:05.239
Wardlow in this one because they are
starting to prep him for an a W

705
00:49:05.239 --> 00:49:07.320
World Champion match. Doctor Trey.
Yeah, see, this one was hard

706
00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:10.880
for me because I want to pick
Wardlow, but I don't know if you

707
00:49:10.920 --> 00:49:16.360
want to go Wardlow and Joe yet. So it wasn't it called something else,

708
00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:19.559
but they changed it because of injuries
and then they came back. It

709
00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:22.280
was like the Meaty Month, the
Meatyman Match or something like that. He

710
00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:24.800
originally, yes, it was meat
Madness and they had to cancel due to

711
00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:30.199
injuries. Yes, I wish if
I'm big ee, I want some residuals

712
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:37.679
off using that name. I think
I'm going to take Hobbs in this one.

713
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:39.840
It might be my surprise pick,
but I'm gonna take Powerhobs Hobbs,

714
00:49:39.880 --> 00:49:45.480
even though I really think they might
pull the trigger and do Wardlow. But

715
00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:49.199
if you do Wardlow and Joe.
Now, what's your payoff? So I

716
00:49:49.239 --> 00:49:53.639
think the eventual return of MJF.
Yeah, But then like, is Wardlow

717
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:58.519
actually gonna lay down for Adam Cole? Like Cole talked about, I think

718
00:49:58.519 --> 00:50:02.039
the state you save it for or
when you know that both guys are coming

719
00:50:02.079 --> 00:50:07.559
back. So I think I'll take
Hobbs because Hobbs has been booked really,

720
00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:12.119
really strong over the last couple of
months. So I'll take Hobbs getting to

721
00:50:12.159 --> 00:50:15.840
win as any kind of surprise.
Next match year is FTR taking on the

722
00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:17.920
Blackpool Combat Club. Who do you
like this one? Doctor Trey Man?

723
00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:21.719
This now? Once again, I'll
give aw crad. They've got me in

724
00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:24.199
some of these matches where I'm like, I have no idea where they're going

725
00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:30.719
as far as directions. Who's gonna
win? I think I will take FTR

726
00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:34.000
though, because I think that would
put them in line for a tag title

727
00:50:34.039 --> 00:50:37.280
shot, and BCC kind of floats
their guys in and out of Tag team.

728
00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:42.039
So I will take FTR to get
the win. I have FTR getting

729
00:50:42.039 --> 00:50:45.119
this victory as well. They did
take the l and the Trios match.

730
00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:52.280
On Wednesday's Dynamite, Christian Cave defends
the AWT and T Championship against Daniel Garcia.

731
00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:55.119
I'm gonna take Christian Cage in this
one, Doctor Trey, and probably

732
00:50:55.159 --> 00:50:59.639
not a popular opinion here by by
any means, but I feel like the

733
00:50:59.719 --> 00:51:04.159
AT and T champions reign of Christian
Cage has been kind of dragging on a

734
00:51:04.199 --> 00:51:07.000
little bit too long for my liking. See, I've enjoyed the run because

735
00:51:07.039 --> 00:51:10.440
I don't know, I just like
Christian Cage, especially as the heel,

736
00:51:10.519 --> 00:51:14.800
like he is so good right now. I know, maybe it's it's dragging

737
00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:17.880
on a little bit with all the
dead family member references and maybe a bit,

738
00:51:19.039 --> 00:51:22.079
but I still think that you're gonna
eventually pull the trigger, Adam who

739
00:51:22.079 --> 00:51:25.239
where Copeland beats him and actually gets
the belt for a little bit, not

740
00:51:25.440 --> 00:51:30.119
just for like, you know,
a couple hours. So I will take

741
00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:35.440
Christian Cage retaining as well. Next
match here is Will Ospray taking on Kenoska

742
00:51:35.559 --> 00:51:37.960
Takeshka. I'm really looking forward to
this one, Dot Stray, Who do

743
00:51:37.960 --> 00:51:43.159
you like in this? This one's
tricky for me because I don't know what

744
00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:45.480
the plan for Ospray is, Like, is he gonna be a baby face?

745
00:51:45.559 --> 00:51:47.840
He's gonna be a heal. I
know he's part of Don Kallis family,

746
00:51:47.880 --> 00:51:52.320
but is he? So I'm gonna
take Will Ospray to get the win,

747
00:51:52.559 --> 00:51:58.039
but then Takeshka and Don Kallis beat
down Ospray postmatch. I would definitely

748
00:51:58.079 --> 00:52:01.599
I'm gonna take Will Ospray. I
agree with your synopsis postmatch. Osprey was

749
00:52:01.599 --> 00:52:07.079
acting much like a babyface on Wednesdays
Dynamite and the don Colis family is not

750
00:52:07.239 --> 00:52:14.320
babyfaces at all. Next match is
Eddie Kingston defending the aw Continal Crown Championship

751
00:52:14.559 --> 00:52:19.239
against Brian Danielson. If Kingson wins, Danielson has to shake his hand,

752
00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:22.280
I'm gonna take Eddie Kingson this one, Doctor Trey. Yeah, I'm taking

753
00:52:22.360 --> 00:52:24.960
Kingston as well, just because I
think he's the one who took the loss

754
00:52:25.079 --> 00:52:30.320
in that six man match year referencing
plus guys, Seriously, you've got to

755
00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:35.719
bury these hatches at some point,
So yeah, I'm taking kings Plus he

756
00:52:35.920 --> 00:52:37.760
just got to win the Condo Classic. Why would you take the all three

757
00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:43.360
belts off of them right away?
So this is the Eddie Kingson redemption Tour,

758
00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:45.960
so to speak. So Eddie gets
the win. Next match Year is

759
00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:51.039
Timeless Tony Storm defend the aw Women's
World CHAMPIONI against Deanna Brazzo Doctor Trey.

760
00:52:51.039 --> 00:52:52.800
Who do you like in this one? Oh? Once again A little bit

761
00:52:52.840 --> 00:52:55.840
torn on this one because I love
some Tony Storm and then you have the

762
00:52:55.880 --> 00:53:00.559
new upstart coming in. But aw's
pretty good about not necessarily switching the belt

763
00:53:00.639 --> 00:53:04.440
just because the new guy's there.
This isn't like old school TNA where the

764
00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:07.559
new guy shows up and they give
him a belt, almost like a participation

765
00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:12.159
trophy. So I'm gonna take a
timeless Tony Storm with the help of Luther

766
00:53:12.320 --> 00:53:15.239
and Mariah May to you know,
sneak out of victory over Daanna Brazza.

767
00:53:15.639 --> 00:53:19.880
I'm gonna take timeless Tony Storm retaining
the championship as well. I think her

768
00:53:20.440 --> 00:53:24.519
taking on the person that Doctor Trey
is very excited to debut in aw AT

769
00:53:24.559 --> 00:53:29.400
Big Business in a couple of weeks
is probably the direction that they will take

770
00:53:29.519 --> 00:53:35.159
next. Next match, Year's Orange
Cassie to defending the AW Internet International Championhip

771
00:53:35.159 --> 00:53:37.320
against Roderick Strong. I'm gonna take
Roderic Strong on this one. Not sure

772
00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:40.480
I think we get a new International
champion. Yeah, and this is kind

773
00:53:40.519 --> 00:53:45.000
of my payoff also for the Wardlow
not picking Wardlow earlier. It is like

774
00:53:45.119 --> 00:53:47.960
you can't have United Kingdom come in
and just take over everything right away until

775
00:53:49.360 --> 00:53:52.159
until you know Adams to be about
back. So I'm gonna take Rodrick Strong

776
00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:55.079
to get the win here, just
because I had Wardlow losing earlier, so

777
00:53:55.400 --> 00:54:00.800
or not getting pinned everier, but
Roderick with the win because Roderick also super

778
00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:05.039
underwear, like his performs the last
nine months has been fantastic. Next match

779
00:54:05.119 --> 00:54:08.360
is Samoa Joe defend the aw World
Championship in a three way match against Swerve,

780
00:54:08.360 --> 00:54:12.039
Strickland and Hangman Adam Page Doctor Trey. Who do you like in this

781
00:54:12.119 --> 00:54:15.679
one? Uh? This one is
tricky for me, but because I can

782
00:54:15.760 --> 00:54:19.599
see them pulling the trigger with Swerve
getting to win. But I think we

783
00:54:19.719 --> 00:54:22.239
know with what happened on Dynamite with
Adam Page hitting in with the crutch,

784
00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:25.760
I think we get more Swerve and
Page, so I think Joe retains to

785
00:54:25.920 --> 00:54:30.400
head towards either Pops Warlow, Adam
Cole MJF one of those guys. I'm

786
00:54:30.400 --> 00:54:35.079
going to take Samo Joe retain the
championship as well, and then finally Sting

787
00:54:35.199 --> 00:54:38.840
and Darby Allen defend the AW World
Tag Team Championship in a Tornado Tag Team

788
00:54:38.880 --> 00:54:45.039
match against Nicholas and Matthew Jackson,
also known as the Young Bucks. I'm

789
00:54:45.039 --> 00:54:46.519
going to take Sting and Darby Allen
this one, Doc Trey. I think

790
00:54:46.559 --> 00:54:52.039
everything that they've been praised over lately
in AW praising the way that they've been

791
00:54:52.119 --> 00:54:55.920
booked for booked Sting and let him
go out on his own terms. I

792
00:54:57.000 --> 00:55:00.320
think Tony Kahn and company want to
end this on a very nice, solid

793
00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:05.199
note, and that is with Sting
winning. I know most people on the

794
00:55:05.440 --> 00:55:08.559
way out of the door will take
the l and you know, pay it

795
00:55:08.679 --> 00:55:12.079
forward, but the Young Bucks don't
need it. So I'm gonna take Singing

796
00:55:12.159 --> 00:55:15.280
Darby Allen win this one. So
let me ask you this before so do

797
00:55:15.440 --> 00:55:20.119
they then vacate the tag titles and
we get a tournament for the new tag

798
00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:22.679
team champions? I do believe that
happens next. Yes, that's kind of

799
00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:25.039
what I was thinking too, which
is also why I kind of picked FTR.

800
00:55:25.360 --> 00:55:30.599
So I'm gonna take Stinging Darby as
well, even though there's a really

801
00:55:30.679 --> 00:55:32.280
big part of me that really wants
Flaire to actually go ahead and turn a

802
00:55:32.360 --> 00:55:37.000
heel inside with the young Bucks.
There's a huge part of me because I

803
00:55:37.199 --> 00:55:39.079
don't like Rick Flair as the good
guy. Well, that ship sailed on

804
00:55:39.360 --> 00:55:43.719
Wednesday's Dynamite, so and that's that's
what really kind of blew it up for

805
00:55:43.760 --> 00:55:45.800
me because I'm like, well,
that means they can't you can't have Flair

806
00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:49.800
turn four days later. It makes
no sense. So I will take Sting

807
00:55:49.880 --> 00:55:52.159
and Darby retaining like and then you
get the big send off with both guys

808
00:55:52.159 --> 00:55:55.840
in the ring Hollywood tag belts Holy
for Sting to lay his belt down with

809
00:55:55.960 --> 00:56:00.639
his boots in the ring before exiting
to talk about Wednesday's Dynamite. There the

810
00:56:00.760 --> 00:56:05.719
last segment with Sting, I mean, obviously the thing that saved it was

811
00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:08.800
him ascending from the top of the
rafters like he would do all uh wsw

812
00:56:09.320 --> 00:56:13.159
part of me earlier in the day
leading in Dynamite was like, man,

813
00:56:13.199 --> 00:56:15.320
I think the perfect way that Aw
closes out and Dynamite is for him to

814
00:56:15.400 --> 00:56:19.800
ascend from the rafters. And I
never thought they would do it because I

815
00:56:19.880 --> 00:56:22.360
think they stopped doing it after the
Owenhart tragedy, and we really don't see

816
00:56:22.360 --> 00:56:27.800
that in professional wrestling at all.
Anymore. But nonetheless, it was really

817
00:56:27.880 --> 00:56:30.920
really cool to see that Sting did
that one last time. What did you

818
00:56:30.920 --> 00:56:34.599
think about him ascending from the rafters, doctor Try, I thought that was

819
00:56:34.639 --> 00:56:37.519
pretty I thought I thought he did
it one more time in WCW, but

820
00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:39.719
he had Brett's permission, like he
w, I think you're right. I

821
00:56:39.760 --> 00:56:44.559
think you're right. No, I
thought it was really really cool. It's

822
00:56:44.559 --> 00:56:46.239
funny to me because like, like, I just did a show this past

823
00:56:46.239 --> 00:56:51.599
weekend, and Action Mike Jackson,
who we talked about the show seventy four

824
00:56:51.679 --> 00:56:52.360
years old ever, was like,
Oh, he's too old to be doing

825
00:56:52.400 --> 00:56:55.079
stuff in the ring that he does. And I'm like, wait, Sting

826
00:56:55.320 --> 00:56:59.840
just dropped from the rafters at sixty
five years old, So I think it's

827
00:56:59.880 --> 00:57:02.239
a okay if Mike Jackson still get
to the rigging time. But yeah,

828
00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:04.880
you know, it was. It
was so cool. And then like you

829
00:57:04.920 --> 00:57:06.760
know, like I told joff Air, I had a bunch of friends of

830
00:57:06.760 --> 00:57:08.400
that show. I had friends that
were in the upper decks and they were

831
00:57:08.440 --> 00:57:13.199
the first ones to see him dropping
down. Uh you know that's why you

832
00:57:13.280 --> 00:57:15.079
hear like it's like a weird build
up in the crowd on TV, Like

833
00:57:15.159 --> 00:57:19.039
you hear some cheering and then a
little louder and the little louder. Then

834
00:57:19.079 --> 00:57:22.599
by the time he hits the floor, it's like a rough But I thought

835
00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:24.320
it was really really cool, really
well done, and a great way to

836
00:57:24.360 --> 00:57:29.079
pay homage to that Sting character that
you and I were talking about from Yeah,

837
00:57:30.199 --> 00:57:34.719
the Crow days, Yeah, Sting's
crow gimmick from like late ninety six

838
00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:38.440
to that match in ninety seven Starcade
was one of the best character development builds

839
00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:43.079
I've ever seen. Yeah, I
mean, if you're not up to that,

840
00:57:43.159 --> 00:57:45.880
if you're too young for that,
now go back into time and do

841
00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:49.920
yourself a favor and watch where they
like started saying that Sting was going to

842
00:57:49.960 --> 00:57:52.679
be joining the nWo, turning his
back in WW, and then he basically

843
00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:58.960
turned his back on W's W and
became this crow gimmick, leading to star

844
00:57:59.039 --> 00:58:02.800
K ninety seven and make life miserable
for the nWo, which was super over

845
00:58:02.840 --> 00:58:06.840
at the time. Don't watch r
K ninety seven because it's not worth it,

846
00:58:07.119 --> 00:58:09.280
but everything leading up to it is
one of the greatest character development pills

847
00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:13.800
I've ever seen. In my entire
time of watching professional wrestling, we never

848
00:58:14.000 --> 00:58:17.480
had a gimmick like that where somebody
took an entire year, never wrestled a

849
00:58:17.559 --> 00:58:22.239
match, never spoke for an entire
year, and was more over at the

850
00:58:22.320 --> 00:58:24.599
end of that year than he was
before he started. I mean, it's

851
00:58:25.280 --> 00:58:28.639
the crazy. I mean, for
me, the closest thing to it was

852
00:58:28.760 --> 00:58:31.400
the bray Wyatt stuff when he was
returning the follow White Rabbit stuff, But

853
00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:35.920
that was even that that was only
like a couple months long where this was

854
00:58:36.039 --> 00:58:40.320
over. I think it was like
thirteen months thirteen fourteen months between matches and

855
00:58:42.239 --> 00:58:45.840
speaking for Sting that in that run, and it was fantastic because you never

856
00:58:45.920 --> 00:58:49.599
knew from one week to the next
if he's gonna drop in, not drop

857
00:58:49.719 --> 00:58:52.880
in, what they were going to
do. And then like when the fake

858
00:58:52.960 --> 00:58:55.679
Stings showed up and people were wearing
the masks and all that stuff, Like,

859
00:58:57.199 --> 00:59:00.679
I mean, people still copycat that
now just because of how iconic that

860
00:59:00.920 --> 00:59:05.119
was, and that was nearly thirty
years ago. Yeah, doctor Trey wrestled

861
00:59:05.400 --> 00:59:08.320
someone at Copycat had Sting. Yeah, one of my favorite stories on the

862
00:59:08.400 --> 00:59:12.679
history of this podcast. With that
said, let's get a couple of plugs

863
00:59:12.719 --> 00:59:15.280
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864
00:59:15.320 --> 00:59:19.000
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865
00:59:19.039 --> 00:59:22.440
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866
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867
00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:30.199
at SRTU Jeff, and for doctor
Tray Franklin at D Doctor Trey and of

868
00:59:30.280 --> 00:59:34.039
course don't forget to follow the show
on X at SRTU podcast. With that

869
00:59:34.159 --> 00:59:36.400
being said, what is going on
in the one for world of dot Trey

870
00:59:36.440 --> 00:59:39.199
Franklin this week? Well, like
Jeff said, you can follow me on

871
00:59:39.559 --> 00:59:44.400
X by just at T Doctor Trey. You can find me on Facebook and

872
00:59:44.440 --> 00:59:47.840
Instagram Doctor Trey Franklin. When you're
on Facebook, check out Rockets Championship Wrestling,

873
00:59:49.400 --> 00:59:52.480
Spartan Championship Wrestling, and Jeff the
show whose name I forgot last week,

874
00:59:53.039 --> 00:59:57.199
All Star Wrestling Association here in Alabama, Joe. So those are three

875
00:59:57.239 --> 01:00:00.119
shows I'm working with now in Alabama
And apparently all my stuff this week is

876
01:00:00.159 --> 01:00:05.719
brought to you by Huggies and Colgate
because Sammy is potty training and right now

877
01:00:05.840 --> 01:00:09.119
brushing his teeth with his pants down
around his ankles. So this is like

878
01:00:09.519 --> 01:00:15.320
one of those iconic moments in my
life and for the podcast where Sammy's just

879
01:00:15.480 --> 01:00:17.639
laughing brushing his teeth with his pants
down around his ankle. Hey you listen,

880
01:00:17.719 --> 01:00:21.760
we finally have made it here.
We have done nearly everything here in

881
01:00:21.800 --> 01:00:23.440
the history of a start to you, and this is the coup de gras.

882
01:00:24.320 --> 01:00:29.119
With that said, let's get doctor
Trey back to helping with potty training.

883
01:00:30.079 --> 01:00:35.360
For Doctor Trey Franklin for the potty
training Sammy Franklin, I am Jeff

884
01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:37.880
Pack. Thank you for downloading,
Thank you for listening until next week.

885
01:00:38.559 --> 01:00:40.519
This is the story of the show.