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2023 WWE Draft recap and WWE Backlash Preview | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #690 – 5/4/23 · THE STILL REAL TO US SHOW – Real Guy Radio

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It's still up. Welcome everybody. Welcome to this week's edition Too Realte Show
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EPISO number six hundred and nineteen from May four, two hundred twenty three.
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Because you're w WE draft rerecap and review and definitely backlash preview and predictions edition
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of ass Team You. I am one app the show. I am Jeff
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back to join you every single week, my coast one on Goustomer Franklin,
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Doctor Trey. Why did you become a free agent, my friend? Well,
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I had this nagging injury. I have a fractured foot, so until
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I'm medically cleared to compete, there is no point in assigning me to a
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roster um. So as of this time, I'm kind. I guess maybe
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I'm going to be in the uh the supplemental supple mental round or just wait
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to see who offers me the most money. I mean, I gotta I
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gotta get a cool nickname, like a you know, daddy Magic or you
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know, cool cool handge. Yeah, I need something. It was weird.
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By the way, Do we ever figure out why they named him Angelo?
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No, no, no clue at all is that the real name?
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No? I mean, because I was just it was. It was it
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was it I think I thought was something Parker. It was Jeff Parker.
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Yeah, they were terrible names for two point nine. So I just know
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how they're from Jeff to Angelo like that just seems like a stretch. But
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anyway, I just they're on my TV right now, so I had to
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ask the question, No, no spoilers. We are recording under an aw
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dynamite. I am not watching. I have the Yankees on, which I
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the way they've been playing lately, I wouldn't mind spoilers, just so I
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can not watch them, uh and then go to bed if they're playing like
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shit, or turn on aw dynamite. But we will, we will recap
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and review w WE Draft. We will pre even predictive toe back here all
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on this week's edition of the show. We're talking a little bit off air
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about the draft here and trying to make sense of some of the stuff,
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and we'll go round by round, not by night by night here momentarily.
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But I'm just gonna kick it off with this. Going into the draft,
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Doctor Trey, I was very like excited, intrigued looking forward to the draft
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itself because I really like the concept. You know, it's there's a point
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more than just like a normal rawn SmackDown to sit down and watch both week's
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edition the show, because it's it's gonna be different, different feel, and
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then it transcends the ww rosters for both brands, including NXC three brands for
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the next year plus maybe even longer because the last time we did a draft
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with it was in twenty twenty one, and that was the fall once the
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draft was over, and this will be a theme for me at least a
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night. I thought it was extremely underwhelming and a little bit lame. I
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gotta be honest with you. That's that's my that's my preface initial thoughts on
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US. I feel like I need to get that out of the way now
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before we get into and looking at each round and then some surprises things that
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we liked, all that stuff moving forward here. I think my expectations were
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a little lower than years because really, I think we talked about it like
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last week's show, like really since like the first couple of drafts, like
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the first couple of drafts are kin of exciting, Like at this point it
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is kind of okay, we're probably gonna switch the mid card champions or probably
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going to switch the women. Is like that's kind of the norm, Like
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I'm kind of used to that. I think for me this year, the
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amount of NXT draft picks was kind of surprising, and it wasn't so much
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on the Oh my god, I can't believe this guy is called up because
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a lot of these people that were draft were people that we've talked about for
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a while. It's just, oh my god, this sheer number of people
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moving up to the quote unquote main roster. That means nxc's gonna be really
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influx. And does that mean we're gonna get the budget? Because like I'm
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just kind of like just blown away by the sheer volume of NHT people making
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the jumps are either raw or SmackDown. So we're gonna go through the draft
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here, round by round. Afterwards, I'm going to talk about pick picks
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that were most excited for and then surprises from the draft as well. So
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I don't know if we want to like give you know, quick initial thoughts
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here or like we'll be here all day talking about this doctory. So I
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don't know how you want to go about this, but we'll go from night
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one SmackDown round one, which to me like another thing with this and I
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feel like we've said this in the past, but they do these rounds and
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they don't make sense because it's like, why would they choose Austin theory over
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seth freaking Rollin's, Like that just makes sense. Why is tris Stratus a
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Hall of Famer a seventh round pick? Like why no disrespect? But why
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is the LWL so far up ahead of like Hall of Famers and stuff?
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So there's a lot of head scratchers. And then I think the thing that's
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gotten away from the brands over the years is there's there's no figureheads. I
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liked when they had the general managers. It made sense. I'm someone that
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remember the first ever W draft within two thousand and two, you had Rick
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Flair overseeing Raw and you had Vincikman overseeing SmackDown and then obviously Bischoff and Stephanie
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for a little bit, and I think Bischoff and Paul Hayman. Then I
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think it was Bischoff at Teddy Long for a long time, and then they
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had the tandems where it was Mick and Steph and Daniel, Brian and Shane.
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Like I liked when they did that, Like we have no clue who
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the hell's picking from Ron SmackDown. In the past, it was like network
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network executives from USA, network executives from Fox. But you just had random
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w hall of famers popping out of what they called war rooms. But who
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the hell was in the war room? Like the concept we're sports fans,
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Doctor Trey and I and we just came off the NFL draft, like we
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know who's making picks. I think that's something that's been lost and all this
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is like there's no true figureheads anymore. It's it's kind of pointless as to
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why and who was making these picks. I guess, like why are they
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mystery and the anonymous GM's back. I don't know. In my head,
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I just picture like Jerry Jones in one war room. I pictured Jerry Jones
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in the SmackDown war room and Daniel Snyder in the rod just because the color
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schemes. I guess. I don't know, Like it's it's one of those
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things, like one of the things that we give AW crap for and w
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a lot of credit for is like storylines and tying up loose ends, and
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then it's like, wait, we're just randomly selecting for this, Like if
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they're gonna do this, Just do a lottery. Just do a straight hopper
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draw at least like they used to do with like the ping pong balls for
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the rumble, you know, like, just do a straight hopper draw at
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least, then I'll feel like, Okay, at least it's random. And
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then you don't get an LWO getting picked ahead of Hall of Famers. You
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don't get Austin theory getting drafted for seth Rods, where it's like somebody chose
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that, like no, no, no, just let the chips fall with
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the bay and even if it's predetermined, at least I'll feel like it's a
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better way to tie up the storyline than just going, hey, here's a
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Sean and Road dog to make this pick these round of picks, because they're
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just announcing them as it is now, I will say, if you're doing
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that, like, you know, the NFL did have a bunch of like
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former players come out and make their team's picks or random fans or you know,
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make a wish kids or whatever it was. That's fine, you could
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have set it up that way, you know, but still, like I
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kind of want to know who do I blame for? Somebody picking Austin theory
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over seth Rowlands, Like who do I blame for some of the stuff if
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they make bad picks and we hate them, I don't have some I can't
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yell at Son, I can't yell at somebody else, and for making a
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bad pick, I just have to yell at Fox in USA. Apparently I
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don't know. I forgot that there was a period of time where it was
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like this random generator that was just making picks for no reason at all.
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I love that one because then you did story like it made no sense at
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all. I mean, man, I was not a fan of that,
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Like I like general managers and commissioners making picks. Well it's it's it's to
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me that was the throwback to the old WCW when they did the lethal lottery
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and it was supposedly quote unquote random drawings. So like just call a draft
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lottery and it's like, you know, you're or just called a lottery,
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like, oh, you know, Ron's getting x amount of ping pong balls
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versus smackdowns x amount of ping pong balls, and who was pink? And
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then you just have like a giant hopper with everybody's name on it and then
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just like, if you really want to be a good creative genius to try
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that, just go out there and be like, Okay, we really don't
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know who's gonna show what the ping pong balls aside, and then Roman rains
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ends up on NXT. I will also say that I do miss the day
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as we're like Rown SmackDown, like seeing two legitimate different promotions and there was
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really no times that they intersected with one another's. That was like the two
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thousand and two to two thousand and four, maybe even later two thousand and
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six era, and it was just a different feel for both shows. Then
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now it's like you can't really tell the difference, and you know, here's
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the Bloodline, here's randomly Austin theory on SmackDown. When he was on Raw,
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It's like, why are we Why is this happening? And there's no
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reason why. Nonetheless, let's get into it round by round. So night
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one SmackDown. Round one SmackDown picked Paul Hayman, Solo Sekoya and Roman Reigns
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from the Bloodline. Cody Rhodes went to Rob Bianco. Bel Air went to
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SmackDown Who and she's the Roman's Champion right now, and then Raw got Becky
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Lynch. Obviously, the big thing here was that Hayman, Solo, and
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Roman were picked from the bloodline but not the usos, and it was like,
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hmm, could the USO's end up on another brand? Interesting? That's
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round one, Doctor Treys there anything you want to talk about that or should
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we just keep rolling along now? Well? I mean, the only thing
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I would question on this is it was weird that they said, hey,
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these are the only people that are able to be selected for this night and
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then the resumes like a rock because it's like, well, if I draft
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Bianca, why wouldn't the follow up take automatically be Ria. It's like no,
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no, no, we're gonna say Ria for Monday. But that just
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makes no sense to me. Is just do like, hey, you know,
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like these are the people, like the people that are able to I
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don't know, we just do it in one night, Yeah, just do
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like what we do in fantasy football and have like a like you know,
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Raw and protect so many people on this night and SmackDown if you want to
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save some stuff. Like there's ways they're doing it to make it a little
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better. But um, like you're looking going okay, like to these four,
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like because in my head, the first four picks are your cornerstones of
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your franchise. They're they're they're your cornerstone people. And to me, that's
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like, okay, Well, Spacdal's got you know, Roman, Schoa and
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Paul, and then then they get Bianca and then Raw gets Cody and Becky
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was like, wait, does that mean rhyas farther down the food chain than
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Bianca and Becky Like, it's just confusing on that aspect. And I would
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also say that I think championship just remain exclusive to the brands, which used
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to be a thing at one point as well with a draft like the Raw
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Women's champions should not be able to be drafted to SmackDown so that we get
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that stupid title swash that they did with Becky and Charlotte back in twenty twenty
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one, and I guess nearly turned to blows behind the scenes. Round two
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SmackDown got the Street Profits, Raw out, Imperium, SmackDown drafted Edge,
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Raw drafted Matt Riddle. That is Round two from SmackDown. So once again,
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like I mean you're looking going okay, I mean you're going okay,
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So SmackDown's third pick of all the people they could pick was the Street Profits.
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Yeah, ahead of Edge. Yeah, I mean literally ahead of like
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you will get dorming. But like, here's like that seems a little bit
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high. I will say, picking stables. Like if I was a GM,
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that's all I would do, is I just picked stables. I'm like,
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I'm getting three or four people over the price of one. That's brilliant.
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Well here take a look at this right round three you're talking about like
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the Street Profits, where the third pick for SmackDown Um, SmackDown picks Bobby
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Lashley, Raw picks Drew McIntyre, SmackDown picks the oc AJ styles, Luke
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Alice, Carl Anderson, and Meechin and Raw picks them in. So the
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street Profits, and I'm a huge fan of the Street Profits. Don't get
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me wrong, they were picked ahead of in round two and three, one,
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two, three, four, five different former w champions, Edge,
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Bobby Lashly, Drew mcatyre, AJ styles of the oc mms. Yeah,
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I mean, and all those guys are probable Hall of famers, and it's
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like, well one of them is yeah Edge. Well I'll be saying,
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but I mean just in general, like AJ's gonna be a Hall of Famer,
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Lashly McIntyre, mit all potential Hall of Fame guys, but riddles above
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all of them who just came off the suspension. Yeah, okay, all
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right, guys. Round four SmackDown Drafts, Damage Control, Eo Sky,
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Dakota, Kai and Bailey, Raw Draft Shinsky Kaka Morris, SmackDown Drafts,
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Alba, Fire and Island Don the NEXC Women's Tag team champions and Raw drafts
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the now former NEXE Women's champion Indie Hartwell, yeah, so Indie drops her
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Felt, Island Alba end their belts against a tag team that gets later drafted
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to Raw. But they're not dropping those belts, are we are? We
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gonna end emerging the NXT tag Women's tag belts and the women's tag team.
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I'm just confused more than that a little bit maybe. And then SmackDown Lowdown
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one of Doctor Trey Servert shows on Peacock Um. SmackDown gets hit Rowan Lacey
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Evans, and then Raw ends up getting Viking ratings and Viking Raiders and Valhalla,
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Dexter Loomis Kansas Lay, Maxim Male Models, Maxine Duprie Man SWA and
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Massei Natalia Apollo Cruz from NXT, Chelsea Green and Sonya deville Zoe start from
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NXT. JD McDonough from NXT, and then just random free aging groups Omas
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Mustafa Ali, Dolph Siegler, and von Wagner from NXT. So is that
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the group of the Hey, here's some guys we don't know what the hell
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to do with, so we'll just leave this fringings that we need them?
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So strange, right, like what? Um? Why call up von Wagner
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if he's a free agent? Like what what? Because he can't he just
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go right back to NXT, which he did this past Tuesday. They continue
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to storyline. So that was from SmackDown, Lowdown is what it is?
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H Night two Raw Round one, Ria Ripley goes to Raw SmackDown Awesome Theory,
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Raw takes Seth Freakin Rollins, SmackDown takes Charlotte Flair, and then it
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was also announced in this round that brock Lesner is going to become a free
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agent. He was not drafted Round one, he elects free agency. That's
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round one. I do love the Rea pick. I do think that you're
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sending a message as a company saying that Ria Ripley is a top tier talent.
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So I do like that, pick doctor Trey. See here's here's my
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thoughts. Here's another thought. Instead of like trying to criss cross between two
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shows, how about we do, Hey, all the men will be drafted
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on SmackDown, women get drafted on Raw. M that's an interesting one,
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and then you can see what the ratings really do and see if the women
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actually can match up to the men drawing power. And then you know,
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hey, the first, you know, four rounds will be first five rounds
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be the men, first five rounds are raw either women, and then the
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last few rounds will be the tag teams or the stables, you know,
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and then create some intrigue. But this whole like, you know, hey,
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why you know Becky can get drafted while she's you know, on the
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SmackDown, but Seth can get drafted until Monday night. Like that's just you
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know, some of that stuff's just like the rules on this are weird to
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me and in my brain can't comprehend how they do this and not on Yeah,
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but then at that point we knew that that you know, Seth was
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going to end up on Raw once Becky was drafted. So are we k
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faving that Dexter and Indy are actually married because of the fact they both ended
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up on Raw Or is this like they know that we know this, so
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they say, Hey, we storyline of plights too. I guess. I
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guess we're k faving on that one. I don't know. I mean,
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I like the ending the NX Day this past Tuesday as well. I don't
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know if you saw it, but I thought that was like a really good
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weight of tying it up. We're talking about a lot of interesting, confusing
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creative on this episode. I thought that was like a good way to do
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a call back and tighten things up. So round two Raw gets Kevin Owens
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and Sammy Zane SmackDown gets the USO's Raw gets the Judgment Day, SmackDown gets
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the LWO. So like they didn't even harp on hmm. I wonder if
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the USOS could land on Raw at all during the TWEE draft, Like I
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thought that was one solo Hayman and Roman were drafted together and the US's were
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left out to dry. Like, I thought that should have been a really
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big storyline for them into Night two, and they didn't address at all and
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then they just like, oh USO's good drafted to the SmackDown. So that
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was round two, Doctor Trey, Yeah once again? Still yeah, once
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again. Yeah, you go back to you go back to the draft itself,
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and you're looking at going, wait, so the SmackDown got the OC
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and the LWO and they're baby face grooms, but Raw gets Imperium and Judgment
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Day that are heel factions. I'm like it's a little confusing on that as
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well, Like you would think that if one show gets a baby face faction,
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the Shadows show would get a get the other baby face faction, but
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they didn't go that route. The straight Yeah, we're just gonna figure it
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out as we go. That sounds like w creative. So round three,
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Raw gets Live Morgan Rockel Rodriguez, the w W Women's Tack Team Champions,
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SmackDown gets Oscar, Raw gets the New Day, SmackDown gets the Brawling Brute
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Shamus Butch and Rich holland anything there. Doctor Trey. Uh, it just
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kind of feels at this point, I'm like, are we just taking the
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rivalries that run SmackDown and moving into Raw and vice versa, because you know,
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we just had Bianca and Oscar both Now it's SmackDown. Uh, you
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know, it just feels it just feels like, hey, if we put
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a new coat like it, literally, if we put a new coat of
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paint on it, it makes it fresh, like we're just gonna change the
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color schemes. And then that's we can go right back to Byak and Oska
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because nobody on SmackDown watch that rivalry. We'll just go right back to it
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again if we have two. Yeah, there's some confusing stuff there. Um
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round four and I said earlier, I thought it was round seven. I
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was wrong. Um Trip Stratus goes to Raw. SmackDown gets Carrying Cross,
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Raw gets Ronda Rowsy and Shanna Basler. SmackDown gets La Night. I mean
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Shana and Ronda going to Raw along with Raquel and Live and not surprising,
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but we do get Becky and Ronda on the same brand. So that's maybe
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a WrestleMania forty teaser. Maybe who knows? Round five five gets Bronstrom and
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a Ricochet SmackDown gets SHOTSI Raw gets Bronson, Read SmackDown gets pretty deadly for
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men X Day, I am sup pretty sad word street profits and pretty deadly
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I'm not gonna lie. I'm a super stoke for this one. Yeah,
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that's gonna be a lot of fun. I'm a big fan of Pretty Deadly.
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They've it felt like main roster talents for some time. And then finally
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Round six Rackets Alpha Academy SmackDown gets Rick Boogs, Rackets, Katana Chance and
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Kadan Carter from NXT. SmackDown gets Cameron Cribs from NXT, but he hasn't
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been there since November. So that's the last round on the Raw broadcast before
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we get to Raw. Talk a little surprised that, and it will get
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into week cover the Freedom, but Boogs is selected by himself. That's a
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little I was a little bummed about that. I that'd be a tandem pick.
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But you know, we still get Lashly. So we have Lashly Bronson
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read an Austin theory at a triple threat coming up this weekend. But theories
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now on SmackDown, as is Lashly Bronson reads on Raw and the icy titles
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now on Raw. So does that mean we just take Bronson read means he
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has no shot at winning this weekend? We prove him predict backlash towards the
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end of the Show, Stay Tuned, Folks, and then Raw Talk the
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supplemental Draft. I guess, Raw gets Dana Brook, Nicky Cross, Johnny
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Gargano, Angel Garza on Particlario of Los Lotharios, Karatzawa, Piper Niven,
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Zia, Lee, Tega Knox, Emma Riddick, Moss no longer Madcap,
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Induce Sheer and Gender Mahal from NXT Odyssey, Jones from NXT SmackDown gets Tamina
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and Grayson Waller from NXC and then again Free Agency, Baron Corbyn Shelton,
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Benjamin Cedric, Alexander Elias, and then from NXT Zion Quinn. Those were
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the picks from Raw Talk. I still did not know Zion Quinn. It's
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still part of WWE, so um, and it makes me sad that once
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again we're kind of hopping around the whole, Like Shelton and Cedric are kind
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of floating now, like maybe the most underrated tag team in WWE, and
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their time of the her business was fantastic, and like, a aren't we
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all just kind of like going, hey, just put Bobby Omas and Cedrica
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Shelton didn't get together again? Like why do we guy to keep dancing around
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this thing? Um, but so is it Corbyn's losing streak making him a
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free agent, and then nobody just said. Everybody just said no, we're
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good. I got. I don't. I don't I understand free agents when
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they're hurt. I don't understand the free agency when they're active participants on the
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roster, and then all of a sudden they're just like, yeah, we
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got. It's literally I don't want to work here anymore, so I'm leaving
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this. Can they go to? Can they go to? Aw these guys
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it literally is a creative has nothing for you at this time type move.
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It's bizarre, right, Yeah, I mean makes no sense. The first
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night when I looked at the free agents, you go, oh, Mustaph
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Ali Dolph Szigler, Like it could be like, hey, we can put
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these guys in either show and they make they can make anybody look good because
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they're absolutely fantastic workers and sellers. Let's say when you get into you know,
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the Baron Corbyn's and the Aliases, you're like, oh, okay,
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we just need fodder for some of these guys, and so we just bounced
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them back and forth like it really should they should just do Barren and Alliance
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as a tag team and be the guys on the street, like playing money
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for playing guitar for money and loose change would be fantastic. I think that
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they should call the tag team like, um, you probably thought we were
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going to be main inventors. If you went back to twenty eighteen, I
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would call them the street urchins. Ooh, okay, street urchins. W
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We'll test now and see if W creators really listening, because if they come
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out and there the street urchins or will wrestle for food and then you just
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use the use it as an acronym. Yeah wwff okay, not bad,
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not bad. I don't think they'll be sued for that one. Um.
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So graving the W draft, I gave it like a D plus doctor try.
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I don't know about you, but I was. I was a C
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minus D plus. I was like right in the same range. It was
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just like it was lackluster. There. You kind of saw where the picks
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were going. You're like, yeah, we know, Like I mean like
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it was literally every married couple still together. I don't think they splip a
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single couple between the two shows, which hey, I give them credit.
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I mean it's a it's it that's the right thing to do. Yeah,
23:12
work life balanced type situation. You know. Can I say that the one
23:17
that I thought was like thrown, I was like, oh, Ricochet went
23:18
to raw. So that means like Samantha Irvin his fiance, she's on SmackDown,
23:22
She's gonna stay there. No, it was announced afterwards that Mike Roman
23:26
her at Switch. Yeah, we're I mean, she's fantastic by the way.
23:30
I love how she does the imperium intro us. She's great and I'm
23:33
not knocking that, but I do miss when you know, Cole and j
23:37
R got drafted that one year. Oh that was terrible when and neither one
23:41
of them knew about it, and Jim Ross was so yeah. No,
23:45
I mean, if you ever watched JR. Watch read Jr's book, he
23:48
talks about it and then I still check it out from time to time on
23:52
YouTube where he's like shocked he's drafted and you hear him say like, yeah,
23:56
I'm getting up. Like so he was clearly set in the headset like
24:00
it up, you gotta go Switch, and he liked it, not like
24:03
he was legitimately pissed because he thought that was they were putting him out to
24:06
pasture there and they did basically with that move. But I'm not gonna like
24:11
I was kind of hoping Cole would go to Raw and uh, Kevin Patrick
24:15
will go to Smackdowndown. I mean, I like Kevin Patrick, but he's
24:19
had a rough couple of weeks. Kevin Patrick Waite Barrett though it would make
24:23
smackdowns sound way more legitimate and fancy. It would be n xcuk's back the
24:30
whole thing. So we're gonna break down picks that were most excited for surprises
24:33
from the W Draft. So starting with it, picks that were most excited
24:37
for I've got a couple of year Doctor Trey. So first one being is
24:41
Imperium on Raw. I think Gunther becomes an eventual contender and possible holder of
24:45
the w Worldweight Championship. I like this move. I think this is a
24:49
better move for Gunther in the long run and Imperium as well. Not to
24:52
mention, depending on who they put the title on at Night of champions I
24:57
mean we saw a little bit of a prelude a prelude for that at the
25:02
Royal Rubble with Cody and Gunther closing out the Rumble. Uh, you could
25:06
have Cody. You know, Cody had to go through all of Imperium,
25:10
you know to win that channel. I mean look at that. If Cody
25:11
has to go through like Roman reigns, brock Lesner and then Imperium, that
25:17
those are some obstacles overcome. So that's that's a pretty I'm excited about that
25:21
pick as well. Plus, like, are we going to get like gang
25:25
warfare between Judgment Day and Imperium for control of Raw? So I think it's
25:30
interesting because who's the most dominant heel stable because that's the way the guys set
25:33
it up. UM on SmackDown, I like edge Bobby Lashly in AJ styles
25:40
plus the OC on SmackDown because I look at it and I'm like, Okay,
25:42
are these guys that are gonna be challenging Roman now for the next three
25:45
six nine months. Yeah, the Bobby pick was really good because you need
25:51
a credible challenger for Roman. AJ can fill any role you need on the
25:53
show. Um you know those those are and then uh, theory kind of
26:00
being second fiddle to Roman will be interesting. So we saw a little bit
26:03
that with the money the bank cassion opportunity, So we saw a little bit
26:08
of that contrast there So are you disappointed that the Cody Roman few maybe split
26:14
up now from Raw SmackDown with Cody go on a raw. Yes, and
26:18
no, I mean I'm not because we've kind of seen it and they can
26:22
always come back to it at some point because I don't know about you,
26:26
but I just know, Comrade, Rumble time, the brands will be kind
26:29
of merging again. That's just typically the MOO Like once we get to Rumble,
26:33
as you hit into WrestleMania, those lines get blurred, so you could
26:37
always circle back to it again. So it's a way to kind of increase
26:41
anticipation for the eventual and then you can do like, hey, it's Cody
26:45
versus Roman once in a lifetime. Again, Yes, we've not like we've
26:51
never heard that before. I like Drew Mcatar and Schinska Nackamore on Rob because
26:56
those to me aren't w World heaweight championship tenders. So I like that move.
27:02
Those are good, Um shinsk Now a couple of questions for me,
27:04
like and and so we saw the mis good draft, and we've seen the
27:07
lists of free agents. Um, they said there's some people were ineligible because
27:11
of injuries than Bray Wyatt's the Randy Ords. There's no mention of it's Muscle
27:15
Champa, so I'm hoping that he's another one on that list too. Yeah.
27:18
So, um, you know, the little interaction between shins K and
27:22
Mis on Raw I thought was pretty good too. And then you know Raw
27:26
is kind of the entertainment show, and when you have something like shinsk who's
27:30
he's a great wrestler, but you can do more stuff with him with more
27:33
time on Raw than maybe trying to squeak because he's not a great promo guy,
27:40
but he's got such a dramatic entrance it kind of fits better for me
27:44
on Raw with him. So yeah, I think he's going to be in
27:47
a better spot under Triple H's creative tutelage than he was in the previous regime.
27:52
Um. And then speaking of Raw, Doctor Trey, I was taking
27:55
a look at the draft and I'm like, man, the Raw Tag team
27:56
division is deep loaded. You've got Perium, Maximum, Mail Models, Viking
28:03
Raiders, New Day, bron Stroman and Ricochet, Alpha Academy, Indu Sheer
28:07
Loth Sarios, and then you've got Kevin Owens and Sammy Zaine. So that
28:10
made me wonder I'm wondering if the tag team titles now are going to be
28:14
exclusive to Rob with KAO and Sammy there, because there's not many tag teams
28:18
on SmackDown right now. I do think we may see this on Friday Night.
28:22
And this is I have not read this anywhere. I don't know anything
28:26
about this, But if raw can create a new world championship, could you
28:33
not see Paul Hayman petitioning Adam Pears for a SmackDown Tag Team Championship to then
28:38
put on the USOS. But then you just have the USO's Street Profits and
28:44
OC just feud for the next year. Well, I mean you can always
28:48
make tag teams too. I mean, Ricochet and broun Stroman weren't a tag
28:51
team like four months ago, and also Naturn, so it wouldn't be as
28:56
difficult. I mean think about this, like, let's take let's put the
29:00
us title on Bobby Lashley and then y also can put Austin Theory and Grayson
29:03
Waller together as a tag team. Yeah, yeah, that wouldn't be bad.
29:07
I mean that would be like I don't know, egomaniac annoyance. I
29:10
guess they would call it, oh my gosh, like I mean then they
29:15
would have competing talk shows at the same time, you know, that would
29:18
be fine. Yeah, and that was one of my guys. Like one
29:22
of my people I'm excited to see about is Grayson Waller on SmackDown, Like
29:26
he just kind of fits that miss role. Uh, just a younger version
29:30
of Miss Maybe on SmackDown. I think that's gonna be really good for him
29:33
as well. Yeah, is there anything else that that excites you, because
29:37
I want to actually when when it comes to Grayson Waller, that or something
29:40
that surprised me about that. So is there anything else that sticks out to
29:42
you then? Over I mean I'm interested to see what they do with the
29:47
women's tag team titles when you see you know, because the one thing we've
29:52
been talking about is I've heard of people say this, like the women's tag
29:55
team division in W two B has been lackluster. Best since probably Sasha and
30:03
Bailey, Yeah we're together, since the pandemic time. I mean, everything
30:07
else has been kind of like it's injured, like Becky and Leed. It
30:11
was interesting for a little bit heading into WrestleMania, but outside of that has
30:14
been met. But what you call up, you know, Albafira, I
30:17
La, don you call up Kaden in Katana which still Katana chance maybe my
30:21
new least favorite name in professional wrestling. Um, But it's just it's interesting
30:26
to see them get called up bring up the NFC Tag team champions as well,
30:30
that maybe now we're gonna start working on getting some depth to that division.
30:34
UM. I still think Live in Shotzi would be a better tag team
30:37
than Live in Raquel, but that's just personal. Um. But yeah,
30:41
like that, like that's the one that guys sit out, just something like
30:45
you're like, where does Cameron grind fit into the SmackDown? You know,
30:48
we haven't seen him in like six months, but where does he fit in?
30:51
Like is he just gonna be kind of fodder for you know, building
30:56
guys. Are they actually gonna give him a push some of the more interesting
31:00
picks like that, like what do you do with the carrying cross? Like
31:03
you know you took you know he's we already seen a few with Bray and
31:07
if you with Ray, he's like do you put a fresh coat of paint
31:10
on him and do something else? In them? Does he stay a heel
31:11
because SmackDown's kind of heal heavy with with Roman and theory kind of running that
31:18
show, like where does a guy like carrying cross and la Knife get into
31:21
the mix? So a lot of the points that you made there are some
31:23
of the things that surprised me from the w E draft. So some things
31:29
here just going off on what you said over the last couple of minutes.
31:33
So starting with Grayson Waller, I was surprised that Grayson Waller getting called up
31:37
from NXC to SmackDown was during a supplemental pick during Raw talk Like how did
31:42
that not happen during one of the main shows. I thought, that's that
31:45
should have taken precedence over no disrespect, but like Albafire and Ila Down,
31:51
Andy Hartwell, I would say of like all the NXC talent, like that
31:55
is one of the guys that was drafted from NXC to WE to rawer smack
32:00
Down. Then I felt like should have gotten an opportunity even more than pretty
32:02
Deadly, Like I thought Grayson Waller should have been like the top pick from
32:07
NXC to Raw or SmackDown. Yeah, I mean Cameron Grimes being announced,
32:13
but Grayson Waller not being announced. You know, like we have ay like
32:16
and you and I love Cameron Grins but as far as for the fans,
32:22
out of sight, out of mine, we haven't seen him since November.
32:24
So at this point we're going on almost six months since we've seen him on
32:29
TV. And we just saw Grayson, you know, with with Carmelo Haze,
32:34
Yeah, in the main event, and so I was like, why
32:37
why is that pick? And then plus to tie in with Sean Michaels,
32:39
Like how great would have been on Raw for Sean to be the one to
32:44
announce that Grayson got drafted, you know, and you get that awkward tie
32:49
and then Waller actually has a match on a Raw like that would have made
32:52
up a lot more sense and you could have tied up that storyline right there
32:57
and not had to worry about anything on NXC. You could have tied it
32:59
up into a little bow right then and there moved on. Um. So
33:02
yeah, like him being kind of like a throwaway pick, it makes me
33:08
worry also that like are we viewing him as a throwaway pick that like,
33:13
oh his time and aches he's up, let's throw on the main rosters if
33:15
he can do anything like that. It makes me where they don't have a
33:17
plan. Other things that surprised me, And after there was. It was
33:22
teased that there may be some splits. The Street Profits, Damage Control and
33:27
Alpha Academy don't split. Actually nobody splits at all. Re is still with
33:31
the Judgment day View. Soos are still with a bloodline. Zero splits,
33:36
no fresh go to pain. Everybody is still together. I thought that was
33:39
pretty lame. Yeah, I mean it is. Sorry, Stanley just came
33:45
in and decided to hit me with a bowl. Uh we're watching aw and
33:49
talking wrestling. I figured I think he just yes, I'm okay, okay.
33:52
He just gave me the foreign object and then asked me if I was
33:55
okay. Um, top five home and potentially of all time? Do you
34:02
need me to call the authorities? They just said try again. So anyway,
34:09
it's all because he wasn't cheesy proofs. Oh never mind until next week
34:15
for doctor Franklin. Oh my gosh, this Maid's hop it's almost as good
34:21
as the police be showing up what I'm doing. It's definitely up there.
34:24
But yeah, to not have Indians tag teams to break up. Now here's
34:28
the thing. If I'm not mistaken, they did the heavy Did they draft
34:31
heavy machinery separate or together? A couple of a few years ago they did
34:37
the draft I don't even remember, dude, I'm gonna say separate. I'm
34:40
gonna say separate. So I kind of thought they did it together. And
34:45
then they split up on the show The Fun Week. So there is that
34:46
possibility that, you know, we see the Street Problems come out and talk
34:52
about how high a draft pick they were, and then all of a sudden,
34:54
you know, Angelo Dawkins takes out montest Ford. So I mean they
34:58
could still do some something like that, just to try to create a little
35:01
more bouncing baby faces and heels as we were talking about, like you know
35:06
some size of some shows are a little more one sided than others. It's
35:09
still a possibility. I mean, can we say, Alphaca they got drafted
35:14
to draw or SmackDown was hit. Then again Alpha Academy got drafted to Raw.
35:17
Okay, so you still have all the stuff with Alpha and Maximum Mail
35:22
Models still on the same show. Yeah, you still that tie and though
35:27
I mean, but I mean I thought it would have made more sense,
35:30
like all right, Chad Gabel gets drafted to SmackDown. Oh it's gets drafted
35:32
to Raw, like that's how and then everybody from Maximum Mail Models is on
35:37
raw, Like that's how it tightens up until you have Chad Joy maximum male
35:42
models and they beat down to ODIs. You make ODIs a baby face.
35:45
Okay, because I don't know. I just thought that was strange after all
35:47
that teasing, not even damage control. I mean damage control I thought was
35:52
an easy layup, Like there's no way Bailey, EO and Dakota Kai stay
35:54
together. And I think there are obviously, as you're pointing out with Alpha
35:58
Academy, potentially there are some teases going on there with damage controlling. Maybe
36:02
you're on, You're you're onto something there that the storyline split is more important
36:07
than the draft split. Yeah, I mean you could have EO and Dakota
36:10
jump Bailey all of a sudden, Bailey's back to being a baby face,
36:13
you know, Like there there are ways of doing it and kind of evening
36:16
out the roster and stuff like that. But it is weird that. Oh,
36:22
as I'm saying that, I'm just watching a car shoot to join no
36:27
no spoilers, say, um, but yeah, there are ways of doing
36:32
it and trying to evening you out things, and they typically do that.
36:35
We've seen that with other people in the past. We're like mizz and Morrison.
36:37
We've seen that in the past as well, where happening like right after
36:40
the draft. So there are ways of doing it, but it's just awkward
36:44
and to tease it for so long that hey, one side could get drafted
36:49
to the other, one side could get drafted the other, and that it
36:51
never plays out that way. You mentioned Albifier and island On. They're the
36:55
NX Human Tech Team champions. They retain on Tuesday. Ever, Katana Chance
36:59
and Kadan Carter they now take those titles to SmackDown. I'm wondering, is
37:02
it time to make Raw and smackdow Wen's Tag Team Championships with Ricrell and live
37:07
On raw Ila and Alba on SmackDown. I mean, could they do that?
37:12
Could they morph the NXC Women's Tack Team titles to the SmackDown Woman's Tack
37:15
Team titles? But then are you taking the NXT tag team titles off of
37:20
NXT? I think you, I think you would. I don't think they've
37:22
really done anything with them unfortunately, I mean, in general, really has
37:28
it with the women's tax Team division. I don't know. I could see
37:31
Sammy's upset by the fallon Keaner feud in man, I know, I know.
37:37
To me at this point it is just like, hey, just you
37:42
don't really need the tag titles on NXT for the women. They really they
37:46
really haven't done anything on it, Like nobody's really jumped up and like captured
37:51
our imagine. I mean honestly, Ila and Alba are the closest thing to
37:53
look like, Well, Toxic Attraction was fantastic and when they were doing it,
37:58
but really outside Toxic Attraction and maybe albert Island now like nobody's really went
38:04
ooh. I want to see them on a RAW or I want to see
38:06
them on SmackDown as a tag team, and they've had opportunities to capitalize on
38:10
them, they just haven't done it yet. Other surprises, Andy Hartwell reunites
38:15
with Candice Larray, Dexter Loomis and Johnny Gargano and Raw. Hopefully they make
38:17
that a storyline and to be shocked if they don't, or at least Indian
38:22
k this is a tag team, like we know, we do know Indie
38:28
Harwell has a high ankle spring. She did get entered in last week's match
38:31
and then she confirmed on Tuesday's NXC, so maybe a little bit before we
38:35
see her on TV. But not to mention, don't you feel like there's
38:37
like a little bit of a disconnect still between the NXT and the main roster
38:40
because you just put this title one. Yeah, then right away you're going,
38:47
yeah, it sucks. It sucks for her. I gotta be honest,
38:51
like one title defense, yeah, because she's not in that vein when
38:55
like they called up Oscar and Becky and Bay and Charlotte and Sasha like she's
39:02
I love her, She's great Indie Hartwell, but she did not get that
39:05
run as NXC Women's Champion where you're like, she immediately joins it now can
39:08
become a legit contender now. In the past, people like Bianca Belair have
39:13
been very successful and people like Shana Basler were not on the main roster.
39:16
But I don't know, I think Indy Hartwell could be a little bit more
39:21
Shana than she could be Bianca. Yeah, and and not to man,
39:24
she like like we're gonna like just not a lot of not a decent run
39:28
with it. And I mean even heading into that match where she won the
39:31
ladder match, I don't know, she was my last pick to win.
39:36
Like, I like, if I would have taken any of the other four
39:38
women in that match before I picked Indy just on the way she'd been booked
39:42
leading into that match, And it's like, I almost feel like they gave
39:45
her the belt to give her a little bit of credibility to get her drafted
39:49
to the main roster as like it's it was almost like a reward for being
39:52
there for so long, getting drafted up, as opposed to actually the title
39:57
win. Matt Rynold, Kevin Owens a sam he ain't all on Raw with
40:00
the bloodline on SmackDown. Does that mean the storyline is ending this Saturday at
40:05
Backlash? Possibility? But does that mean we could lead into like Gunther Gunther
40:09
and Riddle wouldn't be a bad matchup, but then you get Imperium versus Kevin,
40:13
Sammy and Riddle. Maybe maybe more storylines ending LWL on SmackDown, Judgment
40:19
Day and Raw. I guess this is coming to an end. I mean,
40:22
in theory, that really wasn't any different because the brands those guys are
40:27
on before the draft, very true, very true, they didn't have borders
40:30
drawn up, so maybe now with borders drawn up, it does end the
40:35
rivalry. But you know, it's just like they're like, oh my god,
40:38
It's like, well, there was no borders, so you could have
40:42
all these crazy matches and matchups are across brands, and now it's a little
40:46
bit more organized. I guess something that I was disappointed in what you alluded
40:52
to before tra La Night not going to RAW. I figured that three hour
40:54
show would be good for him, and then you put him in that World
40:57
Heavyweight Championship title chase. Yeah, and once again, when you have a
41:01
two hour show and a three hour show, at three hour show is a
41:04
more promo time. To me, Raw always be that got like our best
41:06
talkers should be on RAW. You have more time to kill. So you
41:10
put an La Night on Raw because that dude can cut a promo with the
41:15
best of them. And you know, some of the other guys that aren't
41:16
great talkers, Hey Lee wants to backdown because they're wrestling. Does it for
41:21
them? You know? But then again, Raw gives people a chance to
41:24
grow because I don't think four years ago he was at Chad Gable was a
41:28
great talker, but now he's one of the best promos in WWE because he's
41:31
had time to develop on the microphone. Other surprises Odyssey Jones just being called
41:37
up from NXC to Raw Odyssey Jones, who has the charisma and looked to
41:40
be a raw or SmackDown superstar. Absolutely true, but he's been away from
41:45
injury for almost a full year in NXC, and since his return he's been
41:47
taking a lot of el's. That was a surprise. Yeah, once again,
41:52
I kind of felt like, hey, this is one of those things
41:53
where like, I mean, I think what Breaker beat him in like under
41:58
three minutes, not too longer, Yeah, like a quick match. So
42:00
it's like, what like he gets called up, but the guy who beat
42:05
him in three minutes and still in NXC, or the guy who beat him
42:07
in them the Breakout Tournament, Carmelo Hayes as still as NXC, and he's
42:13
he's now going to ROW. I will say, if you if if the
42:17
old adage of hey, the people that kind of run now we all know
42:22
is in charge of all creative. But when you have the print Charns and
42:25
the Michael Hayeses and the old school guys still on raw, honestly, Jones
42:30
looks like a WW superstar. He's big, he's fast, he's charismatic,
42:37
and maybe he's one of those things where they looked at when hey, we
42:38
could do something with him where maybe he doesn't fit in with the NXT mold
42:44
of you know, faster, quicker, more agile kind of guys. Fair
42:49
fair, Yeah, maybe he's better suited on rowan SmackDown for his development then
42:52
on NXC. I mean, I think that's a very fair point as well.
42:57
Um, so that was a surprise. And then we've talked about this,
42:59
it's of all times here, but this just surprised me, Like,
43:00
what the hell does free agent status mean? Von Wagner appeared on NXC this
43:05
week to continue his storyline about his background and it got like very deep.
43:09
They went through a picture where he had some sort of potential brain surgery when
43:14
he was a child, but he was drafted as a free agent, and
43:16
then why the hell do this to Dolf Corbin, Alias Mustaf ali Et,
43:21
Cedric Shelton, etc. Etc. Well, not to mention when we were
43:24
talking about the tag teams and how Raw is absolutely loaded and smackdowns, maybe
43:29
a little weaker Alias and Booze, if you put them on the same page,
43:35
would be a really fun tag team. And yet Booze goes to SmackDown
43:39
Alias is a free agent, so it just makes it kind of odd.
43:44
Like to me, it's either, hey, these guys, we know these
43:46
guys can work with anybody and sell their asses off, so let's keep them
43:51
kind of floating and use them where we need them. But it is kind
43:55
of, I don't know, like kind of a kick in the balls to
43:59
those guys. Is that, like we're not even good enough to be on
44:01
one brand. We have to kind of float around and kind of make a
44:05
name for ourselves. Again, it's just weird. It's it's surprising, and
44:09
that's why it fell into the surprising bucket. Is there any other surprises that
44:14
we haven't covered here? Doctor try that stood out to you, So to
44:17
me it is where things were like when you look at like who gets drafted
44:21
is like we can draft up like once you get the logic, and we
44:24
can draft up the NXC Women's champion and the NXC Women's Tag team champions,
44:30
but the North American Champion and the XT champion and the former NC champion are
44:35
not good enough to get called up like that, Like the logic behind it
44:39
doesn't always make sense to me, And I think that's kind of where we're
44:43
at now, is like they just just just called a lottery, Like,
44:46
just do something different, because the draft picks don't make sense to any of
44:51
the fans. Once again, why in the hell would you draft Austin theory
44:54
before you draft seth Rollins, Like I think, I think, I think
44:59
I agree with you on the her and roll and stuff. I think we
45:00
would point out towards the NXC thing that they said it would be select NXC
45:06
talents. Now we didn't know who those select talents were, but they said
45:08
select, which makes it all in all. Like you and I are just
45:12
very common sense wrestling fans. We just want logic with our creative creative and
45:17
we get it. It's it's wrestling, it's still real to us type stuff.
45:22
We just want some logic and common sense behind it. And that's not
45:23
what we got with the w draft unfortunately. Like the rules are very convoluted,
45:29
confusing, and then when the picks happen, it just does not some
45:31
of them, most of them, they don't make sense. Yeah, I
45:36
mean because when they say it's select NCS, who's the site like you were
45:39
talk about with a fancy draft, like you get your keeper leagues and it's
45:44
like, well, what does anyc get to keep three guys, and they
45:46
say, hey, we're keeping Carmelo, Braun, and West, but the
45:50
girls you can pick any of them you want. Don't worry about us,
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We'll just make more I don't know. Yeah, and then if you're if
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anybody from nxc's available, why aren't you doing a long term pick here,
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like a Roxanne Perez, a Cora Jade, a Tiffany Stratton, Like I
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don't know, or why why does an NXC get included so where they could
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draft these free agents and bring them down NXC. I've always thought that that
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would be really really beneficial of the draft, as if you started treating NXC
46:16
like a third brand. They were doing that at one point, especially the
46:19
time that they were in the Survivor series, then got away from that once
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two point o relaunched and pandemic app and all that crap. The pandemic I've
46:28
always said, I felt like the pandemic killed the NXT black and Gold era
46:31
that we loved, and that was one of the bad things, a real
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bad things from a wrestling perspective when it came to the pandemic we've been going
46:40
through the last three plus years. With that said, Trey let's switch gears
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to w W Backlash, will preview and predict it. It comes to us
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live this Saturday on Peacock from Colosso de Puerto Rico and San Juan, Puerto
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Rico. Let's start with the first match here, the San Juan Street Fight.
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Bad Bunny gets back into the ring for the first time since Russe Many
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thirty seven, that performance that was pretty damp historic quite honestly. He takes
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on Damian Priest. I've got bad Buddy in this one. Yeah, I've
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got bad Bunny also because the entire Cologne family runs into help him, the
47:15
Cologns, Yeah, Primo, Carlito, Epico, Carlos, my entire Cologne
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family. It's a San Juan street fight, so yeah, I mean,
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you can't have a San Juan street fight without at least somebody from that family
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making appearance. So I'll go with I'm a bad Bunny just in general,
47:32
but I really would love to see Carlito come out and spit an apple when
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Damian Priest's face, and Bad Bunny gets the roll up for it. Carlito
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did always said say he spits in the face of those who are not cool,
47:43
so it's always possible. I thought you're gonna say all I like the
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Cologns. I think that'd be cool. Next match here for the Raw Women's
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Championship. Bianca Belair from SmackDown defends against EO Sky Who do you like this
47:53
one? Not to try? I will take Bianca because they're all on SmackDown.
48:00
Is the Raw Women's title match, I'll take Bianca. I'm gonna take
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Bianca Belair as well. I can't see EO getting the victory. I think
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the EO storyline with damage control and potentially split up is more important than her
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winning a championship unfortunately right now, but she will someday soon. Austin Theory
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defends the United States Championship in a triple threat match against Smackdowns Bobby Lashly.
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Ros Bronson read, I'm gonna take Bobby Lashly in this one, doctor try
48:22
and keep the United States Championship on SmackDown. So I've gone kind of back
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and forth on that one because I might For me, I think I'm gonna
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take Theory retaining just because I think Bobby can get tangled up with Roman and
48:38
Solo, so I will take because that might be a way to kind of
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move you know Cedric and you know Shelton to kind of back up Bobby against
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the Bloodline and the USOS. So I'll take Austin Theory retaining the US title.
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Next match here is the match that makes no sense of just is randomly
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announced with no creative behind it and made people think that Vince is definitely back.
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Seth Freaking Rollins taken on Omas Doctor Trey. Who do you like?
49:06
So I'm gonna take Seth because he's on a brand and Omas is a free
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agent. So I will take Seth because that, to me makes more sense
49:15
than the random free agent getting a win over the guy who is highly drafted
49:19
to RAW, I too, am gonna take Seth Freaking Rollins because I think
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he'll be in the World Heavyweight Championship title hun towards the end of the month
49:25
and getting an l now will not be good for that that chance. Next
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match here is Ria Ripley from RAW defending the Smacked Holman's Championship against Zelena Vega,
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also from RAW. I'm gonna take Ria Ripley and this one so this
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one's hard because it is a little bit of Puerto Rico. But once again,
49:44
Rio was the number one pick of Raw Monday Night, and Zelena was
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included in a stable that we almost forgot to choosing an end. So I
49:54
will take Ria getting the win, even though maybe they just want Red to
49:59
get heat by killing Zelena in Portico Bud. If you ever gone back and
50:02
look at the memes Rhea and Jelena and how reapens her every time is quite
50:09
beautiful. I'll put it that way. It's a beautiful, beautiful pinning combination
50:13
for those too. I hope Selena puts on one hell of the performance because
50:15
I think she's a very talented wrestler, and I hope that this is a
50:19
breakout for her. She's always been looked at more as a manager than a
50:22
performer, and I think she is just as good as a performer as she
50:24
has been as a manager at her time in dode OUI. That takes us
50:29
to our next match here, Cody Rhodes taking on Brock Lesser doctor Trey.
50:31
Who do you like in this one? This one's been hard, Jeff,
50:35
I once again back and forth on this one. I think I'm gonna take
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Brock. So I will take Brock in the win, and then they have
50:44
the rematch in Saudi Arabia. Interesting. Yeah, I'm gonna take you.
50:50
Go ahead, I'll go Brock. I was trying to figure a way out
50:52
of that because I think Cody will be in the World Championship match. But
50:54
I think I'll take Brock. Yeah, And that's why I'm taking Cody is
50:59
I think he is in that World Heavyweight Championship title hunt. I actually think
51:01
maybe Brock costs him the title or costs him in the tournament rather than um,
51:07
you know, hands him in l right now heading into that. So
51:10
I'm gonna take Cody taking the win over Brock and Brock and doctor Trees gonna
51:15
take Brock taking the victory over Cody. You know, I would like,
51:19
you know, Brock's gonna be a crown jewel because the page Yeah, Night
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of Champions, Night of Champions. So then you guys figure out what is
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Brock going, Like, what's Brock going to do to justify the payout?
51:28
I just think they have to have the rematch. So and that's what I'm
51:30
thinking is maybe Cody gets the victory, they have the tournament, Brock interferes
51:35
in a match on raw, cost Cody a match in the tournament, and
51:38
that sets up the match at Night of Champions makes sense too, I like,
51:43
I like your thinking, So I'm still taking Brocks because it's Brock and
51:45
he now has added a duster to his repertoire of articles of clothing. And
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then finally, what I presume will be the main event, six man tag
51:54
team match Matt Riddle, Kevin Owens, and Sammy Zain taken on the Bloodline.
51:58
I'm gonna take on Riddle, Owens and Sammy to send the Bloodline spinning
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on SmackDown, where then we start seeing the dissension between the USOS and Roman
52:07
and Solo. I like that, But then I also like my idea earlier
52:12
about making new tag team champions on SmackDown like brand specific. So I'll take
52:16
the Bloodline getting the I'll take the USO's getting the wind so that we ham
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I can come out on SmackDown. Is that we need to have SmackDown or
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tag team jo SmackDown, and the USOS just defeated the other guys, so
52:30
they clearly deserve their own tag team belt. So there you go. There
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is our w Backlash previeum predictions. We recapped and review the WW draft for
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you as well on next week's edition. The podcast, we will recap and
52:43
review ww Backlash, then obviously everything else that is going on the waeful world
52:46
of professional wrestling. We you have a better idea about aw All, in
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which as we record this, I think they've gotten over forty three thousand tickets
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sold at Wembley Stadium, which is very exciting and great news for them.
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