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WWE Royal Rumble 2026 Review | AJ Styles CAREER IS OVER, Back To Roman Reigns AGAIN! · Solomonster Sounds Off

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  Speaker 1: Royal Rumble is my favorite event of the year. Always
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed the Royal Rumble ever since I was a little monster.
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  Speaker 1: Always my favorite event. So it kills me when we
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  Speaker 1: get one that is mediocre. And that is what the
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  Speaker 1: men's match was here this year in the Royal Rumble.
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  Speaker 1: It was the definition of mediocrity. Funny enough. Mediocrity is
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  Speaker 1: the word that Roman Reigns use when he was on
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  Speaker 1: Pat McAfee show this week when he was doing what
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  Speaker 1: I took to be a mostly in character interview, But
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  Speaker 1: it was a word that he used when he was
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  Speaker 1: on the show the other day talking about the current
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  Speaker 1: crop of young talent in the company. He was remarking,
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  Speaker 1: basically in so many words about waiting for someone to
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  Speaker 1: step up, how he laid the groundwork and kind of
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  Speaker 1: set things up for success, and he's been waiting for
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  Speaker 1: somebody else to step up to the plate and kind
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  Speaker 1: of take the baton and run with it. Talked about
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  Speaker 1: the young talents who he says, complain about guys like
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  Speaker 1: him hogging up all the TV time, which can't possibly
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  Speaker 1: be true of Roman Reigns, because if we get him
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  Speaker 1: three or four times in a six month period, that's
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  Speaker 1: a lot. So I don't know who the young guys
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  Speaker 1: are referring to. You're certainly not Roman Reigns when they
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. But this is part of what he said.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I give them plenty of space to create
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  Speaker 1: whatever type of superstardom they want. Get over, that's what
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  Speaker 1: he says. Get over. Get over kids, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. And we're two years here now, and we
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  Speaker 1: haven't advanced. We haven't evolved. Two years of course, in
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  Speaker 1: reference to the amount of time that has gone by
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  Speaker 1: since he lost the WWE Championship to Cody Roads in
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia at WrestleMania. Well, he's right about one thing. We
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  Speaker 1: haven't evolved because Romans, the same Roman Reigns who declared
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  Speaker 1: for the Royal Rumble via on screen graphic is your
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six Royal Rumble winner. Put those fingers to
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  Speaker 1: the sky. The OTC is going to WrestleMania. He has
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  Speaker 1: punched his ticket. And you know, it's funny to listen
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  Speaker 1: to him again, whether in k fab or not, telling
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  Speaker 1: the younger talent to get over. You gotta go out
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  Speaker 1: there and you gotta get over. We haven't advanced, right,
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  Speaker 1: you got you gotta get over someone's got to get over.
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  Speaker 1: And this is from a guy who was pushed very
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  Speaker 1: hard from day one in spite of not being as
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  Speaker 1: over as the company wanted him to be as a babyface. Right.
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  Speaker 1: If anybody in here has been a wrestling fan for
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  Speaker 1: the last decades, you know exactly what I'm talking about,
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  Speaker 1: because it's been eleven years of Roman Reigns. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: it was eleven years ago that Roman Reigns last won
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  Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble. And when he won the Royal Rumble,
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  Speaker 1: he was booed out of the building. They booed the Rock,
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  Speaker 1: the Rock all because he got in the ring and
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  Speaker 1: raised his cousin's arm. They booed the Rock. That is
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  Speaker 1: how much the fans rebelled against what WWE and Vince
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  Speaker 1: McMahon were doing with Roman Reigns all those years ago.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want him, We don't want him as the
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  Speaker 1: top babyface, right, because I think things would have been
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  Speaker 1: very different had they gone and turned Roman heel a
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  Speaker 1: lot earlier than they did.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: In the end, it all worked out. We got the
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  Speaker 1: tribal chief right, So hey, things happened for a reason.
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  Speaker 1: But it really wasn't all that long ago that you
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  Speaker 1: and I can remember a time when Roman Reigns was
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  Speaker 1: being pushed over anybody and everybody else, and at the
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  Speaker 1: expense of other people in the company. And who knows
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  Speaker 1: that those people would have gone on to be bigger
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  Speaker 1: stars or not, But at the expense of everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: It was all about Roman. Roman was the hand pickedure
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  Speaker 1: chosen one, and whether the fans wanted it or not,
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  Speaker 1: whether he was over or not, we're going to push
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  Speaker 1: Roman Reigns. He's our guy. And so here we are,
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  Speaker 1: all these years later. I don't know. It's just funny
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  Speaker 1: to me to hear him making comments like that and saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta get over. If only everybody would be so
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  Speaker 1: lucky as to have had the endorsement of the men
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  Speaker 1: in charge and be pushed as heavily as he was
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  Speaker 1: all those years ago, perhaps some of them would. But
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  Speaker 1: now he stands before us with his second Royal Rumble win.
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  Speaker 1: He won a Royal Rumble that, as I mentioned before,
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  Speaker 1: the word I would use to describe it as mediocre.
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  Speaker 1: And when it was over, we were faced with either
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  Speaker 1: Roman Reigns now going to wrestle Maya by the way,
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  Speaker 1: going to WrestleMania to break his own record for the
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  Speaker 1: greatest number of main events in WrestleMania history. I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: sure he already owns the record, especially if you count
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  Speaker 1: these two night WrestleManias in Philadelphia two years ago. He
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  Speaker 1: we got two main events, so he owns the record.
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  Speaker 1: He'll break his own record this year. And now the
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  Speaker 1: question is which championship is he going to challenge for?
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  Speaker 1: Because he must be challenging for a championship even though
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  Speaker 1: he was already the WWE champion for thirteen hundred days.
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  Speaker 1: Why not do it all over again, or at least
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  Speaker 1: he's the possibility. So right now the champions are cmpunk,
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  Speaker 1: he is the World Heavyweight Champion. Andrew McIntyre after tonight
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  Speaker 1: is still the WWE Champion, which I don't think anybody
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  Speaker 1: is surprised about, because I don't know how many people
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  Speaker 1: honestly expected samby Zain to leave Riod as the WWE champion.
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  Speaker 1: Probably not very many, especially judging by the reaction that
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  Speaker 1: that match got Tonight. Roman reigns against cm Punk is
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  Speaker 1: the more interesting of the two options. It's not a
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  Speaker 1: match that I'm necessarily opposed to. There's certainly bad blood,
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  Speaker 1: there's history, there's been Wars of Words between the two men.
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  Speaker 1: We saw the interaction between them and War Games a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago, although they seem to be okay
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  Speaker 1: with each each other at the end of War Games
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  Speaker 1: this past year, it was Roman and Cody who were
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  Speaker 1: still teasing a potential issue. But Roman reigns one on one,
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  Speaker 1: not in a triple threat like last year. One on
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  Speaker 1: one with Cempunk is a match that would be a
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  Speaker 1: big match to do and has some appeal. And Roman
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  Speaker 1: a few years ago on a podcast, actually a few
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  Speaker 1: years ago, it was a year ago. He was on
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  Speaker 1: a podcast and he was talking about the World Heavyweight Championship,
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  Speaker 1: which he has always talked about as being beneath the
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  Speaker 1: WWE title, and he was asked, well, how would you
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  Speaker 1: try to increase the value of the World Heavyweight Championship
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  Speaker 1: And he said, well, have me hold it. If I
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  Speaker 1: win it, the value automatically goes up. Without me, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean as much. So maybe they could factor that
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  Speaker 1: into a storyline. I mean, those are comments that you
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  Speaker 1: would think would be brought up right if we end
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  Speaker 1: up getting a storyline between him and Cmpunk, But we
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  Speaker 1: also have the possibility of Roman reigns. Maybe again Drew
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  Speaker 1: McIntyre for the WWE Championship. And again it's not as
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  Speaker 1: a match, It's not a match that I would hate
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  Speaker 1: to see, and there's certainly history there with Drew being
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  Speaker 1: screwed over by Roman in the Bloodline so many times,
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  Speaker 1: and it would be something other than Drew McIntyre against
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  Speaker 1: Cody Rhoades, which I certainly don't want to see again
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  Speaker 1: at WrestleMania. But there's just something about I don't there's
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  Speaker 1: something about that match. There's something missing there, especially at
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  Speaker 1: the idea is that Roman would go into WrestleMania and
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  Speaker 1: win back the belt, which absolutely should not happen. Let
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  Speaker 1: us not forget that Roman Reigns is not full time.
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  Speaker 1: Roman Rains will never again be a full time performer,
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  Speaker 1: and the idea of putting a championship back on Roman Reigns,
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  Speaker 1: as popular as he is, makes no sense to me whatsoever,
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  Speaker 1: And that really is at the heart of the issue
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  Speaker 1: that I have with him. Even though I predicted him
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  Speaker 1: to win the Rumble, I didn't say I wanted him
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  Speaker 1: to win the Rumble, but it was so obvious to
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  Speaker 1: me that he was very likely going to win the
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  Speaker 1: Royal Rumble. But I don't have any use of seeing
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  Speaker 1: him holding a championship. We've already seen him with an
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  Speaker 1: iron fist ruling for thirteen hundred days as the WWE champion,
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  Speaker 1: and what a run it was that he had. But
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  Speaker 1: now it's over and it's time for other people to
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  Speaker 1: take the title and take the mantle, right, take the
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  Speaker 1: baton and run with it, and Roman he could be
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  Speaker 1: a special attraction on the show, but yet here he is,
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  Speaker 1: yet again, back in the main event, challenging for a title.
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  Speaker 1: We're also faced with a possibility, of very real possibility
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  Speaker 1: that Drew McIntyre may not make it into WrestleMania as
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  Speaker 1: the WWE champion. There are reports out there that he's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to and he's going to walk in there as
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  Speaker 1: the champion. There have been a lot of reports and
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  Speaker 1: fifty percent of him might be right, fifty percent of
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  Speaker 1: him probably or not. Plans also change, which if you
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  Speaker 1: watch WWE Unreal, you would know that very well. We
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  Speaker 1: could very well have Cody Rhodes winning back the championship
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  Speaker 1: at the Elimination Chamber. Now he could be in the
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  Speaker 1: elimination Chamber, but he could also win the belt back
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  Speaker 1: of the elimination Chamber McIntyre is the one who helped
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  Speaker 1: eliminate Cody Rhodes from the Royal Rumbleton Night. The issue
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  Speaker 1: between the two of them is far from over. So
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  Speaker 1: if Cody were to win the championship back, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Roman's gonna have to make a choice soon. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there's a time limit, but maybe there is. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. It all depends, I guess on when he
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  Speaker 1: makes his decision. Elimination Chamber is still a month out,
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  Speaker 1: but the possibility of Cody Roman three is still very
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  Speaker 1: much alive. Another match that I do not need to
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  Speaker 1: see again at WrestleMania for what would that be the
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  Speaker 1: third time in four years? Yeah, no, thank you. I
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  Speaker 1: don't look at this as being a lot of great options.
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  Speaker 1: It just feels like old hat. It just feels like
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  Speaker 1: we're going back to the same well that we always
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  Speaker 1: go to because we're just too afraid. We're just too
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  Speaker 1: afraid to break out of that and try something a
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  Speaker 1: little bit different. Talk about playing it's safe. I use
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  Speaker 1: that term before when it comes to Triple H and WWE.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, for them it's understandable because it's the easy
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  Speaker 1: thing to do. You just go at your big stars
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  Speaker 1: who no one is saying Roman is not over. You
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  Speaker 1: heard the reaction he got when he came out tonight.
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  Speaker 1: But for them it's very easy, Well, let just go
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  Speaker 1: with our big stars. They're the ones that are going
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  Speaker 1: to be the most recognizable, They're the ones that are
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  Speaker 1: going to be the most well liked in theory, they're
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  Speaker 1: the ones that are going to be on the marquee,
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: and we can market wrestle Mania around and we'll just
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  Speaker 1: keep doing that until it doesn't work anymore. It was
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  Speaker 1: a good night though in the Rumble for a few
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  Speaker 1: people other than Roman Reigns. Powerhouse Hobbs, who made the
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  Speaker 1: jump from AW to WWE made his debut in the
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: Royal Rumble, actually coming out to that name before it
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: quickly transitioned into his new name. It's the same thing
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  Speaker 1: they did with Kenta many years ago when he debuted
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  Speaker 1: an NXT right it was Kenta and then it changed
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  Speaker 1: to Hideo A Tommy. So they did that with Powerhouse Hobbs,
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: and it was good to see him in that match,
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  Speaker 1: and I hope the best for him. He took a
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  Speaker 1: chance on himself. He wanted to try something different, new surroundings,
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  Speaker 1: new people to work with new opportunities, new horizons. I
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  Speaker 1: hope he finds all the fame and fortune he's looking for.
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  Speaker 1: No Chris Jericho in the Royal Rumble. I can't say
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  Speaker 1: that I'm terribly disappointed by this, mildly surprised, But we
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  Speaker 1: talked about this in the lead up to the Rumble,
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  Speaker 1: where there's a chance that maybe, you know, especially in
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  Speaker 1: Jericho's mind, he would rather come back and have a
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  Speaker 1: return that is, you know, kind of divorced from all
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  Speaker 1: the noise of the Royal Rumble, where you have other
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  Speaker 1: people who were making their return or other people who
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  Speaker 1: were making their debut. He's one of many, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's better of his return because it would be a
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  Speaker 1: big deal him coming back first time, back in what
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: seven or eight years. Let it breathe and stand on
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  Speaker 1: its own. I have every expectation that we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be seeing Jericho and aj Lee back on television very soon.
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  Speaker 1: Aj Lee was another one who surprised me. She was
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  Speaker 1: not in the Women's Royal Rumble, but I have every
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  Speaker 1: reason to believe that she will be the one wrestling
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  Speaker 1: Becky Lynja Wrestlemaniam. So those were two surprising things in
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  Speaker 1: terms of who did not show up on the show tonight,
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: but for NXT. You look at the NXT influence in
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  Speaker 1: both of these rumbles, right, it was very evident in
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  Speaker 1: terms of people who either were making their first appearance
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: or were recently called up. Obafemi made his debut main
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: roster debut here in the Royal Rumble. You have other
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  Speaker 1: names also, like Javon Evans, who recently became full time
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: on Monday Night Row. Javon Evans was in the Rumble
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  Speaker 1: tonight for over forty minutes. Not bad, not bad for
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  Speaker 1: his first Rumble Soul Ruka Lola Wee, j C Jane Right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean there was a lot of NXT in flow,
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: Trick Williams, a lot of XT influence on the show.
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  Speaker 1: And that's great because they need these guys to get over.
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  Speaker 1: They need these guys and gals to kind of take
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  Speaker 1: that spotlight and run with it and become the next
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  Speaker 1: Roman Reigns, become the next big star Rhea Ripley, whoever.
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  Speaker 1: Because this is this is where we are right now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of guys on that roster
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  Speaker 1: who have been around forever and after a while it
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  Speaker 1: gets old and you're just looking for new stars to
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  Speaker 1: step up, and we kind of got a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a taste of that tonight. Right, They're not quite
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  Speaker 1: there yet, but it's encouraging, right, there's hope for the future.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a good night for Obafemi and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of those names. And you know the thing about it, though,
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  Speaker 1: I joke about Triple H when he makes I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how many fucking times do we hear from Triple H
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  Speaker 1: about oh, it's a new era tonight, it's the start
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  Speaker 1: of a new How many fucking times as he said
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  Speaker 1: this in the last few months, Right, So there he
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  Speaker 1: is on the Post Show and he's talking about the
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  Speaker 1: Royal rumble and he makes a comment about how it's
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  Speaker 1: a new era. I don't even care if it makes
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  Speaker 1: sense in the context that he was using it in today,
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  Speaker 1: there's no way that he is oblivious to the fact
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  Speaker 1: that we have at least one new era every month
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  Speaker 1: from Triple Ah. He does it on purpose. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: I'm convinced he does it on purpose every month we
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  Speaker 1: have a new I can't wait to find out what
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  Speaker 1: the new era in the month of February is going
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  Speaker 1: to be. What do you think the new era in
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  Speaker 1: March and then April. April's WrestleMania. That's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a big new era. I can't wait to find out. So, yes,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: if you were wondering on the postion of Triple H,
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  Speaker 1: did mention yet another new era. So if you have
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  Speaker 1: that on your bingo card, or if you're playing a
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: drinking game, go ahead and take a shot. So there
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: were a few positive takeaways from this year's Royal Rumble,
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  Speaker 1: not enough to make this a great show. A few
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  Speaker 1: fun moments or a few positive takeaways, that's great, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's better than none. But this was not a great show.
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  Speaker 1: This was not a great Royal Rumble. The best thing
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  Speaker 1: on the Royal Rumble was actually neither of the Rumble
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  Speaker 1: matches themselves. The best thing on the Royal Rumble card
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: here was actually the saddest thing on the show, which
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: was aj Styles for the final time inside a WWE ring.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: He did, in fact step in there with Gunther and
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  Speaker 1: he lost. He lost in a match that was exactly
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: what I would have wanted the John Cena match to
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: be at Saturday Night's main event, and you would think
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: it would have been because John Cena. I mean, look
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: in the context of WWE, Sena was around longer. Scena
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  Speaker 1: was far more important to WWE and a bigger star
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  Speaker 1: in WWE than AJ Styles was. But aj had the
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: sendoff match with Gunther that Sena should have had. I
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  Speaker 1: loved everything about the match itself. I thought the match
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: was great. It was easily the best thing on the
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  Speaker 1: entire show. It was an emotional roller coaster with a
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: lot of the near falls, and the fans were in
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: and of course they would be because the stipulation. How
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  Speaker 1: can you not be AJ is this beloved figure in
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  Speaker 1: the company. He's been wrestling all these years, and now
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: the possibility that his career could be over. You knew
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  Speaker 1: that that stipulation was going to make every near fall
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  Speaker 1: in that match, every submission hole, that much more dramatic.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it would happen in April. We got it
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  Speaker 1: a lot sooner than I thought we would. But it's
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  Speaker 1: still sad because he lost. And no, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that he you know, he's going to go back on
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  Speaker 1: his word or at some kind of angle at least
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  Speaker 1: in WWE. AJ Styles is done. And that really is
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: the question, which we'll get into later. Is he truly done?
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Is he done done? Or is he only done in WWE?
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  Speaker 1: The way Triple H was talking about it on the
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  Speaker 1: Post show, you know, he made it sound like AJ
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  Speaker 1: told him he's no, he's done, like fully done. Whether
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  Speaker 1: or not you you know, believe that. Whether or not
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: that's the case, that remains to be seen. The Women's
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Royal Rumble, the Women's Royal Rubble clear the Men's Royal
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  Speaker 1: Rumble this year. I don't think I would have said
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  Speaker 1: that last year. I remember thinking the men's Rumble last
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  Speaker 1: year was actually very good. I know a lot of
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: people shit on it because jay Uso won and everything,
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  Speaker 1: but I actually thought it was a very strong men's
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  Speaker 1: rumble last year. The Women's Rumble was easily the better
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  Speaker 1: of the two this year, at least the second half
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  Speaker 1: of it. The first half was just the definition of
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: mid and then in the second half is where it
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: really picked up. But I actually thought the finish was
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: very dramatic and very well done. Liv Morgan is going
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: to WrestleMania. She is going to challenge the champion of
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: her choice. And boy, you know, Bianca bel air Man,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: she must be super fucked up and she was not
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: in the Rumble, and so that just makes me sad,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: but I have no issue with Live winning. I figured,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: if I said it the other day, Bianca is not
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: in the Rumble, Live is my pick to win. I
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: think it's well deserved. She's one of the biggest stars
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: in the company, really, but certainly on Monday nightra and
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: so I have no issue with her going to WrestleMania
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: and wrestling for a championship. One of the surprises that
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: we got on the show, and I wouldn't say it
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: was a night where we had a ton of surprises,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: there were a few in the rumble matches. One of
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the surprises I legitimately was not expecting, Like I knew
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Nikki Bella was going to be in the Rumble. It
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: was kind of spoiled the other day because somebody had
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: uploaded a video they were testing inside the stadium, the
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: screens and everything, and her tron was there, her logo
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: was there, So I knew she was going to be there.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: What I was not anticipating was I'm sitting here and
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: I'm doing my notes, and I'm looking over and I'm
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: watching the Rumble and then I hear bream Moud, and
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I I know that many of you probably immediately ran
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: to Twitter to see and I reacted instantly, and what
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I typed out on Twitter was my actual instant reaction.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Oh god, no, as soon as I heard it. As
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: soon as I heard it, But would you believe that,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: of all the people that we saw on the show tonight,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: if you had to rank them and have a top five,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: a top three of who got the biggest and best
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: reactions of anybody on the entire show, Fucking Brebella got
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: one of the biggest reactions of anybody on the entire show.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I mean this stadium. And whether you want to attribute
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: it to who she's married to because they were doing yes, Chap,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. She came out this place, went absolutely out
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: of their minds. And I don't know what that says
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: about us as a people that, in twenty twenty six,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: the Bella Twins and Bribella are the most overthing on
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: the show that I was not expecting, But as soon
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: as I heard, as soon as I heard the opening chords,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: it was just the memories that came flooding back into
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: my head. If you remember the MRI story that I
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: told on the podcast many years ago, this is where
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: it all goes back to. This is where It all
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: goes back to I had an MRI many years ago
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: for something, and if you have ever had an MRI,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: you got it lay very still inside this tube and
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: it could be claustrophobic. But they let you listen to music,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: and I said, great, I have my phone or whatever.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: You can play music. I had a wrestling playlist and
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: it's randomized. Just play it. And let me tell you something.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: You haven't lived until you have laid still unable to
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: move inside of an MRI machine. When bre mode comes on,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: A single tear began to fall down my face. So yes,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I had a little PTSD when they hit that music.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: But my god, I was not expecting that reaction. Drew McIntyre, Yes,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: that's exactly what it is. Anobie Drew McIntyre and Sammy's Aan.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: That was the other match on the show. Not a
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: lot of matches on the show, but that was the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: other match on the show, WWE Championship match. As I'm
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: not going to say it was a bad match any
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: other night, any night in general, it would be a
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: good match, but at best, that's all it was. It
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: did not have any sort of real heat, it did
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: not have any sort of reaction that would indicate people
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: were terribly invested in this match, which I will say
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: was surprising given how popular Sammy's Ain is over there
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: in Saudi Arabia. I mean every time he goes there now,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: they'd cheer for him. Know, he's like a returning hero,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: and he got a positive reception. You mean, you heard
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: it on SmackDown last night, but this was as heatless
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: a WWE Championship match. It's kind of sad for me
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: to sit here and tell you that the WWE title
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: match was the come doown match. It was almost like,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: you know, you've heard about the piss break match, right,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: That's kind of what this was on this show. And
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre wins. He is now twelve to zero in
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: his career against Sammy's Ain. He's running up the score
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: and that was it. But I think a lot of
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: it also had to do, frankly, with the fact that
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: they were in a terrible spot on this show because
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: this match came immediately after the AJ Styles match with
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Gunther where AJ was retired and people were just stunned
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: and sad and disappointed. It's like when the Undertaker Street
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: came to an end at WrestleMania. I want to say
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: it was maybe the Diva's Battle Royal or there was
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: some sort of divas match. I think that came right
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: after it. I was in the building for that WrestleMania,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: and I vaguely even remember what came after. Like it's
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: weird how your memory works, what you remember and what
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: you don't. Everything else after that, except for the main event,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: was just a blur, but I vaguely remember. I think
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: it was a women's match and aj Lee won and
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Vicky Guerrero was out there, but it's like spotty, you know,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: in my memory. So when you have this big dramatic
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: finish to a match, especially something that's just shocking, it
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: definitely like I wouldn't want to have to go out
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: there and follow that. So I definitely think there was
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: some of that going on in that match. But when
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the show was over, the word I kept coming back
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: to was underwhelmed. I was underwhelmed by this year's Royal Rumble.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: And let me tell you, there was some horres booking
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: and just bizarre decisions that were made in terms of
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: some of the things that were done, in particular during
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the men's match and when it came to certain spots
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and eliminations, Like my mind is still blown that brock
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Lesner was eliminated from the Royal Rumble while jay Usso
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: was still yeating in the middle of his Forever entrance,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Like I'm watching this going what the fuck? Who the fuck? Book?
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: That there were just and there were certain eliminations that
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: should have been more impactful and should have meant more
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: than they did, and they were just kind of done.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: And I don't know, there were a lot of very
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: bizarre things that happened in that match. But yeah, the
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: jay Uso entrance, some people say it still might be
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: going on. I'm not sure the entrance is even done.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I'll let you know when it is, because we're gonna
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: go through this entire show here. This is your twenty
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: twenty six Royal Rumble review. I am the solom Monster.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I want to thank you for joining me here on
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: a Saturday night. It was a little bit different than
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: usual because the Royal Rumble for the first time was
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: at two o'clock in the afternoon Eastern time. We've never
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: had a Royal Rumble that early before because they were
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: over in Riods. So this is certainly a change normally
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I'd be watching the Rumble and probably going live in
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: a couple of hours, but it's nice to be live
• 24:24
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• 24:28
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• 24:31
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• 24:33
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• 24:37
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• 24:39
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• 24:42
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• 24:44
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• 24:46
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• 24:52
  Speaker 1: So get them on in. And also, you knew we
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: were going to do this. We have to bring out
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the wheel. So what we do here I new here
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: we usually have a likes goal. There's a little segment
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: at the end we we do called be the Booker,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: which is unique to this channel, and so we have
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: to hit the number of likes needed to do be
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: the Booker. And I'm going to take this wheel for
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: a spin real quick, and we're going to find out
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: how many likes you guys need to get for us
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to do be the Booker. Oh, this is this is
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: not even fair. Have we already hit that goal? We've
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: already I think, okay, well, we can't do that. We've
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: already we've already broken that three hundred and sixty one likes.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: We're over four hundred already. We tried this one more time.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I think, I see, I should have changed the values
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: on here, okay, four thirty two word four forty okay,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: So basically the wheel is useless tonight, and be the
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: booker is guaranteed, So I see, my my fuck up.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I should have I should have changed the values on
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: there for tonight. Anyway, that's the first time that's ever happened,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: by the way, where you've already smashed the goal before
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the wheel even stops spinning. How about that? That is
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the best, isn't it? I think it is all right.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Let's get into this here, so at least you know
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: you're getting one round later. Fair? Fair is hey? Fair
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: is fair? I should you know what though, I should
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: double it. Let's make it six hundred. How about that?
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna overrule that six hundred minimum? Six
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: hundred minimum? The hell am I doing so? At the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: beginning of the show, of course, Triple h was featured
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: heavily in the opening intro v. He's also, by the way,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: on one of the covers for WWE two K twenty six.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: There is a King of Kings edition of the game
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: coming out. Somebody told me it's one hundred and fifty dollars.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, yeah, one hundred and fifty bucks. So anyway,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: he opened the show and it's basically him walking the halls,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: and they have images of different people winning the Royal
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Rumble over the years, and then of course culminating with him.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: He won the Royal Rumble twice. So there he is
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: walking around and this has become a signature of his
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: where he's got to be a part of all of
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: this stuff. In case you didn't know, this is the
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Paul Lavec era, another new era of WWE. Let me
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: talk about the location in the stadium here, because I
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: know that there was and there is in the chat
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: a lot being made of this. This was the first
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: major pl in Saudi Arabia. Up to this point. We've
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: had Crown Jewel and Super Showdown. We had the Greatest
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Royal Rumble. That was the first one I think they
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: did back in twenty eighteen, and there have been some
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: great shows too that they've done in Saudi. You know,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: first they were like these special shows, and then after
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: a while you would actually see title changes and you
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: would see things that were actually important on those shows.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: But we've never had a Royal Rumble or a WrestleMania
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: or a Summer Slam. I mean, a Summer Slim in
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the Middle East sounds like just hell on Earth. But
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble coming to Saudi, this was a first
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: time ever thing and they had an empty what was
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: an empty parking lot. It's like WrestleMania nine, where they
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: had the parking lot at Caesar's Palace and they had
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: to construct their own arena, their own stadium for the show.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: In this case, they had about a month to build
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: a twenty five thousand seat outdoor stadium for the show.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: And as sad as it is for me to say,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: the literal build of the stadium for the Royal Rumble
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: was far more interesting than the build for this show,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: but they got it done very impressive. It was just
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: a massive I guess it's made entirely out of scaffolding,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I think they said, And they claimed they had twenty
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: five thousand people there. The problem is the stadium looked
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: more than half empty when the show started because they
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: have this gimmick where every seat, like it must be
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the back of every seat has like an LED light.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Now this it kind of reminded me if you remember
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the first raw on Netflix last year that they did
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: from that newer arena in LA and you saw like
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: little dots out in the crew. I think they had
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: something similar, but I don't remember looking like this where
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: it made the arena look like it was empty. So
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I'm watching this and I'm like, this is fucking horrendous.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: This looks awful because I know I can hear people,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I know they're there, but it literally legitimately looked like
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I'm watching the Royal Rumble in a half empty building.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: And thankfully, I would say maybe not even midway through
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: the Women's Rumble, they either saw the same thing or
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: they at least were looking on social media and they
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: were being savaged over this, and somebody had the good
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: sense to turn those lights off and then they only
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: use them, I think during the entrances, and then it
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: looked a little bit bit. Honestly, it's still looked kind
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: of empty. I don't know if it was the way
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: it was lit. I don't know. There were pictures from
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: inside the stadium, but people like, hey, we got people here,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: so I know they were there, but just I'm talking aesthetically. Visually,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: it looked fucking terrible. Don't ever use those lights again,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: because we're getting WrestleMania in Saudi next year. Can you
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: imagine looking around. I don't know where WrestleMania is even
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: gonna be, uh, but I'm sure it'll be some big stadium.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: And yeah, if they have these lights again, it's just
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: gonna look horrendous. So thankfully they at least turn them off.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: But then I also saw people saying, man, you know,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: there were no reactions on this show was so quiet. Man,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the crowd sucked. They weren't making any noise. We're gonna
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: get WrestleMania and no one's gonna be making a sound.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: There were parts of the show, in particular during the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: women's rumble or certain people who would come out during
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the rumbles where it was like you could hear a
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: pin drop. But I think people are over exaggerating, Like
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: the stuff that you would expect to get a reaction
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: on the show got loud reactions on the show, like
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: I'm watching the aj styles and gunther match and the
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: crowd's fucking loud. They're into it. The big spots and
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: moments during the rumbles, they were loud, they were into it.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: So sure there were moments like that during the show,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: but I think people are over exaggerating the crowd noise
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: stuff when it comes to the show. I mean, to
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: hear some people talk about it, you would think that
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: it was just Stone silent the entire time. I don't
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: know what show you were watching. I heard noise. I
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: just couldn't see the fucking people, but I heard noise,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: so I knew they were there. They opened with the
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: thirty woman Royal Rumble match, with Charlotte Flair out at
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: number one. She was the winner of last year's Royal
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Rumble and number two, wouldn't you know, completely at random
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: her tag team partner Alexa Bliss. So Charlotte. She did
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: tease eliminating Alexa, but ultimately they decided to just wait
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: for number three to emerge, and that ended up being
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Keana James and Keana James went on a little run
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: of offense. Ultimately, though Charlexa, they double teamed her until
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Naya Jacks rumbled out to the ring in number four.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Number four, by the way, was my draw for our
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: royal rumble pool in the Facebook group, so I was
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: hoping that number four would win either in the men's
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: rumble or the women's rumble. And then I saw Nya
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Jax come out and I said fac So I said,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I guess we're gonna wait for the men's rumble and
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: see who comes out of number four. Number five was
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Ivy Nile, who came out to chance of you Suck
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: to her American Maid theme. It's got that curd angle
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: kind of beat to it, so to the American Maid theme,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: they were chanting you suck. Number six was Lolavice from NXT,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: making her main roster debut. She doled out some spin
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: kicks to everybody and took Charlotte down with the German
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: suplex and she was pretty over. Now for somebody who's
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: never appeared on the main roster before, she was pretty over.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: So Keana at one point got Naya up on her
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: shoulders and took her down for a samo and drop.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Candice Larray came out at number seven. My god, this music.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: She came out to the most just generic catalog music
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: that you could possibly find. Like legitimately, Deaf Rebel is
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: sitting there probably going all right, let's go through this.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: K you know what, this song sounds good. We'll just
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: go with this, the most generic shit that you could buy. Like,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: nobody even knew who was coming out. They didn't care,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: not that they would have popped if you know, Candace
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Lray had a bitch and theme because what are they
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: doing with Candice Larray on TV? So that coupled with
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: the fact that they had no idea who it was,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: she got no reaction coming out. This is also the
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: point in the Rumble where they find turned those awful
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: led lights off. So Jordan Grace entered at number eight
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: in the Rumble. Here, she wasn't wearing her silver surfer
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: outfit that she was wearing backstage on SmackDown Friday Night.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: She had a different one on, and almost instantly she
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: dumped out Candace and Lola, and then she eliminated Ivy Nile.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Nya put a stop to her momentum and Nya Jax
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: ended up out on the Apron with Alexa Bliss as
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Alexa and Charlotte. They were both trying to get rid
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: of Naya. Alexa was on the apron, Charlotte was in
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: the ring. So Charlotte hits the ropes on the opposite side.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: She comes off with a big boot. The only problem
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: is she booted Naya. As Nya went off the apron,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I think she grabbed onto Alexa, Alexa goes with her,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: and so because Charlotte booted Nya, it ended up eliminating
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Alexa Bliss in the process, her own partner, her own friend.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: So Alexa is looking up at Charlotte and she can't
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: believe it. Charlotte was not happy about what happened. She
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: didn't mean to do it, or did she. So that's
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: going to be a problem for the two of them.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Now coming out of this, one would think Becky Lynch
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: was out next to number nine, and we got Charlotte
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: and Becky fighting it out briefly and so then ended
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: up outside under the bottom rope fighting over by the
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: announced desk was Charlotte and Becky Again, they didn't go
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: out over the top, so they're still in. When sol
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Ruka from NXT, that's what she does right. Ruca comes
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: out gets a pretty good reaction. At number ten. The
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: fans were hyped for a confrontation with her and Becky,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: and she put Becky down. Then she took down Keana
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: and Jordan with a double drop kick off the middle rope.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Roxane Perez who set the record last year in the
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Rumble for the longest stay ever in a women's Royal Rumble,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: she was the runner up with Charlotte. She was in
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: that rumble last year for one hour seven minutes, so
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: she was in next. Maxine Dupree was number twelve. She
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: went right after Becky Lynch and then at number thirteen
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: it was not Natalia, it was Natty and she still
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: has that Brett Hart guitar riff at the beginning, but
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: it's new music now that she has. So she ran
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: down to the ring. She went after Maxine, who ended
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: up getting Natty in an ankle lock. Becky though snuck
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: up with a manhandle slam, and then Becky Lynch dumped
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Maxine out of the ring like nothing. So she beat
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Maxine to get her belt back and then just to
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: put the cherry on top, she eliminated her from the
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Royal Rumble as well. I don't know why you wouldn't
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: have had Natty do that, but what do I know.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: So Maxine was dumped out. Becky then tried to dump
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: out Natty from behind. That was a mistake, it did
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: not work. And then Natty, this was a surprise. Natty
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: eliminates Becky Lynch. I wasn't expecting that. So I guess
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: maybe that's now going to set up an intercontinental title
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: match between the two of them on TV, because you know,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Natty did say she was coming after Becky's belt. Becky
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: talked about that in a backstage promo on Monday, So
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: I guess that feeds into an upcoming match between the
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: two of them. Liv Morgan was out next to number
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: fourteen and immediately hit an oblivion on Keana James. So
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: keeping track so far, that is two of the three
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Judgment Day ladies in the ring. Number fifteen now there
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: he is again. Look at this even in wax form,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Triple H has to have his face all over. Everything
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: just popped up on my screen. SMG Kobe for the
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: four ninety nine solo you ruined my night. I had
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: number one in the Facebook pool Oba was eliminated by
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Brock and in my shock, I then hear ooh, so
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: wait to kick a man when he's down What are
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: you blaming me for? How was that my fucking f
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: It's not my fucking fault. I don't know why you're
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: blaming me. I didn't send him out there. Number fifteen
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: was Lash Legend. Now, if you remember what I said
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: in my Rumble predictions, I had tabbed her for the
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: monster spot and the most eliminations in the women's Rumble
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: this year. It just felt to me like this would
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: be the perfect spot for her. They see big things
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: in her future, and I just said she would be
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: perfect for that spot. So she came in at number
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: fifteen and immediately a double choke slam to live in
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Keana soul Ruka did a springboard off the ropes, and
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Lash just booted her out of mid air. So Legend
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: ended up on the apron with Jordan.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Grace, the Amazing goom thar Oh Boy, Jerry Maler loves
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: goomhar the Magnificent, All hell, Goomfal.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: I will bow down, All hail Row Row Roman reiins
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: gently down the street. All Hail the Mighty gunhar Row
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: row Roman reiins gently down the street. Yeah, row him
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: right back into the main event of WrestleMania. Well, now,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you for the super chat, says I
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: was saying, Lash ended up on the apron with Jordan Grace,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: had her on her shoulders and then just dumped her
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: to the floor just like that. Jordan Grace is eliminated.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Number sixteen was Zelena Vega. Oh my god, Number sixteen.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Zelena Vega comes out brother. Her music gets a negative
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: reaction every time she comes. It's like the fans are
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: actively recoiling when she comes out, Like if it was possible,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: if it was possible to get a negative pop to
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: your music, this song does it every single time it hits.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: And it actually takes me about five seconds if I
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: don't look at the screen where her name is up there,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: it takes me a good five seconds before I could
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: even figure out whose music is this. Every time, without fail,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: it happened again. I'm watching this Rumble, I'm like, eh,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: But they have like the graphics on the screen now
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: and everything, so make it a little bit easier as
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: far as who's coming out. And I think the graphics
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: started last year and it's probably like a leaf fitting
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: production thing with Kevin Dunn being gone. But I just
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: remember at the Rumble two years ago. I was there
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: at the Rumble in Tampa, and I'm sitting in the crowd,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: and I actually really enjoyed the women's rumble two years ago.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: But I'm looking up and I was not the only
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: one in my section, and I'm sure other sections in
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Tropicata Field where we had to look up at the
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: screens and try to figure out, like, can you show
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: the name? Because half the women in that rumble we
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: could not identify them because the music was so generic
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: and horrible. So part of me wonders if the reason
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: that we now have graphics on the screen, at least
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: for the people watching at home, is so that we
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: could at least identify who these women are. And they
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: do it now for the women and the men. But
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: that's how bad it was. So again, it just goes
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: to the issue of how important entrance music is. When
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: you have a really good entrance song or one that's
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: really identifiable or I hate to even use this one
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: as an example, but you know Kit Wilson. Everyone loves
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Kit Wilson's song and it's just such a frick It
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: just sounds like AI. But h and by the way,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: where the fuck was Kit Wilson? I just hit me,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: where the fuck was he? What the hell happened to
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Kit Wilson? We had fucking mister Iguana in the men's rumble.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: The Triple A guys, by the way, got no reaction, none, none, Laparka,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: mister Iguana. Nobody cared, nobody knew who they were, or
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: they didn't give a shit. You have room for those guys,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: but you can't put Kit Wilson. I do think his
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: entrance wouldn't have gotten a big reaction. Where the hell
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: was he? Again? One of those mystifying decisions that I
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: just don't understand. Oh, I'm sorry, Did I say it wrong?
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Will Son? Will? Where was Kit will Soon? I don't know,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know. But anyway, the borral of the story
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: is that, as many other people in WW, Zelena Vegas
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: music is trash and it does her no favors when
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: she comes out to the ring number seventeen, Raquel Rodriguez.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: So this now completes the trifecta of the women in
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: the judgment day. So you knew there would be drama
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: that was going to be incoming very soon, but they
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: were working together cohesively here for a little bit live
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Roxanne and Keana. They all ended up out on the
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: apron at the same time, and Raquel came flying in
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: with a boot and she knocked Keana to the floor.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: So the Judgment Day ladies they all shared a hug
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: and everything was copasetic. Everything was good. And then we
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: had number eighteen was Chelsea Green. She immediately confronted the
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Judgment Day women and tried to get them to join her.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: Live slapped her, so Chelsea slapped her back. They all
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: ganged up on her. Alba Fire was out there, so
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: she wasn't officially in the rumble, but she came out
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: to the ring with Chelsea, and so she reaches in
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: and she's trying to like help Chelsea, but she ends
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: up getting pulled into the ring and Raquel close lined
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: her back out to the floor. Even though she was
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: not in the rumble, she got eliminated anyway by being
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: closelined over the top rope. So then Julia Women's United
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: States Champion enters at number nineteen. I was hoping. I'm
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: watching this and I'm like, man, I hope she's in
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: there long enough to share a moment or in exchange
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: or something with Osca and or EO. So she comes
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: out to the ring and there was a funny spot
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: here where Albo was outside on all fours. Chelsea was
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: almost eliminated, but she landed feet first on Alba's back.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Alba was providing a platform for her so she wouldn't
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: be eliminated, and Chelsea was able to get back into
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: the ring. But speaking of EO, guess who entered at
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: number twenty EO Sky So she comes out thirty four
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: minutes in counting, by the way, so far for Charlotte Flair.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: And then we got number twenty one, and oh my god,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: it's Oscar ask and you shall receive. We have Julia,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: we have EO, and we have Osca, all in the
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: ring together at the same time. And Oscar actually put
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: her hand out to shake Julia's hand. They were going
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: to gang up on EO. Julia slapped it away. They
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: ended up working together anyway, until Osca kicked Julia in
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: the face, So, I mean it was brief, but they
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: did get to do some stuff together, so I thought
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: that was kind of cool. Number twenty two was Rhea Ripley,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: and I think she was wearing clown makeups. Wasn't that obvious.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: It was very faded, But I uh, when they got
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: some close ups of her face. I'm pretty sure she was.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: She was dressed like a clown. Maybe she's going to
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: be part of a JCW. Maybe she's secretly a juggalo.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: She did dress up as Art the clown in War Games.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but she made her way. She was
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: dressed in all black, skin tight from neck to toe,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: and she even got Pyro for a Royal Rumble entrance.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: That's how you know she's a big deal when you
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: get Pyro during your Royal Rumble entrance. Julia and Zelina
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: they ended up out on the apron. Julia blasted her
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: with the arrivader chi Ni, sending her to the floor.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Ria dumped out Chelsea. Roxanne tried for pop rocks to
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: Ria Rio, though countered out of it into a razor's edge.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: She gave her a razor's edge out over the top
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: rope onto Chelsea and Alba on the floor, and so
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: that was the end of Roxanne. Number twenty three was
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Bailey the winner of the twenty twenty four Royal Rumble.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: Number well, actually forty one minutes at this point and
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: counting in case you were wondering for Charlotte Flair JCW
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: partnership in coming. I don't think so. Triple H and
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Russo working together, Yeah, I don't think so. And Tran
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: says it's coming, it's coming. Solomo, Oh, it's coming. I
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: know I'm almost there. It's coming all right. Number twenty
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: four was the NXT Women's champion j C. Jane. I'll
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: never forget my reaction when I heard the news live.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: I was doing TNT. It was a Tuesday night and
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: the news came in that Stephanie Vequier had been defeated
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: and had lost her NXT Women's championship to j C. Jane.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: And my reaction was, j C. Jane, the hell did
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: that come from? Like of all the members of Fatal Influence,
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: I would have fallen Henley maybe, but Jace Jane, especially
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: the way they had protected Stephanie up until that point.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: But she went on to have herself a very nice
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: year and she entered the rumble here and I thought
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: she did very well. She got a little bit of shine,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: she got some little run of offense there for a
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: little bit. I think jac Jane has improved and has
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: come a long way. I will eat crow when it
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: comes to jac Jane. Natty was beefing with Rhea, and
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: then Live Raquel got her out on the apron. Live
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: flew in with an oblivion into the ropes and the
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: momentum sent Natty backwards to the floor, so Natty was gone.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: And then it was number twenty five. It was the
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Nicky Bella. Fearless Nicky Bella out to
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: the ring here, number twelve, and I thought that was it.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: As far as the Bella's go, I'm like, all right,
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Nicky's in, She'll be out soon. No harm, no foul,
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Speaking of foul. Number twenty six was Bird Girl Lyra
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: Valkyria Bailey and Lyra. They worked together to eliminate Julia.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Number twenty seven was Kalanie Jordan from NXT went right
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: up top, hit a version of a phoenix, splash onto
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: j C Jane, who was laying on the mat double DDT,
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: then takes down both Live and Raquel. Number twenty eight
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: was the Pirate Princess Kyrie saying Oscar's got help. Remember
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: Kyrie said that she was going to make sure, one
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: way or the other that Oscar was going to win
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble. That was her goal here. I wasn't
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: even sure if Kyrie was actually in the rumble, I
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: thought maybe she would come out and be in Oscar's corner.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: I never heard her officially declare, but she was in
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble. Uh So her plan to do whatever
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: it takes to make sure Oscar wins didn't work out
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: so well. It did not work out the way she intended.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Oscar ended up out on the apron. She was hanging
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: on by a thread, and Kyrie came in with a
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: forearm shot, like a sliding forearm shot to EO, who
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: ducked it. So she missed EO, and she blasted Oscar
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: in the back of the head, and then Oscar fell
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: to the floor, so Oscar she actually eliminated Osca from
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble. And then EO dumped out Kyrie and
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Oscar was not happy. That is not going to end
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: well for poor Kyrie. And then it was time for
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: number twenty nine. I'm sitting here trying to rack my brain, like, man,
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: we got two spots left. I'm like, I'm waiting for Bianca.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: I'm like, she's got to be number thirty, right, She's
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: got to be coming out. Maybe she's twenty nine. I
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: don't know, but gotta be coming out, and like legitimately,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: I was not expecting to hear bremode and I almost
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: just my body see up a little bit when I
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: heard it. But then I heard something that was even
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: more shocking, which was a gigantic pop. As Brie Bella
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: made her way out to the ring, she got the
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: biggest reaction up to this point of anything on the show,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: and so she runs down. I'm just sitting here like
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: dear God, no, God, no, she runs down to the ring.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: The fans are going ape shit with the yes chance
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: they zoom out. Everyone's putting their fingers in the air.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: She did the yes kicks and then she hugs her sister.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: They got taken down though, So then the final entrant
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: was out at number thirty. I was convinced hoping that
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: it was Bianca bell Air, just because it would be
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: great to get her back, and God knows SmackDown can
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: use another big name right now, and so what better
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: time than the royal Rumble. She's been gone long enough
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: and it was not Bianca Bellair. Number thirty was Tiffany Stratton.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: We have not seen since she lost her championship a
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: couple months ago to Jade Cargill, So Tiffany makes her
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: way out. She came face to face with Charlotte. That
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: was last year's WrestleMania match, and so they went at it.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: We had the Bellas going at it with Bailey and Lyra.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: The Bellas dumped them both out with head scissors, head
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: scissors to Bailey, ahead scissors to Lyra. Again, huge pot
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: when they eliminated them from the match, and again they
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: broke into yes chance. Jac Jane eliminated Colonie Jordan, but
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: then got caught with a soul snatcher, best finish in
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: all of wrestling, and then Jace got dumped. So lash
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: Legend then single handedly, single handedly dumped out both Bella twins.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: And if I tell you the heat that this woman
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: got for eliminating the Bellas, you would be stunned. But
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: she did. She got legitimate heat. Fans did not like that.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: Lash Legend then eliminated Charlotte Flair just short of an
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: hour in this match, and Charlotte is gone. So the
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: final seven live Morgan, Raquel Rodriguez, Rhea, Ripley, Eo, Sky
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Lash Legend, Tiffany Stratton and soul Ruka Lash caught Eo
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: by the throat off of a springboard, tried to dump Eo.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: They both ended up on the apron. They were hanging
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: from the middle rope. Eo is latching onto Lash's leg
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: almost looks like she's trying to apply some sort of
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: like knee bar, but she's hanging on to her leg
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: and Lash is hanging onto the ropes like EO's not
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: even hanging on the ropes anymore. And Lash just takes
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: her other foot and just it's like she stomped her
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: down to the ground. And so now Eosky is gone.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: She is officially eliminated choking another one up here, another
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: elimination for Lash Legend and boy, this pissed off Rhea Ripley.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: They zoomed in on Rhea's face and you could see
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: her mouth the words. She was telling her, You're gonna
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: pay for that. So there was a clothesline. Did not
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: put Lash down. She went for a head butt, did
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: not put Lash down. Legend puts Ria down though with
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: a pump kick, and then it was Raquel standing up
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: to Lash, who hit her with a fallaway slam. But
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: here comes Ria and she close lines Lash Legend out
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: to the floor. Her run is over and then I'm
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: watching Raquel. Raquel picks up Rihea in position for a
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Tehana bomb, and she ends up delivering a Tehana bomb
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: onto the ring apron. I don't mean like she just
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: sort of gently put her down. She fucking slammed this
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: woman on the apron, right on the edge of the ring.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: And then Ria falls to the floor, and it looked
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: like it heard. It looked like it sucked. Ria falls
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: to the floor. Rhea Ripley has been eliminated. She was
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: one of the favorites coming into this match. But here
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: comes Live Morgan from behind, and Live Morgan eliminates Riquel.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: I told you the drama was coming with the judgment day.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: So now we're down to Live Morgan, Sol Ruka and
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Tiffany Stratton Live went for oblivion. Tiffany intercepted Soul, Ruka
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: hit them both with a double soul snatcher. Soul tried
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: to dump them both, but she went over with them.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: So now they're all hanging on. All three women are
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: out on the apron and they're all hanging on. And
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: Soul made a very dumb mistake. She made a rookie
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: mistake here. You know what this reminded me of because
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: there have been some dumb things that wrestlers have done
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: in the Royal Rumble, and I always used to laugh
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: whenever there was a wrestler in the Royal Rumble who
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: would try to pin somebody, I'm like, what the fuck
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: is wrong with you? And the biggest, most egregious example
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: of this, because you would think he would know better,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: and I love him to death, but the macho man,
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Randy Savage in nineteen ninety three, at the very end
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: of the Rumble, comes off the top rope and drops
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: an elbow on yoko Zuna and what does he do.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: He covers him like he's trying to pin him. And
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: it was one of the most ridiculous looking finishes ever
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: because Yokozuna basically the spot was that he powered him
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: up and Savage had to basically jump over the top
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: rope to eliminate himself. It was just so stupid. So
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: I'm watching soul Ruka here and I could see what
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: she's about to do, and I'm like, why would you,
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: why would you even attempt this? You're on the apron,
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: she's looking at the ring post, and she's going to
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: hit a soul snatcher on the ring apron. This does
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: not go well for soul Ruka because as soon as
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: she gets airborne, Tiffany Stratton just shoves her off, shoves
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: her to the floor, and soul Ruka goes splat and
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: soul Ruka is eliminated from.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: The Royal Rumble.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: But here comes Live Morgan, flying in with an oblivion
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: and the momentum takes Tiffany Stratton off the apron. She
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: hits the floor, and Live Morgan, after being the runner
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: up two times, always a bride'smaid, never a bride, is
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: finally a Royal Rumble winner. Live Morgan picks up the victory.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: So a few things here. I would say the first
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: fifty or sixty percent of this rumble was very, very,
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: very mid even even bad frankly in some spots, just
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: because it was very boring, So there wasn't a whole
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: lot going on there. And where it got great was
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: in the last I would say ten to fifteen minutes,
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: and then it got very good, and I thought that
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: finish was great. I thought it was electric. I said,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: coming into this Bianca bell Air, I really believe she
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: was going to return. If she returned, I don't see
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: the point in her returning and losing. So I had
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: her as my pick to win, but for some reason
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: she wasn't going to be in there. Liv Morgan was
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: my pick to win. So when Live won, I wasn't
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: disappointed or underwhelmed or anything, and it got a great reaction.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: And she's always really on raw, been in the middle
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: of everything in the Judgment Day. The Judgment Day they
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: say has no leader, but you know, at one point
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: Finn Balor clearly was like he was that guy, right,
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: and Live has been that person, especially since she came
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: back from her injury. If you had to say, who
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: is the leader, who's the you know, the straw that
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: stirs the drink in the Judgment Day, it's Live Morgan.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: So she's in the middle of a lot of different
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: things any given week. She's become a great character on
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: that show. And I also think her in ring has improved.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: If you go back and look at Live Morgan is
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: a babyface three years ago, four years ago when she
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: was in the riot squad, right, She's She's a much
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: better performer in ring now than she was then. She
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: is not among the elite in that company when it
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: comes bell to Belle, but she's fine but she's you know,
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: a big personality on the show, and whether or not
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: she's going to be wrestling Stephanie Vicer Is she going
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: to cash in her opportunity at WrestleMania against Jade Cargill.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: I think not. Is Stephanie going to be the champion,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: because there's an interesting little wrinkle here. Stephanie is defending
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: her Women's World title on Raw this Monday in a
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia street fight against Raquel, who was eliminated in the
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: rumble by Liv. So we're looking at a situation potentially
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: where liv Morgan could be going into WrestleMania with her
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: best friend as the women's champion. I don't think Stephanie's
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: losing on Monday, but it doesn't mean that Raquel is
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: not going to play a role, you know, in the
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: women's title picture heading into Las Vegas. So storyline wise,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: there's definite, you know, different directions here, definite pads that
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: they could take to make the story a lot more interesting.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: Maybe Raquel ends up on the outside of the judgment
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: day and splits away from them. I don't know what
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: they're going to do with it, but man, how bad
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: is Beyonc's hand? How fucked up is her head still
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: that even the royal rumble like this woman has lost
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: a year of her career because someone fell on her hand,
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: like in a match coming off of what I had
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: is my match of the year in twenty twenty five,
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: and it's just it's crazy to think, I don't know,
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what's going on. She's
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: gonna come back with a fucking hook for a hand
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: at this point, which actually would be kind of cool.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: But yeah, anyway, just look, I hope she gets well soon.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: That's all I can say. I don't know if she's
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: had any sort of setback. I don't know if she
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: needs another surgery, if she ever even had surgery. I
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: think she was trying to avoid it. Maybe that's part
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: of the issue. Maybe she should have had surgery and
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: she didn't, and it just hasn't healed on its own,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: because for those of you who don't know, the issue
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: was she really she didn't break her finger so much
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: as she broke her knuckle at the joint, and so
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: there was a lot of swelling. And the issue is
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: that if it doesn't heal properly, you can't wrestle like
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: that because it just makes the chances of your rebreaking
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: that much higher, and so you can't do that, you know,
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: and it's not safe if you're trying to lift people
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: and hold the mump, and that's what she does. You know,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: she's very strong, and she's always you know, military pressing
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: people and superplexing people, and it's not it's just not practical.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: So it's a tough injury. But yeah, hopefully we'll get
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: to see her soon. I was surprised not to see
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: aj Lee in the Rumble. I thought we would see her,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: But again, I fully expect it'll be her and Becky,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: you know for the Intercontinental title of WrestleMania. You know,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: when Natty eliminated Becky, that pretty much told me, oh, okay,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: I guess we're not getting aj here in this match.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: So these are the surprises from NX T, J C,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: Jane soul Ruka, Lola Wes and Kalanie Jordan and Brie
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: Bella that was the other one. Those are your surprises
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: in the Women's Royal Rumble match. And how we live
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: in a world where the Bella Twins got a bigger
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: reaction than just about anything else on the show. I
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. I don't know what to
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: say to that, but I guess we know who's going
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: to be going after the women's Tech Team titles at WrestleMania.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: Because if this was meant to be a one off
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: for Brie Bella, it ain't no more. Because I guarantee you,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: if it was meant to be a one off, they
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: heard that reaction, Believe me, they're going to bring her
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: back for more. We haven't seen the last or pre mode.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: I'm sure of the names they really put over here
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: in this match, Soul Ruka. She lasted over fifty minutes.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: We got a bunch of soul snatchers. She was pretty over.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: I thought they put her over a very strong lash legends.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: She got the monster spot like I thought she would.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure she had the most eliminations. I think
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: she had five, five or six eliminations in this match,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: and they were all very impactful ones. You know. She
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: dumped out Charlotte Flair, who was in there for almost
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: an hour. She dumped out both Bella twins, she dumped
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: out Jordan Grace, she dumped out Yo Sky. She was
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: the dominant one in the Royal Rumble this year, and
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: then we'll see what the fallout is from Charlotte accidentally
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: eliminating Alexa live dumping Raquel Kyrie eliminating Oscar. It's one
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: of the things I liked about the Women's Rumble when
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: it was over. They had a few different spots and
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: sequences like that where there's going to be fallout and
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: you will have to tune into the television to see
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: where it goes. But there's no way there are there's
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: not going to be some sort of consequence for these friends,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: right or partners eliminating their other partner. So we have
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: some stories now coming out of this match. But second
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: half much better than the first, and they ended very strong.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: Avas says Keana looked great. Kana looked good, and she
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: had a nice run of offense and therefore, so then
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: it was the ring general had Gunther against the phenomenal
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: AJ styles and if AJ loses, he must retire from
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: the ring. They were singing and they were going crazy
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: for AJ early in this match, which again is what
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: makes me laugh when I hear some people saying, oh,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: the crowd was quiet for the entire show. No, they weren't.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: If you believe that, then you obviously took a piss
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: break or went to go make a sandwich during this match.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: I suggest you go back and rewatch this match from
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: beginning to end, because they were certainly into it, right
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: from the beginning of the bell, Right from the opening
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: bell here of this match they made Honestly, they made
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: more noise for these guys here in this match in
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: the first three minutes than they did for anything except
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: bre Mode in the women's rumble. So it was a
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: slow start for Gunther. But with Aj and the ropes,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: he got booted out to the floor very hard, took
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: a hard fall. This is where the tide turned. Gunther
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: went over to the announced desk, picked Aj up and
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: dropped him right on top of the desk. He sent
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: Aj into the ring post back inside. Aj was still
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: selling a rib injury and Gunther was working him over,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: including a huge back body drop.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: We don't get enough of those anymore. That's one of
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: those spots we used to get in almost every match,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: and then we rarely get them now. Row row Roman
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: reins jetly down the street. You don't really see a
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: lot of back body drops row row Roman reins jetly
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: down the street. But Aj got some height on this one,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: I will say so. I also noticed here at this
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: point the referee was putting his black gloves on, and
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: so that means someone is bleeding. And then I saw
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: AJ's arm and he had a gash. I think it
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: was his left arm, but he had a gash on
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: his arm like his forearm, and it was it was
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: bleeding pretty good enough so that the referee put the
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: gloves on. I think I think they said it happened
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: when he got dumped on top of the announced desk.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: His arm may have clipped one of the monitors. He
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: was leaving little blood puddles here and there, so hopefully
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: that thing didn't get infected. Gun There got him in
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: a Boston crab. Aj, though fought out of it, and
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: he went on offense for a little bit. He got
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: dropped though by a hard lariat. Styles got a calf
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: crusher applied finally, but gun Thro immediately just reaches over
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: and grabs the rope. So Gunther killed him with a
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: shotgun drop kick into the power bomb with the high stack.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: AJ kicks out. So Aj got the calf crusher applied again,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: and this time he got it applied right in the
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: center of the ring, so gun there was nowhere near
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: the ropes. But remember, and I pointed this out to
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: you when I reviewed Saturday Night's Made event one week ago.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: We had that great match between Aj and Shinsky Nakamoura,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: and at one point during the match, he got Knackamoor
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: in a calf crush sure for what felt like ten minutes,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: and knackamorran never getting Knackamora, who doesn't do anything on
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: television anymore, was locked in the calf crusher forever in
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: a day and didn't tap out. And I said, well,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: that takes a lot of the drama away from that
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: at the rumble, because if Knackamora didn't tap to the
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: calf crusher in ten minutes, how am I supposed to
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: believe that Gunther is. So I'm sorry for me. There
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: wasn't a whole lot of drama here once I saw
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: him in the calf crusher. But Gunther got out of it.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: He bought the sleeper hole applied, AJ worked up to
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: his feet, transitioned into a sleeper of his own. Guntherer
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: though got out of it. He applied the sleeper again,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: but Aj used the momentum of his own body. He
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: kind of ran towards the ropes and that sent Gunther
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: flying through the ropes out to the floor. So Styles
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: then comes down with a springboard forearm to the floor
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: bull's eye. He nails guntherer right between the eyes. AJ
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: puts him back in the ring. He goes up top,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: Gunther cuts him off and he climbs up with him.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: So here comes the superplex, but AJ stuffs it. He
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: slips underneath him, and AJ got a power bomb of
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: his own with a stack. Gunther kicks out. So AJ
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: goes to the apron and he's lining him up for
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: a springboard four fifty and then he got the big
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: guy up for a Styles clash, but Gunther kicked out.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: And this was great stuff here so far and again
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: the fans are invested, and they're loud, and they're just
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: they're hanging on to you know, every near fall. Everything's clicking,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: and now it was time for the phenomenal forearm. Gunther, though,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: catches him in a sleeper on the way down. AJ
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: switches into one of his own. Gunther grabs the referee though,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: and so the referee's view is obstructed and he gives
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: Aj a mule kick low but the referee did not see.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: And then came the power bomb with the deep stack
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: and AJ kicks out and the place went nuts. That
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: was a great, great near fall spot, very believable. Gunther
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: is screaming at the referee saying that should have been
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: a three count. And now Gunther starts just brutalizing Aj
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: in the corner. He's kicking him, he's chopping him as
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: hard as he fucking can. The referee has to get
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: in between them and back gun Through up like he's
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: going to disqualify him. It's like back up, and the
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: referee goes over to Aj and he's asking him do
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: you want to quit? Do you want to you know,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: do you give up? Do you want to stop? Of
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: course Aj, he's not gonna quit. I mean, who do
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: you think he is? John Cena. So the match continues.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: Gunther goes back into the corner and again more chops
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: and just relentless. So again the referee backs him up,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: and I mean, look, if he were to be disqualified there,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: that would in theory save AJ's career. I'm just saying.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: So again the referee is asking if he wants to continue,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: and Gunther is telling him, get up, get up, and
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: we got some more wicked chops. AJ collapses to his
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: knees hard lariat and this is getting ugly. Now. It
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: looks like AJ's got nothing left. He's got no fight
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: left in him. This thing is gonna get called here
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: any minute, right, That's what it's looking like. So finally
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: AJ fires back with some forearms. The phenomenal forearm is attempted. Gunther, though,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: grabs him off, like as soon as he gets up
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: onto the top rope to begin the motion, Gunhther comes over.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: He just grabs him gently and places him on his
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: shoulders and he ends up getting the sleeper applied to Aj.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: So he gets Aj down to the mat. The legs
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: are wrapped, He's got the he's at the body, grapevine.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: The legs are wrapped around the body. There's nowhere for
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: Aj to go. Aj, though, starts to elbow out of it,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: and the crowd comes alive. They see him throwing those elbows.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: They're like yeah. Gun Through though, drops some anvil elbows
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: of his own. He gets Aj back down on the mat.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: Aj is trying to fight out with more elbows. He's
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: powering back up. He gets to the ropes and he
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: didn't get he didn't get the full rope break, but
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: he's close enough to the ropes where he got like
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: a fingertip on the rope, which apparently was not good
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: enough for a rope break. Guntherro just pulled him back
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: towards the center of the ring. More elbows from Gunther
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: and again he takes Aj down in the sleeper. AJ
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: has nowhere to go. He's starting to fade and his
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: arm dropped, and dan Engler checks the arm once and
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: it drops because he's out. Aj is out, and the
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: referee calls for the stoppage. Now I have to say,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: if I have one criticism here, and this is more
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: of a general criticism here, it is that they need
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: It's very silly how sometimes they'll do the gimmick where
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: the arm has to drop three times. That's what they
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: did when I was a kid, and so like in
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: a Hogan match, right, the armor drop once, and then
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: the armor drop twice, and the armor drop three times.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: But now the arm goes back off right for dramatic effect.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: But now everything is so reality based, right with tapouts
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: and triangle chokes and all the influence they borrowed from
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: from MMA. If the arm drops once and honestly, it
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: makes more sense to do it this way. That means
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: the person is unconscious, you should call the match, and
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: generally that's what they do in the John Cena match,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: though I think it was you last month they did
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: there the three arm drop, and sometimes they will go
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: back to doing it that way. There has to be
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: some consistency to it. It's just silly that in some
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: matches you do it this way and other matches you
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: do it another way. So it's like a minor thing.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: But it's just one of those things. I think for
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: the sake of consistency, they should just stick to the
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: one just the one drop, and if it drops, then
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: that's it. You call the match off. And that's what
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: the referee did.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: Here.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: The crowd is stunned, silent, and they immediately cut to
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: a shot of the different fans in the crowd. Their
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: jaws have dropped, they're sad, they're just stunned. They can't
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: believe it, they can't believe that he actually lost. And
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: I think there were a lot of people in the
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: crowd who don't live on the Internet or social media
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: who probably just saw it for what it was, which
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: is okay, aj lost the first match, and he's putting
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: his career on the line and it's only January, so like, yeah,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: he's talked about how twenty twenty six is going to
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: be his final year, but like, this can't be it,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: like the year just started and we're so close to WrestleMania, Like,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: there's no way that AJ is going to lose this match,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: and then he fucking loses a month after John Cena
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: lost his final match, and they're just stunned. They can't
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: believe it. It's like one of those Undertaker streak type
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: of reactions here, and a week ago I would have
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: been part of that crowd. I wouldn't have believed it either,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: Like there's no fucking way he's losing this match. They've
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: booked themselves into a corner. How are they going to
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: get out of this? Because surely AJ is not just
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: going to go in there and lose, right, There's gotta
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: be more to it than that. And then my tune
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: started to change when I noticed that they were speed
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: running through all of these big matches for AJ, Like
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: we got the first AJ Gunther match on like the
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: second raw of the year, and I'm like, okay, well,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: I mean maybe they could hold off on doing the
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: rematch for a while, but then they went and they
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: made the announcement that they were going to have a
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: match at the Royal Rumble and aj was going to
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: put his career on the line, And I thought, well,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: why the fuck are they doing that at the Royal Rumble.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: That was the match I pitched for WrestleMania when I
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: did my predictions at the beginning of the year, I said,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: you do that stipulation for WrestleMania. Why are they doing
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: it now? What are they going to do for a
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: third match? Because I'm still thinking, right, oh, this is
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: going to go to a third match. So when I
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: saw that, and then I saw that on twenty four
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: hours notice they put him in the ring with Shinsky
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: Nakamura for like one last match together, I was like, huh.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: And then Monday is where I was convinced he's leaving
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: like he's done, and it was two things number one.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: In the opening promo on Monday, he talked about how
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: there were a lot of guys, especially in other locker rooms,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: that he would love to have the chance to get
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: in the ring with one last time, and then they
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: made the match with him and Cmpunk for the World
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship. And I said, if they're doing that match
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: on Monday, if they're doing that match unannounced, it's not
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: even like they had a week to promote it. They're
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: just throwing it out there. CM Punk and aj Styles
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: first time ever in WWE, and it's for the World
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship. They are speed running through this because he
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: is leaving, because he is done. At the Royal Rumble,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: that's when I knew it was over. Like I did
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: a total one eighty. I said, holy shit, he really
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: is done. So it wasn't really a shock to me
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: to see it go down, you know the way that
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: it did. Hear he awoke when it was over. He
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: didn't realize what had happened, right. He had to be told, hey,
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: you know it's over. You went out. He got to
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: his feet and the fans showered him with applause. He
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: slowly began to remove his gloves one by one and
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: he went to go lay them on the mat. He
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: couldn't bring himself to do it. Every time he would
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: bend over to put the gloves down, he would come
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: back up and the fans are like no, no, no, And
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: when he came back up, they start cheering, and so
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: finally he puts the gloves back on and it gets
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: this big reaction because I think people thought, Okay, he's
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: not going to retire, but no, he put the gloves
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: back on to do the little, you know, the pose
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: that he does. He did it to all four sides
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: of the ring, like one final salute, and then he
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: climbed the turnbuckles one last time to pose for the fans,
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: and you know, I don't know, the whole thing was
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: very it was very sad to see. And then he
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: headed to the back and I'll say this, this was
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: everything that the John Cena match should have been on
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: Saturday Nights. Made event, and maybe they just didn't want
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: to do the same finish back to back. I mean,
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: there was no harm in doing it because you have
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: guys that are fighting until their last breath. You know,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: they're putting in everything they got. They're not going to
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: go down, you know, with a smile on their face.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: You know they're going to fight till the very end.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: Because this smug prick is not going to be the
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: one who gets to go around saying that I tapped
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: out so and so, or I beat so and so
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: until finally your body just you know, gives out on you.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: And it's just funny comparing the two matches, it's like
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: night and day. Aj just fought tooth and nail until
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: the very end, you know, looked like he could still
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: hang all the way through, would not surrender. Every time
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: you thought he was done, he would power back up
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: to his feet and start firing off some elbow and
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: the crowd was totally into it. The crowd was invested,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: and yeah, they were disappointed when it was over because
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: he lost, and what the what the implications of that were,
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: But I don't think anybody would tell you if you
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: watch this match that you know they were disappointed with
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: the match up to that point, like everybody was into it.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: Everybody was having fun with it. It was dramatic. It
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: was a great match. It was better than their first one.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: Uh and it was just it was just a great match.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: And he never gave up until the very end, until
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: he had absolutely nothing left to give and then his
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: body went out on him. And this was the It
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: was the emotional spectacle that I was hoping it would
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: be at WrestleMania. I wasn't expecting it this early. But
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: it was with that stipulation, it was exactly what I
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: was hoping it would be, and I'm not gonna lie
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: like for me it was it was emotional watching him
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: there at the end. It just felt like the end
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: of an era, like it did last month watching Sena.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: Sena was more, you know, he was more of a
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: singular figure in this company who really defined an era
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: all by himself. I wouldn't say that there was an
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: Aj Styles era in WWE, like it was never really
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: his place the way that it was seen his place.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: TNA was AJ's place WWE. That was seen his place
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: because he was the guy. So it was a bigger
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: deal when Sena went out because that truly felt like, Wow,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: this is really the end of the end of an
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: era for Aj. It was ten years to the very
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: event where he debuted in WWA, so there was that
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: where it was almost like, Okay, if he was going
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: to go out, you could think of worse times I
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: guess for him to go out there as a ten
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: year anniversary thing, but it does feel like the end
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: of an era. You know, in many ways, a lot
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: of these guys they're just you know, they're going away,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: They're going away almost all at once. You know, it
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: feels like but AJ is just the one of a
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: kind performer. He truly is the kind of performer who
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: when you look back at this generation, like last twenty
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: five years and who you feel are the top performers,
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: especially in ring performers in wrestling, AJ Styles is at
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: or near the top of that list, Like he is
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: one of the best in the world and has been
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: now for more than two decades. Like there's a reason
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: why you have legends in WWE who never had the
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: chance to work with him, or like the example with
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: the Undertaker, they had a cinematic match, but it's one
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: of Undertaker's great regrets that they weren't able to have
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: the match they were supposed to have it wrestled made
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: at thirty six before COVID shut everything down, and so
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: it was just cinematic. He felt like AJ was that
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: one guy on the roster who could give him that
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: one last sendoff match, kind of like the one he
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: had with Sean Michaels. And I don't know if Undertaker
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: could have had that kind of match physically at that point,
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: but if anybody was going to be able to give
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: it to him, it would have been AJ Styles, like
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: the fact that we never got AJ and Shawn Michaels
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: like want to match that would have and AJ has
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: said he tried, he wanted to, he tried to do
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: it and it just didn't work out. When you have
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: legends like that who are like man, I wish I
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: could have worked with that guy. That's how you know,
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: like you're you're one of one. You know, you're not
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: just like anybody else. And so that's the kind of
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: you know, wrestler that AJ Styles is and it's just
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: now it's too bad we're not going to see him
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: in WWE again. But that's the question. We're not going
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: to see him in WWE again? Are we going to
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: see him elsewhere? My gut tells me his contract was
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: up and maybe they tried to negotiate something and they
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: couldn't come to an agreement, or his contract was coming up,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: and he just he wants to have more of an
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: actual retirement tour. Yeah, they called it a Johnson a
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: retirement tour last year, but this really could be a
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: true retirement tour where he doesn't just wrestle in WWE,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: but for the remainder of the year as long as
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: he wants to go doesn't have to be the whole year.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: He could pop up anywhere he wants if he's free
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: and clear contractually especially, he can show up wherever he wants.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: TNA would make a lot of sense because he was
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: just there. He was just there teasing a match for
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: the TNA World Championship. You know, he was staring at
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: Frankie Kazarian. Mike Santano wins the belt back and then
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: cuts a promo and says, Aj you want it, you
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: know where to find me. Leon Slater, like, there are
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: matches there that you can do with Aj Styles. In
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: the how he talks about SmackDown, it's the house that
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: Aj Styles built. TNA is the house that Aj Styles built.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: It would be very appropriate for him to go back
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: there and have at least one more match. The idea
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: of him going to aw for a short run. I
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: don't know how practical it is. I don't know if
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: that's something Aj wants to do, but it's a hell
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: of a lot more believable now than it would have
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: been if you would have asked me this question six
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: months ago. Because if Aj has it in his head,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: like I want to have the retirement tour that I
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: want to have. Let's and frankly, let's not have a
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: repeat of this John Cena retirement tour. You know what,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: there are certain guys in other locker rooms I would
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: love the chance to go work with. So I'll work
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: at TNA show, you know, in a smaller venue and
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: wrestle Mike Santana. I'll work with AW on a short
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: term contract for a few months and maybe get a
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: Wembley Stadium match against MJF for a match with Kenny
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: Omega or a match with you know, something like that.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: Why is that so unbelievable. I don't think it's that unbelievable.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: I can't get an AJ's head. I don't know where
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: his head is at it if he truly just can't
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: do this anymore, like physically, like I don't want to
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: do this anymore. I'm done. I want to do other things.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: I just physically cannot do it. You know, the the
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: prep and the recovery when the match is over. You know,
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: I remember him slipping and that tag match on Saturday
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: Night's Made Event livest Man. You could tell he was
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: so angry, like he was so he was trying not
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: to show it, but he was very upset about that,
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: and it's just little moments like that that might burn
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: it in his brain, Like this is exactly what I'm
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: trying to avoid. I can't run the risk of going
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: out there and having more moments like that, or I
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: slip here and I messed this up, and because that's
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: not how I want people to remember me. It's very
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: possible maybe we really have seen the last of him
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: in the ring. But I'm watching him when the match
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: is over, and he teases putting the gloves down, but
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: he does it. He puts them back on, and he
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: didn't leave his boots in the ring. Remember seeing that
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: he left his tennis shoes in the ring, or Team
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: three D in the ladder match with the Hardys a
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: few months ago, bound for Glory hand their boots over
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: to the Hardy's. There was nothing like that. When this
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: was over, the boots, the gloves, like he took them
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: all with him. I kind of took that to mean
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: I'm done here in WWE. But I'm not like done
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: done yet. There's still more to come before I hang
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: up the boots for good. And maybe that's just me
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: clinging to the hope I don't know. I just think
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: it would be really cool to see him go out
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: there and work in other places, maybe even outside the US,
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: and not like he would be doing a full schedule,
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: because I don't think he I don't think he wants
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: to do that. But why not why not have another
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: handful of matches in other places and write your own ending.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: This doesn't have to be an ending written by WWE
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: wwe would love to have him back after in like
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: a coaching position or something, you know, or maybe even
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: be some sort of I mean, look, hey, nxten, he's
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: a new general manager. I'm just saying Eva just left.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: There's any number of things he could be doing. But
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: let him go out truly on his own terms. And
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: so if by chance this is the end, what a
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: fucking career, first ballot Hall of Famer And yeah, I mean,
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know. There's just there's a lot that can
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: be said about the career of aj Styles, But if
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: this truly was it, what a great match to go
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: out on. At least we're not going to look back
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: and go, man, he had a shit match with guntherer.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: I wish he could have had a better match. Like,
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: they're not going to get much better than what we
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: got tonight. So this was easily the best thing on
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: the show. Gunther now has the gimmick of the career killer.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: I think they even trademarked that name, be honest with you.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: Goldberg already announced that that was going to be his
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: last match. It just so happened that Gunther was chosen
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: to be the opponent. John Cena already announced in advance
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: that was going to be his last match. It just
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: so happened that Gunther won a tournament and he ended
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: up being the opponent. So when we talk about Gunther
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: being the career killer, yeah, I mean yes and no.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: In this situation, it makes more sense because this was
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: not supposed to be AJ's final match, but Gunther beat
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: him and made it his final match. This is the
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: first time where you can honestly truly say Gunther retired someone.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: I don't need to see him retire anybody else. He
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: beat Goldberg in his last match, he beat Sena, he
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: beat AJ. At some point, this is gonna get very old,
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: and like who's left Brock Lesner, I'd rather see Obafemi
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: frankly be the one to beat Brock. If Brock was
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: gonna have one last match. I don't think Brock's going
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: anywhere anytime soon. As long as the money is good
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: and they got a big WrestleMania coming up in Saudi
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: Arabia next year, I don't think Brock Lesner is going anywhere.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: So then who, like? Who else? Jericho? I mean, Jericho's
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: not even back yet, Like he's gonna retire Jericho? Is
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: he gonna retire? Randy Orton? Randy Orton has talked about
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: how he wants to keep wrestling until he's fifty. He's
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: not going anywhere. You're gonna run out of people anyway.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: It just gets old after a while. So with Guntherro,
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: I think the key there is just making sure you're
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: very selective in in who you put him in the
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: ring with in like a big program, but make make
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: it so that when he finally does lose again, the
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: person who beats him can truly benefit from it. And
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: so it shouldn't be someone like an AJ Styles or
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: a Randy or And it should be someone newer. It
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: should be someone younger. It should be someone dominant maybe
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: and again I'm just throwing ob out there as an example,
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: but someone like that. Make it someone who can really
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: truly benefit from being the person who finally beat this
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: guy for the first time since all of this shit started.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: But I don't think he needs to just be the
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: career killer where it just becomes, oh, okay, guntherell be
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: the guy who they wrestle in their last match, because
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: after a while it just it just fucking boring, you know.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: But it looks like that's gonna be his gimmick, so
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: they're probably just gonna keep doing it. We had Drew McIntyre. Hey,
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: Mark Buckingham just subscribe. Welcome Mark, Welcome everybody else. We
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: got almost three thousand people. Eric, thank you for hanging
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: out with me. Get those super chats on in. I
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: want to hear what you guys thought of the Royal Rumble.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: Did you love it? Did you hate it? What'd you
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: think of the led seats? Weren't that was great? Yeah? Now,
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre defended the WWE Championship against Sammy's Aye. McIntyre
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: was in control until Sammy dumped him from the ring.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: He followed with a flip dive out to the floor
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: and Zane sold it and it looked like a rough landing,
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: like he landed on his tailbone, so he was selling
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: it like he heard his lower back. McIntyre actually got
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: up before he did back inside. Drew followed with a backbreaker. Oh,
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: I knew, I knew that was coming. I knew it.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: I knew it was coming. Richie, Thank you, Richie, thank
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: you for the twenty five son of a bitch. So
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: McIntyre followed with a backbreaker and a hard Irish whip
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: into the corner. He set up for a superplex and
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: Sammy countered into a sunset flip power bomb for two. Zay, though,
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: was in too much pain to hit the Blue Thunderbomb,
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: so McIntyre hit a neck breaker and then tried for
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: a Claymore kick. Sammy cut him off with a boot
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: hit the Blue Thunderbomb only got two. Sammy went to
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: the top, McIntyre met him there, hit an avalanche White
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: noise only for a near fall. So we got three
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: count them three, one two three straight future shock ddts
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: to Sammy's ain and he kicked out. Well, at least
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: he doesn't use it as his finish anymore, because if
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: he did, he wouldn't be able to anymore. So the
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: match continued. McIntyre hit consecutive running clothes lines. In the corner,
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: Sammy tried to catch him off guard by running up
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: behind him with a halluva kick. Drew saw it coming,
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: he ducked it. He hit a claim wore kick, but
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: Zaye got his foot on the bottom rope in the
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: very last second. For the rope break, McIntyre argued with
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: the referee, which is always a smart thing to do
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: in the middle of a championship match, and then Zaye
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: caught him off guard with a halluva kick. Didn't cover
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: him straight away though he finally did though just couldn't
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: get the three. McIntyre rolled to the floor. Sammy followed,
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: so McIntyre power bombed him right through the announced table
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: and the officials went over to go check on Sammy McIntyre.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: They'll rolled him into the ring to continue the attack
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: as well he should. Drew smacked him around and Sammy
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: gave him an exploder in the corner. He went for
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: a halluva kick. McIntyre, though, caught him instead with a
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: clay more and he didn't go for a cover. Though
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: didn't go for a cover, not right away. Sammy slowly
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: got up to his knees and McIntyre hit one last
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: Claymore to retain the time. I you know, it's weird
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: again to call this the come down match here because
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: it was for the WWE Championship, but that's what this was.
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: There were people who were still reeling, i think, from
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: the outcome of the aj Styles match, and it was
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: also a great match where the people were very loud,
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: and so that just happened sometimes where you have a
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: match where the fans are really up and then they
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: have to have that come down before you get to
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: the main event, the main event being the Men's Rumble.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: This was in that kind of weird spot, coupled with
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: the fact that aj Styles just got retired by Gunther
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: and people weren't very happy about that. And on top
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: of that, it was a match that was devoid of
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: any actual real heat, which was a little surprising because
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: again Sammy is very popular over there, and also there
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: is a lot of history between these two. It's not
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: the hottest feud in wrestling or anything like that, and
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: the match was only really set up. Over the past
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: week we've I've talked extensively about how fucking awful the
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: build to this Royal Rumble show was. I mean, on paper,
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: the card actually looked pretty good, but they just didn't
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: do a whole hell of a lot in the weeks
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: leading up to the show to really get me excited
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: for it other than just me naturally wanting to see
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble because it's my favorite event. So they
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of prep time to really put
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: into this to begin with. As a match, it was solid,
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: you know, it was good. It was unremarkable. It was
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: a match that if you were to tell me that
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: it was going to be the main event of any
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: given week on SmackDown, like this could have been a
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: big TV main event on SmackDown. There was nothing terribly
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: great or captivating about anything they did here in this match.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: It was actually kind of like I was waiting for
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: it to kick into that next gear and it just
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: never did and then it just ended. So it was
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: kind of disappointing in that regard. But just I mean,
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: bell to bell, the work was fine, but like, I
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: don't really have a whole lot else to really say
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: about it. When it was over, it didn't feel to
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: me like there was this great thirst to see Sammy's
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: ain as the champion. Now I think this bumps him
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: down from oh and eleven to now oh and twelve
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: against Drew. It feeds into their overall story. They're going
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: to be back in Saudi Arabia for WrestleMania next year,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: could very well be, you know, a place where they
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: want to tell that story where Sammy'szane finally wins a
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: world championship and it happens in Saudi. They're going to
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: really have to, you know, get people invested in that
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: story enough to want to see it, because I don't know,
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: it's just it was almost like a feeling of apathy here.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of weird, like Drew beat him
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: and didn't get a whole lot of heat for it,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: maybe in the way that you thought he would, but
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: he also didn't cheat. You know, maybe if he had
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: done something nefarious and really cheated and did something like
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: vile and evil, then maybe it would have gotten more heat.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: But you know, it was a match, it was a
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: match on the show, and now we move onward, and
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: it was the correct outcome, by the way, because honestly,
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: heading into WrestleMania this year, I would rather see Drew
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: McIntyre walk in as the champion then I would Sammy Zay,
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: so I don't have an issue with the outcome. Are
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: we up to nine hundred likes? Ricky said, nine hundred?
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: Is that where we're up to? Oh, only one hundred more? Huh,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: only one hundred more will hit quadruple digits. That was
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: easy for me to say, let's talk about the big
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: main event here on this show because they close with
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: the thirty Men over the Top Rope Royal Rumble Match,
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: the Men's Royal Rumble match last night on SmackDown. If
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: you were watching on the international feed, you were watching
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: early like I was with my VPN, you saw a
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: very funny flubb when Axiom came out to the ring
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: with Nathan Fraser for his match with Johnny Gargano, and
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: instead of putting his nameplate on the screen, they put
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: a graphic up for about two seconds before or they
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: pulled it. It was one of these lower thirds that
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: we saw during the Rumble tonight where they would put
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: the name of the person the entrant, and then their
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: height and weight where they're from. They put the name
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: played up the graphic up for bron Breaker entering number
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: one in the Royal Rumble, and I said, oops, someone's
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: getting in trouble and I said, I wonder if they're
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: going to pull that from the USA network feed when
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: it airs in the States. And I didn't watch the show,
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: but I had people tell me that yes, they they
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: edited that out of the show. Now at that point,
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: what do you do? What do you do? What's the
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: easiest thing to do? You move him from number one
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: to number two. That's exactly what they did. They shot
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: an angle on the pre show where Adam Pierce is
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: on set talking to like Biggie and whoever was there
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: with him, and incomes Paul Hayman, and he's very upset
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: and he wants to know why bron Breaker is being
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: forced to enter the Royal Rumble at No. Number two.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: So they switched it from one to two. That there's
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: no difference between one and two. It is literally the
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: same thing. You are both starting the Royal Rumble. The
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: bell will ring, It is no different whatsoever. So that
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: was the big change that they made here. So out first,
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: the new number one here in the Royal Rumble was
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: the ruler Oba Femei, former NXT champion, did not lose
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: his title. He left it quite literally laying in the
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: middle of the ring, and he vacated it to move
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: on to bigger and better things. So he comes out,
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: and if there was ever a prospect out of NXT
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: that was a sure thing on the main roster, it's
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: this guy. And if it goes any other way, unless
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: he gets himself in some sort of disciplinary trouble, that's
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: about the only thing that or injury that could derail
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: this man's career. If this man is not a world
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: champion soon enough, if this man is not in the
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: upper echelon of talents in the main event scene in
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: this company inside of a year, then all the people
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: in charge of booking Oba Femi should be relieved from
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: duty and replaced with somebody else. Because if ever there
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: was a sure thing, he's a sure thing. Every single
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: box that you could possibly want to check on what
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: you would be looking for at a professional wrestler, he
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: checks that box. And you know they love the size, right.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: He just towers over everybody, but he can do it all.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: So he comes out everyone to do it like he
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: does the dance on the way to the ring. Everyone
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: in the crowd, they're doing the Oba dance, right, I'm
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: gonna start doing that when I walk into the store,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: I go food shopping, and stuff. I'm going to walk
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: into the supermarket like that man. I love it. So
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: he walks out to the ring first and number one,
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: Number two is bron Breaker, So he makes his way
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: down to the ring. He's walking down, taking his time.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: He's coming down the aisle with Paul Hayman. Sudden Breaker
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: is jumped by someone in a black hoodie. Now, I
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: don't know what the obsession that Triple H has with
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: men in black hoodies. How many fucking times have we
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: seen this? We saw this with Austin Theory, we saw
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: this with Jacob Batu. We've seen this other times as well.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: Becky Lynch at one point, right, she was dressed up
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: in a black hoodie and then revealed herself. So we
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: have yet another mystery man in black and they jump
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: bron Breaker. They're beating him up, and this person, whoever
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: this person is, gives him a stomp. Gee, I wonder
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: who they want you to think it is. And I
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: thought he was gonna pull the thing down get a
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: big pop. It was Seth Rawlins, right, and Seth Rollins
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: doesn't even have to be clear to wrestle for him
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: to just deliver a stomp. He never revealed himself, probably
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: because Seth Rollins did not make the trip to Saudi Arabia.
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: He may end up being revealed in the end as
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: the mass Man. But again, it would be a little
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: too obvious, right, just like when Austin Theory showed up
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: and he stomped God who'd be stomped in the War
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: Games match to win it for the Vision, and then
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: you know, we come to find out, oh, it's not
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: Seth Rollins, it's Austin Theory. You can always substitute whoever
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: you want to in there once you do the big reveal.
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, it would be kind of interesting, honestly if
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: we come to find out that it was actually a
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: member of the Vision. Now it wouldn't be Bronze and
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: Reid obviously because this person was very slender. So like
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: if it was if it was Theory, or if it
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: was Logan, Paul Logan. Paul was very agreeable on TV
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: the other night when it might have been on Friday
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: night when he was like, the one member of the
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: Vision who should win the Royal Rumble is bron Breaker.
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: I think we should all agree he was a little
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: too agreeable, So who knows, Maybe it ends up being
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: a Logan Paul and he ends up getting bounced out
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: of the vision. But it it could just be also
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: a placeholder for Seth Rollins when he's good and ready
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: to come back. If they have a sense, then maybe
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: he'll be back sooner than later. That could be the
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania match, you know, it could be Seth Rollins against
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: bron Breaker. But we did not get a reveal because
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: the officials came over and he whoever the mystery man was,
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: he jetted off into the crowd. But bron Breaker ends
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: up being put in the ring and bron Breaker gets
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: eliminated promptly by Oba Femei. That was all bron Breaker did.
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: He did nothing in the Royal Rumble. He did not
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: have one offensive maneuver in the Royal Rumble. He got
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: jumped and he got dumped and that was it. And
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: that is a choice. Now, obviously this is going to
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: play into a story that will play itself out on TV,
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: possibly with Adam Pierce involved. So maybe we'll look back
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: at this in a few weeks and be like, Okay,
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: you know what, this all it was worth it, It
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: made sense. But I'm watching this and I'm going that's
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: certainly a fucking decision. That's certainly one way to bounce
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: bron Breaker out of the Royal Rumble. It was shocking,
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: I'll give them that. I don't know if it was good,
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: but it was certainly surprising. So he was one of
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: the favorites. And just like that, boom gone, solo sokoa,
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: he was out next a number three. Speaking of people
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: that will not be winning the Royal Rumble, no lantern
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: to guide him to the ring. Oba ran right through
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: him with the shoulder tackle. And now I'm sitting here
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: and I'm pulling for number four. I'm pulling for number
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: four because again I have number four in our Facebook pool.
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: Naya Jackson was number four in the women's rumble. I
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: wasn't winning shit with that, so my only hope was
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: number four and number four was Raymysterio, and I said, fac,
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: I guess there's always next year. And then it hit
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 1: me as he was coming down to the ring and
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: I see him flying all over the ring, and I
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: wasn't even sure if Ray was going to be in
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: the rumble, because remember he got injured or he got
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: hurt obviously not seriously. But on Monday something happened there
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: and there was some question as to whether or not
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: he would even be in the Rumble, but he's flying
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: around in there. I'm like, it's twenty years since he
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: won the Royal Rumble. He won the Rumble in two
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: thousand and six. It's twenty twenty six and ray Masterio
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: was still out there in the Royal Rumble flying around
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: fifty years old. It's pretty amazing. There was a period
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: of time in the early twenty tens where he had
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was like glass knees, and I said,
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: this guy's not going to last another six months. He's
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: got to hang it up. It's just one knee injury
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: after another knee injury. And then he got the stem
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: cells and he started. I don't know what else he's
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: doing to keep himself in shape. Whatever he's doing, he
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: has added years on to his career. I don't know
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: how much longer he plans on going, but I don't know.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: It's pretty crazy. Just to hit me, like, twenty years
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: since he won the Royal Rumble and there he is.
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: He's still in there, flying around. So Russev was out
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: at number five. Oh boy, Russev comes out. He immediately
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: eats a six y one nine and then he got
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: dumped out by Oba Femi and I literally I just
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: wrote in my notes, Lol, Russev, he is one of
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: those people, and you know what, fuck it, I'm gonna
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: put Alistair Black on that same list. Alistair Black, I
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: will have you know. Alistair Black was flown all the
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: way out to Saudi Arabia. He made the trip, he
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: was gonna be in the Royal Rumble, and they pulled him.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: They pulled him allegedly because they decided that they were
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: going to bring him back to TV in a different way,
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: so we're not going to use you, so they flew
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: him all the way over. There wasn't even in the Rumble.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: And if you look at the entirety of his runs
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: so far since he came back to WDE, I don't
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: honestly believe even though he's had more singles matches, and
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: I can never figure out why Tony Kahan just almost
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: refused to use him in singles matches but for a handful.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: But I can't honestly sit here and tell you that
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: his run in aaw was Eddie worse than the run
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: he's had since he came back to WWE. He actually
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: had a better run in AW he did. He actually
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: got a couple of big wins over Cody Rhodes, he
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: was a trios champion. He did more in aw than
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: he has so far since he came back to WWE.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: And then I look at Russev and I don't know
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: what the fuck happened there. That's just the bizarre situation
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: where you got Russev talking about how all I want
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: to do is work. I want to wrestle. I want
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: to work. I don't want to sit at home. He
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: was in that company for like three or four years,
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: barely wrestled. You would think if you wanted to wrestle
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: that badly, I'm sure Tony would have loved to have
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: put him on TV to this day, I have no
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: idea if it was just a just creative differences. I
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: don't know what the issue was there, but it became
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: like a punchline, like, man, this guy's run sucks. Look
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: at the run had in this company. It's awful. He'll
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: go back to WWE. We'll get Russev Day and all
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: this other stuff. He went back to WWE, Can you
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: honestly tell me that the run that he has had
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: since he came back is any better than what they
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: had him doing early on in his run in AAW
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: when he was like TNT champion, he was actually doing stuff.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: Give me a fucking break. He is a he's an
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: even bigger loser now to a bigger fucking geek now
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: on WWE television than he ever was in AAW. So
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: that's two examples right there of guys who made the
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: jump back who were actually no better off so far
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: for going back, and would have been better off staying
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: where they were working in AAW. And I never thought
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: I would even hear myself say those words. But you
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: cannot honestly tell me they are better off right now
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: than they were before. And it really hit me watching
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: him here. What a fucking geek he looked like, walking
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: out there and getting dumped out like some Saturday morning jobber.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: Give me a fucking break. So then Solo Socoa got
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: eliminated by Oba Femei and that was his third elimination
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: so far. Mysterio hit Oba with a six y one nine.
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: All that did was pissed the big guy off, and
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: that led to him eliminating Ray. So Oba was all
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: alone in the ring when number six entered and number
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: six was Matt Cardona, Poor bastard, poor guy, you talk
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: about the luck of the draw. So he makes his
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: way down to the ring. Opa just mows him down instantly.
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: Cardona manages a missile drop kick off the middle rope.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: Oba dropped him with a fall from grace and goodbye,
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: Matt Cardona, See you later. Number seven was nam Ian Priest,
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: Oba's gonna kill you. These are the chants that rang
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: out when Priest came down to the ring. See dude's
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: already over. First night in He's already over. So we
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: got a cyclone kick by Priest and then another one
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: and he takes down Oba with a clothesline. Number eight
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: is the bounty boy Javon Evans, who has a history
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: in NXT with Obafemi. He went for the o G
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: cutter Oba, though stuffed the attempt. He did take him
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: down though with a springboard kick. Number nine was mister Iguana.
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: Mister Iguana from triple A to absolutely no reaction whatsoever.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: These people did not either know what to make of
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: him or did not care about him, maybe a little
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: bit of both. I don't know, but he got he
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: got no re I guess they don't watch Luca Libra
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: and Riad. Evidently he tried to attack Priest with Layeska
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: his stuffed iguana. Priest though, gave him and the iguana
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: a double choke slam. Number nine. I want you people
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: to remember something, okay, I want you to remember when
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: you're watching stuff like that, and this is it's a
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: lighthearted comedy moment. Nothing against mister Iguana. I'm sure he's
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: a fine, a fine man. But him and Laparca, who
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: was another one from Tripaa who came in like these
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: people got spots in the Royal Rumble. Finn Balor could not.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: I want you to remember that. So Number ten was
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: Trick Williams who eliminated myster Iguana. Then we got a
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: three way face off between Trick Williams, Obafemi and Javon
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: Evans and the fans rang out with chance of an xt.
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: Number eleven was the American Nightmare Cody Rhodes, entering early
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: this year looking for his third Royal Rumble win in
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: four years, doing what only one other man in history
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: has ever done, winning his third Rumble. And I said
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: that would be a huge mistake, especially if you listen
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: to the crowd on SmackDown last night when Cody came
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: out and talked about winning a third Rumble, and he
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: got booed every time he even teased the possibility of
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: winning the Royal Rumble again he got booed. So, yeah,
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: that would have been a pretty fucking terrible decision on
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: their part if they would have had Cody win another
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: Royal Rumble, win an elimination chamber, that's fine. Winning another
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: Royal Rumble would have been awful, but they kept singing
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: his song even after the song stopped. Cody Cutter takes
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: down Damian Priest and so it was back to Cody
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: and Oba after their recent match on Saturday Nights made Event,
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: so they were about to go out it here when
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: number twelve came out. It was El Grandi Americano. He
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: slipped the metal plate under his mask. He started taking
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: guys out with headbuts, and then at number thirteen we
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: had El Grande Americano, HM the og, the original El
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: Grande Americano. Yes, Chad Gable is back and he's got
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: a beard, you could see it coming through the mask,
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: and he's jacked as fuck. This guy has been training
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: his ass off. I mean, I don't know what it
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: is with some of these guys when they come back
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: when they've had like a long layoff from injuries. Randy
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: Orton aj styles this guy comes, he comes back, he's
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: as cut up as I've ever seen in before. But
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: Chad Gable is finally back from the torn rotator. Cuff
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: gets into the ring and we got a high angle
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: German suplex by the original El Grande, so Americano Gable
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: eliminated Americano Kaiser. They went at it a little bit.
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: He eliminated Kaiser, but then Americano Gable got knocked off
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: the apron headfirst right into Americano Kaiser, so both men
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: were gone. Cody Rhodes then eliminated Trick Williams pretty nonchalantly.
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: They were just this is one of many examples of
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: eliminations in this rumble that just sort of happened and
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: should have been a bigger deal, and it just was
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: like nothing. It's like, oh, all right, let's just throw
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: this guy out. So he eliminates Trick Williams and then
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: at number fourteen, I'm looking at the screens and I
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: didn't mention this. I do have to say the stage
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: was very nice. There's a very elaborate WrestleMania esque stage.
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: So they had the giant they had like these giant screens,
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: and yeah, the names would come up, and I'm watching
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: this and it says Powerhouse Hobbes. Now we had heard
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: that he was getting a new name. He was gonna
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: get the name Royce Keys. Royce is the name of
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: his young son. I don't know where the Keys come from,
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: maybe Alicia, I don't know, but it says Powerhouse Hobbs,
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: and I don't know if I wouldn't say it got
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: a huge reaction because I'm sure there were a lot
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: of people who don't know who he is, or you know,
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: didn't know the significance of that. But I'm like, oh shit,
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: maybe they swerved us and he's actually coming in with
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: the name. But then it switched to Royce Keys. So
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: I don't really know what the point of that was.
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: But they kind of tease you there for a second
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: that he was coming in his Powerhouse Hobbs, and then
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: they kind of swept the rug out from under you
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: and went, psych not happening, and we'll get used to
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: the name. It's not a big deal, but it's not
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: as good as Powerhouse Hobbs. But there he was it's
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: powerhouse Hobbs. It's the worst kept secret of wrestling that
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: he signed with WWE, and so he uh oh Keys
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: is his mother's maiden name? Is that true? I see,
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: that's the one thing I didn't know where that part
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: of it was from. All right, So there you go.
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: Royce lost his keys. Don't you hate it when that happens?
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: All right? So there you go. There the family significance
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: of the new name. So he comes out to the
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: ring and they immediately erase his aw passed by switching
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: the name first man that he gets into the ring with.
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: And I kind of laughed at this, and I think
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: I even made a comment when I was talking about
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: Hobbes a couple of weeks ago and the possibility of
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: him coming to WWE and how different things might be
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: in AW. There aren't a lot of like really physically
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: big guys, right, They have a handful, and they generally
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: don't really know what to do with them. Like Big
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: Bill is an example of someone who they should absolutely
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: be doing more with, and he's just wasting away. Hobbes
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: at least was getting a better push than Big Bill
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: was Hobbs relative to a lot of other people on
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: the roster. He just he looked like a big guy, right,
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying he isn't in WWE, though, you
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: have more of those big guys like Gunther is like
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: a deceptively large man, Drew McIntyre is a large man. Like.
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of like bigger physically bigger guys on
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: the roster, and would Hobbes look as menacing standing next
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: to one of them. First person that he gets in
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: the ring with and goes face to face with is
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: Damian Priest, And I'm looking at the two of them like, yeah,
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: side by side on screen, and Priest is like, I'm sorry,
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: but Priests is like almost dwarfing him. It's probably not
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: that much bigger than him. But I'm like, I why,
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: why would you do that? But they're face to face
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: and Hobbs hoists him up onto his shoulder. He gives
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: him a power slam, and then he closed line Priest
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: out over the top row for the elimination. So at
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: least they had him eliminate a former world heavyweight champion
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: here on the show. So then he hit a wicked
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: spinebuster to Javon Evans probably would have made more sense
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: for them to go maybe face to face, although Javon's
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: another one. Actually, Javon is also pretty pretty tall. So
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: then Cody spins him around, and Michael Cole said, Cody
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: has had some run ins with this man in the past.
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: And I was racking my brain trying to remember. Was
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: there like a Cody Rhodes Powerhouse Hobbs match? Did they
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: ever wrestle on Dynamite? I don't remember. RDH says Hobbs
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: is like six foot see that's what I mean, Like,
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to be face to face with him.
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: I see the thing about Hobbes, like his facial expressions
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: and stuff like, he just looks like a badass. But again,
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: you gotta be careful with who you put him in
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: the ring with because they just they have these other
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: guys that are gonna make him look small, and that's
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: part of his appeal, you know. That's I don't think
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: that's the way you want him to come off. So
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: just in terms of his presentation, just be mindful of
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: stuff like that number fifteen was Austin Austin theory. I
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: don't want to get your hopes up there. Austin theory
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: was number fifteen and nothing of note to say that
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: he did before number sixteen came out, which was the
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: other member of the vision. I think the final member too.
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: Oh not the final member. We had one more, but
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: Bronson Reid came in. Number sixteen. He hit the ring.
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: The first thing he did was climb to the top
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: and pancake Javon Evans with a tsunami splash. Number seventeen
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: was ilya Dragon of who was actually part of one
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: of the moments here in this royal rumble that pissed
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: me the fuck off, and I'll get to that in
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: a little bit, but he was in at number seventeen.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: Number eighteen was La Parca from Triple A with his
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: thriller knockoff theme and again to absolutely no reaction, just
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: like mister Iguan. Number nineteen was Dragon Lee. Number twenty
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: was the final entrant for the vision. That was Logan Paul,
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: making the vision whole all but bron breaker, I guess.
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: So Logan got taken down right away by Royce with
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: the World's Strongest slam, but Bronson Reed took Hobbs out
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: over the top with a clothesline, and so goodbye Powerhouse Hobbs.
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: Powerhouse Hobbs was eliminated from the Royal Rumble. Now it'll
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: be interesting to see which brand he ends up on.
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: The belief is that Oba is gonna end up on Raw.
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: If Oba's going to Raw, I think Hobbs goes to SmackDown,
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: and I think SmackDown, frankly would be the better place
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: for him. And SmackDown definitely needs more heels. But I
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: like the idea though, of him ending up as a
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: heater for Trick Williams. I think that would be a
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: good role for him too. He was gonna be more
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: like a like a paid enforcer who occasionally wrestles and
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: then eventually, you know, you do the split and everything.
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: Either way, I think SmackDown would be the best place
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: for him. So Laparka got dumped and then Dragon Lee
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: got dumped and then out at number twenty one with
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: the Vision showing dominance in the ring, Ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: he's back La Knight. Yeah. The last time we saw
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: La Knight he was being squashed on top of a
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: car by Bronson Reid. He got taken out by the Vision,
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: so it's only appropriate here that he hits the ring
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: goes right after the vision. Knight sends theory out to
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: the floor. He tries to closeline Bronson read out over
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: the top, can't do it, nothing doing, so he hits
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: a BFT and then he closed lines read out over
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: the top rope and he is gone officially from the
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: Royal Rumble. This got the biggest reaction yet of anything
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: in the Royal Rumble. And I just I watched this,
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: and I just go push this fucking man because despite
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: all of the start and stops and everything, all the
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: bullshit they've done with him, somehow there but by the
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: grace of the wrestling gods, this man is still over
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: and they will continue to do absolutely nothing with him.
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: He'll be wrestling Chris Jericho Wrestle Media this year and losing.
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: Come up with something for this man, or at least
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: he can win some matches and not just lose all
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 1: the time. So Logan Paul is the only member of
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: the Vision that is left, or is he? Because out
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: at number twenty two being escorted down to the ring
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: by Paul Hayman brock Lesner his first Royal Rumble in God,
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: what was the last Rumble he was in? He was
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: definitely in the one in twenty twenty two. Hmm. Was
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: he in the twenty twenty three rumble. I think he
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: was because twenty twenty three was the last year before
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: he went away, so I'm guessing he was probably in
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: there in twenty three, so this was his first rumble
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: in at least three years. So he marches down to
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: the ring. Cody Roads is in the ring making a
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: mean face and he's waiting for Brock. So immediately Cody
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: got suplexed. La Knight then got suplexed. He took a German.
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: Javon Evans goes flying. I'm surprised he didn't go flying
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: out of the ring. Ilia Dragonov gets close lined down.
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: Javon then gets picked up for an F five, and
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: then we got the showdown that we were waiting for now.
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: One of my predictions coming into the Royal Rumble was
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: that Oba Femi was going to eliminate Brock Lesnar as
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: the kickoff to a match a program between them heading
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: into WrestleMania forty two. So I was waiting for this.
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: So we got Brock. He locks eyes with Oba, Oba
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 1: locks eyes with Brock. We're about to get it here.
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 1: The fans are going nuts, but the countdown clock goes off.
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: It interrupts this great stare down that we have here.
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking, boy, there must be a big name coming
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: out here. Maybe Roman Reigns is coming out at number
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: twenty three. And then we hear I came to play.
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: I came to play. It's the Miz. The Miz comes
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: missing all the way down to the ring. He goes
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 1: to slide in, he looks up and he says, oh shit,
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: and he immediately slides right back out. But before Lesner
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: and Oba could clash, they both get jumped. So in
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: the corner we have Iliya Dragonov, the former United States Champion,
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: the man who has been having kick ass matches on
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: SmackDown and has gotten himself over through those kick ass matches. Right,
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: his matches actually get a reaction, and one of the
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 1: most intense professional wrestlers that you will ever see. Bleeds
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: in every match, not like buckets of blood. He's not
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: like John Moxley, but he's just so intense. He's always
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: getting by. His fucking forehead is bleeding, his nose is bleeding,
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: probably rolls over in bed in his fucking puddle of blood. There.
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: I love the guy. He's fucking great. I was actually
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 1: kind of hoping we would get some sort of confrontation
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: here with him and Gunther in the rumble, but we
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: didn't get it. But he's in the corner with Brock
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: Lesner and I'm like, wow, this is a pretty good
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 1: confrontation here. This should be good. He is chopping the
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 1: shit out of Lesnar in the corner, and Brock is
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: no selling all of it. He is doing what Goldberg
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: did to Gunther in their match on Saturday. It's made
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: event where Gunther was chopping him and Goldberg just stood
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: there and and like laugh literally laughed, smiled at him,
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: laughed at him. No souldan. Brock stands there, he knows
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: sells everything that Dragonov does to him, and like he's
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: mocking him. He looks at him, he's laughing, he's sticking
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: his tongue out like ah, he's sticking his tonge that ah,
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: Like what the fuck? And then as casual as can be,
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: he takes Dragonov right and he dumps him out of
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: the ring, just throws him out of the ring like
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: like a little jobber, goodbye, get out of my hair.
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: You're annoying me. And I'm watching this and I'm like
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: what the fuck. Like of all the people to do
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: that with why the fuck would you do that with
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: Ilia Dragonov kissed me the fuck off watching that, Like
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: even like Lesner, eliminating him isn't even the issue, Like okay, fine,
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 1: he's the bigger star and whatever. The Dragonov wasn't winning
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: the Royal Rebel, but to no sell all of his
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: shit and then mock him and throw him out, Like
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: who the fuck book that? Like who came up with
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: that idea? It's just stupid German supplex to La Knight.
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: So we're back to Lesnar and Oba. But it's time
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 1: for another entry. It's time for number twenty four, Ray Phoenix.
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: This should be good, so Brock hits a German supplex
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: to Oba sends him Flying Phoenix gets into the ring,
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 1: and poor Ray Phoenix he eats an F five and
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: then Ray Phoenix is dumped out to the floor. This
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 1: one didn't surprise me as much as the dragon Ov
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: spot did. But I could say the same thing for
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: Ray Phoenix, Like, boy, you know, you could kind of tell,
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: based on the way that they have been booking Ray
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: Phoenix that they don't truly value him, you know, like
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: he's a lutrador who goes in there and does very
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: impressive stuff, and he can fly around and he's very dynamic.
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: But he is not someone that they're ever going to
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: seriously push, not unless or until they get him and
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 1: his brother together, and they push him in the tag
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 1: Tea division, which is for Ray Phoenix's sake, exactly what
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: they should be doing with him. Penta doesn't really need
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: Phoenix Phoenix absolutely, I mean, he needs to be praying
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: that they put him together with his brother as soon
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 1: as possible, because you could just tell from the way
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: he was utilized here in this rumble what they think
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 1: of him and how low on the totem pole he is.
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: He's dead. He's dead without that tag team, without some
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: tag team. He actually had a pretty good team there
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: with Androde and then Androte left. But yeah, he his
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: future is directly tied into how quickly they can get
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: him and pent It together. Does not look good for him.
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: So Oba charges in with a clothes line. Brock, though
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: ducks it and Oba then knocks him down. Oba tries
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: to or he turns to eliminate Logan Paul and Lesner
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: dumps out Oba Femi. So they did the reverse of
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: what I was hoping they would do, and instead of
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: having Oba eliminate Brock, which would have gotten this big reaction.
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: It would have been a big statement elimination, they had
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: Lesner eliminate him instead. Now, if they still work towards
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: an Oba Femi Brock Lesnar match of Wrestlemaniam, then maybe
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: it's all Maybe. I look back and I'm like, all right,
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: it was worth it because at least it got them
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 1: kind of started in that direction. So I'll reserve judgment
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 1: on that. But I was not happy about that. I
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: was not happy about having Brock be the one to
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 1: eliminate Oba. But overall, if you look at Oba's run
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 1: here in the Rumble match, he had a pretty good run.
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: I can't really complain. I mean, he got a bunch
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 1: of eliminations. He was in there from the number one spot,
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: so he looked pretty good. I just again, it was
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: a little odd having him be the one to be
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: eliminated by brocket out the other way around. So then
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: after this, it was time for number twenty five. Oh man,
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: it was jay Uso, the winner of last year's Royal
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: Rumble Match. And jay Uso is entering through the crowd
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: as he always does, and he stops and he starts
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: yeating with the fans, and I don't know they were
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 1: showing the people in the section that he was in,
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: and I wouldn't say that they were all just yeating
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 1: with him. I think they were waiting for him to
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: get to the ring. Frankly, but you know, the eating
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: thing is a big fun thing that the live fans do.
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: And then they're in the crowd. But we're in the
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 1: middle of a royal rumble here and this man is
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 1: coming through the crowd and he's yeating. So Cody Roads
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: in La Night in the ring as this is going on,
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: Cody Roads at La Night, they close line brock Lesner
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: out of the ring and brock Lesner is eliminated in
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: the middle of Jay Usso. His music is still playing
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: and Jay Usso is still yeating and still making his
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 1: entrance to come into this match, and in the middle
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: of all of this is when brock Lesner is eliminated.
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: What the fuck? This is what I'm talking about. There
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: were certain spots and eliminations in this match that had
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: me scratching my head, like who booked this? Who laid
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: this out? In the middle of Jay Husso's entrance, where
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: all the focus was on him. This was almost like
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: an afterthought. The camera quickly cuts we at least could
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: see the elimination, so his music is still playing. So
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: finally Jay's music ends. But then, of course he decided,
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 1: we gotta run it back, we gotta run it back
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: here in the middle of the royal rembel, so they
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: play his music again the next entry. This has taken
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 1: so long now that the next entrant the countdown is
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: already in progress to the next entrant coming into the
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: match here, and the next entrant is already on their
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: way out. It's number twenty six. It is Roman Reigns,
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: the tribal chief has re emerged for the first time
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: since Wargames. So Roman Reigns makes his way down to
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: the ring just so we can get Roman and Ja
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: that's how that's why this was all designed this way.
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 1: So Roman gets into the ring and we got a
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: face to face with him and his cousin, and Roman
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 1: is looking at him, and Roman goes, okay, run it
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 1: back here, run it back again, eh. So they play
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: the music for a third fucking time, and then thankfully
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 1: Roman puts an end to this with a thrust to
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: jay Uso and they kill the music once and for all,
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: So choke Slam from Roman to Javon Evans, Superman Punched
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: to Mike the Miz and then one for Logan Paul
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: Spear to the Miz so Audios Mike. He gets dumped out.
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: Roman and Cody Dow are about to face off, but
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: we got number twenty seven now who was on their
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 1: way out to the ring and it is Jacob. Fatu
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 1: and Cody went for a suicide dive. Fatu. They'll cut
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: him off with a thrust. Fatu pop Javon Evans as
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: high up into the air as you will ever see
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 1: on a pop up Samo and Drop or a pop
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: up power bomb, or a pop up anything, pop up
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: video fucking VH one, you remember what I'm talking about.
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: See he pops him up high into the air and
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: he catches him and he ate like he pauses with him,
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: and then he goes over for the Simo and DRW
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 1: I's the best Simo and drop I've ever seen. So
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 1: down goes Javaiah's beautiful. So Fatu teas is a face
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 1: off with Roman. Cody though knocks him down. Roman and
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: Jay they worked together for a one d on Cody
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: Rhodes and then it was time for number twenty eight,
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: which was Penta. Of course, his brother was already gone.
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: I thought maybe we'd get some kind of spot between
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 1: them in this match. I guess that's too much to
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: ask for. So Penta comes out at twenty eight. He
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: was the iron Man last year of forty two minutes.
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 1: La Knight drops Roman with a BFT, ends up on
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 1: the apron though, and Cody knocks him off with a
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: disaster kick. La Knight is eliminated. Cody gets booed, not
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: like a ton of booze, but he got booed. Some
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: fans did not like that. So number twenty nine was
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: out next, and now I'm thinking to myself, all right,
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: who's left? I couldn't remember, you know who was left here?
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, I don't know. They going to save
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: Jericho for number thirty. Is there some big surprise coming
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 1: that I'm not thinking of? So number twenty nine was
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: Randy Orton. I'm like, of course, how can I forget
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: Randy Orton? So snap power slam to Jay one for Penta,
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: then a double draping DDT for j and Penta Rko
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 1: to Logan. Paul. Penta goes for a springboard right into
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 1: an RKO and the final entry into the Royal Rumble.
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: That's truly just blanked. I'm like, unless it's some kind
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 1: of big surprise name like I didn't even think of,
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 1: like Joe Hendry. I thought we'd see like Joe Hendry
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: in there. That he wasn't in there, I'm like, I
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 1: don't know, let's find out. And number thirty comes out
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 1: and it's Gunther. So I wasn't even sure if Gunther
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 1: was in the Royal I didn't think he was in
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble. I could have sworn. I heard CM
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: Punk on the pre show say that he wasn't in
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 1: the Rumble, So honestly, that was kind of disappointing because
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 1: I knew he wasn't winning. Now, if by chance he
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: had lost to aj Styles, I would say, Okay, well
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 1: then he's got a pretty good chance of winning. But
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 1: I already knew, like one hundred percent he's not winning
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: this match. So you've just you haven't exactly added to
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 1: the element of surprise here. So Gunther comes down and
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: he's limping too, because he's selling the effects of the
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 1: calf crusher that aj Styles put on him earlier on
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: in their match. So Orton went for an RKO on
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: Javon Evans, but he countered out into a kick to
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 1: Orton's face. Over forty minutes at this point for Javon
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 1: Evans in the rumble, so we had nine men left
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: in this match. Javon went for an og cutter. He
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: comes flying off the top rope right into an RKO
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: from Randy Orton on the way down. When are these
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: guys going to learn not to jump at Randy Orton?
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 1: You would think that they would already know this by now.
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: Do not jump at Randy Orton. It's not going to
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: end well for you. That's a lesson for young Javon Evans.
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 1: I know he's only twenty one. He's got a lot
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 1: left to learn. He learned a very valuable lesson here
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 1: in the Royal Rumble. So Penta got dumped by Gunther,
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 1: who then gets you dropped with an RKO. So now
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 1: we have seven men left. Cody Rose holds Gunther for
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 1: Randy Orton to lay in some kicks, and then Randy
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 1: is holding gun through and Cody is going to go
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 1: for a Cody Cutter. Cody springs off the ropes gun Thro.
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 1: They'll moves out of the way and Cody inadvertently drops
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 1: Randy Wi the cutter instead, so Cody got tossed over
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 1: the top rope. He's skinning the cat, right, He's not
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: done yet, when all of a sudden, from out of nowhere,
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre comes flying in with a claim woar kick
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: to the side of Cody's head as he's hanging by
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 1: the ropes, and Cody lets go and he falls to
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 1: the floor and Cody Rhodes is eliminated from the Royal Rumble. Yes, yes, good, good.
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 1: It would have been fucking terrible for him to win
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 1: this match. Very good. At least they made one good
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 1: decision here in this match. Let him win the chamber.
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 1: If anything, he does not need to be winning his
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 1: third Royal Rumble. So McIntyre leaves at that point, guaranteeing
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 1: us that this feud is going to continue. But Cody
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 1: Roads is officially gone from the match, so Fatu now
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 1: is glaring at McIntyre and Roman then tosses a distracted
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: Jacob Fatu over the top rope and eliminates him. Jay
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 1: Uso then snuck up behind Roman and tried to dump
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 1: him out of the ring. Roman stopped it. Jay ducked
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 1: a clothesline. He ended up spearing Roman. He tried to
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 1: throw Roman out. Roman, though quickly reversed it, and he
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: throws jay Uso out of the ring, and the yeapt
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 1: Man is gone. The yeap Man cometh, the yeap Man
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 1: leaveth goodbye. I'm surprised that he didn't run it back
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 1: again for his exit, so he's gone. So now we're
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 1: down to the final four, Roman Reigns, Gunther, Randy Orton,
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 1: and Logan Paul. And this is not my favorite final
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 1: four that we've ever had. I think the Royal Rumble
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 1: is at its best when you have multiple people like
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: the final three, four five, who all could conceivably win
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 1: the Rumble. And at this point you already know it's
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: either Randy Orton or Roman reigns, and to be perfectly
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 1: honest with you, neither of those options are terribly exciting. Now.
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 1: It would be maybe more so if Cody was still
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 1: the champion, because then you get Cody and Randy, and
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 1: that's a match they still haven't done for the title.
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 1: We had the one King of the Ring final and
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 1: that was it, But it's still Roman reigns in Randy Orton, like,
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 1: I can't help but just think to myself, why are
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 1: we going back to this? Well? Why are we going
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 1: back to this? And they're the only two possibilities that
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 1: are left at this point. Logan Paul's not winning shit.
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 1: Gunther is not winning the Royal Rumble. So in terms
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: of like pass rumble finishes when we get down to
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 1: the nitty gritty and that that final batch of like three,
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 1: four or five guys not a fan of what they
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 1: did here with this. They made it a little too predictable.
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: Logan went for the buck shot. He majorly fucked it up.
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 1: He stumbled when he's gonna I'm telling you, he's gonna
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: blow a knee out or he gonna do something to
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 1: himself one of these days. He's very unstable on his
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 1: feet when he does the springboard the vault into the ring.
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 1: But he goes over for the buck shot buckshot and
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: kind of stumbles and nearly, uh I know, he nearly
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 1: wiped himself out. But Roman ends up dumping him out
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 1: of the ring. So Gunther throws Orton, who takes a
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 1: very slow, very it's kind of like the way he
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 1: wrestles his matches, a very methodical bump out to the floor.
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 1: It's almost like he just sort of accepted his fate
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 1: and just went with it, and so he falls to
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 1: the floor. And now we're left with Roman Reigns, and
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 1: now the rumble's over. If it came down to Roman
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 1: Reigns and Randy Orton, it's like, okay, this is fifty
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: to fifty. This could go either way. Once Orton was eliminated,
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 1: the rumble was over. We already knew who was winning.
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 1: So it's Roman Reigns and it's Gunther and Rain's back
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 1: dropped him only out to the apron though Gunh gets
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 1: the sleeper hole applied. Roman shakes him off, but he
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 1: gets caught in the sleeper again. Roman gets out of it.
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 1: He spears him down and then he tosses gun Through
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 1: out of the ring. Just like that, It's over. I mean,
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 1: we already knew it was over, but now it's officially
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 1: over and Roman Reigns has won his second Royal Rumble.
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 1: So they shoot off Pyro on the stage as he's
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 1: celebrating in the ring. They should this. I have to
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 1: tell you, in all the years that I have watched
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 1: these WWE pay per views, plees, whatever you want to
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 1: call them. The only time I've ever really seen Pyro
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 1: like this is at a WrestleMania, and I can't even
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 1: remember a WrestleMania where this Pyro display or Pyro celebration
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 1: went off for this long, like you would think Roman
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 1: Range just won the main event of WrestleMania. They are
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: shooting Pyro off like outside the stadium, like they have
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: drones that are creating the WrestleMania forty two logo, and
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: there's like a WWE Idol belt logo that they're creating
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 1: in the sky, and Pyro is shooting off around the
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 1: city and the drones did the whole then now Forever
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 1: slogan with just it comically absurd amount of Pyro that
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 1: was being shot off, and they showed the ri odd
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 1: season logo and they played the Aerosmith song which they're
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 1: using for WrestleMania this year in the background. But this
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 1: just went on and on and on and on and
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 1: on and on and on and on and on. It
• 2:18:34
  Speaker 1: was a very awkward kind of ending to the show,
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: and then it just sort of went right into the
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 1: post show, so that was a little strange. I've never
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 1: seen a Royal Rumble celebration post batch celebration quite like
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 1: that before. Where do we begin with this? This is
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 1: a very mediocre Royal Rumble. I really did not like
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 1: this Royal Rumble. First of all, there's going to be
• 2:19:01
  Speaker 1: some people who were upset that Jericho wasn't there. A
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 1: lot of people were expecting him to be the big surprise,
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 1: and he would have been. If you would have returned,
• 2:19:07
  Speaker 1: that would have been the big surprise on the show.
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 1: I am not going to sit here and tell you
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 1: that Jericho being there or not being there is going
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 1: to affect my enjoyment of the show one way or
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 1: the other. He will be in at some point. Whenever
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 1: that is, it will be like that's it. I was
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 1: not living and dying by whether or not we saw
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 1: the return of Chris Jericho on the show, although it
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: would have been a big surprise in that number thirty spot,
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: for example, as opposed to just sending Gunther back out there.
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 1: These surprises were La Knight, Royce, Keys, Mister Iguana, and
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 1: La Parka from Triple A. Those are the big surprises
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 1: in the Royal Rumble, so not a ton of them
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: this year. Nobody in the crowd knew or cared about
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 1: any of the Triple A guys, and again it's just
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: weird that they were able to get spots in the
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 1: Royal Rumble when there were other names like I know
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 1: he's not a major name, but he's kind of gone
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 1: viral recently and the fans are starting to get behind
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 1: him and the music and everything, like unless there was
• 2:20:13
  Speaker 1: a reason, like health wise why he couldn't be there,
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 1: or he didn't have his his passport or something like,
• 2:20:21
  Speaker 1: I have no idea why Kit Wilson was not there.
• 2:20:24
  Speaker 1: How do you not have Kit Wilson come out and
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 1: get an entrance in this Royal Rumble? But you have
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 1: fucking La Park out there with that Michael Jackson knockoff
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 1: who made that call. There were just some weird, bizarre
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 1: decisions and spots and things here in this Rumble. Again,
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 1: guys like Russev and Ray Phoenix, they were dumped instantly
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 1: and treated like total geeks. You had Ilia Dragonov who's
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 1: having his offense completely just no sold and basically mocked
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 1: by the bigger star, you know, like you got you
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 1: got a lot to learn, boy, and then out he goes.
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 1: I didn't like that, and there were just eliminations in
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: this match that I felt like should have meant more
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 1: than they did. I just cannot get over how Lesnar
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 1: was eliminated in the middle of a jay Uso yeat
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: fest where it was almost like a complete afterthought, like
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 1: his elimination could have meant something, whether it was Oba
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 1: or somebody else, and it was completely wasted, totally wasted.
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 1: A brock Alesnar elimination in this match, if he's going
• 2:21:22
  Speaker 1: to be in there, at least use it for some good.
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 1: At least use it for something. And they completely fucked
• 2:21:27
  Speaker 1: that up. But I will tell you, like that entire sequence,
• 2:21:32
  Speaker 1: really from the moment that Oba got dumped out right
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 1: on through the jay Uso Forever entrance, everything that happened
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: during that entire sequence, like I will tell you that
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 1: is one of the worst stretches that I have ever
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 1: seen in a Royal Rumble match ever, in all the
• 2:21:50
  Speaker 1: Royal Rumble matches this company has ever done. It was
• 2:21:52
  Speaker 1: absolute trash. But it had a few fun moments in
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 1: the rumble. Overall, a few fun moments, you know, in
• 2:22:01
  Speaker 1: an hour plus does not make this a good Royal Rumble.
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 1: It was not. It was not a good Royal Rumble.
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 1: I actually think it was pretty bad as Royal Rumble
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: matches go. The women definitely get the thumbs up for
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 1: me this year over the men's Rumble. And now we
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 1: wait to see what they do with Roman Reigns as
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: far as which champion he will choose, who will be
• 2:22:23
  Speaker 1: the champion of that brand going into WrestleMania. If it's
• 2:22:26
  Speaker 1: a choice between Roman and Punk or Roman and Drew,
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 1: I would rather see Roman in Punk. But I do
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 1: not want to see Roman Reigns winning any championships. Roman
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 1: Reigns is part time, and if you believe that Roman
• 2:22:41
  Speaker 1: Reigns has earned that, then that's fine. He does not
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 1: have to win a championship. We do not need to
• 2:22:47
  Speaker 1: have titles that are held hostage by people who are
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 1: not going to be around week to week. And this
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 1: is something that WWE has done time and time again
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 1: with certain people. And look, if it's in their contracts
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 1: or whatever. I'm not even blaming the talent for that.
• 2:22:59
  Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is, if you are a triple H,
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 1: if you are the company right and you have weekly
• 2:23:04
  Speaker 1: television to book, you have to have the champions present
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 1: on the shows. We cannot have this, you know, And
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 1: this is one of the things I like about cm
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 1: Punk's run as the World heavyweight Champion. I will say
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 1: I was not a fan of that match he had
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 1: with AJ Styles the other night, like some people were.
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 1: I actually thought it was very underwhelming. But he had
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 1: a really good match. I thought with Finn Balor. He
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 1: had a really good match with bron Breaker. And whatever
• 2:23:28
  Speaker 1: you think of the AJ match, he's a fighting champion.
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: He's actually present every week on the shows. He'll miss
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 1: a week here and there, and he's actually defending his
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 1: title on the show, which helps elevate the show when
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 1: you have the champion who is ever present and actually
• 2:23:44
  Speaker 1: defends the belt there every now and then. So I
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 1: like that, and I think we need more champions like that.
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 1: We've already been through a period of time with Brock
• 2:23:52
  Speaker 1: Lesner for many years where Brock they would put a
• 2:23:55
  Speaker 1: belt on Brock because Vince McMahon had a fucking heart
• 2:23:57
  Speaker 1: on for Brock Lesner, maybe literally, and so Brock would
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 1: win a championship and he would disappear for three months
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 1: at a time, and they would send Paul Heyman out
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 1: there to be his advocates, right and really build him up.
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 1: And then eventually when Brock was good and ready, to
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 1: come back off the farm or wherever the fuck he dwells.
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 1: He would come back and defend the belt, and Brock
• 2:24:16
  Speaker 1: was a big attraction. But Brock did not need to
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 1: be the champion. When Roman Reigns won the championship, like
• 2:24:21
  Speaker 1: in the earlier days of the Bloodline, we got more
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: of him on TV and as time went on, and
• 2:24:25
  Speaker 1: then after he lost the belt, it's been very spotty.
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 1: You know, was it last year, the year before last year?
• 2:24:31
  Speaker 1: I think he made a total of maybe how many
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 1: matches did he have? Six matches? I think the entire year.
• 2:24:36
  Speaker 1: And again, if that's in his contract, great, good for him. Right,
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 1: he's had health issues in the past, He's got like,
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 1: you know, fifty or sixty kids, whatever it is, great,
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 1: I get it right. You want to balance work in life.
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 1: That doesn't mean he needs to be the champion or
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 1: even necessarily fighting for a championship. So hopefully this will
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 1: not end with him becoming the World Heavyweight Champion or
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 1: becoming the WWE champion. That's the one thing I do
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: not want to see. I am done with it. I
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 1: am tired of it. I am tired of seeing these
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 1: part time acts as they become part time that are
• 2:25:09
  Speaker 1: put in these positions because they're a big name, right, Oh,
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 1: they're a big star, so we have to put a
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: belt on them, and then we don't see them for
• 2:25:17
  Speaker 1: two months, for three months, because it just it kills
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 1: the shows. When the champion is an, it kills the
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 1: fucking show dead. And that's one of my biggest gripes.
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 1: When we are now faced with a wrestle maybe a
• 2:25:29
  Speaker 1: picture where you have somebody like that who is going
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 1: to be challenging for a championship. We can't have that again.
• 2:25:36
  Speaker 1: We can't. I get Roman's a big name, we cannot
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 1: have that again. Those are my thoughts on the Royal Rebel.
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 1: Take them as you will. Just take a look at
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 1: the Twitter poll, what did you think of Saudi Rumble
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six? Twenty three percent thumbs up? That is
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 1: not good. That is a terrible s thirty four percent
• 2:26:02
  Speaker 1: thumbs in the middle and forty two point six percent
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 1: thumbs down with almost four thousand votes in and counting,
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 1: that is not a good score for the Royal Rumble.
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 1: The winner declared by Graphic. Yeah, well I mentioned that
• 2:26:18
  Speaker 1: before too. I did mention that before Roman reigns declared Wow,
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 1: oh boy, wow, you're welcome. Roman Reigns declared via grab. Yeah.
• 2:26:34
  Speaker 1: I mean that's just that goes to the point I
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 1: just made. We we don't need more of that shit.
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Oh wow. You know he hasn't even returned
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 1: yet to w W E and I'm already sick of
• 2:26:48
  Speaker 1: seeing him. Go away, Jericho, go away, be gone. What
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 1: did you guys think of this show? Let's find out.
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much, by the way, to the nearly
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 1: thirty one hundred that we had in here, bace bears.
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 1: So I subbed to ESPN for thirty bucks and I
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 1: still get ads. Oh yes, I heard. I was hearing
• 2:27:15
  Speaker 1: that from people all night long. They were getting commercials.
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 1: There was somebody and I don't know, I'll let you
• 2:27:19
  Speaker 1: guys verify this because on my end, the way I
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 1: was watching it, I didn't get any of the commercials.
• 2:27:26
  Speaker 1: What I got was a graphic that said the Royal
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 1: Rumble is on a commercial break and we'll be back soon,
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 1: and then it stayed on that screen for like it
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 1: felt like six to eight minutes. But for the people
• 2:27:40
  Speaker 1: watching directly in the ESPN app, I guess it set
• 2:27:43
  Speaker 1: like AD one of nine and it just went through
• 2:27:46
  Speaker 1: like nine or ten edds straight. I'm like, yeah, that
• 2:27:49
  Speaker 1: sounds about right on a great pay per view viewing experience. Huh,
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 1: are you feeling premium enough with your premium live events?
• 2:28:03
  Speaker 1: Halliday one ninety seven, Hey Solo says this year's Women's
• 2:28:07
  Speaker 1: Rumble was blah up until the last couple of minutes.
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 1: I can't believe Lash Legend eliminated Charlotte Eo and Jordan
• 2:28:14
  Speaker 1: Grayson Raquel eliminated Rhea. What a mess. No, I wasn't
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 1: bothered by any of those. I mean, there were a
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 1: lot of things that bothered me, but I thought those
• 2:28:24
  Speaker 1: eliminations were fine. I think they kept Lash looking strong.
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 1: The Rea elimination was brutal, though, just the way she landed.
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 1: Base Bears' AJ debuted at the Rumble in twenty sixteen.
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 1: He retired at the Rumble in twenty six Yes he did.
• 2:28:47
  Speaker 1: Halla says it's crazy to think that aj styles best
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 1: match of WrestleMania in a stadium is arguably against Shane McMahon,
• 2:28:55
  Speaker 1: not counting AJ against Taker during COVID. Yeah, I mean
• 2:29:01
  Speaker 1: that's not a traditional match. I cooked a hamburger during
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 1: that break, could have cooked an entire Thanksgiving feast. During
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 1: that break, Dry Chicken says Aj Styles should create his
• 2:29:23
  Speaker 1: own retirement tour. This cannot be the ending. I'm hoping
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 1: it's not. It could be, but I'm hoping it's not.
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 1: Bace Bears says eleven and oh wow, let's see what happens.
• 2:29:35
  Speaker 1: And he said, I got a blackout. I want a refund. Uh. Oh,
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 1: I got a blackout. Holiday says, predicting that we get
• 2:29:43
  Speaker 1: gun Through against Randy a WrestleMania next year in Saudi
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 1: Legend Killer against Legend Killer, enough time would have passed
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 1: since they're King of the Ring finals. Maybe Randy puts
• 2:29:52
  Speaker 1: his career on the line. I don't think Randy is
• 2:29:55
  Speaker 1: done next year. I get I think Randy has said
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 1: he signed a long contract, and I think he's he's
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 1: got quite a bit of time left in the ring,
• 2:30:02
  Speaker 1: So I don't think we're gonna see it. Paul, Is
• 2:30:11
  Speaker 1: that true that the Rumble replay is not up yet?
• 2:30:15
  Speaker 1: In the ESPN AT That can't be true. The show
• 2:30:20
  Speaker 1: ended like four or five hours ago. They should have
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 1: the replay up by now. That's that's ridiculous. Bas Beer says,
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 1: Drew versus Sammy was like Brock against Holly. Wow Wow
• 2:30:35
  Speaker 1: says Wait, can I get a WWE NFL Jaguars belt.
• 2:30:40
  Speaker 1: I'll bet that's the one belt they don't make GMB
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 1: with a four ninety nine. What's going on? Brother, says Bianca,
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 1: please be healed before chamber. We cannot stomach to see
• 2:30:54
  Speaker 1: Tiffany against Jade again for the thirty first time. That
• 2:30:57
  Speaker 1: genuinely helps nobody involve. Yeah, yeah, I'm hoping that's not
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 1: what it ends up being. Ace of Mass This is
• 2:31:11
  Speaker 1: triple K short loves hooded figure. Yeah, it's too much.
• 2:31:16
  Speaker 1: Bass bearus with the uh what is that that sperm? Oh?
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 1: It is iguana's iguana sperm. I don't know what the
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 1: fuck that that? Base Beers, thank you, h Ace of
• 2:31:26
  Speaker 1: mast that don't mention. Don't mention journalists in Saudi Arabia.
• 2:31:30
  Speaker 1: Cole and bass Beers says, the countdown buzzer is loud.
• 2:31:36
  Speaker 1: It was loud. It was loud, uh, Bas Beers is
• 2:31:42
  Speaker 1: La night is over in Saudier. He's over everywhere, dude,
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 1: He's over everywhere. He always gets a reaction. Stone cold
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 1: Et is back with the nineteen ninety nine since there
• 2:31:58
  Speaker 1: was no Bianca at the Rumble. Do you think she
• 2:32:00
  Speaker 1: returns for the Chamber and wins to challenge Jade at Mania? Also,
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 1: does Tiffany not have a direction until post Mania? Don't
• 2:32:08
  Speaker 1: see a program for her at the show. I look,
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 1: I would love it if Bianca was back in time
• 2:32:14
  Speaker 1: for the Chamber because liv won the Rumble and probably
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 1: is going to end up getting a World Heavyweight Championship
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 1: match on Raw. That would open up the SmackDown women's
• 2:32:25
  Speaker 1: side for I guess a Chamber match. She could be
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 1: one of the six women in the Chamber. I'd love
• 2:32:32
  Speaker 1: to see it. She won the Chamber last year though,
• 2:32:35
  Speaker 1: That's the thing, like, I don't see her coming back
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 1: and winning back to back chambers. That's why I was
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 1: thinking the Rumble, lest somebody else win the Chamber and
• 2:32:43
  Speaker 1: like a different for a different match. Dried Chicken says
• 2:32:47
  Speaker 1: Triple H fears Oba Femi Olba should have stayed longer
• 2:32:51
  Speaker 1: in the match, So Paul says he he found he
• 2:32:57
  Speaker 1: found it. He found the stream on the ESPN. Yeah,
• 2:33:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, I would be surprised if it wasn't up
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 1: by now. Is there a delay from what you guys
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 1: have seen on the ESPN app. I'm curious to note
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 1: when the show ends, how quickly does the full replay
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 1: go up for viewing. Is it instant or do you
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 1: have to wait a certain period of time? Was on
• 2:33:20
  Speaker 1: Peacock used to piss me off with that because you
• 2:33:22
  Speaker 1: would have to wait a certain period of time before
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 1: the replay was up. So if I came into the
• 2:33:26
  Speaker 1: show late for any reason, I was pretty much fucked.
• 2:33:34
  Speaker 1: Base Beer says best final eight of all time. Final
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 1: eight in what the Men's Rumble? Yeah, I don't know
• 2:33:42
  Speaker 1: about that, says it should have been Randy. I don't
• 2:33:47
  Speaker 1: think it should have been either one of them, you know.
• 2:33:52
  Speaker 1: For Randy that would have been his third rumble Holiday
• 2:33:57
  Speaker 1: one ninety seven. What a disappointing Men's Rumble. No Jareco
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 1: return or any notable returns except night. It was blatantly
• 2:34:04
  Speaker 1: obvious who was winning in the final four, and it's
• 2:34:06
  Speaker 1: like they forgot they can set up WrestleMania angles and
• 2:34:09
  Speaker 1: matches in the rumble. Yeah, I mean they didn't do
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 1: enough of that. It was just there was a lot
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 1: of wasted opportunities in these rumbles. Super Pony, I hate
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 1: these people, I really do. Rumble was ruined for me
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 1: when Brock eliminated Oba. I hate that they love Logan
• 2:34:32
  Speaker 1: so much. Hope we see aj somewhere else. Yeah, Logan,
• 2:34:34
  Speaker 1: this is not the first time Logan has ended up
• 2:34:36
  Speaker 1: in that final group there. It's a good point, base
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 1: Bearris awesome fireworks at the end. Yeah it was. It
• 2:34:48
  Speaker 1: was a little over the top. I'm sure all paid
• 2:34:52
  Speaker 1: for by them and not WWE, but it was. It
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 1: was a little much. But think about this. If we
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 1: got that at the end of the Royal Rumble, what
• 2:35:01
  Speaker 1: do you think the pyro is going to look like
• 2:35:03
  Speaker 1: at WrestleMania next year. That's gonna be insane. Alexander Roman
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: hasn't been on the show in months. Couldn't bother to
• 2:35:14
  Speaker 1: show up and declare for the Rumble and then wins.
• 2:35:18
  Speaker 1: At least we got Hobbes and Oba. Try. Chicken says,
• 2:35:25
  Speaker 1: I'll give this Royal Rumble a solid B grade, eh,
• 2:35:31
  Speaker 1: Chris Babyface Moment of the night for me. Roman Upper
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 1: cutting Jay after pretending to run it back. I'm just
• 2:35:39
  Speaker 1: glad that they finally killed the music Stone Cold et
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 1: A nine. Twenty twenty seven should be the year of
• 2:35:48
  Speaker 1: NXT up and comers. The young talent is incredible and
• 2:35:52
  Speaker 1: would freshen up the product and pl cards going forward. Well,
• 2:35:57
  Speaker 1: they're finally calling up a whole bunch of names, So
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 1: that's that's my hope. My hope is that you know,
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 1: we're finally we're finally there. You know, we're finally at
• 2:36:06
  Speaker 1: a point where you know, we will actually start to
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 1: see that. It's my hope. Anyway, we're gonna put another
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 1: goal up. By the way, this would be the first
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 1: time we actually have three rounds of be the booker
• 2:36:24
  Speaker 1: if we happen to uh, if we hit this goal.
• 2:36:29
  Speaker 1: It might be asking a little much, but we'll see
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 1: how that how that goes. JDFVA with a five says
• 2:36:39
  Speaker 1: a meh, show Oba eliminated by Brock instead of reverse
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 1: ridiculous Brock being eliminated by Night and Rhodes when no
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 1: one was looking. Stupid. Yes, very stupid, very very stupid.
• 2:36:56
  Speaker 1: I agree, Dried Chicken says, let me tell you how
• 2:37:03
  Speaker 1: the New Day can regain their heat. The New Days
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 1: steal all of Riha and EO's in ring gear and
• 2:37:08
  Speaker 1: clothes while they are in the shower, only to satisfy
• 2:37:11
  Speaker 1: the Kabuki warriors. Well, I'm very happy that you are
• 2:37:16
  Speaker 1: not booking the show Dried Chicken. I enjoy you in
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 1: the chat, but maybe stay out of the creative room.
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 1: Alexander says, whoever was operating the Kirene in the truck
• 2:37:31
  Speaker 1: over the course of yesterday and today needs to be fired.
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 1: There were so many screw ups it was nuts. Well,
• 2:37:37
  Speaker 1: I mean outside of the one from SMACKDN. What did
• 2:37:40
  Speaker 1: I miss on that? What did they screw up on
• 2:37:42
  Speaker 1: the lower third tonight? Johnny Bernie, do you think WBD
• 2:37:47
  Speaker 1: will block aj Styles signing like Miguel No, I don't.
• 2:37:52
  Speaker 1: I don't because I do believe that when you are
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 1: a big star, you are a big name, you tend
• 2:38:01
  Speaker 1: to get a little more leeway. It's like a dagger
• 2:38:05
  Speaker 1: to the heart. But I love it. I love the
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 1: support Alex. Alex loves that super Chap by the way,
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 1: He's like in love with it. Ragnarock Oba eliminated by
• 2:38:23
  Speaker 1: Brock who got tossed out in the most boring way,
• 2:38:26
  Speaker 1: after by Cody and La Knight, but Logan Paul makes
• 2:38:30
  Speaker 1: top four. Whoever produced this should be fired and publicly shamed.
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 1: Maybe Shane McMahon is snuck back in and remember he
• 2:38:37
  Speaker 1: got boy he got raked over the coals. A few
• 2:38:41
  Speaker 1: years ago, he got fired by his own father. That's
• 2:38:44
  Speaker 1: how bad he was coming in to help produce the
• 2:38:46
  Speaker 1: Rumble a few years ago. Maybe he flew all the
• 2:38:50
  Speaker 1: way to Saudi and he snuck in Holiday one ninety seven.
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 1: I'm not optimistic at the moment about the direction of
• 2:38:59
  Speaker 1: wrestlemin It's clear they're doing Punk against Roman and Drew
• 2:39:03
  Speaker 1: against Cody, unless Jacob has to be added. If they're
• 2:39:08
  Speaker 1: doing that match, Jacob being added, if not, Randy is
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 1: a must, an absolute must. He says, not much build
• 2:39:18
  Speaker 1: around other matches. Well, the WrestleMania build now begins in
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 1: earnest now that the Rumble is over, So let's see
• 2:39:28
  Speaker 1: what they do on television this week. They should give
• 2:39:30
  Speaker 1: us some hint about what some of those directions are
• 2:39:32
  Speaker 1: going to be, and we'll see if either Roman or
• 2:39:35
  Speaker 1: Live make their decision or if they hold off for
• 2:39:39
  Speaker 1: a little while. Olivia. I know it's very late where
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 1: Olivia is, so I appreciate you joining here. It was
• 2:39:49
  Speaker 1: nice to have a nine pm local time kickoff. Show
• 2:39:52
  Speaker 1: was underwhelming, but had much fun watching with friends. Women's
• 2:39:55
  Speaker 1: Rumble was better. Justice for Hobbes. Yeah, the Women's Rumble
• 2:40:02
  Speaker 1: was the better of the two. Stone Cold et pretty loud,
• 2:40:13
  Speaker 1: fuck triple h Chance. In the post show, his body
• 2:40:16
  Speaker 1: language certainly has changed Night of Champions in twenty twenty three.
• 2:40:22
  Speaker 1: You mean since Night of Champions well good, I mean
• 2:40:26
  Speaker 1: you you want to put yourself out there. You gotta
• 2:40:27
  Speaker 1: take the heat when you want to put yourself in
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 1: every intro video and in the opening segment of all
• 2:40:34
  Speaker 1: the big shows. And you want you, you know, you
• 2:40:37
  Speaker 1: want your face to be in the WrestleMania commercials. You
• 2:40:40
  Speaker 1: want your face on everything. You want to make it
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 1: very well known that you are the face of the place.
• 2:40:47
  Speaker 1: You take the criticism and you take the compliments. You
• 2:40:50
  Speaker 1: can't take one without the Other's as simple as that.
• 2:40:57
  Speaker 1: Everything goes through you. Jay Ray says, no Chris Jericho
• 2:41:01
  Speaker 1: return He was never returning. Jericho is touring with Fozzy
• 2:41:05
  Speaker 1: next month through late March. All hype for Yeah, but
• 2:41:08
  Speaker 1: Jericho's touring with Fozzi. It doesn't interfere with any of
• 2:41:10
  Speaker 1: the important dates, Like it doesn't interfere with Elimination Chamber,
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 1: like him being on tour with Fozzi for some dates
• 2:41:18
  Speaker 1: in February and again in I think it's May. By
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 1: the way, could be March. I thought it was May.
• 2:41:26
  Speaker 1: Has no bearing on whether or not he was going
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 1: to be in the Royal Rumble or not. He could
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 1: be on raw Monday night for all we know. Those dates, though,
• 2:41:33
  Speaker 1: do not conflict with anything major. So like, if he
• 2:41:36
  Speaker 1: was going to be in the chamber, he's free for
• 2:41:38
  Speaker 1: the chamber. So I would not go by that Fozzi
• 2:41:41
  Speaker 1: schedule because that's not going to tell you anything. Holliday says,
• 2:41:44
  Speaker 1: if Sammy ever wins a world title, this should be
• 2:41:46
  Speaker 1: from Kevin Owens. Drew would be a good first challenger
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 1: to test Sammy to keep the title. Well, that would
• 2:41:55
  Speaker 1: imply that Kevin Owens would have to first win a
• 2:41:57
  Speaker 1: world championship, and that doesn't look like it's very likely
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 1: to happen. But it's a nice thought. Holiday. I just
• 2:42:06
  Speaker 1: I don't think you realize the uh, the flaw in
• 2:42:11
  Speaker 1: your plan. Olivia says, why was Rusev coocked again? Keana
• 2:42:18
  Speaker 1: James Women's MVP? No, I wouldn't say that. I would
• 2:42:25
  Speaker 1: say women's MVP. I'd probably give it to soul Ruka.
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 1: Why was Rusev cocked again? Because they think he's a cook?
• 2:42:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean they've given no indication that
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 1: they plan on pushing him in any kind of serious way.
• 2:42:42
  Speaker 1: The way they treated him and Ray Phoenix and the
• 2:42:44
  Speaker 1: rumble tonight tells you everything you need to know about
• 2:42:48
  Speaker 1: in their mind, what their status and position is on
• 2:42:52
  Speaker 1: the roster. And it's not good. Not good, Chris O'Neil
• 2:42:57
  Speaker 1: outside of Oh, but the Men's rumble was cheeks, Paul
• 2:43:03
  Speaker 1: van summerns is So. Six weeks ago, Gunther chokes Sena
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 1: and gets a three drop arm rais by the referee.
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 1: Six weeks later, gun Through chokes aj and we get
• 2:43:11
  Speaker 1: a one drop. It's the inconsistency. I just it's like
• 2:43:16
  Speaker 1: what I talked about. It is the inconsistency. Drew mackincock
• 2:43:24
  Speaker 1: Women's Rumble, great Oba, Jacob bron not in final four bad.
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 1: I agree. Paul says I had Lived winning the Royal
• 2:43:40
  Speaker 1: Rumble if Bianca didn't return Live deserved it. I figured
• 2:43:43
  Speaker 1: either Rains or Breaker would win the Men's. They did
• 2:43:46
  Speaker 1: Breaker dirty, and I think we get judgment day implosion
• 2:43:51
  Speaker 1: at Mania, with Raquel winning the belt at elimination chamber,
• 2:43:54
  Speaker 1: facing live impossibly finally Finn versus Dirty dom Well. I've
• 2:43:57
  Speaker 1: been saying that for a while should Finn and Dom
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 1: for the IC title. And I think we get the
• 2:44:02
  Speaker 1: Demon Demon Balor because you know they're gonna want to
• 2:44:06
  Speaker 1: market the shit out of that, so you know they're
• 2:44:10
  Speaker 1: gonna bring him back at some point. Any chance that
• 2:44:13
  Speaker 1: AJ gets a farewell address on Raw, or that we
• 2:44:17
  Speaker 1: get a new masked wrestler named BK Fashions, he'd be
• 2:44:24
  Speaker 1: like the Midnight Rider. Juan Sina hod he say AJ
• 2:44:33
  Speaker 1: styles in Spanish. I think we could definitely hear from
• 2:44:37
  Speaker 1: AJ on Raw. Yeah, I think we will. On your
• 2:44:40
  Speaker 1: second idea, I'm gonna say no. Down Bad says my
• 2:44:48
  Speaker 1: fiance has minimal wrestling knowledge. She only knows Stone Cold,
• 2:44:52
  Speaker 1: the Rock and Undertaker. She could have booked a better
• 2:44:55
  Speaker 1: Men's Rumbled than Triple h Oh. I don't doubt it.
• 2:45:00
  Speaker 1: I don't doubt that for a second. Drew says Randy Orton,
• 2:45:04
  Speaker 1: Legend Killer, Gunther, career Killer, Paul Triple Nose, Levek Buzzkiller,
• 2:45:09
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Drew. Paul says La Night remains so over
• 2:45:13
  Speaker 1: despite him never winning. Yes, it's pretty incredible actually, and
• 2:45:17
  Speaker 1: Temjian zephyr'sys to the person who gifted a membership, thank you. Yes,
• 2:45:22
  Speaker 1: that happened. I think that was last night during the
• 2:45:25
  Speaker 1: SmackDown stream. You were one of the ones who randomly
• 2:45:30
  Speaker 1: were selected for a gifted membership. Kevin says, love you, Solo,
• 2:45:37
  Speaker 1: Thank you brother, thank you for the nineteen ninety nine
• 2:45:42
  Speaker 1: toya ate nice. I'm just waiting on the bree rant. Oh.
• 2:45:45
  Speaker 1: We talked about Brie. We talked about Brie. All right,
• 2:45:50
  Speaker 1: we got sidhant Mittra. Is it mitra or Maitra? I
• 2:45:54
  Speaker 1: want to make sure I pronounced that right, says Yo Solo,
• 2:45:58
  Speaker 1: love from India.
• 2:45:59
  Speaker 2: Bro.
• 2:45:59
  Speaker 1: Not always able to catch you live. So here's a
• 2:46:01
  Speaker 1: super chat for one of the rare times I have
• 2:46:05
  Speaker 1: been able to. Also, I think I have fallen in
• 2:46:07
  Speaker 1: love with soul Ruka. What do you think about her future?
• 2:46:12
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there are a lot of people that fell
• 2:46:13
  Speaker 1: in love with soul Ruka the first time they saw her.
• 2:46:17
  Speaker 1: I think she's got a very bright future as long
• 2:46:20
  Speaker 1: as she can stay healthy, because I do worry that
• 2:46:22
  Speaker 1: with some of the like the moves that she'll do.
• 2:46:25
  Speaker 1: I know she already tore her acl once. So if
• 2:46:29
  Speaker 1: she can stay healthy, she's got like the I said,
• 2:46:34
  Speaker 1: the best finisher, like it's a finish that if you
• 2:46:37
  Speaker 1: really look at it, people have to like dive into it.
• 2:46:40
  Speaker 1: It's a little over the top, but it always gets
• 2:46:43
  Speaker 1: a reaction and it looks great. She's got a great finish.
• 2:46:48
  Speaker 1: She's a super talented I think her future is very bright.
• 2:46:53
  Speaker 1: I think Kendall Gray has a very bright future when
• 2:46:55
  Speaker 1: she gets called up eventually. Carl Winslow, this pl was
• 2:47:02
  Speaker 1: like Family Matters without me and Erkele Well, that would
• 2:47:05
  Speaker 1: be a very boring show, wouldn't it, super Pony. Do
• 2:47:10
  Speaker 1: you believe what Hunter is saying about Aj being done
• 2:47:13
  Speaker 1: in the ring? I think AJ might have lied to
• 2:47:15
  Speaker 1: his face. I hope he did fuck him. Yeah, I
• 2:47:19
  Speaker 1: hope he lied to him. Also, I hope AJ is
• 2:47:22
  Speaker 1: not done. Luis says the Royal Rumble felt like a
• 2:47:27
  Speaker 1: B tier ple. You mean to tell me the show
• 2:47:31
  Speaker 1: that was so badly promoted that I had multiple people
• 2:47:35
  Speaker 1: who were telling me they had no idea it was
• 2:47:38
  Speaker 1: even airing today felt like a B tier pl I
• 2:47:42
  Speaker 1: don't believe you true story. I had multiple people who
• 2:47:51
  Speaker 1: said I didn't even know the Royal Rumble was today.
• 2:47:55
  Speaker 1: I think that says a lot. Elijah, Hello, Elijah, walk
• 2:48:02
  Speaker 1: with Elijah Solo? What is your favorite rumble and why
• 2:48:06
  Speaker 1: is it nineteen ninety two? Also, I'm sorry that Breeze
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 1: return caused BRETSD. I liked that. I like that I
• 2:48:17
  Speaker 1: have BRETSD. And yes, my favorite rumble is in fact
• 2:48:25
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two. How did you guess Anti m Bishop
• 2:48:33
  Speaker 1: been a while? Yeah, man, I haven't heard that name
• 2:48:35
  Speaker 1: in a while. Didn't watch the Rumble, but from what
• 2:48:38
  Speaker 1: I saw, didn't miss much. From what I heard, Hog
• 2:48:42
  Speaker 1: in La was epic. Can't wait for the upload? Yeah, Unfortunately,
• 2:48:47
  Speaker 1: there were just some streaming issues so we couldn't stream
• 2:48:49
  Speaker 1: the show live like we had planned to. So I
• 2:48:53
  Speaker 1: haven't even had the chance to actually see it yet
• 2:48:55
  Speaker 1: because I wasn't there obviously, But from everything I heard,
• 2:48:58
  Speaker 1: it was a hot crowd. It was a great show
• 2:49:00
  Speaker 1: and hopefully that'll be going up this week Fire Panda.
• 2:49:08
  Speaker 1: Speaking of names I haven't heard from lately, it's going
• 2:49:11
  Speaker 1: on fire Panda. Thank you for the love. TNA on
• 2:49:15
  Speaker 1: Spike is where I learned that aj Styles is the
• 2:49:18
  Speaker 1: king of this shit. Thank you, aj Hail Gunhar. I
• 2:49:24
  Speaker 1: love me some Gunhar Well now twenty one dollars. Super
• 2:49:29
  Speaker 1: Check can't believe they went with Roman lol. With the
• 2:49:33
  Speaker 1: build and the winner has to be a top five
• 2:49:35
  Speaker 1: worst of all time rumble. I love you Solo. This
• 2:49:40
  Speaker 1: was I don't know where it's gonna rank. There have
• 2:49:43
  Speaker 1: been some bad rumbles before. I would not put this.
• 2:49:46
  Speaker 1: I don't think this ends up in the bottom five necessarily.
• 2:49:50
  Speaker 1: But it was not great. It was not great. The
• 2:50:02
  Speaker 1: Mount Burning kid Christopher Bennett should have let Oba eliminate
• 2:50:06
  Speaker 1: Brock and go all the way. That's how you build somebody.
• 2:50:09
  Speaker 1: I was impressed, but he should have went all the
• 2:50:12
  Speaker 1: way to the finale. Yeah, I don't I don't disagree.
• 2:50:21
  Speaker 1: Super Pony Guy's backlash will be the start of a
• 2:50:24
  Speaker 1: new era. Oh yeah, I'm sure it will. And then
• 2:50:28
  Speaker 1: the month after that money in the bank will be
• 2:50:30
  Speaker 1: the start of a new era.
• 2:50:34
  Speaker 2: My curiosity is killing me, just like a camp would
• 2:50:37
  Speaker 2: be killed by the curiosity. Yeah.
• 2:50:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's how Veli. Yeah, how Veli doesn't pop up
• 2:50:45
  Speaker 1: as often. I was starting to get worried about him.
• 2:50:50
  Speaker 1: Alexander says, I'm not a fan, but my hope was
• 2:50:53
  Speaker 1: Paige instead of breathe. You know, I page was not
• 2:50:56
  Speaker 1: even a thought in my head. Well, it's not even
• 2:50:59
  Speaker 1: a head. Super Pony Randy Orton feels like such an afterthought.
• 2:51:04
  Speaker 1: He doesn't seem like a priority for them anymore. What's
• 2:51:07
  Speaker 1: up with that? Well, because he shouldn't be a priority.
• 2:51:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think a story with Cody should be
• 2:51:12
  Speaker 1: just because they haven't done it yet. But I'm not
• 2:51:15
  Speaker 1: opposed to Randy Orton, who's been there for a million years,
• 2:51:18
  Speaker 1: not being a priority anymore. That's part of the problem
• 2:51:21
  Speaker 1: with WWE. I don't think that there are enough newer
• 2:51:25
  Speaker 1: faces who are enough of a priority over people like
• 2:51:29
  Speaker 1: a Roman Reigns or a Randy Orton. There comes a
• 2:51:32
  Speaker 1: point where guys like that they don't need to be
• 2:51:35
  Speaker 1: a priority anymore. The priority should be using guys like
• 2:51:38
  Speaker 1: that to help elevate the newer faces so that they
• 2:51:40
  Speaker 1: can be the next Randy Orton. And that's part of
• 2:51:43
  Speaker 1: the problem. My hope now is with guys like Obafemi
• 2:51:48
  Speaker 1: and Trick Williams being called up, we'll start to see
• 2:51:50
  Speaker 1: some of that. Because these two guys have barely been
• 2:51:54
  Speaker 1: on the main roster, they're already over they're already getting
• 2:51:58
  Speaker 1: reactions from these crowds. Brandon Vasquez says, do you think
• 2:52:07
  Speaker 1: having a Royal Rumble one year where the winner challenged
• 2:52:09
  Speaker 1: the Undertaker to break the streak at WrestleMania would have worked. No, No,
• 2:52:15
  Speaker 1: I think that would have been lame because that's putting
• 2:52:21
  Speaker 1: the streak over the championship and the main event of WrestleMania,
• 2:52:24
  Speaker 1: and that just shouldn't ever happen. I'm sorry, Nick Grosso
• 2:52:30
  Speaker 1: still know Bianca this hand injury is maybe more serious
• 2:52:33
  Speaker 1: than we Well, yeah you think. I think that's pretty
• 2:52:36
  Speaker 1: apparent at this point. If Bianca is not back in
• 2:52:39
  Speaker 1: time for the Elimination Chamber or WrestleMania, I say, Jade
• 2:52:42
  Speaker 1: faces either Tiffany or Jordan, and Charlotte faces Alexa. I mean,
• 2:52:52
  Speaker 1: I'd be fine with Jade and Jordan. I can live
• 2:52:57
  Speaker 1: with that. The Mount Vernon kid, Jay Usso is a
• 2:53:06
  Speaker 1: dancing clown. Why what the fuck? At first I used
• 2:53:11
  Speaker 1: to let the whole replay of the intro slide, and
• 2:53:14
  Speaker 1: now it's just getting on my nerves. Yeah, I mean,
• 2:53:19
  Speaker 1: I just I hated that whole sequence with the fire
• 2:53:23
  Speaker 1: of a thousand suns, I fucking hated that. Holy shit wrestling.
• 2:53:29
  Speaker 1: I like gunther Moore when he was in nineties all
• 2:53:32
  Speaker 1: Japan Kings Road Tribute Act than sleeper hold abuse shout
• 2:53:37
  Speaker 1: outs to the referee shouting ajaj ajaj at the end
• 2:53:41
  Speaker 1: like he didn't want aj to pass. He was marking
• 2:53:44
  Speaker 1: out Bro. He was marking out Alexander says, has there
• 2:53:49
  Speaker 1: ever been a triple be the Booker in history? There
• 2:53:53
  Speaker 1: might have been once, but I don't know. I don't know.
• 2:53:56
  Speaker 1: The goal is only two out of ten, so right
• 2:53:59
  Speaker 1: now we have too guaranteed. If we hit that third goal, though,
• 2:54:02
  Speaker 1: we'll do three of them. We got Matt Matt Scales,
• 2:54:09
  Speaker 1: Hey Solo. I thought the show was okay. I now
• 2:54:11
  Speaker 1: regret getting up at three am to watch it. Good
• 2:54:14
  Speaker 1: showings for Javon, Oba, Lash and Keana. I thought Oba
• 2:54:18
  Speaker 1: and Hobb's eliminations were anti climactic. Thanks for all you do, brother,
• 2:54:23
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. There were definitely some anti climactic
• 2:54:27
  Speaker 1: eliminations in there. We got Chris, what location do you
• 2:54:34
  Speaker 1: set your VPN to? I tried Toronto. After twenty minutes,
• 2:54:37
  Speaker 1: it kicked me off and had switched me to Montreal.
• 2:54:41
  Speaker 1: Oh man, you might say it was the Montreal screwjob
• 2:54:44
  Speaker 1: for you tonight. I'm sorry. I think the server that
• 2:54:52
  Speaker 1: I used tonight on my VPN, what did I use?
• 2:54:58
  Speaker 1: I think it was Canada. I think, mm hmm, is
• 2:55:00
  Speaker 1: it Canada? No? No, no, you know what it was.
• 2:55:04
  Speaker 1: It was the Netherlands. I think it was the Netherlands.
• 2:55:07
  Speaker 1: I go back and forth. Sometimes it's the Netherlands server,
• 2:55:10
  Speaker 1: sometimes it's UK Docklands, and then sometimes it's just it's
• 2:55:16
  Speaker 1: just Canada. It's not Toronto, it's not Montreal. It's just
• 2:55:19
  Speaker 1: it's a Canadian server. I didn't have any issues SMG
• 2:55:26
  Speaker 1: Kobe Solo, you ruined my night. I had number one
• 2:55:28
  Speaker 1: in the Facebook pool. Oh I read this one before
• 2:55:31
  Speaker 1: Obo was eliminated by Brock and in my shock, I
• 2:55:34
  Speaker 1: then hear USO wait to kick him in when he's down.
• 2:55:41
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, brother, the Mount Vernon kid. When Brie came out,
• 2:55:48
  Speaker 1: I said to myself, sorry Solo. I think a lot
• 2:55:51
  Speaker 1: of people said that. When they heard that, they felt
• 2:55:56
  Speaker 1: immediate sympathy for me. What was the point of showing
• 2:56:06
  Speaker 1: the Powerhouse Hobbs logo on the try? Honestly, dude, I
• 2:56:09
  Speaker 1: have no idea why they did that. If you're not
• 2:56:12
  Speaker 1: gonna let them keep the name, why even bother Prince
• 2:56:20
  Speaker 1: Bageta says, I guess we can thank Bill Goldberg for
• 2:56:23
  Speaker 1: whining and bitching about getting a retirement match for this
• 2:56:25
  Speaker 1: new gunther gimmick. Well, that's just another thing that Brett
• 2:56:32
  Speaker 1: Hard can blame Bill Goldberg for alexanders Is. My surprise
• 2:56:39
  Speaker 1: was no Blake Monroe in the rumble? Yeah. I think
• 2:56:43
  Speaker 1: the biggest surprise of this rumble was the names that
• 2:56:46
  Speaker 1: we did not get in the rumble. Aj Lee, Kit Wilson,
• 2:56:54
  Speaker 1: Joe Hendry, Blake Monroe is another one. Horatio says Triple
• 2:57:04
  Speaker 1: H needed a home run but hit another foul ball
• 2:57:09
  Speaker 1: the sheriff of Patty's what's the difference between light and hard.
• 2:57:14
  Speaker 1: I can fall asleep with a light on boomerang. I
• 2:57:24
  Speaker 1: wish I could have seen the look on your face
• 2:57:26
  Speaker 1: when you heard Brima.
• 2:57:32
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 2:57:33
  Speaker 1: It was a look of shock and despair and defeat
• 2:57:39
  Speaker 1: that cross Us says with Brie Bella back. I really
• 2:57:41
  Speaker 1: hope the plan isn't for Eo and Ria to face
• 2:57:43
  Speaker 1: the bell as a WrestleMania for the tag team titles.
• 2:57:46
  Speaker 1: That would be terrible. That would be terrible. I expect
• 2:57:50
  Speaker 1: the Bellis to be in the tag team title picture,
• 2:57:52
  Speaker 1: but I would hope Ria and Eo would be involved
• 2:57:55
  Speaker 1: in something else, maybe even if it was just a
• 2:57:57
  Speaker 1: match with each other, nothing on the line, just like
• 2:58:00
  Speaker 1: an Evolution rematch, and then Rhea can finally beat Oh
• 2:58:04
  Speaker 1: because otherwise there's really no point in doing the match again.
• 2:58:10
  Speaker 1: The Mount Vernon Kid overrated chant from the crowd was
• 2:58:13
  Speaker 1: just bs. I've noticed that a certain demographic or women
• 2:58:17
  Speaker 1: just get booed regardless of their alliance. Who did they
• 2:58:22
  Speaker 1: chant overrated at? I missed that chant Beef Cheeto solo monster.
• 2:58:31
  Speaker 1: What is your favorite finisher ever? My favorite finisher ever is?
• 2:58:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's probably the stone Cold Stunner. I mean
• 2:58:44
  Speaker 1: it was just electric, you know when he was white
• 2:58:47
  Speaker 1: hot hitting that stunt. He could hit that stunner on
• 2:58:49
  Speaker 1: anybody and it would get just this massive reactions. So
• 2:58:53
  Speaker 1: that was probably the one that was the most fun
• 2:58:54
  Speaker 1: to watch as far as like just the moves themselves.
• 2:58:59
  Speaker 1: For me, it's Sharpshooter, the sharpshooter in the cross faced
• 2:59:05
  Speaker 1: Chicken wing. They were chanting overrated and lash. I didn't
• 2:59:11
  Speaker 1: even hear them. Devin from NJ, we haven't had a
• 2:59:17
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania in March since twenty fifteen. Why is this also
• 2:59:21
  Speaker 1: buy or sell WrestleMania in March or WrestleMania in April
• 2:59:26
  Speaker 1: I think they settled on April just because it's more
• 2:59:29
  Speaker 1: time for them to really, you know, build out the
• 2:59:32
  Speaker 1: road to Mania and promote the matches. Now it's even
• 2:59:35
  Speaker 1: later because now it's in like the third week, third
• 2:59:39
  Speaker 1: weekend of April. I'm more a fan of WrestleMania in
• 2:59:45
  Speaker 1: that first week of April, but it just gives them
• 2:59:50
  Speaker 1: more time. We have Ashotosh Mishra, hope you're doing well solo.
• 2:59:58
  Speaker 1: Did you notice the screen say two minute intervals and
• 3:00:01
  Speaker 1: Mark Nash saying ninety seconds? Okay, So that was one
• 3:00:05
  Speaker 1: of the other botches that people were talking about. I
• 3:00:07
  Speaker 1: did not see that. Saint Clair random trope. I hate
• 3:00:15
  Speaker 1: for the rumble. I hate when they get hit with
• 3:00:17
  Speaker 1: a finish, just the pop up so they can get
• 3:00:20
  Speaker 1: thrown out.
• 3:00:22
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 3:00:22
  Speaker 1: I mean one of the best examples of that is
• 3:00:24
  Speaker 1: actually the first rumble. I'm not the the second one.
• 3:00:26
  Speaker 1: The second rumble that Austin won when he stunned the
• 3:00:30
  Speaker 1: rock popped right up to his feet. He was all
• 3:00:33
  Speaker 1: woozy and he got thrown out. SMG Kobe off topic.
• 3:00:43
  Speaker 1: It won't happen, But I want two night plees to
• 3:00:47
  Speaker 1: be in two different cities, one international and one US
• 3:00:52
  Speaker 1: day one usually feels like a cash grab. Yeah, I
• 3:00:56
  Speaker 1: mean they could try it. I don't think that practically
• 3:01:00
  Speaker 1: it makes a lot of sense. That sounds like a
• 3:01:03
  Speaker 1: logistical nightmare. Now you're dealing with time zone differences, You're
• 3:01:07
  Speaker 1: dealing with all kinds of potential things going wrong. You've
• 3:01:11
  Speaker 1: got to have you've got to build out. Now, two
• 3:01:14
  Speaker 1: different stages and sets. I know they don't exactly put
• 3:01:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of creativity into them now unless it's you know,
• 3:01:20
  Speaker 1: again the Rumble or WrestleMania. But it just it would
• 3:01:25
  Speaker 1: cost TKO more money, and I don't think it's money
• 3:01:29
  Speaker 1: that they care to spend Richie. Plus, there's another aspect
• 3:01:36
  Speaker 1: to this. They make these deals, these cities bid on
• 3:01:38
  Speaker 1: these events. I don't think cities are going to necessarily
• 3:01:41
  Speaker 1: want a bid on one night. I think they want
• 3:01:43
  Speaker 1: the entire thing, So you gotta factor that into the decision. Also, Richie,
• 3:01:49
  Speaker 1: with twenty five, no message, just showing some love. I
• 3:01:52
  Speaker 1: love that, Richie, thank you very much. Prince Bgeta in
• 3:01:56
  Speaker 1: Michael Cole's voice, of course, the legendary b Rebella, the
• 3:02:02
  Speaker 1: creator of the Yes movement. I'm surprised he didn't say
• 3:02:07
  Speaker 1: that grapple nomics, Styles and Champa for Hobbes and Jericho. Hilarious.
• 3:02:19
  Speaker 1: It could work out that way. So far it was.
• 3:02:23
  Speaker 1: It was an even swap so far for Hobbes and Champa.
• 3:02:28
  Speaker 1: We'll see if the Jericho and Styles thing actually comes true.
• 3:02:30
  Speaker 1: Matt Fisher with a pair of learning trees. No message,
• 3:02:38
  Speaker 1: all love, Matt, thank you, it's Marshall. Brandon says, I
• 3:02:48
  Speaker 1: didn't watch the Rumbles, so when I saw your tweet
• 3:02:50
  Speaker 1: about Raymisterio, I genuinely thought he genuinely thought he won
• 3:02:55
  Speaker 1: the that's great. Yeah, I posted a tweet during the rumble.
• 3:03:01
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh God, what did I say. I
• 3:03:04
  Speaker 1: just said it's been twenty years since Ray won the Rumble,
• 3:03:10
  Speaker 1: and I said like, holy shit. But I didn't think
• 3:03:15
  Speaker 1: somebody would read it that way. Can you imagine? Jeremy
• 3:03:26
  Speaker 1: Rose says AJ is done. He went out his way.
• 3:03:30
  Speaker 1: The only thing I see him doing in TNA is
• 3:03:32
  Speaker 1: one more time winning the title maybe and then retiring.
• 3:03:36
  Speaker 1: Aw ain't happening. However, my long shot is against Gunther
• 3:03:40
  Speaker 1: one more time, but as a TNA talent, Yeah, that
• 3:03:46
  Speaker 1: I don't see. Plus Ultra Adrian. Hopefully AJ doesn't get
• 3:03:55
  Speaker 1: the Bill Belichick treatment of that and actually gets into
• 3:03:58
  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame first ballot. Abystle zones very happy
• 3:04:06
  Speaker 1: for Live, very disappointed with Roman packs Basonica with the five.
• 3:04:14
  Speaker 1: My prediction is we get a triple threat at the
• 3:04:16
  Speaker 1: Elimination Chamber, Drew, Cody and Orton, with Orton winning the
• 3:04:20
  Speaker 1: title rains against Orton at WrestleMania. Who you lost me
• 3:04:24
  Speaker 1: on that part? You lost me there. I was actually
• 3:04:31
  Speaker 1: okay with the first half, and then we can do Cody,
• 3:04:34
  Speaker 1: We could do Cody and Orton. Roman reigns against Randy
• 3:04:39
  Speaker 1: Orton does absolutely nothing for me, Like I feel nothing
• 3:04:43
  Speaker 1: with that match. Jeremy says, when I saw Jay was
• 3:04:50
  Speaker 1: doing the entrance from the crowd, I was thinking the
• 3:04:52
  Speaker 1: buzzer was going off before. I was kind of hoping
• 3:04:55
  Speaker 1: it would because then he would be eliminated because he
• 3:04:58
  Speaker 1: never got into the ring. And it's like, oh, he
• 3:05:03
  Speaker 1: eliminated himself because he was too busy yeating, and then
• 3:05:06
  Speaker 1: I would have laughed. Jeremy's also says Men's mid car
• 3:05:12
  Speaker 1: champions are missing the rumble, When, if ever has that happened?
• 3:05:16
  Speaker 1: Dom injured? Oh yeah, Dom wasn't there. I thought he
• 3:05:21
  Speaker 1: was supposed to be back by now, but Mello needed
• 3:05:25
  Speaker 1: to be in there this creative team. So well, you
• 3:05:27
  Speaker 1: know what, looking back at it, it's a good thing
• 3:05:29
  Speaker 1: he wasn't because if Mello was in there, he would
• 3:05:31
  Speaker 1: have been destroyed by brock Lesner and thrown out like
• 3:05:33
  Speaker 1: a jabron, just like Dragonov was. So maybe it was
• 3:05:38
  Speaker 1: for the better. AJ says this royal rumble was worse
• 3:05:46
  Speaker 1: than the pandemic. Mind you, I lost family during that time.
• 3:05:50
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, jeez. AJ really did not like this
• 3:05:56
  Speaker 1: royal rumble. Holy shit, that's like that time I got
• 3:06:05
  Speaker 1: a super chat from someone. This is back when RAW
• 3:06:07
  Speaker 1: was still three hours and it was fucking awful, and
• 3:06:10
  Speaker 1: I remember, I'll never forget he uh he sent in
• 3:06:13
  Speaker 1: a superchat and he just said, uh, this Raw was
• 3:06:18
  Speaker 1: the worst thing that happened to me all week, and
• 3:06:23
  Speaker 1: I just buried my grandfather today. I was like, wow,
• 3:06:30
  Speaker 1: Like that's pretty bad. John Laurenidas Is with us Oh Boy,
• 3:06:37
  Speaker 1: says that audience needed a dose of people power. People power,
• 3:06:43
  Speaker 1: people power. I'm a PERV people power sheltered love listening
• 3:06:51
  Speaker 1: in for quite some time now. I just want to
• 3:06:52
  Speaker 1: send greetings from Germany, always looking forward to your reviews,
• 3:06:56
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• 3:07:00
  Speaker 1: Thank you brother. All the way from Germany. It's how
• 3:07:03
  Speaker 1: many hours away? Is that from New York? It's got
• 3:07:05
  Speaker 1: to be at least eight hours, right? Yeah, you know, sometimes,
• 3:07:10
  Speaker 1: especially with the weekly shows, these streams end up being
• 3:07:13
  Speaker 1: a lot more fun. We always try to have fun here.
• 3:07:16
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm glad you can join Francisco Flores. Do
• 3:07:20
  Speaker 1: you think that there will ever be an NXT Royal
• 3:07:23
  Speaker 1: Rumble winner? I think that. I think that, Yes, I
• 3:07:28
  Speaker 1: think one day. I think one day we might just
• 3:07:32
  Speaker 1: get that. Just has to be the right person. Andre
• 3:07:40
  Speaker 1: Jefferson with a twenty. I guess Roman is going for
• 3:07:42
  Speaker 1: the title he literally called the number two title. Yes,
• 3:07:45
  Speaker 1: he's called the World Heavyweight Championship. It's like less than
• 3:07:49
  Speaker 1: But again the comment was, if you want to increase
• 3:07:52
  Speaker 1: the value of that title, you have me hold it.
• 3:07:55
  Speaker 1: So if he goes after that title, then that that
• 3:07:59
  Speaker 1: quote has to come back like that has to be
• 3:08:02
  Speaker 1: brought up as part of the bill to a match
• 3:08:04
  Speaker 1: with cmpunk, Joseph says, did you hear about Ashley Massarro's
• 3:08:11
  Speaker 1: name on Epstein? Yes? I did. That was very sad
• 3:08:16
  Speaker 1: to hear that. I mean I had to stop reading
• 3:08:18
  Speaker 1: some of that stuff after a while because I'm just
• 3:08:20
  Speaker 1: disgusted by the whole the whole thing. I think anybody,
• 3:08:23
  Speaker 1: I think anybody and everybody who was named in that
• 3:08:29
  Speaker 1: stuff should have their balls cut off. Every single one
• 3:08:34
  Speaker 1: of them needed to be shamed and burned at the stake,
• 3:08:37
  Speaker 1: every fucking one of them. But I mean with her,
• 3:08:41
  Speaker 1: as if she didn't go through enough. You know, when
• 3:08:44
  Speaker 1: I saw that, I was like, man, that's I don't know.
• 3:08:50
  Speaker 1: Irenzo says, do you think Alex's right with his dance
• 3:08:52
  Speaker 1: gimmick would have been over today? He was a pretty
• 3:08:55
  Speaker 1: good tay you know what. Yes, he would be, Yes,
• 3:08:57
  Speaker 1: he would be. He would absolutely be able to get
• 3:09:01
  Speaker 1: that over. Jeremy Rose says, La Knight goes l A
• 3:09:09
  Speaker 1: Knight goes, He'll win. Wait what goes Hill wins Chamber
• 3:09:16
  Speaker 1: versus punkt WrestleMania. What do you say Roman picks Drew
• 3:09:20
  Speaker 1: or does Cody weasel.
• 3:09:22
  Speaker 2: His way in.
• 3:09:28
  Speaker 1: Cold Douce Chill. It just came over me. So I
• 3:09:35
  Speaker 1: think he says Night wins the chamber and then faces
• 3:09:38
  Speaker 1: Punk at WrestleMania. It's possible. I'm not expecting it punk
• 3:09:46
  Speaker 1: cast to wrestle though on that show. I mean, he's
• 3:09:47
  Speaker 1: got It's Chicago. He's got to be doing something on
• 3:09:50
  Speaker 1: that show. Well, actually, well, he'll be facing Finn Balor
• 3:09:52
  Speaker 1: I guess yeah, he'll be defending against Ballor probably and
• 3:10:00
  Speaker 1: Cody will be involved in the title picture. You can
• 3:10:02
  Speaker 1: guarantee that we got Yankees fans for life or yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 3:10:09
  Speaker 1: Well I'll allow it. Hey solo, Now that both their
• 3:10:13
  Speaker 1: in ring careers are seemingly over, who in your opinion,
• 3:10:17
  Speaker 1: was the better end ring performer. He didn't include any names.
• 3:10:25
  Speaker 1: There's no names here. I assume AJ is one of them,
• 3:10:29
  Speaker 1: but there's no names here. I don't know how to
• 3:10:36
  Speaker 1: answer this. MGM Ballin Gunther beats AJ twice, yet can't
• 3:10:46
  Speaker 1: beat CM Sloth and taps out to j Ousloth. I
• 3:10:50
  Speaker 1: really hope this isn't the end for AJ. He is
• 3:10:53
  Speaker 1: too good not to go the rest of the year.
• 3:10:55
  Speaker 1: He is not embarrassing himself like he thinks he will.
• 3:10:59
  Speaker 1: Well he might think he does. You know, he's he's
• 3:11:06
  Speaker 1: very you know, hyper sensitive that he doesn't want to
• 3:11:09
  Speaker 1: see himself as being less than oh a Jane. Well,
• 3:11:16
  Speaker 1: look if he was talking about AJ and Sena and
• 3:11:18
  Speaker 1: you're talking about in ring career. The answer is AJ
• 3:11:20
  Speaker 1: styles h DJ fifty five. Melow was robbed for Laparca,
• 3:11:26
  Speaker 1: Gecko Man and Miz. That is pretty bad. I will say,
• 3:11:30
  Speaker 1: like again, I think Melo was spared probably some embarrassment
• 3:11:33
  Speaker 1: by not being in the Rumble, But the fact that
• 3:11:36
  Speaker 1: Miss was in the Royal Rumble and not Carmelo Hayes
• 3:11:40
  Speaker 1: is actually that actually is very embarrassing. That doesn't really
• 3:11:48
  Speaker 1: make a whole lot of sense. Miss, by the way,
• 3:11:50
  Speaker 1: I should point out, I don't believe he has won
• 3:11:51
  Speaker 1: a singles match in WWE in two years. He was
• 3:11:57
  Speaker 1: in the Royal Rumble, but the United statesampion was not
• 3:12:03
  Speaker 1: think about that. We got Barlow six six' six. Polecat
• 3:12:12
  Speaker 1: what direction do you think they will go With Randy
• 3:12:14
  Speaker 1: orton to wrestle many of forty TWO i could. SEE i, mean,
• 3:12:16
  Speaker 1: look we Saw cody accidentally drop him with A Cody
• 3:12:21
  Speaker 1: cutter in The, rumble SO i think he's gonna get
• 3:12:24
  Speaker 1: roped into this whole world title. Scene you, KNOW i
• 3:12:27
  Speaker 1: was talking about maybe a possible triple threat With, Drew
• 3:12:30
  Speaker 1: cody And. Fatu it may be a fatal four way
• 3:12:32
  Speaker 1: With orton in. THERE i think he's going to factor
• 3:12:35
  Speaker 1: into this in some. Way jeremy, says mass Man pierce Or.
• 3:12:41
  Speaker 1: Finn that's Interesting Finn balor as the Mass. Man, yeah
• 3:12:51
  Speaker 1: but what does that lead to? THOUGH i, mean he's
• 3:12:52
  Speaker 1: got his own shit going on with the judgment. Day
• 3:12:56
  Speaker 1: And i'll tell you, what whoever was under that, hood
• 3:12:58
  Speaker 1: it was Not Adam, Pierce Adam pearce. HASN'T i remember
• 3:13:02
  Speaker 1: When Adam pierce was still, wrestling LIKE i remember him
• 3:13:07
  Speaker 1: when he was still doing The Repo man gimmick where
• 3:13:11
  Speaker 1: people kept calling Him Repo, man and SO i REMEMBER
• 3:13:14
  Speaker 1: i was at The Manhattan. Center it was at A
• 3:13:17
  Speaker 1: ring Of honor show and it was like a big
• 3:13:19
  Speaker 1: six man or eight man tag and he was in
• 3:13:21
  Speaker 1: there and he pulled out The Repo man like imask
• 3:13:25
  Speaker 1: as like a, gag and everybody. Popped in all the
• 3:13:30
  Speaker 1: Years i've Seen Adam piers, Wrestling i've never seen him that.
• 3:13:32
  Speaker 1: Slim so it was Not Adam. Peers ross, says maybe
• 3:13:40
  Speaker 1: we See Chris jericho come back to w W a
• 3:13:42
  Speaker 1: after His fozzy tour In. February Maybe, AGAIN i. DON'T
• 3:13:49
  Speaker 1: i don't think the tour is going to impact a
• 3:13:53
  Speaker 1: return before. That but if he's gonna be At, WrestleMania
• 3:14:00
  Speaker 1: many is not until Mid. April you got a little
• 3:14:02
  Speaker 1: more time than, usual so he could always come back In.
• 3:14:05
  Speaker 1: March If adam was still moving like, that he'd be wrestling.
• 3:14:13
  Speaker 1: Exactly he'd still be in the ring if he was
• 3:14:16
  Speaker 1: moving like. That, uh he got the S. Js this
• 3:14:25
  Speaker 1: is WHY i don't Trust lesnar with Gunther, OH i don't.
• 3:14:28
  Speaker 1: TRY i don't trust it. Either, yeah and the people
• 3:14:30
  Speaker 1: that want to see that, match it's, like be careful
• 3:14:32
  Speaker 1: what you wish for because it may not go the
• 3:14:34
  Speaker 1: way you think it's gonna. Go holliday, says what if
• 3:14:38
  Speaker 1: The rock comes? Out, Oh, god not The. Rock what
• 3:14:41
  Speaker 1: if The rock comes out during the main event of
• 3:14:43
  Speaker 1: Wrestle mania forty two and Cost, cody leading To jacob
• 3:14:46
  Speaker 1: winning the, title becoming The Rocks champion Or rock sides With.
• 3:14:50
  Speaker 1: Drew this leads To cody Versus rock at Wrestle mania forty.
• 3:14:53
  Speaker 1: Three saudi wants top, Stars but now you're building out
• 3:14:58
  Speaker 1: a year long story for The rock that you can't.
• 3:15:01
  Speaker 1: GUARANTEE i, mean, look the story is that the offer
• 3:15:05
  Speaker 1: is being made or has been made To The rock
• 3:15:08
  Speaker 1: to be At WrestleMania next, year and it's more money
• 3:15:11
  Speaker 1: than any wrestler has ever been offered. Ever so if
• 3:15:15
  Speaker 1: he was being offered that much, money Then i'm sure
• 3:15:17
  Speaker 1: he could clear his. Schedule BUT i am not relying
• 3:15:20
  Speaker 1: on The rock for. Anything, like if it, happens it.
• 3:15:24
  Speaker 1: Happens but can you really plan out something that far
• 3:15:28
  Speaker 1: in advance with The rock and trust that it's going to.
• 3:15:30
  Speaker 1: Happen that's a huge. Risk alexander, says nobody. Cares BUT
• 3:15:41
  Speaker 1: i Thought Zoe stark would. RETURN i don't know where
• 3:15:46
  Speaker 1: she is in terms of her. Rehab again that every
• 3:15:48
  Speaker 1: TIME i think about that, INJURY i just a. Cringe
• 3:15:52
  Speaker 1: but when did she get? Hurt was It may of last?
• 3:15:56
  Speaker 1: YEAR i don't know where in her rehab she. Is
• 3:16:03
  Speaker 1: the problem is if she would have come out in that,
• 3:16:05
  Speaker 1: rumble she would have gotten no. REACTION A nobe, says
• 3:16:11
  Speaker 1: sorry for the bre mode Riad crumble was Read crumble
• 3:16:17
  Speaker 1: was men live one so she could demand more fans
• 3:16:20
  Speaker 1: to apologize to her. Faction bittersweet finish TO ajl though
• 3:16:25
  Speaker 1: it was. Coming drew retains Yay roman, one so wwe
• 3:16:29
  Speaker 1: kept his mouth? Shut two out of. Five the average.
• 3:16:35
  Speaker 1: GRUNT i don't know what the obsession That TRIPLE h
• 3:16:40
  Speaker 1: has with men in black. Hoodies that's he's quoting. Me, now,
• 3:16:43
  Speaker 1: Well i'm sure he'd love to have some white hoods
• 3:16:46
  Speaker 1: on his, shows BUT i doubt that would fly with
• 3:16:48
  Speaker 1: sponsors and the pitchforks are out For TRIPLE. H Super,
• 3:16:57
  Speaker 1: pony how stupid AM i for Thinking ko is going
• 3:16:59
  Speaker 1: to be third in the? RUMBLE i miss him so.
• 3:17:01
  Speaker 1: Much roman is absolutely Beating punk because that's what we.
• 3:17:04
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• 3:17:09
  Speaker 1: Era roman's the. Champion, now it's a new. Era just
• 3:17:14
  Speaker 1: be a, fan shut up and be a. Fan it's
• 3:17:18
  Speaker 1: what we. Do Super pony, says how. Stupid OH i
• 3:17:26
  Speaker 1: just read that. One thank, you Super. Pony. Uh we
• 3:17:31
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• 3:17:35
  Speaker 1: than this. Show Dried chicken, Says TRIPLE h is gonna
• 3:17:41
  Speaker 1: have to pick and choose This option, one go back
• 3:17:45
  Speaker 1: and do the press, conference or to continue the post
• 3:17:47
  Speaker 1: show appearances with a rowdy, crowd or option, three they'll
• 3:17:54
  Speaker 1: just cancel all of it and just Have Peter rosenberg
• 3:17:57
  Speaker 1: And Jackie redmond and just a closed off room just
• 3:18:01
  Speaker 1: talking about what they just. Saw wink The Cosmic. Grandma
• 3:18:06
  Speaker 1: what happened to The house Of glory? Stream there were
• 3:18:11
  Speaker 1: internet issues so we were not able to. Stream so
• 3:18:16
  Speaker 1: once the show is fully, uploaded it will be online
• 3:18:21
  Speaker 1: for people to. Watch King gariel. Seventeen who do you turn,
• 3:18:29
  Speaker 1: Face raquel or? Live and who do you turn, Heel
• 3:18:32
  Speaker 1: charlotte Or? Alexa raquel goes? Face who goes Heel charlotte Or?
• 3:18:45
  Speaker 1: Alexa Bliss, Fan i'm going to leave that one to.
• 3:18:49
  Speaker 1: You who do you think should go Heal charlotte Or? Alexa?
• 3:18:55
  Speaker 1: TRY i trust Bliss fan with this one BECAUSE i
• 3:18:59
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• 3:19:06
  Speaker 1: Monster right here we? Go Blizz fan, Says alexa is
• 3:19:09
  Speaker 1: the face in Any charlotte. Feud there you, go alexas the.
• 3:19:14
  Speaker 1: Face aveli, says what's? Up Solo? Monster shout out From, Brisbane.
• 3:19:23
  Speaker 1: Australia with all due, RESPECT i asked you owe me an.
• 3:19:29
  Speaker 1: APOLOGY i asked you the possibility of aj leader return
• 3:19:32
  Speaker 1: and team With punk to Face seth And. Becky what
• 3:19:36
  Speaker 1: DID i? Say, NO i don't remember. THIS i have
• 3:19:41
  Speaker 1: no memory of. This wressell MESS fa two wins the elimination.
• 3:19:49
  Speaker 1: Chamber cody politics into the wrestle media. Match, well he
• 3:19:53
  Speaker 1: is a. Politician he looks like, one he talks like,
• 3:19:56
  Speaker 1: one he sounds like, one he acts like. One Barry,
• 3:20:00
  Speaker 1: Wood thank, You. Barry bobby, Means, so since we have
• 3:20:05
  Speaker 1: no idea where or When bianca is coming, BACK i
• 3:20:08
  Speaker 1: honestly believe That Jordan grace could possibly win. It and
• 3:20:11
  Speaker 1: we Get grace And, Cargill, well then what Does tiffany?
• 3:20:17
  Speaker 1: Do she just came, back so you know she's gonna
• 3:20:23
  Speaker 1: have some kind of some kind of. Role wink, SAYS
• 3:20:27
  Speaker 1: i feel like a. Heel hasn't won the rumbles Since TRIPLE.
• 3:20:30
  Speaker 1: H really thought this was the year for bron BUT
• 3:20:33
  Speaker 1: i guess. Not has it been that? Long TRIPLE h
• 3:20:36
  Speaker 1: one in twenty, Sixteen randy won in twenty, Seventeen shinske
• 3:20:41
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• 3:20:47
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• 3:20:56
  Speaker 1: won in twenty twenty? Two? BROCK i think it Was
• 3:21:03
  Speaker 1: brock twenty twenty? Three Was cody twenty twenty? Four Was
• 3:21:10
  Speaker 1: cody twenty twenty. Five it Was.
• 3:21:13
  Speaker 2: Jit.
• 3:21:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, wow it's a lot of. Babyfaces oh my, god
• 3:21:17
  Speaker 1: we're nine out of ten on the on the bonus.
• 3:21:19
  Speaker 1: GOAL i just noticed we might be doing three be
• 3:21:21
  Speaker 1: the bookers if we get one. MORE i just noticed
• 3:21:24
  Speaker 1: that we Have alex with the twenty five, dollars his brother.
• 3:21:29
  Speaker 1: Solo i'm happy that you got happy when you Saw. Bree,
• 3:21:34
  Speaker 1: also imagine Expecting jericho and we get Mister. IGUANA i
• 3:21:37
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised If jericho shows up This. MONDAY i
• 3:21:40
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised. Either that, way he gets the spotlight
• 3:21:43
  Speaker 1: all to. Himself that's what happened the last time he
• 3:21:49
  Speaker 1: came back AND o seven or. Whatever it was like
• 3:21:51
  Speaker 1: everyone thought they knew when he was coming, back And
• 3:21:54
  Speaker 1: jericho intentionally was, like why don't We why don't we
• 3:21:56
  Speaker 1: wait a little bit, Longer so they put it off
• 3:21:58
  Speaker 1: for a few weeks and then he showed. Up Chris,
• 3:22:05
  Speaker 1: lloyd why DOES wwe refuse to create new? Stars they
• 3:22:09
  Speaker 1: only push the stars they have, now and they won't
• 3:22:11
  Speaker 1: do anything to build any new. Ones eventually these stars
• 3:22:14
  Speaker 1: won't be. Around who takes their? Place, well hopefully THESE
• 3:22:17
  Speaker 1: nxt call ups that we saw. Tonight the hope is
• 3:22:21
  Speaker 1: that those will be the, people and that's not even
• 3:22:23
  Speaker 1: all of. Them but we did have a lot of
• 3:22:25
  Speaker 1: new faces on the, show so they're only now starting
• 3:22:28
  Speaker 1: to really build them. Up they should have already been
• 3:22:30
  Speaker 1: building some of these people up six months. Ago now
• 3:22:34
  Speaker 1: they're building them all up at. ONCE kJ, Mitchell i've
• 3:22:43
  Speaker 1: never Missed patterson more than tonight realizing they have no
• 3:22:48
  Speaker 1: idea how to book. Eliminations you, know you are absolutely
• 3:22:53
  Speaker 1: one hundred percent, Right and whatever you want to say
• 3:22:55
  Speaker 1: About Pat patterson as far as his ability to book
• 3:23:01
  Speaker 1: match finishes and eliminations and elimination sequences In Royal, rumbles
• 3:23:09
  Speaker 1: he knew what he was. Doing and they don't have
• 3:23:11
  Speaker 1: anybody like that. Now like these people are by and
• 3:23:15
  Speaker 1: large when it comes to The Royal, rumbles and like you,
• 3:23:18
  Speaker 1: said the eliminations and stuff like, that these people are
• 3:23:21
  Speaker 1: just completely out to. Lunch they have no. Idea there's
• 3:23:25
  Speaker 1: not like a creative thought in their head when it
• 3:23:27
  Speaker 1: comes to this. STUFF i don't understand. IT i really.
• 3:23:32
  Speaker 1: Don't Super Pony bruce Booked ilia And oba's, eliminations probably.
• 3:23:41
  Speaker 1: Did it's All bruce's. FAULT. Rds Harry oba should have Eliminated.
• 3:23:47
  Speaker 1: Brock it would have been a much bigger. Deal but besides,
• 3:23:49
  Speaker 1: THAT i Thought oba looked good AND i pray THAT
• 3:23:53
  Speaker 1: wwe doesn't fumble. Him it's. Possible it's. Possible phil, says
• 3:24:09
  Speaker 1: your review is more entertaining than the women's royal. RUMBLE
• 3:24:13
  Speaker 1: i tapped out and started doing my. Taxing.
• 3:24:15
  Speaker 2: Goomfhar Jerry mohler loves goom thhar the Magnificent all, hell.
• 3:24:23
  Speaker 1: Goomfar you know it's a good night when you get multiple.
• 3:24:28
  Speaker 1: Gunhar that's our second. ONE i think tonight our second.
• 3:24:31
  Speaker 1: Gunhar he has retired another one and so he must.
• 3:24:37
  Speaker 1: Appear that's From Firepanda. Boy you know it's bad When
• 3:24:43
  Speaker 1: phil says he started doing his taxes in the middle
• 3:24:46
  Speaker 1: of the, Men Von tell, says your reaction if y
• 3:24:53
  Speaker 1: Two jay reappeared on the Next, Dynamite, oh AND i
• 3:24:57
  Speaker 1: had to hear the learning. Trade what would my reaction
• 3:25:02
  Speaker 1: that thud you would hear would be me banging my
• 3:25:04
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• 3:25:19
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• 3:25:29
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• 3:25:35
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• 3:25:37
  Speaker 1: lida And trisha And. Gail are these the women that
• 3:25:42
  Speaker 1: you think would have won The Royal rumble for those
• 3:25:44
  Speaker 1: years if they had a Women's? RUMBLE i don't disagree
• 3:25:51
  Speaker 1: with a lot of. These moore, Says champa is your
• 3:25:58
  Speaker 1: NEW tnt. Champion banger match. Good i'm happy about. THAT
• 3:26:05
  Speaker 1: i said the other, night put the belt on. Him
• 3:26:08
  Speaker 1: i'd put the belt on. Him why beat him in
• 3:26:11
  Speaker 1: his first? Match So i'm Glad i'm gonna have. TO
• 3:26:14
  Speaker 1: i don't know IF i HOPE i have time to
• 3:26:16
  Speaker 1: watch it before the podcast, tomorrow BUT i may, not
• 3:26:20
  Speaker 1: BUT i definitely want to go back and watch that. Match,
• 3:26:25
  Speaker 1: No i'm happy for, me you. Know he even made
• 3:26:26
  Speaker 1: the comment in an. Interview one of the reasons he
• 3:26:28
  Speaker 1: LEFT wwe because he would hear comments from people talking
• 3:26:32
  Speaker 1: about how he peeked out in twenty eighteen IN, nxt
• 3:26:37
  Speaker 1: like that was Peak, champa and he said it made
• 3:26:41
  Speaker 1: him absolutely sick because he knows that today he's ten
• 3:26:46
  Speaker 1: times better than The champa from twenty eighteen in every,
• 3:26:49
  Speaker 1: way he says in the ring on the, mic story,
• 3:26:52
  Speaker 1: wise everything about him now is better than that. Version
• 3:26:56
  Speaker 1: all he hears were people saying that that Was, Champa
• 3:27:00
  Speaker 1: and you, know he realized that IN wwe he was
• 3:27:03
  Speaker 1: never going to get the chance to be anything more
• 3:27:05
  Speaker 1: than what you saw ON. Tv look at the last
• 3:27:06
  Speaker 1: gimmick they were doing with him On. SmackDown everybody in
• 3:27:10
  Speaker 1: the back was going around making fun of, him calling
• 3:27:12
  Speaker 1: him a. Jackass you, know, like do you really think
• 3:27:15
  Speaker 1: things were going to be any different for? Him so
• 3:27:17
  Speaker 1: good for. Him he wants to leave and go prove people.
• 3:27:19
  Speaker 1: Wrong let him go ahead and. Try it'll be fun
• 3:27:25
  Speaker 1: to watch paper with a ten dollars super. Chat i'm
• 3:27:37
  Speaker 1: a big fan Of, julia but her entire move set
• 3:27:39
  Speaker 1: has been nerfed IN. Wwe says that she's struggling to get.
• 3:27:44
  Speaker 1: Over i'm not sure what their plan is for, her
• 3:27:46
  Speaker 1: if there even. Is, WELL i don't get the sense
• 3:27:48
  Speaker 1: there is a. PLAN i don't know how things are
• 3:27:52
  Speaker 1: gonna end with. HER i really. Don't toya says they're
• 3:27:58
  Speaker 1: still yeating the NOISE i, hear Super, pony do you
• 3:28:08
  Speaker 1: Think TRIPLE h is the biggest problem or is it
• 3:28:10
  Speaker 1: the lackeyas under him Like Brian james And bruce not
• 3:28:15
  Speaker 1: making excuses for. Him but those guys need to be gone.
• 3:28:21
  Speaker 1: Again i'll say it. Again TRIPLE h is the chief Content.
• 3:28:25
  Speaker 1: Officer TRIPLE h is the face OF. Wwe he puts
• 3:28:29
  Speaker 1: his face literally on. Everything all roads lead To Triple.
• 3:28:34
  Speaker 1: H the buck stops with, him just like With. Vince
• 3:28:38
  Speaker 1: you're the guy in. Charge the buck stops with. You duff.
• 3:28:44
  Speaker 1: Ds IS espn still grading the wwepl e s or
• 3:28:47
  Speaker 1: DID wwe get them to stop After Wrestle. Palooza they
• 3:28:51
  Speaker 1: didn't stop After Wrestle. Polosa they did it one more
• 3:28:53
  Speaker 1: time and THEN i haven't heard anything. SINCE i guess
• 3:28:58
  Speaker 1: we'll find out tomorrow Or. Sunday i'm, sorry tomorrow Is.
• 3:29:02
  Speaker 1: Sunday we'll find Out. Monday Super Pony, solo will you
• 3:29:09
  Speaker 1: open up the phone line For? WrestleMania probably not Because
• 3:29:13
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania typically is the busiest weekend of the, Year like
• 3:29:20
  Speaker 1: just the super chats, alone like we'll be up for
• 3:29:22
  Speaker 1: two and a half, hours just like going through chats
• 3:29:25
  Speaker 1: answering questions like. That is that is the exact opposite
• 3:29:29
  Speaker 1: best time to be doing phone calls it should be
• 3:29:34
  Speaker 1: on a quieter. Night we'll figure out a better time
• 3:29:36
  Speaker 1: to do, It phil Says Hi. Solo what are your
• 3:29:40
  Speaker 1: thoughts About backlash not being In Puerto rico instead it
• 3:29:43
  Speaker 1: is going to be In. Tampa. Yeah Post wrestling have
• 3:29:47
  Speaker 1: the story In december because they had seen an internal
• 3:29:52
  Speaker 1: memo like an internal calendar that had it listed For San.
• 3:29:57
  Speaker 1: Juan so say something, changed either they were outbid or
• 3:30:03
  Speaker 1: the deal fell. Through but that was a surprise to
• 3:30:06
  Speaker 1: See backlash announced For. Tampa Kenny clifford with a twenty
• 3:30:11
  Speaker 1: Says Yo. SOLO i Think TRIPLE h left his cerebral
• 3:30:13
  Speaker 1: assassin thinking in the Ruthless aggression era because it's gone
• 3:30:17
  Speaker 1: in this. One it Is where is the Cerebral TRIPLE
• 3:30:22
  Speaker 1: h that we heard? Of Uh? Mega Mister Joker solo
• 3:30:28
  Speaker 1: just want to say hi and show. Support hope all is.
• 3:30:30
  Speaker 1: Well all is very, well AND i thank you for,
• 3:30:34
  Speaker 1: that Mister joker. Boy she is very angry. Tonight she's
• 3:30:45
  Speaker 1: pissed you Got. Leopoldo what if they just Called hobbes
• 3:30:50
  Speaker 1: house keys because he loses them all the. Time, NOW
• 3:30:54
  Speaker 1: i Think Royce, hobbes actually a combination of the two
• 3:30:57
  Speaker 1: would have been. Perfect Jacob chelsea love that brought completely
• 3:31:03
  Speaker 1: Jabronid ilya just to get eliminated by a double clothesline
• 3:31:06
  Speaker 1: During yeat's. Entrance hilarious. Company it's just, dude it's it
• 3:31:11
  Speaker 1: was so. Bad it was so fucking. Awful Matt fisher
• 3:31:20
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• 3:31:23
  Speaker 1: two learning trees and A. Brie, Oh joseph is, Back
• 3:31:31
  Speaker 1: Jeremy dyer, says Does yotasuji AGAINST Aj styles for THE
• 3:31:35
  Speaker 1: iwgp title interest to? You? YES i would love to
• 3:31:39
  Speaker 1: SEE aj do a couple more New japan matches retro.
• 3:31:47
  Speaker 1: Koh thank You solo for saying it out. Loud everyone
• 3:31:49
  Speaker 1: in those files needs to be done away.
• 3:31:52
  Speaker 2: With that is.
• 3:31:53
  Speaker 1: Disgusting, yes every single one of, them, Rutally none of,
• 3:32:00
  Speaker 1: Them i'm sure will be brought to any sort of real.
• 3:32:02
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• 3:32:06
  Speaker 1: single one of them would BE. Jdfva the snow here
• 3:32:11
  Speaker 1: In North carolina is. Ridiculous, Well i'm sorry about. THAT i,
• 3:32:15
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• 3:32:20
  Speaker 1: mounds of ice are just not going. ANYWHERE i was
• 3:32:22
  Speaker 1: out this, MORNING i had to go into The city
• 3:32:26
  Speaker 1: for a, funeral and it was seven degrees. Outside this
• 3:32:33
  Speaker 1: snow out there is it's never gonna go. Away it's
• 3:32:35
  Speaker 1: gonna be six weeks before that goes. Away yankees fan for.
• 3:32:41
  Speaker 1: Life my bad. SOLO i meant Between styles And Sean,
• 3:32:44
  Speaker 1: michaels who was the better in ring wrestler and, performer
• 3:32:47
  Speaker 1: in my, opinion it Is. AJ i, mean it's very
• 3:32:51
  Speaker 1: subjective Because styles Was styles was flashier in terms of
• 3:32:57
  Speaker 1: like the moves that he did and the, dive and
• 3:33:01
  Speaker 1: Like Shawn michaels never did half the stuff That Aj styles,
• 3:33:04
  Speaker 1: did But sewn just he was so smooth and just
• 3:33:12
  Speaker 1: shore footed and he's just very good at what he,
• 3:33:16
  Speaker 1: did you, know better than really anybody else in his
• 3:33:19
  Speaker 1: era when it came to that. Stuff and Like, brett
• 3:33:23
  Speaker 1: you can Compare brett And, sean But brett's style was also.
• 3:33:26
  Speaker 1: Different it's not an apples To apple's. Thing Between shawn
• 3:33:31
  Speaker 1: And aj the better in ring? PERFORMER i, MEAN i
• 3:33:37
  Speaker 1: tend to lean Towards. Sean but again it's a subjective
• 3:33:42
  Speaker 1: thing filled the. Truth as a third of a century old,
• 3:33:50
  Speaker 1: MAN i have a twenty twenty six royal rumbled. JOKE
• 3:33:54
  Speaker 1: i live To rain as World. Champion sorry for the cheesy.
• 3:33:58
  Speaker 1: JOKE i hope it wasn't too brief for. You oh
• 3:34:00
  Speaker 1: it's that's pretty. Cheesy retro says it's a bit foggy
• 3:34:09
  Speaker 1: outside WHERE i. LIVE i tried to catch, it BUT i.
• 3:34:12
  Speaker 1: Missed oh boyd never go Full, Sidrow never go Full.
• 3:34:19
  Speaker 1: Sindrow daryl Thirteen canadians, Says, Hey, solo did you notice
• 3:34:23
  Speaker 1: all of the women in The rumble match dressed like
• 3:34:25
  Speaker 1: The Power? RANGERS i told you they all they all
• 3:34:30
  Speaker 1: were going to look the same unless they changed the
• 3:34:32
  Speaker 1: colors up a little. Bit, Warhawk, Rambo Rock Foemen leopoldo
• 3:34:42
  Speaker 1: with the twenty eight had to Hear solo tone. Tonight
• 3:34:45
  Speaker 1: never Seen. Unreal they ever cover major f, ups like
• 3:34:49
  Speaker 1: would they ever Cover brock being eliminated During USO's entrance
• 3:34:52
  Speaker 1: or who was stupid enough to book? It what could
• 3:34:55
  Speaker 1: possibly be the reason for?
• 3:34:57
  Speaker 2: It?
• 3:34:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah they cover fuck. UPS i mean this past season,
• 3:35:00
  Speaker 1: actually they covered a pretty big fuck up at the
• 3:35:02
  Speaker 1: end of The Men's money in The bank. Match i'm
• 3:35:05
  Speaker 1: gonna have a full, review by the, way for season
• 3:35:06
  Speaker 1: two Of unreal on the podcast, tomorrow so we'll get
• 3:35:11
  Speaker 1: into that's part of what we'll get into.
• 3:35:15
  Speaker 2: Or.
• 3:35:15
  Speaker 1: Whizzle we had our first Ever Power Rangers royal, Rumble
• 3:35:21
  Speaker 1: yes we. Did Doves VID's four out of Ten Roman
• 3:35:28
  Speaker 1: reigns a four out of ten royal. Rumble happy for,
• 3:35:32
  Speaker 1: Live thank You. DUFFS i saw R. R i thought
• 3:35:37
  Speaker 1: that Was Roman. Reigns Jeremy. Rose if you Had tiffy
• 3:35:40
  Speaker 1: Versus Juliet WrestleMania And julia, wins does this erase the
• 3:35:44
  Speaker 1: stain they did to? Her or does it ruin TIFF
• 3:35:47
  Speaker 1: i actually think it would do more to Harm tiffany
• 3:35:52
  Speaker 1: than it would to Help julia at this, point like
• 3:35:56
  Speaker 1: that's how bad things have gotten and Retro koh didn't
• 3:36:03
  Speaker 1: coach Say jericho was going to? Return at the? Rumble oh,
• 3:36:07
  Speaker 1: boy you mean to tell me the coach called a
• 3:36:09
  Speaker 1: bad play that the coach didn't know what he was talking.
• 3:36:13
  Speaker 1: ABOUT i don't. Know i'm asking it is that's something
• 3:36:18
  Speaker 1: he said was going to? Happen did he guarantee A jericho?
• 3:36:21
  Speaker 1: Appearance Fire panda with that second gunhar. Bomb the longer she's,
• 3:36:28
  Speaker 1: gone the MORE i start to believe That bianca has
• 3:36:31
  Speaker 1: permanent damage to her. Hand if that's what takes her
• 3:36:35
  Speaker 1: out of. Wrestling then that's. Horrible but, hey at least
• 3:36:37
  Speaker 1: it's not a broken. Neck there are definitely worse injuries
• 3:36:42
  Speaker 1: that one's career could end as a result. Of BUT
• 3:36:48
  Speaker 1: i don't even want to think about that BECAUSE i
• 3:36:49
  Speaker 1: think that would be. Horrible it's, LIKE i don't even
• 3:36:57
  Speaker 1: know what her plans are as far as like having
• 3:36:59
  Speaker 1: kids and starting a fan like. You just she just
• 3:37:01
  Speaker 1: lost a year of her, career SO i don't. KNOW
• 3:37:06
  Speaker 1: i don't know what her plans. ARE i don't know
• 3:37:07
  Speaker 1: what she what she wants TO i don't. KNOW i don't.
• 3:37:12
  Speaker 1: Know it just feels like a lot of wasted. Time
• 3:37:17
  Speaker 1: Cameron spencer years, Ago tessa won the men's world title
• 3:37:21
  Speaker 1: IN TNA wwe is too cowardly to do the, Same
• 3:37:24
  Speaker 1: scared of the reaction they'll get from, fans cowardice to
• 3:37:29
  Speaker 1: Have tessa specifically win one of their, titles their world,
• 3:37:32
  Speaker 1: title or just have a woman Because Rhea ripley could
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• 3:37:39
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• 3:37:49
  Speaker 1: sola remember when liv used to Slap RAQUEL A raquel
• 3:37:53
  Speaker 1: title run is long. Overdue she's been on fire. Lately
• 3:37:56
  Speaker 1: do you think clean house is needed in WWE's booking
• 3:38:00
  Speaker 1: everyone EXCEPT. HPK i think they definitely need some new
• 3:38:05
  Speaker 1: voices in, there get some new. PERSPECTIVES i think you
• 3:38:12
  Speaker 1: always want to be cycling out some new. Voices but,
• 3:38:16
  Speaker 1: YES i don't disagree with. You, Hey, leopoldo Is vato? Sting?
• 3:38:28
  Speaker 1: Seth what's going? On? Seth thank you very much for
• 3:38:31
  Speaker 1: the twenty. SPOT i really appreciate you and your. Content
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  Speaker 1: you've gotten me through a great. DEAL i just started
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• 3:38:39
  Speaker 1: well thank. YOU i love hearing that you got plenty
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  Speaker 1: of content to keep you busy and keep you. Company
• 3:38:49
  Speaker 1: joseph is. Back, hello Solomonster i'm. Back we've gone so
• 3:38:55
  Speaker 1: long That joseph actually came. Back he's got breaking. News
• 3:38:59
  Speaker 1: Dominic mysterio is returning Next saturday at The TRIPLE A
• 3:39:03
  Speaker 1: show In mexico to Confront El Grande. Americano, okay but which?
• 3:39:08
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• 3:39:15
  Speaker 1: Confronting he, SAYS i missed dom at The Royal rumble. Tonight.
• 3:39:22
  Speaker 1: YEAH i didn't even notice until AFTER i was expecting
• 3:39:25
  Speaker 1: him to be in, there and he wasn't Any ajatna
• 3:39:28
  Speaker 1: matches that you recommend a super. Pony, yeah there was
• 3:39:32
  Speaker 1: A Kurt angle. MATCH i don't remember which pay per
• 3:39:34
  Speaker 1: view it. Was there's The Unbreakable match from two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and five with him And Samoa joe And Christopher. DANIELS
• 3:39:47
  Speaker 1: i think there's a really good one With. ABYSS i
• 3:39:49
  Speaker 1: JUST i. DON'T i don't offhand remember these specific. EVENTS
• 3:39:55
  Speaker 1: i know there was A bound For glory one in.
• 3:39:57
  Speaker 1: There if you've never seen The Unbreakable, match, though start
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  Speaker 1: with that one from two thousand and. Five joseph, SAYS
• 3:40:07
  Speaker 1: i Hope don returns This. Monday buy or Sell Battlefield
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  Speaker 1: Happy live won The Royal rumble tonight And Adam West
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  Speaker 1: was a little bit, busy SO i didn't get to see.
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  Speaker 1: It thank, You joseph And Camio. JOHNSON wwe could use
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  Speaker 1: his mom's. Names joseph, says have a good night and take.
• 3:41:05
  Speaker 1: Care thank. You Joseph leopauldo, says WHEN i Hear, JULIA
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  Speaker 1: i always think Of. JULIA i always think Of julia
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  Speaker 1: with a j And orwizzle says in triple ah. Voice
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  Speaker 1: are you ready or two nights of The Royal? Rumble?
• 3:41:24
  Speaker 1: OH i already guarantee you, guys that's the NEXT pli
• 3:41:27
  Speaker 1: that goes to two, nights probably starting next. Year IF
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  Speaker 1: i had to, VENTURE i guess you'll have a women's
• 3:41:34
  Speaker 1: rumble on one, night you'll have a men's rumble on the.
• 3:41:37
  Speaker 1: Other you'll be able to have a couple of extra
• 3:41:39
  Speaker 1: matches because they're breaking it up into. Two it's only
• 3:41:43
  Speaker 1: a matter of, time. Guaranteed and we Got Jabe Shepherd
• 3:41:58
  Speaker 1: Stone cold talking bad about creative jobbed out to a
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  Speaker 1: rookie brock lesnar On FREE. Tv Roman reign's talking bad
• 3:42:07
  Speaker 1: about Creative Royal Rumblewin, WELL i think the comments were.
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  Speaker 1: MADE i think the comments were made in Character i'm
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  Speaker 1: not really sure what purpose it. SERVES i guess we'll
• 3:42:18
  Speaker 1: see if somehow they incorporated into the into like an
• 3:42:22
  Speaker 1: angle or a storyline ON. Tv but, YEAH i, mean
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  Speaker 1: a double standard in wrestling is not really a new.
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  Speaker 1: Concept it's definitely happened. Before hey zombified guitarist fifty months
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  Speaker 1: time to be a channel. MEMBER i appreciate. That, well
• 3:43:05
  Speaker 1: we are closing in on thirteen hundred, likes which is
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  Speaker 1: which is quite the. Number and we actually did hit
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  Speaker 1: the third, goal which means THAT i have three rounds
• 3:43:20
  Speaker 1: of be the Booker i've got to go. Through so
• 3:43:22
  Speaker 1: you get your first three night. Spectacular we're talking about two.
• 3:43:25
  Speaker 1: Nights they're getting three nights before at Super pony says
• 3:43:29
  Speaker 1: the start of the new era ON. Raw are you? Ready? So,
• 3:43:32
  Speaker 1: Oh i'm. Ready i'm ready for another new? Era Oh, Leopoldo,
• 3:43:38
  Speaker 1: YEAH i forgot about. That the wedding. SINGER i haven't
• 3:43:40
  Speaker 1: seen that movie in. Ages, yeah that went right over my. Head,
• 3:43:49
  Speaker 1: anyway we got three rounds to. Do let's do. It
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  Speaker 1: this is. Exciting a, gentlemen it is now time to
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  Speaker 1: be the. Booker this is. Exciting can you imagine if
• 3:44:06
  Speaker 1: we end up getting like the opposite of a clean
• 3:44:09
  Speaker 1: sweep in all three WHERE i just have to like
• 3:44:15
  Speaker 1: buzz through all of. Them. All, right here we. Go
• 3:44:19
  Speaker 1: this is a little segment we do if you're new.
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  Speaker 1: Here it's my random generator That i've, created and we're
• 3:44:26
  Speaker 1: gonna try to book our own matches, here a tag,
• 3:44:30
  Speaker 1: match a women's, match and a men's. Match and we're
• 3:44:32
  Speaker 1: gonna do this three. Times and our first team here
• 3:44:35
  Speaker 1: Is cain And, mankind the tag team champions at one
• 3:44:42
  Speaker 1: point against also the tag team champions at one point
• 3:44:49
  Speaker 1: The Heart, Foundation Brett hart and The anvil Against cain And.
• 3:44:57
  Speaker 1: Mankind that could be a main event. Anywhere that's a
• 3:45:02
  Speaker 1: main event right, there we're opening the show with. It
• 3:45:04
  Speaker 1: they're curtain jerking on the women's. Side, ah we have
• 3:45:14
  Speaker 1: the Beautiful Mariah. May this is back in her stardom,
• 3:45:20
  Speaker 1: days And Mariah may will be taking On Priscilla kelly
• 3:45:30
  Speaker 1: FORMER Gg. Dolan i'll give that a. Bell and our
• 3:45:39
  Speaker 1: first of three main. Events let's see we have everybody get,
• 3:45:46
  Speaker 1: ready everybody all. Aboard The godfather is. Here who's? Ready
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  Speaker 1: who's ready to hop a? Board are you? Ready i'm.
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  Speaker 1: Ready i've been. Ready The godfather Against brett the Hit Man.
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  Speaker 1: Heart you, know we kind of got that once on
• 3:46:18
  Speaker 1: A Saturday Nights made. Event we had the Hit man
• 3:46:20
  Speaker 1: Against Papa. SHANGO i WAS i was leaning into different
• 3:46:27
  Speaker 1: direction here Until brett popped up AND i, said you know,
• 3:46:29
  Speaker 1: what anybody can make that. Work it's that, guy.
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  Speaker 2: All.
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  Speaker 1: Right so we have a clean sweep in the first.
• 3:46:40
  Speaker 1: Round that's a very good. Sign so what we are
• 3:46:44
  Speaker 1: going to do in these next two, Rounds we're gonna
• 3:46:48
  Speaker 1: have stipulations for these, matches all. Right this is how this.
• 3:46:52
  Speaker 1: Works and our, first oh my, god our first stipulation
• 3:46:57
  Speaker 1: is A Mountain dew pitch black. Match it's going to
• 3:47:03
  Speaker 1: be a tag team Mountain dew pitch black match in
• 3:47:06
  Speaker 1: the dark glow in the dark it. Is i'm gonna
• 3:47:17
  Speaker 1: go by THEIR wwe names. HERE i know they're In
• 3:47:20
  Speaker 1: ring Of honor NOW, mxm But i'm gonna GO U
• 3:47:23
  Speaker 1: masse and Man. Sis you already know where this is.
• 3:47:28
  Speaker 1: HEADED i think you guys know exactly where this is.
• 3:47:32
  Speaker 1: Headed it's already an.
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  Speaker 2: End of the.
• 3:47:35
  Speaker 1: Suite oh, man, shit, well oh wait a, minute hold,
• 3:47:39
  Speaker 1: on wait a. Minute choose two single stars to form
• 3:47:44
  Speaker 1: a makeshift. Team a stipulation on top of a. Stipulation
• 3:47:51
  Speaker 1: this could potentially be. Salvaged. Here it's still not looking.
• 3:47:55
  Speaker 1: Good but let's. See let's see how, this how this works.
• 3:47:57
  Speaker 1: Out we Have Bronz or we'll look at him in this,
• 3:48:01
  Speaker 1: Photo my, God Bronze, breaker and There's Adam pearce in the.
• 3:48:06
  Speaker 1: Background Adam pearce is always with Bron. Breakers he should
• 3:48:09
  Speaker 1: be his, manager he should be his new. Manager he's
• 3:48:12
  Speaker 1: always with. Him this photo was. Old why is he always?
• 3:48:16
  Speaker 1: There Bronze breaker And Bam Bam. Bigelow, hey you know,
• 3:48:27
  Speaker 1: what that's a hell of a. TEAM i hate to do,
• 3:48:32
  Speaker 1: this BUT i don't. Know. Man Bron breaker And Bam
• 3:48:37
  Speaker 1: Bam bigelow though as a team in a mountain dew
• 3:48:41
  Speaker 1: pitch black. Match m uh, hmm.
• 3:48:53
  Speaker 2: You know, What.
• 3:48:56
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give that the. Bell i'm intrigued by this tag.
• 3:49:00
  Speaker 1: TEAM i actually. SEE i told her you don't, count
• 3:49:03
  Speaker 1: don't don't count it out, yet don't count it out.
• 3:49:08
  Speaker 1: Yet all? Right now we have a dog collar, match
• 3:49:15
  Speaker 1: a women's dog collar Match Wendy. Richter going back in time,
• 3:49:24
  Speaker 1: here we need to land On Tony. Storm it would
• 3:49:29
  Speaker 1: be so appropriate if it Was Tony, Storm Hikaru shidah
• 3:49:37
  Speaker 1: And Wendy richter in a dog collar. Match where the
• 3:49:41
  Speaker 1: hell Is? SHEIDA i can't even remember the last TIME
• 3:49:45
  Speaker 1: i saw her ON? Tv where the hell has she?
• 3:49:47
  Speaker 1: Been All, right, look, hey the the double sweep is
• 3:49:55
  Speaker 1: still possible here we HAVE i can tell you. This
• 3:49:59
  Speaker 1: we haven't never in the history of be The. BOOKER
• 3:50:01
  Speaker 1: i don't even remember if we've done three. Rounds we've
• 3:50:05
  Speaker 1: never had three sweeps in one. Night this would be
• 3:50:08
  Speaker 1: a record if we pull this. Off so we have
• 3:50:13
  Speaker 1: AN Apa, invitational which is basically just a giant cluster
• 3:50:16
  Speaker 1: fuck of a barroom brawl on the back of the. Arena,
• 3:50:19
  Speaker 1: Here so we have THE Apa invitational in our main.
• 3:50:24
  Speaker 1: Event say his name and he, Appears Joe. Hendry, well
• 3:50:33
  Speaker 1: he wasn't in The Royal rumble, tonight but at least
• 3:50:36
  Speaker 1: he's on The Royal rumble. Recap Joe hendry in THE Apa. Invitational,
• 3:50:44
  Speaker 1: oh how is this gonna go Against? Rush Oh Man
• 3:50:55
  Speaker 1: rushe is gonna fuck him. Up he is gonna fuck
• 3:50:58
  Speaker 1: his shit, up isn't He he's gonna do what he
• 3:51:01
  Speaker 1: did To Jungle boy in that. Match it's just not
• 3:51:04
  Speaker 1: gonna end well For Joe. Hendry All, right we get
• 3:51:11
  Speaker 1: one more. Round we ain't done. Yet we just got. Back,
• 3:51:14
  Speaker 1: yeah forgot, SHIT i almost. Forgot we got back to back.
• 3:51:19
  Speaker 1: SWEEPS i think this might. HAPPEN i think this might really.
• 3:51:25
  Speaker 1: Happen rooch is gonna beat the shit. Out, Yeah joe
• 3:51:33
  Speaker 1: ain't gonna be smiling after. That all, right we got
• 3:51:38
  Speaker 1: a good old fashioned hardcore. Match that's how we're kicking
• 3:51:43
  Speaker 1: things off. Here we need one more sweep to make
• 3:51:49
  Speaker 1: be the booker. History all, right so we got the
• 3:51:55
  Speaker 1: good Brothers gallows And. Anderson that's a hardcore. Match remember.
• 3:52:01
  Speaker 1: That i'm gonna do drum rolls for all three of these.
• 3:52:06
  Speaker 1: Matches gallows And anderson. Again to The Heart foundation and
• 3:52:20
  Speaker 1: our foundation's pulling double duty. HERE i Think Heart foundation
• 3:52:26
  Speaker 1: just saved another. Match that's WHAT i. Think All, right
• 3:52:37
  Speaker 1: we're still alive, Here we're still. Alive we have a strap.
• 3:52:46
  Speaker 1: Match that is the stip for our women's match. Here
• 3:52:51
  Speaker 1: it is a strap. Match they will be bound by
• 3:52:53
  Speaker 1: the wrist by a long leather. Strap Jade cargill bound
• 3:53:02
  Speaker 1: by a leather. Strap here in this, Match Jade cargill
• 3:53:18
  Speaker 1: Against Alexa. Bliss bliss, fan that's for. YOU i give
• 3:53:23
  Speaker 1: you The Bell bliss Fan bliss fans all over that
• 3:53:27
  Speaker 1: he wants that championship back around this woman's. WAIST i know. That,
• 3:53:34
  Speaker 1: okay it all comes down to. This we are on
• 3:53:39
  Speaker 1: the verge of history. Here we have a, tables ladders and. Chairs. Man,
• 3:53:48
  Speaker 1: now it's hard to fuck up A tlc, match but
• 3:53:52
  Speaker 1: we have A tlc match on tap. Here, oh this is.
• 3:53:55
  Speaker 1: Exciting this is exciting For. Alexa she's, well she is
• 3:54:05
  Speaker 1: a tiny, woman all RIGHT. Tlc oh, no oh, no, oh,
• 3:54:13
  Speaker 1: no oh, no it's It's, Gouldberg Bill goldberg in a,
• 3:54:30
  Speaker 1: tables ladders and chairs. Match oh my, god against The.
• 3:54:49
  Speaker 1: ROCK i gotta tell. You my finger was on the.
• 3:54:58
  Speaker 1: BUZZER i was just waiting for. IT i was waiting for,
• 3:55:01
  Speaker 1: it and then we landed on The. Rock and it's
• 3:55:05
  Speaker 1: not just The. Rock it's usually see The SmackDown banner.
• 3:55:08
  Speaker 1: There this is classic nineteen ninety nine SmackDown. Attitude Erra
• 3:55:14
  Speaker 1: rock and The rock saved it because otherwise that would
• 3:55:23
  Speaker 1: have been the end of the. Sweep we got three
• 3:55:26
  Speaker 1: straight sweeps for the first time. EVER G Barry free
• 3:55:34
  Speaker 1: says That Kit wilson would have gotten kidnapped By saudi
• 3:55:37
  Speaker 1: officials if he showed. It, OH i, see, well he
• 3:55:44
  Speaker 1: could have wore a full body, Suit. Marshall marshall, SAYS
• 3:55:48
  Speaker 1: i can't BELIEVE i just witnessed. History my first ever
• 3:55:51
  Speaker 1: three be the. BOOKER i, SHED i just shed a. Tear,
• 3:55:57
  Speaker 1: hey you were a part of history. TONIGHT i hope
• 3:56:02
  Speaker 1: we can keep that streak alive when we do it
• 3:56:04
  Speaker 1: again On Monday, night hopefully on the raw, stream because
• 3:56:08
  Speaker 1: that's the next Time i'm going to be live with.
• 3:56:09
  Speaker 1: You it'll be From Monday Night raw the Post, show
• 3:56:11
  Speaker 1: which is going to be a big raw by the,
• 3:56:12
  Speaker 1: way it is the Post Rumble. Raw so now we
• 3:56:15
  Speaker 1: are officially on the road To. WrestleMania the fallout from The,
• 3:56:18
  Speaker 1: Rumble we're going to see where some of the pieces.
• 3:56:20
  Speaker 1: Fall now there's A Women's World championship. Match i'm sure
• 3:56:23
  Speaker 1: Bron breaker will be on the warpath after what happened
• 3:56:27
  Speaker 1: in The, Rumble so join. Me then that'll be On
• 3:56:30
  Speaker 1: Monday night. Tomorrow later in the, Day episode n of
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  Speaker 1: The sound Of i'll have more to say about the
• 3:56:38
  Speaker 1: rumble and full recap thoughts on season two OF Wwe
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  Speaker 1: work up a design, first And alexander says truth Gave
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  Speaker 1: pierce his balls for. Nothing, well that's how life goes,
• 3:57:37
  Speaker 1: sometimes but you learn a very valuable. LESSON i hope he. Did,
• 3:57:43
  Speaker 1: Anyway thank you guys for hanging out with. Me did
• 3:57:50
  Speaker 1: we really go over four hours? Tonight? Oh my, god
• 3:57:55
  Speaker 1: four hours and eleven. Minutes we went longer than The
• 3:57:59
  Speaker 1: Royal rumble. TONIGHT i actually had more fun here on
• 3:58:02
  Speaker 1: the stream with you guys THAN i did watching The
• 3:58:04
  Speaker 1: Royal rumble, tonight and that should never. Happen but that's
• 3:58:07
  Speaker 1: exactly what. Happened all, Right i'm going to leave you be,
• 3:58:12
  Speaker 1: well stay. Safe. Uh, Oh joseph is back. Again i'm back, Again,
• 3:58:18
  Speaker 1: solomonster do you know why they didn't Bring dom back?
• 3:58:22
  Speaker 1: TONIGHT i don't. KNOW i, mean you're the one who
• 3:58:25
  Speaker 1: just broke the news before that said apparently he's going
• 3:58:28
  Speaker 1: to be back on The TRIPLE A show next. Weekend
• 3:58:30
  Speaker 1: so MAYBE i don't. Know maybe they didn't Want maybe
• 3:58:35
  Speaker 1: he's not physically ready to come, back because you said
• 3:58:38
  Speaker 1: he's going to be there to call Out Grande, americano
• 3:58:41
  Speaker 1: SO i question whether or not he'll actually be doing anything,
• 3:58:44
  Speaker 1: physical so he may not be medically. Clear jed that
• 3:58:48
  Speaker 1: that would explain That Solo's Royal rumble twenty twenty six
• 3:58:55
  Speaker 1: owns the Actual Royal rumble twenty twenty. Six, uh you
• 3:59:00
  Speaker 1: ain't wrong about, that, Hey, joseph have yourself a great,
• 3:59:04
  Speaker 1: night and everybody else be, well stay, safe AND i
• 3:59:08
  Speaker 1: will see you back here live On monday. Night It's, february,
• 3:59:12
  Speaker 1: Everybody i'll see you on The Royal Post Show monday.
• 3:59:15
  Speaker 1: Night until, then take, care, guys