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WWE Backlash: Tampa Predictions · My Third Place Pod

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  I don't know, maybe if I turn off the those lights and leave
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  that one on. Your your pink lights.
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  Yeah, maybe, Maybe. Because it's you've got the
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  lights, you know, around around the sign and then when you turn
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  your sign on, then it just looks like a blur.
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  Alright, cool. We're good.
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  We're good over there. It's.
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  Too bad we can't like, soften the lights.
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  Yes, I was looking for when I saw it.
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  I'm like damn it. They don't have a lower yeah,
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  volume and stuff. OK, Hi.
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  Hi, you ready? Ready.
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  Let's go. Welcome back to my third place.
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  Not home, not work, but that familiar in between where
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  stories unfold, rivalries reignite, and every once in a
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  while it feels like the start of a whole new season.
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  Tonight, that's exactly where we are, because the WrestleMania
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  was the season finale. 2 nights of bicycle payoff and
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  unforgettable moments, and the roster Mania served as the
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  epilogue, tying up loose ends while teasing what comes next.
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  Then W Backlash Tampa is officially the season premiere,
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  and what a way to start the season then with having Roman
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  Reigns as your child World champion, right?
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  There she goes. There she goes.
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  This is where the next chapter begins.
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  New rivalries, new alliances, fresh storylines, and the first
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  glimpse at where W is headed in this new era, The TKO era, the
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  TKO taking over the business era.
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  TKO telling people, hey, can you, can you, you know, can we
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  cut your, can we cut your car? How much we're paying you?
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  Because we we don't have, we don't have money for that.
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  Budget cuts and everything. Can you take a pay cut?
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  Who took a pay cut? It's what I want to know.
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  Who's dumb enough to take a pay cut?
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  Who's that one wrestler that took a pay cut?
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  Mate, that was the example. I was like, well, he did it, why
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  can't you? And there it is.
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  So I'm not him, whoever that is. I got my own things to worry
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  about. Yeah, exactly.
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  Like now Woods and Kofi are like peace out.
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  Tonight. Menace and I are diving into
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  this. Everything surrounding W
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  Backlash 2026 coming to us from Benchmark International Arena in
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  Tampa, FL on Saturday, May 9th. We'll break down the entire
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  card, share our predictions, talk about what does United
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  could mean for the months ahead. But that's not that's only part
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  of the story, because the wrestling world never really
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  slows down. We'll also be discussing the
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  latest around the surprising releases, the recent call up and
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  some of the exciting new phases already making waves.
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  And NXT. As always, every departure
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  creates opportunity and every debut opens the door to brand
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  new possibilities. So what you're here for, the
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  predictions, the roster shake up, the future stars are just to
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  kick off another big wrestling weekend with us.
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  You're in the right place. Welcome in Eli.
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  Hi Eli. This is episode 292 of the M3
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  Podcast. Let me say that again, this is
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  episode 292 of the M3P Podcast. Pull up a chair.
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  Let's get into it. How are we?
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  How you doing? How you feeling about this?
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  You know, I'm on the fence. It's not, you know, I think it's
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  just a little too short, you know, in between WrestleMania
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  and now. So really haven't had much time
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  to build us. But that's what always happens,
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  you know? Liana's in here, Joe.
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  She just got in. And Eli and Eli.
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  Yeah. Eli and Eli.
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  Damn. Leanna and Eli.
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  All right, Your bells are going. Yeah.
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  It's spring cleaning for them, as usual.
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  It's like I cover it every year we've been cut.
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  I've been covering it since the start of the podcast.
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  The first episode was called, you know, getting rid of people.
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  Like releases, right? Releases.
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  Yeah, the reason the first episode was called releases.
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  And then every year after that I just keep talking about the
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  releases and who's getting let go.
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  So yeah, it's the season premiere.
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  People just got like Go and episode 292.
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  But either way, fresh new state, fresh new storylines.
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  What's her face? What's her name?
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  Alistair Black. And oh, Selena.
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  Selena Vega. Selena is doing good.
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  What's her name? Streamer Senna Cena CINNA.
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  Cena. Like Cena, I think, you know,
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  yeah, streamer Cena, like called her up after she found out and
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  like, you're going to do fucking amazing.
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  Things are going to be good. She hyped her up.
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  I'm like, hell yeah. And only because I guess Selena
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  was like guest starring and her stuff like, yeah, every year
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  during the streamer award, you get the, what's it called, real
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  world stuff other than just staying inside the house and
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  streaming. You go out there and you do
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  stuff outside like speed and all these other guys that go out
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  and, you know, have fun and stuff.
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  So if she figured, let me call up Cesina Vega and like, train
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  me to wrestle. So that's what she did.
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  And like, there's really, there's clips of the streams
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  where Selena Vega has a Candlestick and slamming it
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  behind Cena's back and Cena's just like, no, no lie.
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  This. That felt pretty good.
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  Oh yeah. And then she's trick she so
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  she's training Cena how to wrestle.
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  And then Cena is fighting with Valkyrie, Valkyrie, Valkyrie.
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  So in there, it was just like doing stuff.
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  And Zelena's just back there watching them like do all that
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  stuff. Like, all right, you're doing
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  good, but you're also need to do this.
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  So she's basically training the streamers how to wrestle.
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  Yeah. Alistair Black, I believe there
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  would rumor something right now. Just saw it that he went back to
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  AW. I'm like you fucking bro, like
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  no, don't do that. Don't don't go back like you
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  left because you didn't want to take pins.
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  You come back, you start losing matches here and then you're
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  going to go back. It's like, I'm sorry, guys, can
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  I go back? Can I can we do the the black?
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  One the black if. He left on.
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  Like good terms? Why not?
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  Yeah, House of Black. Can we get everybody from the
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  House of Black back, possibly. Who else?
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  Kyrie's saying everybody's doing the same thing that they did
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  with our truth. They're like petitioning for
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  Kyrie's saying to come back. Yeah.
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  And that'd be great if she did. Like there was no reason to take
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  her out at all. Who were you surprised to go
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  besides New Day? You know, I, I was surprised
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  about Kyrie, you know, and JC Mateo because I could see
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  Pongaloa because he hasn't really been doing much.
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  But JC Mateo, Mike was active, active.
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  He came. From IWGP, he came from over
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  there like he had, they had some good choice words for him, like,
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  Oh yeah, he's good. And then he shows up and was
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  like you, I don't want to say you let go of the wrong person,
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  but they let go of the wrong person.
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  Yeah, I'm a Tonga, and Tonga Loa should let go.
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  What, you know, I, I like, I, I like Tamatonga and I think if
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  they would have let him go, it kind of would have it.
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  I think it might have been the wrong mood if they let him go,
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  because you can kind of see that he he's trying to be the good
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  guy, you know, with the, you know, with the whole Lantern,
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  he's like, get rid of it because it's been nothing but trouble.
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  And he speaks out against, you know, he speaks to to solo like
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  he speaks his mind. So it's like, I thought that,
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  you know, they're showing some division going on there.
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  So hopefully they don't let him go because they, you know, that
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  could be as as another storyline.
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  And I think it would actually be a good one to see solo versus
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  Tama, you know, but tell him I'm like, you know what?
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  He he didn't really do much. And when he did, he was always
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  messing up. And then after he has like a
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  couple of matches, he's injured. So it's like, what's going on?
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  Why are you so accident prone, you know?
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  Wow. Yeah, They also posted on the
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  news about the quarterly, how much TKO has been making
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  quarterly already and like millions and billions.
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  Sure. And I'm like, how are you
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  getting pay cuts? How you you know, do that to the
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  fly first? Well this is what I want to
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  know. Is TKO cutting MMA fighters too
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  or is it just WWE wrestlers? Just wrestlers.
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  CN and. They don't pay MMA fighters like
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  that at all. Well, I know, but I mean, still,
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  you know, you can't just cut one, one part, you know, because
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  these guys fight more than MMA fighters.
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  I, I know it, you know, they may train the same, you know, the
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  same amount, but MMA fighters aren't fighting, you know, five
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  days a week. No, they're not.
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  Yeah, they're fighting what, once every two weeks or
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  something or whenever they have a or maybe, OK, every month.
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  So once a month. Birthdays, you know, are even
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  what they get, what the wrestlers get 2 days off, so 30
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  was it once a month versus getting, you know, fighting
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  what, 20 times? You know, so it's like, yeah,
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  these guys put in more work. So.
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  Anything. In my in my opinion but.
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  We're just going to new NXT people that just came up.
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  You know, we'll see. We'll see.
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  Though we'll see, you know, I was excited.
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  I'm excited to see, you know, Soul Ruka, because I think she's
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  really good. You know, I'm not feeling fatal
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  influence. Already like first.
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  Night, you know what you know, for, I mean, it's the classic,
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  you know, JC Jane, you know, can't do anything by herself.
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  It's how all these factions are, you know, becoming, you know,
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  you want to have all these factions, but the leader should
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  be able to fight on their own without any help.
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  You know, you see, you know, judge your day's getting like
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  that. But it's all but it's only live
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  to me. It's only live.
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  Liv does not do a single match by herself, you know, so and I
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  know that's kind of a heel thing that, you know, you have people
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  help you. But if you want to be like you,
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  say you run Monday Night Raw, show how you run it.
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  So each person needs to show that they can back up that
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  statement. We're running Monday Night Raw
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  show. Do it by yourself.
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  Win a match by yourself. Do it.
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  Do it by yourself. Yeah, All right.
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  Ethan Page. You know, he's he's not bad, you
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  know, I think you know, he I want to watch him a little bit
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  more to get, you know more. Same thing with Ricky Saints.
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  You know, I want to see these guys, you know, other than run
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  their mouths. I want to still back it up.
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  Back it up. You say that you're you're the
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  best. Show me, show me.
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  All right. Ready for Backlash Backlash 2026
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  takes place on Saturday, May 9th, 2026 with the main car
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  start time of 7:00 PM Eastern, 6:00 PM Central, 4:00 PM
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  Pacific. The premium live event is held
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  at the Benchmark International Arena in Tampa, FL and will
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  stream on ESPN Unlimited in the US and Netflix internationally.
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  You ready for the first matches? Start from predictions.
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  That's Rollins. Ron Breaker with Paul Heyman.
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  Oh, they're all singles all right.
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  They're all regular matches. On Night 1 of WrestleMania 42
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  railings. Rollins lost his match against
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  Gunther after Breaker return and struck Rollins with a spear on
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  the following Raw vision. Be welcome back Breaker, who
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  trashed Todd Rollins with him attacking Breaker before being
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  outnumbered by Theory and Paul. Despite external interference
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  from their returning 3 prophets, Angela Dawkins and Montes Ford,
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  who fended off Paul in Theory, Breaker got the upper hand on
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  Rollins. The following week, Rollins
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  called Outbreaker questioning his actions, to which Breaker
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  replied that he was tired of fighting Rollins battles and
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  that he only joined Rollins because he needed to payment on
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  his side. Rollins then challenged Breaker
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  to a match at Backlash, which was later made official.
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  I got. Yeah, me too.
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  I'm never gonna cue Lip. Sorry, guys.
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  I mean, I was a big fan of bronze, but it's like, OK, you
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  know what? You know, I think the whole
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  thing with Brown Breaker is you saw what he was in real life.
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  Yeah. I think, yeah, that's one of the
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  reasons why we're all like, no, because, yeah, when he first
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  came up, the fact that he's not using his family name, to me
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  shows that he wants to try to make it on his own.
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  But if you're going to be a trash person, what the matter?
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  What name? What does the name matter, you
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  know? I mean.
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  So. True.
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  It's true, it's true, it's true. We still have a little Cora Jade
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  fans out there. Now it's Elena Black.
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  Elena. Elena.
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  Elena Black. Elena Black.
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  Yeah. But you know what?
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  Still, you know, even, I mean, and we always say, you know, can
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  you separate the person from the performer?
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  In this Case, No. No.
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  Because. Drama family there to be
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  separating thing. Yeah.
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  So we'll just have to wait and see for other times.
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  It's like, all right, we're we're we're done.
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  We're over the drama. Really push Braun Breaker
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  because he's back, you know, Yeah.
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  But honestly, like even just looking at yeah, he can to,
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  yeah, he's a good fighter. But to me, he's careless.
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  You know, when he's running so fast that he's kicking people in
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  the eye, you know, and blacking their eye or, you know, set,
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  because that's what he did. He last night, he speared after
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  WrestleMania, he speared Seth Rollins.
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  He hit him and kicked him with his heel, you know, in his eye.
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  So it's like, come on now. You've got so much hate built up
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  that you're going to be careless and not only careless with, you
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  know, your opponent with yourself because you run so fast
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  and you, you know, literally can drop yourself on your head
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  because you're not doing the technique right.
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  Damn, tell her to hear first. There it is.
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  Hey all right, first sed Rollins sed Rollins EO Sky versus Oscar
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  regular match on the Raw before wrestling for you 2.
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  Sky faced Kyrie saying despite Ripley's involvement, Oscar and
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  feared and cost Sky to win. The following week, Rio defeated
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  Kuki words and attacking match. Following that, Rio Ripley was
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  transferred to the Smackdown brand after win the Women
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  Championship, while Kyrie Saying was legitimately released from
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  WE Damn. On the 2020 eighth episode,
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  Oscar attacks Sky, costing her a match for the Women's Intercom
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  Championship. Later tonight, it was announced
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  that Oscar would face Sky at Backlash.
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  And even like Drew Mist in her eyes and everything.
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  Tell him, sis, tell him I'm going to go with Oscar.
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  I like Rio, but I I like Rio, I like EO.
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  But yeah, I think in this, in this instance, Oscar is the
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  better fighter, you know, even without the mist, you know, she
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  doesn't need to use the mist to win.
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  But I know that's how she's been winning because it causes the
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  distraction and then she can do her finishers.
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  But Oscar is the is a good fighter without using anything.
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  Yeah. What's her face?
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  Becky came out right. She came out like a face.
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  Becky and Becky's all like, oh, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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  Where? Where is Ria?
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  Yeah, I know, that was rude. Like.
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  Because you know, you know, I love Ria, Ria's a good fighter,
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  but the whole time that it was, you know, last year, Rio Ria
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  versus EO versus Bianca, you know, that fight was great.
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  But EO is the one who came out on top.
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  You know, just something about EO that Rhea couldn't beat her,
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  you know, and then Bianca couldn't beat her, you know,
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  they had many fights and EO came on top.
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  So I really, so I like, I like them all.
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  But in that instance, EO was the better fighter, you know?
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  And then when they got, when Rhea and EO got together, they
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  were a really good dominant tag team.
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  And I'm glad that they parted ways civilly, civilly and there
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  was no turning on each other. So because then it leaves it
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  open for them to become A tag team game and it doesn't feel
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  forced. Ria says like all right, look
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  here EO, I know you're here by yourself.
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  I'm gonna let you be by yourself and you Oscar and Kyrie saying
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  that's they're going to be coming after you now, but I got
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  to go to smackdown now they need me over there.
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  I don't want to leave you here alone, but either way that they
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  they, you know them well, they could travel back and forth, but
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  like, I got to go to Smackdown. I got.
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  To go. I met the title.
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  I'm leaving now, bye. Yeah.
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  Like we were there, high tailed and everything.
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  Like nobody came out to help you.
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  Oh my God. I know, but.
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  I was like now that you need it now because.
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  No, I thought, oh wait, no, that was never mind.
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  Stephanie came out when it was Liv that was a mess there.
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  But back there, yeah. But yeah, next match Dan Hausen
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  and to be announced versus The Miz and Kit Wilson on Night 2 of
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  WrestleMania 42. Miz and Kit Wilson interrupted
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  the events. Host John Cena's missed a man in
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  the WrestleMania moment and Hansen appeared company by
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  little people dressed like him after Wilson called one of the
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  little people Toxic Dan Hausen or another little person that
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  hit Wilson with a low blow and all of them attacked him.
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  Then done House and performed an I Poke variant of Cena's Five
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  Knuckle Shuffle on Miss. On that week Smackdown, Miss
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  also lost then House and after another power of Malfunction and
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  on that May 1st episode, they're both Miss and Wilson.
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  I'll successfully try to trap that house and Miss said he
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  believed in the curse and agreed to mentor that house.
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  And after that Wilson appeared begging Miss not to join that
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  house in which Miss ignored and seemingly joined that house.
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  However, Miss attacked him, proving that it was a ruse all
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  along, with Wilson joining him later tonight.
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  Dunn House was booked with all this who said he would give Dunn
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  House and a match against Miz and Wilson that backlash?
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  Howard Dunn House would have to find A tag team partner and he
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  agreed. All right, who attack partner?
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  Let's see, I'm trying to think because I'm like, who could he
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  get to partner with him now? I saw that he put out like, I
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  don't know if it was on Instagram or on Twitter, Twitter
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  X. He's like Stone cold Undertaker
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  John Cena. You know, I'll give you $400.
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  Shawn, Michael. Shawn Michael's fan.
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  Triple H. Oh, AJ Styles, you know.
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  Triple H the one that can't wrestle at all because of a hard
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  condition. Yeah, exactly there.
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  Buddy, great. Job, yeah.
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  They're probably on their phones like you see this.
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  Yeah. What is he doing?
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  Get a load of this guy look. Come and look at this guy.
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  Come and look at this guy. I'm going to say like new
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  opportunities is a new, new, new fresh storylines.
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  I'm going to go with punk. I'm going to go with punk
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  housing. I'm cousin Pepsi Film.
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  Hey, miss, let me go back to the spider rings again.
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  Let me go back to the small time, OK?
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  No, no, no, wait. Where's what's the phrase?
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  Joe Henry is young, raw. Yes, he's trying to get Logan
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  Paul fired, which I. Agree.
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  You agree, which you agree. We all agree.
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  Dan Housen and R Truth. Oh God.
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  I don't. I don't think so.
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  Well, you know what? Maybe. 2000. 2000 because I
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  highly doubt to be Priest Housen.
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  Dan, I don't know what if you would miss and Kit Wilson right
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  now, who's in the lower table, lower tier card over there.
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  There's no way he couldn't bring in all the Femi I.
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  Don't know, almost on Ross. So I mean, yeah, he could.
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  He could ask anybody, I guess. And who's winning this match?
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  I think in this one, to break the curse, I say Miz and Kit
• 26:38
  Wilson. It'd be funny if he brings out
• 26:43
  what's his name, Malkai Leprechaun.
• 26:49
  Oh, more swaggle swaggle house. Swaggle House.
• 26:58
  Well, maybe $0.25. Oh no, I wonder.
• 27:06
  I wonder how he's doing. I don't.
• 27:07
  Know. Wait, the fact that Becca told
• 27:13
  me that he messaged her and told her like what's up and
• 27:16
  everything? Oh yeah, I mean what you guys
• 27:19
  like. He follows me too, so I just
• 27:21
  haven't. Gotten.
• 27:22
  I haven't gotten any DM's from him so.
• 27:27
  He was in Vegas, He worked in Vegas, he works out there in
• 27:30
  Vegas. So that could work out.
• 27:36
  Dan Hausen I don't know who you think Dan Hausen and.
• 27:42
  Wouldn't it be funny if you brought Elton Prince?
• 27:46
  Fuck. Prince, Yeah.
• 27:51
  Prince Hausen. I don't know if they would put
• 27:56
  put them against each other, but you know.
• 27:58
  I'm back from my injury. Yeah, exactly.
• 28:03
  That's fun. Yeah, I would love that.
• 28:05
  I would definitely love that. Or maybe the next match, Trick
• 28:11
  Williams and Sami Zayn versus Sami Zayn for the United States
• 28:14
  Championship. Dan Hausen, 5 Scotty.
• 28:19
  No gingerbread man. With Gingerbread man.
• 28:22
  There you go, Dan Hausen, Gingerbread man.
• 28:25
  Ginger House. Ginger.
• 28:28
  Oh my God. Ginger House.
• 28:30
  And that'd be great. Yeah.
• 28:33
  The housing. Speed.
• 28:36
  Speed housing. Wait, that's the only way.
• 28:40
  It's like, is the speed still, like, worried about his curse?
• 28:44
  I don't think so. I don't know, you know, I don't
• 28:47
  think so, because now I mean. Regular stuff on his stream.
• 28:54
  OK, all right, trick Williams versus Sami Zayn for the United
• 28:58
  States Championship on night 2 of WrestleMania for you to trick
• 29:01
  Williams accompanied by Lil Yachty.
• 29:03
  The feast is Sami Zayn to win the United States Championship
• 29:07
  on that week's Smackdown. During Williams and Yachty
• 29:10
  celebration, they appeared with a gingerbread man mascot which
• 29:13
  Williams had to use the previous with the Mark Zain.
• 29:18
  They're the mask attack daddy and Williams before revealing
• 29:21
  itself to be Zane in disguise who performed the hoodlum kick
• 29:24
  on Williams. The following is there.
• 29:27
  This one is the reason why I'm laughing.
• 29:28
  The following Zane destroyed the junior.
• 29:36
  Williams comes out, Williams comes out and he's just like
• 29:39
  pushes Zane out, like get take kicks Zayn out of the way and
• 29:44
  looks over at the gingerbread all messed up and said he pulls
• 29:47
  up TX. I know.
• 29:49
  He's like somebody. Else I'm like, are you serious?
• 29:56
  As Sammy is beating up the gingerbread mascot, I'm like no,
• 30:02
  not his cum drop buttons. And then they take him to the
• 30:10
  training room and he's like. The trick?
• 30:20
  Williams asked to ask the legend herself.
• 30:25
  Like and I'm just like lash lash legend, yes, like, Oh, so we're
• 30:32
  we're actually in a couple here in the in the in the big
• 30:36
  universe now, like not on an XT anymore.
• 30:38
  OK, cool, that's great. So Lane destroyed a gingerbread
• 30:43
  man. Later that night, Williams
• 30:44
  challenge Lane was titled a line of backlash with Zane accepted.
• 30:47
  It was a made official by Smackdown general manager Nick
• 30:49
  Aldis. Lil Yachty is going to be next
• 30:53
  with him, apparently. Is he?
• 30:56
  Yeah. Oh, yeah.
• 30:57
  The he's he's, he's getting that.
• 31:02
  What's his face from last year? Travis Scott.
• 31:09
  Oh yeah. He's getting the Travis Scott
• 31:11
  treatment from last year. Yeah.
• 31:16
  Trick Williams. I'm why, Why are you going to
• 31:18
  have one the belt for like a month and that's it?
• 31:20
  No trick, Williams, because Yadi helped and the gingerbread came
• 31:25
  out too. Yeah.
• 31:26
  But Trick can do it by himself, you know, Little Yadi don't have
• 31:31
  to get involved. He could just be there, you
• 31:32
  know, ringside. Yeah, that.
• 31:36
  That's great. Main event time.
• 31:45
  Oh boy, big time ass kicking Main event time ma'am.
• 31:51
  When Raiders. Jacob fought 2 for the WE World
• 31:53
  Heavyweight Championship in the main event of Night 2
• 31:56
  WrestleMania 42, Roman Reigns won the World Heavyweight
• 31:58
  Championship. The following on a Raw Reigns
• 32:00
  and his cousins the USO Jay and Jimmy reunited, but they were
• 32:03
  interrupted by their cousin. Jacob fought 2 from Smackdown.
• 32:06
  You know what I mean? Who started Who stated that he
• 32:10
  wanted everything that Reigns had, including the title.
• 32:13
  Before challenging Reigns to a title match at Backlash, Reign
• 32:16
  stated that he did not think Part 2 was ready for a title
• 32:18
  match and said he would get Part 2 a week before making a
• 32:21
  decision there. Reign stated that he still felt
• 32:23
  that Part 2 did not deserve a title match and that giving him
• 32:26
  one would be nepotism. Damn after 5 two attack Reigns
• 32:30
  he accepted the challenge. Here comes rare form freaking
• 32:40
  Roman. Like yeah, you don't deserve
• 32:42
  this. Go away.
• 32:44
  Stand in line. Follow back in line.
• 32:46
  I don't think it would be nepotism.
• 32:48
  I don't think it's nepotism, you know, because this is because,
• 32:52
  you know, Jay was the first one to, you know, you know, with,
• 33:01
  you know, with the bloodlines, you know what I mean?
• 33:04
  So that's because Jay, you know, wanted to prove himself.
• 33:09
  Jacob, you know, same thing. He wants to prove himself, OK,
• 33:14
  But that's not, we're not going to take it easy, you know, don't
• 33:17
  take it easy on either one of them.
• 33:19
  You know, they both need to showcase why they're the best.
• 33:27
  I still say Roman's going to win.
• 33:29
  Yeah, Roman. But she but you know what?
• 33:33
  I saw something today that was talking about, you know, I don't
• 33:39
  know if this, you know, this is how the storyline is going.
• 33:43
  There may be some, you know, dissension in the ranks.
• 33:47
  It showed, you know, that Jacob, you know, was, you know, the
• 33:53
  Usos were saying, hey, you know, we're only here to make sure
• 33:57
  nothing goes sideways. But yet they didn't come down to
• 34:01
  the ring, you know, when Jacob was attacking Roman, You know,
• 34:07
  still they're like, are they already showing that they're not
• 34:13
  going to be there for the tribal G, you know, and maybe help
• 34:16
  Jacob out or, you know, I don't know.
• 34:19
  But either way, I'm like, I think it's going to be a good
• 34:24
  match. Yeah, it's going to be a great
• 34:26
  match because Jacob is a phenomenal wrestler and he
• 34:33
  amazes me because I'm like, you'd think that he'd be down.
• 34:39
  He ain't getting up. Nope.
• 34:41
  He is like, you just got, you know, thrown into that bear
• 34:47
  cake. How are you up already?
• 34:50
  You know, and the whole the fact that he, you know, moonsaults,
• 34:55
  you know, like that. Yeah, it's he's great.
• 35:03
  Roman. Yeah, Roman, he they was I think
• 35:12
  they wanted him to take that cut also and he said no, so it's not
• 35:19
  him because he wouldn't like y'all are crazy.
• 35:23
  Yeah. Forgot to talk about this
• 35:30
  earlier on in the on the on the top of it, Ted Turner passed
• 35:35
  away. I saw that.
• 35:39
  The Dojo head executive first. Yeah, yeah, he bought Dojo and
• 35:46
  all that stuff. Yeah, Ted.
• 35:48
  Like the reason we went to war, The reason because of the Monday
• 35:51
  Night War, because I'm still saying it to this day.
• 35:57
  The wrong freaking person won that battle.
• 36:03
  Yeah. Yeah, could have been Eric
• 36:07
  Bischoff, but who won a Warner something somebody won, bought
• 36:13
  the company. Like, all right, we don't want
• 36:16
  wrestling anymore. Peace out.
• 36:17
  Time Warner. Time Warner.
• 36:19
  Oh, my God. Time Warner bought the company
• 36:22
  and said, yeah, wrestling is done by like, come on, gosh,
• 36:27
  should I let that thing happen? But still, like, they had enough
• 36:33
  money. They had a lot of money, Yeah.
• 36:37
  And TKO came in supply that. Well, you know, it's funny
• 36:44
  because, because I, I just read the story of Ted Turner, you
• 36:49
  know, and People magazine, they said they, you know, they were
• 36:52
  talking about him, how he, you know, CNN is around because of
• 36:58
  him. You know, Cap, I didn't know,
• 37:02
  but he created Captain Planet. You know, it's like, oh, you
• 37:08
  know, and then he was talking about, you know, he, he had was
• 37:13
  it TNTTBS, Turner Classic Movies?
• 37:18
  And he's was this, he sold TBS to Time Warner for $7 billion.
• 37:27
  So and that was back in I think they said 2001.
• 37:32
  Yeah, that's from. The whole that's why they got,
• 37:37
  you know, if he wanted to or you know, they wanted to say they
• 37:43
  could have kept, you know, WCW, you know, but boom, now it
• 37:50
  belongs to WWE and TKO owns it and.
• 37:56
  We got to pay 3999 for ESPN. Which is stupid because did you
• 38:03
  see they're also showing the first hour on regular TV again?
• 38:09
  Yeah, and there's Netflix. Hi, there's Netflix, which has
• 38:17
  all the all the stuff from between the last 25 years of
• 38:22
  wrestling, WrestleMania one through now.
• 38:26
  I was like, why do we hit? Why does Netflix have this but
• 38:29
  we can't show it on Netflix? I know why, you know, Why didn't
• 38:35
  they leave? It.
• 38:37
  On make you know what you call it a deal with Netflix.
• 38:42
  You know what I mean? They already have bra and was it
• 38:47
  January 1st? They moved everything off of
• 38:49
  Peacock to, you know, with the exception of Saturday night main
• 38:54
  event, but that's probably going to go to, you know, Netflix or
• 39:03
  ESPN when their contract's up. You know, so it's like, oh, and
• 39:08
  that or YouTube, you know, YouTube, YouTube negative
• 39:13
  because that's where they're showing NXTPLE on YouTube.
• 39:19
  All these different places in order to watch wrestling and
• 39:22
  then, yeah. And see, that kind of that kind
• 39:28
  of is makes you wonder why NXT is on YouTube.
• 39:34
  It's on CW. No, I mean the PL.
• 39:37
  ES. The PL.
• 39:38
  ES OK, yeah. Or on YouTube.
• 39:41
  So again, free, you know. But you're paying for the big
• 39:48
  guys. Exactly so same thing with AAA.
• 39:51
  You could watch AAA on YouTube. Yeah, I'm not.
• 39:57
  I don't know I'm. Going to have something on
• 39:59
  somebody has somebody has to change.
• 40:02
  I I might just start watching AW again if I hear that Woods and
• 40:07
  Kingston are going to AW. So that's what their name is
• 40:09
  going to be, no? Austin Green I saw somebody put
• 40:14
  like a a thing up that says they're going to be called day
• 40:17
  one. Day one is all elite.
• 40:22
  Wow and. I I sent it to you.
• 40:25
  I saw them, didn't see that part, but I saw the part where
• 40:29
  you mentioned all that stuff. No, hell no.
• 40:36
  Like what do you do? Day one rocks.
• 40:41
  Day one is this. What you're going to do?
• 40:42
  For day one. Everyone's going to do this.
• 40:48
  Yeah, like 10 God. What are their faces?
• 40:57
  I think you had me this one too. When FTR, What was that on
• 41:06
  Twitter? FTR Generational, FTR versus
• 41:12
  Asia, Christian versus the Young Bucks?
• 41:16
  No, I didn't send that to you. You.
• 41:17
  Might have saw that on Twitter so FTR.
• 41:20
  Posted this on Twitter saying FTR I'm sure.
• 41:25
  I don't know why they saw it there that matching themselves
• 41:28
  was good in there. Young Bucks versus as in
• 41:35
  Christian versus New Day versus FTR.
• 41:42
  Why'd you guys include yourself in there?
• 41:45
  Because they want to be relevant, right?
• 41:48
  They want to be. Relevant young bucks.
• 41:50
  I've been along around for a long last time, and so is the
• 41:55
  new day. Like, yeah, sure, go for it.
• 42:00
  But hi. But other than that, yeah, go
• 42:08
  for it. Do that because I want to see
• 42:10
  the new day somewhere and. Xavier they're trying to get.
• 42:18
  Xavier was to sign a contract to have the same as Tyler Breeds
• 42:23
  where they. Keep his they were.
• 42:25
  To keep him as a retainer, but to work on the up, up, down,
• 42:28
  down, OK. Is is that not Xavier Woods?
• 42:35
  Just say yeah, but. They wanna own it now, oh, WWE
• 42:41
  does. TKO, OH.
• 42:44
  TKO. You know, wants to own
• 42:46
  everything. It's like, can we, can we keep
• 42:48
  that? Like if you're, if I'm leaving,
• 42:50
  if I'm leaving, I'm taking this with me, yeah.
• 42:54
  I mean, it's better. I mean, I don't know, they could
• 42:57
  have trademarked you let them have the trademark of their
• 42:59
  names, yes, but you know also if you're going to like.
• 43:08
  If you know them well, you're going to get rid of these
• 43:10
  people. On spring like spring.
• 43:15
  Cleaning and stuff. Make sure you don't put them in
• 43:18
  on the game also. Yeah.
• 43:24
  I'm over here like I'm about to play New Day and it's like, oh
• 43:28
  crap. Damn it they got.
• 43:32
  Rid of New Day. They got rid of the Wyatt Six,
• 43:35
  Yeah. Selena, Vega, all these.
• 43:37
  People and they're in the game like unfortunately about the
• 43:40
  Wyatt. 6 I think, you know, a lot of people are sad about it
• 43:46
  because that's like the last thing.
• 43:50
  Tied to Bray Wyatt. Yeah, you know, and the, you
• 43:57
  know, the Wyatt 6 didn't live up to the the caliber of Bray
• 44:02
  Wyatt's legacy. You know, they did good when
• 44:07
  they were, you know, when they were in storylines.
• 44:09
  But it's like you did nothing with them and it took too long
• 44:13
  for them to, you know, come about, you know.
• 44:18
  What I mean in my opinion I. Just think that they just kept
• 44:22
  with all of the promos and stuff like that if you're gonna.
• 44:26
  You know I I could. See, maybe a month, you know,
• 44:30
  doing promos, but get them going, you know what I mean?
• 44:34
  Get same thing with Dan Housing. You know, he's been here now
• 44:39
  since February and he's had two matches.
• 44:46
  And he sells a lot merch. He sells.
• 44:47
  A lot of stuff he does. I mean, he was saying.
• 44:52
  He had merch the first day. Makes that makes sense.
• 44:57
  March. April.
• 44:58
  May. We're in May 3 months.
• 45:00
  Yeah, like I've been there for three.
• 45:02
  Months now. OK, so it's like, come on now.
• 45:11
  Yeah, I said two matches. And all he's been doing is just
• 45:15
  walking. Around backstage, you know,
• 45:18
  creeping people out and making people mad.
• 45:22
  So it makes, I don't know, it just makes no sense to me.
• 45:25
  What did Archer call? Him.
• 45:27
  Oscar. Yeah.
• 45:30
  Confusing our truth. So you said he was Oscar.
• 45:34
  No. You did like.
• 45:36
  Oh, what Damien Priest is like. No, I know.
• 45:39
  What I said. Yeah, that's about it.
• 45:49
  I was going to say, no, we're good.
• 45:53
  I think they were trying to do right the Y 6 the same way they
• 45:57
  did with Rey Mysterio when Eddie passed away.
• 45:59
  Like give him some momentum, get give him the belt, let him run
• 46:04
  with it for a whole few months and then, OK, time to let it go.
• 46:08
  Time to squash. Yeah, time to pick you guys away
• 46:12
  and they did that like, all right, here's your memorial of
• 46:16
  your brother, give him some momentum.
• 46:19
  And now it's time to like, all right, we don't know what else
• 46:22
  to do with you guys, but you know, maybe war games matches or
• 46:26
  I guess people that have the same amount of people, but we we
• 46:30
  don't know what to do with the girl, which there's.
• 46:35
  Plenty. You know, there's plenty of
• 46:37
  women she could have fought. Yeah, you know, or they could
• 46:42
  have, you know, had Alexa join them and then they'd have a
• 46:47
  women's tag, you know, tag team. I know they were.
• 46:53
  You know, in A tag team before, but, you know, do it again.
• 46:59
  Yeah. I mean, not that I mean, I don't
• 47:03
  mind her with Charlotte, but you know, that took a little bit to
• 47:06
  to get going. Yeah, but it's like.
• 47:13
  I don't know if it's TKO or. Creative or what?
• 47:17
  But so many people, they're just taking too long, you know, to do
• 47:21
  stuff with them so obviously. They become the ones that.
• 47:26
  Are on the chopping block and that's who they let go, yeah.
• 47:32
  But you know I. Don't agree with them, you know,
• 47:35
  if you're if they're in a storyline or they're, you know,
• 47:38
  pretty active on the roster, why are you getting rid of that you.
• 47:44
  Know and. Like you're only giving some of
• 47:48
  these people a year. You know Kyrie came back.
• 47:52
  What a year and a half ago? Yeah, and she did.
• 47:58
  And. You know.
• 48:01
  Alistair Black came back. A year ago, you know.
• 48:05
  Rusev came back. You know, almost a year ago.
• 48:08
  It's like, I mean, Rusev is still there, but it's like for a
• 48:11
  while he wasn't doing. That's like, they got enough
• 48:17
  people. On this roster to do stuff when
• 48:20
  they should do stuff. You know, there's lots of.
• 48:25
  People that are injured. So use the ones that are there.
• 48:29
  You know, if you're using them for dark matches, great, but you
• 48:34
  know, they need to be on TV. You know they're traveling,
• 48:38
  they're away from their families just like everybody else, you
• 48:42
  know, use them. I.
• 48:48
  Don't know. We good?
• 48:54
  Yeah. All right.
• 49:00
  Recap All right, recap. Do you?
• 49:12
  Backlash 2026 takes place on Saturday, May 9th, 2026 with a
• 49:16
  main car start time of 7:00 PM Eastern, 6:00 PM Central, that's
• 49:20
  me. 4:00 PM Pacific that's Her premium live event is held at
• 49:23
  the benchmark international arena in Tampa, FL and will
• 49:26
  stream on ESPN plus in the US and Netflix internationally.
• 49:31
  Match 1 Seth Rollins was brown breaker.
• 49:34
  We picked Seth Rollins. I picked Seth Rollins, Seth
• 49:38
  Rollins, EO, Sky versus Oscar. Oscar.
• 49:45
  Dan. Housen and to be.
• 49:47
  Announced was the Miss and Kate Wilson, who are, like I said, CM
• 49:51
  Punk's going to join in. Punk housing, yeah.
• 49:58
  And the Where's the Miss and Kate Wilson?
• 50:00
  Because why not? Who'd you say it was, Miss and
• 50:05
  Kate Wilson? Miss and.
• 50:07
  Kate Wilson, Who's joining Nelson?
• 50:11
  I said. Elton.
• 50:12
  Prince, Elton, Prince and Dan. Elson, Where's the Miss and Kate
• 50:16
  Wilson, old partner who got injured and like, he's still on
• 50:23
  getting physical therapy. I know.
• 50:27
  But hey, who knows? Maybe he'll come out and just
• 50:29
  stand there while Dan House and does all the work and does.
• 50:32
  Maybe you are. Cursed.
• 50:34
  And then The Miz and Kate Wilson win trick William with Zammy
• 50:41
  Zane with Lil Yachty in the background for the United States
• 50:45
  Championship. Why I said Rick Williams and.
• 50:50
  Hopefully the gingerbread man doesn't.
• 50:51
  Get hurt and finally we have Roman Reigns with Jacob Foot 2
• 50:57
  for the EE World Heavyweight Championship.
• 51:01
  Roman, Roman. Roman.
• 51:04
  We we both said. Roman like we're we're both on
• 51:09
  here. So yeah, those are our
• 51:11
  predictions. So can't wait to find out what
• 51:15
  happens on that night again, WE Backlash 2026 Saturday May 9th
• 51:21
  at the Benchmark International Arena in Tampa, FL Clip clip
• 51:29
  that somebody clip that. All right, you ready?
• 51:33
  That was fun. And just like that, another
• 51:36
  night on the porch here at my third place comes to a close.
• 51:39
  Tonight felt like the true kickoff to a brand new season.
• 51:43
  Post WrestleMania energy, new storylines starting to take
• 51:45
  shape, and a whole lot of questions about where things go
• 51:49
  from here. Shout out to Menace for holding
• 51:51
  it down the fortress. We broke it all down.
• 51:52
  Predictions, roster move, NXT call up, and everything in
• 51:56
  between. Now it's time to see how it all
• 51:59
  plays out. Streaming on ESPN Plus in the US
• 52:04
  and Netflix International. So get your snacks ready, lock
• 52:07
  in your predictions and we'll see who called it right and who
• 52:09
  didn't. And don't get too comfortable,
• 52:13
  OK? Don't get too comfortable
• 52:16
  because May is stacked. We've got Saturday Night's Main
• 52:19
  Event coming up on May 23rd, and then we had Overseas for Clash
• 52:23
  in Italy on Sunday, May 31st, which means more prediction
• 52:27
  episodes, more reactions, and more nights on the porch
• 52:30
  breaking it all out together. Hey, you got you.
• 52:35
  We're doing this. We can't read it.
• 52:37
  Yeah, more episodes this way to. Do a AAA two since it's.
• 52:42
  The day before. The day before I might as well
• 52:45
  I. Mean we're in mascara.
• 52:48
  Mascara. Mascara.
• 52:50
  Let's. Go Yeah, we're.
• 52:52
  Doing that. All right, This was fun.
• 52:55
  Thank you for hanging out with me.
• 52:57
  I always appreciate it. This is always fun to do.
• 53:01
  We're almost at the 300, especially with these next three
• 53:04
  episodes and then the episode with Greg.
• 53:07
  We're going to get to the 300 real quick.
• 53:08
  Yeah, I. Looked.
• 53:11
  I think it's like. Second week of June.
• 53:16
  Should be 303 hundred by Joe. And.
• 53:21
  I think it would land on Greg being on the episode.
• 53:26
  Nope, land on all of us. Being on the episode but we'll
• 53:31
  all do it looked on like a Saturday which.
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  That's fine. We'll all do it.
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  No, no. I'm I'm going to do another
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  episode next Wednesday for a book.
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  Oh, OK. Yeah, I'm.
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  Definitely doing a book. Episode because I haven't done
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  it in a while. Like all right, before we really
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  go menace, take a breath with me.
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  Let the excitement. Build.
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  Hold on to the anticipation and enjoy the ride of a brand new
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  season. OK.
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  Thank you for spending. This time here in my third
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  place, not home, not work, just space where we show up, tell
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  stories, and leave the porch light on.
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  Or whoever needs it. Take care of each other, take
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  care of yourself. This is the M3P podcast where
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  community, creativity, and nostalgia always have a seat on
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  the front porch. We'll see you at Backlash.
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  Thank you. Good night.
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  Everybody have fun, enjoy.