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Episode 55 Backlash 2024 Predictions · Podcast Championship Wrestling

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  Hey, this is w W E and c W alumni. Look blue meanie
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  and you're listening to pc W. The question is, oh you let me
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  talk to her. I will give you a show like you have never recovered
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  streamed before a life because I can't. What do you guys want to talk
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  about? Me and the color red in a world with the black and white
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  of world? Yeah? The draft? Whoa? Why are you? Ladies
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  and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages? Welcome back to
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  another episode of PCW podcast Championship Wrestling. I am your host, Wayne also
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  known as Semi Dry Chicken, and Tonight we are going to talk backlash.
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  We're gonna give you our predictions. We're gonna talk about news. Uh.
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  We're gonna talk about the draft. We're talking about some exciting things have been
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  happening on Wrong on SmackDown. We're gonna talk about that motorcycle I just ripped
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  it past my house. Uh uh yeah, but you know what, I
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  can't do this a long. Let me bring up to the commentary team and
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  we'll get right to it. Dre welcome back with the new beats Man,
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  new entrance ting Whoop that trick, Whoop that trick? That's not the boy
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  trick boys becoming NXT champion man. So like you come out with new theme
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  music when you be coming out with a new gear, same gimmick. Still,
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  you know, just use the thing about his entrance is obviously you know
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  Trick Williams Whooped that Trick is kind of a player on his name and all
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  that stuff. But the whole chant thing, I like it, actually,
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  I love it. I just don't like how slow it is. Yeah,
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  and his interesting it fits with obviously what is interesting, But it has a
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  slower tempo to it than the original Whoop that Trick song from the movie twenty
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  eleven. Will be hustle and flow, And that's what that beat is from.
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  Is from the from that original movie soundtrack where the title character played by
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  Terrence Howard records a song called Whooped that Trick. Now, he ain't talking
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  about Whoop that Trick in terms of another wrestler, He's talking about pimping.
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  But you know that song had way more energy to it and had a faster
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  temple to it. And I've always said if he get called up to the
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  main roster, ww need to go on to cut the check and make that
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  trick Williams. Interesting, yup, I agree, absolutely agree, And uh,
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  surprisingly this man didn't message me about a new theme music. But here
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  he is. H h h h h Doyle, welcome back. Oh it's
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  me, It's me. It's a do Oiley and uh a little inside baseballer.
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  I'm playing hurt today, a little a little trip to the dentists that
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  involved some needles and a scalpel and some bloods and stitches. But I'll make
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  it through. That's how much I care about both of our listeners. So
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  would you say that your dentist was Isaac Yank? No? Actually, luckily
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  he was not. He was Isaac save him. And meanwhile, the other
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  people who are giggling, who the fuck is Isaac Yank? Yeah, that's
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  one of one of the gimmicks Kane had before he was the Big Red Machine.
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  Yeah, he used to be a blonde, curly haired dentist. I
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  guess his numi was to go around and brit people's teeth out. Yeah like
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  what it what? It changed? Like? Uh to just changed that gimmick
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  ever so slightly, like you know what, no, this is gonna worry.
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  We got to ditch it and like now you're just gonna be like this
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  monster like this it was. It was also fake diesel. Oh my gosh.
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  Yeah, if you're a good enough wrestler and you've got the genuine talent,
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  you know, keep trying until you find something that works. So you
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  know, if you're googling who Isaac Gankom is, you know, also google
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  yeah, fake diesel. If that's a very famous photo, fake Diesel,
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  fake Scott Hall, and you'll be like, that's fucking Kane. That's that's
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  the what is he like the mayor or what is he now? He's the
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  mayor of Knoxville, heir of Knoxville. There. I just saw a video
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  of him today on my feet. I didn't get to hear the audio.
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  It's promoting something in Knoxville. But man, it'd be pretty cool though,
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  to have him as your mayor. I guess. Oh choke slam, oh
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  taxes, I will tombstone all the crime. Uh yeah, dude, We're
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  going to France. We're going to France for I dude, this this paper
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  were kind of crept up on me. Uh, I guess because like the
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  build for this was just not very big. There's also kind of a significant
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  WrestleMania hangout. Yeah, that and they also threw the draft in which we'll
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  talk about too. Like just I was like just too much, like I
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  was, I was all focused on the draft and I totally forgot about backlash
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  and oh ship the draft. Yeah yeah, does that seem to be more
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  focused on hyping up the drafting backlash as well? Right? Yeah? Uh?
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  Name me? Uh? Some famous French wrestlers what what? What some
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  French wrestlers that you guys know of? None the giants? Thank you?
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  You maybe heard of him? Yeah? Object was French? We Yeah,
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  but I was looking up. Do you guys remember who's the who was the
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  who's the aggression guy? Was there a French? Yes? Yes, resistance?
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  Do you remember resistance? I think they were. You got one of
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  them was fake French. Yeah, you got Renee Dupre, Sylvanne Grenier and
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  Robert Conway because they did swap out one of the guys French. Yeah,
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  I remember, I remember, I remember what's his name, Rende Dupre.
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  He's still like a little side shuffle thing in the ring. There was a
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  wrestle learned like the fifties called the French Angel. Do you everyone to see
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  what a really weird looking human being looks like? Throw that your Google machine.
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  How about the French tickler entirely? Oh okay, okay, so what
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  is it with the w W and Duprez Forne Dupree a couple of years ago.
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  Now we got Maxine Dupree and whatever the f L A Nice name was
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  before it was l A. Knight. What was his name also, max
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  Max Dupree? Was it Max? I don't I don't remember if it was.
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  Yeah, I think I think it was, yeah, because I was
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  like for split seconds like, oh, they're supposed to be like related.
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  Yeah, that's weird that like some wrestling names like are just very common,
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  like del having like del Rey at the end of your name, or I
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  don't know, I just feel like there's a couple of common names, you
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  know, like they made they made they changed Stephen Regal to William Regal because
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  there was a Steve Austin that that was too confusing. But now we have
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  a bron bron and a bronze son. Yeah, we were just talking about
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  at the end of day a discord. Yeah we have now when we have
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  all these bronze like not confusing at all, but hey, at least we
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  don't have Butcher anymore. We have Pete dunnback. You know. Well,
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  I think Gunther Gunther honestly has grown on me. I was such a Walter
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  guy, like the name Walter just I don't know, I just felt like
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  it just fit him. But Gunther grew on me, just like the it
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  his prestige as Gunther rose along with the inn. Yeah, he made the
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  name looking. When he was Walter, he was just the fat guy slapping
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  the ship out of people and having good matches. Like but like like,
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  oh he's just like me. But Guncher gut on a different level. Yeah,
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  Like dude, Like, uh, some people who haven't seen like NXT
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  going there, go back and watch him in the UK. Like he like
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  dominated with that title for the longest time. I think he beat Bete done
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  for it. Yeah, Like he's only been pinned like three times in his
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  entire tenure with the company, and I think he's been a champion for like
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  eighty five percent of that time. Yeah, famously the longest, uh I
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  see title And I think he had the longest with the that UK title.
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  Yeah, he had that for longer than he had the Icy title. I
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  think he had that for like eight hundred something days. Well, he's been
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  a champion for like eighty five of his tenure or something ridiculous. Yeah,
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  yeah, he's what you call a dominant force. Yeah, I'll say yeah.
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  So we were talking about the off air, but last year's paper Vider,
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  the one in the backlash from last year was in Puerto Rico, had
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  seven matches. This year we only had five. But it is five years
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  ago, what it Yeah, and it's cool, Like it's cool, like
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  we're getting Backlas wasn't like this one's out. This one's out in France's time,
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  you know, just like last year was out in Puerto Rico. So
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  it's a big jump from like the last pay per view, which was in
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  Philadelphia. So because I was actually thinking about the other day, it's like
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  when WW is gonna come back to Philly, Because I was already thinking about
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  like the next show I want to go to, I was like, it
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  might be a while, it might be a while to we've seen him back
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  in Philly. So much has changed last year. I mean, Doyle,
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  I don't know, I don't see them really coming back before the end of
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  the year, certainly not for pay per view, No, definitely, not
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  for paper That's here all. Yeah, I mean it's still Philly, still
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  a big market, so I mean something, if it's not a raw or
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  SmackDown, it'll be a house show or two or something, because yeah,
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  yeah, we have they made good money off that Wells Fargo arena. Yeah
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  yeah, And they have an arena in Allentown near us. And then there's
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  Wilson One in Hershey at the Giant Center, so like I'm kind of like
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  right in the center, so every all three of those are one hour away
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  from me, so it's pretty nice. Where they used to tape like a
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  lot of the TVs back in the the Wrestling Superstars days in the eighties.
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  I think they would take weeks of television at a time in Allentown, like
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  in the am talking to Hogan days. Yeah, the Dpper matches, you
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  know, yeah, oh yeah, that was that was one of their staple
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  arenas that they could count on. You count on. You could count on
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  like old w C W an w A back in the day being in Charlotte
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  at least ten to fifteen times a year. That's true. Uh yeah,
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  let's let's quickly run through these matches, because I honestly could if you held
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  a gun to my head and tell me name all the matches for backlash or
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  I'm gonna shoot you in the head. I'd be dead because I probably could
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  have named like two of them. Okay, we'll start off with the Kabookie
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  Warriors, Oscar and Carrie Sane, the going in as the women's Tagxing champions
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  Versus Bianca bell Air and Jade Cargo. Is this a sweep for us?
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  Guys? Are we pretty sure Bianca and Jade are walking out with the tag
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  titles? I mean, I don't think it's too soon to throw the titles
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  on these two now. I think the only way I could see them not
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  is some kind of damaged control again. It's like, you know, EO
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  lost her title WrestleMania. It's it's you know, this is kind of like,
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  I think, the end of their tag title run. And I mean
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  we've been asking for it for forever. Since she Cargo got signed. We
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  were like, oh, man, put her and Bianca together? Ship?
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  Do you think about it? Uh? You know, Bianca has already obviously
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  humongous fucking star. They want to put Jade at her level or above her
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  level. Yeah, and if and as much disrespect as those women's tag team
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  titles have had over these years, and it has been a consistent theme.
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  I think on this program, they're the only title. They're the only people
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  that appear on both shows under these new rules or under the current rules or
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  whatever. So that's kind of actually low key uh power positions or the only
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  the only, the only title we can so we can see Bianca j on
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  both shows utilize in such a big star you want to take advantage of that
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  star power and have the both of them appearing on two shows. Like if
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  you got to pick two women to appear on Raw and SmackDown, you rather
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  want Oscar and Kyrie Zane or Biancabella and Jay Cargill Boss Move. That's awesome
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  because that's exactly who I would want. You have them wreck shop for a
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  while and then you know, get them established his great Friends or whatever,
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  and then when they finally whoever turns on whoever, it's devastated. Bian Capella
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  the draft pick number one, but in the end of the day she didn't
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  get the tag, has a big able to go wherever the fuck you wants.
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  Anyway, awesome and hopefully this I'm gonna say hopefully, but this will
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  probably be if I was guessing, maybe the last Hurrah for those tag titles.
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  Like, if these two can't make people give a damn about the tag
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  team division for women, then there's no hope for it. You're right,
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  there's yeah, there's nobody, no other female tag team that I'd be like,
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  Oh, you know if they put a you know, the titles on
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  Zoe Stark and Shan't Basela. No, not right now, You're right,
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  they do it, then there's no hope for it, and you just do
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  away with the titles and women's right, bring on the mid card titles for
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  the woman which they may be planning to do that anyway, and maybe Byaka
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  and Jade having a run with them is just the last hurrah for those belts
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  and they'll go down, is maybe like the last women's tag team champions or
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  something. Yeah, we saw them get rid of the NXT women's tag titles,
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  But I mean, I like the idea of just one set of women's
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  that they were absorbed into them women. They're beutified. They could go to
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  all three shows if they wanted to. Yeah, that's what I mean,
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  Like, they could utilize that. It's such a good idea because right now
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  that's the only title you can do that with. The only title that you
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  can be like, hey, I'm gonna jump shows. Well, okay,
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  hold on, I lie, there's now a speed title. I don't know
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  if that's for one show. It's nothing. It means nothing. You can
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  bounce back and forth between X and Instagram. Yeah, there you got nice
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  and TikTok. Those are the brands you can defend that. So I guess
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  we're all agreeing here, Bianca and Jay, it's not gonna be a squash.
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  I don't see it being a squash. I see it being a good
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  match, but I see them absolutely walking out tag titles, and I feel
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  like that would be a good way to open the show as well. It'll
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  probably open the show. It'll probably be like a ten minute match. Bianca
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  will take most of the beat down, probably to just protect Jay, presuming
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  where her where she's at in her development, But that's probably you'll get the
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  hot tag. You'll get the hot actual going there and squashed, and then
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  I wouldn't be I don't think it'll be a full on squash, but it'll
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  probably be a glorified squash. Yeah. I see Jade Penning Carrie saying,
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  and I mean, well, obviously we'll get to it, But I don't
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  see another opportunity to swap a title other than this one on this program.
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  Yeah, this is literally the only title that Yeah, all right, let's
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  go into the Women's WW Championship match. I'm so glad we got rid of
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  the SmackDown Women's Championship and the Raw Women's Championship. They're not brand exclusive anymore
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  and we don't have to do any awkward belt swaps. Now. You just
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  have the WW Women's title in the World Heavyweight Title. But yeah, this
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  one's Bailey defending Naomi versus Trifney Stratton. A triple threat. I like triple
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  threat matches because it as a champion, like you don't have to get fucking
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  pinned to lose your title, and that really sucks. I mean, if
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  any of you played a wrestling two K game, I mean, triple threats
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  are with you and like two of your friends, it's you always have like
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  this, a little lions in the beginning, and then that quickly goes out
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  the freaking window and then it's just, you know, everybody breaking up each
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  other's pins and submissions. I don't know. I think I think it keeps
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  it fast paced. I think these are three women who can do a really
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  good triple threat match. I see, you know, I think we're all
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  in agreen here that Bailey's gonna probably retain, and you know, Tiffany probably
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  to eat the pin for that. But I see Tiffany doing having an awesome
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  spot, and Naomi also putting on an awesome spot, whether it's the her
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  Moon salt or you know, I mean, Namoi always says something you are
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  crazy in the match, whether it's trucking off the side of the elimination chamber,
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  you know, who knows. Uh yeah, that's how I see that
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  match going. Bailey probably Penn, Timmaney Stratton. Uh dre you guys,
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  what are you thinking? The match is not gonna suck and Bailey's gonna win.
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  I don't know much more that can be said about it. A good
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  match, Yeah, she'll have her moments to shine, Naomi will do what
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  she always doesn't look good in matches, and Bailey as well, and you
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  know, Bailey's actually gonna come out on top. And then from there,
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  who knows, maybe she's done with the both of them, Maybe she moves
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  on to the next one. Maybe she won v ones with Tiffany Stratton or
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  who knows, but yeah, it'll be a match that won't suck, which
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  pretty much gonna be a running theme throughout this whole pl e. None of
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  the match I don't think any of the matches are gonna suck, but the
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  outcomes are all very very very predictable. Bailly's going to retain, Yeah,
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  I agree, although I do think Naomi will probably take the pen rather than
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  Tiffany Stratton. I think they want to keep Tiffany elevated. But it's weird
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  to me that she's in this match at all because I see two opportunities on
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  the horizon in Clean of the Ring and money in the Bank coming up,
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  and I think I feel like one of those is perfect for her either take
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  her pick either one. I think she'd be great with the briefcase actually,
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  and just kind of seems like you would put her start putting her towards the
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  top of the card after that as opposed to before. But maybe that'll just
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  keep her hot. I don't know, she's kind of had a meteoric rise,
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  and I mean, frankly well deserved. But yeah, I think I
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  think it's just and I'm going to say it's about all the titles. It's
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  you know, too soon to swap, but I think swapping off the Bailey.
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  I don't know how long a run Bailey is gonna have, but I
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  don't see her losing this early. Now, see between those two. If
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  it was like her being Queen of the Ring or what do you call it,
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  queen or Queen of the Ring, I'm also I would lean more towards
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  Queen of the Ring for her because I think that fits more with her character.
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  Yeah, but either way, she is perfect. She seems like the
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  perfect person in the perfect spot in her career to have something like that and
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  maybe do something with it. Well, I thought the same thing about Chelsea
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  Green, the same thing about Austin theory. I thought the same thing about
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  Chelsea Green being a money in the bank briefcaseholder or a king Queen of the
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  Ring. Yeah, it's it's sometimes like the gam it just fits the role,
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  I guess see. I could see her winning the money in the Bank
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  match. I don't know if I see her winning a tournament. Yeah,
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  what I mean, she's a good enough wrestler, but she's a good enough
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  professional wrestler to be in the right place at the right time to grab the
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  briefcase you know, I sometimes need more cunning than anything else to win that
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  briefcase, that does make sense with how she's portrayed. Yet if it was
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  just a single match thing where she seeses an opportunity and takes advantage of it,
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  yeah, I can't see her going through three people to win a tournament
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  or four people or whatever it ends up being. I think it depends on
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  who's in the tournament, depends on who's if it's if it's a bunch of
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  if they have the tournament like basically being a bunch of the mid of the
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  women's mid card, then I could see her absolutely coming out. Yeah it's
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  dupre and right, yeah right, yeah, unless it's like you know,
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  Bianca and Jade and you know Nya Jackson all them in the tournament, then
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  okay, yeah, Tiffany's probably not gonna win. But if it's like Live
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  Morgan and I would say arguably even maybe even Nia Jacks but like Live Morgan
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  and like Chelsea green Sonya Deville, SHANEA Basler, Zoe Starkingham and then Tiffany
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  Stratton and yeah, tifty Straton is probably gonna come out on top. Well,
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  whoever ends up winning that Queen of the ring. We know, we
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  know one thing for sure, they'll be covered from head to toe. Uh.
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  Okay, let's move on to Damien Prees. Uh the World Heavyweight Champion
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  versus jay Uso. Uh. I mean, honestly, like I thought about
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  this, there's there's several there's two ways obviously. Uh. I was thinking
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  of this going because I was like, well, we've had these long,
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  lengthy title runs the past few years, right, is this where we're going
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  to get a title? Maybe not you know, the ww title. Maybe
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  it's going to be the world title that might kind of hop around for a
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  bit. Uh. I mean, Doyle wasn't there was a time in wrestling
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  like was it like the attitude there, like the title the ww title would
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  be switching hands you know every month, I believe. Yeah, specifically before
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  WrestleMania thirteen I think, which was you know, was in April or whatever
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  I think they were, they were on their fifth WWF champion. Yeah at
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  that so it's not like, you know, unfamiliar to them territory of having
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  a championship title, like a World heavyweight title, you know, switch hands
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  that often. So I mean it's something we could see two thousand and two.
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  I think still that year. Mike may still hold the record for most
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  title changes in a year. Yeah, I mean there was like seventeen of
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  them or something. Yeah, but that means two. But two thousand and
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  two was crazy because you had the year started grossly over exaggerated. I remember
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  two thousand two because I remember the year started with Jericho as champion. Then
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  Triple H won it at WrestleMania, then lost it. That's very nice pay
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  per view to haulk Hogan. The Hogan lost it to the Undertaker, I
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  think maybe like two pay per views later. Undertaker dropped it to The Rock
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  at Vengeance, then The Rock dropped it the very next pe lead to Leslar.
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  Lesler held onto it till Survivor series where he lost it to the Big
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  Show, and then Big Show I think lost it at the end of the
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  year to Kurt Ankle. Yep. I was going through my head. I
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  was like, yep, yep, yep. Yeah, dude, that's exactly
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  from three years ago, so it's pretty up to date. It says that
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  in uh in uh nineteen ninety nine or eleven title changes, yesz I mean,
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  and then like you know, Dred has ratted off a shipload for that
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  one yea that that like one or two year span like so like I the
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  thing is third yeah, so like it's not unfamiliar territory, So like they
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  could totally go back to that, and like there's a think of like a
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  handful of wrestlers on that roster that you would want to see like just a
• 28:34
  world champion. Like we want to see uh Jay Ussa as a world champion
• 28:38
  one day, We want to see La Knight as world champion one day.
• 28:41
  So like you know, maybe even like seven like Kevin Owen's getting another world
• 28:47
  title run, or maybe Sammy Zane finally getting title run, Gunther getting a
• 28:51
  world title run. So like you know, there's a long list of guys
• 28:56
  who who Roman basically stacked and smashed that I would really like to see it
• 29:03
  as a world champion. And now that there's a second title and it's gonna
• 29:07
  be more available this I think it's perfect. I mean like it would make
• 29:15
  sense to me per storyline if Damien lost it to some short of Judgment Day
• 29:21
  shenanigans, because it looks like now that people are out because of injury,
• 29:26
  looks like something is going on in Judgment Day. The foundation is not going
• 29:30
  too well. JD. McDonald's face is all fucked up from last week.
• 29:34
  You know, they aren't getting along, they aren't making calls without running through
• 29:38
  Damian Priest. So you know, he says like he's gonna handle j husso
• 29:42
  by himself. He doesn't need help, but like I think they interfere.
• 29:45
  They fuck it up for him, and he loses the title to Jay who
• 29:48
  said j Huso. I mean, it's gonna be massive if he would win
• 29:52
  the world title, like huge, He's like not a lot of people probably
• 29:56
  see that coming. He's he's hot right now, like he everything, like
• 30:00
  everything's fucking heat heat oose. I mean, like Logan Paul gave a great
• 30:06
  fucking promo the other week or this week saying like the only two words in
• 30:10
  your vocabulary are yeating oose and I was like true true, and most of
• 30:15
  his promos and he has written all over him and over his glasses. So
• 30:21
  uh, but you know, he could get the world title and then we
• 30:25
  have Clash at the Castle coming, and who doesn't hate Jay huss more than
• 30:30
  Drew fucking McIntyre. So that kind of works. But I mean, you
• 30:38
  know, maybe they taken Damian priests pretty serious here, and he's gonna hold
• 30:42
  that world title for the summer, and I guess he would have to be
• 30:48
  j clean, no judgment day interference that could you know, it could totally
• 30:53
  go that way, but I'm leaning towards I wanna God damn it if I
• 30:59
  don't want to see Jay who said, win this world title, even if
• 31:02
  it's for a few weeks, it furthers the story because we know we're getting
• 31:08
  to Drew being champion. We know we're getting to seeing Punk eventually beating Drew,
• 31:15
  like we're getting to bigger feuds. I guess. Also, I'm gonna
• 31:19
  mention I am happy to see we don't have WrestleMania rematches on here. This
• 31:25
  isn't a WrestleMania backlash like we've had previous years, where it's like some of
• 31:30
  them could have been like predictable, like, oh, I can kind of
• 31:34
  predict the next pay per view because two or three of these feuds are gonna
• 31:38
  continue. We're just gonna get rematched after rematch. I mean, we did
• 31:42
  get a little taste of it. We got aj Styles versus La Night again,
• 31:47
  but you know, well it originally the pay per view was called WrestleMania
• 31:52
  Backlash. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was originally called Backlash, and
• 31:56
  then they added to WrestleMania Backlash to it. At some point they started adding
• 32:01
  that where I guess when it became like damn near just rematches for days,
• 32:07
  just running off the coattails of like the like the leftover fumes of WrestleMania.
• 32:13
  It's like, no, like I want to move on. Like well,
• 32:15
  they also, you know, it made such a big deal about new era,
• 32:20
  you know, like and I think they you know, if they just
• 32:24
  populated this show with rematches, it would completely kick over the line in the
• 32:31
  sand they just drew, you know. Oh yeah, Like, and nobody
• 32:35
  wants to go and watch a pay perview of of you know, just full
• 32:37
  of rematches. I mean yeah. It also minimizes WrestleMania. Doesn't make WrestleMania
• 32:43
  a special if y'all just gonna run it back the next month, oh dude,
• 32:46
  yeah, yeah exactly. And we've seen that happen in the past,
• 32:50
  and it's like the second time around, it is like we just don't care.
• 32:52
  I saw it already, I saw it on the grand stage of them
• 32:57
  all. I don't want to see it on Backlash. So sorry, I've
• 33:00
  been going on and on here, Dre, how are you feeling about this
• 33:05
  Damian priest? J Who's that match? Yeah that was a nice little soliloquy.
• 33:08
  You went on about how Jay could possibly win this, but that ain't
• 33:13
  happening. I know, I know, I know. I think Dame's gonna
• 33:16
  retain. And this is why when they had that number one Contenders match,
• 33:22
  I did. I was upset when Ja won because I didn't want to see
• 33:25
  Ja so and yet another title match that he's gonna come up shorten, because
• 33:31
  this would make what three times at least four? Maybe? Yeah? I
• 33:37
  mean he he lost, He's two title matches to Roman. He's lost.
• 33:43
  Didn't he have a title, didn't have a didn't he challenge Sethuh? Didn't
• 33:49
  get a world title match with Seth? I know, he did get an
• 33:52
  Intercontinental title shot and Jimmy cost him that match. Yeah he had when we
• 33:57
  go to I thought he had like a random world title match with Seth Browns,
• 34:00
  like like not on a any kind of beef thing, but just like
• 34:02
  he randomly gave him a shot and came up short on that one. But
• 34:07
  he just yeah, I just don't see him winning this one. I don't
• 34:12
  see them shotgunning this thing off of Damien Priest that fast. I think there's
• 34:15
  still more development that's gonna happen in terms of this whole you know rift that's
• 34:21
  going on in the blood line, and I mean Blood and h Judgment dayan
• 34:24
  Damian Priest slowly but surely starting to maybe turn baby face and you know,
• 34:30
  wanting to stand on his own. I think there's still more meat on the
• 34:34
  bone and they're gonna take more time to develop that story. And that doesn't
• 34:37
  happen if he drops the title that this quickly. Yeah, I mean,
• 34:45
  I I think I alady gave it away that I don't see Damian losing the
• 34:49
  title. But I mean James is clearly going to get a World championship at
• 34:54
  some point unless unless he breaks his neck or something, you know, God
• 35:00
  been Yeah, you know, uh, but I do like how you know,
• 35:05
  and I've said this before in the past, you know, you got
• 35:08
  to think about where, you know, what's when you try to think about
• 35:12
  what's going on with this match, you gotta think about what's going on with
• 35:15
  Judgment Day because that informs it. And now you've got what's going on with
• 35:19
  Dom and Live that you know, they're starting to weave in all this other
• 35:22
  stuff into other stuff, and it's cool that you have, you know,
• 35:29
  characters with multiple stories going or multiple feuds with different people for different reasons,
• 35:35
  and it's kind of all you know, starting to connect, which is kind
• 35:39
  of cool. Yeah, I mean, I think we're probably gonna get Jacob
• 35:46
  Fatu at this show, whether it's Austin Jimmy or rather whether it's Costin j
• 35:52
  or It's probably more likely in the in the tag match, but this could
• 35:58
  be a spot where he pops up and caught Jay the match. I've heard
• 36:02
  that rumor two that's a good I mean, or even you know, maybe
• 36:07
  Jimmy pops back up or maybe I don't know, Jimmy supposedly hurt though,
• 36:13
  and maybe I kind of don't want to see them together again after that disaster
• 36:19
  at Wrestlmania forty. But I mean, Jays is clearly going to be earmarked
• 36:24
  for a humongous push at some point in a big time title reign. I
• 36:30
  don't see Damien holding this title for three years or four years, you know,
• 36:34
  But I don't think they're going to take them off take it off of
• 36:37
  him this quickly either, So I think Damien will retain. But obviously Jay
• 36:43
  Sky's the limit for him. Yeah. Yeah, I will say though something
• 36:50
  about Jado. You kind of need to start getting back into gym, and
• 36:52
  he kind of you're getting a little dead bodies simoon like he it's a gain
• 37:00
  weight nobody cares. Yeah, but ain'tybody trying to see that in between?
• 37:07
  I get it. I gets you. Man. You gotta you come one
• 37:10
  of two ways. You either block or roam huge or you rakishi fat.
• 37:17
  Yep, you choose on. Yeah, you can't be you can't be skinny
• 37:22
  fat. Yeah. Yeah, I assume that every family function they have a
• 37:27
  conversation about it, like oose you need to either lose it or gain it,
• 37:31
  right, pick a sade should have get off the pot. Yeah,
• 37:35
  it's just basically you got to be all huge, hulked up. But you
• 37:37
  know it's a bossip girls. Me do a little bit of cardio me.
• 37:43
  I mean, I mentioned under the giant and obviously famous. You know all
• 37:50
  kinds of stories about how many burgers he ate in one senate or whatever.
• 37:53
  If you ever hear y'all go doing the stories. They're just you know,
• 37:57
  he ate you know, twenty five whole chickens and these ridiculous Yeah, you
• 38:05
  know, fifteen pizzas and twelve bathtubs full of beer and yeah, he's he's
• 38:10
  up there with Andre and the legendary consumption stories. I've heard a couple about
• 38:17
  Yokozuna. Yeah, all right, what's the uh what do we get next
• 38:25
  here? Yeah, let's go right into the tag match. Actually, Rainy
• 38:31
  Orton and Kevin Owens versus the bloodline of Solo, Socoa and Tomatunga, and
• 38:39
  doesn't say anything with Paul Haman, So maybe Paul won't be there. Uh
• 38:45
  you know what, I really feel like Solo and Tonga are gonna need this
• 38:51
  win if to keep the momentum, to need to keep the momentum that they
• 38:55
  have going because Solo has lost his I don't know if anybody else has seen
• 39:00
  he's on a losing streak. He just forty forty whenever. Yeah, again,
• 39:10
  that only matters to the internet. I know, I know that very
• 39:15
  few matches on TV and he still remained overwhelmingly protected on TV. Right,
• 39:20
  he he won a house show months and months since he had a win on
• 39:24
  TV. Yeah, and he just made a big stink about losing matters or
• 39:29
  whatever. He can't go out and then lose. Yeah yeah, yeah,
• 39:31
  it's like, are you mad at because he lost? Lose? Yeah?
• 39:37
  Like did you lost every match you've had this year? But yeah, you're
• 39:40
  right, dude. The internet is the only one that cares per storyline.
• 39:44
  It's like sometimes like to do Yeah, he's still dude, He's still solo
• 39:49
  man. And and you know, hearing that Jacob got signed, you know,
• 39:55
  I feel like this is where he's going to debut. And you know,
• 40:00
  Kevin Owens in order are definitely gonna have the upper hand. And then
• 40:02
  you know, we're they're gonna get their licks in and stuff and and that's
• 40:07
  where we're gonna get Jacob Battou and then they're gonna be standing over them,
• 40:09
  all three of them. And know, Paul Hayman like, civil War has
• 40:15
  be done, man, Like we've done Infinity work, we did the Endgame.
• 40:21
  You know, now we're running it back. We're going we're going back.
• 40:23
  I'm fine with it. Whatever we're doing it. I like it this
• 40:27
  way we're doing. You know, now we're getting civil War. Uh,
• 40:34
  you know, and Roman's gonna have to you know, bury the hatchet at
• 40:37
  some point with the USOS. They're all gonna have to bury the hatchet.
• 40:40
  They're you know, we're gonna get a three on three war games maybe,
• 40:45
  I mean that would be is that what we're looking? Is that where we're
• 40:49
  going? Uh? You know, I I don't know. People keep mentioning
• 40:52
  about the Rock being part of this. I was like, well, I
• 40:54
  don't. He's out making movies. He's out being eight hours late to fucking
• 41:00
  sets, you know, uh, pissing bottles and ship you know. Yeah,
• 41:08
  yeah, yeah, we'll talk about that later. I guess, well,
• 41:13
  I guess there's not too much to talk about, but uh yeah,
• 41:15
  so I'm more focused on the old blood line versus the New blood line.
• 41:22
  I don't see rocking the picture really at all until Romans by himself, I
• 41:29
  guess. Or I don't know, but yeah, I I solo tongue.
• 41:34
  I need this win. It's gonna be a great match though. Even though
• 41:37
  it's not like a no stipulation match, just a regular tag match, I
• 41:43
  still think it'll be pretty good afford to lose this. Yeah, for sure,
• 41:52
  he won't damage them. It's like, yeah, man, they can
• 41:57
  take them. They've been paired up to get other. We kind of know
• 42:01
  where you know, two individual wrestlers who get paired up for a period of
• 42:06
  time, is eventually gonna have to Eventually they're gonna end up beef with each
• 42:10
  other, and they're gonna have their own feud with each other. I'm not
• 42:14
  saying that this is gonna be the catalyst of it, but this may be
• 42:21
  the where, I guess the spark happens. Where you start, you see
• 42:25
  the first kindlings of Okay, they might they eventually they're gonna turn on each
• 42:30
  other. Eventually one's gonna turn on the other. But yeah, we've already
• 42:34
  said it kao. Or they can afford to lose this match. Tom Taga
• 42:42
  and Solo need the wind to be to establish themselves as a legitimate threat on
• 42:47
  their own as their own version of the blood line, which you know if
• 42:52
  they lose, If they lose this match, then all credibility is lost.
• 42:58
  Nobody takes them seriously. Obviously, they have to be built up. Solo
• 43:01
  has to stand on his own as you know, the leader of this whatever
• 43:06
  this new faction of the blood line is. And yeah, like we know,
• 43:08
  eventually they're gonna come heads up with the original blood line and what the
• 43:15
  times table on that is is tbd. But again, this is another match
• 43:20
  that kind of has a predictable end too. It Solo and Tonga are gonna
• 43:23
  go over. The only I think the only real question to it is do
• 43:29
  they go over on their own clean or do they go over due to interferes
• 43:35
  from a debuting Jacob patsunaians all the way. That's what they're gonna be all
• 43:43
  about that shenaniganstude. My guess is probably Jacob Patsu I think this is where
• 43:50
  he interferes in. I don't. I don't think he's gonna interfere in the
• 43:54
  Jay and uh Priest match because I think obviously you got the judgment day there
• 44:00
  to interfere. There's no need for another outside element to get involved in that.
• 44:05
  Yep, yep, I agree, Uh Doyle, what are you thinking,
• 44:10
  man? Are you agreeing with us? Oh? Yeah, I mean
• 44:13
  absolutely Solo and uh Tom and Tong I have to win. Yeah. If
• 44:17
  they don't, they're dead in the water. It would be a crash and
• 44:22
  burn for sure. Yeah. But like they're they're whatever they're doing is kind
• 44:28
  of just starting, you know, so you can't you can't pull the rug
• 44:32
  out from them at this stage. Uh. You know, the big question
• 44:37
  is who who's called pulling the strings, you know, is it is it
• 44:39
  the Rock? Is it Roman? Is it somebody else? Is it?
• 44:45
  What's Hayn going to do in all this? Is he gonna say oil to
• 44:50
  the tribal chief or the high chief? You know, I expect we'll see
• 44:54
  him, uh you know, scruffy and uh not dynas there again. I
• 45:01
  loved that when when the bloodline had problems before and he would be all stressed
• 45:06
  out, Paul himmon fucking Gene dude. Yeah, as always, just the
• 45:13
  fucking m VP of everything. Yep, he's doing a great job playing up
• 45:17
  just being absolutely terrified of solo right now? Really yeah, like yeah,
• 45:22
  think you know, you know what's funny is sorry to buddy here. Does
• 45:24
  Like some people when I who aren't like inter wrestling as much anymore, older
• 45:30
  people I talked to who know who Paul Haman is like, oh he's still
• 45:34
  with the company, And I'm like yeah, because oh I thought he would
• 45:37
  have gotten fired, you know when they merged. I'm like, no,
• 45:40
  like they kept Paul him like he's like one of their golden gooses, like
• 45:45
  that. He elevated so many superstars like motherfucker Hall of Fame. Yeah,
• 45:52
  yeah, Like I love Paul Hayman when he was general manager of SmackDown.
• 45:58
  Ah but yeah, sorry, oh no, I'm just saying Paul Hayman's fucking
• 46:04
  amazing, Like he really, I think is. I mean, I think
• 46:07
  we properly rate him, but I think I don't know if your average viewer
• 46:14
  fully understands how amazing, uh he really makes this stuff work. I don't
• 46:21
  know if Sol could get himself over as is, but if he's at Hayman
• 46:25
  Coward, you know, that goes a long way. But yeah, I
• 46:30
  mean there's the bloodline two point zero or whatever we're calling them whatever they're calling
• 46:35
  themselves. What does what is it? M F T Yeah, yeah,
• 46:40
  whatever the hell that is? Yeah, Like, uh, maybe we'll never
• 46:47
  find out. I don't know. Ye. And like I said, Randy
• 46:53
  and Kevin can eat that loss very you know, day there is you know,
• 47:01
  at the point in both of their careers where they don't need to ever
• 47:05
  win really, you know, like they'll be just fine. Yeah. And
• 47:09
  they're doing a great job of not making Kevin look weak or anything by any
• 47:15
  stretch of the imagination, because he's not backing down the slightest bit at all.
• 47:20
  Like he's still so much to fight every single time and just absolutely just
• 47:23
  running up bottom, no micing, no talking, no nothing, just straight
• 47:27
  action, straight hands. Yeah, he's he's walks that fine line between being
• 47:31
  a you know, legitimately seen as tough and being a fucking goofball, you
• 47:37
  know, and sometimes it's hard to once you once you go goofball, you
• 47:42
  never go back, you know. Sometimes it's hard to uh a hard line
• 47:46
  tiptoe along, but he manages to do it. H Randy has shown us
• 47:52
  in the last couple of years back, you know, throughout this this little
• 47:55
  run with Ko and before with a Riddle, we really saw that side of
• 48:00
  Randy before. But it's clearly there and it's fun to see it. But
• 48:07
  yeah, it can easily afford to lose and some need to win. I
• 48:15
  think it's pretty cut and dry. All right, let's move on to the
• 48:20
  main event. So they did a undisputed w W Championship Eliminator tournament. There
• 48:30
  was AJ Styles, Kevin Owens, Raymond Stereo, Bobby Lashley, l A.
• 48:35
  Knight, and Santos Escobar and had two triple threat matches and it came
• 48:40
  down A La Knight and AJ Styles and we got another WrestleMania rematch, but
• 48:46
  this time AJ Styles walked out the winner and got his title shot. So
• 48:52
  this will be the first time we're seeing AJ Styles versus Cody Rhodes ever.
• 49:00
  Uh cool, I expected to be you know, probably one of the best
• 49:07
  matches of the night, to be honest, Uh, I mean I I
• 49:12
  would say the tag match is probably the best storyline in most interesting storyline wise,
• 49:17
  but like this is gonna be the best bell to bell match of the
• 49:22
  night. Uh, you know as much Aisle. I see A Styles get
• 49:28
  another title run, it ain't happening here. Cody Rose is gonna be holding
• 49:31
  onto that title probably till summer, maybe even further. Uh yeah, at
• 49:37
  least. But it's good to see AJ Styles back in the title picture.
• 49:43
  There. There was a good while where he was just floating around the tag
• 49:49
  division and uh fucking around with the OC, which is surprising that like yeah,
• 49:55
  like it's surprising like what they're doing with him with the last couple years
• 50:00
  they have of AJ Styles because like he's now been there longer than he's been
• 50:04
  at Impact Wrestling or anywhere else. So it's like we don't believe, not
• 50:09
  like we don't got that. Yeah, we don't got that. Many more
• 50:12
  years left of aj styles, you know. I mean in the ring,
• 50:19
  he's still phenomenal, but he is forty six, and uh, I think
• 50:23
  I think it's fair to say he's lost half a step. Yeah. I
• 50:30
  do see him having another title run before he retires. Uh, I just
• 50:36
  don't think it's gonna be now. It is kind of weird though, that
• 50:39
  he's doing better. Well, it will seem that he will be doing better
• 50:45
  on his own than having his own stable, like he was the leader who
• 50:50
  left, Like like we're seeing that now too with Chad Gable, like just
• 50:55
  the leader here, just leaving his own groups, just like damn y'all suck
• 50:59
  Like I hooked my It's like I hooked my wagon horse with no legs,
• 51:06
  like like we're going nowhere. Yeah. Yeah, to be honest, they
• 51:13
  never did ship with them in the first place. Well yeah they're back together
• 51:19
  for what I know. Match got more run than the Tag Team than well,
• 51:30
  I felt like an odd fit with them. It's like, yeah,
• 51:32
  like they we need a woman here, so we're in there and it's like
• 51:36
  where the she come from? Yeah, I mean I just thought it was,
• 51:42
  uh, it is awful. How like the OC Tag Team got like
• 51:45
  treated like like I was like, damn, these these guys are a good
• 51:50
  tag team. Why are they like doing house shows and on n XT.
• 51:54
  And I'm like, I'm just surprised they're just not utilizing them as much.
• 51:59
  But it, well, we've seen it, you know, time and time
• 52:02
  again. They can book decent tag team wrestling, and they can do it
• 52:07
  for a little while, but they can't do it for more than a couple
• 52:09
  of weeks in a row, more than a couple of matches in a row,
• 52:15
  and then they seem to fall like it's like, oh, maybe they're
• 52:17
  getting that, maybe they're starting out. No, no, you know,
• 52:22
  it's starts to start, stop, start, stop starts. I hope now
• 52:27
  that we've got two sets of titles, will maybe get more consistent tag team
• 52:32
  wrestling. May they're gonna have to maybe be it, but they to do
• 52:37
  that, they would have to invest in actual tag teams. Again, it
• 52:40
  seems that now they're only investing or interested in pairings that have some personality to
• 52:47
  each other, like two guys with some personality, throw them together and call
• 52:52
  them a tag team, rather than actual pure, you know, established tag
• 52:58
  teams like oh see, like Caden and Katana, like Street profits, you
• 53:04
  know. Instead, it's like, oh, these two guys, Austin Theory
• 53:07
  and Grayson Waller, they have some good chemistry. Yeah, tag team,
• 53:14
  throw them together together, great new day made themselves, you know, their
• 53:22
  personality. So we're going to keep them relevant and keep them in the scene
• 53:25
  forever. But you know, but actual botified tag teams that are established as
• 53:31
  a unit, they seem to have gotten away from that. I think tag
• 53:37
  team that's established as a unit at this point. Yeah, and that's they're
• 53:42
  like the one exception. They think that's an established tag team as a unit
• 53:45
  that's still remains relevant and is treated with a degree of respect. Well,
• 53:55
  we're far from the days of you know, Edge and Christian Hardy always and
• 54:00
  Dudley's fortified established tag teams dominating and running the divisions and being at the top
• 54:07
  of the division as established tag teams. Hey, how about we've been seeing
• 54:13
  a lot of the Dudley's on WWTV the past couple of weeks. I don't
• 54:17
  know why they I mean, it's great to see him, sure, Why
• 54:22
  couldn't you get different people for each night? That didn't make any sense.
• 54:25
  If you're gonna bring back legends, why don't you bring back twice as many
• 54:30
  legends and instead of the same legends two times. What you weren't excited to
• 54:35
  see Tory Wilson aged, I'm excited to see Teddy Long. I'm always excited
• 54:44
  to see Oh yeah, me too. During during the draft he was he
• 54:46
  was doing his dance and you could see him in the back of the room
• 54:51
  doing his dance. I was like, classic Teddy Long, like, I
• 54:54
  don't need to see JBL twice, yeah, JVL once. Yeah. Oh
• 55:04
  but they had to set it out perfect with with with from just and then
• 55:08
  you know where they had that seeing Punk, Drew McIntire, Biff, you
• 55:14
  know, Stint and then you just had him out of nowhere. Damn I'm
• 55:21
  up period a little bit. That was funny. I think he's contractually obligated
• 55:28
  to say that. Damn oh runs here. We gotta throw a damn in
• 55:32
  there somewhere. Yeah, he gets paid for it though. He sold a
• 55:37
  bunch of damn T shirts, didn't You didn't you guys buy a damn T
• 55:40
  shirt. Damn damn show didn't Uh uh yeah? So back to this match,
• 55:51
  uh yeah, Cuddy Roads walking out champion still undisputed. Yeah, close
• 55:57
  the show, yep. Good match twenty minutes he wins. Yeah, guys,
• 56:01
  both any grands. Oh yeah, there's no way they're taking the belt
• 56:05
  off Cody necessarily. Could you imagine? Can you imagine? I'll be honest,
• 56:14
  I don't see Cody losing the belt for at least a year. Yeah,
• 56:19
  it's like, okay, I don't see him losing it at all in
• 56:21
  twenty twenty three, wherever he faces it, WrestleMania next year, tbd.
• 56:28
  But I be highly doubt he drops it then. I think we could be
• 56:31
  looking at He's easily going to have a three hundred and sixty five day reign
• 56:36
  in my opinion, and it might go he might crack four one hundred or
• 56:42
  so. I could see it easily going like a year and a half before
• 56:44
  he dropped the title. That's what I mean. Like with the world title,
• 56:47
  like if that's we've had, you know, these lengthy title runs,
• 56:52
  and I think people were kind of sick of it. But if we could
• 56:54
  have one title in the company that's going to have a long, long length
• 57:00
  title run, it's gonna be Cody's. So I, like I said,
• 57:04
  I feel like the world title could be the Hey, we're gonna get that
• 57:09
  World title, you know asterisk next to your name, Like you know,
• 57:15
  everybody's gonna get a world title run. You know it's gonna be short,
• 57:17
  but you're gonna get you know, world title under that Wikipedia asterix. Uh
• 57:24
  even like uh, I thought about it too, like the idea of John
• 57:34
  Cena, and I know this is looking too far ahead. And Randy Orton,
• 57:37
  you know, making that seventeen time world title run, Like Orton needs
• 57:45
  the rack up a few more, but like that world title short runs,
• 57:49
  I could rack it up. I mean technically, I mean, Drew McIntyre's
• 57:52
  champion. It counts. I mean it's five minutes, but it's fucking counts.
• 57:58
  And now he's like, what like a three time champion. I mean
• 58:01
  sure, stuff like that does count. And yeah, you might have those
• 58:06
  little short pop up wins briefly and shit, that's how Charlotte got the fourteen
• 58:10
  and shit. But yeah, I mean, and sure, I agree that
• 58:16
  the world title will probably be the one that gets passed around to a certain
• 58:21
  degree, and that you know, we'll probably see shorter range with the world
• 58:24
  title. I just don't think it's gonna be thirty days short for Damian Priest.
• 58:28
  I think it'll get at least a few months with it before he drops
• 58:32
  it. He might not last till SummerSlam. He might, like we said,
• 58:36
  he might drop it a clash into the castle and then Crew may hold
• 58:39
  it till I don't know SummerSlam or Survivor series or something, but all that
• 58:45
  is still TBD. And like I said, it'll probably happen that way.
• 58:52
  I just don't think it's gonna be as rapidly tossed around like we saw in
• 58:57
  the past. Yeah, and I think that, then again, you're back
• 59:01
  to diminishing the world title when it's finally after coming close to a year,
• 59:07
  at a point where we see it as a respectable title and we don't see
• 59:12
  it as the number two anymore, especially now that the undisputed well that the
• 59:15
  ww titles off of Roman's hands. Yeah, but I agree with you,
• 59:22
  But I do want to see at some point and I was certainly not here
• 59:25
  and I can't even think of circumstance, but I do want someone whacky to
• 59:31
  win it, you know, in a way that we never saw, you
• 59:35
  know, a swerve as they used to call it, you know, Or
• 59:39
  I want to see the title change on Raw. And when was the last
• 59:42
  time one of the world titles changed hands on raw. You know, it
• 59:46
  has to have been years, yep. And there's a perfect candidate for that,
• 59:52
  but currently right now he's a world a little more sensive. Anything can
• 59:55
  happen, you know, sure I could. I can see that as well,
• 1:00:00
  but currently the perfect candidate for that right now it is a world tag
• 1:00:04
  team champion, So he got to drop that first before our truths can become
• 1:00:07
  a world champion. A girl can dream. Yeah. Uh, do you
• 1:00:15
  guys need to take a break or anything before we get into news? Nope,
• 1:00:19
  I'm good. Cool. I want to play at the bumper anyway,
• 1:00:21
  because it's been a while since it played the bumper. All right, New
• 1:00:25
  Steam, I'll sam well, I got news for you, news flash,
• 1:00:40
  Ash, Yeah, we got news. Uh. Let's talk about the draft,
• 1:00:50
  guys. The pointless, pointless draft. I just feel like it's pointless
• 1:00:55
  because every time we in the past couple of years, we've gotten a draft,
• 1:01:00
  nobody sticks to their damn roster. It's like less than a few days
• 1:01:06
  and then we see somebody on, you know, a different roster. It's
• 1:01:10
  like, you don't go here, why are you here? The only person?
• 1:01:17
  Yeah? Uh yeah, I mean I mean yeah, the people who
• 1:01:22
  got drafted draft NX. Yeah, the people who got drafted to the same
• 1:01:29
  roster they've already been on. Like, oh my god, did you guys
• 1:01:30
  just know Seth Frowns got drafted to raw? Yeah? Wa me no,
• 1:01:37
  where he already was? Yeah, much more interesting if they did maybe they
• 1:01:45
  called maybe they called up four men and four and they made a show who
• 1:01:52
  that was going to be. And you can still do them legitimately surprised sitting
• 1:01:57
  there and you know, don't tell them who's gonna drafted and who's not and
• 1:02:00
  to wear or whatever. But this whole moving people from SmackDown to raw or
• 1:02:05
  whatever so fucking playless. Like if you want to make the gms like seem
• 1:02:10
  like they're doing things, why not, Why aren't they like negotiating trades or
• 1:02:15
  something that might be more interest in a way to a way to move people
• 1:02:19
  around. Because I think that if you're going to do this ridiculous roster split
• 1:02:22
  that you only halfway do anyway, you do need to have some fluctuation at
• 1:02:28
  some point or else you can only watch uh, you know, Tazawa and
• 1:02:32
  Ivar so many times, you know, Uh, So I have no problem
• 1:02:37
  with the switching the rosters up, so they barely did it, and then
• 1:02:40
  they don't stick to it if people show up on the wrong show all the
• 1:02:44
  time. I mean, we talked about Bianca and Jade moving or showers,
• 1:02:47
  but I guarantee you they won't be the only ones who do it. You
• 1:02:52
  know. I wish they would. They would be so much more strict about
• 1:02:57
  it, you know, if they're going to do it or just don't even
• 1:02:59
  bother. Yeah, the biggest problem anything, but remember the Remember the Dudley's
• 1:03:07
  got broken up in a draft once. Yep. I can't think of anything
• 1:03:12
  since then. The monumental that happened in the draft, Well, they broke
• 1:03:15
  up the hardy boys. That broke them up. They tried to bring up
• 1:03:20
  evolution. I remember that, and then they traded Triple H. A week
• 1:03:23
  later, they traded him for four wrestlers Booker t r v D and that
• 1:03:30
  both the Dudley Boys were traded to smack down trade every day of the week
• 1:03:36
  for for Triple Ah to go back to that. Yeah, I mean maybe
• 1:03:45
  if they stick to it, if people stick to their roster, it'll make
• 1:03:50
  the next draft actually fucking matter. It'll make uh, you know, because
• 1:03:57
  they have both rosters on the paper they used to do like only a SmackDown
• 1:04:01
  pay per view or a raw pay per view that yeah, but it made
• 1:04:08
  when they did like big ones like the Rumble or Survivors Series or Summer Slam,
• 1:04:13
  when they would have both rosters on, you know, there would be
• 1:04:16
  a backstage segment of two wrestlers crossing paths who are on different rosters. You
• 1:04:20
  know, maybe it's foreshadowing something, or we get excited for a feud that
• 1:04:27
  we never seen, like two wrestlers we've never seen the ring together. We
• 1:04:30
  get that at the Rumble and stuff. It makes that kind of shit more
• 1:04:32
  exciting. So they need to they need to really I hope that now this
• 1:04:39
  is new era, maybe they will, like, h just really buckle down
• 1:04:45
  on like listen, like this is where you are, this is where you
• 1:04:46
  stay. Like the only people who have free rome is the women's tag titles,
• 1:04:53
  I mean like and contested, you know, like have matches see who
• 1:05:01
  would get the first pick or whatever. Yeah. Yeah, but they could
• 1:05:05
  just like if you win this match, you get to choose which brand you
• 1:05:10
  want to go to something like that. So I think there's a pretty easy
• 1:05:13
  way is to change the rosters without having to go through a list basically read
• 1:05:19
  a list of everyone's name is basically all that happened, right, Yeah,
• 1:05:25
  it's just so stupid, Like I feel like there's a lot of potential there
• 1:05:30
  and they just fucking every year. It's it's just a fucking nothing burger.
• 1:05:34
  Oh well, the order this year the draft picks were just ridiculous. It's
• 1:05:41
  it's like, really, jus is really your first draft pick for your roster?
• 1:05:45
  Like really, In fact, the only thing that made any sense was
• 1:05:49
  was taking finding a way to get Roman out of it, because obviously if
• 1:05:54
  he isn't the first pick, the whole rest of it is just stupid.
• 1:05:58
  Right, Yeah, they made that move, and I said, Okay,
• 1:06:03
  maybe they are taking it seriously this time, and then nope, they were
• 1:06:09
  Naya Jacks round two pick, Nia jackx Ricochet round three, Bloodline was a
• 1:06:16
  round three pick, and then Alpha Academy made round four. H I'm just
• 1:06:28
  like looking at the order of some of these, like, you know,
• 1:06:30
  Bronz Strowman round two pick, Imperium as a round one pick. I like
• 1:06:38
  that, I mean really realistically though, I mean, the problem with the
• 1:06:45
  draft wasn't so much Oh who was drafted and what round, because I mean,
• 1:06:48
  yeah, let's be honest, that whole number one draft pick or anything
• 1:06:51
  of that is irrelevant. It doesn't matter all that because it's not like it's
• 1:06:58
  not like you had any type of you know, you want to prospect before
• 1:07:01
  this. It wasn't like you were going to multiple teams or as multiple people
• 1:07:05
  vying for you. It was either or. The big problem was the fact
• 1:07:09
  that they were wasting this these quote unquote picks announcing the same people just staying
• 1:07:15
  where the hell they were. Like, that's a waste of this shit.
• 1:07:18
  Like if it's a draft, and especially you're talking about the way y'all hype
• 1:07:21
  this up, it could be shaking the foundation of wrestling it all this change
• 1:07:26
  change and then like over half of the picks were just so and so staying
• 1:07:30
  where they're at. There was very there was nothing surprising, nothing shocking,
• 1:07:34
  Like, out of all those picks, regardless of what round they were,
• 1:07:38
  the only ones that really kind of made that happen that made you go oh
• 1:07:43
  or react in any way, shape or form was Damage Control going to Monday
• 1:07:46
  Night Raw. And that's basically it. That was the only pick in this
• 1:07:57
  whole freaking draft. Back on the same show everybody. Most everybody went to
• 1:08:02
  the same ship and the people who did switch brands outside of damage control were
• 1:08:08
  you know, negligible like shes K Knockmore to SmackDown okay, Chelsea Green and
• 1:08:14
  Piper Nibbing the SmackDown okay, Candice Lorray, Andy Hartwell to SmackDown okay,
• 1:08:19
  like d I why to SmackDown okay? Like most of the ship is was
• 1:08:25
  nothing long interest that was there was again damage control, the raw and the
• 1:08:30
  NXT call ups, which some of those were fairly predictable, like we knew,
• 1:08:35
  we all pretty much predicted Ilia dragon Off was getting called up. It
• 1:08:39
  was nice to see that. The one positive I will give them in the
• 1:08:44
  terms of the draft is it seemed like they genuinely, like people are NXT,
• 1:08:48
  genuinely did not know who was gonna get called up. So we got
• 1:08:53
  those real pure reactions from people, and the other wrestlers seemed genuinely happy for
• 1:09:00
  them. Yeah, Shawn Michael seems like he's generally going out there greeting them,
• 1:09:05
  giving them hugs, the last word of recuiresement before they go up to
• 1:09:10
  the main roster, and they put beside if they wanted to do a draft.
• 1:09:15
  A draft would be picking people from NXT to call up. That would
• 1:09:19
  be a draft. Yeah, but you ca yeah, but the only problem
• 1:09:25
  with that is that you can only call up so many people, so that's
• 1:09:27
  not enough to stretch out across two shows. Hell is barely enough to make
• 1:09:30
  one call up people when they feel like it anyway. You know, like
• 1:09:34
  they just called Tiffany Stratton just got called up out of nowhere or at the
• 1:09:39
  after the rumble. I think, like she didn't get called up, but
• 1:09:42
  she didn't get drafted, she was just called up. I mean, it's
• 1:09:45
  it's a made up sport, made up rule that doesn't really matter. It's
• 1:09:51
  the thing is thinking of the things that don't made up sports and things that
• 1:09:57
  don't really matter. I love how much time they devote into Nick Alis trying
• 1:10:00
  to sign bron Breaker and then oh yeah, the whole signs trying to sign
• 1:10:13
  which is another thing that was just dumb as ship. This guy was signed
• 1:10:17
  to your brand just to be drafted not even six months later exactly to another
• 1:10:24
  brand. Like that's dumb, Like if you were gonna there were other ways
• 1:10:28
  they could have structured us that could have been rather than being like a draft
• 1:10:31
  or some ship. Just have it like or if you're trying to be you
• 1:10:35
  know, sport adjacent, which is basically what they're trying to be. You
• 1:10:39
  know, they're trying to be sports like, which is why they had this
• 1:10:42
  old drafting in the first damn place. But name of sport where somebody gets
• 1:10:47
  drafted to their own team that they're already the City Chiefs don't draft Patrick Mahomes
• 1:10:53
  every year. There are other ways you could do this, like just say
• 1:10:57
  so and so signed an extension with SmackDown, Yeah coming up, I'm gonn
• 1:11:02
  nicked all this. I'm gonna take you out to dinner like or like she
• 1:11:08
  signed she signed a year long extension or something like that, you know,
• 1:11:11
  or say somebody like or if you got these people on TV, who aren't
• 1:11:15
  you know that being utilized that much, use that in the storyline, like,
• 1:11:18
  hey, they're not happy with their position here, I request the trade,
• 1:11:21
  you know, or I want out or you know, I'm a free
• 1:11:24
  I consider myself a free agent now and then you know, or negotiate that
• 1:11:28
  kind of trade like like we mentioned in the past, like you know,
• 1:11:31
  raw trade so and so for so and so rather than oh, this is
• 1:11:35
  a draft or something like that, or or pick when you're mid tier or
• 1:11:40
  one of your maybe your top stars, you know what, Or I just
• 1:11:43
  lost the title match. All right, I'm pissed off, I'm out,
• 1:11:45
  I want out of my contract. I'm a free agent now. Let y'all
• 1:11:48
  bid for me or something. There's other ways to do this than saying,
• 1:11:54
  hey, I picked the person that's still on my brand. Yes, to
• 1:11:58
  stay on my brand. That's just a total, complete waste, they like,
• 1:12:03
  they really even need to just go completely back to the drawing board on
• 1:12:08
  this whole ww draft thing and really think about what a draft actually is,
• 1:12:15
  and if you really want to be sports adjacent, take a look at what
• 1:12:18
  happens in sports that actually genuinely interests people, Like the free agency season,
• 1:12:25
  trade season, you know, trade deadlines and stuff like that. Like,
• 1:12:30
  make it it doesn't have to be just a two night thing. Make it
• 1:12:31
  a year round thing. You know, your trade deadline is whatever date in
• 1:12:39
  the year you want to pick. After that you then your rosters are locked,
• 1:12:43
  rather than having like your rosters locked this close after may make it more
• 1:12:47
  flexible, like, okay, we had the draft now, but maybe the
• 1:12:50
  trade that trade deadline it doesn't is until August, you know, and then
• 1:12:57
  after August then you're locked in for the rest. Then the rest the rosters
• 1:13:00
  are locked through wrestling. Its just it seems that it could have so much
• 1:13:05
  potential, and it could be a chance to make it more realistic, you
• 1:13:12
  know, if that's what you're going for, or more sports esque if you
• 1:13:15
  will. Uh, And it's just they just don't do it right. Maybe
• 1:13:21
  you have somebody signed more than a year long extension, maybe if you don't
• 1:13:25
  really want to commits somebody like hey, Cody signed a two year contract with
• 1:13:29
  SmackDown, so you know he ain't going nowhere for two years. But then
• 1:13:32
  maybe something happens and he wants to get out of his contract early. That
• 1:13:36
  can be part of a storyline. Sure, like, no, I got
• 1:13:40
  you for two years, I don't give fuck. I'm gonna be disruptive.
• 1:13:43
  Now go out there and just start, you know, you know you if
• 1:13:47
  you want to feed it away, he'll sturn. Have him start just freaking
• 1:13:51
  pissing through matches, whether they go out there try and he just walks out
• 1:13:55
  there just half ass. Lee's unhappy. Maybe he stops being put in at
• 1:14:00
  all. Yeah, you can say, like, hey, where's my match
• 1:14:02
  this week? So we didn't have time for you on the show this week.
• 1:14:06
  We don't have time for people who are, you know, upset with
• 1:14:10
  their contracts, you know, or hey, we got you in a match
• 1:14:14
  this week, but we're gonna put you in a match with so and so.
• 1:14:17
  Yeah, Like you go out there and maybe you just squash them,
• 1:14:20
  stop them out and then store them off angry, or you get putting a
• 1:14:25
  match with so and so on your your upset back and you just walk out
• 1:14:27
  there and lay down. It's basically the Austin McMahon. Uh, sorry,
• 1:14:32
  tweaked a little bit, right, It worked pretty good before, right,
• 1:14:38
  That can be those can be storylines. There's way more ways to make this
• 1:14:43
  more dynamic than just a two night event, where again, y'all just announced
• 1:14:47
  that people ain't going nowhere for two nights. Yode you guys, does that
• 1:14:55
  change? Do you guys see the other night when they were interviewing mean uh
• 1:15:01
  Jay usso on. I believe it was raw uh in the background. There's
• 1:15:06
  always stuff going on in the background, whether it's for the Uncle Howdy stuff.
• 1:15:13
  But I've been noticing some Judgment Day stuff and I saw Live Morgan and
• 1:15:21
  domb dirty dumb coming out of the same dressing room. Don dunt dun.
• 1:15:29
  I don't know what are you? Are you guys thinking that we might get
• 1:15:32
  live. Morgan might end up joining the Judgment Day and turning down and we
• 1:15:35
  can get a super face real when she comes back. You know, she
• 1:15:41
  took my dirty down Judgment Day. No lives not joining the Judgment Day,
• 1:15:45
  but she might be taking Domb out of Judgment Day. She might just be
• 1:15:50
  sleeping with to get real. I think she might steal Down away from Judgment
• 1:15:55
  Day, if not join him, steal him from Judgment Day, because Judgment
• 1:15:59
  Day looks like it's it's falling apart. Ria's not there, Dom's injured technically,
• 1:16:04
  you know, Finn signed a long term contract that he might go out
• 1:16:09
  and do something else, or him and JD might go and just be a
• 1:16:12
  tag team. But it you know, it looks like the foundation of Jeguit
• 1:16:17
  Day is breaking here. Well, she might be stealing Down away, or
• 1:16:23
  Dom might be cheating or Ria because Ria ain't there nerdy down right like she
• 1:16:31
  here? Well, I'm still gonna get my freak home. What's up live?
• 1:16:36
  And I think we I think we've seen matches before for between two men
• 1:16:42
  for a woman basically, right, didn't we have a few over Miss Elizabeth
• 1:16:46
  with savage and flair, We've seen a couple of I think DDP had a
• 1:16:53
  thing in w c W didn't anymore like his wife. He had like winning
• 1:16:57
  back his wife from somebody. But I think we I think we might see
• 1:17:01
  that but in reverse with Live and Ria fighting over Dom. Uh. And
• 1:17:06
  then when when Ria win beats beats Live, she also turns on Dom anyway
• 1:17:14
  and becomes a huge baby face in the process, which she will be when
• 1:17:17
  she comes back. No matter what she does, she could go kill a
• 1:17:21
  puppy, I think on the stand in the ring, and I think she's
• 1:17:26
  gonna get cheered. Yeah, I'm like, I think it would be fun
• 1:17:30
  to see because we've seen two men feud over a woman a million times,
• 1:17:33
  and it might be fun to see two women feuding over a guy for a
• 1:17:38
  change. It would be an interesting twist. I don't know how well it
• 1:17:42
  would work though. It just seems kind of weird, like both of us
• 1:17:45
  are fighting over this dude, I mean, like an absolute fucking g in
• 1:17:50
  the middle of this ship. Like, yeah, okay, it could work
• 1:17:57
  if they play it right. It could only work if they're not fighting over
• 1:18:00
  him, but more or less fighting each other because of him, because of
• 1:18:05
  him exactly, like I want him back and I'm gonna be here exactly and
• 1:18:13
  kicks him the bombs out here. My dude. You yeah, we've seen
• 1:18:19
  similar stuff like this before. It's Hogan and matra Man and Miss Elizabeth,
• 1:18:26
  Matt and Edge and Leda. What was another one? I just thought of
• 1:18:31
  the man, I can't think. Lana that's another one. Yeah, it
• 1:18:40
  was, yeah, Lana and Live Live was inserted in that one as well
• 1:18:45
  towards the end. Uh, dude, I looky, I've seen this play
• 1:18:49
  Trish Christian and Jericho. That one is the one I was thinking of too.
• 1:18:55
  Uh yeah, we've seen this play out several times, but now it
• 1:18:59
  could be playing was just two women in dumb, man, that that'd be
• 1:19:03
  awesome, fucking dirty dumb Yeah, brilliant, got these two women fighting over
• 1:19:11
  him. Yo. I was dying the other day. What was it?
• 1:19:15
  SmackDown? Ray? No, it was wrong. Ray and Don were on
• 1:19:19
  the same show and he told me call him dirty Sanchez, talk about his
• 1:19:26
  fucking mustache. Uh yeah, yeah, Hall of Famer. But I don't
• 1:19:33
  know I'm not looking at Ray the same as I used to, because he
• 1:19:38
  about the dumbest motherfucker on that damn roster. He's been betrayed so many freaking
• 1:19:43
  times it's ridiculous. He has everybody, dude, everybody training second, like
• 1:19:54
  everybody freaking turns on Ray at some point. He still keeps giving these full
• 1:19:59
  chances. Yeah about the Stinger, Yeah, well, Stinger just gave the
• 1:20:08
  same person chances over and over again, and most less Alex Luger. But
• 1:20:15
  Ray his kidding turned on him, stricken, Santo's turned on him, caletoed
• 1:20:20
  and turned on him pretty sure, and Drede gonna turn on him and so
• 1:20:26
  on. SmackDown. Now Batista turned on him. Oh wait, maybe I
• 1:20:30
  think there's probably a list wrestlers who turned on Hell. Just to touch back
• 1:20:44
  on how boarding the damn draft was l W went the wrong. We need
• 1:20:46
  to talk about it. Oh yeah, he broke up the Hispanish Civil War.
• 1:20:53
  God, how could I forget about Eddie and Tavo, Batista, dom
• 1:21:00
  Santa's Escobar. Damn Ray, you guys stop like trusting so many people.
• 1:21:04
  Dude, Oh god, you're supposed to be with my friend Ray. Yeah,
• 1:21:12
  yeah, it just shows. It shows this people. But if you
• 1:21:15
  go under images, wrestlers who turned on Redmisterior just go to images, it's
• 1:21:19
  just all these people just beating the ship out. Every photo is just Reay
• 1:21:26
  getting beat and then like him crying and like every photo. Do you guys
• 1:21:30
  remember when he won the vacated like WW title and John Cena beat him within
• 1:21:36
  the same night and he looked lost at immediately and then that's why Sam Punk
• 1:21:41
  returned then with the WW title. I remember that it was vacated for he
• 1:21:46
  won it. All title runs are like short, yeah, right, either
• 1:21:55
  like two hours or three weeks. There's anything else you guys want to talk
• 1:22:01
  about? And any other wrestling news. I mean I saw Tony comments and
• 1:22:05
  a neck brace. Uh he's not really moving perfectly fine, not gonna k
• 1:22:12
  fave and then saying that they are the Pepsi of wrestling and w W is
• 1:22:17
  like the Harvey Weinstein of wrestling. Yeah that was that was That was dumb,
• 1:22:25
  like honestly, like he just needs to he needs to been off air
• 1:22:30
  character like dude, don't don't ye He's not good when he's when he's just
• 1:22:36
  he's just says dumb ship. Yeah, shut the fuck up and focus on
• 1:22:40
  building your product. I know, and and you know what like this is
• 1:22:44
  like it's probably like some of the reasons why, like guys like us don't
• 1:22:46
  tune in every Wednesday and every Friday to a W stuff Like I like,
• 1:22:51
  I keep my ear to the ground, like I I I understand what's going
• 1:22:56
  on over there. I uh, you know, I I see what wrestlers
• 1:23:01
  are doing what But I'm not tuning in every week like I'd rather listen to
• 1:23:05
  like maybe like they don't give us anything to invest in. No, the
• 1:23:11
  only thing they really give you is matches and moments. They don't give you
• 1:23:15
  a reason to really invest in their their their performers or characters or give us
• 1:23:23
  it about them a perfect example, they just had a moment. It seems
• 1:23:27
  like every time they have a moment that people pay attention to it, they
• 1:23:30
  squander it. Perfect example, who just become the who just became their a
• 1:23:33
  W World champion? Swerve strictly first black world champion in aa W. What
• 1:23:40
  do they do that following Dynamite with him? Nothing? Nothing? I would
• 1:23:46
  I think he I don't remember if he was on the show or if he
• 1:23:49
  was It was brief for a brief moment, but you have your first black
• 1:23:55
  a W World champion, and you don't capitalize on that moment by having them
• 1:23:59
  to kick off the show. You don't celebrate that, you don't acknowledge that
• 1:24:02
  in any significant way on your flagship show, when the whole fucking internet's been
• 1:24:08
  talking about it the whole damn weekend since Sunday through Wednesday, talking about swerve
• 1:24:12
  this, swerve that, swerve that, and you kick off Dynamite with whatever
• 1:24:17
  the fuck you kicked it off with. That big moment that on that show
• 1:24:20
  was Tony Khan taking a fucking pile driver. Almost nothing with this black world
• 1:24:26
  champion that you just crowned that everybody was talking about. And then you want
• 1:24:30
  to follow up with we'll do it on Saturday, Freddy on Rampage and Collision.
• 1:24:35
  Oh so your new world champion has been relegated to your B shows.
• 1:24:42
  Just completely fucking wasted your moment, completely squandered the moment. Don't nobody care
• 1:24:46
  about that ship. Then your show's with that barely scored three hundred thousand viewers,
• 1:24:53
  and that's where you go to highlight them. It's a fucking waste,
• 1:24:56
  It's a spit in the face. That's the reason why nobody gets invested than
• 1:25:00
  the product. They just they see a couple of names on a match.
• 1:25:02
  Do I give a shit about them people having a match? Yes I do.
• 1:25:05
  I'll watch after that bye. Like Ospray and Daniel Bryan, they had
• 1:25:12
  a great freaking match at that last pay per view. It was a good
• 1:25:15
  match. I mean, I've seen better from Osprey, but it was still
• 1:25:17
  a really good match. Did I care about it beyond that? No?
• 1:25:23
  You got Willow Nightingale as your TBS champion. She's a one of your brightest
• 1:25:30
  stars of the company, a pure genuine babyface in every sense of the word,
• 1:25:34
  as clean cut babyface as it could be. People absolutely love her.
• 1:25:41
  He ain't really doing much shit with her, y'all probably about to hold her
• 1:25:45
  out to freaking Mercedes Monet at double or nothing. Like. They don't do
• 1:25:51
  anything with the talent that they have to make us care about them. They
• 1:25:55
  just seem just to be like, we have great matches, tune in,
• 1:26:00
  and that's not enough to make anybody invest in your product long term. They'll
• 1:26:05
  just continue to do what they do now. Okay, they're a match on
• 1:26:11
  this show that I care about watching. Yep, okay, I'll tune in
• 1:26:13
  for that batch after that bye, until they change their product, until they
• 1:26:20
  give us a reason to care about these wrestlers past the moment or past the
• 1:26:28
  next match that they have. It's not going to grow, I think.
• 1:26:31
  I think losing MJF and look at MJF for them has been a big deal.
• 1:26:39
  He was such a driving force behind not just his storyline, but you
• 1:26:45
  know, he kind of trickled down in other storylines. And I mean I
• 1:26:50
  I in as much as they haven't said on television or whatever, I believe
• 1:26:55
  that he is going to remain in a wo and the so called Bidding War
• 1:27:00
  of twenty twenty four is just the story. Oh yeah, but when he
• 1:27:03
  comes back, he's gonna He's one of the few guys that can do both,
• 1:27:11
  can do the storytelling part and the excellent pro wrestling part. I would
• 1:27:16
  love to see him in WWE at some point, but I don't think it'll
• 1:27:20
  be anytime soon. But Adman, they miss him, and whenever when he
• 1:27:26
  comes back, whenever it is, I think the whole program program, whole
• 1:27:30
  program will get a boom as a result. Sure, because he's probably like
• 1:27:35
  the only person on the roster that I think people have invested themselves in over
• 1:27:42
  any kind of extended period of time. He's about the closest one to a
• 1:27:46
  homegrown product that they have that Like I said that, people are invested in
• 1:27:53
  him as the character and as the person him. Maybe you could say timeless.
• 1:28:00
  Tony Stormer is starting to become that for people. Like people have really
• 1:28:02
  taken to her, and she's gotten she's getting there. She's not quite there
• 1:28:09
  yet, but yeah, m JFF is like the closest thing they have to
• 1:28:12
  a face of the company. And yeah, it really did hurt them the
• 1:28:15
  fact that he became champion and then got injured shortly thereafter. Well, yeah,
• 1:28:19
  Kenny Omega man now too. It has hurt them a lot. Also,
• 1:28:23
  he's not he doesn't quite have the charisma of an m JF. But
• 1:28:29
  he's so goddamn good it doesn't matter. Yeah, he's a he's another one
• 1:28:34
  that. Yeah, he can give you great matches, Yeah, yeah,
• 1:28:40
  that gat Yeah, And he's out of the ring work isn't isn't superb right,
• 1:28:45
  whereas MJF at least had the total package. He can give you great
• 1:28:49
  matches and great character work. Certainly, when I'm they get either of those
• 1:29:00
  guys back, but especially m JF. I think the whole program benefit the
• 1:29:06
  whole federation, if you will, if you will, uh yeah, anything
• 1:29:15
  else you guys want to talk about news wise, So I got, I
• 1:29:19
  got nothing. I mean, that's the major things that have happened. I
• 1:29:27
  mean, nothing else of significance other than again shout out to Trick Williams becoming
• 1:29:30
  an XT champion. I heard they're having trouble selling tickets that clash to the
• 1:29:34
  Castle. Yeah, I saw a story about it. Apparently they got some
• 1:29:40
  there's some ridiculous pricing that they're doing with those tickets, but who knows.
• 1:29:45
  I mean, I didn't read it to see what the details of the ticket
• 1:29:48
  pricing is. But no, Yeah, I'm kind of curious because well,
• 1:29:54
  or they'll drop the prices of tickets and in order to move them as it
• 1:29:58
  gets if ticket sales are still bad closer to the show, they'll just drop
• 1:30:03
  the price of the tickets to sell them. Yeah. Yeah, so I
• 1:30:08
  think that. I think the last time they did it in Wigh else it's
• 1:30:11
  sold out in like three hours, and I think they were expecting that again
• 1:30:15
  and it's not that happened. Yeah, it's have only been on sale for
• 1:30:19
  a couple of days. It's not like it's not like the shows next week,
• 1:30:24
  and you know, they still have twenty thousand seats open. They're just
• 1:30:29
  not flying like they thought they would. Yeah. Sure, and I think
• 1:30:32
  that may be very expensive. Yeah, and that could be an issue that
• 1:30:36
  ww CAN will potentially run into as they start to do more international shows,
• 1:30:42
  is if you start to come to these venues more and more often, it
• 1:30:45
  becomes suddenly less special special now, Yeah, the birds on you more to
• 1:30:50
  put on a show that's more worth these people's time, because they may decide
• 1:30:54
  like, oh, you'll be back next year. If this one sucks,
• 1:30:57
  I'll just skip it in catch the one next year, or I'll catch a
• 1:31:00
  flight over to France and catch backlash or over to Germany to catch this instead.
• 1:31:05
  Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm I'm looking right now. Because
• 1:31:12
  you can get like smacked down clash to the castle, like I guess like
• 1:31:17
  package deals. They have them for like seven hundred, eight hundred bucks.
• 1:31:23
  Yeah, they do look pretty fucking pricey. That seems like a lot just
• 1:31:28
  for two shows, unless those are like really really good seats. If you're
• 1:31:33
  looking like all the way at the top. It's like four hundred bucks if
• 1:31:38
  you're looking like on the floor forty nine. It's actually really weird the layout
• 1:31:46
  of the Hydrow Glasgow, Osco. I don't even know this. It's like
• 1:31:55
  a it's like a really weird like amphitheater. The way it looks, I
• 1:32:00
  don't know I really explain it. I can't. Hm anyway, Yeah,
• 1:32:09
  well they better sell some fucking tickets. Considering it looks like whatever the camera
• 1:32:13
  angle is gonna be, there isn't gonna be many people sitting on a hardcam
• 1:32:16
  side. Everybody's gonna be facing one direction. It looks like wow, So
• 1:32:21
  yeah, you better not have any fucking empty seats saying ad w, we
• 1:32:28
  need people fucking film those seats. So yeah, I mean that's that's all
• 1:32:33
  I got, dude, I got nothing else. Nothing. Yeah, I'm
• 1:32:42
  gonna be on Scenic Casts in a few weeks. I don't know what episode.
• 1:32:45
  I know it's in May. So I like, I like being on
• 1:32:48
  Scenic Cast. I really miss Pop Culture Leftovers, to be honest, you
• 1:32:55
  know, as listening to it and also being on it. Uh So,
• 1:33:00
  like I kind of get my fix now from like Scenic Cast, and I
• 1:33:02
  get My Fix from like John Campia Show and Screen Crush. If any of
• 1:33:10
  the sound familiar to you guys, ah, well, you know that's just
• 1:33:15
  for our pop culture stuff that we need. Uh. There are sometimes I
• 1:33:19
  think about starting a pop culture podcast of like I thought of like maybe covering
• 1:33:27
  like series, like movie series, Like we'll cover like all the Lord of
• 1:33:31
  the Rings one day, and then an episode will cover like all the Harry
• 1:33:34
  Potters and or we'll cover cover you know, maybe all the Leath of Weapon
• 1:33:40
  movies and we'll talk about like what our favorite movie out of that series was,
• 1:33:44
  and which was the worst box office numbers and stuff like I don't know
• 1:33:47
  I thought of that, uh you know, but we always got PCW.
• 1:33:54
  Always got PCW for all your wrestling needs. Doyle is in charge of the
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• 1:34:50
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• 1:35:02
  Awesome. With that said, gentlemen, we are out of here. We're
• 1:35:06
  gonna wrap this bitch up. All right. Let's let's should we dip or
• 1:35:12
  should we eat out of here? Or should we bye bye bitch? Yeah,
• 1:35:18
  here we go. Use your bitch. You are the world's dumbest sign
• 1:35:30
  up a bitch. The fact that day in and day out, for almost
• 1:35:35
  six years I improved everybody in the world that I am the best on this
• 1:35:41
  microphone and in that break and give it a commentary, nobody can touch me.
• 1:35:45
  You are not plenty. It's because there's stream perfect up and we watch
• 1:35:56
  the stuff your talk about. Your sons talk about Joah three sixteen, I
• 1:36:04
  stay three sixteen says I just whipped your ass. Well, let me tell
• 1:36:10
  you something, brother Rock, Oh new day, the Queen raised to the
• 1:36:24
  top all year, my True Madness yet to the top, and Owen Show.
• 1:36:30
  Lately, he just hasn't been Harry Usy because I'm know this and I'm
• 1:36:45
  oh so those rotten bastards. Bye bye, Bitchen.