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- 0:00It's still welcome everybody. Welcome to this week's edition The Surreal The Show,
- 0:21Episode number seven and forty three ver May ninth, twenty twenty four. This
- 0:26year WWE Backlash Recap and Review edition of ass RT You I am one alf
- 0:34the Show. I am Jeff Peck joined every single week when my co host
- 0:38on only Doctor Trey Franklin. Doctor Trey, do you want to go to
- 0:42France? My friend, well, a wise man once told me there's a
- 0:47place in France where the women wear no pants and then there's a hole in
- 0:51the wall where the men can sea at all. But I will say,
- 0:55based on that crowd in France, it's it's now jumped way up on my
- 0:59list of future travel destinations. Never in my wildest dreams what I think I
- 1:03would want to go to France. I watched Backlash and that was a pretty
- 1:07good way to sell France to wrestling fans. So let's get into it here,
- 1:14Doctor Trey w Backlash Recap and Review. We'll get right into it right
- 1:18away here, right at the jump. It came to us this past Saturday
- 1:22from the l dlc Arena and Leone, France. We'll run through the card
- 1:26and then we'll go through our matches and moments. We want to discuss the
- 1:30Bloodline defeat Randy Orton Kevin Owens. We both had the Bloodline. Bailey defeats
- 1:34Naomi and Tiffany Stratton to in a triple threat match to retain the w Women's
- 1:38Championship. We both had Bailey. Damian Priese retains the World Heavyweight Championship over
- 1:42j Usa. We both had Damien Priese. Bianca bell Aar and Jade Cargill
- 1:47defeat the Kabuki Warriors to win the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship. We both
- 1:51had Bianca and Jade, and Cody Rhods defeats aj Styles retain the Undisputed w
- 1:56Championship. We both had Cody Rhodes. We both went five and oh over
- 2:01our prediction records here now and dating back to aw Dynasty, Doctor Trey and
- 2:07I are fifteen and oh over the last two shows that takes our pay per
- 2:13view prediction records. I'm at fifty and eight. Doctor Trey is at forty
- 2:15five and thirteen. Pretty good there, Doctor Trey. I guess we should
- 2:20try to make this a thing with like DraftKings or Fan Duel ever picks up
- 2:23these wrestling picks. I'm we're on a Goldberg Oscar streak right now. I
- 2:29guess we just got to run with it. So yeah, overall, I
- 2:32don't know if that's a good thing or not. I mean ten and oh
- 2:36for AAW then a five and oh here, I don't know if that's actually
- 2:38a good thing for us or a bad thing, because does that mean wrestling's
- 2:42a little predictable right now? I don't really know, Like we like the
- 2:46uncertainty of stuff. But although this card was very, very kind of predictable,
- 2:51it was it actually was a decent show. Yeah, we'll see what
- 2:53the ratings are here from both of us. I mean we did give aw
- 2:57dynasty. I gave it a four point oh doct Trey gave it a four
- 2:59point two and it was easily predicted show. And we'll see where backlash lands
- 3:02as well. So matches and moments I want to discuss here, we want
- 3:07to discuss here, Doctor Trey on this week's ditition of sr TU. I
- 3:10think the first thing for me the France international crowds, by far and away,
- 3:16they are, without it, doubt the best France was a legendary crowd.
- 3:23The crowd for Clash at the Castle a couple of years ago, legendary
- 3:27crowd, the backlash from last year in Puerto Rico, legendary crowd. I
- 3:34mean that those crowds make the shows that much more fun. I don't know
- 3:38how, you know, maybe if you take that crowd element out of it,
- 3:44is it is that of an entertaining show that we watch on Saturday.
- 3:47I could not get over how much fun the France crowd and international crowds overall
- 3:53are, especially as we've seen the last couple of years in w W A
- 3:57Are we spoiled as America wrestling consumers? Is that? Is that what it
- 4:01is? We're just spoiled and they're just so much more appreciative of the fact
- 4:03that they're there. Now. Yes, one to answer your question, this
- 4:09show is in Leon, France. It's not in Paris. It's in Leon,
- 4:13and Michael Cole had to bring it up. That's two hours away.
- 4:15So maybe it's because they weren't in Paris and they were Leone. I don't
- 4:18know, but the I mean, and you go at in the you know,
- 4:23the Wembley Stadium show, that crowd was really good too. I mean,
- 4:26I don't know if it was as good, but it's eighty thousand people
- 4:29versus twelve thousand people or fifteen thousand people. Smaller crowds in an area like
- 4:33this are really really passionate. But the Wembley the London crowd was was really
- 4:39good too. But this was one of the most fun shows I've watched,
- 4:44just off crowd interaction that I can remember at a qual x time. The
- 4:46fun part for me, Jeff, I don't know if you went through this,
- 4:48was trying to decipher what they were chanting, because literally the entire show
- 4:55they chanted this is awesome, but with the accent it sounded like this is
- 4:58awkward. At so I was like, fair, I think they're saying awesome,
- 5:03but the accidents were I still do not know what they were chanting.
- 5:06At AJ Styles they were singing a song about him being phenomenal because I actually
- 5:15looked it up after SmackDown, So the big chants were the phenomenal ones every
- 5:20time phenomenal was said in that segment from AJ Styles and Cody wrote. And
- 5:24if you actually go back to that SmackDown, the fans like clearly hijacked that
- 5:29segment so much so that I think Cody and AJ Styles were a little bit
- 5:33thrown off because it was kind of an awkward segment if you go back and
- 5:38watch that. And then the second one was they would chant in France that
- 5:44is two or this is two or whatever it was. Every single time there
- 5:48was a two count, which was a nod to the French commentators for we
- 5:54who got like this massive reaction from the crowd. So those were the two
- 5:59that were going out. But they were singing a song about aj styles being
- 6:02phenomenal. It's like some sort of pop cultury eighties nineties song. And then
- 6:06they had the that is two that they were counting. But in French.
- 6:11Do you remember nxc UK when Zach Gibson was there, Oh yeah, that
- 6:15was a great helpe Zach Gibson off. Yeah, I love that and and
- 6:21stuff like that where I'm like, man like, I feel like as Americas
- 6:25we just you know, you and I talk about it. It's like the
- 6:28tribalism and everybody wants to point out the botches or this and this and this.
- 6:32It's like, man like these shows Puerto Rico, France, England,
- 6:36you know, Scotland, uttuse be car If was in Wales. Actually they
- 6:41just have fun. They're just there to have fun and party and have a
- 6:46good time, and like it does it makes you go, Damn, I
- 6:50just really want to go to a show now overseas somewhere and just be a
- 6:55part of that environment. But I mean that that alone, if this show
- 6:59was done in Indianapolis, you and I have price here and be like,
- 7:03yeah, it was an okay show, But that crowd actually just amped it
- 7:08up and just made it that. I mean, the Jay Uso entrance was
- 7:13fantastic, you know, like just things like that, you know, hearing
- 7:16the French people sing the Bailey song. Yeah, the crowd singing Randy Orton
- 7:20song on SmackDown and again at Backlash, like stuff like that just made the
- 7:26show even more memorable. And it's like, yeah, I mean outside like
- 7:30Backlash last year. I remember Zelina Vega, I remember bad Buddy Dan Priesze.
- 7:31I don't remember the much of the show. I remember the crowd,
- 7:34and I wonder if we'll feel the same way next year about man Backlash in
- 7:40France was so fun. I don't really remember like any of the matches standing
- 7:42out is like fantastic matches, but damn, that crowd was into it.
- 7:46Yeah, they were really into it. I think it's just international crowds as
- 7:49a whole, because you see it during soccer football matches, how amp they
- 7:54are. I know, every time like Major League Baseball goes to an international
- 8:00place, like the crowd is hyped, they're excited for it. I just
- 8:03think American crowds are boring in all honesty, right, I mean we sit
- 8:07there and we're like, oh, New York, Philly, Boston. There's
- 8:11some other spots that have popped up over the last couple of years where you're
- 8:15like, that was a really good US crowd and they go back and it's
- 8:16a lot of fun. But then you compare it to Puerto Rico and France.
- 8:22I expect that Glasgow, Scotland is gonna be awesome for Clash to the
- 8:26Castle next month. They just always seem to bring it and they deliver and
- 8:31they have a great time. And yeah, I mean to that point,
- 8:33I you know, crowds play a huge role into it, and that was
- 8:37such a hot, fun crowd that the performers were like really excited and into
- 8:43it. There was a couple of times where usually like when the moments happened
- 8:48postmatch, you'll you could like kind of read the lips of the wrestlers and
- 8:52see what they're saying. But you could audibly hear Bailey saying like, you
- 8:56guys were amazing, like thank you so much, and it was some sort
- 9:00of like character thing, like it was one hundred percent legitimate response to how
- 9:05they were treating her during the match, or just receptive of the match as
- 9:11a whole, and they just were having a fun time. You could tell
- 9:13the performers, we're having a fun time, and it just resonated on the
- 9:16screen because me, as a viewer at home, was having a fun time.
- 9:20So amazing crowd there. We'll talk a little bit more about the French
- 9:24backlash crowd in just a moment or two. A couple more news and notes
- 9:28from me here, Doctor Trey Paul Hayman's reactions to this new Rogue edition of
- 9:35the Bloodline is incredible and this chapter of the Bloodline storyline is really good with
- 9:39the shocking edition of Tongaloya. I mean, we've been hearing about Jacob Fatu
- 9:43from MLW now that he's a free agent and he's reportedly signed with nothing about
- 9:50Tom Atungua's tag team partner from Guerrilla's of Destiny Toangaloa being signed to WEE.
- 9:54He's actually back in we People may not remember him as Camacho along with Huniko
- 10:01in that ill fated uh gimmick from the post Sinkara era of Huniko in late
- 10:09twenty tens early twenty tens. Excuse me, but Hayman in the background,
- 10:15I mean, he looks like he's a prisoner of war right now, like
- 10:18he has been kidnapped. And then they had that interaction leading into the jay
- 10:24Uso Damien priestmatch behind the scenes where like the bloodline goes past jay Uso,
- 10:28Hayman stops, stares at jay us and kind of is like help me in
- 10:31a way. I mean, that is awesome. And those are speaking volumes,
- 10:37and that is a moment where emotions and reactions and facial expressions are telling
- 10:45more of a story than the words that I'm saying, the responses to what
- 10:48I believe Paul Hayman is going through right now. Yeah, Paul Hayman's everybody
- 10:56knows that I've been in the rest of the visits for I've stolen so much,
- 11:00and the big part of it is the facials and the expressing of emotion
- 11:05without saying a word, and a lot of stuff he's doing now, Like
- 11:09even postmatch when Solo and Tongala and Toma tong are standing over Kevin Owens and
- 11:16there's Paul Hayman protecting Kevin Owens. This is the guy that's not Roman,
- 11:24like four or five times over the last three years, was involved in the
- 11:28Samy zay and s with the USOS in Wrestlmania two years ago, and Paul's
- 11:31protecting Kevin Owens like that just shows you like he has no control or his
- 11:39character has no control over what Solo and the Gorillas are are doing are going
- 11:45to be doing. It's telling in that sense. And even like you mentioned
- 11:48the slow walk past Jay. You know, even Jay like looking shocked like
- 11:54he sees his brother, but then he sees I guess his cousins. I
- 11:58don't. I don't know how the family. I didn't and study this part
- 12:01of the family treat But and then you see Paul like slowly walking by,
- 12:05and like you said, that helped me look or the I'm surprised you're still
- 12:11because I have no controling what these guys do. Right now, I think,
- 12:13like is so telling him? So good? But yeah, I mean
- 12:18Tonga Low was showing up, and honestly, there was a part of me
- 12:20that just kept wanting him to ride the bicycle to the ring afterwards. If
- 12:26you don't know what I'm referring, to go back and watch Camacho. But
- 12:31yeah, like, and then even hearing Corey and Michael allude to the name
- 12:37Gorillas of Destiny postmatch without saying it is in you know, the commentary,
- 12:43even like when they're talking about Tonga or Toma Tonga and mentioning his wins in
- 12:50New Japan and who he defeated, you know, matches with Evil, Like
- 12:54did you ever think you would hear them mention Evil on a WW broadcast?
- 12:58Like it was stuff like that just kind of blew me away, And I'm
- 13:01like, damn, Like that's really good. But it lends credibility to characters
- 13:05that the American audience may not know. So Paul Hayman, the commentary crew
- 13:09on this whole thing was it was fantastic. The other point I want to
- 13:13make from this show here, there was a confusion of who was legal during
- 13:16the women's tag team match that slowed down the pace to match some but you
- 13:22could ultimately see the long term storyline starting to play out for bel Air and
- 13:26Cargill, which is exciting. I think Jade is still a ways away for
- 13:30being able to handle a one on one encounter with Bianca Belair in ring wise,
- 13:33but there's a lot of promise there. She gets more reps in.
- 13:37I would like to see this thing play out, Doctor Trey the belief in
- 13:39this one. It was like the Bloodline always with Sammy's ain involved, that
- 13:43somebody was going to turn on who my feeling would be the Jade car Gill
- 13:46turns on Bianca at some point. I would like to see this just play
- 13:50out and end up at a WrestleMania match. And it's very funny because coming
- 13:54out of the Royal Rumbolt earlier this year, they did the tease of Bianca
- 13:58versus Jade, and I think even back in December when we were predicting the
- 14:01WRESTLEMANI card for one of the last shows of the year, we were thinking
- 14:05Bianca and Jade would be the match on WrestleMania, and that was under the
- 14:09old guard of we that would most likely happen under this new guard. And
- 14:13I've said this before in the podcast with Paul Levec Triple H. They're letting
- 14:16it breathe a little bit more and have some emotion behind it, rather than
- 14:20saying, yeah, we know you want to see this. This is a
- 14:22dream match we're going to execute. Now, there is that dream match.
- 14:26We want to see this, but we're going to give you a storyline and
- 14:28some emotion behind it and build these two to have a personal conflict at some
- 14:33point, and that makes things exciting. So a little bit too fold here.
- 14:37The tag team match did not live up to any type of potential because
- 14:41of the weird legal slowing it down, referee saying they weren't legal, then
- 14:46letting I think Oscar stay in the ring. It was very confusing. But
- 14:50what's exciting of all this This is the catapult to what we would lead to
- 14:52believe, hopefully a long storyline between Jade Cargill and Bianca Bilaire. All right,
- 14:58so a couple things are that match. I'll bring up one. I'm
- 15:03a big Oscar fan, but there are times I watch Oscar wrestle that the
- 15:05communications off and it looks clunky. I'm not a Kyrie Saint fan. I
- 15:11know there's a lot of people that love watching Kyrie Saint wrestle. Every time
- 15:13I watch her in a match, and it's somebody that she really hasn't wrestled
- 15:16that often. You get these and I saw people like trying to blame Jade
- 15:20for stuff in this match, and I was like, you have three veterans
- 15:24and a person who's green. The three veterans should be walking this person through
- 15:30the match so that way she doesn't look bad. And I thought that the
- 15:33times where things look clunky and off, it was the fault of Oscar and
- 15:37Kyrie and not Jay. So go back and watch the match and have that
- 15:43kind of mindset. The other thing is I want you to go back and
- 15:46check the tapes because I remember distinctly my WRESTLEMANI card was Biyanka and Jade against
- 15:52the Kamuki Warriors, and you were like, no, I want Bianca and
- 15:56Jade one on one a wrestle Manie. I was like, if you give
- 15:58it time, it'll it'll, it'll play itself out. So you've come full
- 16:03circle. Then you come around to my point of view, because that was
- 16:04what I had at WrestleMania, was Jada Biyaki against the Kabuki Warriors then leading
- 16:10to an eventual split between them to get to that WrestleMania match. I want
- 16:14to see Beyonca turn on Jade. I want to see jb the baby face
- 16:18because she is greener, she is clunkier in the ring than Bianca, and
- 16:22we haven't had heel Bianca in quite some time. So for me, it
- 16:27would be that Jade gets popular, Beyonca gets jealous, and Beyonca turns on
- 16:32Jade head against the WrestleMania season. So that's how I would That's how I
- 16:34would book it because we haven't seen that version of Bianca in w W shis
- 16:41she's come to the main roster, So that's that's how I would let it
- 16:42play out. Haygaen say next to yours WrestleMania. I think Jade is just
- 16:45so damn good as a heel that I'd like to see that play out on
- 16:48w WILLI and Beyonca is so damn good as a baby face, but Beyonca
- 16:52and NXT as a heel was really good also, And Jade could be your
- 16:57female superman, like you know, like we talked about with John seen it
- 17:00back in the day or the Roman Reigns, where like she's just invincible.
- 17:06It's hard to book monsters and giants sometimes, as you know, villains because
- 17:11when they lose. It makes them look bad. I think you know,
- 17:15we've seen Bianca be the superwoman of this roster for three four years. Now
- 17:19you can let somebody else come in and be the superwoman for a while.
- 17:25Let Bianca flesh out her character somewhere, because hell she's I'm not that Bianca's
- 17:29all because think Bianca's like twenty nine. But as a heel, it gives
- 17:33her a little bit of depth, and then you know she can always revert
- 17:37back, you know, save the day and come back as a babyface,
- 17:40and you flip j back the other way. I just sometimes it's to take
- 17:44the unconventional route is actually the best course of action. So doctor Trey wanted
- 17:48me to pull the tapes and back in December, there as Russell Manni forty
- 17:52Car predictions. He had Oscar and Kyrie saying defending the WE Women's Tag Team
- 17:57Championship against Chelsea Green and Piper Nivin Alba Faire and Islad Dawn and Italian Teaganox.
- 18:04And you did have Jade versus Bianca maybe later on, maybe later on
- 18:11coming out of the rumbles, when you felt that way, Yeah, I
- 18:12think I flipped. It was at the rumble, So yeah, I know
- 18:15at the Rumble, I went to the tag team match, so there you
- 18:18go. There you go. I actually had Bianca, bel Air, and
- 18:22Chatzi tagging with one another against Oscar and Kyrie, saying for the woman's tag
- 18:26team Championship. So there you go. There's some thoughts there on that tag
- 18:30team match. And the last thing I want to say here from the backlash
- 18:33pl Doctor Trey is I love seeing aj Styles back in the World Championship main
- 18:37event match. I felt like he was the perfect first opponent for Cody's Championship
- 18:41reign. Yeah, and I think how we posted it there is the first
- 18:45time we haven't had we've had a World title match in cleanly since Riddle and
- 18:52Roman reigns. Wow. But just a really really good match. I love
- 19:00my bouse back where A says just two Georgia boys going at it. I
- 19:03love that stuff. It was so good. I mean, it's just a
- 19:04really really damn good match. I do question this thing where Cody has to
- 19:11put away certain guys with three crossroads but Aj only takes one. I'm like,
- 19:15what we hid him too? At least I mean, at least maybe
- 19:18better. But just a really really solid World title match. That didn't have
- 19:22a bunch of outside in affairs, just kind of shows that you know,
- 19:26you don't always have to do the chicanery to make somebody look good. I
- 19:30still thought AJ looked good. I mean it came out where he basically missed
- 19:33the forearm and that led to the finish, and AJ still comes out looking
- 19:37strong because it was a really strong match, showcasing both their talents. Yeah,
- 19:41I felt like for a long time that they were misusing AJ styles,
- 19:45like the last three years really, I mean there's been very little things in
- 19:49note and I know he's had some injuries, but I mean it's felt like
- 19:52three or four ever since, like the Boneyard match in twenty twenty when he
- 19:56was paired up with Omas for a while, and then kind of just period
- 20:00was injuries OC was back then they're not. So Yeah, it was just
- 20:03I felt like misuse, mismanagement of AJ styles. You were saying something doctor
- 20:07Trey, did you like the purple and black gear? I did that was
- 20:11a nod to Nwat and I yeah, and it was to me. It
- 20:14was also not the Boneyard match with the Undertaker, because that was always doing
- 20:17for the black and purple, So you kind of go a couple different ways
- 20:18with it. I was like, man, it looked really clean, and
- 20:22so the first thing my wife said what she saw, She's like, man,
- 20:23that purple looks really good on a jem. I'm like, yeah,
- 20:27it's the kickpads and the gloves, which is literally the same purple that Undertaker
- 20:30had back in the day. Any other news and notes from the paper pl
- 20:34e. Doctor Trey that I missed that you'd like to bring up on the
- 20:37podcast. Is Jay Husso the new Brian Daniel or the new Daniel Brian?
- 20:41Like the crowd was so into the eat and the entrance and everything else,
- 20:47Like he's super over as a baby face, Like they just ate that up.
- 20:52Yeah, And I'm sure knowing w W they have a long term plan
- 20:56with him on where they want to go. I mean, I would not
- 20:59be surprised if at some point if Roman returns his babyface, the USOS realigned
- 21:03together and join Roman to take on the new edition of the Bloodline. But
- 21:10yeah, I mean, it's getting to the point where his popularity is super
- 21:12over. They did the right thing by putting him in a champion match.
- 21:15I did not think that Damien pre should be dropping the title to him,
- 21:18but it's getting there where it's like, Okay, we got to do something
- 21:22with him, And I mean, do you put him in the Intercontinal Championship
- 21:26rain here. I think his involvement in the King of the Ring tournament is
- 21:29going to be something to keep an eye on here the next couple of weeks.
- 21:32Yeah, I agree. I was looking. I'm looking at this.
- 21:33He's got a little bit of I think I made this joke with a friend
- 21:37of mine there and asser. You know, Cody Roads is the perfect babyface
- 21:40in a sense because he literally took all the big babyfaces from the eighties and
- 21:44kind of combined him into one. Like he's got a little bit of Hogan,
- 21:47he's got a little bit of flare with the blonde hair, but he's
- 21:48had like the stings old school surfacing style jackets as well. Jay Uso is
- 21:55kind of the same thing. He's like, Okay, I I got a
- 21:56chance, I got the macho man looking glasses like you kind of got a
- 22:00little bit of that eighties throveback vibe as well. And then on the Triple
- 22:06Threat Batch, I was impressed how much control they gave Tiffany Stratton in that
- 22:11match. That to me was telling that, Hey, she's gonna be our
- 22:15one of our future stars in this division, so we want her to look
- 22:18really really good in this and Bailey wins with kind of a roll up.
- 22:22It wasn't Bailey getting a clean, decisive victory, it was that roll up
- 22:26win on Naomi. So Tiffany doesn't take the loss. Naomi got rolled up.
- 22:30So Bailey wins, and everybody came out looking pretty good in that match,
- 22:33but I think Tiffany came out looking the best out of the three of
- 22:37the girls in that match. Two moments from the weekend that actually it felt
- 22:41like WI kind of misread how the crowd would react involves both those people you
- 22:45just talked about, jay Uso and Tiffany Stratt. I think w WI you
- 22:49thought that Tiffany Stratt was going to get a similar reaction as she did in
- 22:52Australia, and it did not feel like the French crowd was into Tiffy Time
- 22:57at all. And I almost as I was watching SmackDown and then the pl
- 23:03on Saturday, I was thinking to myself, like, maybe she's doing this
- 23:07too much, where now it's starting to feel like it's forced the Tiffy Time
- 23:11because the fans were not relating to it, and then they tried to recreate
- 23:15the Fireflies moment with jay Uso on Monday's Ron Hartford. I mean they dimmed
- 23:22the lights and the Hartford crowd did not do their job at all. Going
- 23:26back to like the US crowds being bad, they I mean they literally the
- 23:30old shot previous to Backlash was you could see the crowd and they would be
- 23:34moving their hands up and down with jay Uso. They dim the lights in
- 23:38hopes that they would pick up on what happened two days prior to Backlash with
- 23:41the phones, and they barely did it at all. So I thought that
- 23:45was kind of funny. I don't know if you picked up on that.
- 23:48I just think the Hertford crowd was still where that cmpunk was trapped in Titan
- 23:51towers. Hey, you can't blame him. I reached out to him.
- 23:53I reached out to him to see if he wanted to hang out. It's
- 23:56not that far of a drive. So there you go. Matt of the
- 24:00Night and event rating from W Backlash. I gave W Backlash a four point
- 24:06three out of five, and my match of the night was the Bloodline versus
- 24:08Randy Orton, Kevin Owens, Doctor Trey. I went three point nine and
- 24:14my match at night was Cody and AJ. Wow, I'm surprised that there's
- 24:18a big difference there between the both of us. I just the crowd was
- 24:22great, but really, like I said, like I said earlier, like
- 24:23the matches themselves, I don't know if anything jumped out, like the most
- 24:27memorable thing from the show is going to be Tongalowe's debut, you know,
- 24:32and and the rebirth of this now three person bloodline. But the AJ Cody
- 24:37match was a great match. The bloodline, Orton Owens match was fantastic,
- 24:42but then the other stuff was like it was good, but I just don't
- 24:45know if it's nothing's match at the year quality on the show. So the
- 24:48crowd for me probably said it for me at three point five interesting and interesting.
- 24:52I thought the matches were all very solid outside the tag team match.
- 24:56Yeah, I mean, like I said, they were solid matches. But
- 24:59I mean, if I'm off match, if I'm go off solid matches,
- 25:02I guess I can flip on a w Yeah. I mean I don't think
- 25:07that that was a three point five show without the crowd. I mean,
- 25:08I thought that was a solid wrestling show, So it's surprising how much of
- 25:14a difference there. Gonna be honest, what did you have Dynasty at I
- 25:17had another four point zero? So this show backlash overall. Now, now
- 25:22if you put this crowd up, let's look at this, if you took
- 25:26the crowd out, is this show a better show than Dynasty? Uh?
- 25:30In ring wise? Yeah? Probably not? But to me, you know,
- 25:36I always will rate my shows. The problem that I'm having with AW
- 25:40lately, it's funny that you bring this up is and I said it last
- 25:44week. I just think it's it's starting to get boring. There's there's not
- 25:48a lot of entertainment in the beginning or the you know, in the middle
- 25:52of the matches. There's nothing storyline, creative segments, promos, vignettes in
- 26:00between the matches at AW that is making me go, this is an entertaining
- 26:06show. It's it's something. It's getting to the point where I feel like
- 26:11AW I could watch the matches on YouTube and forget the rest of the show
- 26:15at this point, Yeah, all the crowd, the crowd energy at adw's
- 26:18dip down, which is really hurting the show a lot. But like for
- 26:21me, this one Like I said, I think match quality wise, Dynasty
- 26:23was better, but the crowd helped it out. But I think I still
- 26:26enjoyed Dynasty slightly better than this one. Yeah yeah, I mean you had
- 26:30an other four point two, so you know, for me again, I
- 26:34take a new account the crowd. I think they play a huge role into
- 26:37it, the stuff in between the matches, the creative that's going on in
- 26:41the matches. And I really liked the stuff that came out of the Bloodline.
- 26:48I liked the behind the scenes stuff. I I liked it all encompassing.
- 26:52I thought it was like a really solid wrestling show overall. That's how
- 26:56I typically great things. It's not just like the N ring stuff. It's
- 26:59I'm getting point where at the end of the night, it's like, was
- 27:00I entertained? And I was more entertained with Backlash than I was Dynasty.
- 27:04I think if I look at it from a raw to smack down to the
- 27:11pl I would probably bump it up because that whole week was good leading into
- 27:15it, where if you do dynamite rampage collision Dynasty, I actually probably would
- 27:22have dropped the grade a little bit because everything I say was kind of crap.
- 27:26Right, That's kind of how I feel right now, like I'm having
- 27:29to grade pay per view ples on their own. But even though, but
- 27:33like if you watch SmackDown and it went right into Backlash, that's it was
- 27:38five hours of damn good entertainment. And if I would have bumped my score
- 27:41up a little bit more so, that's I kind of I'm almost trying to
- 27:45grade it and take out the crap around it and try to get fair grades
- 27:49just based on the show itself, I guess. And how I'm kind of
- 27:53a phrasing thing right now. Yeah, no, I hear you. You
- 27:56know, it's funny that when we talked about Dynasty, I was like,
- 28:00listen, Like if I was giving anyone advice right now, I would tell
- 28:03someone, don't you don't have to watch Dynamite, Collision Rampage. If you
- 28:08just watch the pay per views with their airing Revolution and Dynasty the last couple
- 28:14of months, you will be satisfied as a wrestling fan. Getting there is
- 28:19lacking and the follow up is lacking. You know, you kind of saw
- 28:25a little bit of that with And I hate to kind of complain about this
- 28:29because I want these tied up. Because I was thinking on last week's Dynamite,
- 28:33like why didn't the Mogul Embassy come to the aid of Swerve Strickland,
- 28:38But then they did the angle where they turned on him on Wednesdays Dynamite.
- 28:42But the old school wrestling fan and me would have liked to see and okay,
- 28:47they didn't come out on last Wednesday's Dynamite. Turns out they were like
- 28:52locked in their locker room by the Young Bucks or something like that. Then
- 28:56there's a segment where Cage and the Gates of Aggy are telling Swort of Strickling
- 29:00like we'll have your back now next time, and you kind of build up
- 29:03to that moment rather than just completely out of nowhere executed because we had not
- 29:07seen Swerve of Strickling with a local embassy in like eight weeks. Well,
- 29:11yeah, I think a few weeks. I mentioned I'm like, so not
- 29:15as a babyface where he's with Swerve, but he's a healed when he's with
- 29:18the rest of the group. And then you don't even see Nana in the
- 29:22ring when they do this turn. And I actually thought, sorry to interrupt
- 29:27you, I thought that they did a bad job on commentary not selling the
- 29:32fact that Nana was selling his injuries from the week before, like they should
- 29:37have re showed that segment to refresh everybody's memory, Like, wait, where's
- 29:41Princeton? Nah? Yeah, because I missed that. And so when I'm
- 29:45watching what happens, I'm going, now, this could be great television,
- 29:48a sense of where does Nana's loyalties lie into it, because dear God,
- 29:52I really don't. I don't know if I want to see Nana join the
- 29:56patriarchy. No, no, as with Christian kings. But you know I'm
- 30:02watching this going for one, we really haven't seen the mogleimascy on Dynamite all
- 30:07that much the last six months. They've been ring of honor, a little
- 30:11bit of collision, a little bit of rampage here and there, but we
- 30:14really haven't seen it all that much. But now all of a sudden,
- 30:15it's like, oh, I forgot that, Like you almost forgot that Swerve
- 30:19was in the group with them, and they didn't do enough selling of it
- 30:26to lead into it making a compelling turn. And I'm like, but this
- 30:30is I mean, if we're gonna go down the dynamite ramp, the dynamite
- 30:33route right now, like I can still go back and bitch and complain about
- 30:37the stuff with the Elite and FDR and Brian Dangelsson and Eddie Haston as well.
- 30:41So like the show itself, and you're right, like getting to the
- 30:45paytent views for one show is really really hard and difficult and the other one
- 30:52is seeless. And I think that you're absolutely right. You can watch AW
- 30:56pay per views on their own freestanding. You like, man, it's a
- 31:00damn good show. But then if you watch the other three stuff with the
- 31:03other three shows leading into and you're like, ah, just it's almost painful
- 31:07at times. So whereas you do the same thing with the RAW, You're
- 31:11like, man, this Monday was a good show. SmackDown Corral was super
- 31:15hype. I was excited at adding into Backlager based on the week of programming
- 31:18leading into it. Yeah, yeah, I think you know. I've started
- 31:22to like dread the WE shows, like all encompassing, like the way that
- 31:26the build has happened, the show itself, the execution. You feel satisfied
- 31:30as a wrestling fan, and you feel satisfied as a wrestling fan watching the
- 31:33AW show. But I feel like, just from an N ring standpoint,
- 31:36it's the dynamite and rampage collisions that you're like, it's almost like, get
- 31:41a the point where they're insulting your intelligence or they're executing. They're executing the
- 31:45storyline not to the way that makes the most sense I think overall, And
- 31:49that's what you kind of saw play out with Sort Strickland the mobile Embassy on
- 31:53Wednesday's Dynamite switching back to the Backlass crowd. So we had w Backlash this
- 32:01past Saturday in Leon, France. We hyped up the crowd, talked about
- 32:07how great the crowd was, the international crowds overall. I mean, doctor
- 32:10Trey, let's throw it out there, was that French backlash crowd one of
- 32:15the greatest of all time? Yeah, I mean really, when you think
- 32:21about it and you start analyzing, you know, some of the top crowds
- 32:24that you remember, like a lot of them were like the Monday after Rock
- 32:28crowds always really good, the fun done going the Dolphin, sigular crowds,
- 32:30things like that. And then this crowd, I mean, I think I
- 32:37put it slightly above last year's Puerto Rico crowd and probably ahead of Clash at
- 32:40the Castle. So a little bit knee jerk because it's still fresh, but
- 32:45man from the energy level, I mean the energy level and a triple threat
- 32:50match between Naomi Bailey and Tiffany was as high as some other pay per view's
- 32:55main events. Like they were into it every single match and it never wavered
- 33:01throughout the entire show. And even the backstage segments you're hearing the crowd pop
- 33:07for you know, solo in the in the bloodline, walking past Jay or
- 33:12whatever else is going on. They're super into it. Like that's that's fantastic
- 33:15energy to maintain for an entire pay per view. So, I mean,
- 33:21I still remember the crowd singing Fondango's song leaving the building. The it was
- 33:28that. It was after Reestumate of twenty nine, uh in New York,
- 33:31New Jersey. Yeah, so like that one there, the night that Dolph
- 33:35Ziggler cashed in his money in the bank briefcase, that crowd was fantastic.
- 33:38That's the same crowd Zigler did that rate after the match with Alberto del Rio
- 33:46Restume twenty nine. That was the same crowd, doctor try. Yeah,
- 33:50so that crowd is right up there. It's one of my top five crowds.
- 33:53Uh. But this crowd is it's it's hard to if you sit down
- 33:59and map it out, it's probably in the top ten at least, but
- 34:01just off knee jerk memory top two or three. For me, yeah,
- 34:05I was thinking. I was like, this is one of the greatest crowds
- 34:07of all time. I don't know if it's the greatest. There's never been
- 34:09like crowd rankings out there, but yeah, I mean it's a very very
- 34:14memorable crowd. I mean that crowd from Wrestleman twenty nine that was very well
- 34:17put by you because I think at one point they started chanting, we are
- 34:22awesome instead of this is awesome. So the French Backlash crowd definitely goes down
- 34:27in history is one of the best crowds wrestling crowds we've seen in a long
- 34:30time. Keeping with the Backlash show, Doctor Trey, We've been talking about
- 34:36this for some time now, and I think they basically cemented it again with
- 34:42Backlash. For me as a viewer, they are taking the approach with these
- 34:45pls similar to the way that they used to build NX takeovers under Triple H's
- 34:52reign, where you're seeing more quality over quantity for their ple So this show
- 34:55had only five matches and the show was about three under three hours long,
- 35:01and I found that to be very refreshing, fun entertaining. I enjoy that
- 35:07approach the most, as compared to in a couple of weeks when we sit
- 35:12down and watch double or Nothing, that will be like a five and a
- 35:15half to six hour show of just like NonStop ten plus matches, and it's
- 35:21like one match after another after another after another, and there's no real break
- 35:24of entertainment, whether it be a backstage segment vignette or a creative storyline being
- 35:30furthered. I think me as a wrestling fan, what I've learned from watching
- 35:34WE and NXC from years ago is that I like this takeover quality over quantity
- 35:40approach for PLS, and I think it's the best approach for wrestling pay per
- 35:44views PLS moving forward in my opinion. Yeah, I mean, we had
- 35:51that debate even in Rocket City when we started doing rocket When we first launched
- 35:54Rocket City, we were running eight or nine matches and people were kind of
- 35:59burnt out. And then there's been times we ran four matches, And the
- 36:02thing is is that when you do quality matches, you shorter less matches and
- 36:07give them more time. You better make sure you have the people in the
- 36:09ring that can do a twenty minute match and not you know, have it
- 36:15fall apart and look awful. Because there's been some times at NAC where we
- 36:20watch some of the matches and you're like, yeah, they just weren't ready
- 36:22for that one, and you could say it like leaven a lit bit with
- 36:23backlaves like that Osca. You know, Bianca tag match probably wasn't the best
- 36:30match they could have put on there. But what it does is it gives
- 36:34people a chance to see how good these these wrestlers and performers are. Plus
- 36:39it also gives the rest of the roster a breather, like you can,
- 36:45you know, take a weekend off that you don't have to travel to France
- 36:47and stay home with your family and recover and refresh to head into the next
- 36:52batch of shows leading the next poe. There is also the argument like you're
- 36:57comparing Backlash to double or Nothing, which is when of you have these biggest
- 37:00shows, and that I mean double or nothing. They could do two nights
- 37:04like WrestleMania because it's one of their bigger shows. Now Dynasty, I think
- 37:07we had ten ten matches at Dynasty. Could they have done seven and given
- 37:13some more backstage stuff and make it a little bit more of an entertaining show
- 37:15since it's kind of one of their B level pay per views. Probably so,
- 37:22but like you know, Wrestle Meani was fifteen matches, you know,
- 37:24so there is a little bit of like when which show it is, are
- 37:29you going all out? Or if it's a B level pay per view,
- 37:32can you just make it look good and have less matches? I mean,
- 37:36I'm sure when we get to what's the next paper for WB Like we got
- 37:39back line King Queen of the Ring in Saudi Arabia same weekend as double or
- 37:44Nothing. Yeah, and then that one, I mean, but that's kind
- 37:46of like the relaunch of King Queen of the Ring, so it's a Saudi
- 37:51show. Also, then we have the Saudi shows have been solid lately.
- 37:54We used to like chastise them because it would be like this random Japanese sumo
- 38:00wrestler was in there, and they thought because the Saudi prince wanted yokazuna,
- 38:05which is not possible. Yeah, but I mean, and then after this
- 38:08one, we had what Money of the Bank in July? No Clash at
- 38:15the Castle is in June, so I mean Clash at the Castle. I
- 38:19don't think Clash of the Castle will be a ten match cardoba six. No,
- 38:23I don't think that they're doing. You go back and in like the
- 38:28last couple of months, like from fast Lane, Survivor Series, war Games
- 38:32and forward, outside of WrestleMania, they have not had more than like six
- 38:38matches on a pl E man so, but yeah, I mean again,
- 38:43you have the Rumble. In each Rumble match, he's going to take an
- 38:45hour. No, No, I get that, but even well, I
- 38:47mean, but you could say the same thing for Survivor Series and Elimination Chamber.
- 38:52I think this is one that we saw where it was just matches and
- 38:55no gimmicks that they ran with five and we'll see what they're gonna do in
- 39:01what two weeks time with King and Queen of the Ring. Well and that
- 39:05one, it's yeah, it's gonna be a good I think we're just doing
- 39:07the finals of each tournaments. And then you know we got sammy' z aims
- 39:13if any Heir coneal title. I think there was another title of match now
- 39:17is it I think he's doing? Is he doing the Bronson Reid and and
- 39:21Chad Gable match on Monday's Raw? I thought I read that they were that
- 39:24they had lined up a title defense for him for the Saudi Show to check
- 39:30that out. Yeah, I'm confused right now when they're doing that, because
- 39:34we saw last year he's beloved in Saudi arabi You can't have Sammy not go
- 39:37to Saudi Arabia based on his last appearance. So yeah, it's gonna be
- 39:43interesting because they're like especially if they've changed, because remember for a long time,
- 39:47they guys got their bonuses off appearances at the pay per views, and
- 39:52I think they've gone away from that, and it's just you know, everybody's
- 39:55got a guaranteed contract or something like that, so you don't have to appear.
- 39:59But you know, do you not put the raw tag team titles on
- 40:02a pay per viewer? Like that'd be two in a row that that one
- 40:06hasn't shown up. You know, US title has got to be you know,
- 40:12Logan Paul's not gonna probably not gonna be in Saudi Arabia, So you
- 40:15got in the back down, like you got to put some of the title
- 40:16holders back on the card as well. So it's gonna be interesting how many
- 40:21matches they have. And then do you not have Damien and Cody there,
- 40:23like you've got to kind of pick and choose who you feature at times when
- 40:30you do less matches, and then if you're not featuring somebody for two or
- 40:32three pay per views in a row, does that hurt the integrity of that
- 40:37title they're holding. They do have Logan Paul, Cody Road, samy'se A
- 40:40and Becky Lynch, Shade Cargill and Bianca bel Air on the promotional poster.
- 40:45They do have four matches according to Wikipedia right now. Obviously the two the
- 40:49King and Queen of the Ring tournament finals, Becky Lynchin Live Morgan's official for
- 40:52King and Queen of the Ring as is that samy'se A and Chad Gable Bronson
- 40:57Reid match. So I think, by the looks of it, you got
- 40:59four matches right now that Wikipedia is showing there could at least be two to
- 41:04three more. I think they are starting to tease a Cody Rhodes La Night
- 41:08match. I could see Cody Roads and Logan Paul on the card and obviously
- 41:13maybe be Uncle bell Aarr and Jade Cargoes since I'm on the promotional poster,
- 41:15So this could reach seven Dot Trey, I think you know it depends.
- 41:20I think it depends on like the pay per view. I think, you
- 41:22know, anything, if it's a B level, like if it's a fast
- 41:24Lane five or six is fine, this one's five, or you know,
- 41:28backlashes five or six is fine. You know, you get some of the
- 41:30bigger shows that are probably gonna draw larger gates. You're gonna want to have
- 41:35a couple more matches because A it's also gonna be I mean that, you
- 41:38know this backlash crowd was eleven thousand people? How much merger? No?
- 41:42No, no, they had more than that. I thought it was like
- 41:44eleven No, No, I thought it was well because I know it was
- 41:49the highest gate, and I thought I read it was a little bit more.
- 41:52Maybe you're right, maybe it's eleven thousand is here? Eleven or eighteen?
- 41:54I can't remember. But when you get to like, you know,
- 41:58summer Slams in Vegas, it's gonna to be seventy sixty thousand people. No,
- 42:02you're right, six d and twenty eight. Yeah. So if you're
- 42:06gonna run like Allegiance Stadium in summertime with sixty thousand people, you're gonna want
- 42:10as many people that show as possible because that's all that merch you can sell
- 42:14on top of it. So yeah, I think depends on the size of
- 42:17the venue and the crowd and what they're expecting is going to be contingent on
- 42:22or the match. The number of matches will be contingent upon the venue and
- 42:25the hierarchy of the show, so to speak, the pecking order of the
- 42:30shows where I think Backlash last year I think was like six matches as well,
- 42:34six or seven. It wasn't that many on that show. I guess
- 42:37the approach that WWE's going with here more importantly is they're trying to get a
- 42:42decent amount under like three hours, which I think is a sweet spot for
- 42:45wrestling shows. Most AW shows go main card under four hours with the pre
- 42:52show where they've been adding like three matches, it's a good five and a
- 42:55half hours of wrestling, which is which is tough. Oh yeah, you
- 43:00and I we did that last year. We were like, okay, over
- 43:02under five hours on this AW pay per view, and a lot of times
- 43:07end up being the over, you know. And there's been times in WWE
- 43:09where like the old school WrestleMania. I hate saying old school because it's only
- 43:13been a couple of years, but we do one night at WrestleMania. It.
- 43:15I know when WrestleMania New Orleans, for me, like it was between
- 43:19the pre shows everything else going on, it was eight eight and a half
- 43:22hours of wrestling content that was like, it's just exhausting. So I know,
- 43:28from the indie show's perspective, our our goal is two and a half
- 43:30hours. I remember coming out of wrestl Mainia thirty five, it was like
- 43:35sixteen matches and you and I sat here were like, you got to do
- 43:37two nights, and then COVID nineteen happened and they ended up doing two nights.
- 43:40Yeah, So but I know, like I said, like the indie
- 43:43shows, two and a half hours is about the sweet spot for us because
- 43:46the crowd still has energy within two and a half hours. When you get
- 43:50past three hours, you start seeing those lulls in the crowd and they're just
- 43:53like, I'm not going to cheer for this match. I don't care about
- 43:57this match. I just want to get to blah blah blah match, because
- 43:59that's the one I care. People get exhausted. It can be exhausting to
- 44:02watch the aw shows. I hate to say it, but it's like Sunday
- 44:06night at eight o'clock Eastern, and I'm trying to watch the show, I'm
- 44:09like, holy crap, I'm fall asleep. So I do like the quantity
- 44:14over the quality over quantity approach that they're doing for PLS, and I would
- 44:19love to see that happen all throughout Wrestler now because I think the aw pay
- 44:22per views, while they've been highly rated by US as of late, that
- 44:27could lend credence to making it a better show a little bit more focused,
- 44:30and they're not trying to like throw in these matches that have less than three
- 44:35days of match build to it, which always drove me nuts. I'm like,
- 44:38why bother showing this match? Like, use it for something else to
- 44:44get people over. So lastly, Doctor Trey, you mentioned it there in
- 44:49your response. Resumting forty nine location has been announced. It was heavily delayed.
- 44:52The expectation was before Wrestumating forty that it would be announced and it didn't
- 44:57happen. Then the expectation was that would happen during Rests Mania forty weekend,
- 45:00and it did not. All we had heard for months and months and months
- 45:05was Minnesota. Up until recently. I actually think The Undertaker spoiled it on
- 45:09his podcast that Las Vegas started to see a swing up and it's official.
- 45:15It will be taking place in Las Vegas during Easter weekend April nineteenth and twentieth.
- 45:22That should not be a surprise since the UFC is heavily into the Las
- 45:28Vegas area with their UFC shows their partner there in endeavor TKO group holdings during
- 45:35Easter weekend is a while to move by we because I know, for me
- 45:40who celebrates Easter most Easter evenings, we have a dinner at five or six
- 45:46o'clock with family and some friends, and that goes on until eight o'clock at
- 45:52night. So I am gonna have a tough time watching Night Too Live for
- 45:57wrestum Aia so Resumet forty one goes to Las Vegas. I think that's a
- 46:01great location. I'm excited for that because I think there's gonna be a lot
- 46:05of cool things that are gonna be in and around WrestleMania, and it's taken
- 46:07place here in eastern weekend. Your thoughts are the big news from the weekend,
- 46:10Doctor Trey Well, location is fantastic because you know, much like the
- 46:15Super Bowl, WrestleMania is a destination trip. And you know, I've joked
- 46:20in the past like I remember the WrestleMania at MetLife Stadium where I was driving
- 46:23past, and I'm like, yeah, April in uh, WrestleMania in the
- 46:29North can be kind of sketchy at times. We saw a little bit of
- 46:32that this year with Night one being kind of cold. WrestleMania in April and
- 46:38Minnesota at Target Field would be probably be kind of chilly and cold, and
- 46:44you run that risk. So doing well that that is it's indoors. It's
- 46:47indoors. What the travel like ling on around it? Of course, it's
- 46:53not always conducive to travel. And it's also like just the average person,
- 46:59would you rather go to Minneapolis, Minnesota or Las Vegas? Oh, most
- 47:02people are gonna pick Vegas. Most people Minneapolis'm not I'm not crapping on Minnesota.
- 47:07I love Minneapolis. It's a wonderful city. But in April, I
- 47:13think I'd rather go to Vegas. So it makes sense. Now. The
- 47:15Eastern thing is weird in a sense of like we our family's always done in
- 47:20Eastern lunch, like right after church, so you would go to church,
- 47:23you would come home, have a big lunch with the family because most kids
- 47:28still to go back to school on Monday, so we wouldn't stay out too
- 47:30late. So I think it kind of is regional when stuff like that comes
- 47:35up. So I'll probably be able to watch it because by the time we
- 47:39get down to dinner and everybody goes home, it's five o'clock and so we
- 47:43have the rest of the evening free to watch it. But I do understand
- 47:45in other areas where they do, you know, like you have a supper
- 47:49or a dinner that can kind of walk into it. Plus they typically try
- 47:53not to do stuff on religious holidays. I mean, I know, for
- 47:58they stop doing the Christmas shows because people are complained about it, So it
- 48:00is kind of weird that they've they've gone this route with it. I will
- 48:05say the Vegas thing that I did see pictures of UFC doing a show inside
- 48:08the Sphere in Vegas, like raw would look really really cool that side the
- 48:15sphere. I mean, you can almost bring back to thunderdelt h maybe a
- 48:19decent idea there. I like it. There was some discussion Doctor Trey of
- 48:22Wrestlemantia and being moved to may really may like the first weekend in May,
- 48:28which I think was some of the weekend discussions. There was like Easter weekend
- 48:31and the first week of May weekend in May that was being talked about.
- 48:35It's funny, you know, you point to Philadelphia the two nights, like
- 48:37night one was like really cold and they made a big deal about that on
- 48:40the broadcast, and then night too, very Northeast weather was warm. I
- 48:46think it was like in this high sixties and it was, you know,
- 48:51very nice and pleasant out there as compared to the night before. I remember
- 48:54being at Wrestumate at twenty nine outdoors MetLife Stadium and being cold. It was
- 49:00not enjoyable. I know that they had heaters at rest May twenty nine for
- 49:02the talent. I think they did in Philadelphia as well above and then the
- 49:07ring posts themselves were also throwing out some heat. But yeah, I mean
- 49:14I would be in a residency in in May WrestleMania. I mean, everybody's
- 49:16like, no, traditionally it's been April. Well, I'm old enough to
- 49:20know that RESTMANI used to take place in mid March, So I mean,
- 49:24is it really tradition anymore if it moved from mid March to early April to
- 49:29May. At this point, I think that'd be intriguing. But then again,
- 49:32there are times in the Northeast still in May where it can be cold
- 49:37in early May. We're not experiencing that right now, thank god, but
- 49:40I think tomorrow in the Northeast it's supposed to be like high fifties, which
- 49:45is typical for this region. So there you go. Resume Maty forty one
- 49:49in Las Vegas April nineteenth and twentieth. Obviously, more on that as it
- 49:55gets closer, but the road to Restu Maty forty one is now a FI
- 50:00and it heads all to Las Vegas, Nevada. With that said, we're
- 50:06going to close up shop here in just a moment, but I want to
- 50:08do a little bit of a teaser. Last week, following the recording of
- 50:15last week's podcast, Doctor Trey and I had a discussion about the future of
- 50:20SRTU and we will address that all on next week's edition of The Still Real
- 50:25Do Show. I know this is like a Tony Kahn major announcement, but
- 50:30this is pretty big, folks. We will be discussing the future of the
- 50:32Still Real Does Show podcast all on next week's edition of the show, and
- 50:37of course, everything else is going on the world Professional Wrestling. With that
- 50:39said, let's get a couple of plugs and sponsors are the way you can
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- 50:50and subscribe to help us climb the charts on iTunes. You can follow us
- 50:52individually on X for myself at SRTU, Jeff Ever, Doctor Trey Franklin at
- 50:57The Doctor Trey, and of course don't forget to follow a show on at
- 51:00SRTU podcast without being said, what is going on the one for World of
- 51:04dot Trey Franklin this week? Well, like Jeff said, you can follow
- 51:07me on X at the Doctor Trey. You can find me on Facebook and
- 51:10Instagram Doctor Trey Franklin. When you're on Facebook, be sure to check out
- 51:15Rocket City Championship Wrestling as we are less than two weeks away from Wrestling Con
- 51:21seven coming up May eighteen from Lovely Hazel Green, Alabama, Action Mike Jackson,
- 51:28Chase Owen, Sin Body, Chick Donovan just Super Crazy. You know,
- 51:31it's one of our big events that we do every single year, So
- 51:36really looking forward to the show, so be able to check it out on
- 51:38the Facebook page. Also, I am going to ask a favor of the
- 51:44SRTU U universe. I am going to be incapacitated. This has nothing to
- 51:47do with the announcement. This is just my personal thing having surgery, going
- 51:52to be incapacitated for a little bit. Any recommendations on shows that I have
- 51:58missed out on because wrestling has up my time, send it to the Twitter
- 52:01feed or the xve whatever they call it. Now I'm gonna I'm gonna be
- 52:06on a couch for like two months, Jeff. Any things to watch that's
- 52:09not wrestling related, so I don't just completely go insane. Dot Sure are
- 52:15you a fan of Star Wars? I am a fan of Star Wars.
- 52:17I actually my son last Saturday. I actually had a friend come over and
- 52:22they watched all nine episodes Wow, of Star Wars in a row four May
- 52:27to fourth. Isn't that like a twenty four No? No, they're like
- 52:30two hours each of those, so that's like eighteen hours. He ran a
- 52:32little bit over into May fifth, so I just figured that's because he wanted
- 52:37to celebrate Sincodmayo. Also, so have you watched The Mandalorian? I have
- 52:43watched. I watched season one of The Mandalorian in parts of season two.
- 52:46Okay, that's one I would recommend. I My wife and I enjoy the
- 52:50Mandalorian show and Book of Boba Fat as well. So there you go.
- 52:54Hit him up on Twitter at the Doctor Trey and let him know some shows
- 53:00that you should check out there as Doctor Trey will be laid up and looking
- 53:05for things to watch. And don't say like we this is awesome on Peacock.
- 53:07He just told you no wrestling shows, so it's a little bit more
- 53:12outside of the wrestling fandom that we know and love. You're on SRTU.
- 53:16So once again, next week's show, big announcement, Huge announcement on the
- 53:21future of the Still Real Does Show podcast. Check that out all on next
- 53:25week's show, download, rate, review, and subscribe, spread the word
- 53:30about the Still Rail Do Show and until next week. For Doctor Trey Franklin,
- 53:35I'm Jeff Pack. This is the Sturrealers Show.