Latest / Podcast Championship Wrestling / Episode 107 Royal Rumble 2026 Review
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Every Royal Rumble begins the same way, with someone stepping
- 0:10Speaker 1: into the unknown. For decades, these passageways have opened doors
- 0:19Speaker 1: to glory.
- 0:20Speaker 2: They are taker that's more than the Royal.
- 0:23Speaker 3: Rumble, to heartbreak your life to immortality.
- 0:33Speaker 4: The Royal Rumble is more than a match, kidding, it's
- 0:48Speaker 4: a decision.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Thirty superstars make it, only one makes it out.
- 1:06Speaker 3: I know what it's like to see your destiny waiting
- 1:11Speaker 3: to know what it could give you and everything it
- 1:18Speaker 3: might take. It that moment when.
- 1:24Speaker 4: You decide to show the world who you really are.
- 1:32Speaker 2: We are, especially on the road to WREA. This is
- 1:39Speaker 2: your moment. Are you ready?
- 1:45Speaker 5: Welcome to the Royal Run.
- 2:03Speaker 6: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the Least Requested, Lease Demanded
- 2:07Speaker 6: and the Leaf Downloaded Wrestling.
- 2:09Speaker 2: Podcast pc W.
- 2:13Speaker 6: This could be a long podcast, so strappin and shut
- 2:17Speaker 6: up and don't be a little bit about it.
- 2:29Speaker 7: The question is, oh you wet.
- 2:37Speaker 1: Me talk to I would give you a shold like
- 2:41Speaker 1: you have never covered the portal work, because what.
- 2:47Speaker 7: Do you guys want to talk about?
- 2:56Speaker 3: To ext.
- 3:00Speaker 2: And the color red in a world with a black
- 3:03Speaker 2: and white leader of world? Yeah do dun lon No,
- 3:22Speaker 2: the child.
- 3:29Speaker 8: What's the bigger man?
- 3:31Speaker 2: You got a bigger man? And I said, whoa right here?
- 3:37Speaker 9: You know to Bator Red, come back the one, Oh.
- 3:53Speaker 10: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children, Welcome back to
- 3:56Speaker 10: another episode of pc W podcast Championship Wrestling. I am
- 4:00Speaker 10: our host Wayne also known as Semi Dried Chicken, and
- 4:03Speaker 10: we have a very exciting episode for you. We're gonna
- 4:06Speaker 10: be reviewing the twenty twenty six royal rumble that took
- 4:11Speaker 10: place in Jihad Saudi Arabia. Yeah, fantastic. Uh you know what,
- 4:19Speaker 10: I'm so excited. Let's just get right into this.
- 4:33Speaker 3: Es sexually.
- 4:37Speaker 10: I don't want to give it all. Yeah, right ho,
- 4:43Speaker 10: I'm right here for you.
- 4:46Speaker 2: I know it's human.
- 4:48Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, and I'll.
- 4:50Speaker 10: Tell you why.
- 4:51Speaker 3: They's time.
- 4:58Speaker 10: My love is growing.
- 5:00Speaker 3: It's cruel.
- 5:02Speaker 8: And I just.
- 5:06Speaker 10: Because I'm about show.
- 5:19Speaker 2: I'll shoot you.
- 5:25Speaker 3: Toil.
- 5:26Speaker 10: Welcome back, buddy.
- 5:29Speaker 8: Oh it's me, It's me. It's a dli Lee And
- 5:31Speaker 8: I couldn't think of a better way to celebrate both
- 5:33Speaker 8: Black History Months and Valentine's Day coming up than that.
- 5:38Speaker 5: Oh my god.
- 5:40Speaker 10: Yeah, great great thing. Man sexual chocolate classic classic and uh,
- 5:47Speaker 10: let's not forget about this classic one from last year.
- 5:59Speaker 11: And and I'm blacking and black and I'm black, you'r.
- 6:03Speaker 11: And I'm blacky'll and I'm black, y'all, and I'm blacking
- 6:06Speaker 11: it black and I'm black, y'all. I'm blocking black, blacking
- 6:09Speaker 11: and black black. I'm placking it black, yo, because I'm blacking,
- 6:12Speaker 11: I'm blat and I'm black and I'm black, y'all, and
- 6:14Speaker 11: I'm blacking.
- 6:15Speaker 2: You're black and not black, y'all.
- 6:17Speaker 11: And I'm black, y'all, and I'm black, you'r And I'm blacking.
- 6:20Speaker 11: You're black, You're not black your and not blicking it
- 6:22Speaker 11: black black black black black.
- 6:25Speaker 2: Black your and.
- 6:28Speaker 10: Treck welcome back.
- 6:31Speaker 5: Yo, yo?
- 6:31Speaker 8: What it do?
- 6:32Speaker 5: PCW crew?
- 6:34Speaker 10: I let that they play far too long.
- 6:39Speaker 5: I gotta dust off the track once a year.
- 6:42Speaker 10: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, gotta put in the archive files
- 6:46Speaker 10: for sure. Uh. How's everybody after the rumble? You know
- 6:54Speaker 10: you guys? Uh?
- 6:55Speaker 8: Well happy. We've got a lot of messages, a lot
- 6:57Speaker 8: of messages asking how I was feeling after my reveal
- 7:01Speaker 8: that I am suffering from Super Bowl fever. I still
- 7:05Speaker 8: have it, but I'm also get in a case of
- 7:07Speaker 8: Olympic fever at the same time. I may not make
- 7:10Speaker 8: it through the leaks.
- 7:13Speaker 10: Now, what about for US fans? What's up?
- 7:19Speaker 5: That's right, the Olympics are coming up.
- 7:21Speaker 10: Yeah, I did co worker bring up the Olympics and much. Yeah,
- 7:26Speaker 10: you know what, I might be a little excited for
- 7:28Speaker 10: the Olympics this year, you know, why not? Why the
- 7:32Speaker 10: hell not?
- 7:36Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 7:36Speaker 10: Something right, something that's gonna be on TV. Why not
- 7:40Speaker 10: with something we all can watch? Yeah, why the hell
- 7:45Speaker 10: not an Olympic. I don't know.
- 7:46Speaker 5: What else we're gonna watch? Freaking Nascar.
- 7:52Speaker 10: They're making another left turn, They're making another left turn. No,
- 7:57Speaker 10: I can't do Nascar.
- 8:00Speaker 5: Yeah. I watched the Dayton the five hundred, and that's it.
- 8:03Speaker 10: Yeah, that's it.
- 8:07Speaker 12: Like I'm familiar with the sport because I mean there
- 8:09Speaker 12: was a brief period where I was kind of sorted
- 8:12Speaker 12: into it a little bit. Yeah, and then Dale Junior
- 8:15Speaker 12: retired and I was like, all right, yeah, exactly exactly.
- 8:20Speaker 5: I remember this.
- 8:23Speaker 12: You know, NASCAR does pass through this state, and it's
- 8:25Speaker 12: touring Richmond International. But Richmond's a short track and I
- 8:29Speaker 12: don't care for short track racing. I care about the
- 8:32Speaker 12: super speedways. Those the only ones I get into road
- 8:36Speaker 12: courses and NASCAR don't look right on road courses and
- 8:39Speaker 12: the short tracks just to me are boring super speed ways,
- 8:44Speaker 12: those ones I can tune into.
- 8:48Speaker 10: Oh, I like like F one racing, you know, or
- 8:53Speaker 10: I like drag racing, watch the drag racing or yah.
- 8:58Speaker 5: Yeah, Formula one I can watch.
- 9:01Speaker 12: But yeah, it's hard to obviously it doesn't have the
- 9:05Speaker 12: same you know, it's not as widespread as NASCAR or
- 9:09Speaker 12: something like that, so it's hard to catch. But every
- 9:11Speaker 12: now and then I might catch like a live stream
- 9:14Speaker 12: or something on YouTube at like eight o'clock in the
- 9:17Speaker 12: morning on Sunday and I'm like, oh shit, and I'll
- 9:21Speaker 12: watch it.
- 9:23Speaker 10: Yeah. So, I mean, obviously you watch football. Is that
- 9:28Speaker 10: the only other thing you guys have time for, you know,
- 9:30Speaker 10: with wrestling is football?
- 9:34Speaker 12: I mean right now, once football ends pretty much transition
- 9:38Speaker 12: over to the NBA and yeah, exactly, Yeah.
- 9:43Speaker 5: You got hockey.
- 9:44Speaker 10: Yeah, I say, I like hockey too. I think the
- 9:48Speaker 10: problem with me and hockey is just being able to
- 9:50Speaker 10: get access to every game. I feel like it's it's
- 9:55Speaker 10: very much like w t B, like you need this
- 9:56Speaker 10: happened yea, everything like that, And for me not being
- 10:01Speaker 10: a super fan of hockey, like I'm a general fan,
- 10:04Speaker 10: like I like the Flyers, you know, I go to
- 10:06Speaker 10: games when I can. I like I like the Writing Royals,
- 10:09Speaker 10: which are like right down the street from my house.
- 10:12Speaker 10: But uh, when it comes to that, I don't, you know,
- 10:16Speaker 10: I don't know. I don't know what apps see it.
- 10:19Speaker 10: Like if you ask a general person on the street
- 10:21Speaker 10: who doesn't watch wrestling, it's like, hey, do you know
- 10:23Speaker 10: all the apps you need to watch every bit of
- 10:25Speaker 10: wrestling during the weekend. I don't think they know. So
- 10:29Speaker 10: that's where I am at. I'll watch watch hockey when
- 10:33Speaker 10: I can, you know. I I like baseball in person.
- 10:38Speaker 10: I can't do it on TV. No more like I
- 10:42Speaker 10: want to fall asleep, like I can't do it. Like
- 10:45Speaker 10: it was great going to Yankee games in New York
- 10:47Speaker 10: in person at the Old Stadium, And I'll go to
- 10:50Speaker 10: like Fight and Field games like near my house. That's
- 10:52Speaker 10: who we have the Fight in Phills. Our mascot is
- 10:56Speaker 10: a fucking hostrige. We used to be called the Redding Films,
- 11:00Speaker 10: you know, which we're pretty close to the Philadelphia Phillies.
- 11:03Speaker 10: It was pretty cool. It was awesome. I was very
- 11:06Speaker 10: proud Doyle to be, you know, for the reading Phillies
- 11:10Speaker 10: to be associated with the phil ap Phillies. But then
- 11:12Speaker 10: somebody somewhere thought, no, let's let's call them the fight
- 11:17Speaker 10: and Phills, and let's change the mascot, and let's let's
- 11:22Speaker 10: have an Ostrich. Yeah that's us.
- 11:30Speaker 8: But minor league sports are cool, man, Yeah. Yeah, like
- 11:36Speaker 8: minor league hockey. Minor league baseball is great.
- 11:39Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 11:40Speaker 8: Ai, when I was a kid, there's actually an amateur
- 11:43Speaker 8: it's it's generally regarded as the best amateur baseball league
- 11:46Speaker 8: in the country, the cape Cod League. I think like
- 11:50Speaker 8: seventy five percent of the people to play in the
- 11:52Speaker 8: cape Cod League at least make the majors. Yeah, and
- 11:54Speaker 8: I mean there's a Hall of famers played in the
- 11:57Speaker 8: cape Cod League. H I grew up watching that in
- 12:01Speaker 8: the summer a lot, and those games were fucking awesome.
- 12:05Speaker 10: Yeah. I like going to baseball games in the summer.
- 12:07Speaker 8: Man, is the Indian wrestlings are cool too?
- 12:10Speaker 10: Yeah? Oh dude, Yeah.
- 12:13Speaker 8: Sometimes you don't want the big fucking huge stadium, you know,
- 12:17Speaker 8: no way, you.
- 12:18Speaker 10: Want the one that that like you see the ad
- 12:21Speaker 10: stapled on a telephone pole with thirty other ads, right,
- 12:26Speaker 10: and you go to the place and you find out.
- 12:28Speaker 10: It's like a bar or a gym, and you know,
- 12:34Speaker 10: you know what kind of Jim talking about the kind
- 12:35Speaker 10: that they can't go in the top rope and do
- 12:37Speaker 10: certain moves because they might hit their head.
- 12:39Speaker 8: You know.
- 12:43Speaker 10: Those are those are the ones I like going to.
- 12:46Speaker 10: It's like, oh god, uh uh yeah, guys, let's let's
- 12:52Speaker 10: talk about the rubble. Let's talk about the rubble. Well,
- 12:57Speaker 10: let's first let's get into the arena. I mean the
- 13:00Speaker 10: Royal Rubble. This year was held in Rehad, Saudi Arabia.
- 13:06Speaker 10: They built this new Abdullah Financial District Rehoid season little stadium.
- 13:17Speaker 10: They built it in like less than a month. Guys.
- 13:20Speaker 10: It did look bad.
- 13:23Speaker 8: Obviously didn't test the lighting.
- 13:24Speaker 10: They did not test the lighting. Let's talk about that
- 13:27Speaker 10: real quick, Like how they I hear a lot of
- 13:31Speaker 10: sources and they will never use arenas with that kind
- 13:35Speaker 10: of lighting again, like or they just won't use lights
- 13:37Speaker 10: because it did in certain angles make the arena look
- 13:42Speaker 10: super empty. Even though they had a tennance record of
- 13:46Speaker 10: over twenty five thousand, so they claim, I don't have
- 13:51Speaker 10: the exact number, but that's all right.
- 13:54Speaker 8: Let me look here, but you feel like not quite
- 13:57Speaker 8: as dramatic but the same thing happens. What the hell
- 14:01Speaker 8: is the new arena in LA called.
- 14:05Speaker 5: So far.
- 14:09Speaker 8: The Clippers play, the Lakers play, yeah, or maybe just
- 14:11Speaker 8: a club place.
- 14:12Speaker 12: Lakers play at crypto former Staples Center. The new one
- 14:16Speaker 12: is the one that Steve Balmer built for the Clippers,
- 14:20Speaker 12: which is that.
- 14:23Speaker 8: I think, so I can't contract of all these guys.
- 14:26Speaker 8: But anyway, it less dramatically, but that's where the first
- 14:30Speaker 8: raw netflixes. It's not as dramatic, but it happens there too,
- 14:34Speaker 8: and basically it's it's Yeah, it's those lights that said, uh,
- 14:39Speaker 8: something can do with it? Is kind of cool, but
- 14:41Speaker 8: I think the expense of making the place so empty
- 14:43Speaker 8: is not worth it.
- 14:45Speaker 10: No, and yeah, I do have it here twenty twenty
- 14:49Speaker 10: five thousand.
- 14:52Speaker 12: Oh yeah, especially when you barely, especially when you're only
- 14:55Speaker 12: really using it to try to enhance people's entrances.
- 14:59Speaker 5: Yeah, that point is really not really worth it.
- 15:03Speaker 10: Yeah, it says here. When you google Royal Rumble twenty
- 15:06Speaker 10: twenty six attendants, right, it tells you how many you know,
- 15:10Speaker 10: roughly twenty five thousand, But it says controversy. Despite Michael
- 15:14Speaker 10: Cole announcing a capacity crowd, photos and video showed significantly
- 15:18Speaker 10: empty areas. Some reports indicated that the led lighting setup
- 15:22Speaker 10: for the event made it appearance more than it was,
- 15:25Speaker 10: while others suggest a low turnout notes Newsweek and Yahoo supports.
- 15:30Speaker 10: I mean, I think too, it looked like it just
- 15:32Speaker 10: filled out later in the night too.
- 15:36Speaker 8: You know.
- 15:36Speaker 12: Yeah, there was a little internet roumor going around that
- 15:40Speaker 12: Saudi people were doing like a I don't know, a
- 15:44Speaker 12: silent protest or whatever of the Women's rumble by not
- 15:48Speaker 12: attending since it was the one that kicked off the show,
- 15:51Speaker 12: that some people were you know, not entering until that ended.
- 15:54Speaker 5: I think that's total bullshit because I didn't hear.
- 15:57Speaker 10: That that's unique. It's interesting.
- 16:00Speaker 12: Honestly, I don't believe it at all, Right, I saw
- 16:03Speaker 12: a rumor about it. I don't believe it at all, because, one,
- 16:06Speaker 12: this ain't the This ain't the first time that women
- 16:09Speaker 12: have wrestled in Saudi Arabia. They've been doing this for
- 16:11Speaker 12: a while, so, you know, they haven't done this protesting
- 16:15Speaker 12: shit in the past, so why would they start it now.
- 16:18Speaker 5: It's WWE.
- 16:19Speaker 12: There's plenty fans that are you know, it's plenty popular.
- 16:23Speaker 5: It doesn't make any sense.
- 16:23Speaker 12: That suddenly the Women's World rumbles where people want to
- 16:26Speaker 12: draw the line and be like, oh no, we're not
- 16:29Speaker 12: going to attend the Women's Rumble, We'll come into arena afterwards.
- 16:32Speaker 5: I don't believe that bullshit at all.
- 16:34Speaker 12: And also the most important thing, there's no proof of that,
- 16:38Speaker 12: Like if there were people actually doing that, you think
- 16:40Speaker 12: somebody would come forth with some photos, like look at
- 16:42Speaker 12: all these people who were standing outside the arena before
- 16:44Speaker 12: the show, or staying outside the arena while the Rumbles
- 16:47Speaker 12: Women's Rumble was taking place. There's none of that, So
- 16:50Speaker 12: that just leads me to believe that somebody was just
- 16:53Speaker 12: probably making up some bullshit and it's spread enough to.
- 16:58Speaker 5: Get some traction. But I don't believe it at all.
- 17:03Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah, I mean I was looking at the arena
- 17:07Speaker 10: and there wasn't a lot of females in there, man,
- 17:10Speaker 10: I mean it looks in the very beginning, I mean
- 17:14Speaker 10: there was a lot of females.
- 17:16Speaker 8: Society that values females very much.
- 17:23Speaker 10: Yeah, very true.
- 17:25Speaker 5: They made some progress, but not a lot.
- 17:28Speaker 10: Yeah, not a lot. I think having a women's rod
- 17:32Speaker 10: Rubel is a hell of a progress because I remember
- 17:34Speaker 10: when we had just Lacy Evans and Natalia and four
- 17:39Speaker 10: x T shirts wrestling. So you know, I will say
- 17:43Speaker 10: we have come a while, you know.
- 17:46Speaker 12: Uh well, I mean as far as the w W
- 17:48Speaker 12: product that's presented to them, yes, yeahs alluding to is I.
- 17:53Speaker 10: Don't know, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 17:57Speaker 5: There's societal issues outs that they have nothing to do
- 18:00Speaker 5: with w W.
- 18:00Speaker 10: E Yeah, let's move it along there. Uh yeah, you know,
- 18:10Speaker 10: I still I was very impressed by how quickly they
- 18:12Speaker 10: got that that thing built. It gave me a little
- 18:15Speaker 10: the layout Doyle a little bit made me feel like
- 18:18Speaker 10: Wresselmenna forty you know, that big state just you know,
- 18:21Speaker 10: just just a little bit we wrestleming forty vibes.
- 18:26Speaker 2: Uh.
- 18:28Speaker 10: I did find it funny that green shirt guy had
- 18:30Speaker 10: to sit on the other side where he normally says
- 18:33Speaker 10: he has set hardcam because it was like a bunch
- 18:35Speaker 10: of Saudi princes or whatever. We're in his seat, you know,
- 18:39Speaker 10: Like I uh, I think that's funny. That's the only
- 18:43Speaker 10: way he'll lose his seat is if a Saudi prince
- 18:47Speaker 10: sits there.
- 18:49Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 18:49Speaker 12: Well special, Yeah, his little special you know, travel package
- 18:59Speaker 12: or whatever thing that is that he pays for that
- 19:02Speaker 12: she ain't got no pulled inside of Arabia.
- 19:06Speaker 10: Yeah, yes, Sue. Uh, you know what. Let's let's get
- 19:16Speaker 10: into uh, let's get in here. There was a was
- 19:20Speaker 10: there a dark match that I was not aware of?
- 19:24Speaker 10: Two dark matches? There were two dark matches I'm seeing
- 19:27Speaker 10: here in Wikipedia. Holy shit, guys. The Wyatt six Dexel
- 19:32Speaker 10: Leuislan Joe Gracy or Joe Acy defeated the MFTs Solosica
- 19:38Speaker 10: and Tomatunga in a tag match at ten minutes twenty
- 19:41Speaker 10: seven seconds. And then there was another dark match, the
- 19:45Speaker 10: Motor City Machine Guns An Shinsky Knackamoor defeated the New
- 19:51Speaker 10: Day with Grayson Waller. That was eleven minutes fifteen seconds necessary.
- 20:01Speaker 5: Why exactly? Like why the darkest of dark matches?
- 20:06Speaker 10: Man? Yeah, great it sucks, man, weren't it?
- 20:11Speaker 8: None of these a pre show?
- 20:14Speaker 10: No? I don't, well I didn't see the pre show,
- 20:16Speaker 10: but like I well, that's the thing is like sometimes
- 20:21Speaker 10: when you do these shows that are in other countries,
- 20:24Speaker 10: like you know, are what did start two pm here
- 20:27Speaker 10: in the East Coast, Like I kind of waited a
- 20:30Speaker 10: little bit because we were busy with something. But you know,
- 20:33Speaker 10: I'm going to start the show right now. I'm not
- 20:35Speaker 10: going to turn on the pre show, you know, and
- 20:38Speaker 10: some people wait till later in the night to watch them.
- 20:40Speaker 10: They're not gonna be who We got to watch the
- 20:41Speaker 10: pre show first, we got to watch the four hour kickoff. Like,
- 20:44Speaker 10: I don't how am I supposed to know that there's
- 20:46Speaker 10: two matches here ten minutes apiece in a four hour
- 20:50Speaker 10: kickoff show where they whatever it is, they do, have
- 20:52Speaker 10: a long kickoff show. And what I'm getting at is like,
- 20:55Speaker 10: how am I supposed to know? You guys don't announce
- 20:57Speaker 10: these things on SmackDown. You know, I'm finding out. We're
- 21:01Speaker 10: finding out on Wikipedia because last episode Wikipedia that you know,
- 21:07Speaker 10: our last episode Wikipedia didn't have these matches, we would
- 21:10Speaker 10: have brought them up.
- 21:10Speaker 12: So you know, I don't consider these matches to be
- 21:15Speaker 12: part of the royal rumble either, yea, like they're they're
- 21:19Speaker 12: there for the people in attendance, They aren't.
- 21:22Speaker 8: They all like that. They were like this whole non
- 21:32Speaker 8: can any kind of day. Not anymore?
- 21:36Speaker 10: Yeah, not anymore. I think last year we only had
- 21:41Speaker 10: knife champions in Saudi correct.
- 21:46Speaker 5: Yeah, because Crown Jewels in person.
- 21:48Speaker 10: Yeah yeah, yep. So let's uh, let's see how many
- 21:55Speaker 10: I think we're obviated.
- 21:56Speaker 8: Not but we're like, we're going two more times this year.
- 22:00Speaker 10: We're supposed to do twice a year, I believe, So
- 22:03Speaker 10: we're gonna go back again. I'm assuming it would be
- 22:08Speaker 10: like a crown jewel or some some ship laid down
- 22:12Speaker 10: middle of summer maybe or probably at the end of
- 22:17Speaker 10: the year. Yeah, who knows.
- 22:19Speaker 5: We'll find out when they announced it, since they.
- 22:23Speaker 12: So far we were only up to Backlash as far
- 22:26Speaker 12: as location announcements this year.
- 22:31Speaker 8: By the way, Backlash is supposed to be in Puerto Rico,
- 22:33Speaker 8: wasn't it. It was gonna be and then they come
- 22:38Speaker 8: out camp or some stupering.
- 22:40Speaker 5: Pikes it's gonna be in Tampa.
- 22:42Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 22:42Speaker 12: I thought they were supposed to be going back to
- 22:43Speaker 12: Puerto Rico. That's what the word was a while back.
- 22:46Speaker 12: Order what happened if something fell through or what? Yeah,
- 22:51Speaker 12: that kind of sucks. Yeah, that was important a couple
- 22:57Speaker 12: of years ago.
- 22:57Speaker 8: Whenever.
- 22:59Speaker 12: Yeah, when they had the Bad Bunny Damian prestmatch and
- 23:02Speaker 12: uh we and Zelena Vega had the match, Yeah, that's
- 23:07Speaker 12: I was looking forward to that hype ass perto Rico
- 23:09Speaker 12: crowd again.
- 23:12Speaker 10: Yeah, dude, I was very excited when they went to
- 23:14Speaker 10: Puerto Rico. It's a very It was a very memorable
- 23:17Speaker 10: pay per view, very memorable, because some pay per views, man,
- 23:21Speaker 10: they just you know, it's like one ear out the other.
- 23:25Speaker 10: You know, you just don't remember remember them or something
- 23:29Speaker 10: you want to forget. But yeah, Puerto Rico the one
- 23:34Speaker 10: what what what pay per view was that was that?
- 23:41Speaker 8: I think it was backlash backlashes.
- 23:46Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a bad backlash.
- 23:48Speaker 10: Okay, So like if as curious, go back and four,
- 23:52Speaker 10: I think, yeah, go back and listen to that that episode,
- 23:58Speaker 10: because I mean it's fantastic. I mean, crowd was so
- 24:02Speaker 10: fucking hyped. Oh my god, I just I just love
- 24:05Speaker 10: it when they they have crowds that involved. I mean,
- 24:10Speaker 10: we had it here a little bit a little bit,
- 24:14Speaker 10: not not a lot, not a lot, but a little
- 24:16Speaker 10: bit a little bit. Not the same we didn't, you know,
- 24:21Speaker 10: I'm gonna get into uh we'll just kick off here
- 24:24Speaker 10: with the women's very Vombo because that's technically what kicked
- 24:28Speaker 10: off the pay per view, even though on Wikipedia is
- 24:31Speaker 10: listed as the third match. One thing I noticed that
- 24:36Speaker 10: we didn't have this rumble is people weren't counting down,
- 24:41Speaker 10: and I think it was where we were at they
- 24:45Speaker 10: weren't you know, accustomed to the American way of or
- 24:53Speaker 10: I wouldn't even say American. Just are.
- 24:57Speaker 8: You know.
- 24:59Speaker 10: English English people?
- 25:01Speaker 8: I mean, you got to figures it's mostly non native
- 25:04Speaker 8: English speakers, even if they do speak English. But asking
- 25:07Speaker 8: to count backward from ten in a different language is
- 25:11Speaker 8: not the easiest thing in the world. I would admit.
- 25:14Speaker 10: That's true. That's true, Doyle, that's true.
- 25:17Speaker 12: So I know they may have been doing it in
- 25:19Speaker 12: their language at the arena, and it may have just
- 25:22Speaker 12: been getting suppressed on the broadcast maybe.
- 25:25Speaker 8: I mean, the only they feel like prevailable was the
- 25:28Speaker 8: only noise the crowd made the whole fucking women's rumble.
- 25:34Speaker 8: Nobody got reactions.
- 25:38Speaker 10: Yeah, well, you know where else made it rough too?
- 25:42Speaker 10: Is the win? Well, you know, I'm sure you know,
- 25:48Speaker 10: at being at the arena, you see it quite earlier
- 25:50Speaker 10: than we do. But some of these women their music
- 25:53Speaker 10: would hit and I was like, who the hell is that?
- 25:57Speaker 8: Yeah, well that's another thing. I mean, we've certainly talked
- 25:59Speaker 8: about the theme music problems in the WWS as a whole,
- 26:04Speaker 8: but like a lot of these women, you know, you
- 26:07Speaker 8: don't ever hear uh uh Katana, what's her name? Who's Julia?
- 26:13Speaker 8: What's her name music. Yeah, because anytimes it comes out
- 26:17Speaker 8: to Julia and they play Julia's music, you never heard.
- 26:20Speaker 8: You never hear Rock sand Perez's music, you know what
- 26:22Speaker 8: I mean. You almost never hear Rock cal Rodriguez's music.
- 26:25Speaker 8: A lot of these you never hear Kyrie Sans music.
- 26:28Speaker 8: You know, like a lot of these women, you never
- 26:30Speaker 8: hear this. Like so when it plays, you know, it's
- 26:33Speaker 8: not like burn it down and you know immediately you
- 26:36Speaker 8: know or or you know or whatever. Like I feel
- 26:40Speaker 8: like a lot of the men's teams you immediately know,
- 26:43Speaker 8: but half of these women's teams you never even hear them,
- 26:47Speaker 8: let alone. They're instantly recognized.
- 26:49Speaker 12: Paable, you know, for most of these you don't know
- 26:52Speaker 12: who they are until you see their name on the
- 26:54Speaker 12: screen on the on the yeah, right.
- 26:57Speaker 10: And we talked about this too, is like I think
- 26:59Speaker 10: we mentioned this about Kit Williams his new uh you
- 27:02Speaker 10: know entrance, his music and his video package. Fucker, some
- 27:08Speaker 10: of these people, these wrestlers don't have video packages anymore
- 27:12Speaker 10: where it shows them doing moves, and like we used to,
- 27:16Speaker 10: like we used to have video packages, uh you know,
- 27:19Speaker 10: playing in the background on the Titan Tron and it
- 27:22Speaker 10: would show you like maybe doing your finisher, doing your
- 27:24Speaker 10: signature move, you know, maybe doing your taunt, but uh
- 27:28Speaker 10: maybe holding a title, you know, something like that. Now
- 27:31Speaker 10: it's just graphics, it's just words, just pictures. It's no
- 27:36Speaker 10: longer the school. You know. You know, you guys know
- 27:40Speaker 10: what I'm talking about. You know, you know, we don't
- 27:42Speaker 10: have that, like goother you don't have that. You'd like
- 27:45Speaker 10: maybe it'd be cool to have like Gunther video behind
- 27:48Speaker 10: him playing on the Titan tront of him just slapping motherfuckers,
- 27:51Speaker 10: you know, him just choking guys out left and right.
- 27:54Speaker 10: And there's the And the thing is, it's not like
- 27:56Speaker 10: they're in a list of sucking people and a list
- 27:59Speaker 10: of videos is showing that. You can't put that together,
- 28:03Speaker 10: you can, you know, I mean, what the fuck is
- 28:04Speaker 10: this guy's choked out? You can put that all in there.
- 28:07Speaker 10: And his entrance.
- 28:10Speaker 12: Even if they have the video package going there don't
- 28:12Speaker 12: mean nothing if the music.
- 28:13Speaker 10: Is trash, right, Oh dude, Yeah, you're right, dude. But
- 28:17Speaker 10: I also think too there's certain wrestlers that their music
- 28:20Speaker 10: I just doesn't really work all that well when it
- 28:24Speaker 10: comes to the rumble. Some music. Some people have music
- 28:27Speaker 10: that just it already is a very hyped, popped type
- 28:31Speaker 10: of music. It gets you going. And then you got
- 28:34Speaker 10: Kiana James. Okay, so let's get into this rumble. We're
- 28:39Speaker 10: gonna go through these participants. I'm gonna gradually stop and
- 28:44Speaker 10: we're gonna talk about a few because I want to
- 28:46Speaker 10: make sure everybody kind of gets their flowers here, almost everybody.
- 28:50Speaker 10: They started the match off with with Charlotte, you know,
- 28:53Speaker 10: last year's Winter number one. And as soon as Charlotte
- 28:57Speaker 10: was in it, I was like, I'm in the kitchen,
- 29:00Speaker 10: I'm in the other room, and I like, I'm yelling
- 29:03Speaker 10: to Tyler because I had, you know, Tyler Foster over
- 29:06Speaker 10: and I'm yelling, I bet they're gonna have Alexa Bliss.
- 29:10Speaker 10: He goes, you really think? So I'm like, yeah, dude,
- 29:12Speaker 10: it's good fucking booking. Like who better to have than
- 29:16Speaker 10: the tag team partner who you guys couldn't get along
- 29:19Speaker 10: with in the beginning and now your friends, you know
- 29:21Speaker 10: what I mean.
- 29:23Speaker 8: And then, yeah, that was a good start. It couldn't
- 29:25Speaker 8: start down from there.
- 29:27Speaker 10: Yeah, good start.
- 29:28Speaker 8: They did that with Demolition. They did that with Demolition
- 29:31Speaker 8: in like nineteen ninety, and then they did it with
- 29:33Speaker 8: the uzzas a couple of years ago. I love that
- 29:36Speaker 8: as long as it don't overdo it every couple of years.
- 29:39Speaker 8: I really liked UH one and two being tag jam
- 29:41Speaker 8: partners or friends or something. That's always a fun camera
- 29:45Speaker 8: And they played it up funny like they were gonna
- 29:47Speaker 8: do their moves, and they did, and yeah, I thought
- 29:50Speaker 8: that was well done.
- 29:51Speaker 10: Yeah yeah, I mean it's like all you gotta do,
- 29:53Speaker 10: what is kill the men in thirty seconds?
- 29:56Speaker 13: So why it was good and fun, right, But sometimes
- 30:02Speaker 13: it's not worth throwing away an entire storyline for minute
- 30:05Speaker 13: and thirty seconds of until somebody else comes to the ring.
- 30:08Speaker 10: I mean, but I get.
- 30:10Speaker 12: And logically, the good thing about is that it logically
- 30:13Speaker 12: made sense, like if we're friends, why are we gonna
- 30:17Speaker 12: sit here and fight each other and make each other weaker?
- 30:20Speaker 12: But then as good as much as it made logical sense,
- 30:23Speaker 12: then that logical sense went right out the window as
- 30:27Speaker 12: soon as number three, which was Keana James, came in
- 30:30Speaker 12: because she's number three, even by the way, looked awesome
- 30:34Speaker 12: she had. She had a wonderful showing. She had a
- 30:37Speaker 12: great showing in the rumble. She was one of the
- 30:39Speaker 12: longest lasting women in the Rumble.
- 30:42Speaker 10: In fact, I think, yeah, she's I had the time
- 30:47Speaker 10: she was one of Yeah, she's lasted twenty seven minutes
- 30:52Speaker 10: thirty seconds, So that is long in a iron I
- 30:55Speaker 10: mean not Iron Roy Rumble match. It's over an hour,
- 30:58Speaker 10: so that's at least half.
- 31:00Speaker 12: I mean, that's like I think, I think she's like
- 31:03Speaker 12: top five as far as top five or top six
- 31:06Speaker 12: as far as who lasted. I mean, she had a
- 31:08Speaker 12: good showing for her first rumble. But the thing is,
- 31:11Speaker 12: but my point was that the logical thing that they
- 31:15Speaker 12: were doing with Live and Charlotte not fighting each other
- 31:20Speaker 12: went right out the window when Kianta James entered. Because
- 31:23Speaker 12: Kiana James got in there, it immediately started going to
- 31:25Speaker 12: town on both of them. Whereas you would think they
- 31:29Speaker 12: would have a two on one advantage and he'd be like, hey,
- 31:32Speaker 12: we could just double team people when they come in
- 31:34Speaker 12: the ring and get them out. They just let Kiana
- 31:38Speaker 12: James come right up in that ring and just run
- 31:40Speaker 12: rough shot on the.
- 31:40Speaker 5: Ass, Like yeah, sense does that make?
- 31:44Speaker 10: Then we got Naya who came in, so I'm like, okay,
- 31:47Speaker 10: now we got a heavy hitter. This will kind of
- 31:50Speaker 10: slow things down, This will I think let the women
- 31:54Speaker 10: start piling up in the ring, and that's what they did.
- 31:57Speaker 10: They they we didn't have any eliminations for while we
- 32:00Speaker 10: had we had it pile up because then after Naya
- 32:03Speaker 10: we got Ivy Nile, and then from NXT we got Lolavice,
- 32:11Speaker 10: and then we got candicel Ray and then Jordan Grace.
- 32:15Speaker 10: So now we had a bunch of bunch of women
- 32:18Speaker 10: in here, the rings getting pretty packed. Uh. And then
- 32:25Speaker 10: and then things really started picking up, you know, although
- 32:28Speaker 10: I did enjoy the all the women are kind of
- 32:31Speaker 10: knocked out and Charlotte's standing there, and then Becky Lynch's
- 32:35Speaker 10: music hits, and I was like, yeah, I I want
- 32:40Speaker 10: to see Becky verus Charlotte just one more time, just
- 32:42Speaker 10: one more time, but I want to see Charlotte as
- 32:44Speaker 10: a face and Becky as a heel. And I was like,
- 32:47Speaker 10: after whatever we're doing here with Alexa, Charlotte goes off
- 32:51Speaker 10: on her own, give it to me just one more time.
- 32:54Speaker 10: We got a little taste of it, a little taste
- 32:56Speaker 10: of the them beating each other up. Loved it.
- 33:01Speaker 8: One of the one of my favorite moments from this match.
- 33:04Speaker 8: And then yeah, unfortunately weren't very many, uh, loki. Uh.
- 33:09Speaker 8: Becky comes down during length since she takes her belt
- 33:11Speaker 8: off and goes to hand it to an official and
- 33:13Speaker 8: realizes the official is uh the redhead Jesse to the car.
- 33:18Speaker 8: Yeah no, no no, and get it to somebody else. Dude,
- 33:22Speaker 8: A fun little like real stud a little moment.
- 33:25Speaker 10: Dude, keeping k Fave alive right there, Dude. I I laughed,
- 33:30Speaker 10: like I like did what it was like spits like
- 33:33Speaker 10: like because it was funny.
- 33:35Speaker 8: Man.
- 33:35Speaker 10: I was just like, damn, that's awesome. Uh, yeah, we'll
- 33:40Speaker 10: talk about things started to get a little interesting. What's
- 33:43Speaker 10: what's Becky was in?
- 33:46Speaker 5: You know?
- 33:46Speaker 10: And now we got soul Ruka from NXT who lasted,
- 33:51Speaker 10: by the way, sol Ruka fifty minutes forty seven seconds. Impressive.
- 33:56Speaker 8: She was one of the stars of the night for sure.
- 33:58Speaker 10: Impressive as hell. Yeah, she was the MVP of the Rumble,
- 34:02Speaker 10: MVP one of yes. And then.
- 34:08Speaker 12: I was like, yeah, definitely, like said, she had an
- 34:10Speaker 12: absolute strong showing. Probably the out of the four women
- 34:17Speaker 12: in the Rumble who represented NXT, she by far had
- 34:21Speaker 12: the best showing out of all of them. Like, she's
- 34:24Speaker 12: about as main roster ready as can be without actually
- 34:27Speaker 12: being on the main.
- 34:28Speaker 10: Roster right, and it's a stamp still listed here as NXT.
- 34:33Speaker 12: Like you know, she she doesn't have an NFT Women's
- 34:37Speaker 12: title reign in her future, then I don't know what
- 34:39Speaker 12: the hell they're doing. Yeah, of course she nails that
- 34:42Speaker 12: freaking soul snatcher, which is still, as Michael Cole you know,
- 34:48Speaker 12: accurately stated in the Rumble, the best looking move in wrestling.
- 34:53Speaker 5: Yeah, she nailed it one.
- 34:56Speaker 8: He is another one that did a great job with
- 34:58Speaker 8: her outfit too. I mean, they have Coid outfit rule
- 35:01Speaker 8: or whatever, but she was one of the few that
- 35:04Speaker 8: really made it her own. I thought, uh, and you know,
- 35:08Speaker 8: I've fished about this a million times, but the color
- 35:12Speaker 8: coordination has got They've got to do something about this.
- 35:15Speaker 8: And I feel like twenty of them were in all black,
- 35:17Speaker 8: and when they went to like a wide shot of
- 35:19Speaker 8: the ring, I couldn't tell who the fuck was who
- 35:22Speaker 8: because they all look exactly the same. They were all
- 35:23Speaker 8: in black and and and the ones were the ones
- 35:26Speaker 8: we pointed out. Have you noticed that we said so
- 35:29Speaker 8: and so did good and so and so did good
- 35:30Speaker 8: were ones that weren't wearing black. Uh Na James not
- 35:34Speaker 8: wearing black. It's all not wearing black. Uh well, I
- 35:37Speaker 8: mean last Budgin'll come up. She wasn't wearing black. She
- 35:39Speaker 8: did great.
- 35:40Speaker 5: Uh.
- 35:41Speaker 8: You know, it's like the people that stood out were
- 35:43Speaker 8: the only ones you could tell who they were because
- 35:45Speaker 8: they weren't.
- 35:45Speaker 5: Enough black exactly.
- 35:47Speaker 12: I mean, like it's from the you definitely knew the
- 35:50Speaker 12: people who weren't wearing black.
- 35:51Speaker 5: They they stood out, They were noteworthy, and.
- 35:55Speaker 8: Especially was great she wasn't wearing black.
- 35:58Speaker 5: Yeah, and especially the one ones who.
- 36:01Speaker 12: Took their outfit and helped and integrated it into who
- 36:05Speaker 12: they are as a character.
- 36:06Speaker 5: Those are the ones that stood out the most of me.
- 36:07Speaker 5: Like like you.
- 36:08Speaker 12: Said, soul Ruka, her outfit was consistent with her character.
- 36:14Speaker 12: Even Lola Ice her outfit was one of that really
- 36:16Speaker 12: stood out to me, which obviously integrating the Miami colors
- 36:19Speaker 12: with the blue and the pink and the palm trees
- 36:22Speaker 12: like that stood out to me. Hers, like I said,
- 36:25Speaker 12: Lash with the purple obviously stood out. Even the Yo
- 36:30Speaker 12: sky looking like the yellow Ranger out there stood out.
- 36:33Speaker 8: Well, you know what, you know what it was come
- 36:36Speaker 8: to find out her and Riho addressed this tweedybird and
- 36:40Speaker 8: Sylvester supposedly, so that's why she was in all yellow
- 36:44Speaker 8: because she was tweety bird. Yeah, that's why that red
- 36:49Speaker 8: hair makeup looked like she was like just woke up
- 36:54Speaker 8: from a three day bender. All red the apparently never
- 36:58Speaker 8: seemed to be Tweetybird and Sylvester, I.
- 37:00Speaker 12: Know what was going on with that red No, she
- 37:03Speaker 12: was doing some more another horror theme thing.
- 37:07Speaker 8: She did not look good.
- 37:09Speaker 10: I gotta ask, what do you what are you eating?
- 37:14Speaker 5: Oh, fire house ups? Is it coming to one of mic?
- 37:17Speaker 8: No?
- 37:18Speaker 10: All right, I was just curious. I never would. I
- 37:19Speaker 10: always ask you every episode anyway.
- 37:23Speaker 5: Uh.
- 37:23Speaker 10: Yeah, these outfits, guys, Doyle, I agree, like they were.
- 37:28Speaker 10: You look far from distancing. You're looking at him and
- 37:31Speaker 10: it's just tell to go go power Rangers. Yeah, dude,
- 37:40Speaker 10: it sucks that these women all had to pay for
- 37:42Speaker 10: these outfits. But here's what I thought. Don't you all
- 37:47Speaker 10: pay for your office anyway? And unlike some guys, most
- 37:53Speaker 10: of the women, I mean a lot a lot of
- 37:55Speaker 10: the guys, you know, we don't. They don't change, you know,
- 37:59Speaker 10: their outfit every Monday night, roll, every SmackDown. Not all
- 38:03Speaker 10: of them. Some of them women are the ones who's
- 38:08Speaker 10: I'm sorry, right, I'm sorry for the like one female wrestler,
- 38:12Speaker 10: female listener might have. But like, like, you can't rewear.
- 38:18Speaker 12: That the veteran you saw the og veteran. Bailey didn't
- 38:23Speaker 12: bother coming out with something new for this rumble.
- 38:27Speaker 5: That outfit. I am certain.
- 38:30Speaker 12: I'm certain she's worn that same outfit before in Rio,
- 38:32Speaker 12: and if I'm not mistaken, I wonder if she wore
- 38:35Speaker 12: that when she had the was was the mass that
- 38:38Speaker 12: she had with Bianca bell Are a few years ago?
- 38:41Speaker 12: And I'm pretty sure a Crown Jewel event when Bianca
- 38:45Speaker 12: was SmackDown was a raw women's champion.
- 38:49Speaker 10: I would rewear the same outfit every year and just
- 38:54Speaker 10: modify it slightly, Just like fine, you know what, if
- 38:56Speaker 10: I have to be here, I'm just gonna wear the
- 38:58Speaker 10: same fucking outfit. I don't have to wear twice year,
- 39:01Speaker 10: that's it. Yeah, twice a year for ten minutes or
- 39:06Speaker 10: an hour.
- 39:07Speaker 8: So think speaking of having to pay for their own gear, Yeah,
- 39:11Speaker 8: who has to pay for the U the black mask
- 39:15Speaker 8: and the black hoodie and the black floatpants? Do you
- 39:19Speaker 8: think the mask man has to do that pay for
- 39:21Speaker 8: that themselves? Do you think they have one set of
- 39:24Speaker 8: footpants and they're like here throw this on Yeah, Like,
- 39:27Speaker 8: is it the same mask every time on the network?
- 39:31Speaker 10: Yeah? Uh? Anyway, guys, So after at the Soul Ruka,
- 39:35Speaker 10: we got finally a Judgment Day member. We got Rocks
- 39:37Speaker 10: and Prez coming out, and then we get Maxing Dupris.
- 39:42Speaker 10: So I'm like, okay, Maxing Dupris right away, I'm like,
- 39:48Speaker 10: is gonna be thrown up by Becky Lynch? And after
- 39:50Speaker 10: two miss and forty seven seconds, she was, I mean.
- 39:57Speaker 10: And then we got Natty, not Natalia. We got Natty
- 40:02Speaker 10: her her other persona, her other character that she's playing
- 40:08Speaker 10: on what the indie leagues or these other wrestling companies
- 40:11Speaker 10: that she's been visiting. She she has this other MMA
- 40:16Speaker 10: type character. But although she was eliminated by Live and
- 40:24Speaker 10: Natalia did eliminate Becky Lynch. So I know, we didn't
- 40:34Speaker 10: get a certain somebody, but I thought that certain somebody
- 40:37Speaker 10: was going to eliminate Becky, but instead it was Natalia.
- 40:42Speaker 10: Sorry Natty.
- 40:47Speaker 8: Then we got I feel like we didn't build a
- 40:49Speaker 8: whole lot of WrestleMania stories in either of these rumbles.
- 40:57Speaker 12: Common both of these rumbles was some odd booking decisions, right, Yeah,
- 41:03Speaker 12: these were not the most well planned out Royal rumbles.
- 41:07Speaker 10: Right, and then we get a live Morgan right at
- 41:14Speaker 10: number fourteen, and she stays in for forty three minutes
- 41:18Speaker 10: fifty seconds, and then we get a lash Legend who
- 41:24Speaker 10: was in for thirty eight minutes forty six seconds, and
- 41:28Speaker 10: boy did she make it worthwhile. She eliminated five people.
- 41:35Speaker 12: It was the most, I believe, right, yeah, most, she
- 41:39Speaker 12: had the most eliminations.
- 41:41Speaker 10: Yeah, very impressive.
- 41:42Speaker 8: Man.
- 41:42Speaker 10: They made her pretty damn strong, taking her out, you know, Bribella,
- 41:50Speaker 10: taking out Eosky, taking out Jordan Grace, taking out Charlotte Flair.
- 42:00Speaker 10: That could be something leading to although that's probably more
- 42:05Speaker 10: of a tag team thing. I don't know. But it's
- 42:09Speaker 10: good though, Like I really enjoyed, you know, because I thought, oh, well,
- 42:13Speaker 10: once Naya is in there, Nya is probably gonna make
- 42:15Speaker 10: another strong viewing. But I didn't eliminate anybody. She came
- 42:22Speaker 10: in at number four and she was in for nine
- 42:24Speaker 10: minutes twenty nine seconds, and then she was eliminated by Charlotte.
- 42:29Speaker 10: So they had one big ass woman last religion, and
- 42:35Speaker 10: she she took out a lot of motherfuckers, but then
- 42:39Speaker 10: she was finally taken up by Rhea and then you know,
- 42:45Speaker 10: then they have Selena Vega come in, and she was
- 42:49Speaker 10: in for ten minutes fifty four seconds, and I just,
- 42:53Speaker 10: for the life of me, I can remember her blink
- 42:56Speaker 10: and then that that's all I remember her coming in,
- 42:59Speaker 10: and you don't on a quick spot, and then I
- 43:01Speaker 10: don't recall seeing her for that rest of that ten
- 43:04Speaker 10: minutes and fifty four seconds.
- 43:05Speaker 8: The only time I recall seeing her was seeing her going, oh,
- 43:10Speaker 8: I forgot she was even here.
- 43:12Speaker 10: Oh my god, she's so tiny, you know, That's what
- 43:15Speaker 10: I was saying in that crowd of I like Selena Vega,
- 43:19Speaker 10: I'm a fan of Selena Vega, but yeah, she's got
- 43:23Speaker 10: lost in that crowd of women. So I thought it's
- 43:26Speaker 10: kind of funny. Yeah. Then we got Raquel coming out,
- 43:33Speaker 10: So now we got another judgment day member. Now we
- 43:35Speaker 10: got but I think by this time when Raquel came out,
- 43:40Speaker 10: I believe Roxy was already out. Yeah, so Roxy, yeah, yeah.
- 43:49Speaker 10: Once Raquel came out.
- 43:50Speaker 5: I think there was a point when all three.
- 43:54Speaker 10: Oh yeah, there was Okay, you're right, you're right, but
- 43:58Speaker 10: Raquel in for thirty five minutes, twenty nine seconds, right
- 44:02Speaker 10: live does take Raquel out in a very oops way? Right? No,
- 44:09Speaker 10: or she just tossed her right up over. I think
- 44:11Speaker 10: she tossed her right up over. I don't think it
- 44:13Speaker 10: was a I think Raquel was in the process of
- 44:16Speaker 10: eliminating somebody else and then what's it like Ria that
- 44:22Speaker 10: she was trying to eliminate?
- 44:24Speaker 3: And then.
- 44:27Speaker 10: Quite sure is h I know Ria got eliminated by Raquel.
- 44:32Speaker 10: I think that's when she did it. But you know,
- 44:36Speaker 10: I know she got like super upset that she got eliminated,
- 44:40Speaker 10: and I was like, don't you like have a Women's
- 44:43Speaker 10: World title shot tomorrow? Like you're like the only person
- 44:47Speaker 10: in this rubble who has an actual title shot tomorrow.
- 44:50Speaker 10: Like what what would happen if she would have won?
- 44:54Speaker 10: What did Raquel have two title shots then go for
- 44:58Speaker 10: the other women's title? Is that was that the plan? Like,
- 45:01Speaker 10: come on, so or.
- 45:04Speaker 12: She could theoretically become Women's World Champion and then challenge
- 45:09Speaker 12: for the.
- 45:09Speaker 5: W W Women's Championship. Yeah, I mean it'd be a
- 45:12Speaker 5: double champion.
- 45:13Speaker 10: I mean, yeah, that's how she wanted to book herself.
- 45:15Speaker 10: That's a pretty good idea, right, So yeah, I mean
- 45:21Speaker 10: live let letting Raquel slip through her fingers and go
- 45:27Speaker 10: out the ring up over the ropes, So I wonder
- 45:31Speaker 10: if that leads to anything towards WrestleMania. I don't think so,
- 45:34Speaker 10: because Live has got her hands full with other things.
- 45:38Speaker 10: So honestly, between Raw and Rumble, I was kind of contemplating.
- 45:43Speaker 10: I was like, that's crazy, but what if they would
- 45:48Speaker 10: have given that world title to Raquel, then we would
- 45:50Speaker 10: have to Live versus Raquel at WrestleMania, right, But I
- 45:53Speaker 10: was like, nah, I know we discussed that last episode,
- 45:56Speaker 10: but like the more I was watching that match, like now,
- 45:59Speaker 10: they're not gonna do it it because I'm looking at Stephanie,
- 46:02Speaker 10: I'm doing the SATs, I'm like, it's just not I
- 46:08Speaker 10: don't think Raquel would draw a good match for WrestleMania,
- 46:12Speaker 10: even though it's against liv. I think you guys were
- 46:14Speaker 10: right last episode. You guys were absolutely right when I
- 46:17Speaker 10: was sitting looking at it. I think they want the
- 46:22Speaker 10: right decision.
- 46:23Speaker 8: Live Jepanie is a better match, but I think it
- 46:26Speaker 8: might be hard to argue to Live. Raquel wouldn't be
- 46:29Speaker 8: the better story. I was gonna look, I would not
- 46:32Speaker 8: have been surprised at all if mac Kel had won that,
- 46:36Speaker 8: and it's doesn't make sense if she didn't, you know,
- 46:39Speaker 8: the monster big monster. Heel with a with a gang
- 46:43Speaker 8: is supposed to win that match, you know, because they
- 46:46Speaker 8: can gang up on the on the baby face. So
- 46:49Speaker 8: I thought that was kind of surprising. They got a
- 46:52Speaker 8: bad Uh, they get a bad string of lackluster championship reigns.
- 46:57Speaker 8: I feel like, you know, Sephanie's great, but her reign
- 47:01Speaker 8: hasn't been anything special. I wouldn't say, well does. She
- 47:04Speaker 8: had three defenses, all against Racal and two against Nikki
- 47:07Speaker 8: Bella and that's it. And Jade hasn't really done much
- 47:10Speaker 8: either with her belt, and Tiffany didn't do much in
- 47:13Speaker 8: her title rain even though it was almost a year long.
- 47:16Speaker 8: Because I think they's got a booking women's champion problem.
- 47:22Speaker 12: Would I would separate Tiffany out from Lash and Stephanie
- 47:29Speaker 12: just in a sense, just only because Tiffany had time
- 47:34Speaker 12: and had the roster, and yes, she was just poorly
- 47:37Speaker 12: booked as a champion. They never gave her any meaningful
- 47:42Speaker 12: or substantive feuds while she was champion. Jade is more
- 47:47Speaker 12: or less a consequence of bad timing right now because
- 47:50Speaker 12: the women the SmackDown women's roster is so weak and
- 47:55Speaker 12: she doesn't have anybody to have a substantial feud with.
- 47:59Speaker 12: They're kind of just buying time to WrestleMania. I don't
- 48:02Speaker 12: know if they were hoping or banking on Bianca bell
- 48:07Speaker 12: are being ready in time, or if they're still banking
- 48:10Speaker 12: on that and they're just trying to buy time to
- 48:12Speaker 12: get to that point that treading water or what. And
- 48:18Speaker 12: kind of similar with with Stephanie Laquer it's not so
- 48:24Speaker 12: much the women are there for the feud with They
- 48:29Speaker 12: all the top division, all the top women in the
- 48:33Speaker 12: tag team divisions, so she is kind of stuck in
- 48:35Speaker 12: a place where she only has basically the top I
- 48:41Speaker 12: guess the top of the mid card women to feud with,
- 48:44Speaker 12: which at this point in time would be Raquel Rodriguez.
- 48:48Speaker 5: So that's kind of they're doing.
- 48:51Speaker 12: I hate I don't necessarily want to give them a pass,
- 48:53Speaker 12: but they're kind of doing the best with what they
- 48:56Speaker 12: got right now until they can really get into basically
- 49:00Speaker 12: where they're at right now post rumble, where we can
- 49:04Speaker 12: now start to ramp up live in Stephanie wock Care
- 49:09Speaker 12: and then we'll see what happens with Jade on the elimination.
- 49:13Speaker 12: After the elimination change, let's keep that had just been
- 49:17Speaker 12: buying time, and so I'm kind of willing to give
- 49:20Speaker 12: him a little bit of leeway as far as with
- 49:24Speaker 12: those women and the fews that are happening right now.
- 49:28Speaker 10: Next we have well we had eighteen Chelsea Green coming
- 49:33Speaker 10: out eight minutes and thirty five seconds, but the funniest
- 49:37Speaker 10: eight minutes and thirty five seconds. I think I've seen
- 49:40Speaker 10: the thing that she did with Alba Fire getting eliminated
- 49:44Speaker 10: out Fire getting pre eliminated. Even if she's in next
- 49:47Speaker 10: year's Rumble, that was funny, So she's the comedy bits
- 49:52Speaker 10: were there for me. I was laughing. I thought it
- 49:55Speaker 10: was great. Then we got Julia. She came out not
- 50:03Speaker 10: I I when her music hit, I didn't recall who
- 50:06Speaker 10: it was. Sorry, I think Julia is one of those
- 50:11Speaker 10: I wish I knew when I heard it. And then
- 50:16Speaker 10: things started to pick up a little bit once we
- 50:18Speaker 10: got Eo Sky in the ring. She was in for
- 50:23Speaker 10: over twenty seven minutes, so yes, guy was in for
- 50:26Speaker 10: a good amount of time. Even though she was she
- 50:29Speaker 10: was eliminated by lash Legend.
- 50:32Speaker 12: And a rather brutal ass way. She was basically hanging
- 50:38Speaker 12: outside the ring off of lash Legend's leg.
- 50:40Speaker 10: Right, Yeah, yeah, dude, that was rough. I was like,
- 50:47Speaker 10: oh my god, uh yeah, I did, like we did
- 50:51Speaker 10: get then Osca and so seeing Osca and and Neo
- 50:57Speaker 10: face off again one of them one very fun.
- 51:01Speaker 2: Uh.
- 51:02Speaker 10: And there's a lot just all these little feuds here.
- 51:05Speaker 10: They're all tag team related, I think most of them.
- 51:09Speaker 10: Because then we got real well, that's.
- 51:11Speaker 8: Why I that's kind of why I didn't think Live
- 51:13Speaker 8: would win, uh, because I thought you would be involved
- 51:16Speaker 8: in what I think they're gonna do a Ruttlemania, which
- 51:18Speaker 8: is have a big, like five or six way women's
- 51:22Speaker 8: tag match, and that's a way to get all the
- 51:24Speaker 8: stars on the show and not have too many women's matches.
- 51:29Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you know, which I don't think is gonna happen.
- 51:33Speaker 12: Like I still am absolutely that what's gonna happen, But
- 51:37Speaker 12: it's just gonna probably be Raquel and Rock sand in
- 51:41Speaker 12: that type team as opposed to Live, just because again,
- 51:46Speaker 12: as I said in the preview show, Live is just
- 51:48Speaker 12: a bigger name in her versus everyone cares to make
- 51:51Speaker 12: for the bigger match. Even though yes, there's definitely some
- 51:55Speaker 12: story to be told between Live and Raquel, there's definitely some.
- 52:00Speaker 5: Were there which I'm guessing.
- 52:03Speaker 12: If I had to forecast, I'm guessing it's probably a
- 52:05Speaker 12: post WrestleMania thing right.
- 52:08Speaker 1: Now.
- 52:08Speaker 8: I know I proposed this big, this big multi team
- 52:11Speaker 8: tag match, but one of the things I loved they
- 52:14Speaker 8: didn't Reprimanda forty and I was hoping they would do
- 52:16Speaker 8: it forty one and they didn't, and I'm hoping they
- 52:18Speaker 8: do again in the future is have some kind of
- 52:21Speaker 8: connective tissue between nights one and two. Remember at forty
- 52:26Speaker 8: it was the tag match, and if Cody and Seth
- 52:29Speaker 8: Loft right, it would be tribal rules or whatever.
- 52:33Speaker 5: I like that.
- 52:34Speaker 8: I think it might be fun if they If they
- 52:35Speaker 8: did the I did a four or five way matt
- 52:38Speaker 8: a Night one with the winner coming back night too
- 52:41Speaker 8: to face Riabno for the titles might be a fun way,
- 52:45Speaker 8: just something to to make the two nights connected.
- 52:50Speaker 5: That's one thing to do. That's one thing to do,
- 52:53Speaker 5: and they could do that.
- 52:58Speaker 12: If I had to guess, I think we'll probably get
- 53:01Speaker 12: a ladder match.
- 53:02Speaker 5: For the titles.
- 53:03Speaker 8: Yeah, or TLC would be fun too.
- 53:08Speaker 5: I was just about to ask, have we ever had
- 53:09Speaker 5: a women's TLC. I don't know that we have.
- 53:11Speaker 10: Yeah, I don't think we have that.
- 53:13Speaker 5: Might be the that might be the move.
- 53:17Speaker 12: But concerned that is, do they throw all the women's
- 53:21Speaker 12: tag teams in at once or do they make them
- 53:25Speaker 12: compete and to the top compete to get in and
- 53:28Speaker 12: it comes.
- 53:29Speaker 8: Down to like, you know, the top three three.
- 53:32Speaker 5: Tax or to you know, top two challenge to.
- 53:36Speaker 8: I mean, I mean maybe maybe those qualifying matches happen
- 53:39Speaker 8: on SmackDown.
- 53:41Speaker 5: Yeah, between SmackDown and Rolling, that could be it. Yeah,
- 53:45Speaker 5: a SmackDown qualifier, Raw qualifier.
- 53:47Speaker 12: And then the tag team champions, who presumably would still
- 53:50Speaker 12: be uh well no, because who's tax Yeah, it is
- 53:53Speaker 12: real in the now, right.
- 53:56Speaker 8: I believe?
- 53:57Speaker 12: So yeah, yeah, so yeah, because obviously ain't no way
- 54:01Speaker 12: you doing a TLC about Sky and that bitch.
- 54:03Speaker 8: It's like we've we've wanted and wanted and wanted for
- 54:07Speaker 8: this women's tag division to get going, and it finally is.
- 54:11Speaker 8: But they can't also book the world titles at the
- 54:14Speaker 8: same time. You can only do one one at a time.
- 54:20Speaker 12: Yeah, like I said, they can. They can only focus
- 54:22Speaker 12: on so much at a time. Yeah, and I forgot
- 54:26Speaker 12: fucking Soul Ruker was in the last three.
- 54:30Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 54:30Speaker 5: Yeah, he had a phenomenal showing.
- 54:34Speaker 8: It's funny you mentioned focused on so many things at
- 54:36Speaker 8: a time, because I meant to mention this earlier. But
- 54:39Speaker 8: one thing we were definitely able to focus on was
- 54:41Speaker 8: fucking Triple h because because the show starts with him arriving,
- 54:45Speaker 8: and then we get a fucking video package with him narrating,
- 54:49Speaker 8: then we go to him in the ring. It's just like,
- 54:52Speaker 8: fucking God, damn, Vince wasn't on the show this much?
- 54:59Speaker 8: Like why eight th the fucking christ?
- 55:04Speaker 5: Wait?
- 55:04Speaker 10: Is it? Is it this one?
- 55:06Speaker 3: Doyle?
- 55:07Speaker 5: Wait?
- 55:10Speaker 1: Every Royal rumble begins the same way. Yeah, it's just
- 55:17Speaker 1: like stepping into the unknown. Yeah, yeah, I don't mind him.
- 55:23Speaker 1: I don't mind him narrating the thing.
- 55:25Speaker 8: I don't mind him arriving. I don't mind him starting
- 55:28Speaker 8: off wealthyingly off in the ring, but not all three
- 55:31Speaker 8: in fu within three minutes of each over. How much
- 55:35Speaker 8: fucking did this guy want you to see?
- 55:38Speaker 3: Immortality?
- 55:40Speaker 10: Yeah?
- 55:40Speaker 8: I know, Yeah, it's anyway, that's why, that's why ran.
- 55:44Speaker 3: For the day.
- 55:45Speaker 10: Anyway, let's get back to the rumble. Yeah, Bailly came
- 55:49Speaker 10: in then uh role model, and then we got n
- 55:54Speaker 10: XT's champion Jon Women's Champion jay z Jane showing up.
- 55:58Speaker 10: So that was nice seeing Jacy Jane, another NXC superstar
- 56:04Speaker 10: in the ring. We didn't just get one, we got
- 56:06Speaker 10: three actually, and then we get Nikki Bella number twenty five.
- 56:12Speaker 8: Uh.
- 56:13Speaker 10: Nicky was eliminated by Lash Legend, but she also eliminated
- 56:22Speaker 10: Bailey h Lyrah Valkyrie came in at number twenty six.
- 56:28Speaker 10: Lyra was eliminated by Brie Bella. Hmmmmmmm, I wonder what
- 56:35Speaker 10: they are setting up? Gee, I wonder what's wonder and
- 56:43Speaker 10: then uh, Kleina Jordan.
- 56:45Speaker 8: Let's see what they're setting up? Is one of the
- 56:46Speaker 8: worst segments in the history of Monday Night Raw.
- 56:49Speaker 10: Oh my gosh. Yeah, it was a little it was
- 56:51Speaker 10: fucking rough to watch. Yeah, Kalina Jordan from NXC showed up.
- 56:59Speaker 10: She was actually illuminated by j C Jane. Yeah she
- 57:02Speaker 10: looked great too. She didn't get any eliminations, but you
- 57:06Speaker 10: know it's not.
- 57:08Speaker 12: She had a strong showing that. Yeah, she did get eliminated.
- 57:11Speaker 12: About Jacy Jane. And then jac is the one who
- 57:14Speaker 12: ate that beautiful soul snatcher from Soul Ruka right after
- 57:18Speaker 12: Jacy got tossed out.
- 57:19Speaker 10: Oh man. Uh, then we get Kyrie saying so interesting,
- 57:27Speaker 10: how we had Kyrie was out for only like a
- 57:31Speaker 10: minute and thirty seconds and Oscar has been in for
- 57:33Speaker 10: fourteen minutes thirty seconds already. And Kyrie eliminated to Oscar.
- 57:40Speaker 8: And do you guys see the video of people after
- 57:44Speaker 8: they had been eliminated.
- 57:46Speaker 12: No, okay, the people like going backstage afterwards or whatever.
- 57:53Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, it's unfortunately for the Rumball it's way more
- 57:57Speaker 8: entertaining than the Rumble Square. But uh yeah, like they
- 58:01Speaker 8: get on this golf cart and they're driven down some
- 58:03Speaker 8: hallway or something and uh and looking Kyrie and Oscar
- 58:07Speaker 8: on there and I'll get kicks Kyrie off the thing
- 58:10Speaker 8: and it's just like go to the driver and Kans
- 58:13Speaker 8: like chasing behind them.
- 58:15Speaker 3: It was.
- 58:17Speaker 8: Way more it was way funnier and more entertaining. And
- 58:20Speaker 8: the women's royal level was unfortunately, but that was that's
- 58:24Speaker 8: a fun video to go find.
- 58:30Speaker 10: Uh yeah, so lake once uh Oscar was illuminated by Kyrie.
- 58:38Speaker 10: You know, EO took advantage and and throughout Kyrie as well.
- 58:43Speaker 10: And you know, I'm very interested to see what's gonna
- 58:47Speaker 10: happen with with Kyrie and Oscar going down the road
- 58:51Speaker 10: and this tag team can last any longer. I'm waiting
- 58:55Speaker 10: for Kyrie to turn on Oscar any.
- 58:58Speaker 8: Minute, She's gonna get that verse Joe moment.
- 59:02Speaker 10: Any Dana.
- 59:04Speaker 3: Uh.
- 59:04Speaker 10: And then we got our first you know, comeback, I
- 59:09Speaker 10: guess return Brie Bella.
- 59:14Speaker 8: She minute.
- 59:18Speaker 10: I want to. Yeah, I was gonna say like it
- 59:21Speaker 10: was nothing to do with her, Yeah, it never does.
- 59:24Speaker 10: The rumble was very dead, but like once Bree came in,
- 59:28Speaker 10: like yeah, like the crowd fucking pop. Like the crowd
- 59:31Speaker 10: kind of got alive. Like I was like, oh ship,
- 59:33Speaker 10: like I was even doing the fucking yes chance, I'm
- 59:35Speaker 10: sitting on my couch and fucking I was like, it's
- 59:37Speaker 10: been a while since I've been doing this. I haven't
- 59:39Speaker 10: done this in fourteen hundred days, because that's how long
- 59:42Speaker 10: it's been since, you know, Bree's been on w W.
- 59:46Speaker 10: But yeah, you're absolutely right, Dre, because I was a
- 59:49Speaker 10: Daniel Brian fan. I have Daniel Brian's shirts in my closet.
- 59:55Speaker 10: Is she got the rub man, she got the rube
- 59:58Speaker 10: just you know who else got the rub from Daniel
- 59:59Speaker 10: Brown in fucking the miss dude, the miss got the
- 1:00:02Speaker 10: fucking kicks, Like everybody stealing shit from Daniel Brian. Uh,
- 1:00:08Speaker 10: I was a daniel'brien fucking mark dude, Like I said,
- 1:00:10Speaker 10: I got the shirts in my closet. But yeah, the
- 1:00:13Speaker 10: yes chance was just so over so rad that wave.
- 1:00:20Speaker 10: But uh, and then last we had Tiffany Stratton come out,
- 1:00:25Speaker 10: which is you know what you know, looking at notes
- 1:00:28Speaker 10: from last last week? Yeah, dude, like I thought Tiffany
- 1:00:32Speaker 10: Strian would be number thirty. Yeah dude, great, all the
- 1:00:37Speaker 10: white outfit fucking awesome.
- 1:00:39Speaker 12: And it was at this moment where the sadness kicked in,
- 1:00:45Speaker 12: because thirty. And then at this point we realized no
- 1:00:50Speaker 12: return of Bianco Bell there, dude.
- 1:00:52Speaker 10: Yeah, let me let me look at this list here.
- 1:00:55Speaker 10: We were able to knock off a bunch of them,
- 1:00:59Speaker 10: but there's a bunch that we predicted that didn't show up.
- 1:01:02Speaker 10: But no, no legend well besides free, but we didn't
- 1:01:07Speaker 10: get Tristratus, we didn't get Biancabella Air, we didn't get
- 1:01:11Speaker 10: like a J Lee. A lot of people.
- 1:01:14Speaker 8: Well, you know, we had kind of speculated that that
- 1:01:17Speaker 8: that kind of might not happen because you know, going
- 1:01:20Speaker 8: to Saudi Arabia is totally different than going to you know,
- 1:01:24Speaker 8: where Miami or San Diego or wherever. Yeah, you know,
- 1:01:29Speaker 8: you're right, it's not it's not just a matter of
- 1:01:31Speaker 8: going to Detroit, you know. Yeah, it's a little more
- 1:01:34Speaker 8: complicated than that. You're right.
- 1:01:36Speaker 10: It's like they have to rely on on on these
- 1:01:39Speaker 10: visas and and just the traveling, and it's just so
- 1:01:43Speaker 10: much easier to do it with a full time WW superstar.
- 1:01:47Speaker 10: And that's why they were lucky enough to rely on
- 1:01:51Speaker 10: such a thick roster, because they have such a huge
- 1:01:54Speaker 10: roster now that they can actually fill it now. A
- 1:01:57Speaker 10: couple of years ago, hell, even the first two or
- 1:02:01Speaker 10: three rumbles for the women's I mean, I think we
- 1:02:04Speaker 10: discussed before, like how are they gonna fill this?
- 1:02:06Speaker 8: Fuck?
- 1:02:07Speaker 10: Yeah, Like, oh my god, Like they're gonna have to
- 1:02:09Speaker 10: steal so many women from NXT. You're gonna have to
- 1:02:12Speaker 10: call so many fucking women, like, oh god, we might
- 1:02:14Speaker 10: have to call Michelle McCool like fuck.
- 1:02:18Speaker 8: Like, you know, so think you could make a whole
- 1:02:22Speaker 8: another rumble of people that weren't in the rumble A yeah, yeah,
- 1:02:25Speaker 8: and it helps.
- 1:02:26Speaker 12: That, you know, they have relatively few women out injured right.
- 1:02:29Speaker 5: Now, yeah a lot.
- 1:02:32Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:02:32Speaker 10: We had we had four women from NXT come to help,
- 1:02:36Speaker 10: and we had one hall of famer Bribella, so we
- 1:02:40Speaker 10: had one return, but you know what, at the end
- 1:02:43Speaker 10: of the day we got the result was still the same,
- 1:02:46Speaker 10: Live Morgan winning. We got down to the final three.
- 1:02:50Speaker 10: Was you know, it's funny because like our you know,
- 1:02:55Speaker 10: we we said Live Morgan, we said Rhea who was
- 1:02:59Speaker 10: not in the final three because we didn't have a
- 1:03:03Speaker 10: final four. We had a final three and then we
- 1:03:06Speaker 10: had uh we we said Tiffany Stratton or Chelsea Green
- 1:03:13Speaker 10: and Beyonce bell Air. Uh yeah, no Beyonca. So that
- 1:03:18Speaker 10: that's just like as soon as that soon as thirty hits, right, like,
- 1:03:21Speaker 10: I was like, oh, manly now it's kind of like
- 1:03:23Speaker 10: everything's got change. Like I was like, it's still live
- 1:03:27Speaker 10: right right, and like it's definitely lived. Like it was
- 1:03:29Speaker 10: like as soon as thirty hit, I was like, it's
- 1:03:31Speaker 10: in the books. It's lived for me. I knew right.
- 1:03:34Speaker 5: Away, yeah, and pretty much confirmed.
- 1:03:36Speaker 10: Like confirmed right away, dude.
- 1:03:38Speaker 5: Only Yeah.
- 1:03:39Speaker 12: The only persons who seemed like likely choices would have
- 1:03:42Speaker 12: been either returning Bianca or Live, so I knew we wouldn't.
- 1:03:46Speaker 12: Banca went in and I'm like, okay, yes, definitely Live.
- 1:03:48Speaker 10: Yeah, But I mean, you know, at once they took
- 1:03:53Speaker 10: out uh you know, lash Legend. She was lash Legend
- 1:03:56Speaker 10: was in there for quite some time. Uh you know
- 1:04:00Speaker 10: once they I mean she was she looked exhausted, I
- 1:04:04Speaker 10: mean tossing out five people, but uh, I mean she's
- 1:04:07Speaker 10: even lash Legend was losing. She lost one of her
- 1:04:10Speaker 10: eye lashes, so she was lash lish lash lash list legend.
- 1:04:17Speaker 10: How you would say it? Yes, uh uh yeah, down
- 1:04:22Speaker 10: to three so we didn't have a final four. We
- 1:04:24Speaker 10: had a final three, and and I was really happy
- 1:04:26Speaker 10: to see soul Ruka make it that far. We had,
- 1:04:29Speaker 10: you know, one from NXT, one from SmackDown, and one
- 1:04:33Speaker 10: from Raw As I think the way I wanted to go,
- 1:04:37Speaker 10: like my video games, you know.
- 1:04:39Speaker 8: I didn't even up on that. That's uh, that's pretty interesting.
- 1:04:43Speaker 10: Yeah. So like I was like, oh man, you know what.
- 1:04:45Speaker 10: I was like, this could go either way and I'd
- 1:04:48Speaker 10: be okay with it. I was like, I don't care.
- 1:04:51Speaker 10: I'd be fine either way.
- 1:04:53Speaker 12: Like I would might have been okay with the returning
- 1:04:55Speaker 12: Tivity Stratton win in the Rumble.
- 1:04:56Speaker 10: Oh really even if even if she didn't go, please,
- 1:05:01Speaker 10: I would not even though it could still go that way,
- 1:05:04Speaker 10: I wouldn't want her to go against Jade, but.
- 1:05:08Speaker 5: Not nothing to well, not even that.
- 1:05:10Speaker 12: Just they pulled that card last year, Oh they did,
- 1:05:13Speaker 12: and fan didn't take well to it.
- 1:05:15Speaker 10: Stephanie versus Tiffany.
- 1:05:16Speaker 12: Charlotte came in at thirty and won the damn Rubble
- 1:05:18Speaker 12: and everybody immediately turned on it.
- 1:05:20Speaker 10: Well, I'm saying they already ran Stephanie Vicera and Tiffany
- 1:05:24Speaker 10: Stratton already, and we've seen Tiffany versus Jake Cargo, all right,
- 1:05:28Speaker 10: So yeah, I guess that wouldn't be an interesting main
- 1:05:31Speaker 10: event at WrestleMania.
- 1:05:32Speaker 12: So regardless of who she faces, just the fact of
- 1:05:37Speaker 12: pulling that same card of somebody returning at number thirty.
- 1:05:40Speaker 5: And then winning it.
- 1:05:42Speaker 12: Right, it didn't work when they tried it with Charlotte
- 1:05:44Speaker 12: last year. If they would have rehashed the same thing
- 1:05:46Speaker 12: it just with Tiffany this year.
- 1:05:48Speaker 10: No, So are we starting with Live Raquel not grasping
- 1:05:56Speaker 10: and not getting the women's World title? Are we arians?
- 1:06:00Speaker 10: Or we think that Live is going to be going
- 1:06:03Speaker 10: for Stephanie and not j Cargo.
- 1:06:06Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean she pretty much confirmed it after the
- 1:06:08Speaker 12: match when she attacked Stephanie Vcuerrer then picked up the
- 1:06:11Speaker 12: title and and dropped it on her.
- 1:06:13Speaker 10: Afterwards, So right, she did say she's coming to SmackDown though.
- 1:06:20Speaker 5: So she did.
- 1:06:21Speaker 12: And I mean they may try to drag it out, yeah,
- 1:06:26Speaker 12: and play lip service to it that, you know, because
- 1:06:28Speaker 12: you know, she may show up on SmackDown and I
- 1:06:30Speaker 12: don't know if j cargis in any action, but yeah,
- 1:06:32Speaker 12: she may attack Jade afterwards and hold up the w
- 1:06:36Speaker 12: W Women's Championship and do the same thing, which would
- 1:06:39Speaker 12: probably be nice good from a creative standpoint if you
- 1:06:42Speaker 12: want to try to keep people get sing as far
- 1:06:45Speaker 12: as who Live may actually choose.
- 1:06:47Speaker 5: But I was certainly going to be the care.
- 1:06:53Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, and if it was a real sport
- 1:06:55Speaker 8: and I was really had my choice of champions or whatever,
- 1:06:59Speaker 8: I would fuck with both the vote, you know, like
- 1:07:01Speaker 8: why wouldn't you? It makes perfect sense to do that,
- 1:07:05Speaker 8: even if you have no intention of going after one
- 1:07:08Speaker 8: of them, just to fuck with the one you are
- 1:07:10Speaker 8: going to go.
- 1:07:10Speaker 12: After, Yeah, I mean, And theoretically they do have Live
- 1:07:14Speaker 12: and Jay kind of sort of loosely have some history
- 1:07:18Speaker 12: together because remember Live was the one who was strongly
- 1:07:21Speaker 12: accused of having been the one to take out Jay
- 1:07:23Speaker 12: Cargill last year.
- 1:07:26Speaker 5: Well in twenty twenty four.
- 1:07:27Speaker 12: That turned out not to be the thing when Jay
- 1:07:30Speaker 12: returned that elimination chamber. And remember how terrified Live was then.
- 1:07:34Speaker 12: So unless you got brave since that elimination chamber. I
- 1:07:38Speaker 12: don't think she wants no parts.
- 1:07:40Speaker 5: Of Jay Cargill.
- 1:07:41Speaker 12: No, but it would be good probably for her to
- 1:07:45Speaker 12: mimic on SmackDown with Jade what she just did with
- 1:07:49Speaker 12: Stephanie on Raw, if for no other reason than just
- 1:07:51Speaker 12: to keep the fans guessing.
- 1:07:56Speaker 10: Hmm yeah, uh, I'm very excited see with this women's title. Goos,
- 1:08:06Speaker 10: that's feud. All right, guys, you guys ready to move
- 1:08:10Speaker 10: on to the next match on the card.
- 1:08:14Speaker 5: Yep, let's do it.
- 1:08:15Speaker 10: Right, Let's move on. AJ Styles versus Gunter uh Man.
- 1:08:23Speaker 3: What a.
- 1:08:25Speaker 10: What a rough match because they had me going either
- 1:08:29Speaker 10: way at certain points. Uh, because this is a career
- 1:08:34Speaker 10: threatening match where Styles would be forced to retire from
- 1:08:38Speaker 10: w W E if he lost from w W.
- 1:08:46Speaker 3: Uh.
- 1:08:47Speaker 10: He donated pretty early with uh with you know the
- 1:08:52Speaker 10: super Xity announced table and the Boston Crab and you
- 1:08:56Speaker 10: know he uh he was attends did a four to
- 1:09:00Speaker 10: fifty splash, which you know you don't see him do
- 1:09:03Speaker 10: very much. Anymore because you know, of his age. He
- 1:09:07Speaker 10: also does the Phenomenal Forum, which he also says he
- 1:09:09Speaker 10: doesn't like doing very much because of his age. So
- 1:09:15Speaker 10: it's hard to see aj Styles being like such great
- 1:09:20Speaker 10: shape and look the way he does and think that
- 1:09:22Speaker 10: this guy is retiring after this, Like I'm just like,
- 1:09:25Speaker 10: holy shit, Like this guy looks like he can still
- 1:09:27Speaker 10: fucking go for a couple more years, you know, But
- 1:09:33Speaker 10: I get it. You know, you want to go when
- 1:09:36Speaker 10: you feel like you're kind of at the peak of
- 1:09:39Speaker 10: your hill. You don't want to be in your mid
- 1:09:42Speaker 10: fifties still trying to do this and just looking god awful.
- 1:09:48Speaker 10: I mean, seeing him in his late forties still doing
- 1:09:52Speaker 10: four to fifty springboard splashes and you know, in Phenomenal Forum. Still,
- 1:09:57Speaker 10: I think that's it's pretty damn cool considering that this
- 1:10:01Speaker 10: guy made Match of the Year last year. Not it
- 1:10:04Speaker 10: wasn't even that long ago. It was only a few
- 1:10:06Speaker 10: months ago, a handful of months, and Match of the
- 1:10:09Speaker 10: Year entertaining as fuck, dude, you know, Gunther really wearing
- 1:10:18Speaker 10: his ass down, dude, like to wore that chest down
- 1:10:21Speaker 10: to me somehow, I think I think it was one
- 1:10:24Speaker 10: he hit that he hit that announced table. He busted
- 1:10:27Speaker 10: his arm open, kind of opened pretty good. Yeah, a
- 1:10:30Speaker 10: lot all over the place. Yeah, so we got some color.
- 1:10:34Speaker 10: Uh but yeah, dude, just going through just slapping him
- 1:10:38Speaker 10: in the fucking chest. Dude, just classic Gunther, you know,
- 1:10:42Speaker 10: getting him into that submission and aj styles trying to
- 1:10:46Speaker 10: crawl away and going through slapping him in the chest,
- 1:10:49Speaker 10: pulling back and you know he's a much style there
- 1:10:52Speaker 10: is a much smaller guy than going there. And that's
- 1:10:53Speaker 10: the thing with Gunther is like he'll just lay some
- 1:10:57Speaker 10: you know, forearms to your chest and big blows and
- 1:11:01Speaker 10: then you know, once he's done with some brutal, brutal beating,
- 1:11:06Speaker 10: I'll push it right back in that sleeper hole and
- 1:11:08Speaker 10: you know, wrap his legs around you, and you know,
- 1:11:11Speaker 10: I don't I don't care who you are. You know,
- 1:11:13Speaker 10: if you ever had a sibling and or a cousin,
- 1:11:15Speaker 10: you have put into a sleeperhole. Like it's fucking hard
- 1:11:18Speaker 10: to get out of those things. And uh, I think
- 1:11:23Speaker 10: it's kind of ironic how it ended, considering like the
- 1:11:27Speaker 10: way the internet blew up after John Cena's matched with
- 1:11:30Speaker 10: Kunthor about oh well styles should have I mean, Sena
- 1:11:34Speaker 10: should just passed out, never gave up. You know, he
- 1:11:37Speaker 10: should just passed out instead of tapping with a smile
- 1:11:40Speaker 10: on his face. So like, okay, so like we'll gave
- 1:11:44Speaker 10: you that finish, but with AJ styles. And I really hear,
- 1:11:49Speaker 10: I mean I didn't hear too many people complained about
- 1:11:52Speaker 10: the finish. I mean AJ just you know, he got
- 1:11:56Speaker 10: locked in and he passed out. I mean he he
- 1:12:00Speaker 10: didn't quit. But I'll tell you one thing though, and
- 1:12:04Speaker 10: I Doyle, I think you might hate this too, is
- 1:12:07Speaker 10: the whole always passed out. Let's let's lift his arm
- 1:12:11Speaker 10: one time, not three times, not three times. Whatever happened
- 1:12:17Speaker 10: to hulking up, whatever happened to that, I mean, whatever happened.
- 1:12:22Speaker 10: Just like it's not gonna work for me, brother, Like
- 1:12:25Speaker 10: what like you know, the holding the arm up, and
- 1:12:29Speaker 10: even as a kid man wrestling fake wrestling with your
- 1:12:32Speaker 10: friends and your younger siblings, and you do the hold
- 1:12:35Speaker 10: the arm up, let it drop, hold it, let it drop.
- 1:12:38Speaker 10: The third one, ah, you get the fist and you
- 1:12:42Speaker 10: build up and use your comeback and you you press WAD,
- 1:12:45Speaker 10: press B, you press A, then use your your signature.
- 1:12:48Speaker 10: Then you're finishing.
- 1:12:49Speaker 8: Uh.
- 1:12:50Speaker 10: You know it's even in the damn video games. Uh
- 1:12:54Speaker 10: it feels like, uh yeah, it sucked, like taking that
- 1:13:00Speaker 10: away even, but I guess that's how they do it
- 1:13:03Speaker 10: is always he's he can't breathe, lest he's not even awake,
- 1:13:07Speaker 10: let's call it.
- 1:13:09Speaker 14: So, I mean, I guess that I guess that it
- 1:13:13Speaker 14: was a little different, but it was close enough to
- 1:13:17Speaker 14: exactly the same as the fucking same exact match they
- 1:13:20Speaker 14: did with Johnson a couple of weeks ago.
- 1:13:23Speaker 8: You know, I feel like they should have put more
- 1:13:26Speaker 8: distance between the two matches, or I mean, I guess
- 1:13:30Speaker 8: you're kind of hamstrung maybe if if styles of like
- 1:13:32Speaker 8: this is that I want to be done after this, Yeah,
- 1:13:35Speaker 8: but if it's so similar and so right off the heels,
- 1:13:39Speaker 8: and I feel like it's like, I guess you had
- 1:13:44Speaker 8: to actually retire somebody instead of facing somebody when they
- 1:13:47Speaker 8: were going to retire anyway, if we're going to do
- 1:13:49Speaker 8: this whole career killer gimmick, but now you're gonna have
- 1:13:52Speaker 8: another one, so like, who's that going to be?
- 1:13:55Speaker 5: You know?
- 1:13:56Speaker 8: I mean, I know, I mean I've speculated that a
- 1:13:59Speaker 8: team be brock Lesnard at Thomaslam, but that's not for
- 1:14:03Speaker 8: half a year, you know, what I mean, you're gonna try.
- 1:14:07Speaker 8: It's they're gonna be bragging about these three matches for
- 1:14:10Speaker 8: that long without without ending another career. You know, like
- 1:14:14Speaker 8: that kind of does a team like that makes a
- 1:14:15Speaker 8: lot of sense. Uh I, I don't know what they're
- 1:14:19Speaker 8: gonna do. And then you see that after the match,
- 1:14:22Speaker 8: they had everyone and their mother came out and did
- 1:14:25Speaker 8: a thank you a j tweet or whatever, and it's
- 1:14:27Speaker 8: it's almost like they're saying, you know, if you wrestle
- 1:14:31Speaker 8: somewhere else, you're gonna feel like a real asshole. Yeah,
- 1:14:35Speaker 8: you know, I don't. I mean, the speculation he's gonna
- 1:14:39Speaker 8: go to a w the speculation about t N a speculation,
- 1:14:44Speaker 8: a bunch of pan Uh So this is this is
- 1:14:47Speaker 8: the most non believed retirement I think since uh whenever
- 1:14:51Speaker 8: the last time Terry Punk retired was.
- 1:14:54Speaker 12: And I think that's part. Uh people haven't had a
- 1:14:58Speaker 12: strong reaction to it. Yeah, nobody believes he's a retired.
- 1:15:04Speaker 10: No. I. I yeah, for sure don't believe he's going
- 1:15:09Speaker 10: to retire. And I kind of don't want him to
- 1:15:12Speaker 10: retire just yet. I was like, come on, man, he
- 1:15:16Speaker 10: still got he's still got some stuff left in the tank,
- 1:15:20Speaker 10: you know.
- 1:15:22Speaker 12: I mean, I'm okay with him retired, with this being
- 1:15:24Speaker 12: his last year, and you know I don't. I don't
- 1:15:26Speaker 12: want to see Aja pushing it into his fifties and
- 1:15:29Speaker 12: shit where he can, where he's slipping off the top
- 1:15:31Speaker 12: rope trying to get phenomenal forearms or shit, or hitting
- 1:15:35Speaker 12: pele kicks and damn near landing on top of his
- 1:15:37Speaker 12: head or something like. I understand his reasoning for wanting
- 1:15:40Speaker 12: to retire earlier, sooner rather than later, because he wants
- 1:15:44Speaker 12: he's seen, He's He's just he's enough of a veteran
- 1:15:48Speaker 12: to where he's seen the guys in the past who
- 1:15:50Speaker 12: held on too long and the end of their career
- 1:15:52Speaker 12: looked terrible because they were way past when they should
- 1:15:56Speaker 12: have hung it up.
- 1:15:58Speaker 5: He doesn't want to be one of those guys.
- 1:16:00Speaker 12: Wants he wants the memories of him to be of
- 1:16:03Speaker 12: him doing what he does at the best of his ability.
- 1:16:08Speaker 5: Of him befoming at the highest level, not.
- 1:16:10Speaker 12: Looking like shit at the end like so many other
- 1:16:13Speaker 12: people in the past. So, I mean, I get that,
- 1:16:16Speaker 12: but yeah, nothing about this felt like the real end.
- 1:16:21Speaker 5: Of aj Styles' career.
- 1:16:23Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, like I said, that's why people aren't
- 1:16:25Speaker 12: really reacting to it that emotionally, and it could be
- 1:16:30Speaker 12: something hangover from Johnsen as well. My only real thought
- 1:16:35Speaker 12: on the match itself is just that I didn't like
- 1:16:38Speaker 12: to finish like like you were talking about Doyle, they
- 1:16:42Speaker 12: we weren't that far removed from basically the same finish
- 1:16:46Speaker 12: in the Johnson match, the sleeper thing, like the star
- 1:16:51Speaker 12: got stale. It's getting stale. Okay, I'm gonna put you
- 1:16:54Speaker 12: into sleeper. You're gonna fight it and resist it for
- 1:16:56Speaker 12: the next five minutes and then eventually gonna overwhelm you
- 1:17:01Speaker 12: and that's it, Like you gotta come up with something else.
- 1:17:05Speaker 12: And I thought they they had a window where it
- 1:17:08Speaker 12: could have They could have had a different finish where
- 1:17:13Speaker 12: Gulcher was just beating the dog shit out of him,
- 1:17:16Speaker 12: and I think Michael Cole made a remark that you know,
- 1:17:19Speaker 12: Aj can barely defend himself. He can't even defend himself anymore.
- 1:17:21Speaker 12: The referee needs to stop the match. To me, I
- 1:17:25Speaker 12: wish they would have leaned in on that part of
- 1:17:28Speaker 12: the match where Gulter just continued to brutalize.
- 1:17:32Speaker 5: Him and.
- 1:17:34Speaker 12: To the point where Aj literally like he doesn't give
- 1:17:38Speaker 12: up from a sleeper hole. He just is literally unable
- 1:17:43Speaker 12: to continue.
- 1:17:48Speaker 8: That's how he was ending matches for a while. I
- 1:17:50Speaker 8: feel like where it was just like move move, move,
- 1:17:53Speaker 8: move one two, you know, like it wasn't even necessarily
- 1:17:58Speaker 8: five moves to do them. It was just, you know,
- 1:18:00Speaker 8: like he just just like hits you or something hits you,
- 1:18:03Speaker 8: or something hits you, or something hits you or something.
- 1:18:05Speaker 12: Yeah, he finisher where it's like, yeah, I'm a t
- 1:18:08Speaker 12: rex you and then I'm gonna os on you, and
- 1:18:11Speaker 12: then I'm gonna power bomb you and then hit you
- 1:18:12Speaker 12: the three.
- 1:18:13Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:18:13Speaker 12: I would have preferred him just like brutalize them and
- 1:18:15Speaker 12: get a three count rather than doing the sleeper thing.
- 1:18:20Speaker 12: Like AJ can barely defend himself and he just you know,
- 1:18:24Speaker 12: hits a move or hits a combo moves and AJ
- 1:18:26Speaker 12: kicks out again it too. He does more a J
- 1:18:28Speaker 12: kicks out again it too. AJ can barely defend himself,
- 1:18:31Speaker 12: but he can still at least kick out at too,
- 1:18:34Speaker 12: and the gunter just brutalizes him until he finally.
- 1:18:36Speaker 5: Can't kick out at two and it's just a three count.
- 1:18:40Speaker 12: I think that would have made a more dramatic finish
- 1:18:44Speaker 12: to the match than just oh, we're doing the sleeper
- 1:18:47Speaker 12: thing again.
- 1:18:48Speaker 10: Yeah, well, you know he's taking off those gloves. You know,
- 1:18:53Speaker 10: you think he's gonna he puts them down, and he
- 1:18:57Speaker 10: says saying he thinks.
- 1:18:59Speaker 5: He didn't evenut him down. He just held me. He
- 1:19:01Speaker 5: just took him off.
- 1:19:01Speaker 10: In the hell he goes. You know what, I'm not
- 1:19:04Speaker 10: fucking leaving. You know what he goes? You know what?
- 1:19:10Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, I'm leaving.
- 1:19:12Speaker 10: I'm not leaving.
- 1:19:19Speaker 5: Don't leave it shut down.
- 1:19:32Speaker 10: Phenomenal ones that goes on.
- 1:19:34Speaker 2: They're gonna need a fucking wrecking ball.
- 1:19:37Speaker 3: To take me out.
- 1:19:41Speaker 10: I I man agree. I think he's going to TENA
- 1:19:46Speaker 10: to wrap up his career. Before we were even on air,
- 1:19:50Speaker 10: I was reading off some of his stats and stuff
- 1:19:53Speaker 10: that to Dre. I mean, aj Styles goes all the
- 1:19:57Speaker 10: way back to w c W now two thousand and
- 1:20:01Speaker 10: one WCW. But the fact of the matter is that
- 1:20:04Speaker 10: that man has been around for quite some time. He
- 1:20:06Speaker 10: has been in WWF before, you know, He's he's been
- 1:20:10Speaker 10: in New Japan Pro Wrestling, he's been in TNA Ring
- 1:20:14Speaker 10: of Honor, you know. And the thing is with aj
- 1:20:16Speaker 10: Styles is everywhere he goes, he wins their version of
- 1:20:22Speaker 10: the world title. He is a main event superstar in
- 1:20:25Speaker 10: every company. He's a arguably a face. He could be
- 1:20:29Speaker 10: the face of Mount Rushmore in somebody's eyes in that company.
- 1:20:33Speaker 10: Like you could say in TNA, is he on the
- 1:20:36Speaker 10: Mount Rushmore TNA wrestlers. Some people believe that, some you know,
- 1:20:40Speaker 10: some people you know maybe even would say that a
- 1:20:44Speaker 10: ring of honor, you know, with a lot of stuff
- 1:20:49Speaker 10: with the Bullet Club and stuff like he's like, well
- 1:20:51Speaker 10: one of the best Bullet Club members. You know, they
- 1:20:54Speaker 10: could say he's like maybe the face of New Japan
- 1:20:56Speaker 10: Pro Wrestling because he he won the w i w
- 1:20:59Speaker 10: g P Pro Wrestling Heavyweight title before. I mean, he's
- 1:21:04Speaker 10: won everything. He's won them all man and in ww
- 1:21:08Speaker 10: the you know, he's won I think I just just
- 1:21:13Speaker 10: about every title in w He's a Grand Slam winner. Correct.
- 1:21:17Speaker 10: He's been in Yeah, he's been in a plenty of
- 1:21:24Speaker 10: video games from two thousand and eight, he's been in
- 1:21:27Speaker 10: TNA games all the twenty eleven. Then he was first
- 1:21:30Speaker 10: in w W two K seventeen and you could play
- 1:21:35Speaker 10: him all the way through. Oh my god. He I'm
- 1:21:44Speaker 10: trying to think, like what other stuff because he he
- 1:21:47Speaker 10: just says so much. Oh my god, he just scroll
- 1:21:52Speaker 10: just keeps scrolling down like that. Two time WW champion,
- 1:21:56Speaker 10: one time Intercontinental, three time United States.
- 1:22:00Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:22:01Speaker 10: He held the WW tag team titles twice, one with
- 1:22:08Speaker 10: Omots and one with Dragonly. Such an odd fucking pairing
- 1:22:12Speaker 10: both of those. He's the fifteenth Grand Slam Champion out
- 1:22:21Speaker 10: of twenty two overall, dude, and he won Match of
- 1:22:28Speaker 10: the Year in twenty twenty versus The Undertaker in the
- 1:22:31Speaker 10: Boneyard match at Selmania thirty six. And I believe that
- 1:22:34Speaker 10: was Undertaker's like last actual match, correct, Yeah, So I mean,
- 1:22:44Speaker 10: but yeah, I'm excited to see where aj Styles goes
- 1:22:46Speaker 10: from here. Very exciting and you know, I just even know, uh,
- 1:22:53Speaker 10: he's gone from WW. I do think it was clever
- 1:22:56Speaker 10: as fuck to have Gunther come out on Raw in
- 1:22:59Speaker 10: AJ Styles the music.
- 1:23:02Speaker 5: That was a hell of a troll move a dude.
- 1:23:04Speaker 10: I thought that was fucking clever, he said. I was
- 1:23:06Speaker 10: laughing my eyes off. I thought that was great.
- 1:23:13Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what, guys like that was what's next
- 1:23:15Speaker 5: We're going through?
- 1:23:16Speaker 10: Yeah, what's it?
- 1:23:17Speaker 3: Well?
- 1:23:17Speaker 5: Because I want to.
- 1:23:19Speaker 15: Styles, ye like, like like who else who else is
- 1:23:27Speaker 15: on the retirement, uh list short, you know, like how
- 1:23:31Speaker 15: much long is Reagan to go?
- 1:23:33Speaker 8: How much longer is our Truth's gonna go?
- 1:23:36Speaker 16: Yeah?
- 1:23:37Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't know where else
- 1:23:44Speaker 8: you go with this. Like I said, I think Lesnar
- 1:23:47Speaker 8: is his last as at Summer Flam in Lesli's hometown
- 1:23:52Speaker 8: for lesns last match, But like what do you do
- 1:23:54Speaker 8: between now and then? And then what do you do
- 1:23:56Speaker 8: after that? Like when you I don't know, And that's
- 1:24:01Speaker 8: where the problem I'm going.
- 1:24:03Speaker 5: Yeah, that's where the problem lies.
- 1:24:05Speaker 12: And this current gimmick that he has a career killer
- 1:24:09Speaker 12: because he has to keep doing it otherwise it loses
- 1:24:13Speaker 12: its steam. I would just kill it off at WrestleMania, Yeah,
- 1:24:18Speaker 12: I would have. I would have him keep bragging or
- 1:24:21Speaker 12: doing whatever about you know, killing careers and this, that
- 1:24:23Speaker 12: and the third, and then I would have brock Lesnar
- 1:24:27Speaker 12: answer it and he's talking in the ring and then
- 1:24:31Speaker 12: Brockleser comes out like, oh you about killing careers, why
- 1:24:34Speaker 12: don't you try killing mine? And then you get that
- 1:24:37Speaker 12: that gives you going to versus Lesner at WrestleMania.
- 1:24:42Speaker 5: But I would have brock Lesner win.
- 1:24:44Speaker 10: Yeah, I agree.
- 1:24:45Speaker 12: I would have brock Lester defeat him at WrestleMania, Like, no,
- 1:24:48Speaker 12: he's not. He doesn't kill Rock Lester's career. Lester still
- 1:24:52Speaker 12: has his final match at Summer Slam.
- 1:24:55Speaker 5: But I would have that.
- 1:24:56Speaker 12: I'm still of the mind that Lester's last match should
- 1:24:59Speaker 12: be against Oba Femi.
- 1:25:01Speaker 10: Mm hmm.
- 1:25:03Speaker 5: That still would be my preference. I would still rather
- 1:25:06Speaker 5: that way.
- 1:25:06Speaker 12: You still get you still get your big hoss fights
- 1:25:08Speaker 12: with you know, Lesler versus going through Leslar versus Oba.
- 1:25:12Speaker 12: But I would have I would give the you know,
- 1:25:16Speaker 12: the nod or give the rub. I would have Lesler
- 1:25:19Speaker 12: give that rub to Oba Femi. Yeah, and it rub
- 1:25:25Speaker 12: on his way.
- 1:25:25Speaker 10: Out, damn yeah, exactly before the.
- 1:25:28Speaker 5: Least he could fucking do.
- 1:25:31Speaker 10: Yeah, and talk about a guy who was like great
- 1:25:34Speaker 10: in the Rumble, and we got a little bit of
- 1:25:36Speaker 10: a tease of Lesnar and Oba.
- 1:25:38Speaker 8: You know.
- 1:25:39Speaker 10: I love that. That's why I just tell people when
- 1:25:41Speaker 10: we were watching, I was like, the Rumble is a
- 1:25:43Speaker 10: great opportunity to maybe test the waters with certain feuds,
- 1:25:47Speaker 10: to see how the crowd reacts. You know, you know,
- 1:25:51Speaker 10: if we get Oba Femi and Brock Lesner standing face
- 1:25:53Speaker 10: to face and the crowd is dead, it's like Oh, well,
- 1:25:56Speaker 10: I guess we don't have to book this match because
- 1:25:58Speaker 10: nobody wants to see it, you know, like when the
- 1:26:00Speaker 10: crowd goes silent for something like that, you know we don't.
- 1:26:04Speaker 10: Maybe it's smart not to book something like that, but uh,
- 1:26:09Speaker 10: great time to test any kind of feuds out here.
- 1:26:12Speaker 10: Maybe have two wrestlers that we would never think would
- 1:26:15Speaker 10: ever cross paths ever and maybe never again, only do
- 1:26:19Speaker 10: it in the Rumble. And that's that's one of the
- 1:26:21Speaker 10: things I love about the Rumble. But yeah, I I
- 1:26:27Speaker 10: as far as Guther Opa Femi is just way too soon.
- 1:26:32Speaker 10: And and I think if we're gonna do Brock, I Dre,
- 1:26:36Speaker 10: I agree, have Brock win. That way we can we
- 1:26:41Speaker 10: can maybe get Brock versus Obafemi later down the line,
- 1:26:45Speaker 10: before Brock leaves, you know, give him the rub on
- 1:26:47Speaker 10: his way out. I absolutely agree with that. But you're right, Dre,
- 1:26:54Speaker 10: like once your run out of people to retire, it
- 1:26:57Speaker 10: gets stale. And I feel like we had that with
- 1:27:00Speaker 10: Randy Oran early in his career when he was the
- 1:27:02Speaker 10: legend killer. Every week they had to call in a legend,
- 1:27:07Speaker 10: whether it was Jake the Snake, Roberts. It was rowdy
- 1:27:09Speaker 10: Roddy Piper. You know, it was whole COVID and like
- 1:27:12Speaker 10: who they had to keep calling fucking legends and then
- 1:27:14Speaker 10: eventually it's like, oh, I got no more legends, like
- 1:27:19Speaker 10: and then he had to move on from that gimmick
- 1:27:21Speaker 10: because he does you run out eventually, you know, yes,
- 1:27:29Speaker 10: but yeah, moving on, uh, because we're gonna talk about
- 1:27:35Speaker 10: Nuthor again later. Uh, let's let's talk about Drew McIntyre
- 1:27:41Speaker 10: versus Sammy z Ain for the undisputed w WAE Championship.
- 1:27:48Speaker 10: This match was pretty cut and clean, man McIntyre just
- 1:27:54Speaker 10: targeting Sammy Zain's lower back. Of the entire fucking match,
- 1:27:59Speaker 10: you know, Sammy came came pretty close. Uh. You know
- 1:28:03Speaker 10: there there was a point where, uh, I fucking believed
- 1:28:07Speaker 10: it for a split second when Drew's arguing with the
- 1:28:11Speaker 10: ref and the Halluva kick just like fucking comes out
- 1:28:15Speaker 10: of frame, just out of nowhere, and he puts him down.
- 1:28:18Speaker 10: But you know, we get the we get the kick out.
- 1:28:23Speaker 10: You know, I did thoroughly enjoy how even though Sammy
- 1:28:29Speaker 10: kicked out of the claymore, mac tire had the the
- 1:28:34Speaker 10: need to give him multiple claim wars to keeping him
- 1:28:38Speaker 10: down a third claim or secure the pinfall. Uh. It's brutal, man. Uh.
- 1:28:48Speaker 10: Just for a split second I believed. I was like,
- 1:28:50Speaker 10: maybe they're going to give it to him. I was like,
- 1:28:52Speaker 10: now there's this too soon. Man. They're gonna they're gonna
- 1:28:56Speaker 10: keep this title on Drew at least till Wrestlemingia. They
- 1:29:00Speaker 10: ain't taking him off him anytime soon. Sammy, unfortunately, he's
- 1:29:06Speaker 10: always chasing the title. He just seems like the guy
- 1:29:09Speaker 10: who just always chases and never gets it. It doesn't
- 1:29:12Speaker 10: matter if it's in his hometown or you know, a
- 1:29:16Speaker 10: country he's very favored in. But we always right around
- 1:29:21Speaker 10: this time, elimination chamber, you know, a rubble. Sammy's ain
- 1:29:25Speaker 10: gets title shots and just gets so close. But uh,
- 1:29:31Speaker 10: you know he gets your believe.
- 1:29:32Speaker 12: It fine all the Sammy stands. Just calm down, you'll
- 1:29:38Speaker 12: be fine. His moment is next year. I mean, let's
- 1:29:45Speaker 12: not let's not kid ourselves. His next year for the
- 1:29:49Speaker 12: last three years now. Yeah, But difference next.
- 1:29:52Speaker 5: Year is WrestleMania. Yeah, the elimination Chamber, not the Royal
- 1:29:57Speaker 5: not the Royal Rumble.
- 1:29:58Speaker 12: It's WrestleMania. He'll have his moment next year. This year
- 1:30:04Speaker 12: it gets the Saudist. They paid their money. Wwe throw
- 1:30:08Speaker 12: them a bone, said we go, all right, we're gonna
- 1:30:09Speaker 12: put y'all's guy.
- 1:30:11Speaker 5: He gonna get the title match.
- 1:30:13Speaker 12: But we the money ain't in sammy'se ain't going into
- 1:30:19Speaker 12: WrestleMania as champion like Vegas. Samise ain as WrestleMania. I
- 1:30:26Speaker 12: mean sorry, Sammy's Ain and WWE champion going into WrestleMania
- 1:30:30Speaker 12: at Vegas, ain't no money in that. However, Sammy's Ain
- 1:30:36Speaker 12: competing for the title at WrestleMania in Saudi Arabia next
- 1:30:40Speaker 12: year and winning that's money. There's money in that, and
- 1:30:47Speaker 12: they can and they can, you know they well, Sadi's
- 1:30:52Speaker 12: probably already paid for WrestleMania next year, but that's where
- 1:30:55Speaker 12: the payoff is gonna happen. And you see some people
- 1:30:57Speaker 12: mad that, you know, Sammy Zin, you should have if
- 1:31:00Speaker 12: he was gonna lose, he should have won the Rumble.
- 1:31:02Speaker 12: He should have lost this match, then competed in the
- 1:31:04Speaker 12: Rumble and then went on to win the Rumble.
- 1:31:07Speaker 8: For what.
- 1:31:10Speaker 12: The Saudi's already got their good faith, they got their
- 1:31:14Speaker 12: moment with him having the match. They got us these
- 1:31:18Speaker 12: breadcrumbs or these bones that they're throwing to the Sadis.
- 1:31:21Speaker 5: They gotta space this ship out.
- 1:31:22Speaker 12: They can't give it to them all, and this year's
- 1:31:24Speaker 12: rumbled because then they ain't got nothing left to give
- 1:31:26Speaker 12: him next year at WrestleMania. So like, all right, here's Sammy,
- 1:31:31Speaker 12: here's this title match for this year. All right, next year,
- 1:31:34Speaker 12: we gave y'all to next year. All remember last year
- 1:31:37Speaker 12: we gave you all the title match. All right, this
- 1:31:38Speaker 12: year he gonna win it. You know, they gotta space
- 1:31:43Speaker 12: this shit out in terms of keeping these Saudis happy.
- 1:31:46Speaker 12: So you'll be fine, Sammy Stains fans, just be patient.
- 1:31:52Speaker 5: He'll have his moment next year.
- 1:31:56Speaker 12: He'll either win the Rumble next year or win the
- 1:31:58Speaker 12: Elimination Chamber, and next year one of the two. I
- 1:32:02Speaker 12: would put my money on the Rumble because I think
- 1:32:04Speaker 12: there's there's money to be had in the sami's Ain
- 1:32:08Speaker 12: winning the Role Rumble.
- 1:32:09Speaker 5: I will I will.
- 1:32:10Speaker 12: Admit that, regardless of where it takes place, and winning
- 1:32:13Speaker 12: that Rumble will make for a very feel good moment.
- 1:32:16Speaker 5: So I'm calling it now.
- 1:32:18Speaker 12: Samy'se Ain's gonna win the twenty twenty seven Royal Rumble
- 1:32:21Speaker 12: and challenge whoever for the w I don't know. He
- 1:32:26Speaker 12: might he might be World Heavyweight Championship next year, but
- 1:32:28Speaker 12: he's gonna challenge for the title next Here's WrestleMania in
- 1:32:31Speaker 12: Saudi and win.
- 1:32:34Speaker 10: So, uh, Doe, what do you think about this match?
- 1:32:41Speaker 9: Uh?
- 1:32:42Speaker 8: I thought it was quite a funny way that you
- 1:32:44Speaker 8: said you believed for it split second. I did not
- 1:32:48Speaker 8: believe for its flit second at all.
- 1:32:50Speaker 2: Uh.
- 1:32:51Speaker 8: And that's what's kind of the problem. By thought. You know,
- 1:32:54Speaker 8: I don't think any of us dan was gonna win
- 1:32:56Speaker 8: this match, and I certainly didn't. But I always say
- 1:32:59Speaker 8: that these these matches are successful, like what you said,
- 1:33:04Speaker 8: you know, when you think, holy shit, maybe they actually
- 1:33:06Speaker 8: will do this. But for me, that just didn't happen
- 1:33:10Speaker 8: never once, and I think it's ever been actually pulled
- 1:33:13Speaker 8: the trigger out Sammy's name here. Well, not bad match
- 1:33:17Speaker 8: by any means, but I didn't think it was a
- 1:33:22Speaker 8: Big four worthy match, and frankly, this whole pay per
- 1:33:26Speaker 8: view didn't really feel Big four worthy. Uh. Honestly, the
- 1:33:32Speaker 8: same with the Gunter match. I mean, like I really
- 1:33:34Speaker 8: didn't ever think, oh, maybe Aj isn't gonna lose. I
- 1:33:38Speaker 8: didn't ever think, oh maybe Sammy isn't gonna lose either.
- 1:33:43Speaker 8: I didn't think it was ever in question. They didn't.
- 1:33:46Speaker 8: I didn't bite on the Fosse finishes or anything. That's
- 1:33:52Speaker 8: kind of surprise. I thought that maybe, uh you know,
- 1:33:56Speaker 8: I love both of these guys. I thought, uh, you
- 1:34:01Speaker 8: know that I would be able to suspend this belief
- 1:34:04Speaker 8: at some point. But it just never happened. Uh So
- 1:34:07Speaker 8: it wasn't a bad match, I didn't think, But I
- 1:34:09Speaker 8: just I thought it was a foregone conclusion, and nothing
- 1:34:12Speaker 8: at all that happened in the match caused me to
- 1:34:16Speaker 8: question that at all. So it's kind of disappointing.
- 1:34:19Speaker 16: I thought, m all right, well, I guess, uh, we're
- 1:34:33Speaker 16: we're heading with Russell Annie.
- 1:34:35Speaker 10: With Drew for that fact matter.
- 1:34:41Speaker 8: I think it's gonna be a three way with Cody,
- 1:34:43Speaker 8: and thought two, I just don't know how you get there.
- 1:34:46Speaker 10: Yeah, I think so as well, especially with well, dude,
- 1:34:50Speaker 10: the way, the way, uh you know, he he eliminated. Well,
- 1:34:56Speaker 10: we'll talk about that then it's true as a part
- 1:35:01Speaker 10: later in the rumble, but he's not in the rumble.
- 1:35:03Speaker 10: I love it, I love it, love it, love it.
- 1:35:05Speaker 10: But I agree Doyle, I answer, we're gonna be getting
- 1:35:11Speaker 10: Drew McIntyre and unfortunately we're gonna get another triple threat match.
- 1:35:16Speaker 10: But then again, last year's triple threat match with Seth
- 1:35:18Speaker 10: Roman and Seeing Punk was a banger.
- 1:35:22Speaker 8: So well, last year's triple threat match was Ria Eo
- 1:35:25Speaker 8: and Bianga bell Air was a fucking bag.
- 1:35:28Speaker 10: That's see what I mean, Like triple threat match.
- 1:35:30Speaker 8: Can you can?
- 1:35:31Speaker 10: You can?
- 1:35:31Speaker 17: Yeah, you can do a really really good yeah said
- 1:35:34Speaker 17: three or two. That's something totally different a triple threat match.
- 1:35:39Speaker 17: It can't be really fucking awesome or it could be shitty.
- 1:35:43Speaker 8: It's gonna be a fine line.
- 1:35:48Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, it's pretty clear how we'll at least
- 1:35:51Speaker 12: get one of those two into the match, which will
- 1:35:55Speaker 12: obviously be the only question is how do you get
- 1:35:59Speaker 12: the other one? And yeah, it would seem.
- 1:36:04Speaker 8: I don't know if you have some kind of disputed
- 1:36:05Speaker 8: finish in the chamber with the two of them it's
- 1:36:08Speaker 8: the last people.
- 1:36:10Speaker 12: Or yeah, I think that's something I think I may
- 1:36:12Speaker 12: have suggested on in the discord. I think one option
- 1:36:16Speaker 12: could be like having a double ko finish, like Jacob
- 1:36:20Speaker 12: and Cody are the last two and they end up,
- 1:36:23Speaker 12: you know, like a double ko where they both hit
- 1:36:26Speaker 12: each other lean to some controversial finish, or.
- 1:36:32Speaker 8: They could do with Cody Cody. One of could win
- 1:36:35Speaker 8: the thing and then Cody they have a match where
- 1:36:38Speaker 8: if Cody wins, he gets put in the match somehow
- 1:36:40Speaker 8: or something like that. I do think Cody might have
- 1:36:44Speaker 8: might have shout Jacob Fatu's teach. I'm still not convinced
- 1:36:50Speaker 8: that it was Drew, and I think Michael Cole even
- 1:36:53Speaker 8: made a point to say, like I can't remember if
- 1:36:55Speaker 8: I was hearing to rumble for it was on Rob,
- 1:36:57Speaker 8: but he said something about he said Jacob two going
- 1:37:00Speaker 8: asking the person he believes injured him, not the person
- 1:37:04Speaker 8: who injured him.
- 1:37:07Speaker 5: Yeah, in the air.
- 1:37:10Speaker 8: I still think that's up in the air and that
- 1:37:11Speaker 8: they playing into it somehow.
- 1:37:14Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean that's that's very much still a possibility.
- 1:37:18Speaker 12: But that would still that would that depends on if
- 1:37:23Speaker 12: they're when they want to pull the trigger on Cody
- 1:37:27Speaker 12: going heel, because if they revealed that Cody is the
- 1:37:31Speaker 12: fact the one that took Jacob out instant heel, immediate heel. Yes,
- 1:37:36Speaker 12: So do they want to do that going into WrestleMania
- 1:37:38Speaker 12: and have heal Cody heal Drew.
- 1:37:42Speaker 5: And Jacob is the only babyface.
- 1:37:47Speaker 12: I don't think they necessarily want to go that route yet.
- 1:37:50Speaker 12: I think they kind of want to have Drew as
- 1:37:53Speaker 12: the clear heel, Jacob as probably the clear babyface, and
- 1:37:59Speaker 12: Cody somewhere in between as a shade of gray.
- 1:38:07Speaker 5: I think they're kind of going somewhere in that direction.
- 1:38:09Speaker 12: So that would lead me to believe that whenever they
- 1:38:13Speaker 12: do make the reveal, it won't be at WrestleMania. It
- 1:38:16Speaker 12: may be something that they say till after WrestleMania. That's interesting,
- 1:38:23Speaker 12: but it does. Yeah, it's it'll be interesting at the
- 1:38:26Speaker 12: very least to see how they get to the triple
- 1:38:30Speaker 12: Threat match, assuming that that is a fact the route
- 1:38:32Speaker 12: they're gonna go, which would seem to be the better
- 1:38:38Speaker 12: of the two options, because Cody Drew, We've seen that
- 1:38:42Speaker 12: a million times, and as popular as Jacob is, Jacob
- 1:38:47Speaker 12: ain't one v one WrestleMania title match.
- 1:38:51Speaker 5: He ain't got that. He ain't that type of star yet.
- 1:38:57Speaker 8: There. I think that's a fair assessment.
- 1:39:00Speaker 10: So he could use that that star power man. But
- 1:39:02Speaker 10: that's if that's why it takes it, that man in
- 1:39:05Speaker 10: in a title match, you know.
- 1:39:07Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean he's he's good enough to be in
- 1:39:09Speaker 12: the match, just not one v one where he's got
- 1:39:13Speaker 12: to carry at least fIF percent of the load.
- 1:39:15Speaker 10: Right, yeah, all right, let's let's move on to the
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- 1:40:44Speaker 10: Ah. I scrolled down, scroll scroll, scroll scroll scroll, Man,
- 1:40:49Speaker 10: it was awesome. Number one over Femi and I started
- 1:40:53Speaker 10: all strong, started off strong. I think the reason why
- 1:40:58Speaker 10: because we had a little bit of a thing where
- 1:41:00Speaker 10: Paul Haman is talking to Adam Pierce about, you know,
- 1:41:04Speaker 10: the numbers that we're drawing, and you know, Adam Pearris
- 1:41:06Speaker 10: is telling you they're completely random, and.
- 1:41:09Speaker 5: You got to rewind back a little further than that.
- 1:41:12Speaker 12: Yeah, it started because somebody in production had a huge
- 1:41:17Speaker 12: botch on SmackDown the night before, Yeah, and inadvertently revealed
- 1:41:21Speaker 12: bron Breaker as the number one entrant into the rumble,
- 1:41:26Speaker 12: forcing them to have to make a pivot, which then
- 1:41:29Speaker 12: led to the Paul Haman Adam Pierce confrontation where he's like,
- 1:41:36Speaker 12: you book might gotta be number two, Like he was right,
- 1:41:41Speaker 12: was right, And it was led to that confrontation and
- 1:41:45Speaker 12: as their way to pivot Broun out of the one
- 1:41:47Speaker 12: spot and into the.
- 1:41:48Speaker 8: Two essentially the exact am thing. But like it's just
- 1:41:55Speaker 8: bast man, we need to have like every fuck show,
- 1:42:00Speaker 8: are you kidding me? Like what the fuck?
- 1:42:04Speaker 10: Speaking of this mass.
- 1:42:06Speaker 12: Match, not just even that, Like how many hooded people
- 1:42:09Speaker 12: have they? How many times have they done the hooded person?
- 1:42:13Speaker 8: You know what I mean? Like do they have to
- 1:42:15Speaker 8: pay for it each time? Do they just pass around
- 1:42:17Speaker 8: the same hood like.
- 1:42:19Speaker 12: This ship goes back to you can take this ship
- 1:42:21Speaker 12: all the way back to rear Ripley when she joined the.
- 1:42:23Speaker 5: Judgment day, she's a hooded.
- 1:42:25Speaker 12: Person when she joined Judgment So yeah, hello. When he
- 1:42:30Speaker 12: made his main roster debut, he was a hooded guy.
- 1:42:34Speaker 8: Like damn yeah, take two came back. She was a
- 1:42:38Speaker 8: hooded guy. Theory he was.
- 1:42:42Speaker 12: Hooded guy should be a wrestler in twenty in two
- 1:42:44Speaker 12: cases twenty six.
- 1:42:46Speaker 10: While we've been recording, it been released by a news
- 1:42:50Speaker 10: report that the hooded Do you guys want to know
- 1:42:52Speaker 10: who the hood man is?
- 1:42:54Speaker 5: You might as well who cares?
- 1:42:57Speaker 3: Uh?
- 1:42:57Speaker 10: Grayson Waller listen named the hooded man. So we'll see
- 1:43:06Speaker 10: how that plays out if that there's any real truth
- 1:43:08Speaker 10: to that. But he was okay, he was on the
- 1:43:13Speaker 10: dark matter for NXC too.
- 1:43:15Speaker 12: How about say, let's let's this is definitely splitting hairs.
- 1:43:19Speaker 12: Grayson Waller may have been the guy under the hood. Yeah,
- 1:43:25Speaker 12: he was the hooded.
- 1:43:26Speaker 10: Guy exactly because that could be holding now for something
- 1:43:31Speaker 10: in town. Yeah, yeah, that's right, true man. So yeah,
- 1:43:37Speaker 10: we'll see how that fucking plays out. Yeah, so we
- 1:43:41Speaker 10: get brown Breaker out within ten seconds you know, so
- 1:43:47Speaker 10: the whole the dude, me, you, all of us, all
- 1:43:51Speaker 10: of us who thought bron would at least make it
- 1:43:53Speaker 10: to the final four, all that dude out the fucking window.
- 1:43:58Speaker 10: I felt silly and I and the thing is is
- 1:44:00Speaker 10: they probably thought the same thing with this, is like
- 1:44:02Speaker 10: everybody assumes bron Breakers winning this, and.
- 1:44:07Speaker 12: You know, definitely, I saw plenty of plenty of comments online.
- 1:44:11Speaker 12: People were like, oh, there goes my bracket. Like if
- 1:44:15Speaker 12: there was something people put money on, everybody lost their money.
- 1:44:18Speaker 5: In the first Do.
- 1:44:21Speaker 10: You imagine, Oh, man, that that's rough. Bro.
- 1:44:32Speaker 12: Yeah, this is like the number one seed getting upset
- 1:44:35Speaker 12: in nancuble a tournament.
- 1:44:38Speaker 10: Yeah, okay, so Bronze out right, bron Bron's out. So
- 1:44:44Speaker 10: now we just got Oba Femei standing in the ring
- 1:44:47Speaker 10: by himself, you know. Uh, then we get Solo Soka,
- 1:44:51Speaker 10: So I'm like, oh, Solo and Oba, I'm interested. And
- 1:44:56Speaker 10: then and then we got uh, Raymond Stereo, Reymister coming out.
- 1:45:01Speaker 10: Maybister has been in multiple rebels. I mean, this is
- 1:45:07Speaker 10: I'm very surprised. He's the last guy on the main
- 1:45:12Speaker 10: roster who's been in w CW. Who's you know, I
- 1:45:16Speaker 10: thought aj Styles was, but no, we still got good
- 1:45:19Speaker 10: old Ray. I'm retired any minute now. Goudre's just waiting
- 1:45:27Speaker 10: to strike any moment. Ray didn't last more than two
- 1:45:31Speaker 10: minutes and forty three seconds, though, Wow, thrown out by Obafemi. Rusive,
- 1:45:39Speaker 10: rusive thirty two seconds?
- 1:45:44Speaker 8: What what was it? Why?
- 1:45:48Speaker 10: What? Why?
- 1:45:49Speaker 2: Why?
- 1:45:50Speaker 10: Sign? Why? Signed Russive back? If this is how we're
- 1:45:53Speaker 10: going to be treating.
- 1:45:54Speaker 5: Him to thirty seconds?
- 1:45:56Speaker 10: Nobody like it's man, I hate it, and it sucks
- 1:46:01Speaker 10: that like he comes back. It sucks that, Like I
- 1:46:04Speaker 10: think russef has a lot of potential and in both
- 1:46:07Speaker 10: companies he was wasted and it's it sucks seeing a
- 1:46:10Speaker 10: guy like this. Yeah, absolutely, man, Okay, So after Russeve
- 1:46:18Speaker 10: got tossed out, we got Matt Cardona coming in, tossed
- 1:46:22Speaker 10: out in fifty five seconds by Obafemi. So Obafemi's on
- 1:46:25Speaker 10: a role here, you know, uh, you know, bron Breaker.
- 1:46:28Speaker 10: He's already taken out Solo, He's taken out Rayven Stereo,
- 1:46:32Speaker 10: he's taken out Russive, and now he's taken out Matt Cardona. Right,
- 1:46:36Speaker 10: So Mac, would you know I did bring up when
- 1:46:39Speaker 10: Matt Cardona came out, I was like, you know, what
- 1:46:42Speaker 10: must be nice, like having like Matt and Chelsea, like
- 1:46:45Speaker 10: both both of you guys are working for the same company.
- 1:46:49Speaker 10: Now you know, you guys are both on the same card.
- 1:46:53Speaker 10: You know, you guys are both in the rumble, and
- 1:46:55Speaker 10: but guys are both getting a paycheck and you're both
- 1:46:58Speaker 10: spending a little BITI vacation time and suck Arabia. So
- 1:47:01Speaker 10: it must be pretty nice.
- 1:47:02Speaker 8: Right They're not. Both were in a beekeeper.
- 1:47:11Speaker 10: Uh and then uh then I think this is where
- 1:47:14Speaker 10: things started to slow down, where the Obafemi tossing people
- 1:47:18Speaker 10: out kind of slowed down. We let some people stack
- 1:47:21Speaker 10: up in the ring. That's when Damian Priest came in.
- 1:47:24Speaker 10: So now Obami finally has somebody.
- 1:47:28Speaker 12: You know, it was the last person that eliminated period, right, But.
- 1:47:35Speaker 10: Like, yeah, once Damien Priest came out, Uh yeah, I
- 1:47:39Speaker 10: think things just started to slow down because now you
- 1:47:42Speaker 10: had some another big man to help. Uh well, not
- 1:47:47Speaker 10: you were not so easy to throw out. Damian Priest
- 1:47:49Speaker 10: is not a an easy person to toss out.
- 1:47:52Speaker 12: Uh then yeah, but there's still a bit of an
- 1:47:54Speaker 12: odd booking choice in my opinion, Like nothing against Damian Priest,
- 1:47:59Speaker 12: but you got Oba running rough shot through the first
- 1:48:03Speaker 12: six other people, with the first five people to come
- 1:48:07Speaker 12: in after him and the rumble, and then the person
- 1:48:11Speaker 12: to break that is Damian Priest.
- 1:48:17Speaker 5: I would have thought.
- 1:48:17Speaker 12: That if they were gonna have somebody to you know,
- 1:48:21Speaker 12: break you know, his run of eliminating people, it would
- 1:48:24Speaker 12: have been I guess a bit more of a high
- 1:48:26Speaker 12: profile name. I mean, yeah, Damian Priest fits the bill.
- 1:48:33Speaker 5: Yeah, but he let's be real, he's lost some of
- 1:48:36Speaker 5: that luster since then. Oh totally like he does.
- 1:48:41Speaker 12: It just doesn't he hasn't had the same cache, the
- 1:48:44Speaker 12: same or since then, they've kind of.
- 1:48:47Speaker 5: They've really kind of.
- 1:48:51Speaker 8: Huh. I'm not sure he had it then, but.
- 1:48:56Speaker 12: I mean be it would have been at least more
- 1:48:57Speaker 12: presence if he was like, you know, I'm month removed
- 1:49:00Speaker 12: from being world champion, yeah yeah, versus you know, him
- 1:49:06Speaker 12: being long removed and basically been coming fresh off of
- 1:49:11Speaker 12: long drawn out, boring feud.
- 1:49:14Speaker 5: With Alistair Black, which wherever he.
- 1:49:20Speaker 12: Right, and he's kind of been like really almost slided
- 1:49:25Speaker 12: as a mid carter now.
- 1:49:27Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 1:49:28Speaker 12: It just feels like that moment maybe should have been
- 1:49:31Speaker 12: again at somebody a bit more high profile, like say
- 1:49:39Speaker 12: I'm not saying they had to be like, you know,
- 1:49:40Speaker 12: brock lesnar at number seven or anything like that, but
- 1:49:43Speaker 12: say Bronson Red, Yeah, I think that would have been. Yeah,
- 1:49:51Speaker 12: I think that would have been a more impactful moment
- 1:49:54Speaker 12: if it had been like Bronson Reid comes up, like oh,
- 1:49:57Speaker 12: somebody who when their name comes up you immediately react with, oh,
- 1:50:01Speaker 12: let's see what you're gonna do against him? Like if
- 1:50:06Speaker 12: over dam a Priest, he'd have if he he could
- 1:50:09Speaker 12: have tossed Damien Priest right back over the top rope
- 1:50:11Speaker 12: and nobody would have cared and they'd be like, oh, well,
- 1:50:14Speaker 12: next one served up, and it wouldn't have made a difference.
- 1:50:21Speaker 5: That's a good yeah, I said.
- 1:50:23Speaker 12: It's just one of many odd booking choices that they
- 1:50:27Speaker 12: made in this men's Royal Mumble.
- 1:50:30Speaker 3: Right.
- 1:50:32Speaker 10: So yeah, after Damien Priest, we got Javon Evans, probably
- 1:50:37Speaker 10: the youngest Royal Rumble participant in history. Maybe I was
- 1:50:43Speaker 10: thinking about that. I I'm not quite sure, but.
- 1:50:46Speaker 5: Maybe he absolutely showed the fuck album.
- 1:50:50Speaker 8: I feel like if he was, they would have said
- 1:50:52Speaker 8: it nine thousand times. And I don't remember them saying
- 1:50:56Speaker 8: it nine thousand times, right, I suppose doesn't mean, he isn't.
- 1:51:00Speaker 8: But I feel like they would have said that repeat
- 1:51:02Speaker 8: over and over and over.
- 1:51:05Speaker 12: Yeah, we're probably missing somebody who may have been a
- 1:51:07Speaker 12: little younger then Randy.
- 1:51:11Speaker 5: Maybe he could have been so.
- 1:51:17Speaker 10: Then after Javon Evans uh, then we got by the way,
- 1:51:21Speaker 10: Javon Evans Uh. He got eliminated by Randy Orton. But
- 1:51:24Speaker 10: he was in there for forty minutes fifty eight seconds. Impressive.
- 1:51:28Speaker 12: You can't look great long than anybody else as far
- 1:51:32Speaker 12: as spent the most time in the rumble of all
- 1:51:35Speaker 12: the men, have all the men.
- 1:51:36Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, I'm glad they didn't make him just you know,
- 1:51:43Speaker 8: just Kofee out there, you know, basically.
- 1:51:45Speaker 5: Yeah, or Spike Dudley out there.
- 1:51:50Speaker 10: Was also about forty minutes, by the way, you know,
- 1:51:55Speaker 10: Femi and Javan Evans carrying that rumble. Then number nine
- 1:52:01Speaker 10: we had mister Iguana from Triple A. I'm not gonna lie.
- 1:52:06Speaker 10: I thoroughly enjoyed mister Iguana's spots in the rumble. I
- 1:52:11Speaker 10: enjoyed the the what's her name, Yessica? Is that the
- 1:52:16Speaker 10: Iguana name? Damian Priest doing the double choke slam, you know,
- 1:52:22Speaker 10: the flips, the the the choke slam and the way
- 1:52:25Speaker 10: he acts like a dead iguana, like his arms up
- 1:52:28Speaker 10: in their Oh my god, I was dying.
- 1:52:31Speaker 8: Yes, like what we needed. Let's hold both both. Both
- 1:52:35Speaker 8: rumbles were sorely missing that. I don't care if it
- 1:52:40Speaker 8: takes away from the realistic mess or whatever. R rumbles
- 1:52:44Speaker 8: are set up for those goofy fucking moments, you know,
- 1:52:48Speaker 8: and those are often the things you remember just as
- 1:52:51Speaker 8: much as you remember, uh you know, Ricochet and Logan
- 1:52:54Speaker 8: Paul Or, you know, because I remember one of the
- 1:52:57Speaker 8: book whackers coming in, walking in and just and Or's
- 1:53:00Speaker 8: Quaker taking them and throwing them all right out the
- 1:53:02Speaker 8: other side of the ring, and they'd never once stopped
- 1:53:04Speaker 8: doing their their stupid withs whacker walk, you know, like
- 1:53:09Speaker 8: and he was four shit like that. Yeah, and there
- 1:53:13Speaker 8: wasn't nearly enough fun. I mean, there were a couple
- 1:53:16Speaker 8: of fun things. We'll get to another one coming up
- 1:53:18Speaker 8: in a moment, I think, but like, so this wasn't
- 1:53:21Speaker 8: enough fun.
- 1:53:22Speaker 10: Yeah. So after then we got Trick Williams from SmackDown.
- 1:53:30Speaker 10: He was only in for six minutes nineteen seconds before
- 1:53:33Speaker 10: Cody Roads eliminated his ass.
- 1:53:35Speaker 8: Yeah, he didn't do much city.
- 1:53:37Speaker 12: No, No, he was there just so that triple ashists say, see,
- 1:53:42Speaker 12: I like black people. Yeah, they have their their moments.
- 1:53:51Speaker 10: And then we got Cody Rhodes at number eleven. Cody
- 1:53:54Speaker 10: Rhodes was in for thirty six minutes fifty seconds before
- 1:53:58Speaker 10: getting eliminated by Drew mack entire. But wait, true is
- 1:54:01Speaker 10: not in this match. I know. That's what made it
- 1:54:04Speaker 10: so awesome. Cody Rose was hanging up over the top
- 1:54:08Speaker 10: rope and you know, basically hanging on the outside right,
- 1:54:13Speaker 10: and Drew came by and did like a running Claymore
- 1:54:17Speaker 10: kick or something and blasted him on the side of
- 1:54:20Speaker 10: the face and knocked his gas out. Ah, So that
- 1:54:25Speaker 10: was nice. That was satisfied knowing that Cody wasn't gonna
- 1:54:27Speaker 10: win the rumble end it looks for me. And then
- 1:54:33Speaker 10: then we got El Grande Americano Doyle. But it doesn't
- 1:54:40Speaker 10: it doesn't end there, my friend, because after that we
- 1:54:45Speaker 10: got the original El Grande Americano. By the way, the
- 1:54:50Speaker 10: original Eland Americano got jacked as fuck original, right, original.
- 1:55:02Speaker 8: Instead of original. But then I love the finer man
- 1:55:06Speaker 8: thing fucking great.
- 1:55:07Speaker 19: And that was the fun thing that we'll be talking
- 1:55:11Speaker 19: about in a second that I alluded to earlier moments
- 1:55:14Speaker 19: I make make the Royal the rumble so much fun and.
- 1:55:18Speaker 8: We just outside of Iguana and that. I don't know
- 1:55:21Speaker 8: if there was another fund real really fun moment in
- 1:55:25Speaker 8: this Royal rumbo, but the pointing is great. I don't know.
- 1:55:28Speaker 8: I assume this is gonna go to some kind of
- 1:55:30Speaker 8: mask versus mask situation.
- 1:55:33Speaker 10: Oh my god, do we need another mask? We already
- 1:55:37Speaker 10: joined Johnny Gargano and Axiom fighting for a fucking mask
- 1:55:40Speaker 10: every week. Do we need any more mask?
- 1:55:44Speaker 5: Well, this would be a fight over a met that
- 1:55:46Speaker 5: people actually care about.
- 1:55:50Speaker 10: Yeah, nuts, Okay, so we have the original grand El Girande.
- 1:56:01Speaker 10: Americano comeback doesn't take off the mask, but we can
- 1:56:03Speaker 10: definitely tell us Chad Gable because the guy looks like
- 1:56:06Speaker 10: Luke Frigno's poop. You know, he's jacked with with with
- 1:56:11Speaker 10: a beard, you know. But then we get which I
- 1:56:18Speaker 10: thought was really cool. So we got Royce Keys, but
- 1:56:24Speaker 10: he didn't his when his music hit it was it
- 1:56:29Speaker 10: was Powerhouse Hobbs, you know, and on the graphic and
- 1:56:32Speaker 10: then it it twitched it for the Roy's Keys.
- 1:56:37Speaker 5: You know, he was before we got Royce Keys.
- 1:56:39Speaker 12: Is when we got the moment of Oba, Trick and Javon,
- 1:56:44Speaker 12: the three NXT guys all in the ring, and then
- 1:56:47Speaker 12: they had that you know.
- 1:56:48Speaker 5: That moment of those them looking at each other.
- 1:56:52Speaker 12: And then Trick Williams got eliminated and then we got
- 1:56:56Speaker 12: Royce Keys come out.
- 1:57:00Speaker 5: Yeah, like the triple.
- 1:57:03Speaker 12: Ah was like, all right, I'm gonna give you another black,
- 1:57:05Speaker 12: but one of y'all got.
- 1:57:06Speaker 5: To go, Oh my gosh, give him black. You gotta
- 1:57:09Speaker 5: take a black.
- 1:57:11Speaker 10: Oh my god.
- 1:57:12Speaker 8: Oh.
- 1:57:12Speaker 10: The only person that Royce Keys eliminated was Damian Priest.
- 1:57:18Speaker 10: So maybe we'll see, uh, who knows, maybe we'll see
- 1:57:21Speaker 10: a program. I could see since Obafemi, I could see
- 1:57:25Speaker 10: going to raw and I could see Royce Key's going
- 1:57:28Speaker 10: to SmackDown. But yeah, nine minutes and fifty five seconds,
- 1:57:34Speaker 10: you know, impressive. So if he was, he was eliminated.
- 1:57:39Speaker 8: What do you guys think about the U? And they
- 1:57:42Speaker 8: didn't They didn't. They just did this with Cardona too,
- 1:57:46Speaker 8: didn't they have didn't they say zach Ryer and then
- 1:57:48Speaker 8: it went away and said not Cardon? Yeah, do you
- 1:57:50Speaker 8: like that? Do you like the acknowledgement of the old name?
- 1:57:53Speaker 8: And then wait, this is what we're gonna call him now.
- 1:57:56Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't have a problem with it because I mean,
- 1:58:01Speaker 12: for one, it's acknowledging who they acknowledging their past in
- 1:58:08Speaker 12: the past is always you know, pretending like your career
- 1:58:11Speaker 12: didn't exist outside.
- 1:58:12Speaker 5: Of here as if.
- 1:58:13Speaker 8: Yeah, I like that too.
- 1:58:14Speaker 12: Showing up in WW is the first day you ever
- 1:58:16Speaker 12: wrestled and shit, so yeah.
- 1:58:18Speaker 8: We all know it is right. Yeah, No, I agree.
- 1:58:21Speaker 8: They wouldn't say a W, but they you know, they
- 1:58:23Speaker 8: did kind of give it lip service. I think, uh yeah,
- 1:58:27Speaker 8: I think Cody and him are squaring off and they're like,
- 1:58:30Speaker 8: these men have a history or something like that exactly,
- 1:58:33Speaker 8: So they said it what I was saying. But yes,
- 1:58:36Speaker 8: I liked that. They're they're even if they won't acknowledge
- 1:58:39Speaker 8: a W directly, they at least almost any other company
- 1:58:44Speaker 8: though they both say. I mean, they have said hog,
- 1:58:47Speaker 8: they have said Ring of Honor. I think they have.
- 1:58:49Speaker 8: They do talk about New Japan, you know, even the end,
- 1:58:52Speaker 8: you know, Gorilla. They do talk about the Indies now,
- 1:58:55Speaker 8: which is kind of interesting. But I do like that
- 1:58:58Speaker 8: they acknowledge like, oh, yeah, this detending just fall off
- 1:59:01Speaker 8: the sky yesterday in Stanford, Yeah exactly.
- 1:59:07Speaker 10: Yeah, where am I lost me. Oh no, okay, okay.
- 1:59:13Speaker 10: Then we had Austin Theory and Bronson Reid come out,
- 1:59:18Speaker 10: so now we have more of the vision come out.
- 1:59:24Speaker 10: Then we had Dragon Off come out from SmackDown, who
- 1:59:30Speaker 10: lasted eleven minutes, and when brock Lesner decided to stop
- 1:59:34Speaker 10: selling for him, he just tossed him out. Yeah, we
- 1:59:39Speaker 10: had Laparca from Triple A come out. That was cool
- 1:59:45Speaker 10: to see Laparka there. I like that skeleton outfit he
- 1:59:49Speaker 10: was wearing. I thought that was pretty cool.
- 1:59:53Speaker 3: That.
- 1:59:53Speaker 10: Then we got Dragon Lee, So this definitely had I
- 1:59:58Speaker 10: don't know if it had more bloodline members or had
- 2:00:01Speaker 10: more luchadors in this match. Uh, it felt like his
- 2:00:07Speaker 10: half blood line half Luta doors.
- 2:00:11Speaker 12: I asked you all a question, was the inclusion of
- 2:00:18Speaker 12: mister Iguana and La Parca from Triple A?
- 2:00:23Speaker 5: Was the inclusion?
- 2:00:24Speaker 12: Was the inclusion of those guys worth it at the
- 2:00:27Speaker 12: expense of other guys being left out like Finn balor
- 2:00:33Speaker 12: Or or Joe Hendry or others.
- 2:00:38Speaker 10: Yeah, because I would say we got what Doyle said
- 2:00:43Speaker 10: some we got the entertainment out of it, and the
- 2:00:47Speaker 10: fact that this has happened in the middle of this
- 2:00:49Speaker 10: rumble kind of like when things needed to be probably
- 2:00:52Speaker 10: picked up, you know, because if there's anybody on this
- 2:00:59Speaker 10: as well, I can argue that didn't need to be
- 2:01:01Speaker 10: in this roster is probably the guy who came in
- 2:01:03Speaker 10: number thirty. But I'm sure there's other we need we need.
- 2:01:07Speaker 10: Here's the thing though, just like in certain movies, s right,
- 2:01:11Speaker 10: I think we need cannon fodder is what they call it.
- 2:01:17Speaker 10: You know, enough, I need we need yeah, we need,
- 2:01:20Speaker 10: we need retorts. We need the guys to be sacrificed
- 2:01:22Speaker 10: for for brock Lessener or or Obafemi or Roman reigns.
- 2:01:28Speaker 10: We need, we need this because sometimes when I see that,
- 2:01:31Speaker 10: when I see like a bunch of bodies stacking up
- 2:01:33Speaker 10: in the ring, a bunch of these like I'm like,
- 2:01:36Speaker 10: holy shit, Like I can't believe Dragonly is still in
- 2:01:39Speaker 10: this match. Holy shit, I can't believe, like you know, uh,
- 2:01:43Speaker 10: I don't know, Awesome Theory is still in this match.
- 2:01:45Speaker 10: There's certain guys I'm like surprised or the miz and
- 2:01:48Speaker 10: it's like, oh, I know why they're stacking up because
- 2:01:51Speaker 10: all of a sudden, brock Lestner's music is, you know,
- 2:01:54Speaker 10: and he's going to clean house. Somebody's coming to clean house,
- 2:01:57Speaker 10: and they're not going to clean house. And you know
- 2:02:00Speaker 10: when throw out I don't know, main eventors. They got
- 2:02:05Speaker 10: to throw out red shirts, like Doyle said, so, but
- 2:02:10Speaker 10: pure entertainment value, that's that's what I got out of
- 2:02:14Speaker 10: it in the middle of the show, when the show
- 2:02:16Speaker 10: felt like maybe that's where it needed it. I don't know,
- 2:02:21Speaker 10: do you feel the same.
- 2:02:23Speaker 8: Yeah, yes, and no. I maybe would have given one
- 2:02:28Speaker 8: of them the spot and on both and I mean
- 2:02:32Speaker 8: and like Dre's you know, as a preface the question
- 2:02:36Speaker 8: the expense is a finn Ballet is not in the
- 2:02:39Speaker 8: rumble as a result, you know what I mean. And
- 2:02:42Speaker 8: if you put a gun to my head, I would
- 2:02:44Speaker 8: have rather had Finn Balor in there than La Parka.
- 2:02:47Speaker 8: Even though I like La Parka, I would still leave
- 2:02:50Speaker 8: a guana in there, because, like I said, I do
- 2:02:52Speaker 8: like that. I do think you need a couple of
- 2:02:54Speaker 8: those fun spots, you know, and you know, like like
- 2:02:58Speaker 8: you know, our truth is usually good for one of those,
- 2:03:02Speaker 8: you know. I think remember Factor of Piers and try
- 2:03:05Speaker 8: the end of the Women's rumbone one year or whatever,
- 2:03:07Speaker 8: like I think you need that kind of goofy shit.
- 2:03:11Speaker 8: But yeah, at the expensive fin valad Now, I wouldn't
- 2:03:14Speaker 8: want to give it one of the plots. And I mean,
- 2:03:16Speaker 8: how many of Saudi Arabians are watching Max to Get Restling.
- 2:03:19Speaker 8: I don't know. I mean, I'm sure somebody shit some
- 2:03:22Speaker 8: market research on that, but I can't imagine it's too
- 2:03:26Speaker 8: too many.
- 2:03:28Speaker 12: Yeah, and that is kind of, I guess, kind of
- 2:03:33Speaker 12: an awkward spot that WWE is in right now because
- 2:03:36Speaker 12: obviously with having so many business partners and such that
- 2:03:41Speaker 12: they work with, obviously all these people are gonna want something.
- 2:03:46Speaker 12: They're gonna want showcasing, they're gonna want, you know, their moment,
- 2:03:50Speaker 12: their spots on these WWE shows. And clearly that's what
- 2:03:55Speaker 12: mister Iguana and La Parco was is there was in
- 2:04:00Speaker 12: this obviously because of their partnership with Triple A, and
- 2:04:03Speaker 12: they're like, okay, we're doing all this stuff. You know,
- 2:04:05Speaker 12: we want two of our guys in the rumble. Like, okay, well,
- 2:04:08Speaker 12: mister iguanas he's good, he's popular.
- 2:04:11Speaker 5: And I'm honestly surprised they chose Laparka.
- 2:04:14Speaker 12: I would have thought with somebody maybe like like KINGO
- 2:04:17Speaker 12: or somebody, Yeah.
- 2:04:19Speaker 5: Somebody like a little bit more star power.
- 2:04:21Speaker 8: But you know, it is what it is, and we
- 2:04:22Speaker 8: know why, and now we know why Joe Henry wasn't there.
- 2:04:26Speaker 12: Uh right, they obviously had other plans ru him. But
- 2:04:31Speaker 12: also you know, but last year, you know, Joe Hendry
- 2:04:35Speaker 12: was in there on behalf of TNA. So you know,
- 2:04:38Speaker 12: that's again, you know, fulfilling that obligation that I guess
- 2:04:41Speaker 12: that they have because you know, work with these people
- 2:04:43Speaker 12: that got to showcase them. But it also, as I said,
- 2:04:48Speaker 12: comes at the expense of other people ended up getting
- 2:04:52Speaker 12: left out, which is.
- 2:04:54Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, I've seen a lot of people complain
- 2:04:57Speaker 5: about that.
- 2:04:59Speaker 8: Yeah, in this year in particular, you had that Finn
- 2:05:01Speaker 8: Ballad story, and it's like, what the why why did
- 2:05:03Speaker 8: we even do it?
- 2:05:05Speaker 5: Right?
- 2:05:05Speaker 8: If he's not going to be in you know, like right,
- 2:05:07Speaker 8: what's the point of saying he's not gonna be in No,
- 2:05:09Speaker 8: he's not in it? What are we doing?
- 2:05:12Speaker 12: Like right, like they have to do this, but it
- 2:05:14Speaker 12: seems I'm knowing that they're gonna piss off fans because
- 2:05:16Speaker 12: obviously you got fans that are gonna be like, you
- 2:05:19Speaker 12: really left Finn Balor out for Laparka, like you know,
- 2:05:25Speaker 12: and you know Laparka's spot would have played probably played
- 2:05:28Speaker 12: better here in the States.
- 2:05:31Speaker 5: With fans who are more familiar with them than obviously
- 2:05:35Speaker 5: it would have.
- 2:05:35Speaker 12: Played, you know, over in Saudi Arabia where people are
- 2:05:38Speaker 12: like who right, uh?
- 2:05:44Speaker 10: Yeah? So after La Parka we got uh and Dragon Lee,
- 2:05:51Speaker 10: we had Logan Paul. So now we had another member
- 2:05:56Speaker 10: of Division in there, Logan Paul going twenty five minutes,
- 2:06:00Speaker 10: seven seconds, and then we got l A. Knight the
- 2:06:04Speaker 10: final four.
- 2:06:05Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 2:06:06Speaker 10: Really, you know what when La Knight came out, I
- 2:06:12Speaker 10: said to myself, man, deep down, this is the man
- 2:06:15Speaker 10: who just who should fucking be winning and rumble like
- 2:06:19Speaker 10: somebody who deserves it? Who who hasn't had the title before,
- 2:06:24Speaker 10: like somebody new. And then I see him in the ring,
- 2:06:28Speaker 10: and and he did get He threw out a bunch
- 2:06:31Speaker 10: of Division members. You know, he got three eliminations. But
- 2:06:36Speaker 10: I was like.
- 2:06:39Speaker 8: Last year from Heat for eliminating somebody in the wrong time,
- 2:06:45Speaker 8: and then next year he fucking eliminates Lesenar during fering.
- 2:06:51Speaker 8: Oh hey, man, Cody was way too long.
- 2:06:54Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 2:06:55Speaker 12: Yeah, I about to say, I don't know, Yeah, it'll
- 2:06:57Speaker 12: be interesting you know, on on Real season three or
- 2:07:00Speaker 12: what the hell ever for whatever to find out what
- 2:07:03Speaker 12: was up with that, because that's clearly clearly something had
- 2:07:07Speaker 12: was appeared to be off there with Yeah, Jay's it
- 2:07:10Speaker 12: was those entrance and lesnar elimination happening at the same time.
- 2:07:16Speaker 9: Like.
- 2:07:20Speaker 8: He threw somebody. I feel like last year he threw
- 2:07:24Speaker 8: somebody out and it messed up something else that was
- 2:07:29Speaker 8: going on, or.
- 2:07:30Speaker 12: I see what it was, perhaps, but I mean, I
- 2:07:35Speaker 12: don't know, well, we did well. We do know that
- 2:07:38Speaker 12: Ellie Knight as maybe his lack of push, I guess,
- 2:07:47Speaker 12: or the stagnation and this push is somewhat I guess
- 2:07:53Speaker 12: you could say somewhat on because of him. Because for
- 2:07:57Speaker 12: those who had did watch Unreal season two and they
- 2:07:59Speaker 12: was one of the more noteworthy things out of that
- 2:08:01Speaker 12: was the money in the bank ladder match, and there
- 2:08:07Speaker 12: was a moment that was supposed to go on a
- 2:08:08Speaker 12: certain way in that match that didn't and afterwards, you know,
- 2:08:15Speaker 12: Place was talking with him about that spot and how
- 2:08:18Speaker 12: it didn't play out in how L and I didn't
- 2:08:19Speaker 12: play that spot right, and that could be interpreted as
- 2:08:24Speaker 12: being you know, maybe creative losing some faith in him
- 2:08:29Speaker 12: if he can't execute you know, moments properly, and if
- 2:08:32Speaker 12: he did do something like that, at the Rumble, which
- 2:08:35Speaker 12: don't remember but could.
- 2:08:37Speaker 5: Have been what may very well have been the case.
- 2:08:40Speaker 12: You know, that could be a contributing factor as to
- 2:08:44Speaker 12: why people are not seeing l. A.
- 2:08:47Speaker 5: Knight pushed in the way that they want him to be.
- 2:08:50Speaker 12: Maybe because he's given, he being given these moments and
- 2:08:54Speaker 12: he's not eecuting. Yeah, he's fucking him up. He's not
- 2:08:57Speaker 12: coming through in moments the way he needs to, you know. Yeah,
- 2:09:03Speaker 12: not saying that that is the case, because obviously I
- 2:09:04Speaker 12: don't know one way or the other, but it's possible
- 2:09:07Speaker 12: that that could be part of the reason why.
- 2:09:11Speaker 5: And unfortunately, unlike.
- 2:09:12Speaker 12: Sammy saying, I can't sit here until the L A.
- 2:09:15Speaker 12: Knight stands that, you know, just wait till next year,
- 2:09:17Speaker 12: his moment's next year, because it might not be right.
- 2:09:22Speaker 10: So after we had la A. Knight, oh Man Broadcasters
- 2:09:28Speaker 10: Music Hit broadcast, his hair braided back, and and what
- 2:09:33Speaker 10: I got hyped for is Paul Hammon was walking out
- 2:09:36Speaker 10: with him, and that made me hyped because I was like,
- 2:09:39Speaker 10: oh shit, ah shit. And I'm thinking though, like, as
- 2:09:43Speaker 10: a member of the Vision, do you feel safe like
- 2:09:47Speaker 10: in that ring, do you feel like, oh, like Brock's
- 2:09:49Speaker 10: not can attack us. He's with Paul, right, and we're
- 2:09:52Speaker 10: with Paul. Well, tell that to Logan Paul, who got
- 2:09:55Speaker 10: suplexed to who got taken the fucking superlex city. So
- 2:10:01Speaker 10: I guess everybody in the vision is not off limits
- 2:10:04Speaker 10: to even Brock Lesnar.
- 2:10:07Speaker 12: Yeah, and obviously all our booking, you know, predictions went
- 2:10:11Speaker 12: out the window when prom breaker got tossed at the
- 2:10:14Speaker 12: very beginning.
- 2:10:15Speaker 5: Yeah, there was never that whole you know, bron bron blah.
- 2:10:20Speaker 12: Rock Lesler works with him for a little while and
- 2:10:22Speaker 12: then turns on him like, Nope, that didn't happen.
- 2:10:26Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, okay, So after you know, we finally get
- 2:10:35Speaker 10: the stare down between Brock and uh Opa Femi right,
- 2:10:39Speaker 10: and uh then the miz comes out and he is
- 2:10:43Speaker 10: smart man, he stopped me. He's like, I don't want
- 2:10:45Speaker 10: no beef. He didn't get in the ring. He slid
- 2:10:47Speaker 10: right back out. And then poor poor Ray Phoenix, Ray
- 2:10:54Speaker 10: Phoenix came out twenty eight seconds. Oh my goodness, poor
- 2:11:04Speaker 10: poor Ray right Phoenix. And then uh then we got
- 2:11:08Speaker 10: jay Uso at number twenty five. I was curious that
- 2:11:12Speaker 10: the brand new arena was gonna hold up to everybody eating,
- 2:11:15Speaker 10: but I didn't collapse. We're good. You know, he eat
- 2:11:20Speaker 10: it all the way to the ring, and you know,
- 2:11:22Speaker 10: him and Roman had a moment and I think it
- 2:11:25Speaker 10: was kind of funny. Then Roman put him down and
- 2:11:29Speaker 10: Roman also eliminated him too. Yeah right, Roman also eliminated him.
- 2:11:34Speaker 10: You know, Jay was only in there for thirteen minutes,
- 2:11:37Speaker 10: eight seconds because right behind him, Roman came out. And
- 2:11:42Speaker 10: then right after Roman, you know, we had another Bloodline member.
- 2:11:46Speaker 10: We had Jacob Fatu come out. So ah, man, yeah,
- 2:11:52Speaker 10: I was hyped when Jacob came out. I was like, oh, man, mate,
- 2:11:55Speaker 10: let's put Jacob in the final four, right, but uh,
- 2:11:59Speaker 10: Roman threw him out and Jacob didn't eliminate anybody surprisingly, Nope, nope,
- 2:12:07Speaker 10: So that even I don't know, Man, if this if
- 2:12:11Speaker 10: we're contemplating putting this guy in the main event at
- 2:12:13Speaker 10: WrestleMania somehow, me and Doyle thinking about it. I mean,
- 2:12:18Speaker 10: this guy did not make a strong showing in the rumble. No,
- 2:12:22Speaker 10: no rough elimination, no, you know eliminations. But like I said,
- 2:12:27Speaker 10: he was thrown out by Roman and Roman's like I'm sorry,
- 2:12:31Speaker 10: He's like it is what it is, right, And then
- 2:12:35Speaker 10: we got Penta. Pencer came out and it's like, sorry,
- 2:12:40Speaker 10: once again, they will not even in the roar of Rumble,
- 2:12:44Speaker 10: even at coming out at number twenty eight and Ray
- 2:12:48Speaker 10: Phoenix came out number twenty four. They won't let these
- 2:12:50Speaker 10: guys be on the same in the same ring together
- 2:12:54Speaker 10: ever since they've been in WW.
- 2:12:55Speaker 12: I mean, you guys, notice that didn't Rey get eliminated
- 2:12:58Speaker 12: before Penca even came out.
- 2:12:59Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, dude, Ray Phoenix was in for twenty eight
- 2:13:02Speaker 10: seconds and Penta was only in for six minutes and
- 2:13:05Speaker 10: one second. He was eliminated by Gunter because number twenty
- 2:13:10Speaker 10: nine we got Randy Orton, who has not been in
- 2:13:13Speaker 10: the roy Rumbles, is twenty twenty two, and then yeah,
- 2:13:20Speaker 10: number thirty Gunter. You know, some of our predictions last
- 2:13:27Speaker 10: week of trying to fill in, we did fill in
- 2:13:34Speaker 10: a lot of it. You know, we had some other
- 2:13:36Speaker 10: guys in here, like Leon Slater, we had Joe Hendry.
- 2:13:41Speaker 10: You know, we had maybe a Saudi Arabia and like
- 2:13:44Speaker 10: local like celebrity, right, and that's that's happened in the past,
- 2:13:48Speaker 10: but we've actually.
- 2:13:50Speaker 8: Have Yeah, we're sturing that Powerlister guy would be in
- 2:13:53Speaker 8: this thing. In fact, I think i've anything that i've
- 2:13:57Speaker 8: never been in my entire life, right, not right.
- 2:14:02Speaker 10: No, Seth Rollins And the biggest I guess was no,
- 2:14:08Speaker 10: why two J No Chris Jericho. But later, you know,
- 2:14:13Speaker 10: from what I heard is he's still kind of technically
- 2:14:16Speaker 10: signed with ad W. But it's not like the thing
- 2:14:19Speaker 10: is the people who released that news that he was
- 2:14:22Speaker 10: let go in December also released the news that he's
- 2:14:24Speaker 10: still signed with ADW. So what news outlet was that
- 2:14:30Speaker 10: I don't recall. Maybe it's PW insider, I could be wrong.
- 2:14:35Speaker 5: But well, he's still on their roster page.
- 2:14:37Speaker 10: Yeah, that's nothing. A lot of us were just on
- 2:14:39Speaker 10: his page refreshing it and just like verifying that, like,
- 2:14:42Speaker 10: oh no, he's still on there. So but yeah, the
- 2:14:48Speaker 10: the final four we thought we're gonna be you know, Roman,
- 2:14:55Speaker 10: Cody Brawn, Breaker and Randy Orton.
- 2:15:00Speaker 5: So yeah, we got two of those, Roman and Cody.
- 2:15:04Speaker 10: Yeah, Roman and Cody, No Bron you.
- 2:15:08Speaker 12: Know, we did Cody Gunter and Logan Paul Like, no,
- 2:15:14Speaker 12: it wasnt Cody was Coy.
- 2:15:16Speaker 10: Cody got out Randy Orton. So we did get we
- 2:15:20Speaker 10: didn't get two of those. We got Roman and Randy. Yeah.
- 2:15:24Speaker 10: I definitely did not see Logan paul.
- 2:15:26Speaker 5: In that I didn't predict Randy in the final four.
- 2:15:28Speaker 5: Did I don't think I did.
- 2:15:29Speaker 10: No, we Yeah, we have we have Randy. Possibly in
- 2:15:33Speaker 10: the final four, we had Roman, Cody, Braun, and Norton.
- 2:15:36Speaker 10: Maybe that was mice picks.
- 2:15:38Speaker 12: You might have predicted Randy, but I don't.
- 2:15:41Speaker 5: I didn't go for Randy be in the final four.
- 2:15:44Speaker 12: I think I had Roman Cody, and I'm pretty sure
- 2:15:48Speaker 12: I had like Roman Cody Braun, and.
- 2:15:53Speaker 5: I don't know who I had as a fourth. I
- 2:15:54Speaker 5: think my fourth might have been a wild card.
- 2:15:56Speaker 10: No, we didn't. We didn't think would have been even
- 2:15:59Speaker 10: in the rumbled.
- 2:15:59Speaker 8: To me, no, I think he declared for the rumble.
- 2:16:05Speaker 10: Oh, you know what. I think you're right. It is
- 2:16:06Speaker 10: crazy that he pulled double duty, you know, walking out
- 2:16:11Speaker 10: selling the limp. You know, so he definitely has something
- 2:16:15Speaker 10: to Oh, I didn't win the Rumble because I was
- 2:16:18Speaker 10: pulling double Dudey's too busy retiring AJ styles.
- 2:16:22Speaker 8: Well.
- 2:16:22Speaker 12: I actually I appreciated that from Gunster because you know,
- 2:16:26Speaker 12: they talk about, you know, how dedicated Gunster is to
- 2:16:30Speaker 12: the craft and how much she cares about things like
- 2:16:33Speaker 12: ring psychology and all that stuff. So the fact that
- 2:16:36Speaker 12: he still does that. It's just a testament to that,
- 2:16:39Speaker 12: whereas you know, some other guys would have been at
- 2:16:41Speaker 12: a grueling match and then came out, you know, twenty
- 2:16:44Speaker 12: minutes later like nothing was fine, Like they was all good,
- 2:16:47Speaker 12: Like they took a sense of being max stage or
- 2:16:49Speaker 12: something and they.
- 2:16:49Speaker 5: Just all right, all good, don't worry about them.
- 2:16:52Speaker 12: Fifteen minutes I was spending that, you know, ankle lock
- 2:16:55Speaker 12: in the last match.
- 2:16:55Speaker 5: I'm good.
- 2:17:00Speaker 10: Yeah, that's definitely.
- 2:17:02Speaker 12: Stuff like that. People who still you know, commit to
- 2:17:04Speaker 12: things like that. You gotta appreciate that.
- 2:17:06Speaker 10: Yeah, it definitely took a fucking toll on him, though,
- 2:17:09Speaker 10: you definitely tell. And the man came in, you know,
- 2:17:13Speaker 10: at number thirty and still was he was he only
- 2:17:16Speaker 10: was in there for seven minutes fifty one seconds. But
- 2:17:19Speaker 10: I didn't. Yeah, I was like, there's no way they're
- 2:17:23Speaker 10: gonna give Gunthu this one, right, It's like, there's no
- 2:17:26Speaker 10: fucking way. I like that'd be making him way too strong.
- 2:17:32Speaker 10: But as soon as Braun was out, I was like, okay,
- 2:17:36Speaker 10: it's going to Roman reigns. Romans definitely in this so
- 2:17:42Speaker 10: and you know I thought about it, you know, Okay,
- 2:17:46Speaker 10: where do we go with Roman from here and then
- 2:17:48Speaker 10: we had the little promo on Monday night ROWL And
- 2:17:51Speaker 10: I'm gonna be honest with you guys, him thinking about
- 2:17:55Speaker 10: going for the world title, right, do you guys recall
- 2:18:01Speaker 10: back oh February second SmackDown two Thy twenty four. Roman
- 2:18:08Speaker 10: Reigns famously disparaged the world heavyweight title by calling it
- 2:18:13Speaker 10: the loser bracket title.
- 2:18:18Speaker 12: He I know, I don't, but I didn't have any
- 2:18:23Speaker 12: lineage or anything behind it.
- 2:18:24Speaker 10: Right, he diminished that title, you know, But yeah, I
- 2:18:32Speaker 10: just I think that's that's funny, you know that he
- 2:18:34Speaker 10: brings that up, that he's gonna be coming for that title.
- 2:18:38Speaker 10: I think it would be nice because the promos alone
- 2:18:42Speaker 10: between the two are just gonna be so good.
- 2:18:47Speaker 20: So well, I hope Phil does better next time lunch
- 2:18:55Speaker 20: right and I And oddly enough, I was a little
- 2:18:58Speaker 20: apprehensive going into that cause we know how good you know,
- 2:19:02Speaker 20: Punk is on the mic.
- 2:19:03Speaker 12: We know how good of a promo he can cut.
- 2:19:05Speaker 12: I was nervous for Roman at first, because I'm like,
- 2:19:08Speaker 12: is Roma gonna be able to you know, keep up
- 2:19:11Speaker 12: with uh, you know Punk and his promos and my
- 2:19:17Speaker 12: triple Chief. Please forgive me for ever doubting you because
- 2:19:21Speaker 12: Jesus Christ, he cooked the funk out I mean twice
- 2:19:25Speaker 12: the oar with half the effort. Yeah, got his point across.
- 2:19:29Speaker 8: With half the work.
- 2:19:31Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 2:19:32Speaker 12: Like yeah, every was like he was filibustering, and his
- 2:19:38Speaker 12: promo his ship felt like a filibuster compared to Romans.
- 2:19:41Speaker 5: All this tuft, like he said there.
- 2:19:43Speaker 12: Brought to the fact that, you know, I held the
- 2:19:45Speaker 12: title for four hundred something days, so you followed my lead.
- 2:19:49Speaker 12: I'm like, did you really bring up a four hundred
- 2:19:52Speaker 12: day title reign to somebody who was champed for thirteen hundred?
- 2:19:56Speaker 5: Yeah, that was an accomplishment.
- 2:20:00Speaker 10: But dude, he made a good point. He says, just
- 2:20:02Speaker 10: because you did it longer, it doesn't mean you did
- 2:20:04Speaker 10: it better.
- 2:20:10Speaker 11: There.
- 2:20:12Speaker 10: Yeah, it's easy to rack up those days when you're
- 2:20:14Speaker 10: not fucking there when you're there every week, every fucking week, man,
- 2:20:19Speaker 10: and Roman was not there every week.
- 2:20:22Speaker 5: Okay, But.
- 2:20:26Speaker 12: To that very statement, I'll use Phil's own words against them.
- 2:20:29Speaker 12: Just because you did it more doesn't mean you did
- 2:20:31Speaker 12: it better. So, I mean, his old words kind of
- 2:20:36Speaker 12: come back to bite him on that. You know, just
- 2:20:40Speaker 12: because you had more title defenses doesn't mean you did
- 2:20:43Speaker 12: it better. It was a different time. Most of those
- 2:20:45Speaker 12: title defenses that he had and within that four hundred
- 2:20:48Speaker 12: some days were house show defenses. So let's not act
- 2:20:51Speaker 12: like he was out there every week on Raw putting
- 2:20:53Speaker 12: it on the line. A lot of that was house shows.
- 2:20:57Speaker 12: So I mean again, he brought he he said a
- 2:21:02Speaker 12: line that sounded good but doesn't stand up to scrutiny,
- 2:21:08Speaker 12: and that that was probably the biggest problem with Punk's
- 2:21:12Speaker 12: promo is all the stuff he was saying sounded good
- 2:21:17Speaker 12: when you initially hear it, but the moment you put
- 2:21:20Speaker 12: any real thought into it, it doesn't really stand up
- 2:21:24Speaker 12: when you're saying it to Roman Reigns, like four hundred
- 2:21:29Speaker 12: day Rain, you followed my blueprint.
- 2:21:31Speaker 5: You're welcome.
- 2:21:33Speaker 12: Eh, he did it for thirteen hundred days. Oh, just
- 2:21:37Speaker 12: because you did it longer, it doesn't mean you did
- 2:21:39Speaker 12: it better. Bloodline storyline was the hottest thing in wrestling
- 2:21:43Speaker 12: for three years.
- 2:21:46Speaker 5: Did do it better?
- 2:21:47Speaker 10: That's true, though, But he made a good point. You
- 2:21:48Speaker 10: needed the entire bloodline to help you keep that title,
- 2:21:52Speaker 10: like he didn't. And he had se him and he
- 2:21:54Speaker 10: had Paul Hyman with him as well, which I think
- 2:21:57Speaker 10: is also funny that Paul Hyman was part of both
- 2:21:59Speaker 10: of those long ass title rains.
- 2:22:02Speaker 12: To which my response again would be so we could.
- 2:22:11Speaker 12: Plenty of heels have been used there, have used their
- 2:22:13Speaker 12: homies to keep titles right. If you want to accuse
- 2:22:18Speaker 12: him of following anybody's blueprint in that regard, it ain't
- 2:22:21Speaker 12: seeing punks.
- 2:22:22Speaker 5: It would probably be.
- 2:22:23Speaker 12: Ric Flair the player in the game, because Rick Flair
- 2:22:27Speaker 12: had the Roman, had the bloodline, Flair had the Horsemen.
- 2:22:33Speaker 21: Yeah, I mean either way, dude, I'm I'm being very
- 2:22:38Speaker 21: excited for this because now, oh yeah, if we have
- 2:22:41Speaker 21: a Roman Reigns going into wrestlemanting without the bloodline, without
- 2:22:46Speaker 21: anybody to back him up, He's going in and by himself.
- 2:22:49Speaker 8: You know.
- 2:22:50Speaker 10: He he sits there, and you know I did, like
- 2:22:54Speaker 10: during the promo he jokes about the bracelet. You know,
- 2:22:57Speaker 10: I'm like, dude, did you not just like fight your
- 2:23:00Speaker 10: cousin for that fucking OOHI follow you wearing around your
- 2:23:04Speaker 10: fucking neck. I'm so sick of I'm over bracelets, I'm
- 2:23:10Speaker 10: over mask I'm over watches, I'm over pictures of dead fathers.
- 2:23:18Speaker 10: I'm over these kind of props.
- 2:23:19Speaker 3: Man.
- 2:23:21Speaker 10: I'm sorry, we just it seems like we were just
- 2:23:25Speaker 10: props and props and props. I don't know, I this
- 2:23:31Speaker 10: is too much overused. But anyway, uh.
- 2:23:40Speaker 5: I say they, I mean, I agree with you.
- 2:23:43Speaker 12: I'm excited for this match going into WrestleMania because unlike
- 2:23:48Speaker 12: last year where we were had you know, Jade and
- 2:23:50Speaker 12: Gunter and they had to drag that thing out for
- 2:23:53Speaker 12: months at least, with this promo that we got on Monday,
- 2:23:57Speaker 12: they made this. They made this match immediately interesting. Now,
- 2:24:04Speaker 12: obviously they still got plenty of time to fuck it
- 2:24:06Speaker 12: up between now and WrestleMania, but for now, they started
- 2:24:10Speaker 12: off strong.
- 2:24:13Speaker 5: The problem is.
- 2:24:15Speaker 12: Killing the time, killing time between now and then because
- 2:24:18Speaker 12: we know Roman ain't gonna be on Raw every week
- 2:24:20Speaker 12: between now and the main in WrestleMania.
- 2:24:22Speaker 10: Yeah, dude, that sucks. So seeing Punk's about to carry
- 2:24:26Speaker 10: this but uh, you know he's got Finn Balor to
- 2:24:32Speaker 10: keep to keep him busy until WrestleMania. Uh, you know,
- 2:24:37Speaker 10: the whole.
- 2:24:38Speaker 12: To keep him busy. Yeah, but how do you make
- 2:24:40Speaker 12: that the question? It would be then, how do you
- 2:24:43Speaker 12: make that compelling? Knowing that Finn Baler ain't gonna win shit?
- 2:24:49Speaker 10: I know, dude, that's what sucks. Is like, you know,
- 2:24:52Speaker 10: we get these spoilers. I feel like months in advance
- 2:24:56Speaker 10: when they tell you we're, okay, we're gonna be putting
- 2:24:59Speaker 10: Code and Roman back in the main event in WrestleMania,
- 2:25:03Speaker 10: we're gonna be putting seampunk, and like we kind of
- 2:25:06Speaker 10: a lot of us fans have reverse engineer that then
- 2:25:09Speaker 10: like okay, then who wins the rumble and you kind
- 2:25:12Speaker 10: of figure out then and closer and closer to who's
- 2:25:15Speaker 10: the champion. I hate it early that. I hate that.
- 2:25:20Speaker 10: You know, when we got like the Rock versus Sina
- 2:25:25Speaker 10: announced a year in advance, I fucking hated that too, Like.
- 2:25:29Speaker 5: I do the moment of Rock challenge Punk for the
- 2:25:31Speaker 5: title that he was gonna win it.
- 2:25:32Speaker 10: Yeah, dude, I knew right away. I knew right away
- 2:25:35Speaker 10: that four hundred and thirty four days was over because
- 2:25:37Speaker 10: part time Rock is coming in and take it. When
- 2:25:40Speaker 10: the title wasn't even needed in the in this in
- 2:25:44Speaker 10: the feud to begin with, it wasn't needed. It could
- 2:25:47Speaker 10: have stayed on Punk the whole time. They didn't the
- 2:25:50Speaker 10: Rock and see it in need the fucking title. But
- 2:25:52Speaker 10: like regardless, like it's just stump spoilers, you know, I
- 2:25:58Speaker 10: hate it. I hate it when we get this spoiler
- 2:26:00Speaker 10: a year out. It's it just takes so much fucking
- 2:26:04Speaker 10: joy out of it, especially when you hear like, oh,
- 2:26:07Speaker 10: we're gonna try to run Cody and Roman back, and
- 2:26:10Speaker 10: you're like again, and you're kind of stuck with that,
- 2:26:14Speaker 10: you know, for a year, you're stuck with that, You're stewing,
- 2:26:17Speaker 10: You're just like, fuck, man, I can't believe we're doing
- 2:26:19Speaker 10: this again. Fuck, I can't believe we're doing this again.
- 2:26:21Speaker 10: And you see them doing it, you see them building
- 2:26:24Speaker 10: Cody for another running it back, You're like, fuck, they're
- 2:26:28Speaker 10: gonna do it again. And then you're like, I bet
- 2:26:30Speaker 10: he's gonna win the Rumble. Fuck he wins the Rumble.
- 2:26:32Speaker 12: Like yeah, I mean at least in the past, when
- 2:26:34Speaker 12: you know, you may have known that the role Rumble
- 2:26:36Speaker 12: winner was locked in for the match. Yeah, but the
- 2:26:38Speaker 12: title situation would still be up in the air until
- 2:26:43Speaker 12: actual WrestleMania. Like you know, I've brought I've brought it
- 2:26:46Speaker 12: up before we WrestleMania seventeen. You know, Austin won the
- 2:26:50Speaker 12: Rumble to get his shot at WrestleMania. But when Austin
- 2:26:55Speaker 12: won the Rumble, the ww champion was Kurt Angle, So
- 2:27:01Speaker 12: coming out of the Rumble it looked like Austin versus
- 2:27:04Speaker 12: Angle at Wrestle Media and then had no way out.
- 2:27:09Speaker 12: The next month is when the Rock beat Current Angle
- 2:27:12Speaker 12: to become champion, and then we had we got Rock
- 2:27:15Speaker 12: versus Austin. They didn't have to drag out Rock versus
- 2:27:18Speaker 12: Austin from Rumble all the way to Mania. You know,
- 2:27:22Speaker 12: things progressed over time. They don't seem to be doing
- 2:27:25Speaker 12: that now. It's like, all right, this is where we're
- 2:27:28Speaker 12: at and now we'll just kill time till then.
- 2:27:32Speaker 8: Well, WrestleMania was a little earlier to back.
- 2:27:34Speaker 5: Then also true, Yeah, it was like March.
- 2:27:38Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean even even even two weeks is makes
- 2:27:46Speaker 8: makes carry it a few easier, even two weeks less.
- 2:27:51Speaker 8: I mean, we've definitely seen that in the last couple
- 2:27:54Speaker 8: of years, where especially the whoever wins the Rumble and
- 2:27:57Speaker 8: both men and women has a hell of a keeping
- 2:28:01Speaker 8: that thing hot for three months or whatever go.
- 2:28:05Speaker 3: Somnia.
- 2:28:05Speaker 8: That's a tough task for anybody, I think.
- 2:28:08Speaker 10: Yeah, dude, I absolutely agree. Did to keep the fans
- 2:28:13Speaker 10: interested in a feud and not forget about the feud,
- 2:28:15Speaker 10: and especially if this is a mean event. Holy shit,
- 2:28:18Speaker 10: you gotta keep.
- 2:28:19Speaker 8: It and you can't really do much like in the meantime, right,
- 2:28:22Speaker 8: you can't have a match that's which you know a
- 2:28:28Speaker 8: lot of times those people don't have a close alliance,
- 2:28:30Speaker 8: so it's not even like you can have a tag
- 2:28:32Speaker 8: match or something. So it's it's a tough it's a
- 2:28:35Speaker 8: tough spot for any performer.
- 2:28:38Speaker 12: Soh on that subject that since you happen to bring
- 2:28:42Speaker 12: up tag match, I had a thought earlier today because
- 2:28:49Speaker 12: one of the inadvertent casualties of the promo exchange between
- 2:28:56Speaker 12: Roman and Punk from Monday again, one of the casualties
- 2:29:02Speaker 12: of that promo, somebody who wind up catching a full
- 2:29:05Speaker 12: clip of strays was Drew McIntyre. They both dunked on
- 2:29:11Speaker 12: his ass hard as hell and dunked on SmackDown WW
- 2:29:15Speaker 12: title as well, and building it up. If they wanted
- 2:29:20Speaker 12: to buy some time and try to you know, keep
- 2:29:24Speaker 12: things somewhat interesting between now and WrestleMania, one thing they
- 2:29:29Speaker 12: could do at least host elimination Chamber, assuming that there's
- 2:29:35Speaker 12: maybe like a Saturday night main event or something in
- 2:29:37Speaker 12: between now and then suppose you know, Drew gets offended
- 2:29:42Speaker 12: by what they said and he claps back at them,
- 2:29:45Speaker 12: YadA YadA, throwing darts back at the Raw guys, and
- 2:29:49Speaker 12: Nick All just takes a little bit of offense to
- 2:29:51Speaker 12: it as well, like, hey, what's up with you guys,
- 2:29:53Speaker 12: you know, dumping on me and my champion and our
- 2:29:55Speaker 12: brand in YadA YadA gets a little bit you know
- 2:29:58Speaker 12: testing between Raw and smacked out your elimination chamber happens.
- 2:30:03Speaker 12: Presumably Cody ends up winning the elimination chamber. So we
- 2:30:07Speaker 12: have Cody versus Drew Roman versus Punk. They both between,
- 2:30:15Speaker 12: you know, over time, have been throwing little shots back
- 2:30:18Speaker 12: and forth at each other. You know, they're dunking on Drew,
- 2:30:21Speaker 12: Drew duncan on them, They shitting on ww title, they
- 2:30:24Speaker 12: shot on the world title, YadA YadA. And it culminates
- 2:30:28Speaker 12: between uh, Nick All, this and Adam Pierce getting a
- 2:30:32Speaker 12: little testy with each other, causing Triple As to have
- 2:30:38Speaker 12: to step in and say, all right, y'all seem to
- 2:30:42Speaker 12: be arguing over which one's matters more, which ones this,
- 2:30:45Speaker 12: that and the third fine At Saturday night's main event,
- 2:30:48Speaker 12: We're gonna have ourselves a tag team match Drew McIntyre
- 2:30:53Speaker 12: and Cody Rhodes versus Roman reigns and see him Punk
- 2:30:58Speaker 12: whoever wins that match Main Events Night two of Wrestle Media.
- 2:31:04Speaker 10: Yeah, that's not a bad idea.
- 2:31:07Speaker 8: I like that a lot.
- 2:31:09Speaker 5: That'd be one way to kind of.
- 2:31:14Speaker 12: Exactly, but it'd be one way to stretch this thing out,
- 2:31:17Speaker 12: keep things interesting without having to worry about how to
- 2:31:22Speaker 12: keep people apart. You can still keep them obviously testing
- 2:31:25Speaker 12: with each other because obviously you know, guys who hate
- 2:31:29Speaker 12: each other having the force to work together.
- 2:31:32Speaker 8: That's always a recipe for.
- 2:31:34Speaker 12: A long time, exactly, And you actually have an interesting
- 2:31:38Speaker 12: story Saturday night main event match and a match that
- 2:31:41Speaker 12: has real stakes behind it, even if it's obvious that
- 2:31:45Speaker 12: you know, Punk and Romo would probably be an event
- 2:31:47Speaker 12: night too, but at least putting it in a match
- 2:31:48Speaker 12: format creating a lutmit.
- 2:31:50Speaker 5: Of interest and that it could go one way or
- 2:31:52Speaker 5: the other.
- 2:31:53Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, no, I like that a lot.
- 2:31:57Speaker 5: Somebody give me Paul's email, I'll shoot it to him.
- 2:32:00Speaker 10: Yeah, uh yeah, said man. That's so I got for
- 2:32:05Speaker 10: the rubble? Is anything else you want to You're a
- 2:32:11Speaker 10: plug before we go.
- 2:32:14Speaker 12: Other than my unused booking ideas, you can just always
- 2:32:18Speaker 12: follow us on Instagram dot com, Slash Podcast Championship Wrestling.
- 2:32:22Speaker 10: Yeah, uh, Doyle is anything you want to plug buddy?
- 2:32:28Speaker 8: Oh, you know, just find me in the discord or
- 2:32:30Speaker 8: endor like the Facebook page and uh go pass fuck ice.
- 2:32:36Speaker 8: Uh And I haven't had to do this for a while,
- 2:32:39Speaker 8: but I got to give an r I T to
- 2:32:41Speaker 8: a friend of mine, Luke Capp, who passed away this week.
- 2:32:45Speaker 8: He was the proprietor of a legendary, legendary South Philly
- 2:32:49Speaker 8: bar institutions called Ray's Happy Birthday Bar. He was eighty six. Okay,
- 2:32:56Speaker 8: so he's been around the block a time or two.
- 2:33:00Speaker 8: Great guy. Uh, he will definitely be missed.
- 2:33:03Speaker 5: So r I P really, Cap, that was at the bar?
- 2:33:06Speaker 5: That wasn't the place you took me to when I
- 2:33:08Speaker 5: was up there for rustumanting? Was it?
- 2:33:10Speaker 3: Mm hmmm?
- 2:33:11Speaker 5: The restaurant? A little spot we went and ate it.
- 2:33:16Speaker 8: No, I'm trying to think of where we went, though,
- 2:33:22Speaker 8: I remember, yeah.
- 2:33:24Speaker 12: There was a little hole in the wall spot that
- 2:33:26Speaker 12: had uh I guess, really interesting different types of burgers
- 2:33:30Speaker 12: or whatever.
- 2:33:32Speaker 8: Where the fuck did we go? I can't remember. I'll
- 2:33:38Speaker 8: think of at the minute we hang up. I mean
- 2:33:42Speaker 8: I talked about bringing it all of you guys to
- 2:33:44Speaker 8: this place, but we never made it there. It's fucking
- 2:33:48Speaker 8: legendar like. It's not at all uncommon for just like
- 2:33:52Speaker 8: if your lives there. I don't know that I'm older.
- 2:33:56Speaker 8: I don't do that quite like that anymore. But not
- 2:33:59Speaker 8: at all commons for like celebrities to just wander in
- 2:34:02Speaker 8: during the middle of the day. It's also record passing
- 2:34:04Speaker 8: genos too. But like, I'll put it in a discord
- 2:34:08Speaker 8: and I's gonna picture this from like ten fifteen years
- 2:34:11Speaker 8: ago of Louis and fucking Andre three thousand who just
- 2:34:14Speaker 8: like wandered in because like it's a legendary spot. Oh yeah,
- 2:34:23Speaker 8: well she is anyway, Okay, cool, rip lou Catan.
- 2:34:29Speaker 10: All right, let's get the hell out of here.
- 2:34:32Speaker 11: Black y'all and I'm blecky'll and I'm blocking it blacking.
- 2:34:35Speaker 11: I'm black, y'all, and I'm black y'all, and I'm black y'all,
- 2:34:39Speaker 11: and I'm blacking it black. You're I'm black, y'all. I'm
- 2:34:41Speaker 11: blaming black, blacking and black black.
- 2:34:43Speaker 8: I'm plaging it.
- 2:34:44Speaker 2: Blend you.
- 2:34:59Speaker 8: You are the world's dumbest.
- 2:35:03Speaker 5: Sign up a bit.
- 2:35:05Speaker 7: The fact that day in and day out, for almost
- 2:35:08Speaker 7: six years, I improved everybody in the world that I
- 2:35:11Speaker 7: am the best on this microphone and in that break.
- 2:35:15Speaker 2: Even in commentary, nobody can touch me. You are not
- 2:35:20Speaker 2: pretty Far. It's because it's street perfect and we watched
- 2:35:28Speaker 2: the stuff.
- 2:35:30Speaker 7: Your talk about, your songs talk about John three sixteen
- 2:35:37Speaker 7: Lobstead three sixteen says, I just whipped your ass.
- 2:35:42Speaker 5: Well, let me tell you something, brother.
- 2:35:47Speaker 3: Far who.
- 2:35:52Speaker 8: New Day.
- 2:35:55Speaker 5: Queen praised to the time O year my true Mannessy.
- 2:35:59Speaker 2: Is welcome to the top and Owen Show.
- 2:36:04Speaker 10: Lately he just hasn't been Harry Usy.
- 2:36:10Speaker 2: Because all of this.
- 2:36:13Speaker 3: And I'm.
- 2:36:18Speaker 8: Oh so.
- 2:36:22Speaker 2: Those rotten fastest Bye bye bits