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Episode 204 - 2025 Elimination Chamber Predictions · My Third Place Pod

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  And we're back. This is episode 2 O 4 and I'm
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  EVO. I'm here to remind you that I'm
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  taking a break from playing Marvel rivals to say welcome
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  back to my third place podcast. Joining me on the line in a
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  small box. Well, in a big box right here
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  somewhere on the East Coast. She's right there, right next to
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  me. I guess I think so because I
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  only know where and I can't tell you the type of information.
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  Sorry. One of my favorite people to
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  talk wrestling with because this is a wrestling episode.
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  Menace. Welcome back, my dear.
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  How you doing? I'm good waiting for this
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  episode. Right, it is long-awaited.
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  Let's see, usually when you come on the show, it also Becca.
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  Becca is no, is not here with us tonight, but she does can't wait
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  to do wrestle Mania. So yes.
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  But usually when they both come on the show, we're talking
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  predictions. So with that in mind, it's time
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  to point at the sky once again. Point, point at the sky.
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  Point, point, point, point, point, point, right there,
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  point. This is WrestleMania season and
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  I'm ready and we're on the road to 41.
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  We arrived to Toronto where this Saturday we will be 20.
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  We will be at the 2025 Elimination Chamber, of course,
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  are known as Elimination Chamber.
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  No escape in Germany since 2013 as it was feared that the name
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  Illumination Chamber may remind people of the gas chambers.
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  You during the Holocaust. That's crazy.
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  Can't call it elimination. Elimination Chamber you got to
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  call it. No escape.
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  Escape, no escape. How you doing tonight?
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  I'm doing good. I've been so excited.
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  I've kept up on wrestling so I've seen Smackdown from last
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  week and and Raw from this week so.
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  Raw and Smackdown. That's good to hear.
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  Because, you know, I'm usually late to the show.
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  This time around, I'm the one that's like, I don't want to
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  watch it suddenly like Netflix with the commercials, it's like,
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  I'm good. Yeah.
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  I'm go watch it with the the live stream that I usually watch
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  it on and the commercial that's fine, but usually there is it's
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  like no commercials at all Yeah yeah, 'cause.
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  I think and there's only like a couple of commercials when I
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  watch it 'cause we pay for no ads, so.
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  Oh, look at you. It's great.
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  Good to know. Yeah.
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  I meant. And I watch it at after. 8 so
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  after 8 with no ads, that must be nice.
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  It must be nice. Yeah.
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  I usually end up watching it and it's with the ad and I'm just
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  like, you try to Fast forward. I was like, no, yeah, OK.
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  What do you think of Elimination Chamber throughout the years?
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  You know, I think this one is a little bit, I'm more excited for
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  this one. That's good.
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  That's good, yeah. The ones that I've seen.
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  So because, you know, I've only been watching for now five
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  years. Yes.
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  And. Have you seen that very first
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  one yet? No, I haven't.
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  I should go back and watch that because it's on Peacock, right?
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  Yeah. I yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely
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  Go watch him go back and watch the first one and.
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  Maybe I'll do that Friday. Because that's the only one that
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  I've like, have a recollection of.
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  Like I remember actually watching.
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  And it's like the first, very first one that I actually
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  remember because of the people that were in it and everybody
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  that was in it and who got hurt. It was like RVD doing a fry Star
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  Fox flash from the top of the chamber onto Triple H and Triple
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  H got hurt. Shawn Michaels, who else?
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  There was a lot of different people in there.
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  Definitely, definitely worth to watch.
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  Definitely worth to watch. OK, this will be the 15th
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  Evolution Chamber event and it will take place on Saturday,
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  March 1st, 2025 at Roger Center in Toronto, ON, Canada.
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  The event will air via pay-per-view and live streaming
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  on Peacock. This will be the first
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  Elimination Chamber even in Toronto, the 1st 30 event to be
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  held at the Roger Center since WrestleMania 18 in 2002 when it
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  was still known as the Sky Dome. It will also be the second
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  Elimination Chamber in an event in Canada after the 2023
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  edition, and the fourth consecutive Elimination Champion
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  to be held outside the United States.
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  This will also be the final Elimination Chamber appearance
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  of John Cena. Do do his retirement for
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  professional wrestling at the end of 2025.
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  Time to give that man his flowers.
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  I'm gonna cry. I'm like, if he doesn't win, I'm
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  gonna cry. Obviously.
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  I'm just gonna be like, oh, man, either way, his final one.
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  And I'm just like, oh, damn. OK, this is what we're doing.
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  This is where we're going at, OK?
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  Before we start time are as follows, 7:00 PM Eastern, 5 PM
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  6:00 PM Central, 5:00 PM Mountain and 4:00 PM Pacific.
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  Still still confused as to what actually starts?
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  Is it either the kickoff or the actual start time?
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  Well, if they're saying it's 7 Eastern, 4 Pacific, that's when
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  it actually starts because remember the the kickoff show is
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  an hour before. OK, so.
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  So that restarts at 6/6. So that'll be at six, yeah.
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  OK, good to know. So 5:00 PM Central, 6:00 PM
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  Central, 5:00 PM Central. I got to start ordering food.
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  Yeah. Exactly.
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  I guess they're ordering food and like seeing it.
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  Remember you set a timer so you don't forget.
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  Exactly. So let's do that 'cause I'm
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  gonna. Be hungry, hey?
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  Order your stuff. Order your pizza, Yeah.
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  Are you doing pizza? I don't know what I'm doing yet.
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  I'm gonna be hungry. So.
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  So. Yeah.
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  Like every 5 minutes like oh shit.
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  We have a lot of matches for this night, but let's talk about
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  something else. What do you think about Michelle
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  Mccool being in tucked into the WD Hall of Fame?
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  We already got Triple H in there as the surprise entrant, because
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  why not? And now the second inductee is
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  Michelle Mccool. We'll have to find out who the
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  third one is probably on Friday. They.
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  Better chop chop, hurry it up. Yeah.
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  You know, to be honest, I've only seen her fight just a
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  little bit. Yeah, you know, and what I've
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  seen she's, you know, she's pretty good.
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  I think that's a pretty big honor.
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  But I thought she was already in it so.
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  Yeah, there's a lot of people that haven't been on it.
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  The Bellas before Michelle Mccool doesn't sit right with
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  me. The Bellas be before anybody
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  else, doesn't sit right with me. I'm just like, huh?
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  Obviously the Internet wrestling community IWC is always holding
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  out for. What about China?
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's who needs to be in it by
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  herself. By herself instead of DX?
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  Yes, of course I love China. Of course.
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  Why not? But Michelle Mccool, I be.
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  I like half of the half of the IWC is saying like, oh, because
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  she's married to the undertaker, right?
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  And the other half is like, oh, yeah, hey, lay.
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  Cool. Yeah.
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  But if we're doing that, why not bring Layla also Layla.
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  Was that her name? I have her art name.
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  The. Other the other girl, yeah, lay
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  cool. Lake cool.
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  Lake Cool, they shared a the Divas championship, they put it
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  down the middle and they held like different variations.
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  Of best friends. Yeah, like the best friend
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  bracelet. Yeah.
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  So they're like. It's a heart, and then they come
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  apart. Yeah, same with the titles.
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  There's like, yeah, they came apart.
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  It was so funny at the time, but that's what I remember from it.
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  I was like, oh, Michelle Mccool. Yeah, of course.
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  But everybody thinks it's like, why?
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  It's like, because why not? It's because she's only take his
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  husband. I was like, man, maybe.
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  So you think everybody thinks just because who she's married
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  to and not that she was a good wrestler, that's why she's going
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  to the some of it, yeah. Some of it because diva, like
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  nobody likes the the word diva anymore.
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  Oh, like that's like a part in the past where it's like it
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  wasn't good wrestling, but the same time Gifty was a chance.
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  That's where it originated from. Also there was a story on the
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  Freddie Prinze Junior podcast a while back that and she had a
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  lot of stroke because of the Undertaker.
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  Oh yeah. Like he tried she he was like
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  trying to talk to Freddy Prince Junior was trying to talk to
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  Michelle, like who was like, all right, that's what we're going
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  to do. We're going to take the belt off
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  of you and we're going to give it to someone else.
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  And then we're going to do this and blah, blah.
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  And then like moments later, like a few weeks later, he goes
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  to Vince's office and gun figure was coming out and he's like,
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  oh, hey. And then when you talk to Vince,
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  Vince like, you're not taking the belt from Michelle, but
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  cool. And he's like, whoa, like, oh,
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  that's what happened When you thought when you try to take
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  away, you know, yeah, Undertaker's girl and all this
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  stuff. So, yeah.
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  So that's probably part of it. And you know, she's Undertaker's
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  wife. Yeah.
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  But she was a really good wrestler.
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  Like I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed watching her at
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  the time. But some of the stuff was like,
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  you know, questionable. OK.
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  Also, are you watching NXT? I haven't.
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  No, you haven't. No, that's fine.
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  Well, you know, I've been watching, I don't know, just
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  after it went from the black and gold to like 2.0.
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  Yeah, I like lost interest, but every Wednesday Snapchat gives
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  me the top 10, you know? So I'll watch.
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  The top 10. So I, I know kind of what's
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  going on, but it's like, I don't know, I just haven't sat down
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  and watched it because again, I don't want to watch the
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  commercials. So I would rather like DVR it.
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  But if I forget, I can't like rewatch it because I don't have
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  The CW app, Right, right, right. You know, So it's like, do I
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  breakdown and get The CW app or do I just do on demand, you
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  know, record it on our DVR? So it's like, I don't know.
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  Of course. Yeah, the same thing.
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  It's like after 2.0, like, I started to like, lose interest,
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  like, yeah, you tell. Because I was like, going back
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  to all the episodes of the podcast, listening to myself
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  talk about NXT and then like, slowly not talking about NXT
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  anymore. Yeah.
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  And now it's coming back. It's like, oh, these new people
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  are here. OK, cool.
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  Like it's no longer run by another person, run by Shawn
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  Michaels. So it's like, OK, so let's see
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  what they have in store, let's see what they're going to be
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  doing. Yeah.
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  And it's so awesome. All right.
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  OK. All right.
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  You ready for Chamber? Yes, All right.
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  Also on the February 21st episode of Smackdown, TKO Board
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  of Directors member Dwayne The Rock Johnson made a special
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  appearance where he called out Undisputed Champion Cody Rhodes.
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  Rock stated that although they stood against each other
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  WrestleMania for you the prior year, they had since become
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  friends. Although Rock praised Rhodes for
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  becoming a great champion, a champion of the people, he
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  rotted Rhodes to be his champion.
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  Rock claimed that he could elevate Rhodes career even
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  higher and could make anything possible for Rhodes that he
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  would be president of the Nation Chamber Toronto.
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  To get Rhodes answer, I want your soul.
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  What do you think that meant? I don't know, but I'm like, you
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  know this is dumb. I don't know it.
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  I I wasn't feeling that segment. You know, I figured that he
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  would try to restart the rivalry from last year, right, But I
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  don't know, just I don't know what this I want your sole
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  business is, you know, because I mean, I know the rock has some
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  pull, but I mean really, what what what would you what do you
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  want him to do? You know, he's already taken
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  enough beatings as it is, you know, this past year, you know,
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  from his friends, you know, so it's like, and I, I don't see
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  him. I mean, I don't know, I don't
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  see him as becoming a heel, you know.
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  So this is it's just I don't know.
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  OK, so he says that and everybody on Twitter is all
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  like, that was weird. Why did he say that?
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  Yeah. Like his soul.
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  What do they want to go on a date or something?
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  And I'm just like, I, I get it. I get it.
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  I get it. What I think he meant, what I
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  think he meant was that remember back in the 90s when The Rock
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  joined the corporation? Yes.
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  Corporate Rock, Right. Mm Hmm.
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  So Vince had him as like his champion.
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  Right. 'Cause you know all that.
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  Mm hmm. OK, so he wanted him to be his,
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  his champion. So I'm thinking here, he's
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  trying to be like, because he's a member of the board and he's
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  friend. He he, he tells you every time
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  he talks to you. Oh, Nick Khan's my best friend.
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  Yeah. Like we all know that.
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  Like. Oh yeah, Nick my.
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  Best friend. Yeah, yeah, Triple H and he's a
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  member of the board and blah blah.
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  His daughter runs on XT. Yeah, OK.
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  Like he tells you, he tells you every time.
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  So he has some pool because he's a member of the board.
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  So he think he's in Vince's shoes now and he thinks he's
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  running it. So he wants Cody Rose to be his
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  champion, to be his corporate champion, to be what corporate
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  Rock was to be. Now Cody is corporate Cody to
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  like, hey, I want you to do this instead of doing this.
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  Yeah, I want your soul. Babies.
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  No more kissing babies, no more swimming fans.
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  I want your soul to me means I, you know the devil, the final
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  boss. I.
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  Want your soul? I want to.
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  I want to. I'm going to make you a
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  champion. I'm going to keep you as a
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  champion and you're going to do whatever I tell you to do.
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  And if you don't, your soul is mine already.
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  I have to do whatever I want with it.
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  Yeah. But the way that Cody was left
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  in the ring like that, like with his dumb little face, like, Oh
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  no, Oh no, I'm like, please stop doing that face.
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  Like every time since last year when he got when the throat when
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  the freaking chicken was thrown in the ring on him.
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  Like you, three years. Ago, do you?
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  That was two years. Yeah.
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  Yeah, last year he won the year before.
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  OK, Yeah, that's true. When Brock Lesnar beat him down,
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  that face, he makes that stupid face, it's like, like, OK,
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  whatever it is. Ever since then, I'm just like,
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  dude, please stop making the face, please.
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  And then another thing. He just wants you to be his
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  champion, to be his corporate champion.
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  It's like you're already fitting the role.
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  You're almost there. You're almost at Homelander
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  status. Yeah.
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  You just, you're just like, OK. You just need to like, accept it
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  and become a heel because nobody likes them right now.
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  Yeah. Nobody likes them as a champion
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  right now. Like I've lost.
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  I haven't watched Mack down in a while.
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  Really. To ask me if I've watched Mack
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  Down last two years ago. Oh, definitely you did.
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  Yeah, every time. Yeah.
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  Watch Smack Down every night. Every every Friday night, right?
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  And even though he wasn't on there, you still watched.
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  It I still watched it because, you know, hey, that's the my my
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  Prepo Chief show. I'm his fan.
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  That's my show, That's my ring, that's my camera.
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  These are my people. These are my WWE.
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  These are my security guards, so yeah, it's like I've watched it
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  every time. But now I'm just like, oh,
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  great, OK, yeah, we'll switch to raw.
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  Let me switch to raw. Oh, he's there too, man.
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  Why is he there? Why is he showing up?
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  He doesn't need to show up. Just.
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  To that's I'm wondering too, because it's like Smackdown has
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  a belt and. Yeah, yeah.
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  Brock has a belt, so you really don't need to be there, you
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  know? It's not like you have both
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  belts, you know? So you have to be on both shows,
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  but you know. Both shows, yeah.
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  But you know, whatever, we'll see.
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  I mean, I know he's got friends on both shows.
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  That's why he's coming on both shows.
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  But he. Does he does?
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  Leanna says hi. Hi.
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  Oh, that's right, I got the notification that you're live on
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  YouTube too. There it is.
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  Yeah, she's over there. Yeah.
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  Saying hi. I'm like, why is there, there's
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  a like a little number on the chat thing here on Riverside so
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  I can't see anything. Oh.
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  Oh, there she is. There, there it is.
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  OK, cool. Now I can see it.
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  OK. Hey, she'll probably have it
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  like 30 seconds or I don't know how many minutes later.
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  Yeah. OK so we got through that.
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  So first match of the night, I first match is 4 matches on this
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  card, again with the short pay per views.
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  So we'll see. First match is Sami Zayn versus
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  Kevin Owens in an unsanctioned match.
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  It's not even a match and we can't talk about this match.
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  No come on. On the January 20th episode of
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  Ross, that means they spoke about winning the Royal Rumble
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  match before he was interrupted by longtime friend Kevin Owens.
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  Owens stated that he knew Zayn could win the Royal Rumble match
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  because he would have Zayn's back, the same way that Owens
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  knew that Zayn would have his back at Owens upcoming last
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  match against Cody Rhodes for the Undisputed W Championship.
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  Also, they were a Rumble at the event.
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  Owens lost the roads. However, during the match, Zane
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  appeared at ringside to check on Owens, but did not get involved
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  in the match. On the following episode of Raw,
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  Zane failed to qualify for the Elimination Chamber match.
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  Following the match, Owens viciously attacked Zane with a
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  packaged pile driver. Oh, you love that move, don't
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  you? No.
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  Severely injuring Zane's neck in Cafe Move.
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  You know what, I don't know why they put K for everyone there.
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  It's like whatever. And ruling him out of action for
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  an undetermined period of time. And then video message posted on
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  X Twitter. Lane gave an update on his
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  injury and proclaimed that when he was made clear to wrestle, he
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  would be coming for Owens, who responded and claims that A who
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  responded and claimed that Zane's refused to help him
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  during the match was the betrayal.
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  I don't know how you want him to help you.
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  You were just like broken in half at that moment.
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  I don't know, man. Folded like in the accordion and
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  I've never seen anyone fold like that before, especially Kevin
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  Owens. Kevin also challenged Zane to a
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  metal mission chamber regardless of whether or not Zane would be
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  magically cleared. On the February 17th episode of
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  Raw, Zane has left his Owens Challenge to a match.
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  However, Roger and the manager, Adam Pierce refused to make the
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  match official as Zane was still not medically clear.
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  Zane refused to leave the ring until Pierce made the match
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  official. Pierce told Zane he could not
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  sanction the match between the two.
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  Therefore, an unsanctioned match between Owens and Zane in their
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  home country in Canada was scheduled for Elevation Chamber
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  Toronto. I love these matches, like best
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  friends fighting each other. Triple H versus Shawn Michaels.
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  Yeah. That's all I can think of.
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  Like, yeah. Let's see, how about Tommaso
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  Chapa versus Johnny? Oh God, Chicago.
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  Chicago, you know, I didn't see Chicago, but I didn't see them.
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  Oh, NXT Chicago it was. Yeah, was it?
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  Oh my God. That's crazy.
• 24:05
  It is. Because I've seen, like, clips
• 24:08
  of that match, yeah. These two should never fight
• 24:13
  each other ever again. And when they do, it's like,
• 24:17
  please don't hurt each other. I like you both.
• 24:19
  Yeah, please don't do. This, yeah.
• 24:23
  Like they're best friends in real life and they hurting each
• 24:25
  other. Oh God.
• 24:27
  I. Am Adam Cole versus.
• 24:32
  Kyle O'Reilly Kyle O'Reilly yes. Their last match was like brutal
• 24:38
  to watch. I remember watching that one.
• 24:41
  I was like, oh gosh. Yeah, I can't do this.
• 24:45
  So you want it's like I've I've I've man.
• 24:49
  That's when I start. I was like when they left after
• 24:51
  when the the show went down, like, oh, yeah, OK.
• 24:59
  The Sami Zayn versus Kevin Owens forever.
• 25:02
  It's like, so someone if someone's gonna get hurt.
• 25:09
  Yeah. Someone's gonna get hurt.
• 25:11
  It's been how many? I don't know how many years,
• 25:15
  like 15 years, 20 years since they've been on, they've been
• 25:19
  best friends. They've seen they, I don't know,
• 25:23
  El Generico versus Kevin Owens with Kevin Owens as tag teams in
• 25:28
  Ring of Honor. And then like they're fighting
• 25:32
  against each other and they're doing crazy moves on each other.
• 25:37
  And then when they show when Kevin Owens showed up on NXT,
• 25:42
  the betrayal, like Kevin always, always betrays you.
• 25:47
  Simple as that. Kevin always, always betrays
• 25:50
  him. And then they're back together
• 25:53
  again. And then they fight each other
• 25:54
  again. But they have the best matches
• 25:56
  ever. Yeah.
• 26:00
  So it's like 2 years ago at WrestleMania when they won the
• 26:06
  belt, Tacky belt. Was it last?
• 26:09
  It wasn't last year, was it? No, no, it was.
• 26:13
  It was two years ago. Two years ago, yeah, OK.
• 26:16
  And they wore those the the colors of Ring of Honor and
• 26:22
  where they where they work at 1st.
• 26:25
  And I'm like, oh, there's going to be something different at
• 26:27
  this year's. Wrestle.
• 26:29
  Yeah. And I'm thinking like, oh, they
• 26:30
  should have been a WrestleMania. No, there's going to be here in
• 26:32
  Toronto, in their hometown. Yeah, in his hometown.
• 26:36
  Yeah. So it's like, OK, so he's going
• 26:39
  to do something here and I was like hoping that this match
• 26:43
  would be a WrestleMania match at least.
• 26:46
  Yeah, you may. Well, I don't know if they'll be
• 26:52
  up for, you know, they'll be better in a month, but you know,
• 26:56
  it could be a, you know #2. OK, so who?
• 27:04
  Who is not winning? Who is unsanctionally not
• 27:07
  winning this match? So I I think Sammy is going to
• 27:14
  lose. Oh man.
• 27:17
  I hope not. I mean, somebody's got to lose,
• 27:21
  right? So, yeah, but I just think
• 27:25
  they're really trying to push Kevin this fuel.
• 27:28
  Kevin Owens. Yeah, which, as I told you
• 27:34
  before, I'm not, I'm for it because it's a good character.
• 27:38
  I'm not for all of the pile drivers.
• 27:41
  I I don't like it. You know, it's just, and even
• 27:46
  now, even though, you know, Sammy tucked, you know, so he
• 27:52
  didn't land on his neck, I'm like, I still hate him just to
• 27:56
  even get up there. And oh gosh, it's just I can't,
• 28:01
  I can't take it. Yeah.
• 28:06
  You know what I mean? We'll see, you know, But you
• 28:15
  know, Sammy could, he says he's going to bring, he's going to
• 28:20
  bring the, you know, the Thunder, I guess you know, all
• 28:24
  of his hate. The Blue Thunder.
• 28:31
  Freaking ring. This is hard because they are
• 28:38
  both. This is they're both, you know,
• 28:43
  favorite to see every time. Yeah, either as faces or heels.
• 28:47
  Like the Sammy as a heel is always hilarious.
• 28:51
  Yeah. Like his matches against the
• 28:54
  Jackass crew was freaking hilarious.
• 28:59
  Him joining the him becoming Uzi and being part of the use, the
• 29:04
  Usos and bloodline, I was like hilarious.
• 29:08
  You know, I, I really, when I first saw it, I was like, I
• 29:12
  don't know how long this is going to last, you know, are
• 29:15
  they just, you know, are they just messing with them to make
• 29:19
  them, you know, feel like it? But I was impressed by it.
• 29:26
  They did a good job, as you know, as a team they did.
• 29:31
  They did Kevin Owens as a heel. He never leaves you alone.
• 29:41
  Like if he even if he loses, he'll he won't.
• 29:44
  He won't stop. Yeah, case in case in point, his
• 29:47
  matches against Ezekiel. Yeah.
• 29:52
  And Elias. Yeah.
• 29:54
  You're Elias. I'm Ezekiel.
• 29:56
  No, you're Elias. You're Elias.
• 29:57
  I can prove it. Yeah, exactly.
• 30:00
  So Like, even if he want, if he won, I was like, all right,
• 30:04
  you're Elias. I'm Ezekiel.
• 30:06
  I was like, all right, one more match, OK.
• 30:09
  And then he loses. And then like, no, you're Elias.
• 30:13
  Yeah. Which is now to Elijah, and he's
• 30:17
  in DNA. Yeah.
• 30:19
  And I love that like we we love the whole TNA thing going on at
• 30:22
  the moment. Met other Hardy Boys, just
• 30:26
  showed up on NXT Yeah this past Tuesday.
• 30:29
  And I love that Elijah and Joe Henry are Singh love it.
• 30:39
  So I gotta start watching TNA again for its entirety.
• 30:43
  Yeah, to check out the stuff, except for one person in there,
• 30:45
  but you know, like I can ignore her.
• 30:49
  Who? Tesla?
• 30:50
  That Tesla? Yeah.
• 30:52
  Yeah, we can ignore her. I'm gonna say Sami Zayn wins
• 31:00
  because he wins. And then Kevin Owens does it
• 31:05
  again. It'll be the same thing as some
• 31:08
  Triple H for Shawn Michaels. Shawn Michaels one at Summer
• 31:11
  Slam Triple H grabs the sledgehammer, hits him, knocks
• 31:15
  him out. I was like, alright, when's he
• 31:16
  coming back? Never.
• 31:17
  Ha ha ha. Here's the same thing saying
• 31:22
  wins, Kevin Owens attacks him again and does the freaking pile
• 31:27
  drive around him. And you know, we we wait until
• 31:31
  WrestleMania to see what's going on in a yeah, Hell in a Cell
• 31:34
  match. I doubt it, but it's no hold
• 31:39
  barred. I don't think they'll ever be a
• 31:41
  Hell in a Cell work of a WrestleMania.
• 31:44
  Yeah, let's just send this. Yeah.
• 31:48
  But yeah, I'd rather see them at a WrestleMania and hopefully.
• 31:52
  I would say that I don't, I don't mind if matches, you know,
• 31:57
  repeat matches happen. Just don't do.
• 32:00
  I'm not for the 567, you know, that's getting old, you know, do
• 32:09
  maybe 3 because you know, one wins one time, the next one's
• 32:14
  the other. So we need that third one to be
• 32:17
  like the tiebreaker and just leave it at that.
• 32:22
  You know, don't keep going. Oh well, you know best out of
• 32:26
  seven now. Best out of seven.
• 32:28
  That just gets to be too much, so we'll see.
• 32:36
  All right, next match on the card, Tiffany Stride and Trish
• 32:39
  Stratus versus NIA Jax and Candice Larae in the regular
• 32:42
  taxi match in June of 2024. Tiffany Stratton, NIA Jax formed
• 32:46
  the Lions during this time. Stratton won the Money in the
• 32:50
  Bank ladder match with namesake event in July, while Jax won the
• 32:54
  WE Women's Championship at Summer Summer in August.
• 32:56
  In October, Jax also formed the alliance with Ken Larae.
• 32:59
  After months of teasing, Stratton finally turned on Jax.
• 33:02
  Leslie cashed in her Money in the Bank contract on the January
• 33:04
  3rd episode of Smackdown Love that to win the Liberty Women
• 33:09
  Championship at the Royal Rumble and February 1st Dirty Hall of
• 33:12
  Famer Canon native Trish Stratus and to the namesake match at #25
• 33:16
  and eliminated Larae only for Jax to eliminate Stratus on the
• 33:20
  February 14th up to the Smack Down, Jax had a rematch for the
• 33:23
  championship, however the match ended in a DQ win for Stratton
• 33:26
  after Larae attacked Stratton. Following the match, Jackson
• 33:29
  Larae continue to stack Stratton prompting Stratus who in the
• 33:33
  crowd come in and assist Stratton.
• 33:34
  Stratus then proposed A-Team up with Stratton Stratus.
• 33:38
  Trish Stratus. Damn Trish Stratus.
• 33:45
  Stratton stratus. Trish Den proposed to team up
• 33:48
  with Stratton, had Elimination Chamber Toronto in A tag team
• 33:51
  match featuring Stratton. Stratton against Jax and Larae
• 33:54
  was suddenly made official. What's the face?
• 33:57
  Ice Cube son Oshea Jackson Junior?
• 33:59
  Uh huh. He said the same thing, Trish
• 34:01
  Stratus and Tiffany Stratton. It's like, it's like Trish
• 34:08
  Stratus and Tiffany. Trish Stratus.
• 34:10
  Tiffany Stratus, like, dyslexia right there.
• 34:13
  Yeah. Like your dyslexic worst
• 34:15
  nightmare when you just, like, have to read both names.
• 34:18
  Yeah. He's trying to say it, too on
• 34:20
  the podcast Trish Stratton. Trish what?
• 34:27
  Trishy and tippy. Tiffy and Tiffy, Trishy and
• 34:31
  Tiffy. Oh my God.
• 34:31
  Who? Said didn't.
• 34:32
  We say that. Oh, OK, fine.
• 34:37
  That's what Tippy said on Smackdown.
• 34:40
  Tippy time. Yep.
• 34:42
  I don't like that she's a face. I want her to go back as a heel.
• 34:49
  Ah. Because every time, yes,
• 34:52
  Tiffany, because every time she gets hurt, no matter what body
• 34:56
  part she gets hurt, she's always holding onto her stomach, right?
• 35:03
  It's like, what are you doing? Yeah.
• 35:06
  She got hurt and that's when she's laying there on the ground
• 35:11
  and I'm like, this isn't you. I'm not used to this.
• 35:14
  I'm not used to the face. True, true Tiffy.
• 35:18
  Tiffy A. Charlotte Flair came in the ring
• 35:20
  like, I'm I pick, you know, you're my opponent for
• 35:23
  WrestleMania. And I'm like, she's laying there
• 35:27
  on the floor, on the ground, on the mat and just holding on to
• 35:29
  her stomach like, I'm like, get up.
• 35:33
  Yeah, doing good. Like go back to be the heel.
• 35:37
  I don't like this. Please make this.
• 35:45
  Trish Strat is in there because of Toronto.
• 35:48
  Yeah, yeah. I believe so.
• 35:50
  Yeah, if anything, yeah, OK or else.
• 35:55
  I think she needs money so. It's trishy time.
• 36:00
  Yeah, I just hope that this is it for Trish Stratus, you know
• 36:06
  what I mean? Yeah, like going back to what
• 36:10
  you said two years ago with Trish Red Lita.
• 36:13
  Yeah. And WrestleMania, like 22 steps
• 36:19
  MM hmm, like I feel like this Trish is like can't hurt her
• 36:24
  that what bad because like she's an old lady now and like oh,
• 36:32
  that would that would make me an old man because I like grew up
• 36:35
  watching her, but but it's like she's just.
• 36:39
  You wouldn't know how to stay in your lane, you know, So yeah,
• 36:43
  she don't know how to stay in her lane.
• 36:45
  She comes back, wrestles, looks terrible wrestling now OK, It's
• 36:52
  bad when the camera is. In the corner.
• 36:56
  And she's all you're like, look, you should have just stayed
• 37:03
  retired. Bring back Lita, but her brother
• 37:07
  too. Yeah, but you know, what can I
• 37:13
  say? And then she's gonna get hurt by
• 37:15
  Naya. She can get squashed like she
• 37:19
  says so. She gonna get squashed all right
• 37:25
  this match. I hate to say it, but Naya and
• 37:33
  Candace, as much as I want to see Tiffany win because, you
• 37:41
  know, as you remember, I wasn't like, I wasn't a Tiffany fan.
• 37:47
  But now that she, you know, the more that I saw her wrestle and
• 37:52
  it wasn't just, you know, oh, I'm going to flip here, flip my
• 37:57
  hair here, you know, I'm going to be like that and actually
• 38:00
  show some athleticism. Then I was like, OK, she's, you
• 38:04
  know, she's pretty good. You know, her moonsault, I love,
• 38:09
  you know, 'cause every time she's done it, she's landed it,
• 38:15
  you know, pretty much where she's supposed to.
• 38:18
  Whereas when other people do moonsaults, they always will
• 38:22
  land off of everybody and it just hits, you know, their legs
• 38:26
  hit. So I'm like, why aren't you
• 38:28
  doing this correctly? Why can't you, you know, but
• 38:33
  yeah, you know, but you know, we'll see.
• 38:37
  I mean, I I'm going to say Naya, because I think they're going to
• 38:42
  cheat, you know, they're going to distract the, you know,
• 38:47
  distract the referee. They're going to cheat and then
• 38:52
  Tiffany is going to get pinned by Naya.
• 38:57
  Charlotte's been back since We're a Rumble and she still
• 38:59
  hasn't done anything for me. No, she's, she's just been
• 39:04
  parading around, you know? Queen status, like, yeah, OK, I
• 39:11
  mean the other. Day has done more than Charlotte
• 39:15
  has, right? Like, well, the only, the only
• 39:19
  good thing about, well, the only newsworthy thing about Charlotte
• 39:22
  is that she's getting a divorce again.
• 39:25
  No, she's already. Divorced.
• 39:26
  Oh, she's already there already. Divorced.
• 39:28
  I thought they were getting a divorce.
• 39:30
  OK. Nope, they said.
• 39:33
  Think if I read it right they said October it was official.
• 39:38
  Damn. Yeah, but it's funny because I'm
• 39:42
  like, I noticed on her social media he stopped being on it,
• 39:47
  you know? And so I was like, OK.
• 39:49
  And stop supporting. You know all, was it all last
• 39:55
  year? She would be, you know, that she
• 39:58
  would show that she was with him.
• 40:01
  Yeah, all the workouts and all that stuff and.
• 40:03
  Then all of a sudden that stopped.
• 40:04
  So it's like, oh, and I'm like, I wonder what happened, You know
• 40:10
  what I mean? But this is number 3.
• 40:15
  So. I'm like, she can't keep a man.
• 40:19
  She tried to be like Jlo. Oh my gosh, reaching, reaching
• 40:26
  for the for the gold rings, huh? Or like her dad.
• 40:31
  Or like her dad. It's like.
• 40:33
  At least one record being broken, either John Cena or
• 40:36
  Charlotte. Sorry, too soon.
• 40:42
  Too soon. Right.
• 40:45
  OK, moving on, moving on. We said 9th Candace.
• 40:53
  OK, yeah. The Women's Elimination Chamber
• 40:57
  match for the World Women's World Championship at
• 41:01
  WrestleMania 41. Lip Morgan versus Bianca
• 41:03
  Bellaire versus Alexa Bliss versus Bailey versus Naomi
• 41:06
  versus Roxanne Perez. Qualifiers for the Women's
• 41:11
  Elimination Chamber match began on the February 3rd episode of
• 41:14
  RA Lib. Morgan won the 1st qualifier by
• 41:17
  defeating EO Sky by DQ to the inference from Women's World
• 41:22
  Champion Ria Ripley. The second and third spots were
• 41:25
  determined in the February 7th episode of Smackdown where
• 41:28
  Beyond Capella and Alexa Bliss defeated Piper Nevin and Kendall
• 41:31
  Array respectively. The 4th spot was the Pyramid on
• 41:34
  the February 10th after the Raw were Bailey defeated Lyra
• 41:37
  Bulkaria. The first spot was determined in
• 41:41
  the very full February 14th episode of Smackdown.
• 41:43
  Where Naomi did we do Chelsea Green?
• 41:45
  Wait, who did she tell me to defeat?
• 41:48
  Chelsea Green. Thank you.
• 41:52
  Well, the final spot was determined in the February 7th
• 41:54
  episode of Raw where NFT Roxanne Perez defeated Raquel Rodriguez
• 42:00
  as a result of Rome winner Charlotte Flair choosing the
• 42:02
  challenge. Tiffany Stratton from Smackdown
• 42:04
  Women's Championship at WrestleMania 41.
• 42:06
  The women there of the Women's elementary chamber match would
• 42:09
  challenge either Rio Ripley or Sky for Raw Women's World
• 42:12
  Championship at WrestleMania. When is Rio Ripley?
• 42:15
  Were Sky supposed to happen? I believe it's Monday.
• 42:19
  Monday, OK, Yeah. So, so right after Elimination
• 42:24
  Chamber. So.
• 42:25
  So obviously Ripley, right? Of course.
• 42:30
  OK. But.
• 42:34
  OK, so Lib Morgan, Bianca Bellaire, Alexa Bliss, Bailey,
• 42:36
  Naomi are now no longer NXT, but she's on Raw.
• 42:41
  Roxanne Perez. Oh, is she?
• 42:43
  Yeah, she's not. Like why is she on NXT if she's
• 42:47
  on here? I don't know because, well,
• 42:51
  there probably are gonna be, you know, bringing her up.
• 42:54
  That's why you know. She just got called up.
• 42:58
  OK, Yeah, All right. So.
• 43:02
  But you know, I missed that episode 'cause I'm like, I don't
• 43:05
  remember. I mean, I, I missed that match.
• 43:07
  I shouldn't say the episode. I missed that match 'cause I'm
• 43:11
  like, I want to see how Roxanne beat Raquel.
• 43:14
  I do. So I'm have to watch that one
• 43:18
  also on Friday or maybe tomorrow.
• 43:21
  But I hate to say no, I don't hate to say it because I'm not
• 43:30
  going to say it. I definitely don't want Liv
• 43:33
  Morgan to win because did you watch Raw?
• 43:39
  Some of it, yeah. Did you?
• 43:41
  They won the belt. They won the tag team
• 43:43
  championship. Yeah, saw that.
• 43:46
  I hate them, I'm sorry. I'm still waiting for Jade
• 43:52
  Cargill to come back. It's for what?
• 43:55
  I'm still waiting for Jade Cargill to come back.
• 43:57
  I am too. I want her to come back because
• 43:59
  I want to know what really happened to her, you know?
• 44:02
  Anyway. So.
• 44:04
  I think it's going. I want Alexa Bliss to win that
• 44:09
  time. Alexa because I want to see
• 44:13
  Alexa versus RIA because I haven't seen that before unless
• 44:19
  I missed it somewhere. I don't think I've seen it.
• 44:23
  Either it's. Been a while, OK.
• 44:32
  Anybody versus Ria Ripley on here would be great.
• 44:36
  Lib Morgan, obviously, Bianca Bel Air versus Ria Ripley, that
• 44:42
  that's finally, that's a match I want to see.
• 44:45
  Yeah, Alexa, I guess she's back. I love that she's back.
• 44:51
  Yeah. Bailey versus Ria Ripley, Naomi
• 44:56
  versus Ria Ripley and Roxanne Perez.
• 44:58
  Roxanne, who just won the like, not one.
• 45:01
  Well, she did win the The Iron Survivor on an XT and then she
• 45:08
  was the Iron Woman on the Royal Rumble.
• 45:13
  And like they're saying, it's like, where did she wins this
• 45:16
  one Elimination Chamber? That's like three matches in her
• 45:19
  career, like back-to-back December, January and February
• 45:24
  that she's had like great and going on to WrestleMania this
• 45:29
  early in her career. And she went, if she wins the
• 45:32
  against Maria Ripley, she'd be like the youngest world
• 45:35
  champion. Yeah, history.
• 45:42
  I want to see Bianca. Yeah.
• 45:48
  Yeah, either Liv Morgan or Bianca, but another Liv Morgan
• 45:53
  versus Ray Ripley would be like Stales like, all right, you,
• 45:55
  you're yeah, run his course. Alexa's like.
• 46:00
  But what can we do with her? Bailey again and Naomi and and
• 46:07
  Roxanne is like, OK, so Bianca, we get the Jake Kirk.
• 46:11
  He'll come back. OK.
• 46:15
  If anything, Bianca versus Ripley at WrestleMania 41 or EO
• 46:21
  Sky doesn't really matter. I don't think they're going to
• 46:26
  give it to EO. No, I don't think, no.
• 46:29
  I think they want to continue on with Roy, with Rhea being the
• 46:38
  champion. Yeah, last one.
• 46:42
  A lot of great storylines on her that could happen, and I'm for
• 46:47
  it. Yeah, I.
• 46:49
  Just don't want to see Liv because she has a belt already.
• 46:52
  She has a belt. She has a belt already.
• 46:53
  She. Has a belt.
• 46:56
  And I'm not for, you know, her having two belts, sorry.
• 47:00
  You know you don't. Deserve it.
• 47:01
  She's not that great. Bianca versus Ria Ripley and
• 47:06
  Bianca going on a heel turn. Yeah.
• 47:09
  Towards WrestleMania and Jade coming back and saying it was
• 47:13
  you. Yeah.
• 47:15
  And Naomi's like you don't say like, I didn't know that.
• 47:21
  What? Yeah, exactly like you.
• 47:23
  You beat up your own tag party. Clutching my pearls.
• 47:29
  I haven't said that in a while. Clutching my pearls.
• 47:34
  Wow. Like we get a heel run from
• 47:44
  Bianca and she has the undefeated streak at
• 47:48
  WrestleMania so this could be worth, right?
• 47:50
  Also, Liv Morgan comes back and cost we have Ripley the belt
• 47:55
  again. Sure, we have another match.
• 47:58
  We just, I'm getting you this. My whole computer's getting
• 48:02
  stale. Oh yeah, yeah.
• 48:06
  Well, let's see. OK, who's from Raw and this?
• 48:11
  Roxanne. OK, Bailey, because I'm
• 48:15
  thinking, I mean, like I said, I would love to see Alexa and
• 48:20
  Alexa's on RAW, right? Yeah, OK.
• 48:24
  Because honestly, I think their little window transfer window
• 48:30
  may be closed. So if somebody from Smackdown
• 48:36
  does win Elimination Chamber, they're fighting Rhea, who's in
• 48:42
  Raw. So I don't think that they're
• 48:44
  going to, you know, have it. Switch.
• 48:47
  Switch. Yeah, unless because we're we're
• 48:51
  Charlotte. Tiffany in Charlotte.
• 48:54
  Charlotte's on Smackdown. OK, so see.
• 48:58
  Oh, oh, God, The most horrible thing would be having Charlotte
• 49:06
  on Raw and having her say queen stuff and all this stuff.
• 49:10
  And I'm just like, it being so insufferable to like have
• 49:14
  Charlotte on Raw and I know it. And it's like, OK, fine, yeah,
• 49:19
  she can go to RAW and then Tiffany versus Bianca or Alexa.
• 49:31
  Anybody. Yeah, anybody I don't know.
• 49:35
  I don't know, like I just don't want it to be a placeholder for
• 49:38
  Tiffany. Like and beat her and then move
• 49:42
  on. Move on from Nya, move on from
• 49:44
  Charlotte. Become a heel again, please.
• 49:47
  I don't like this whole you squirming in the middle of the
• 49:50
  ring, holding onto your stomach even though they hit.
• 49:52
  You're in the leg. Yeah, or they hit your shoulder.
• 49:56
  The shoulder but hold on to her stomach like oh it hurts, my
• 50:01
  tummy hurts but my shoulder got hurt please come.
• 50:05
  On It's all radiating into her stomach.
• 50:11
  OK, so who do we decide on? So I say Alexa.
• 50:17
  I say Alexa all. Right, I say, Bianca.
• 50:19
  OK, you say Bianca. All right.
• 50:22
  I want that four and O at the. Rest of the year, yeah.
• 50:26
  I'm waiting for it. And finally, the men's
• 50:31
  Elimination Chamber match for the end of PDW championship
• 50:34
  match at WrestleMania 41. CM Punk was Drew McIntyre was
• 50:38
  Logan Paul versus Damien Priest versus Seth Rollins versus John
• 50:42
  Cena. John Cena's final Elimination
• 50:46
  Chamber after the Royal Rumble. During the press conference,
• 50:49
  John Cena said what is best for business is I've main event
• 50:53
  WrestleMania and what's best for business is for the first time I
• 50:56
  confidently say that I'm going to win a 17 championship.
• 51:00
  I'm saying that because after 23 years of loyal service to this
• 51:03
  company, I feel that opportunity is earned.
• 51:06
  Yes, I'm flying back to Hungary to film a movie.
• 51:08
  So I'm going to do is give my five other opponents one month
• 51:11
  to slander my name and bolster the self-confidence the best
• 51:15
  that I can. Didn't even see it happen that
• 51:18
  that never happened. I didn't hear anybody talk shit
• 51:21
  about John Cena. They're all like talking shit to
• 51:23
  each other. I told Toronto when I announced
• 51:26
  my retirement that I was a grateful for the city and I
• 51:29
  would be back and I would be back to kick ass.
• 51:31
  It is time to walk that talk and be who I say I am.
• 51:35
  I'm going to the limited chamber to win and I'm going to main
• 51:38
  event my final appearance in WrestleMania and win 17
• 51:40
  championship because that's what's best for business.
• 51:44
  And I say that because it's not best for my ego.
• 51:46
  It is not best for my business. I have build my existence here
• 51:49
  off as hard work, loyalty to this company and respect for all
• 51:53
  of his branches. Total Divas, I will win 17 not
• 51:58
  for me. I will win 17 to make to someday
• 52:01
  shake the hand of the person who wins 18.
• 52:04
  Thank you very much. He just basically says like,
• 52:17
  yeah, I'm putting in my my what? His hat.
• 52:27
  He's putting his hat in the ring and saying.
• 52:28
  Not not only that, he's putting in his, his loyalty card, his
• 52:37
  he's putting in his like I veteran status.
• 52:41
  Oh yeah. His veteran status, loyalty
• 52:44
  card, and like I've been loyal to this company forever and
• 52:47
  haven't won a belt in a freaking years.
• 52:51
  He hasn't won, you know. I mean, he even said that, you
• 52:55
  know, it had been like what, 2000 days since he won two?
• 52:59
  1000. You know what I mean?
• 53:01
  I mean, it's bad, but I, I like the fact that he's not using his
• 53:10
  status as, you know, making sure he always wins.
• 53:14
  He'll just be gracious about his loss, his losses, you know, and
• 53:21
  he, and I mean, I, like I said, I don't know, like I missed that
• 53:26
  whole John Cena era, you know? Yeah.
• 53:28
  So from when he first started to when he went part time.
• 53:34
  Right. You know, but hey, he's he
• 53:41
  decided that this is now the time to go and he's you know, I
• 53:45
  if if I was him, I'd be the same way.
• 53:47
  I'm going to be in every single, you know, PLE till the end of
• 53:52
  this year and I'm going, you know, I go out with a bang,
• 53:55
  whether it's a win bang or, you know, a lost bang, I'm going out
• 53:59
  with a bang and make it the best match he's ever done.
• 54:04
  You know, his retirement match is that.
• 54:06
  And if he goes out as the as the champion, more power to him.
• 54:14
  He is he, he deserves it. He deserves it.
• 54:20
  You saw the reaction I got when I, like, saw it live.
• 54:25
  Yeah, that whole thing. And I'm just like, wow, he is
• 54:30
  throwing his rigging his weight around.
• 54:34
  Yeah, not not like the if he was throwing his weight around, he'd
• 54:37
  be like, all right, I'm going to win this belt.
• 54:40
  No, he booked himself into the championship match.
• 54:42
  No, he's booking himself to a number one contendership spot.
• 54:46
  Yep. Roy Rumble, Elimination Chamber
• 54:49
  and possibly Money in the Bank No.
• 54:52
  He's definitely going to be there.
• 54:54
  If. He doesn't win at Elimination
• 54:58
  Chamber, It doesn't get it doesn't get a match at
• 55:01
  WrestleMania. He gonna be the winner of Money
• 55:06
  in the Bank and he's going to cash in you.
• 55:09
  Know, and I feel like they made this whole thing in Baghdad the
• 55:15
  king of the ring where if you win the that that big title,
• 55:21
  yeah, you also get a shot at it. So he could have put himself in
• 55:24
  there and get that shot at the belt again.
• 55:27
  Yeah. Which is like what?
• 55:28
  Like the second-half of the year, Yes.
• 55:32
  So first half of the year is John Cena saying like, alright,
• 55:36
  I want this, this is what's best for business.
• 55:38
  And we're all tuning in. John Cena is the first one to to
• 55:42
  show up for the elevation chamber.
• 55:44
  Then we get on July 6th, John Cena announced his retirement,
• 55:50
  all that stuff. The next day Raw General Manager
• 55:55
  and Pierce announced that qualifying match would begin the
• 55:57
  following night on Raw. CM Punk won the 1st qualifier by
• 55:59
  defeating Sammy Zane. The third spot was determined on
• 56:02
  February 7th episode of Smackdown with Drew McIntyre
• 56:04
  defeated Jimmy USO and Ella Night in the triple threat
• 56:06
  match. The 4th spot was determined the
• 56:08
  February 10th episode of Raw where Logan Paul defeated Rey
• 56:11
  Mysterio. The first spot was the every
• 56:18
  episode of Smackdown by another Triple Threat match where David
• 56:22
  Priest defeated Bronze Drummond and Jacob Hot 2.
• 56:25
  While the final spot would determine the favorite time and
• 56:27
  thinks episode of Rob were Seth Relevant defeated Finn Balor as
• 56:30
  a result of Rumble winner Jay USO choosing the challenge
• 56:33
  Gunther for Ross World Heavyweight Championship
• 56:35
  WrestleMania 31 The winner of the men's Elimination Chamber
• 56:37
  match will challenge Cody Rose for Smackdown's Undisputed WW
• 56:40
  Championship at WrestleMania. John Cena, CM Punk, Drew
• 56:51
  McIntyre, Damon Priest, Seth Rollins and Logan Paul.
• 57:00
  If John Cena doesn't win, he can go other places.
• 57:03
  I get that. CM Punk versus Cody.
• 57:14
  OK. Damien Priest versus Cody.
• 57:19
  Damien Priest, That's my pick. Seth Rollins versus Cody.
• 57:26
  I do want to see that match drew.
• 57:29
  McIntyre versus Cody. You know what, I take that back
• 57:35
  anybody but Logan Paul versus because I'm sorry, he's he's not
• 57:43
  ready and. We always say that.
• 57:45
  We always say that and then some doing some stupid shit.
• 57:50
  No, I don't think he's ready because you know, with he's not
• 57:58
  at the caliper as everybody else is right now.
• 58:01
  He has put in a lot of work, I will say.
• 58:04
  So. For for him to win the United
• 58:07
  States belt, that was fine. You know, he only defended it
• 58:12
  when he wanted to. So he's trying stay in.
• 58:13
  Your lane. You know, stay in your lane.
• 58:16
  Yeah, stay in your lane. But he's trying to have the same
• 58:22
  schedule like Roman had, you know?
• 58:25
  But sorry, Logan, you're nowhere at the caliber of Roman Reigns
• 58:30
  right now at all. Wait a few years.
• 58:33
  You know, if you still are trying to do wrestling, fine.
• 58:38
  But I, I think I want to see, I definitely want to see Damien
• 58:47
  Priest versus Cody. I definitely want to see that.
• 58:50
  So that's why Damien's my, my pick.
• 58:52
  But to see to see CM Punk versus Cody, maybe, but Seth versus
• 59:04
  Cody, their matches are phenomenal.
• 59:09
  And what Seth said to Cody Monday, he was like, you know
• 59:16
  what, he goes, I don't, he goes, I want, you know, the Cody that
• 59:22
  that came back that I hit over the head, you know, with a
• 59:26
  sledgehammer who had the broken, you know, the, the dislocated
• 59:30
  pack. He's like, I want that Cody, you
• 59:33
  know, I'm like those matches, even though they were brutal to
• 59:38
  watch, they were amazing just to see, you know, and the whole
• 59:44
  thing that made it so brutal is, you know, all of the purple
• 59:48
  bruising and the blood that was here when he hit him with this,
• 59:53
  when Seth Rollins hit him with the sledgehammer or like dug it
• 59:56
  in, that was that was a little over the top.
• 1:00:00
  But you couldn't feel anything. It's.
• 1:00:02
  You know, I'm like, you know, just to see.
• 1:00:05
  I think those matches, those were great.
• 1:00:08
  Yeah. I want to see it again.
• 1:00:10
  You know, they are both phenomenal wrestlers.
• 1:00:14
  They are great athletes. They they fight, you know, very,
• 1:00:23
  you know, so I, I think, you know, Seth is awesome.
• 1:00:27
  He's awesome. So.
• 1:00:31
  Yeah. Yeah, I love that.
• 1:00:37
  Maverick on Twitter says Cody refuses the offer.
• 1:00:40
  CM Punk wins the chamber. Rock tries to steal the Mania
• 1:00:44
  main event like his 2013 to teach Cody lesson at Mania.
• 1:00:49
  CM Punk lose uses his favor to get Roman to take care of Rock.
• 1:00:55
  Roman confronts Rock on his dirt for power.
• 1:00:58
  The power ties into the Ulafala and Head of the Family.
• 1:01:01
  Roman versus Rock for the Ulafala at Mania.
• 1:01:04
  Meanwhile, CM Punk versus Cody Rhodes.
• 1:01:10
  OK, what do you think? Damn.
• 1:01:22
  OK, let's say he John Cena does win this.
• 1:01:25
  OK, let's say it. Let's let's just say John Cena
• 1:01:29
  does win it. Like I don't have a then what?
• 1:01:36
  We go into WrestleMania, Cody Rhodes, American Nightmare
• 1:01:40
  versus John Cena, heel turn. OK, you saw a little bit of that
• 1:01:47
  at the press conference. Like it's my time, my time.
• 1:01:53
  It's still my last time. Yeah.
• 1:01:55
  So you would give me that shot now?
• 1:01:59
  He gave you a threat basically. Like if you don't give me the
• 1:02:02
  shot, I will take it. Yeah.
• 1:02:06
  So he Cody rose like, hey, congratulations.
• 1:02:09
  What do you want, guys? What do you guys want to talk
• 1:02:10
  about? Congratulations, John Cena.
• 1:02:12
  And John Cena doesn't do the whole shaking hands and all that
• 1:02:17
  stuff like you're not seeing the severity of this.
• 1:02:20
  I want that. I'm going to take that.
• 1:02:24
  So he does the whole rock last year, slaps into the vase.
• 1:02:31
  We love a legend that slaps the new kid in the face.
• 1:02:37
  Company man versus company man. You know, company man for this
• 1:02:42
  amount of years versus the new company man.
• 1:02:44
  That's kind of that. Nobody likes basically the same
• 1:02:48
  thing. So I'm thinking I want.
• 1:02:54
  So here's what I want. I want John Cena for simple fact
• 1:02:58
  that we might get this. CM Punk maybe could use this
• 1:03:08
  whole favor. Sure.
• 1:03:12
  To get that third spot at WrestleMania against Gunther and
• 1:03:18
  Jay. Oh, you think they're going to
• 1:03:21
  do that? Yes.
• 1:03:24
  No. Or take J spot and take.
• 1:03:27
  I hate triple threats. I know I do too.
• 1:03:31
  But this is this is what that's for business.
• 1:03:35
  Logan Paul will probably do some stupid ass shit here.
• 1:03:38
  He did some stupid shit. He he slapped Punk in the face.
• 1:03:41
  I know he did. I was like, oh, and then of
• 1:03:44
  course he runs like, you know, little.
• 1:03:47
  You know what so. Seth, Seth and CM Punk have
• 1:03:51
  history. Logan Paul and Seth have
• 1:03:53
  history. Damien and Seth have history.
• 1:03:57
  Drew and Seth and CM Punk, they all have history.
• 1:04:00
  And Drew got history with everybody.
• 1:04:02
  Exactly. There's Well, except for John
• 1:04:04
  Cena, nobody had. Will CM Punk and John Cena have
• 1:04:06
  history? OK, Seth and John Cena have
• 1:04:08
  history. Logan Paul is gonna find out
• 1:04:11
  what John Cena's about. Yeah.
• 1:04:15
  But this is like, This is why I like this main event right here.
• 1:04:18
  This is the main event right here because, well, some of the
• 1:04:21
  girls here have history. Bianca and Naomi.
• 1:04:25
  Yeah, Liv Morgan. But Alexa, who just came back.
• 1:04:28
  Same with John Cena. Alexa and John Cena are just
• 1:04:30
  coming back. I'm gonna hate whoever gets
• 1:04:37
  pinned first. I know that.
• 1:04:38
  Even if it's Logan Paul because I so it's like no no, no, he was
• 1:04:43
  just saying I I want Logan Paul to stay towards the end so he
• 1:04:47
  can get his ass. Kicked by everyone.
• 1:04:48
  You know what? No, this is what would be the
• 1:04:51
  ideal. You put Logan Paul and John Cena
• 1:04:57
  in first. Oh.
• 1:04:59
  Let John Cena beat him up and then the next person comes out.
• 1:05:05
  They all beat up on Logan Paul. Let John Cena pin Logan Paul,
• 1:05:10
  get him out first and then let the big boys play.
• 1:05:14
  Let. The big boys play.
• 1:05:16
  I do think John Cena's going to be the first one, well, the last
• 1:05:19
  one to come out and then be in their match first, yeah.
• 1:05:25
  Yeah, that would be a good idea, right?
• 1:05:28
  Let Logan Paul, you know, be in there with John Cena.
• 1:05:34
  Right, right, right. OK, say it again.
• 1:05:50
  I said let Logan Paul and John Cena be the ones that are in the
• 1:05:55
  ring, not in the the cages. Yeah, yeah, of course.
• 1:06:00
  Oh my God, that's great. There's going to be a hard match
• 1:06:04
  and I hope it's the main event because I'm going to be on my
• 1:06:07
  feet the entire time. I I, I, I think this will be the
• 1:06:13
  main event. Yeah.
• 1:06:14
  I don't see even, I don't see even the women being, you know,
• 1:06:20
  I see. Maybe let's see, do the, the
• 1:06:25
  unsanctioned match first. Yeah, Get out.
• 1:06:28
  Of the way, get out of the way. Then the women's elimination.
• 1:06:33
  Then what's the other one? Tiffany.
• 1:06:38
  And tishy. Yeah, Tiffany and.
• 1:06:40
  Trishy and Trishy versus NIA Jackson, Ken, Sir Ray and then.
• 1:06:45
  The Mets, Yeah, he needs a shirt.
• 1:06:50
  I need to get him a shirt. I'm going to have to get him a
• 1:06:52
  shirt. I need to buy a belt and put him
• 1:06:54
  around his waist or something. Because yeah, I'm going to need,
• 1:06:58
  I'm going to be, oh, if John Cena wins, I'm going to be in
• 1:07:02
  Sufferville for the next month. The next month, so it's gonna be
• 1:07:07
  a long March. It's gonna be a long March with
• 1:07:10
  April, man, we have to do. It because WrestleMania is in
• 1:07:16
  the middle of March, in the middle of.
• 1:07:18
  April, Yeah, like Easter Sunday. Like who put it on April 20th?
• 1:07:22
  What two night events? Because it doesn't interfere
• 1:07:28
  with anything for UFC. No.
• 1:07:31
  OK, I think college basketball is will be, you know, over by
• 1:07:35
  then too. So UFC and college basketball,
• 1:07:39
  right. So, but next year it's you know.
• 1:07:45
  Two nights, everything. Yeah, but it's the 11th and 12th
• 1:07:50
  of April. Two nights of WrestleMania.
• 1:07:55
  I can't wait. Let's yeah, I'm going to be
• 1:08:01
  busy. I'm going to be like all over
• 1:08:03
  the place. Yeah.
• 1:08:05
  All right. What's playing on this side?
• 1:08:07
  Las Vegas. It's going to be awesome.
• 1:08:10
  I can't wait to see pictures. Yeah.
• 1:08:13
  All right, one more time it would.
• 1:08:23
  The Elimination Chamber will take place on Saturday, March
• 1:08:26
  1st, 2025 at Rogers Center in Toronto, ON.
• 1:08:28
  Canada start time are as follows. 7:00 PM Eastern, 6:00
• 1:08:31
  PM Central, 5:00 PM Mountain, 4:00 PM Pacific.
• 1:08:35
  Matches on the card are semi Zamers can always unsanctioned
• 1:08:39
  match. I hope that does well.
• 1:08:43
  Tiffany Stratum interest Stratas versus Nye Jackson Kenzer in the
• 1:08:46
  regular taxi match for the Women's World Championship match
• 1:08:50
  at WrestleMania 45 and Elimination Chamber match.
• 1:08:52
  Lib Morgan was Bianca Bellaire versus Alexa Bliss versus Bailey
• 1:08:55
  was Naomi was Rockin Perez. And in Elimination Champion
• 1:08:59
  match for the Youngest Video WA Championship at WrestleMania 41.
• 1:09:02
  John Cena versus CM Punkers, Drew McIntyre versus Logan Paul
• 1:09:05
  versus Damian Priest versus Seth Rollins.
• 1:09:13
  These are definitely going to be head bangers.
• 1:09:19
  OK, I'm, I'm going to be, yeah, I'm going to be here that night.
• 1:09:25
  I'm just March 1st to Saturday. Can't wait.
• 1:09:30
  Yeah, he said. Yeah, we're good here, right?
• 1:09:37
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• 1:09:41
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• 1:09:45
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• 1:09:49
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• 1:09:55
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• 1:10:00
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• 1:10:04
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• 1:10:10
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• 1:10:14
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