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Royal Rumble Recap: Roman Reigns Wins, Liv Morgan Steals the Show · D-constructing Topics

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What's going on and what's going on my folks with the little entrance music
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Let's get it. And yesterday was the Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia.
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We are Saudi Arabia. So it's a little bit, hey, listen.
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Maybe it's me as a wrestling fan. I don't mind these kind of afternoon wrestling, you know, shows.
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I don't mind. Now, how do we get to a wrestling afternoon?
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Well, when you're in the other side of the world, it's a different time here.
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So in Saudi Arabia, it was live 8 p.m.
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While here is 2 p.m.
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It was, once again, it was a, how can I say it to you? For some reason,
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it kind of felt a little bit short.
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I can't say that, hey, listen, for those people who have watched Royal Rumble,
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you already know that sometimes we get these special entrances or something special.
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But, you know, I think that it might have lacked something, but it just you
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move the train into WrestleMania, which is going to be a couple of months from now.
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And this is it is what we call WrestleMania season. So let's get it.
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And hopefully doing hope everybody in the East Coast and nowhere where you at. Stay safe.
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Stay warm out there. It is a little bit chilly here in New York City.
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So we're going to get to the show. let's get on it the female and the woman's
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royal rumble now i was telling somebody oh and also shout out to angel and witchy
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you know we were doing the kind of uh.
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But they call the cool kids what they call. You know, we are watching the show
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online or whatnot. We go to like this little server.
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We could just talk about, talk a little smack and all that good stuff.
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So watch along is what it is, whatever the case might be. I think that was my first watch along.
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I like it. It was kind of pretty cool. People talking smack,
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you already know, doing my little beer drinking. And also shout outs to Tegu's TV.
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If you could always find me, you could find me anywhere. You can find me on
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YouTube, any podcast platform, whether you listen to Spotify, Apple.
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And I was, you know, with my friends out there yesterday in the wrestling podcast.
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I'll put in the Andrew and Richie, a great wrestling show there too,
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Saturdays. I'll put the link in. You already know. We'll make it happen.
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But yes, it was an interesting show. But again, I felt like it was missing something.
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Now we go to the women's wrestling, the women's Royal Rumble.
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Not for those you already know.
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We in Saudi Arabia is in Saudi Arabia. You already have an idea for those who don't have.
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Saudi Arabia is predominantly a Muslim country, but there are parts that are, how can I say it to you?
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They just said that when it comes to women, they got to cover it.
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So these women, these beautiful athletes, these beautiful women are participating in the Royal Rumble.
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They kind of got to wear kind of like a suit.
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You know, the talk of the town is the Power Rangers suits. For those out there
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who are familiar with Power Rangers, you already know, it's just one suit that just cover everything.
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So you got to cover, you know, stuff from all the way to the neck.
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So, hey, listen, it is what it is in terms of that. You already know that WWE is a corporation.
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And if there's people in Saudi Arabia, which a lot of people also in parts of
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Saudi Arabia, they got the money.
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They, for some reason, they love to be entertained out there.
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Despite that being a muslim country they kind of have how can i say have enjoyed
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the world of entertainment especially in the western media or the western side
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here when it comes to mma mixed martial arts and wrestling so,
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Interesting that the Royal Rumble and the Women's Royal Rumble,
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Liv Morgan, she has won the female Royal Rumble.
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And you know what? That was an interesting pick because just to give you a little
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bit of insight or a little bit of what it is, the Royal Rumble and why it's important.
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For both the man and the woman Royal Rumble, basically the winner,
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the winner would be a person that would pick who they want to go against when
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it comes to the Women's Championship. and the men's championship,
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and then, you know, we got two brands.
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We got the SmackDown brand, and we got the Monday Night brand,
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and you got two different champions.
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You got a world champion and a universal champion, whatever it is.
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So Liv Morgan gets to pick now.
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There are two people right now at the moment who are the women's.
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You got the WWE Women's Champion, which is SmackDown, which is Jade Cargill.
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You know, I like Jade, but I think that for those resident fans out there,
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We kind of have said, you know what?
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I cannot say it to you. Jay has a look.
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Beautiful woman. She has a look. When it comes to wrestling and her mic skills, not so much.
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She's still young. You know, she's still young in the ring or whatever it is that we want to call it.
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Can she be the next big star again if
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she could kind of get over the hump and
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again she's surrounding my understanding she was she's great friends
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with CM Punk yeah CM Punk CM
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Punk so you know CM Punk is one of the masters in the might
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so if Jay Carlyle could get something going on
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there again her wrestling skills you know
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but again I like her so would be
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Liv Morgan pick Jayden and you know put in
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a good match let's see you got the woman's world champion stephanie vaquer latina
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from chile if i'm not mistaken you know what she's a self-explanatory beautiful
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woman great wrestler again where lib morgan is gonna go here and whatnot i i like to think.
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That this is that chance for jade if you
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put lib lib rate lib would work with you so but
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let's say jade wins again you want to
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uh i'm gonna say is this i think
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this is that time for the wwe and jade especially
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they're they're the way they feel and they see hey listen
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kiddo there's your chance to shine but this
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you only get one shot and for you to push jay
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she would have to have a tremendous match so
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lip morgan would be your ideal because you don't want
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to put nobody else and just get squash you definitely
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want jay and you want to build jada and listen
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even stephanie would care but in this case i speak
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about jay kong which again she's supposed to be
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or at least being pushed to be that inch star when it comes to the woman's champion
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a lot of people said hey look listen if she gets fame pretty sure she'll do
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the movies she has the looks i'm telling you that's a amazon woman i mean i
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cannot say about jay kong let's go but anyways let morgan wins,
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interesting match. I thought that Saul Ruka would have done something because
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sometimes in wrestling, in WrestleMania, and I'm going to be specifically WrestleMania,
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would be a two-night event once again in Vegas.
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They were supposed to be in New Orleans, but I guess the people in Vegas is
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like, yo, give me some money.
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The crowd was laughing in this Saudi Arabia thing. Now, I like to think,
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me, and I mentioned this on the.
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While we was watching the watch-along thing, I like to think.
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Because Saudi Arabia, my understanding that they don't sell liquor in these
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venues, that a lot of fans have that energy.
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They got the natural energy on, like, let's say, Vegas. I remember WrestleMania last year.
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You know, Vegas is a little bit different. So by the time that people got to
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Vegas, I think that people would turn off, or at least their energy level was
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not as much in day one or night one.
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Because you know a lot of them hey they enjoying that
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drink and when they show the celebrities in the stands or whatever it is they
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hold in like two or three beers you already know they're going crazy so that's
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my thing when it comes to why the sortie and why i believe not just money because
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money ain't money talks you already know what works but when it comes to things like that,
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wwe partnering with the sorties hey listen i give respect the fans are into
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it and i'm gonna go to I'm going to go on a limb because there's no liquor in the venue.
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We got, you know, some natural energy there. And then that's going to keep up.
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So shout out to that. I did observe that. But still, the venue,
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for some reason, whatever, something doesn't seem right there.
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But anyways, so, yes, Jake Cargill will be that person.
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And I think, hey, if Morgan's going to do her thing, let's see.
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Let's see. But, yes, she is the winner. The next match of the night would be
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or would have been done is Gunther the Janu, the ring Janu.
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I'm telling you, Gunther is something else.
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You see that sound like a gun to kind of uh intro
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right there let's go but that it was
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gunter yes gunter defeated aj styles
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and so bosley was aj style to end
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styles career aj style he could go in so many places tna is that place that
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now that tna has a little bit of money total non-stop action wrestling now that
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they got some maybe they could afford aj but if he really really needs the money
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if he really wants the money.
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AEW would be the other place he could go.
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You already know a lot of people when it comes to money.
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If you're going to slap me $100,000, $200,000 extra, and you know what,
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AEW, Tony Khan, with in mind, he got the monies.
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But let's see. I mean, it's all about the legacies. If AJ style,
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look, I think my understanding, and when Angel in the afternoon,
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when I was doing the watch along, did mention that AJ
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is a competitor and he does want to
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continue wrestling with people that he never wrestled with and
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you know what that's completely understandable I
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salute that make it happen AJ is one of my favorite wrestlers of all time been
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watching him for a long time since the day of TNA so we're talking about 25
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you know almost 25 years ago and Gunter the legend killer You know, he defeated,
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excuse me, defeated John Cena,
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defeated Bill Goldberg, now AJ Stout.
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So, you already know, I mean, so you got Gunter.
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Hey, listen, big boy, oh, he's going to wrestle, you know, Gunter is one of
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the best wrestlers out there.
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Technician, oh, I love Gunter.
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But he defeated AJ Stout again, AJ Stout. I salute you, do your thing.
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You make it happen. You make it happen, AJ Stout. I'm pretty sure he'll be in
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the WWE Hall of Fame one day.
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And let's see what happened. There was a little thing there where he basically...
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In a show-off kind of sign that you've given up wrestling, you put your either
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boots or you put your gloves, and there was a little sign where AJ said, you know what?
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He took his glove off, but he put them back, did the salute with the thing, the AJ.
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So, again, I'm pretty sure we will see AJ Styles somewhere down the line, somewhere, somewhere.
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So, the next fight, the next match was the undisputed champion,
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Drew McIntyre Who was wrestling Sammy Sane Listen I enjoy Sammy Sane It's some
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of the folks Once again Angel in the afternoon,
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Not a fan of the Sammy Sane But listen I get it Sammy Sane have How can I say to you,
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Well, whether he got the belt or not in his lifetime, perhaps he is kind of
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like a fan favorite in a sense.
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He has been involved in some dramatic kind of a storylines.
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And listen, I kind of enjoy Sami Zayn in a sense because he put in work. The kid put in work.
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He is Muslim. He is background is Arab.
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So he's kind of being, you know, being in the in the event.
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Yes, in the Royal Rome is kind of like in a sense coming back,
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quote unquote, home. But, hey, he had to wrestle the WWE champion,
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Drew McIntyre. That's a bad boy. That's a bad boy.
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Look, if you got 10 years, right, 10 years ago, was it?
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Probably a little bit more when Drew McIntyre came in, young, old snobby.
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You know, he got the look. He's from Scotland, so he got the accent.
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And, you know, my understanding is that that was Vince McMahon's favorite boy,
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and he had this little attitude,
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a little arrow, like, well, since I'm, you know, Vince McMahon whatever and
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one of his people that he wants to uh kind of put the wrestling around or built
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the WWE around you know stuff happened I believe he gets fired but then he works
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himself up came back and let me tell you something Drew McIntyre has mature Drew,
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is the type of wrestler whether he has
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the belt or not you have to put him somewhere where
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there's he's on belt contention i don't care what belt
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it is whether it's a wwe champion at this time defeating
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cordy roads intercontinental u.s champion
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women's champion whatever champion whatever the
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case you gotta put true because he's one of the few big man wrestlers who has
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the look he has the charisma he the dude whether in the mic you know he has
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gone it's like he zones in and he's tall like dude too with those Scott and
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Zach's phone that's true.
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A little bit different than, let's say, his counterpart would be.
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Well, not counterpart, but his other fellow wrestler, Gunther.
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You know, these are kind of tall big men. But, you know, Gunther and Drew, two different styles.
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They, one from Austria, which is Gunther. He got that look, like,
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looking like he coming on a Hugo Boss leather jacket. You know,
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I'm like, where's this guy?
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He teleported from the World War II, the Nazi Germany, or something to that
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effect. I'm just saying.
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You know, but they both got that look. But Drew, Drew is Drew.
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Once again, Drew defeated Sami 12-0.
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I was shivering for Sami Zayn because I'm thinking, okay, let's put the champion.
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Because once again, whoever wins the Royal Rumble will fight the Royal Rumble. Sami Zaynka wrestler.
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But again, me, Drew, I get it. And I respect that.
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Let's see. Let's see. But now, the big story, the big Royal Rumble, the big dog, the sheaf.
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Wait a minute. Wait a minute. When I'm talking about the sheaf,
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I can't put his theme song, but this is as close.
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Let's go. Roman Reigns is your number one winner of the Royal Rumble, the men's Royal Rumble.
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There was a couple of storylines here. And, you know, I forgot to kind of mention
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in the women's Royal Rumble, there was a little bit storyline with Charlotte.
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You already know Charlotte is going to be everywhere with her partner, tag team partner.
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So there was a little bit of Alexa Bliss name.
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So a little bit crazy things was going on over here, over here, over there.
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Moving parts again, because the Royal Rumble, it's what kicks off the WrestleMania.
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And we got WrestleMania a couple of months from now. i believe
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it's like early second week of april and you
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got roman reigns so now here's my thing who would roman reigns choose if and
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if and i'm gonna say if because once again the current undisputed wwe champion
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smackdown is drew mckinsey and the world heavyweight champion on raw is.
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Cn punk cn punk cn punk
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that's my dude cn punk let's go let's go
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i'll tell you so my thing
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is this again that that you know it could change because there's a couple of
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uh what they call paid live events ple's believe it eliminated chamber elimination
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chamber am i saying come on what's going on elimination chamber please get it
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together decon come on man so once again the big the Roman Reigns,
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the Travis Sheep. I'm not going to call him the big dog.
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That was his thing back then. Here's the Travis Sheep.
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Here's my Travis Sheep. Let's go.
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Who he's going to wrestle? Who he's going to pick? Now, it's interesting.
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We were talking. I mean...
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Both if he does the Drew McIntyre thing or the CM Punk.
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I'm going to lean that Roman Reigns CM Punk. I think we were talking about that
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it might be like a triple threat thing going on.
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One of these are going to go triple threat.
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It's interesting because I cannot say it to you. I'm just trying to kind of get a sense here.
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I love CM Punk for sure. it would
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be interesting if he is defending and finally meeting
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you know kind of being in the main event he's definitely
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over when it comes to the fans the crowd him
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and Roman it should be interesting it should be interesting you know
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so that's if CM Punk is still Baron
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that's still the champion Drew McIntyre Roman Reigns
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Drew McIntyre that'll be interesting definitely
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be interesting but my thing is this it's gonna be i feel that
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there's gonna be something moving then you
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got obafemi i mean i that dude i thought he was gonna win the royal rumble or
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at least one of uh the wrestlers that had a chance i mean he did his thing uh
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evans i mean salute to evans you already got you got the uh logan paul doing
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his thing show look and then you know bond breaker bond breaker from the vision
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for some reason gets attacked,
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By a match personnel. You know, for the most part, people are saying,
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hey, that was Seth Rollins.
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You know, payback. As you already know, payback is up.
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Let's go. The figure might not be have been Seth Rollins.
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Maybe you don't want to put Seth Rollins in that situation physically.
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And so he recovers.
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So now will they play the storyline that it was Seth Rollins?
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Let's see what happens. But, again, there are moving parts that is just moving little by little.
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Braun Breaker, look, he has a bright future. He has a bright future.
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Again, it's just that there's a little bit of something. Where is WWE going with Braun?
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I mean, again, this dude, he has the look. He has the pedigree.
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You know, the mic skills, he's getting better. Let's say his pops,
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ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, the Steiner brothers, Scotty.
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You already know Scott, big pop. you know so
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he got the pedigree he got the generation thing he got that in the dna he got
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the look beautiful young brother there uh but obafemi i love obafemi another
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brother there doing his thing i take it back you know when i say brother you
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know you know you already know what i mean i think you know sorry brown breaker
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it's not a problem but you already know,
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he's kind of you know it's caucasian i'm just saying but obafemi
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definitely a brother you already know shout out
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to him uh so you know there's there's moving parts
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here uh once again to the roman reigns
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winning um it's one of those things that i'm like ah okay because hey the big
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dog he's back now again the storyline with cm punk and the travis sheave here
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who poor paulie you already know paul hayman the wise man ladies and gentlemen Amen.
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It's not, well, we always say it's not a spoiler, but it's, no,
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no, no. It's not a prediction, but it's a spoiler. Whatever the case is.
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You know, Paulie is going to be in there too. So are we going to play once again
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that storyline of who he decides to be with?
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So let's see what happens. You already know. Javon Evans, shout out.
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The Grande Americano with the original Grande Americano. You already know the storyline there.
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Yeah, people are going to be like, Grande Americano, what does that mean?
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So these are wrestlers who are American,
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white American, who are playing the role of these Mexican luchadores,
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but still kind of say, hey, I'm American, I'm Americano.
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So there's going to be that storyline because they did switch the characters. One was smaller.
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He got injured. I'm not going to mention his name because, hey,
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listen, when I watch wrestling, I watch wrestling for what it is.
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Yes i love the backstage stories i love sometimes
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to know who's who or whatever they did sadly
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the wwe because of the wwe in
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a sense not network but whatever it is that they do they
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gotta you know they're gonna do these shows where you can see what's happening
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backstage with the show on real so i like
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to kind of like i don't know la night
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look i love la night again there's a person that's over at late night yeah so
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once again the the the moving parts here we are going to get a few months in
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a couple of months to build the card what's gonna happen who's gonna who who's who whatever it is.
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We'll see what happens. Look, listen, once again, for the most part,
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I kind of say I kind of enjoy that.
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I'll give it one out of ten. I'll probably give it like a six and a half stars
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or a six and a half rating on this Royal Rumble.
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Again, I feel like something was missing, that special moment.
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Even when it comes to the men's side of things, when it comes to the Royal Rumble,
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there was no crazy entrance.
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And you'd be like, oh, my God, is he back or he's here or whatever the case.
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I know some people might have mentioned some former wrestlers from AEW.
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You know, we already did the TNA thing with Joe Henry, so that was scratched
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off. So let's see what happens.
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Hopefully you did enjoy the Royal Rumble. Looking forward for the WrestleMania.
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