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Okada Is A Free Agent, RAW is Netflix and Royal Rumble Preview | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #728 – 1/25/24 · THE STILL REAL TO US SHOW – Real Guy Radio

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It's still libited. Welcome everybody. Welcome to this week's edition. In this
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Still Real Dost Show Episumber seven and twenty eight one for January twenty fifth,
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twenty twenty four. Welcome to your WWE Royal Rumble pre and Prediction edition of
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apps R to you. I am one affter the show. I am chaff
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pet Peck joined every single week my cost only Doctor Trey Franklin Dtor Trey.
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Welcome to the Road to Wrestle Madia forty my friend. Yeah, no detours,
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all gas, no break traving them from the other analogies. Uh,
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make sure you say the lead the passing lateness to the left, it's lowered
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traffic to the right. Make sure you merge properly. Zipper effect for merging.
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By the way, I'm already got car analogies here, Jeff. If
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there's a white line around your stop sign, it's stoptional. Ah, right,
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know that one. Know. I thought, at least live in California,
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briefly, I thought all stop signs were optional. Uh that is,
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Yeah, that is that's law. That's law. If there's a white line
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around the stop sign, yeah, it's stopped. I've literally had Please tell
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me that people have told me they did at California. Stop. Yeah,
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yeah, it's just rolling on through, keep rolling, rolling, rolling.
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As Fred Durris once said, Welcome to this week's edition of SRTU. The
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Road to Wrestling. He forty has begun. Before we get into wrestling,
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let's get into what we talked about the beginning of the last week's show.
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Congratulations to the one and only Doctor Trey and his San Francisco forty nine ers
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now five and oher in the playoffs and the history of the story of the
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show against my team, the Green Bay Packers, Doctor Trey, I did
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not know that the Niners Packers in the playoffs was the most common game in
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the playoffs. I didn't know that. I was thinking Niners Cowboys or Steelers
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Raiders, but I didn't know that that was the tenth meeting or level.
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I think it was the tenth yeah, because I think it was Niners relieving
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five fours and now at six four. Yeah. So I mean, once
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again, you guys own the farv Era. So that is true. We
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just get a little bit of payback here. But that I think I text
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you like again in the game, like you had me so nervous last week.
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It's always it's the same thing I do with work or everything else.
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I undersell it because it's like, oh, if they win, it's fantastic,
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but if they lose, I ready lowered my expectations and I was like,
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damn it, Jeff's using the reverse psychology on me. So now I'm
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all stressed out and nervous. I'm also very superstitious, so I typically don't
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watch nighter games until they get comfortably ahead. And wow. Of course,
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yeah, so first quarter and I I so you only watched the last minute
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in seven seconds. Yes, so I think I told you a few weeks
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ago. I have never ordered a jersey from any forty nine or quarterback ever,
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because you're talking about your Jordan Love jersey and everything else. My dad
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made me order. My dad got me a rock party jersey for Christmas.
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Wow, And so I got one in and I had also I had ordered
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the wrong size, so Sammy Franklin has one in as well. And I
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wore my party jersey earlier in the week. And then I kept the game
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picks off and your Packers jump out in front, and I'm like, no,
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Jackson, the team shut the game off. So I followed it on
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CBS Sports game cast and didn't turn it on until McCaffrey score is touchdown at
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the end of the game. Wow wow wow wow. I mean I could
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not do that, but more power to you. Oh it was killing me.
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It was killing me. But yeah, well, I mean you walked
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away with a victory. I mean what was killing me was the fact that,
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like, green Bay had San Francisco on the ropes at least two to
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three times and did not execute. So green Bay season is over. Doctor,
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train your San Francisco forty nine ers. They'll they'll battle it out this
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Sunday Sunday night against the Detroit Lions, which would be a really fun game
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on Sunday night. Yeah, and I was, And it's funny. We
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were so my steps on Saturday or Sunday, we had Sammy Franklin's actual birthday
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party and the Packer or the Buccaneer Lions game was on, and I looked
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at Peyton, I'm like, I'm like, I don't know who to root
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for because I like both those teams. I like the Lions are scrappy and
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I like seeing the team that's always struggled kind of be well. But the
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Bucks have Baker Mayfield. It As an Oklahoma kid, I root for Bakers.
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I didn't know who to kind of pull for in that game. But
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it's weird, like I don't have any like Barry Sanders is one of my
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favorite players of all time, so I'm like, I I don't have any
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animosity towards either of these teams. So I'm like, all right, well,
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the Lion's the one. I feel better for Detroit because I mean,
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dear god, they hadn't won the championships. There's what fifty one or fifty
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six something like that, So if they were playing to anybody else, I'd
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be pulling for the Lions. But I got to pull for my Niners and
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just put again. Oh of course, of course. I mean it's gotta
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be a fun one. Yeah. I really don't root against anyone anymore,
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like after my team's eliminated, unless it's like a rival team like the Chicago
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Bears, maybe the Minnesota Vikings, but even Detroit being in the same division.
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I don't dislike Detroit at all. So I don't dislike the Niners even
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though they eliminated my Packers. Again, don't like the don't dislike the Detroit
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Lions. Don't dislike the Chiefs or the Ravens, so I guess I'm gonna
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have a very easy Sunday coming off of Saturday Nights royal rumble. But tip
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of the cap again here to Doctor Trey and his San Francisco forty nine ers
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forgetting victory once again here in the history of SRTU over my Green Bay Packers.
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But the future is bright for my Green Bay Packers. I'm excited and
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hopefully they can capitalize on it next season, which is three hundred and sixty
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five days plus from now, which really sucks to say outs out loud,
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but that's that's how it goes. I tell everybody. I was telling some
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people on Sunday morning. They were like, how you doing? Some folks
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that I saw and there was like, listen, I have come to the
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grips. Come to grips that I am a sports fan and I watch something
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that there is like a ninety percent chance every year that I'm going to be
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upset, frustrated, pissed off and like what am I doing by the end
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of the season. And that happens every year unless my team wins the championship,
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and it's like the most sick thing that I think a human can do
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to themselves is be a diehard sports fan, because it's it's like either the
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chance of happiness is like, so, yeah, this is what we do.
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I guess this is why I watch profession and wrestling Doctor Trey. Yeah,
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I was about his earlier. I was like, you know, on
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the AFC side, you have the Chiefs and the Ravens. Those are the
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two teams that have beat the Niners in the Super Bowl the last two trips,
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and both of those games basically came down think the last couple of minutes
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in the fourth quarter. So I'm like, I'm still I'm already stressing out.
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If we get past Detroit, then I don't want to repeat at that.
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But you say that, and then wrestling fans are just as bad as
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sports fans because they will complain and bitch and moan about my guy's not getting
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a push, my guy's not winning the Rumble. Once again, if you're
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a fan of somebody in the Rumble coming up, there's thirty guys in there,
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only one person's getting the spot. So unless you're a fan of that
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guy, you're probably gonna watch end up watching the Rumble and be going yeah
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that it was okay, but I'm just really bummed down now, Doctor Trin.
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I will make our first pl pay per view predictions towards the end of
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the show for the Royal Rumble, And let me just tell you right now,
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I'm looking at my computer screen and I have down for my notes for
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the Men's Royal Rumbo Match. I have three people that I've still not that
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I this is fantastic and this will be a theme on the show. I
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have no idea who's going to win the Men's mom Royal Rumbo Match, and
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it is literally going to be a game time decision. So more on that
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in a bit. The big news that took place towards the end of last
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week was, I believe Thursday night, it was announced by New Japan Pro
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Wrestling that one Kazitchka Okada will be leaving New Japan Pro Wrestling once his contract
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wraps up on January thirty first. He will have some dates in February working
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for New Japan, but he is going to be leaving New Japan Pro Wrestling
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and awnwe will be looking for his services. This comes to us from Wrestling
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Inc. Quote. In the wake of this announcement, New Japan Pro Wrestling
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has also provided Okada's official statement about his upcoming exit from New Japan Pro Wrestling,
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I saying I have nothing but gratitude for having been part of New Japan
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Paro Wrestling since two thousand and seven, for New Japan bringing me from a
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nineteen year old kid off the plane in Mexico to the rain Maker I am
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today. Okada said thank you to the best of companies in New Japan par
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Wrestling, to the best of opponents that I've been able to face here,
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and to the best fans that have cheered and booed over the years. I
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promise to make it rain every match I have left, so keep watching.
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Despite his impending entrying to the free agency market, Okada is still scheduled to
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be president at a trio of New Japan par Wrestling shows next month in February.
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After he completes his appearance at the New Beginning event in Osaka on February
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eleventh, the rain Maker will head to Saparro as the New Beginning series continues
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on February twenty third and twenty fourth. I believe at the February eleventh show
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he will be taken on Hiroshi Tanahashi. No word yet if he is wrestling
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on the shows on February twenty third and twenty fourth, and it is very
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well possible by then that he could be signed to one company. So it
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appears Okada is either aw or we bound will continue to peel this onion a
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bit, Doctor Trey. But on the initial port of Okada hitting free agency
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and leaving New Japan World Wrestling, I know I was shocked. It's something
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that we did discuss late last year, but nonetheless something that you just didn't
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really think was gonna happen until it actually happened. And now it's happening because
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it's Gookada will be a free agent and he will be coming to the United
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States. Doctor Trey, Yeah, I don't know if I was shocked by
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it, but it was a little surprising, to say the least. Like
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it's kind of one of those things where you kind of look at it and
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you go, well, you know, like comparing it to baseball, you
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get those you know, the Japanese players that accomplish everything in Japanese baseball and
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they want to test their merits against the best in America. And for somebody
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like Okada who's had a taste of Aw. He's got, you know,
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friends in WWE, there comes that time where you're like, Okay, I've
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accomplished everything in Japan. I want you what would I do in the in
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the in the States, And so yeah, I guess he's taken his shot.
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So much like each Row back in the day, or Dice Kay or
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any deserved Japanese players have come over, He's gonna take a shot and see
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what he can do. And I'm really looking forward to seeing how the American
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audience responds to him, how he responds to American people, and how the
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rain Maker character translates over because I fully expect no matter where he goes,
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he's going to be the rain Maker. Because there's so where does AW and
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we stand there's a lot to peel back here from this past week. This
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comes to us from Wrestling Observer newsletter saying it was believed that AW has made
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the strongest first offer to Kazisco Okada, but no contract has been signed at
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press time. W W was of the belief that they have a strong shot
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at getting him, with the idea that they convinced him he had done all
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he could in Japan and because the economic differences in wrestling, the American scene
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is far more lucrative. More on this from I will Select earlier this month,
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AW had been very hopeful that they'd land because it's Gokata and ideas had
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been tossed around, but it's far too early to determine where he'll actually land.
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WW sources has spoken to, had not yet heard of any talks involved
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in two sides, but expected that at least to be explored. WW weren't
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sure if he would want to make the move over. And then finally again
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from Dave Meltzer over at wrestlum Server Radio, saying quote, I've heard from
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people and talk to people who know him very well, who have talked to
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him in the last day or two, and he has not decided. It's
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not like a secret, he just hasn't decided yet. I know people in
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AW who think they've got him. I know people in AW who hope that
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they've got them, but don't think that they've got them. I know people
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in w who hope that they're going to get them and who believe that he
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wants a legacy, and it's kind of like that they're like, well,
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maybe we can pay him less but you could have your wrestle Ina moment and
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again what his goal is in life. You know for some people that means
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more. And either way, he's going to make great money. That comes
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to from Dave Meltzer. Some reports out there this week that have been refuted
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that he had signed with w He's gonna be going in NXT to start.
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There was I believe it was a Japanese outlet sources in w who said that
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that was a surprise to them. It seemed to me that when this story
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first broke, Doctor Trey that it was like a slam dunk that AW was
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going to sign him. It's eerly reminiscent to the Will Osprey stuff where WW
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did come into the discussion as a possibility. I would say the percentage chance
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of Okata going to WWE is higher than Osprey. I mean full disclosure here.
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I would prefer to see Okada in WE because I think it would be
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something new and different, something we haven't seen. We have seen Ocada in
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AW. We have seen New japan Stars crossover to AW, and it's not
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much of a crossover. I think Okada in WWE would be very intriguing and
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interesting. But my expectation is that he still ends up in AW. Doctor
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Trey. Yeah. I mean, if we are doing percentages, I'm probably
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sixty five thirty five that he ends up in AW. I. I just
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I don't want to see him go there. I And you know, our
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fans might call me the ww homer or whatever, but the AW roster is
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so loaded, and you know, you and I have talked about this off
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air many times. They really have not elevated anybody who came into their company
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from outside AW. Like you can say they've elevated MJF and Darby a little
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bit, but really nobody has come in from WWE's in a better position now
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than they were when they came in. And so for somebody like Okata who
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may struggle a little bit getting over with an American audience, to me,
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ww' is a better fit because I think his character is more entertainment style than
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in RING and I'm not knocking his entering ability by far. I just think
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he's the most Him and Tan of Hashi, we're probably the most flamboyant characters
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in New Japan, and I think their styles lend better to the WWE style
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than say, you know, even you know the Aboushis and the Kansas and
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everybody else has come over in the past. Yeah. Again, to me,
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it's just a matter of seeing something different. I truly don't think Okada
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coming to AW is anything different. It's a new Japan in the United States,
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which isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's a comforting blanket for him.
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He has wrestled in AW multiple times. There was the report out there that
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he came over in October. I think he worked like a dynamite. It
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was actually the one where Brian Danielson hurt his eye taking the rain Maker.
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It was during that match. I think maybe Ocat attacked with Orange Cassidy.
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He wanted to see what it was like working for AW. So obviously they
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have the edge in all this, and that is where I expect him to
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land. But it is the intriguing opportunity of Okada in we that entices me
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as a wrestling fan. It's like I would I would love to see this
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happen because I don't know what it would be like. It would be bigger
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than when Knackamra came over in twenty sixteen. It would be bigger than when
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aj Styles came over in twenty sixteen. It would be ww's biggots, non
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former WE talent free agent signing since aj Styles and Knockamore from eight years ago.
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In my opinion, I mean, this would be a massive get and
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it's one that I would love to see in the WW ring. I would
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love to see perform under the WA banner, perform at WrestleMania, and I
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would want to see how successful he is because he could kind of change the
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perception of how Japanese wrestlers are booked, especially under the Triple H era,
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and how they're presented on WE television going forward, and it would be really,
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really different and intriguing, and that's why I want to see it.
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I wouldn't be upset off Okada signs with AW. I just would prefer to
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see him sign with WW, because again, it would be something different.
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I did predict at the first show of the year Knockamore versus Okada at WrestleMania
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forty this year that obviously he still has a true possibility of happening. This
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is this is big Doctor Trey. I felt that the will Ospray free agency
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from late twenty twenty three was the biggest name on the market and a big
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game changer. I'm starting to feel like Okada because I never thought he would
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become a free agent, would be a bigger get than Ospray for whoever sciences
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services. Yeah, I agree. I think I think Okada has more name
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value in you know, the Asian community than maybe than will Osprey did.
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I also think Ocata is just a better entertainer than Ospray. Osprey might be
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a better entering performer, but for what WW likes to do and for how
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they present their talents. And you know, there were rumors years ago about
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an XT Japan and an XT UK and we've seen how global they're trying to
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go. It just makes more sense in the long term. If you want
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to really hit that marketplace hard, you need somebody to go up against a
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knock a Ray. You know. I don't want to use gender Mahal as
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an example, but that was their big push when they were trying to get
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an idiomore was the Gender Mahal great colleiges of And we've seen them do this
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every time they go to a market where they wait. In the UK,
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they went out and signed the biggest restaur in the in the European market,
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which was goodther So this is kind of their mo by doing this, And
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I just think that out of everybody they could get for to really integrate into
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that area even more, it would be Okada. I don't know about you,
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but I did. I saw that reported by him going to NXC that
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I can't see them standing Ocatta to the NXC either. I was thinking of
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the AJ Styles tree bit like if you're gonna pap um up pop up up
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on a big stage right away. So, uh, he's got way more
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name value than just even shins K. He has more name value right now
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than what k had in twenty s so it makes a lot of sense.
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Yeah, if he's coming to the United States, he's performed and signing with
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w W, he's performing at Wrestlemaning and Wrestleman. He's forty this year,
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and it's like either kaz Ocado's taken on either AJ Styles or shinsk in that
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spot. So that's where I feel like it's I just can't see them bringing
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them in and he's like, Okay, you're gonna go to performance stand in
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the liver, you know what I mean? Like that would be a waste.
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So I I guess prediction wise, we both think he goes AW,
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but hope he goes WA. Is that fair right now? Yeah? I
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mean he's got I mean, I know him and shins K are good friends,
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Him and Oscar are friendly eo. But really, I mean he's competed
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against a lot of the guys in aew and then he knows a lot of
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them from their time in New Japan. But you know, he also knows
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aj and Finn, you know, and you know and Cody from their time
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in New Japan as well. So I still tend to lean if you're going
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to move to the States, you want to go so where we're you're familiar,
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at least in with AW, he has that familiarity. But it just
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kind of depends on what his ultimate goals are and if it's you'll perform on
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the biggest stage, which we saw how much the biggest stage can you know
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make you know, with TV rights EWD still the biggest stage you go jump
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on, speaking of which is going to become a very expensive to become a
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wrestling fan come January twenty twenty five, as we continue to monitor the because
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it's go Kada story here, I'm sure in the coming weeks, his free
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agency, but this story Doctor Trey was massive. It broke on Tuesday morning
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on social media. As w RAW will be streaming on Netflix starting in January
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twenty twenty five. This report comes to us from ESPN dot Com. Ww's
20:45
flag chap flagship weekly program Raw will stream live Monday nights on Netflix beginning in
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January twenty twenty five. The deal announced Tuesday is worth more than five billion
20:57
with a B over ten years. Raw originated on USA Network in nineteen ninety
21:02
three before shifting a TNN the Nashville Network in two thousand. Roberts turned to
21:07
USA in two thousand and five and had been has been a three hour program
21:10
since twenty twelve, which is mind boggling SmackDown, which is broadcast on Fox
21:14
on Friday nights, will shift to USA in October part of a five year
21:17
deal worth approximately one point four billion with a B. As part of wwa's
21:22
deal with Netflix. These streamer plans that developed scripted television films from the wrestling
21:26
promotions intellectual property. In its relatively short history, Netflix as engineer phenomenal track
21:32
record for storytelling, said w president Nick Cohn. We believe Netflix is one
21:36
of the world's leading Entertainment Brands is the ideal long term home for Raw's live,
21:40
loyal, and ever growing fan base. Wwa's monthly premium live events are
21:44
currently streamed on Peacock, part of NBC Universal, USA Network's parent company.
21:48
W and UFC are part of TKO Group Holding's, Inc. A publicly traded
21:52
company. They also recently added Dwayne the Rock Johnson to the board of directors
21:57
this past week. But Doctor tre Hey WWE Raw will be on Netflix starting
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January twenty twenty five. I don't know about you, but that is one
22:06
of the streaming services I don't have an annual subscription or a subscription in general
22:11
with, so I guess I'll be adding another fifteen eighteen twenty bucks to my
22:15
bill. Your thoughts here on this monumental shift for WE programming. I think
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it's a good move long term for the company, because as we all get
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older, we all like I don't like I know, I cut my cable
22:30
satellite ties about two years ago now, So I mean I haven't been able
22:34
to watch Raw live in quite a while because I don't have the USA Network
22:40
anymore. But I do have Netflix and Peacock and Hulu and everything else that
22:44
wt' has been a part of since then, so, but people are going
22:48
more to streaming services for their content. So for something like WWE, it
22:55
makes a lot of sense because there is a large group of people that already
22:57
have Netflix. For Netflix, it's fantastic because it's so much more programming they
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can do. So I think it's a good move for both companies. And
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I also love the fact for professional wrestling is when people tell me that wrestling's
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down, I'm like, well, WW got one point five billion for four
23:17
years, and they just basically doubled that revenue to get to you know,
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basically two billion a year, well a little lesson double bit two billion a
23:25
year for the next ten years or no, sorry it was it, No,
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half a billion, half a billion for for Fox. You're saying this
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EA be SmackDown. They got what one billion for four years on Fox?
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H No, that's USA Networks. So SmackDown got one point four billion for
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five years. Yes, so that's three hundred million a year right roughly,
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and now they're gonna be at five billion for ten years. So they go
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they're gonna get half a million dollar or half a billion a year, So
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they almost doubled their revenue their TV deal for for just off what they got
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off Smacktown. So I just long term wise, it shows that people are
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willing to invest in your product for content if it's a good product and it
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has a long track record. So it always amazes me when I hear about
24:12
other wrestling companies having a hard time finding a home, and I'm like,
24:15
yeah, because w's you know, kind of monopolize everything in a sense because
24:19
everybody's competing for their product, And do you really want to be playing B,
24:25
plan C, play and D for somebody else, Like, oh,
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we missed out on WWE, Well they got a half, they got a
24:30
half a billion a year. Yeah, we'll give you a few fifty you
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know, we'll give you thirty million a year. So it's a huge difference
24:37
in those those numbers. But if somebody's gonna give you a half a billion
24:41
a year for just one show, and then that's not even the library yet,
24:45
that's just one show in the PLS, that just shows you how much
24:49
PL's outside of the US. In the US, it'll still be on Peacock
24:55
until twenty twenty six. Oh yeah, and so they still have to bid
24:57
on the pl They still have to give W four for plees and the library
25:02
content. Then at that point as well, Yeah, if they want to
25:03
make a full shift over to Netflix, which I know as a consumer of
25:07
WWE, I would appreciate more. Now, did you say you have a
25:11
Netflix subscription, Doctor Trey? Yeah, I do. Okay, so I
25:15
don't I have Peacock. I play pay the annual fee, which is like
25:18
one hundred and twenty bucks or something right now, which is a steal at
25:22
the end of the day. Actually, as we record this, my wife
25:25
is watching some sort of Peacock streaming show with Paris Hilton on it in our
25:30
living room, so she yes, that's right, that's hot. I mean,
25:33
anybody that is listening to the show for after two thousand and five is
25:37
like, why are they saying that? Why are two grown men saying that
25:41
right now? But I guess just google why Paras Hilton says that. But
25:47
yeah, I mean this is already on top of so like for my own
25:52
personal bills, So I have the Peacock. I'll have that for another annual
25:56
fee that I'll do, which I'm sure will go up. I pay my
26:00
monthly streaming so I could watch television shows and DV out so I could watch
26:06
SmackDown in October and my Yankee Games or what have you, so I could
26:11
watch regular television. And then I'm gonna have Netflix and Disney Plus and Paramount
26:15
Plus and all this other stuff. Before I know it, all the reasons
26:19
why we went to streaming to cost cut is now completely out of the door.
26:25
And yeah, I mean I was looking at Netflix subscriptions to be like,
26:27
well, should I buy it now? Should I get an annual subscription?
26:32
And they don't offer that, which I didn't realize. And if I
26:34
want the really good stuff, it's twenty two bucks. If I want like
26:37
the ten eightp no ads, it's fifteen bucks a month. Yeah, I'm
26:42
at the twenty two level with Netflix. And a lot of it was I
26:47
was wanting to get rid of Netflix for a while. But there's a few
26:49
shows that the kids watch on there, like Samy it'ss Everything. He comes
26:53
home, walks into my bedroom and turned on Netflix, and he watches a
26:56
lot of the kids shows on Netflix. They've been my Sun loves a few
27:00
of the shows on there. Then the wife was all about Discovery and Paramount
27:03
and me, I'm like, I really don't care, Like I'm happy to
27:07
watch the Roku channel that I pay a Roka job, pay nine bucks a
27:10
month for that, but it gives me my you know, local channels plus
27:15
all their other stuff they have, so you watch the Impact Wrestling or now
27:18
TNA Wrestling channel. I every time I go to put it on, Sammy
27:22
yells at me because that means I'm turning off Flippy. Okay, fair enough,
27:26
and we who we know who? Where's the pants are in that house?
27:30
Some more news on this deal from Brandon Thurston, who tweeted the following
27:33
on x He wrote, Netflix has the option to cancel the ten year deal
27:37
with w WI after just five years, and has the option to extend the
27:42
deal for an additional ten years, according to a filing from TKO, meaning
27:48
the w Netflix term could end up being five years, ten years, or
27:52
twenty years, whichever Netflix chooses. The company discloses the value of the deal
27:59
over ten years would be in excess of five billion as reported, so this
28:03
could very well be the home for WWE RAW for a very long time.
28:10
Doctor try. I mean ten years is a long time. If it gets
28:12
extended in additional ten years, meaning twenty years, it'll be twenty twenty,
28:18
forty four and will be knocking on the door of wrestling. He is sixty
28:21
and this will still be a weekly wrestling podcast where Doctor Try and I are
28:26
talking about our hip replacement that we just received as we get older and older.
28:30
But this is a very big deal, Doctor Trying. I think the
28:33
days of Raw being on your regular television programming is ceasing at this point.
28:41
Yeah, and so a couple other things I thought about with this is you're
28:44
not going to see ratings reports for Raw anymore. True, So when people
28:48
tell you that the ratings are down, you can't you can't tell that,
28:52
So you have you have to look at streaming numbers, which is something that
28:56
ww's been talking about for years anyway, to offset those ratings numbers. The
29:03
other thing I thought about with this is both these companies had to have long
29:07
term game plans because if I'm WWE and I'm going to a streaming service,
29:11
We've already seen HBO Max get shuffled and redone and bought out and rebranded and
29:17
all that stuff. Disney Plus after their Dinitial launch has lost a lot of
29:22
viewers. So Netflix had to have a really good game plan in mind for
29:26
long term success. For w to sign that potential option deal. On the
29:30
back end, at the same time, they had to show aw how they
29:34
planned to grow because otherwise that deal is getting cut shortened five years. So
29:38
that means both companies had really good strategic, long term plans for this to
29:44
be successful and well thought out for them to come to this kind of agreement
29:48
with those option years available. The same you and I look at sports and
29:51
we get guys that get player options and club options and mutual options and things
29:56
like that, and it's like, Okay, you have to have a good
29:57
game plan in mind in order for those options you'll be exercised with they're mutually
30:02
beneficial. And then finally, the last thing in regards to the story,
30:06
WWE's current deal with NBCU has Raw airing on USA until October twenty twenty four.
30:11
According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, exactly where Raw will
30:15
air between the end of that deal and the beginning of the Netflix deal is
30:18
still being determined. This according to Variety doctor Trey, that would be funny
30:23
if Raw has nowhere to go for a couple months and then they just kind
30:26
of reboot during the Netflix era. I would imagine, I mean, they're
30:30
going to have a deal in place with SmackDown already airing on USA Network again,
30:37
I would be shocked that if Raw has nowhere to go after October twenty
30:41
twenty four, that it doesn't stay on the USA network for another two months,
30:45
eight weeks? What have you? Yeah, and then not to mention,
30:48
like like I said earlier, they have deals with Hulu, they have
30:51
deals with YouTube, so they have outlets to put their show on for just
30:56
those two months. And then you know, if you're NBC Universal and Raw
31:02
or WWE is a big part of your Peacock deal as well, you don't
31:07
want to burn that bridge and'd be like, all right, guys, October's
31:08
here, get the hell out. No, no, no, we still
31:11
got another part of your brand here. We still got your pls. Airy
31:15
got our network for another couple of months after that deal. So you're going
31:19
to work something out that once again as Buccy beneficial for both companies. Switching
31:23
gears here, the face of Monday Night Raw right now is the World heavyweight
31:27
Champion Seth Freaking Rollins. He was injured in his match with Ginger Mahaal on
31:33
last week's edition of Monday Night Raw, and we had all speculated what was
31:40
going to be going on with him, what was the injury, how would
31:42
he miss wrestle Mania. There's a lot of costs of concern. Rollins came
31:48
out on Raw announced that an MRI show that he suffered a Grade two MCL
31:52
tear and a partially torn medial meniscus in his left knee. In the same
31:57
promo exchange Doctor tru with gunther Who, which was a surprise and is all
32:05
of a sudden climbing the charts of someone who may be winning the Rumble this
32:07
Saturday, he said that he is not going to be coming off of television
32:13
and will not be dropping the championship and will be performing at WrestleMania forty in
32:17
all intents and purposes. And there's more clarity this story here that I'll cover
32:21
in just a second. But it definitely seems like we as wrestling fans,
32:24
dodged a major bullet by not losing Seth Freaking Rollins. We did, and
32:30
of course Seth Freakings Rollins did, which is good news all around, because
32:32
we definitely want one of the best wrestlers on the planet performing at the biggest
32:37
show of the year. Yeah, and you know, I had flashbacks to
32:42
I can't remember what year was, but when he tore his ACL that match
32:45
with Kaine and hadn't missed Wrestlmania. It was November of god like twenty fifteen,
32:51
twenty sixteen. He was the champion and he had to drop the championship
32:53
and it screwed up the whole entire Survivor series, which was right around the
32:58
corner. Yep. So I had flashbacks to that. But so I have
33:02
a partial tear of my meniscus. I've had it since two thousand and four,
33:07
so it's it's one of the things like the partial tear in your meniscus
33:12
is usually they will tell you that it's actually stronger with the partial tear than
33:16
it would be for them to actually go in and repair it, which is
33:21
crazy, but that's actual science. The MCL tear. Thank god it was
33:25
the MCL, because the MCL is the one that runs over the middle of
33:29
your knee. If it was an ACL or a PCL, like you and
33:31
I with again, sports fans, ACL tears, you're out for a year.
33:36
Again. Pcls are usually about nine months. Well, look at what
33:38
happened with Charlotte Flair. Oh yeah, I mean she's out. She's out
33:45
a year. Yeah, Dakota Kai is dealing with that. I mean,
33:47
ww's had a Yeah, we just lost coor Jade. The women seem to
33:55
have the ACL tears right now more than the men do so, which yeah,
33:58
I've seen as a problem. Yeah, So I'm just I'm thankful for
34:01
Seth. That's the MCL one. I Am gonna be interesting how he performs
34:07
when it's time. Does you perform with the MCL's here, because it does
34:12
kind of loosen your knee up, but the stability in your knee is based
34:15
on your pcls and your acos. Your MCL just kind of hold your knee
34:17
gap in place, which is still kind of important. But this is the
34:22
first time like the doctor portion of your name is coming out. Doctor Treuit.
34:25
That's unbelievable. It's not just a clever gimmick. I actually know some
34:30
shit. Unbelievable. He did say at a holiday and last night, Doctor
34:35
Trey. This reminds me. You bring up a great point when he got
34:37
injured in November heading into that year's WrestleMania. I remember the one where he
34:43
got hurt like four or five weeks before Wrestlmingia leading into the WrestleMania thirty three
34:47
match with Triple H. Remember, like Samoa Joe came out from the side
34:51
and he injured his knee and everyone's like, how's he gonna wrestle? And
34:54
then he wrestled Triple H and like his knee was clearly heavily protected, and
34:59
he did he gutted it out and it was he did the best he could.
35:01
And but you know, obviously kind of hurt that entire build in that
35:06
match in general. I mean, this guy has definitely had some tough,
35:08
tough moments heading around to WrestleMania season. But it seems like, according to
35:15
reports here because he was on a podcast with Daniel Cormier and ESPN has has
35:22
this quote from him, it doesn't seem like it may be as bad as
35:27
it was said on television this past Monday, As Seth Roland said the following
35:30
on ESPN, dodged a bullet. The ACL is intact. So anybody who
35:36
knows anything about ligaments and the knee, the ACL is the big one.
35:39
That one is good. The MCL will heal with time. We'll get it
35:43
in there to do some stuff, check out the PRP and do some rehab.
35:46
I'm hoping to be back at full strengthen around a month. Around a
35:50
month is kind of is like kind of my timeline, and we'll see what
35:52
happens. We're going to take it day to day. I'd like to be
35:54
back in a month. I don't want to walk into WrestleMania that be my
35:58
first match in two to three months, whatever it is, that's not gonna
36:01
be good for me. So it seems like there's a lot more confidence that
36:07
he will be performing at WrestleMania. He did keep it a little bit of
36:10
a gray area where it is day to day and they do want to see
36:14
how he adjusts and obviously heals, but he seems confident in his ability to
36:19
perform Doctor Troy at WrestleMania forty. Yeah, and I'm glad you said that
36:24
because I actually did not read that report. So it makes my doctor's skills
36:29
look even better. But if he can perform and be safe, like great,
36:36
you want set at WrestleMania, whether it's you know, him winning a
36:39
match, him losing the match, whatever. But you know, this guy
36:43
is a workhorse. This guy wrestles all the freaking time. And you know
36:46
he talked about during that rival is shinsk the legitimate injury that he has in
36:50
his back. Now he's got the kN issues. If anybody deserves some time
36:53
off after WrestleMania, it's going to be Seth. And you know, we
36:58
talk about the show sometimes taking time off to heal and recover is actually good
37:02
for the character because now you're not shoved down our throats for a while.
37:06
You make that absence makes the hard grow fonder approach. So I kind of
37:09
expect Seth after WrestleMania to take some time off to kind of heal and recover
37:14
and you know, go home, just be dead. Be dead for a
37:16
while. So there you go. Yeah, I mean, I guess he's
37:19
legitimately walking around with a broken back like that was not a storyline with Chins
37:25
Kay knockemore that he has been fighting hurt for some time, an injury that
37:30
he suffered when he first I think, either before or after won the World
37:34
Heavyweight Championship. Seth, for Rollins, has always been a workhorse and has
37:38
worked his tail off to give the fans his best. And you know,
37:44
you just commend his toughness and his ability to put his performances and wanting to
37:50
do what's right for the fans above his own health. So I hope everything
37:53
works out for him, and I hope that in a month's time he has
37:57
wrestled maybe a couple of matches on Monday Night Raw. We're looking full steam
38:00
ahead to Wrestlemaning forty and are confident and are in the clear that he will
38:05
be okay to perform at the biggest show of the year. With that said,
38:09
we have the first kickoff to the biggest show of the Wrestlemaning forty,
38:14
Doctor Trey, The Road to Wrestlemanning forty takes place. It starts this Saturday
38:21
with the WWE Royal Rumble preview predictions that we will do here this Saturday from
38:25
Tropic Canna Field in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Tropic Canna Field, which was
38:30
a part of the Thunderdome era. There actually was a Royal Rumble held there.
38:35
The twenty twenty one Royal Rumble was held there, which is which is
38:40
mind boggling to think. I think that was won by Edge and Bianca bel
38:44
Air that year. Also, Doctor Trey and I have both been to Tropic
38:47
Canna Field at the same time watching a Yankees Tampa bay Rays game back in
38:52
twenty seventeen. So oh En didn't get shot because that neighborhood around Tropic Cana
39:00
was not good when you and I were there. No, no, it
39:01
was not a beautiful area, but no, yeah, it's surround by a
39:06
lot of weird stuff. Had a great grilled cheese that night, if I
39:08
remember correctly, I think we got grilled cheeses there and watch some baseball.
39:13
Very weird place to watch a baseball game. First time I had ever been
39:15
in a dome. It felt like I was in an ice skating rink.
39:20
But here we are. Doutch Trade is going to be hosting The Royal Rumble
39:23
this Saturday, and I kind of dig it because it was part of a
39:27
very bad time in the world, the Pandemic era professional wrestling, and it's
39:31
nice to see that they're going to be able to fill that up with fans
39:35
and kind of give a little bit of a hat tip to that period of
39:37
time as well. So as it stands right now, there have only been
39:40
four matches announced for this show on Saturday night, which I kind of dig
39:45
give a lot of time to the Rumble matches themselves, as there should be
39:49
the first match on here Doctor Trey is Logan Paul defending the w United States
39:53
Championship against Kevin Owens. I am looking forward to this one. I do
39:58
expect Logan Paul to continue to be the United States Champion and have him win
40:01
this match against Kevin Owens. And I just have a feeling that he will
40:05
win this match. Thanked to somehow from Austin Theory and Grayson Waller. Yeah,
40:08
see, I thought that too, but then Waller in Theory seem to
40:12
be having some issues, so I don't know how that comes into play.
40:15
But this one, I think was my WrestleMania US title match prediction, and
40:21
they jumped it early. So that being said, I guess we'll go with
40:25
your thought process, which is Logan Paul goes into WrestleMania with the US title,
40:29
because I'm taking Logan Paul to retain as well with some chacknery to say
40:34
the least. Next match here is the fatal four way match for the w
40:37
WE Undisputed the Undisputed WA Universal Championship as Roman reigns defense against Randy Or and
40:44
aj Styles and La Knight Doctor Trey. Who do you like in this one?
40:49
You know, every time I hear you talk about alternative booking. It
40:53
gets my head all all all fuzzied, and then I want to make weird
40:57
random choices. But that'd means said, I'm going, I gotta go with
41:01
Roman reins. I think you put it, you put aj Or Eli Ni
41:06
this match to take a loss, that we can always hold up Randy Orton
41:07
and him for something else. So I'll take Roman reigns to retain because I
41:12
think you and I talked about it off air that if Roman wins at the
41:16
Rumble, he jumps all the way up to like second all time and longest
41:21
rains, which is a huge beat. Yeah, I think he makes it
41:24
to if he makes it past this and WrestleMania, if he makes it to
41:28
next WrestleMania, he'll pass back Wand and Hogan, if I believe I'm correct.
41:31
Yeah, I think that's how. I think one of Hogan's reigns definitely
41:37
back when and I think one of Hogan's rains he would surpass the Bruno reign
41:39
was like eight years, so I mean it's always possible, but uh,
41:44
that would be something. I think these two first, these first two matches
41:47
are the easier ones to predict. Now that I'm saying that you know both
41:51
of them will lose, but I too, am going to take Roman reigns
41:54
to retain the undisputed Universal Championship on Saturday night at the Rumble. The next
42:00
two matches are are going to be tough. These are tough to choose.
42:06
It's the Women's Royal Rumble Match and the Men's Royal Rumble Match. I dig
42:10
that it's not as predictable that as it has been in the past. There
42:14
have been years that Doctor Trey and I have sat here and are like,
42:15
yeah, I think it's going to be blah blah blah, and they end
42:20
up winning the match. There are some years where it is unpredictable, but
42:25
we kind of have an idea of who it may be. When it comes
42:30
to both these matches, I truly don't know, and I had to like
42:35
really think it out and go and look forward towards the elimination chamber and how
42:39
they would handle the next Championship match to kind of figure out, like,
42:45
okay, who would win the Rumble match. So, starting with the Women's
42:49
Royal Rumble Match, my prediction is that Bailey wins the match, which may
42:55
be a surprise. I think a lot of people are thinking Becky Lynch wins
42:58
it, decides to choose use Rhea Ripley. But I'm gonna go with Bailey
43:02
because I think it makes better creative sense for the next couple months to like
43:08
build up who is Bailey going to choose, because obviously Damage Control is going
43:15
to push her to go after Rhea Ripley, and let's just say, and
43:17
she's like, I think she's calling herself like the mommy hunter right now,
43:22
which may be a little bit too dirty for my liking or PG for w's
43:27
liking, But nonetheless, let's just say that, you know, she wins
43:31
the rumble, they're pushing her to go take on Rhea Ripley, and she
43:35
overhears the rest of Damage Control saying like, we know that she couldn't beat
43:40
you, you know, to EO Sky. You know this plan is working
43:44
perfectly. She'll probably lose to Ria Ripley and then we'll be done with her.
43:49
And then Bailey turns babyface and decides to choose EO Sky. I don't
43:53
see a situation where if it is going to be Bailey versus EO Sky at
43:58
Russell Manny forty, that Bailey earns that right at the Elimination Chamber because it's
44:02
like, why would she enter that match to take on EO Sky in the
44:06
first place. So that's how I rationalized decision, Doctor Trey, and I'm
44:10
going to go with Bailey to win the Women's Royal Rumble match. You almost
44:15
had me convinced. You almost had me, and then I remembered they did
44:20
the same thing with Batista. Batista it was an evolution that he won the
44:25
Rumble. He heard over her flare in Triple H getting him to go challenge
44:30
the champion on SmackDown, and he turned around and challenged Triple H. So
44:36
you almost had me convinced, Jeff. So I'm going to go with my
44:38
number one choice for this whole thing, which was going to be Becky Lynch.
44:42
So I'm gonna take Becky. I assume that Bailey is going to lose
44:45
based on something Damage Control does, and then she'll started questioning him. They'll
44:51
turn on her, take her out of action for a little bit. She'll
44:52
return Elimination Chamber in a modified hugger role to then challenge EO. So I
44:59
will take Becky Lynch winning the Rumble. Jeff, you almost had me.
45:02
Yeah, No, I know, we've seen that play out before. It
45:05
would be a nod to the Russel Mating twenty storyline with Batista. But yeah,
45:12
I just was like, Okay, how would this play out? So
45:15
I dipped into the old pool of the Batista storyline from Estumating twenty one.
45:19
So Doctor goes with Becky Lynch, I go with Bailey, and now it's
45:23
the men's royal rumble match Doctor Trey, which I literally, as we sit
45:27
here, have no idea which direction I'm gonna go yet, So I guess
45:30
take it away, my friend. So you said you had it down to
45:32
three, I have mine at four. I have about three or four.
45:37
I have, yeah, three or four. So I mean, I think
45:39
for most people it comes down and I mean two of them are a little
45:43
bit long shots. I think it comes down to Punk and Cody. As
45:46
much as I want to say realistically it's somebody else, I think it comes
45:51
down to those two guys, and Ugh, I think I'm gonna go with
45:55
Punk just because he's been kind of a model citizen since he came back.
46:00
I think this sets up a good way to kind of keep seth off TV,
46:05
because it's not set that they're they're friendly ish, right, now like
46:09
they're they don't like each other, but they're kind of on the same side.
46:14
So I think this way you're gonna have kind of have Punk protect Seth,
46:19
so to speak, and they can just cut promos leading up to their
46:22
match, and then that way, everybody else gets dumped into the elimination Chamber
46:27
match to see who challenges Roman. So I will take see him Punk winning
46:30
the Rumble this year. Yeah. Uh, he is one of my four
46:35
names, so I have see him Punk, Cody Rhodes, Gunther, and
46:40
the Rock were those your fore names? Yeah, but I see I see
46:45
brock Lesnar entering the Rumble and eliminating Gunner because I know as we went into
46:52
the recording tonight, there's a lot of reports out there right now that the
46:53
direction is gunn Thro is a favorite to win the Rumble and to challenge Seth
46:59
Rong. Hence the promo they did that Cody versus Cmpunk is a WrestleMania forty
47:06
match on paper right now, which is part of the reason why they did
47:09
their promo on Monday, and then Rock and Roman would be the other match
47:15
as well. And while I could totally understand that, I think that the
47:19
booking that they did on Monday is to get us off the beaten path a
47:22
little bit. So I would be surprised if those are the matches that they
47:30
were leaked like this because w has been so tight lipped. I've gone back
47:35
and forth CM Punk Cody Rhods, CM Punk Cody Rhodes. At the end
47:40
of the day, one of the things that we talked about is if they
47:44
go forward with The Rock versus Roman Reigns, how do they get there and
47:51
does that mean The Rock is wrestling Elimination Chamber in that number one contenders match.
47:54
Possibly. We've heard Perth Australia wants them to be there. However,
48:00
I think the easiest way for that to happen is for The Rock to win
48:04
the Royal Rumble this Saturday night, So Buzzer Beater game time decision. I
48:10
was probably gonna go with cmpunk as well, but I'm going to go with
48:15
the Rock because I feel like that they can get to who will be taking
48:20
on seth Rollins via the Elimination Chamber match in Perth, Australia. They have
48:24
announced Cmpunk for that show and that's maybe how CM punk gets to that.
48:30
I still feel like right now, Doctor Trey. We do have Rock,
48:32
Roman, seth CM Punk, and what we do with Cody right now is
48:38
anybody's guests. Maybe he gets added in that triple threat match which has been
48:43
rumored as well with the Rock and Roman reigns. As much as I want
48:46
he Brock and Gunther, you could do Cody and Gunther and Cody be the
48:51
one to take the icy off Gunther. You could do that. I would
48:53
love to see Brock Gunther as well. The cool thing about this again is
48:58
that we are entering this royal Rumbo pay per view, have no idea.
49:01
It's been a very long time where it has felt like this, and by
49:06
a week from today, as you and I sit here and record this,
49:08
I think we will have a very good idea what some of the matches will
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be for WRESTLEMANI will certainly have idea for at least one match who will be
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an opponent in a wrestlem AI forty championship match. But I think that this
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is gonna be one of those old school rumbles where, like you had pointed
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out, maybe Rock returns, he eliminates gunthor that leads to their match at
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wressel Many forty. You see, like sprinkles of potential matches all throughout this
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Rumbo match, which will be very excited. I'm very excited for this show.
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I'm very excited for the Rumbo matches. This is my favorite match matches
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to watch all year long. It's the most fun I have sitting on the
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couch as a wrestling fan and really getting into it. And I know a
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lot of wrestling fans feel the same. So enjoy the show this Saturday.
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Before we get our plugs and sponsors, Doctor Trey, we did have a
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big reveal on our Facebook page which is available right now as we record this.
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People hopefully have seen this after they before they have downloaded this week's edition
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in the podcast. But what is tradition here the now? Did he turn
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five this past week? Yep? He turned five. Yep. Let's get
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old, folks, the five year old Sammy Young Sammy Franklin made his annual
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predictions for both the Women's and Men's Royal Rumble official predictions, and then he
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gave his non unofficial predictions, which he typically does, which I'll let you
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you know, explain a little bit. You know, obviously direct people to
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the to the videos. But my favorite thing is that for some reason,
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the buff bag well ww theme song is just playing underneath the entire time.
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Well, I mean, Sammy is buff and he is the stuff, so
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I thought the music was appropriate. So yeah, you can go to our
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Facebook page Facebook cut dot com. Slash is still real to this show and
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Sammy's picks her up. There. They are in two parts if you're listening
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to the show. First, watch the video for the women's Rumble, because
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we were going to do one big, long video and then Sammy, being
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the uh Kevin Dunn of my life, decided to cut the video off and
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so we had to do it in two parts. But so what we do
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is we take everybody who's on the WT roster or who is an actual free
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agent not signed to anybody, out of all his wrestling figures, who put
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them in a ring. He picks out who he thinks is going to win
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based on wit booking. We do the same thing for the men, and
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then we take all his wrestling figures. And I think I even threw in
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the Incredible Hulk in some stretchy dragon guy into his pile and basically said,
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Okay, Sammy, if you were booking the Rumble, who would you have
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win and then he makes his picks, not as I mean, I think
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the women's pick, who was maybe not as strong as the men's pick,
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but him going off the books again for picking the men's rum a winner this
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year was pretty great. His women's pick I was kind of sad because I
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believe the person has just announced their retirement from entering competition. So but you
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can go to our Facebook page at facebook dot com slash is Still Real to
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a show and check out Sammy's pigs for the Rumble this year. So there
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you go. Go check out those videos. Hopefully you've seen them before you
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downloaded this week since the podcast. If not, go there now and check
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out one of my favorite traditional things we do here on SRTU, the annual
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Sammy Franklin Royal Rumble Predictions. With that said, let's get a couple plugs
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course don't forget to follow the show on x at SRTU podcast. With that
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being said, was going on the Oneful World of Doctor Trey Franklin this week.
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Well, like Jeff said, you can follow me on X at the
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Doctor Trey. You can find me on Facebook and Instagram Doctor Trey Franklin.
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When you're on Facebook, be sure to check out Rocket State Championship Wrestling and
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Spartan Championship Wrestling, the two shows I work with here the Lovely State of
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Alabama. We have a couple of big shows coming up as we get closer
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and closer to Wrestling Con five six. I forgot. I always track the
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numbers. I know Sammy's five, so I think Wrestling Con is six coming
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up, because yeah, Wrestling Con won. My lovely wife was pregnant with
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Sammy, so I think it will be six coming up. But that's just
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a few months down the road. I think that comes up in late May,
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so be sure to keep an eye out there. You go check out
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all the videos and pictures everything else from those shows that I work with here
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wrote this show and join us next week on January thirty first, as we
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will be recapping and reviewing everything that took place at wrestle excuse Me at Royal
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Rumble twenty twenty four. Excuse me, that'd be Thursday, February first,
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will be the next week's edition of SRTU, so it'll be recapping, viewing
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Royal Rumble, and looking towards the Road to Wrestle forty all on next week's
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edition of SRTU. It is the most fun time of the year and it
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kicks off this Saturday, and we are going to be your home for Road
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to WrestleMania forty coverage throughout, joined Doctor Trey and I as we cover our
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fourteenth WRESTLEMANI in the history of the Still Real the show, fifteenth overall in
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my history of podcasting. So it's gonna be a lot of fun. Really
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looking forward to this Saturday show. And professional wrestling continues to be red hot
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right now, which is only making things great for US wrestling fans. So
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until next week, thank you for making a part of your week, Thank
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you for downloading, thank you for supporting, and for doctor Trey Franklin for
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Young Sammy Franklin. Happy fifth birthday to him. I am Jeff Peck and
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