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- 0:00It's still welcome, everybody. Welcome to this week's edition The Story Real To
- 0:21Show, episode number seven and thirty six from March twenty first, twenty twenty
- 0:26four. Welcome to this week's edition of ass RT for you. I am
- 0:32one after the show, I am Jeff Packer, joined as always to my
- 0:36host, the Only Doctor Try Franklin, Doctor Trey. It's less than two
- 0:40weeks away from now, my friend. Uh, yes, the NFL Draft
- 0:46is right. No, the NFL drafts park are out. Oh yeah,
- 0:48we're right. We're on the road to wrestle media. It's a yellow brick
- 0:52road full of poppy and puppies and all those good things. So it's getting
- 0:57close. I'm just I have a question for you. I bet to ask
- 0:59you this. I heard that if you're not a heel, you're just an
- 1:04a hole. Is that a bad thing nowadays? I don't. I don't
- 1:08think so at all. I mean, to get those booze, you have
- 1:11to be an a hole. Yeah, I think that's basically like like I
- 1:15tell you all the time, like I'm I'm kind of an a hole.
- 1:19So you either love me or you hate me. So that I just didn't
- 1:22know that was a bad thing, So I just wanted to clarify usually being
- 1:26mister goody two shoes is a bad thing. Yeah, speaking of the road
- 1:30to WrestleMania forty, a ton of focus on the Cody Road, Sethron's Roman
- 1:36Reigns Rock tag team match that will headline reportedly headline WrestleMania sat. I'd be
- 1:42shocked if it doesn't, as this has progressed Doctor Trey and even pre and
- 1:48then once it was formally announced as taking place and now post, all I
- 1:53can think about was the amount of shine and time and focus this tag team
- 1:59match has been heading arrest of Matty forty and I simply ask has this tag
- 2:02team match actually taken away from the two world title matches? I would I
- 2:09would think, yeah, a little bit. And you saw a little bit
- 2:15of that of then trying to compensate for that on Monday Night with the seth
- 2:19Rawlins Drew McIntyre segment. But you know, I asked you, you know,
- 2:23we talked about a couple weeks ago. I kind of felt like Roman
- 2:25Rains has I'd have been lost in the shuffle of this a little bit,
- 2:30Like it kind of feels like Cody and the Rock and Seth and Roman are
- 2:36a part of it, but the focus seems to be on Cody and the
- 2:39Rock right now, so it does feel like the tag match is overshadowing everything
- 2:45else, and I think that's why ww's trying to compensate and and put some
- 2:50light on the world title matches for Sunday Night. It's it's a really interesting
- 2:55dichotomy that they're in right now as I watch it, because at times you
- 2:59like almost forget okay, this tag team match is supposed to fill feed into
- 3:04the Road's Rains match for WrestleMania Sunday, but it is really taking a little
- 3:09way to a little wait, a little amount of shine away from Drew McIntyre
- 3:15and Seth Rollins heading into WRESTLEMANI forty, And they're playing it off on the
- 3:19screen as such, and I don't know if it's in a good storyline spot
- 3:27when it comes to Rollins and Drew McIntyre or if it's legitimately taking away shine
- 3:32from that match right now, Doctor True, which is which is kind of
- 3:36scary. It's reminiscent to me a little bit of was it WrestleMania? See
- 3:44Where was It? Thirty twenty nine? Miz and Sena and the Rock twenty
- 3:47seven, twenty seven, twenty seven, You're you're the history when it comes
- 3:52to actual resumated numbers. But that whole thing felt like it was about the
- 3:58Rock in John Cena and the Miz was the world champion heading into that match.
- 4:01That's a great comparison, by the way, and Men's was completely overshadowed,
- 4:06and he did one of the greatest promos of all times when the Men's
- 4:10came out dresses the raw heye had the sprays and the ball cap, you
- 4:15know, everything else to fit and it. But he felt like the afterthoughts
- 4:21in that story for that match, And that's where I'm at now, where
- 4:26it feels like Seth and Roman, who are your two world champions heading into
- 4:30WrestleMania, are kind of the afterthoughts of this because it does feel like Cody
- 4:34and Rock are overshadowing anybody or both of those guys, and who would have
- 4:39thought and in a WrestleMania season, our world champion, who's coming up in
- 4:43almost four years as world champion and probably the most dominant champion of our lifetime,
- 4:50is overshadowed by his cousin. Right now, I feel like ww W
- 4:56is playing the hot hand, and I cannot blame them for this, and
- 4:59the hot Hand is right now that the tension between Cody and the Rock is
- 5:06much more entertaining and engaging for their audience than anything else that we're seeing involved
- 5:14in that storyline right now, which again is scary. But I credit to
- 5:17WWE for playing the hot hand. But it's like, wait a minute,
- 5:20this tag match is still supposed to feed into rains and roads too, And
- 5:27oh, by the way, there's another World Championship match that Drew McIntyre won
- 5:30the elimination Chamber match to get that spot, and he's not even a focal
- 5:34point in this right now. I mean, it's like insane to see at
- 5:41WrestleMania that two men's world title matches are playing not even like one B,
- 5:46one C. They are playing number two, number three to a tag team
- 5:53match that feeds into one of the title matches. It's it's insane to get
- 5:57your head around this. Yeah, I mean, hell, the stipulation in
- 6:00the tag match directly affects the world title match the next night. And can
- 6:08I stop you right there real fast? Sorry, doctor Trey. Do you
- 6:11think that maybe they should have somehow added some sort of stipulation for the Drew
- 6:15Rollins match into this one as well to bring in her interest into it.
- 6:20See I I was gonna mention this, and to me, I almost feel
- 6:24like this is I think you said will not one being once even two and
- 6:29three. I feel like three here is because of the potential cash in of
- 6:35Damian Priest. Yeah, something more is going on. So I think that
- 6:41I don't want to say it's it's it's weak booking, but I think if
- 6:44that's the plan for the night, then it's it's being taken. Like I
- 6:49guess, I don't know, it's already got enough complications to it to add
- 6:53in their stipulation into it. But I mean if they come out like I
- 6:57mean, Drew doesn't like the blood lines opposed either, So I don't know
- 7:01what sipulation you could have in a bloodline match to then that Drew would agree
- 7:05to to feed into that, because then Drew would have to affiliate himself,
- 7:11you know, characterized with the bloodline, which you can't stand. So I'm
- 7:15okay with it not having it. But you know, to me, I
- 7:19think it's just them going, hey, well, if we're playing on doing
- 7:23this whole Damian cash in, then we probably will need Drew to be the
- 7:29baby face coming out of it, and if he aligns himself with the Bloodline,
- 7:31he's more heel instead of his tweeter character he's been working with. And
- 7:35I think that's why they've kind of set that one up this way. So
- 7:39that leads me to the next thing I wanted to bring up on this week's
- 7:42This to the podcast is how would you book this tag team match? While
- 7:45thinking of the world title matches WrestleMania. I've been really again trying to get
- 7:49my hat around this since they started teasing this, how they and then once
- 7:53it was becoming official and they built up towards that, all I could think
- 7:57of was in my mind rang Now, I feel like Rock Costs reigns the
- 8:03tag team match so that Rhodes has Bloodline free, and we've seen Rock turned
- 8:09babyface in that match, Rhodes Rolins win, But then the next night do
- 8:16you do Rhodes winning the championship and then Rollin's losing the championship to Drew McIntyre,
- 8:22Because then that makes sense for then Rollins to somewhere down the line,
- 8:28Let's say Rollins goes away for a little bit licks his wounds and recovers from
- 8:33some of these injuries he's been dealing with. Does he come back as a
- 8:37heel and blame Cody for losing the championship, And then you've got that layer
- 8:41that you just mentioned, Doctor Trey. Is the vibe right now is that
- 8:46a Damian Priest cash in is potentially taking place at WrestleMania, and it would
- 8:52be over Drew McIntyre, would lead into that storyline of Drew McIntyre who comes
- 8:56out as the baby face in that is anybody's guest in all honesty, because
- 9:01it could go either way because Drew finally gets his moment at WrestleMania that he
- 9:03didn't get from wrestle MANI thirty six because of the pandemic four years later,
- 9:07and then that's stolen from him by Damian Priest. There are so many different
- 9:11layers here, and I don't know if it's a good thing. I think
- 9:16it's a good thing. I think as I talk it out loud, I'll
- 9:18say it's a good thing because you don't want it to be predictable. But
- 9:22there's a lot of layers to this tag team match that feeds into the next
- 9:24night of WrestleMania that if let's say Rhodes wins, Rollins doesn't, well,
- 9:30if I'm Rollins, I'm pissed off. Maybe I you know, unloaded the
- 9:33tank a little bit. If they both lose, why do they wrestle on
- 9:37Saturday? But if they both win, then it makes sense. Do you
- 9:41get my thoughts on this? Yeah? I mean, and you could easily
- 9:43have Seth win and Damien still catch in on him, and then Drew Blaine
- 9:48and Damien were taking the spotlight that we saw there. So I mean there's
- 9:52different layers on it because I could see you know, Cody and Seth winning
- 9:56the tag match, and like you said, Rock blames and blames Rock for
- 10:01his loss to come back on SmackDown or wherever they both come back on TV.
- 10:03I'm saying Rock costs him the match. I think there's a turn at
- 10:07WrestleMania. See, I think that you could have Rock take the loss and
- 10:13then Roman's like you you know, you you know you losing? Yo?
- 10:18Met me know, made me have this stipulation the way it was. I
- 10:20I you know, because if if if Cody wins intenally, Rock can't be
- 10:26a reside. Rock can't come out because then the blood line does get it.
- 10:28Well, what if he leaves the bloodline that night? Right there?
- 10:35Is there a membership card or something, you get a discount of David Busters.
- 10:41I believe so. But like to me, at some point, you're
- 10:46gonna have to get back to Seth and Cody, because right now, Cody's
- 10:48three to zero against Seth. You know, we talked about that when you
- 10:52know Cody gave a spot to the Rock initially and that we thought Cody's are
- 10:56going through Seth. Well, like Cody's got three wins over set at some
- 11:00point, Seth's gonna have to try to get one victory over Cody at some
- 11:03point. But how could you say that? You know, if I hadn't
- 11:07taken this match, I could have been Drew mcatire when he's the one who
- 11:11accepted the match. It was Seth who accepted the tag match. So yeah,
- 11:16the one thing I love about this is that there's so many layers to
- 11:20it that we don't you know, we have our ideas on how the shows
- 11:24going to go out, but we don't know the storyline path they're going to
- 11:26take coming out of it. Because the other thing I thought about was,
- 11:30let's say Cody wins and Roman goes away for a little bit, Rock goes
- 11:35away fort well, who wants SmackDown? Do you have ready to step up
- 11:39to challenge Cody to make compelling television? Is it solo? Is it Jimmy?
- 11:43If Jimmy loses the Jay, is it solo? Then that Solo's the
- 11:46most logical number one contender because I don't know, really have they built any
- 11:52other strong challengers up on the heel side to challenge a potential Cody Rhodes world
- 11:58champion? So so low, Yeah, this is it's about. It's solo,
- 12:03and he's actually solo in is Roy he might be the only one who
- 12:07the fans would go, that's incredible threats. I would even say that maybe
- 12:11depending on the direction at Wrestlemanian Post, maybe in a heel AJ styles starts
- 12:16to build up a little bit as well. But I think if that's the
- 12:20case, I think how the show lays out when you have the AJ match
- 12:24and you have them come up like you know, even I know they're doing
- 12:28the Final Testament and the Prime Match at some point during the WrestleMania weekend at
- 12:33somewhere there, whether it's Friday, Saturday or Sunday, you know, is
- 12:37it a Carrion Cross, is it somebody else? I think as you're watching
- 12:41the show, the booking of the heels might tell you who the next inline
- 12:46guy is, because don't forget we still got Randy or that triple threat match
- 12:50at Orton Olwen's logo. Paul, one of those guys is not going to
- 12:54win. And obviously you could do Ko and a Ko Heel turny at some
- 13:00point if you wanted to, But that's like the big show at this point.
- 13:03Yeah, I know, but it does Logan Paul step up as your
- 13:07next logical World Champion challenger if he loses the US title. I mean,
- 13:11Waller and Theory aren't ready yet, so that basically leaves AJ. Basically your
- 13:16your options are AJ, Logan Paul or Theory and Waller and Carrion Cross as
- 13:22the next guys step up. If you're doing if you want to, you
- 13:26know, start building your next challenger to a potential Cody Rose World Championship.
- 13:30Run back to the tag team match and the way that you would book the
- 13:35world title matches. We have one, two, three, four, five
- 13:41shows left bron Smackdowns combined before WRESTMANI forty takes place starting on Saturday, April
- 13:48sixth. At some point, do you have some sort of segment where Drew
- 13:54McIntyre and the Bloodline interact with one another, at least of Paul Hayman Drew
- 14:01McIntyre segment, especially if the Bloodline, if they have to make a contingency
- 14:11plan just because because this is where Paul Hayman is really good, Because Paul
- 14:13Hayman could approach McIntire and basically look like worst case scenario Roman and Rock lose.
- 14:22I need a plan be to keep the belts on Roman, you know,
- 14:24could you be the plan be? Because and I was thinking about what
- 14:28we're talking. One thing that I used to love about the time of the
- 14:31year was usually the draft would happen us around the NFL Draft. At one
- 14:35point when we were growing up, this would be a great time because if
- 14:37Cody wins, you could draft Drew to SmackDown, and then Seth can still
- 14:43win, and Damian cash in on Seth and then you got Damien's Seth and
- 14:46you can do Drew and Cody. But we haven't heard anything about the draft
- 14:50or anything like that. So I would at least plug in a segment where
- 14:54Hayman's kind of slyly recruiting somebody else just as a play and b in case
- 15:01the case Rocket are on the lose, because then you can still have the
- 15:05potential for somebody to get involved in that match to help romanout. And for
- 15:09all intensive purposes, how great would be if Drew wins loses the Belt of
- 15:16Damien on the cash head. Drew comes out during Cody and Rock or excuse
- 15:20me, Cody and Roman and actually Claymore's Roman and then Cody that allows could
- 15:26get away. So that way Drew still gets a little bit of shine from
- 15:28the crowd for helping Cody, you're saying at Wrestlemaning forty Yeah, Wrestlmating second
- 15:33night. I think if Rhodes is winning the title, and we talked about
- 15:37this a couple of weeks back with the Rock and Cody's stuff. Initially I
- 15:41think if Rhodes wins the title, it has to be clean. Yeah,
- 15:45I think for all intensive purposes it does too. But you know, if
- 15:48you see that Drew Hayman interaction and then let's say, for some reason it
- 15:52looks like something is going to come down and maybe Drew takes that guy out.
- 15:56See I was thinking more along the lines of that he needs to be
- 16:00intersected, intertwined into this at some point so that people don't forget like hey,
- 16:06by the way, seth Rawlins is defending his World of aweight championship against
- 16:11Drew Mcatarre the next night, and Drew has been one of the best characters
- 16:15since late summer of last year, like legitimately one of the best, very
- 16:21entertaining, great entering worker, really good promos, great character development, and
- 16:26he deserves that shine. I think that's always the problem people have when Rock
- 16:30comes back, especially, is that people take a back seat because of his
- 16:34shine. And it's you know, whether you hear the reports over the weekend
- 16:38last weekend that people were complaining internally in w about his promos, He's allowed
- 16:42to curse and all that stuff. Listen, guys and girls, I appreciate
- 16:48and love and adore you that you do three sixty five twenty four to seven
- 16:52WWE, and Rock only comes in for a couple of weeks, a couple
- 16:56months, helps build up the biggest show, gets a lot of shine,
- 16:59gets a huge payday, board of directors, all that stuff. At the
- 17:03end of the day, the Rock is one of the most recognizable people in
- 17:07the world, not the United States, the world. The other night,
- 17:11I was at my family's house. We were enjoying some corn, beef and
- 17:15cabbage for Saint Patrick's Day. I put on SmackDown. It was Friday night
- 17:19and Rock was the opening segment, and my parents, who were they were
- 17:22like, what is the Rock doing back in WWWA Does he need money?
- 17:26And I was like, no, not at all. But they knew right
- 17:30away, like who that was and what he's it does and what he's accomplished
- 17:37very recognizable. I mean, that's just how it is at the end of
- 17:40the day, and I think some of that shine from the Rock For these
- 17:44next five shows, they gotta use this momentum for the tag team match and
- 17:52divvy it up a little bit better towards Roads and Rains, which I know
- 17:56that that is equally, you know, very easily tied to, but also
- 18:00Rollin's and Big Drew. It's you know, the enemy of my enemy is
- 18:06my friends. I love the idea that you pitch their Doctor Trey have Big
- 18:08Drew in the back stage area talking to Paul Hayman. Paul Hayman confronts him,
- 18:14you know, says you need Roman reigns and the bloodline, and you
- 18:17see that Drew is going through that that inner demons, the inner feelings that
- 18:23he has of issues of aligning with the bloodline or not. And that's,
- 18:30you know, something that is compelling to see on television. I just feel
- 18:33like they need to do something before we get to wrestle Anty forty. And
- 18:37maybe it's just Hayman pitching him to get involved in the tag match. You
- 18:42know, hey, if you help out Roman and Rock if we need it,
- 18:47I am. That's very simple and softens up seth for you on night
- 18:51too, even though you know Drew's saying, look, I need you there
- 18:53if I got to carry your ass down to the ring. You know we're
- 18:57having you know, whatever it is, we're having that match. I mean
- 19:00Drew's Drew's on that tweeer kick right now where he's like, I have to
- 19:03beat you. But if you see that backstage segment that could once again create
- 19:10so many branchings and anything else. One other thing, requick I saw somebody
- 19:15I came up for his melt or of somebody else talking about l A.
- 19:19Knight And for a lot of people, like like we talked about the show
- 19:23that a lot of people say the LA Knights had like a cross version of
- 19:27Austin and Rock. You know, his promos are rockesque in a way.
- 19:33But then I saw all the people like complaining that when La Knight cuts a
- 19:37promo the same night that Rock does his stuff, he does look like a
- 19:41poor imitation. Did you feel that way watching SmackDown? No, No,
- 19:47I don't. I've never I'm not on the same level as a lot of
- 19:53other fans are when it comes to the hype around La Knight because I think
- 19:56I'm an old head that saw this same come up. It's in the late
- 20:00nineties of Austin and Rock, and I can understand the comparisons there, and
- 20:06there's a heavy influence for both those guys in his character. And plus I
- 20:10remember him on TNA Impact Wrestling as well, which is no different than the
- 20:15character that we're seeing. So no, I don't feel like it gets taken
- 20:18away in all honesty, but I just don't. I don't. I hate
- 20:22saying I just don't believe in La Knight as a main event player. I
- 20:26think his his finisher is not the best. It doesn't look like it hurts
- 20:30at all. It looks very hokey in a way and hard to do.
- 20:37And yeah, I mean his characters just remind me so much of the late
- 20:41nineties Rock Austin, what have you. Yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't
- 20:47for me. I think this is where this is. This is where I
- 20:51might get called the hypocrite because I get I give the AW fans crap for
- 20:53this, but you know, the AW fans are like, oh, well,
- 20:56you don't know what osprey because you didn't watch his new Japan work.
- 20:57It's like I feel that night. I'm like, no, the La Night
- 21:00character is the Eli Drake character. Like it's the same character, and if
- 21:04you didn't watch TNA, you don't know these things. But I kind of
- 21:07feel that way at times. I'm like, nothing's changed. And to me,
- 21:14in the La Night character in twenty twelve, if you had put him
- 21:18as a world champion, I would have bought into it a little bit more
- 21:21because the roster was thinner and maybe not as deep as it is now.
- 21:23He was a world champion there, right, I mean in w W,
- 21:27oh gotcha? You know what I'm saying. Like, if you if during
- 21:30that time when we had the seamuses and the League of Nations and all that
- 21:34stuff, the Albertio Deel reels. If the La Night character come on at
- 21:38that point and you put him in the World Champion, I've been like spot
- 21:41on great choice right now with the roster being so so heavy, like him
- 21:48on top, I would be like, Yeah, there's a lot of other
- 21:52guys. I think I would pick over him right now to be World Champions.
- 21:53So I don't think some people call him a knockoff of The Rock or
- 21:59poor like the Balmart version of The Rock. To me, I'm like,
- 22:02it's just he's influenced, and I'm like, I can see that with a
- 22:04lot of young wrestlers where they get I mean to me, when you watch
- 22:07Brayson Waller. To me, he's influenced heavily by the Miz, you know,
- 22:11Like, I don't like, I see a lot of these similarities and
- 22:14a lot of the younger guys coming up. It just sucks that when your
- 22:17influence is all the same show as you, it's going to make you look
- 22:22a little bit weaker in comparison. Going back to the tag team match and
- 22:26how you're going to book that while thinking the world title matches, what is
- 22:30your as of March twenty first, right now, Doctor Trey, what is
- 22:34your prediction for the tag team match and then the two men's world title matches
- 22:40for Rust many forty. I have Cody and Seth winning the tag match,
- 22:45Cody winning his match against Roman, and Seth losing his match to Drew.
- 22:48Yeah, I'm the same one. And that's the thing that I'm having trouble
- 22:52with is Rollins takes that match on Saturday help Cody but loses his world title.
- 23:00Do they end up doing Seth as a heel down the line feuding with
- 23:03Cody, like over SummerSlam or something like that. I mean what if?
- 23:07I mean I could also see like a member of the Bloodline helping cost Seth
- 23:11that match to where that way it's not Seth was as clean. That's an
- 23:17interesting twist, you know, maybe depending on you know, Solo doesn't have
- 23:22a match at wressele Media right now, which is wild to me. Yeah.
- 23:26So if Solo, because you know, the Bloodlight, can't get involved
- 23:30in Cody match to get revenge, Solo hits the spike on Seth, Drew
- 23:36hits the claim or cashes in, you know, exhausted, but he wins.
- 23:41I could see that happening. But then Damien cashes in on Drew.
- 23:45I like that plan, because then that would make sense to me. I
- 23:48don't want to get to bitter seth Rons and we get another, you know,
- 23:52rehash of the Cody Roade Seth Ron's feud, because I got to be
- 23:55honest, I was not the biggest fan of how that feud went in twenty
- 23:59twenty two. No, because I'm not a bad I'm not a fan of
- 24:02one guy winning three nothing over. Yeah. Yeah, it's like at some
- 24:07point, but to me, also at some point one of those two guys
- 24:11are gonna be healed at some point in the next couple it's not you know,
- 24:15it's no. I mean, that would be Hollywood Hogan the moment,
- 24:19you know, but you know, if if a member of the blood Line,
- 24:23and maybe it's Jimmy and then Jay, you know that's Jay beats Jimmy,
- 24:27Jimmy still bad and cost Seth and somebody I think somebody gets involved cost
- 24:33Seth the match. That way, Seth doesn't come out, and Seth still
- 24:34just pissed off at that member of the blood line. But then by the
- 24:37time he comes back from healing up because he knows it's gonna be a I
- 24:41think it's Seth loses. Also, where does he Seth take a couple of
- 24:45months off to kind of rest and recuperate, so uh, and then when
- 24:49he comes back, he'll get right back into the world title picture. Whoever
- 24:52is on top of that time. There's another match that cat all tie in
- 24:56this as well. You've got that real Ripley Backy Lynch in the background right
- 25:00now. Maybe that there's they reopen the friendly nature banter between Rhea Ripley and
- 25:07Drew McIntyre, which also includes the rest of the judgment day and feeds into
- 25:12that one being add at Seth Rond's wife, Becky Lynch's. It's an interesting
- 25:18time frame and I'm not confused by it that it's not like head scratching.
- 25:23I'm not looking at it as a negative. I think it's a massive positive.
- 25:27And I really like that resting fans can look at all different angles here
- 25:32than rather than seeing it be so cut and dry and very predictable as it
- 25:37has been in the past. So I think it's I think it's a pretty
- 25:38exciting booking right now, Doctor Trey. But my only concern is the tag
- 25:45team match is getting too much shine over the two men's world title matches,
- 25:48which initially started this conversation. Yeah, and we basically at some point,
- 25:52I think you need Roman too. We saw a little bit a few weeks
- 25:56ago with Roman told Rock that he needed a handling dog. We Roman to
- 26:00reassert his roman Esque nature in this because it to me, it feels like
- 26:07Roman's become the sidekick in this as well. So Roman needs to kind of
- 26:12rest. And I know it's it's hard to not be the secondary character to
- 26:17the Rock. But the Rock got thirty minutes basically to start the show.
- 26:21It's back down, you know. I think that the reason why that's happening
- 26:26is because they needed to do a quick challenge and pivot of turning him here.
- 26:33Yeah, if he was a babyface, I think there is no you
- 26:36know, Roman playing in a background player in this. And if it's Rock
- 26:40and Roman going in the WrestleMania, I think there's that's pretty equal. I
- 26:42think that they needed to get Rock heel pretty fast, and then once he
- 26:48did that, and with the nostalgia route, I mean, the fans are
- 26:52eating it up. I mean, how could you not. Well, I'm
- 26:53a huge Rock fan, so I'm very biased, So I guess this is
- 26:56more of a question to you, Doctor Trey, is how could you not
- 27:00be watching the rock stuff right now on SmackDown and just be like highly entertained
- 27:03and smiling, Like I thought the rock concert was great. Yeah, I
- 27:08mean it's really good. It's really entertaining. But you know, to kind
- 27:11of we like I said, we saw a lived on Monday night with Drew
- 27:15reasserting himself and reminding everybody, hey, we have our match on Sunday.
- 27:21I need you at as close as HUT present as possible, you know type
- 27:23of thing. You just need Roman to reassert himself because as much as we
- 27:29love Cody finishing his story, his story is winning the championship, but his
- 27:33story now is also defeating Roman, and so we do need a little bit
- 27:38of that, a little bit more of that mixed in to kind of up
- 27:42the anting and his tag match, because, like I said earlier, it
- 27:45does feel like it's it's very Cody rock centric when it needs to be a
- 27:51little bit more focused also on Cody and Roman as well. Well. Props
- 27:53wly because they're leaning into Drew McIntyre being overshadowed as well, because they have
- 27:57that great segment where McIntyre comes out for an entring promo segment and as he's
- 28:03making his way down the RNK, he gets interrupted by Seth Freakin Rollins who
- 28:07just walks by them and ignores them, and then that leads into their promo
- 28:11battles, So a lot of odds and ends, and then I'd like to
- 28:12see tied up a little bit as we had in a WrestleMania and maybe we
- 28:17decides to do that intertwine some of these because I do feel like the two
- 28:19Men's Bold Heavyweight Championship matches need to get some shine equally as well Roads and
- 28:26Rains and Rollins and McIntyre, and that could all stem off of this tag
- 28:30team match that has gotten a ton of shine. Right now, heading into
- 28:33the build for Wrestmania forty, We're going to quickly pivot to AW and go
- 28:38back to Mercedes mon A signing with a company. According reports, it's a
- 28:42very historic signing because the belief is that when she was in negotiations with w
- 28:48W and AW, the one thing that she wanted to accomplish was to be
- 28:52the highest paid female in professional wrestling, and according to reports, the lodge
- 29:00behind that from Mercedes Monette in her camp is because she wants to open up
- 29:03the door for women wrestlers to get equal and or more pay than her.
- 29:11And when you really think about it, and there's not a lot of going
- 29:15back to the phrase shine again on this signing, you think of it that
- 29:18way and how that is being reported, and this is a really historic signing
- 29:22Doctor Trey. If she is making more money than reportedly Becky Lynch's in we
- 29:29and she's the highest paid female wrestler in all professional wrestling right now. This
- 29:33is just like in sports, right I mean, you and I see it
- 29:36as NFL fans. My favorite thing is the quarterback money. Lamar Jackson will
- 29:42sign for forty six point five million dollars of guaranteed money in the first annual
- 29:47you know, aav annual average value, and it's like, well, where
- 29:51do they get the forty six point five million, Well, it's because he
- 29:52wanted to make more money than the highest paid quarterback, which was Aaron Rodgers
- 29:56who was making forty six And you could see that, you know, transcend
- 30:00over to the professional wrestling scene. And when you think of it that way,
- 30:03and she's setting the standard, she's setting the bar so that when Becky
- 30:08Bailey, Charlotte Bianca, whomever goes back to contract negotiations, whether it be
- 30:15with WE and or AW, They're going to use this as the jump point
- 30:21of well, I want more money than Mercedes Monet. It makes you think,
- 30:25like, was this signing really historic for the continued development and growth of
- 30:32women's wrestling in the world of professional wrestling. It's a double edged sword.
- 30:40Like, on one hand, if you are seen as a draw, then
- 30:45yeah, it's great leverage. You know, you mentioned Charlotte Flair or the
- 30:48Becky lynchs or Rhea Ripley or beyonc or whoever it is. If you're seen
- 30:53as a main event talent, regardless of gender, it's great for you.
- 30:59The issue that we have to be careful of is is she a draw?
- 31:03Is Mercedes money a draw? Is are the Rady's gonna go up? Are
- 31:07those numbers gonna go up to justify the pay? Because otherwise it becomes the
- 31:12you mentioned the quarterbacks. It becomes the Jimmy Garoppolo of women's wrestling, where
- 31:18like, you sign a great contract because at one point, you know,
- 31:22Bbying, the dieharded Iron fan, Garoppolo is the highest paid quarterback in the
- 31:25league for about a month and then people are using his deal as a benchmark.
- 31:30But then after a while you're like, man, like this guy is
- 31:32costing us twenty eight million dollars a year and we're really not improving at all.
- 31:37We're not getting any better, we're not seeing the results. Well,
- 31:40is the next person then gonna go, well, I want to get more
- 31:42by the Mercedes Modet. Well, yeah, but that was a really bad
- 31:45contract and we don't pay people that much. So it does kind of become
- 31:48that double edged sword as to whether or not does is she going to be
- 31:53able to outperform, like perform to the level of or outperform the level of
- 31:59that contract to make it worthwhile to an AW or WW two side of their
- 32:02talents to equal or more money than issues getting mm hmm. Yeah, it's
- 32:07interesting. It's a really it may be a historical moment there that kind of
- 32:15catapults I've felt like, well, I certainly feel like I think the women's
- 32:20wrestlers absolutely deserve to be paid just as equal value as the male wrestlers nowadays.
- 32:24Out to try, I would say the top level talent. Oh absolutely,
- 32:31that's it. Yes, the main that's what I mean. Like,
- 32:35if I don't think anybody is rowing rain's money, but can you make a
- 32:39case that Ria Ripley, Bianca Belaire, Becky, Charlotte Bailey should be knocking
- 32:46on the door in the range of where Seth Freakin, Rollins, Cody Rhodes,
- 32:52Randy Orton, Kevin Owens are yes and okay in that little grouping,
- 32:58I would say there's a level. There's a different level where Rawlin's and Rhodes
- 33:02and Randy because of his history, I always say, be slightly above where
- 33:06you put back in Tyre Owens like those, Ria Ripley deserve drew back entire
- 33:10money. Yes, you know, does you know Bria's on the level now
- 33:15where she's on the buses, she's on the billboard, she's main eventing shows
- 33:20her merchandise itself. I think that's where they are looking at it and go,
- 33:23you know, are you driving the money in to justify us paying you
- 33:29that much? As well? So for somebody like Riha and you know Becky
- 33:35and Charlotte to a degree, I don't think Charles ever moved the merchandise the
- 33:39other two have. But Seawn's never been a great baby face, but as
- 33:43a heel she can help. She builds baby faces where even in that little
- 33:47segment of women you mentioned I don't know if Biaka and Bailey are on the
- 33:52level where Ria, Becky and Charlotte are, so I think they're even within
- 33:58those groupings. There's tears as well. So I think if Bailey came up
- 34:02as a free agent, I don't think Bailey could go to aw'd be like,
- 34:05hey, I want to make more money than Mercedes, because I don't.
- 34:08You don't think she could or should I think she could ask. I
- 34:12don't know she'd get paid that because I don't know if you put Bailey on
- 34:15the level of main event, and I'm just perception in fans eyes of what
- 34:22Mercedes gets. I think to most fans, Sawsha is a bigger star than
- 34:24Bailey. I don't think I think AW will write that check book. Well
- 34:30it does. I think it'll be equal or more. I think the day
- 34:34when I saw that Shad Cohn was worth twelve point two billion dollars in AWW
- 34:38combined, we're worth nine. That helps that Dad's got a much deeper checkbook
- 34:45than than WWE to a degree. I think I think you can leverage at
- 34:50times and get there. But you know, do you think Bianca would get
- 34:54paid more than than Mercedes? But a by aw Yes, I do,
- 35:00I do, I would say, and that's that's that's where you got That's
- 35:05where that leverage comes in. That's why the beauty of having two companies that
- 35:08are competition, you can leverage one against other. Because I I don't think
- 35:13ww B wo if if if Bianco or Bailey came up as free agents this
- 35:17week and they went to Triple Agent and uh nick con and like I want
- 35:23Mercedes Modet money or out walking, I think they would let them walk.
- 35:29They'd be like, go ahead, We're not. I don't think so,
- 35:31man. I think I think it's a company that we all know. They're
- 35:36making billions of dollars and just got what like a five billion dollars deal from
- 35:39Netflix. They can't say like, all right, well we can't afford that.
- 35:43Go somewhere else. Yeah. I just think that in their mind they
- 35:45can create another star. I mean, look what they have done with Tiffany
- 35:52Stratton on a very small scale. That's what I'm saying, Like, I
- 35:53think they they could look at their roster and go, can we afford to
- 35:59lose Yanka because we have JAKEE. Cargill? Can we afford to lose Bailey?
- 36:02When we have a Tiffany strap. Can we afford to lose one or
- 36:06two of these people and pay somebody else who's maybe a notch below them or
- 36:10coming up what they're making now, and not lose a step, because that's
- 36:14basically what they did. I mean, they offered sas money. She took
- 36:16the eight w deal, but they really didn't. I don't think. I
- 36:20don't know how hard they really fought to bring Sasha back into the fault or
- 36:23Mercedes money back into the fault. Uh Well, according to reports, there
- 36:27was a pretty decent college try. At the end of the day, it
- 36:30came down to finances. Yeah, I think that they were. They did
- 36:34not want to pay her more money than Becky Lynch's Yeah it's mine. It's
- 36:38kind of the pay like once he is. Use a sports analogy. The
- 36:43Patriots always had. They had values based on position, like we could pay
- 36:46this you know, this position up to this amount of money, or this
- 36:50position to this amount of money, and they don't. They didn't cross those
- 36:52lines. I think WW has the same kind of idea, like, hey,
- 36:57we can pay our top female up to this line. We don't want
- 37:00to go past it or pass it too far. Obviously, everybody's will get
- 37:06raises and get bumps and pay if you're performing. But they have a budget
- 37:09in light of where they want to pay people, and if somebody came through,
- 37:13they were like, hey, I want the top pay in this history,
- 37:16in the history of women's wrestling. And then he looks like goes,
- 37:21well, you're the number seven woman on our roster. They might let number
- 37:25seven walk because ten, eleven to twelve could easily take number seven spot.
- 37:32It's really interesting times. I think at the end of the day, I
- 37:35still think it's a historic signing. I think it's a huge needle mover for
- 37:39finances and money that will be paid to female wrestlers. And yeah, I
- 37:45think you're seeing the ground level of where negotiations now will start and end for
- 37:53a lot of female stars. Because if you're willing to pay Mercedes mone this
- 37:57money, you know there's that upper rational of female talent. And yeah,
- 38:01I think it's a very historic moment. Doctor Trey. Do you think this
- 38:06makes it more likely that when Bailey's deal comes up, she goes to AW
- 38:10I think she's a w wee girl. Yeah, but I mean literally like,
- 38:15and I'll say why, because did you see there was that interview that
- 38:21they ended up like scrubbing the the clip off of because as she was getting
- 38:25ready to debut in AW that Mercedes Bone said in this interview she knew she
- 38:31was going She's going to return in w someday. Yeah. I saw them
- 38:35scrub that part. Yeah yeah, and then she like backtracked a little bit
- 38:37or there was a little bit more contacts and contacts and it was like,
- 38:40well, I mean, I may just come back for one match and I'll
- 38:44be against Bailey and it's like, oh, shut up, that's not that's
- 38:46not happening. So I thought that was very strange. I just I just
- 38:52I just saw that. I saw that the Instagram post of Bailey and Naomi
- 38:57putting on disguises to go visit the AW show to see Mercedes debut in Boston.
- 39:01I love that. I think that's great to support your friends. We've
- 39:05seen it when they went to New Japan, they went to Mercedes and Bailey
- 39:09went to TNA to see I think Trinity, Naomi's last match and one of
- 39:16her first matches. They were behind the scenes as well. I liked it.
- 39:21There's a little bit more flexibility in that. And in case in point,
- 39:23I did not gain a lot of traction from my eyes. But Matt
- 39:27Hardy was at RAW this past Monthay, well they were in Raw well,
- 39:31but I mean no, I mean they could be in New York or in
- 39:36New York and and I don't know is MJF got to show up to watch
- 39:40in Brooklyn in a couple of weeks. I mean Matt Hardy also had I
- 39:44mean there's still people in the company that he's worked with. In those folks,
- 39:46I mean we talked about like, well, there's reports that his contracts
- 39:51coming up. Yeah, but we also saw that when see Aim Punk was
- 39:52in Chicago and visited Money that I visited Raw. From what we've learned,
- 39:57that was clearly Punk trying to figure out how to get back to really well.
- 40:00He also with a TNA. He did, he did, and that
- 40:04nearly became a reality as well, which is I guess one of the reasons
- 40:07why Scott the Moore left the company. So interesting times for professional wrestling.
- 40:12It's cool to see as well as as always this time of the year is
- 40:15a lot of fun. And then to bounce back to WW Doctor Trey.
- 40:20There's a report out there right now from Wrestle Votes, which is this is.
- 40:23So this is is clear as Day and his concrete, because they're very
- 40:29rarely wrong. Four more WrestleMania matches are expected to be announced for the event,
- 40:34with seven matches per night on the card. Do you think so we've
- 40:38got then we've got ten matches announced? Is seven matches each night? Fourteen
- 40:46total? The right amount for WrestleMania forty I I don't know if there's an
- 40:52actual right amount. I think there's a time. I think there is.
- 40:57I think there's a right I get your point, but I do you think
- 41:00that there is can be a right amount as well? I mean, if
- 41:04you have six matches and it goes three hours, or you have seven matches
- 41:07and it goes three hours, is they're really a difference? That is a
- 41:09very good point. That is a very good point. I mean to me,
- 41:13it doesn't if you're staying in that three hour window. That does mean
- 41:16one of the matches. If you do seven matches versus six matches, or
- 41:20I mean, dear god, what we just have pay for review? They
- 41:21had four matches, yeah, well, I mean two of them were the
- 41:23elimination champe but you know two of these on night two are world title matches.
- 41:30So obviously they're gonna get twenty to twenty to thirty minutes apiece. Well
- 41:36that's an hour between two matches. It's five matches for the other two hours,
- 41:40and then plus your little you know, celebrity things or intermissions, not
- 41:45intermission, but either the breaks between the matches and stuff like that. So
- 41:47there is, you know, there is there is a line at times because
- 41:51I mean, your god, we don't want to go back to WrestleMania when
- 41:52you had the eighteen second matches or a seven minute match, because that doesn't
- 41:58feel like a good blowoff to a few seven minute match is not a good
- 42:00blowoff. You want to give matches time, but then you also want to
- 42:05make sure you're getting value for your time as well. And sometimes that quantity
- 42:09versus quality line is where I think they dance on a lot, like you
- 42:14know, and plus I don't know if it's still the case, but for
- 42:16for many many years, there was a WrestleMania bonus that the performers got,
- 42:22and that's why we used to get crazy number matches and all the Battle Royals
- 42:27and all the multiman badges. So that way they felt like they were giving
- 42:30everybody, you know, their bonus shine to use the word that you used
- 42:34several times a night. So there is that line. I mean, dear
- 42:37guy, I mean that's that would be fourteen matches at a WrestleMania you know
- 42:40if we still had one night. I mean, that's like an aw card.
- 42:45Yeah, yeah, that aw card is rather long. I just had
- 42:50that moment of like my heart stopping the five hour pay per views and stuff
- 42:54like that, like I may like WrestleMania New Organs and when I went to
- 42:57I mean we got to the show at I think we got there like doors
- 43:00open at four thirty, and then the pre show stuff started like five thirty
- 43:06six, and then we left. You know, that's the infamous Rollman Brock
- 43:08match that we left right after introductions and we left there at ten thirty and
- 43:14that match still with like another thirty forty minutes. I mean I was only
- 43:16went another two days. Yeah, So, like I learned, my entire
- 43:22night was just I just want to hear Paul I haven't do the intros,
- 43:22and that was very I remember restumating thirty five. I started watching the show
- 43:29at five pm because they were doing the pre show and aired a couple of
- 43:34matches on USA Network. I remember like FTR and Hawkins and Ryder had a
- 43:37match, and then I remember the main event went on close to midnight,
- 43:42which was the Triple Threat Women's match, and it like ended at twelve thirty,
- 43:46you know, twelve forty five, and it was like I just sat
- 43:49on the couch for seven and a half hours watching restuming, and I remember
- 43:52we had the discussion like they need to break this up, and then they
- 43:55did it the next year, well circumstance because of COVID and then him a
- 44:00regular thing on thirty seven, thirty eight, thirty nine and now forty and
- 44:02I love that they do that. So I do get your point where it's
- 44:06like it's not quantity, it's more quality, and yeah, yeah, I
- 44:13guess it's not the right amount. It's more of the time overall. Yeah,
- 44:16that was the year we actually talked about Wrestle king to be two nights
- 44:20and if ww should do like what Wressell Kingdom does. We sat he would
- 44:22let me be a great idea, and then the next year they went through
- 44:24with it because of COVID. But that's something that you and I might want
- 44:28a research. But to go back to Wrestle Batien and see how many matches
- 44:31on average they had at wrestle Media prior to going at two knights. Oh
- 44:36dude, they had like fifteen or sixteen on thirty five. Do you remember
- 44:39like some Moa Joe and Raymysterio had like a ninety second match. Yeah,
- 44:45and that's and that's where like if you' which was so damn disrespectful, and
- 44:49that way, if you're looking at going, okay, well, if they
- 44:51if they do sixteen matches, divide that too, eight would be the number.
- 44:55And if they're coming in at seven or coming in at six, And
- 45:00that makes sense because that way you're still getting the quantity of previous wrestlemtings with
- 45:06the qualities better because it's broken up over two nights and you can digest it
- 45:08better. All right, let's take a look here real quick, and then
- 45:12we'll go through the card round up. And I want to know what matches
- 45:14we think may be missing of the four WrestleMania thirty four Doctor Trey, you
- 45:19were there live, how many matches do you think took place at that card
- 45:23on the main show? No, no, do the whole show. The
- 45:28whole shows one, two, three, four, five, six. It
- 45:31was probably around twelve twelve, I believe it was fourteen fourteen, okay,
- 45:38fourteen matches on thirty four and then there's two matches I forgot. I think
- 45:43one of them involved Nicholas and then thirty five. How many matches do you
- 45:49think we're on there start to finish counting the pre show, I would say
- 45:52sixteen for that one, because that way you are dead on sixteen matches.
- 45:58Rollins and brock lesra on that card went two minutes and thirty seconds. Samo
- 46:01Joe and Raymisterio my apologies, it went fifty eight seconds. Roman Reigns,
- 46:07Drew McIntyre went ten minutes. Corbyn Kurdang and went six minutes. Finn Baler
- 46:13and Bobby Lashley Interconinal Championship match at WrestleMania four minutes and five seconds. Don't
- 46:21forget. We've also had, like you know JBL and Raybisterio was like,
- 46:24was what like forty five seconds? Well they did that purposely, Yeah,
- 46:29that was that was JBL's way of paying respect to Eddie who had passed away
- 46:34at that point and wanted to retire on the sword against Ray Asterio. So
- 46:38h but I mean, that's that's one thing we haven't had since we've gone
- 46:42to two nights are those like what the hell did I just see matches where
- 46:45it's like that short. We've had longer batches the guys that had better build
- 46:52And I think I think Triple H, being a former performer, understands that,
- 46:55Like im if I'm going to be at WrestleMania. I mean, dear
- 46:59guy, he's had some stinkers at WRESTLEMANI he's has some brain matches Wrestleman.
- 47:02So I think he understands, Hey, we got to get these guys some
- 47:06time to tell their story. So yeah, let's get the guys on the
- 47:08show. It might be a multi man match, but dear God, let's
- 47:12get the guys on the show. Let me get their money, but also
- 47:14give them time to actually perform up their standards. Triple H got jobbed out
- 47:16to Ultimate Warrior WrestleMania in like seconds, so yeah, he certainly knows what
- 47:22that is like. Looking at the Wrestlemanting forty card round up, what was
- 47:25announced since we last recorded this podcast, La Knight and AJ Styles is official
- 47:30as official Jay Uso and Jimmy Uso is official. And there's a really cool
- 47:37stat here that every fifteen years since WrestleMania at ten. A WrestleMania match has
- 47:43had a brother versus brother match Brent No and at WrestleMania at ten Matt versus
- 47:47Jeff at Restman. In twenty five. Michael Cole actually mentioned it mentioned in
- 47:51Unraw this past week. That is now official Logan Paul defending the United States
- 47:55Championship against Randy Norton Kevin Owens, which Doctor Treyna trying to figure out where
- 48:00that match was going is now official. DIY, the Awesome Truth and The
- 48:05New Day have been added to the six Pack Ladder match for the NSP to
- 48:08WA Tag Team Championship. There are two spots remaining. Those will go to
- 48:13SmackDown which is doing a mini tournament right now. Sidebar on that DIY versus
- 48:17the Creed Brothers go back and watch that match. That was awesome for a
- 48:22television match. So LA and I AJ styles USA versus USO Logan or in
- 48:28Kevin Owens, DIY, Awesome Truth, New Day added to the tag match.
- 48:31Doctor Trey, your thoughts on the recently added matches to Russell Many forty.
- 48:38I'm looking forward the tag match because I mean everybody have been added like
- 48:42so far, like everybody added. Some matches has has a role. Like
- 48:45we've seen Dy against Judgment Day. We've seen the interactions of New Day and
- 48:51Judgment Day going back a few months ago. Awesome truth. You know obviously
- 48:54have their issues with Judgment Day. So everything storyline wise fits. I'm looking
- 48:59forward to that one. Or and Logan Paul is going to be really really
- 49:02fun U USSO and USO is great. And then does this mean at WrestleMania
- 49:07fifty five we get Logan against Jake Paul. It is predictab intersting. They
- 49:15be in their forties, so you know, projecting it out interesting. And
- 49:22then, like we mentioned earlier here Doctor Trey, there are four matches left
- 49:27to be added on our list of rumor slash expected. We had down the
- 49:32Final Testament versus The Pride, Grayson Waller versus Austin Theory, Raymisterira versus Santos
- 49:39Escobar. I know it's taking place on SmackDown on Friday. I do think
- 49:43that happens at WrestleMania somehow, or maybe there's like Raymons Stereo and Bad Bunny
- 49:49versus Santos and someone, and then Jade Cargill and Bianca Belaire are down as
- 49:58our rumored expected list of those four, which ones do you think do make
- 50:02it to the WrestleMania Card one and then two? What matches are we missing
- 50:07to fill these spots for the four voids? I guess we could always go
- 50:12back to Well, they'll have the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal in the
- 50:15WrestleMania Women's Battle Royal. That can fill that as well. I think the
- 50:19Pride Final Testament things happening. I think we get some kind of Ray and
- 50:24Santos interaction, whether it's a you know, one on one or they do
- 50:29l W o versus Lake Gado, Delfa Tasma, some kind of thing that
- 50:34I think that will happen. The Jade Bianca thing is there because since the
- 50:39since the Rubble, we haven't seen Jay Carter. I know so here and
- 50:44there, but we have not seen her like play a significant role, and
- 50:47at this point I don't think it's happening. I think what we might get
- 50:51is Naomi and against the Kabuki Warriors, which is something else I had thought
- 50:57about was doing. You know, I mentioned if you did Beca and Jade
- 51:00against the Warriors, they're just somebuting Jake Cargo out for Naomi. And then
- 51:05what was the other one we did. You mentioned Ray Santo's Pride, Fantastic
- 51:10Grayson and Austin theory that one. I don't know. We haven't seen Austin
- 51:16turned yet, and I think if you're going to do that, just being
- 51:20a few weeks out for WrestleMania, you would have pulled the trigger on that
- 51:22one. So I think they might get dumped into the Battle Royal. I
- 51:25just think there's one more out there. Let's see, where are we missing
- 51:31women's match for anybody? Unless they do die and limb to do like a
- 51:37David versus Malaiath. I think I'm starting to as we talk it out loud,
- 51:40I'm starting to think that two of those four matches andre the Giant Memorial
- 51:45Battle Royal. I can't see that not happening unless they do it on the
- 51:47SmackDown before and WrestleMania Women's Battle Royal, which the focus would be nigh and
- 51:52live on that match. Yeah, I think those are two of the four.
- 51:57So then which one of the of the two men's match? I mean,
- 52:00are so are you on the page with the Pride and Final Testament though
- 52:02I am not on the same page with that. I think Mysterio Santos either
- 52:07one on one or some sort of like tag team match happens at WrestleMania,
- 52:13And I'm going to I really like your idea of Bianca and Naomi taking on
- 52:17the Kabooki Warriors. I could totally see that. I'm gonna say, Jade,
- 52:22Bianca is still on the table. They still have time to build towards
- 52:25it. But I mean, if nothing happens on SmackDown on Friday, I
- 52:30mean, I think we can almost x that from our list because we saw
- 52:35Naomi get involved with Bailey, yes, and damage Control and that, and
- 52:38then we saw the interaction of Naomi and Bianca, yeah, the week priory.
- 52:43So that's why I was trying to tie it all together. Yeah,
- 52:45I like that plan. And the only thing that plays a role in that
- 52:47is how significant is Oscar's injury that she clearly suffered at the end of SmackDown
- 52:52this past Friday. Well, I mean, do you pull does damage Control
- 52:55pull Freebird rules and Da Kodagish subbed in for Oscar. Yep, that's a
- 53:00great save as well. They certainly can do that. So it's gonna be
- 53:04like, but you, I mean the last couple of years, I mean
- 53:07that the Battle of Royals were done on SmackDown as well. I know,
- 53:09I know, so interesting. We'll see where SmackDown goes on Friday and if
- 53:14we get a little bit more light shined on which matches will be added to
- 53:17WrestleMania come the next five shows of Raw and SmackDown. So that is the
- 53:22latest WrestleMania forty card roundup. Uh And that with that being said, let's
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