This is WWW Superstar Drew McIntyre and you're listening to the WWE podcast. The
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your ass this mad You're gonna like mal Tree. All right, everybody,
it's time for that mailbag. It's the third of May Wednesday, April or
April May thirt, twenty twenty three. Boy, all right, well,
let's let's dive into it. Guys. We've got a lot to get to
with the mailbag tonight. You guys went crazy on the emails and I'm not
gonna waste any time. Let's just jump right into it. As always,
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patreon dot com slash WWE podcast. All right, so this first one is
from Frank, a patron the show, and he says, I'm new here.
With the draft done, what is the ww going to put Where they
going to put Biggie, Randy Orton, Alexilis and Bray Wyatt when they return.
Well, I would imagine that Biggie's gonna stick with the new Day,
which means Biggie's going to Raw because WWE refuses to actually give Biggie a proper
singles push, and the last time they did that it ended up in Biggie
just every chance they got reuniting with the New Day and regressing eight steps.
So I think Biggie goes to Raw. I also think Randy Orton goes to
Raw. And the reason I think that is you have Riddle there, and
Riddle and Orton have a story left to finish as RK bro and as opponents.
As far as Bray Wyatt and Alexiblisco SmackDown, I think that they belong
on SmackDown. I don't know where the hell Alexibliss went. She just vaporizes
every year around WrestleMania season and then comes back out of nowhere. Bray Wide,
I would imagine also as a nice home on SmackDown, and you could
you could put Bray White against Roman reigns at some point as well, and
maybe also connect Alexa and Bray There was that connection or remember that would that
was never explained. My other question is with all the belts, do you
think they will keep the belts or have or switch the belts? So I
think that right now, Roman is going to hold those two separate champions.
When you're talking about belts, you're talking about the physical belts. I think
Roman's gonna keep his two belts. I don't know if they're gonna unify them
into a single belt. They might. I would advise that they do,
because it looks like there are more championships than they are and when there's more
of something, it means less. But that's just my personal preference. And
my final question is with the unified tag team titles, do you think it
will be up for grabs on both brands? Thank you ever, Thank you
everyone, till next time, Frank. Thanks Frank. So, what I
understand is the explo nation for Kevin Owens and Sammy's being drafted to Raw even
though the undisputed tag team champions, is that they have a home in the
event and the likelihood at some point of them dropping the championship. So it
means that you can still float between brands as champions, but the second they
lose those belts, their home is Raw. That's the way I understand it.
All right, thank you so much, Frank. Let's get to Let's
get to the grim reefer and he says, well, mister missus cascherwussing fan,
I'm filling in for them tonight. They have again a lot going on
and they'll be back at some point in the near future. So fingers crossed
there. So I know I'm not as interesting and fun to listen to as
mister and missus cagerwusting fan, no doubt about it. So those of you
that wrote in assuming they would be here, surprise. It's just me,
all right, So you say this is usually a predictions mailbox, but I
just want to share my delight about the draft and the new heavyweight tie.
As I've always favored Raw, and it is well known I'm not very fond
of Roman. This draft could have not worked out better apart from Raw drafting
the Pooh Day and with that bloody trombone bron Stroman with his disgusting nipple piercings
and Ronda Rousi constantly pulling her shorts out of her backside. It's funny.
I've mentioned a few times how blessed Raw is for not having those three and
they are drafted to Raw. Haha. Such as life Yeah, I mean
yeah, you can you take the good with the bad. Right. I
mean that's just the way it goes in this instance, you know, having
Ronda on Raw even though she's in a tag team and eventually her own and
Shana are going to capture those tag team titles and then hold them for a
significant amount of time. And then eventually once Shana and Rhonda break up,
maybe they have a feud with one another, but ultimately it's going to get
to Ronda and Becky. It has to write, right, and I think
Ronda she's on the I mean, has Ronda been any colder since she came
to w W E five years ago? No? Right, but uh yeah,
I mean bron Strowman and New Day. Yeah, like you take the
bab It's good. I'll just leave it at that. The only other part
I'm not quite sure on is SmackDown's tag division looks amazing, but the Belts
are on Raw. I'm sure they'll sort out something, maybe a heavyweight tag
team title, stay fly Grim, well, thank you Grim. Yeah.
The SmackDown tag team division does look I mean amazing, of course, And
I mean some of the teams, just to name a few, are the
Street Profits, all right, I mean the bloodline out of the USOS,
we have the OC with Carl Andersson, Lucaals and aj Styles. They know
and they can operate as a tag team. They've got You've got a hit
row with Flop Dollar, Shanty, the Adonis and BFAB. We've got the
LWO that can have any combination of a tag team there the brawling brutes.
We've got pretty deadly now with Elton Price and Kit Wilson. So yeah,
I mean they have there's a heck of a tag team division over there on
SmackDown that I hope that. I hope we get some competition with for for
for Kevin Owns and Sammy Zane definitely shake things up, but at least it's
good to know that we have a home for Sammy and Kevin when they lose
those belts. All right, let's get to DJ Cuzmo. Mister Djkuzmo,
he says, hey, aw andww podcast family is Is Djkuzmo back at it
again? As I type this email, I don't know if Matt is hosting
the mail bag in or if the return of the Mister and Missus Casual Wrestling
fan and the takeover Cruse hosting. Well, now you know and insert sound
effective wwampwampwamp. I know, so other than that won't be too long,
So let's get to the Kuzmo Backlash predictions with no spoilers. Interesting Roman Rains
will likely most likely not make an appearance at Backlash, But to here we
go. Bianca versus EO and versus EO the Raw Women's Championship. I'm looking,
I'm booking that Bianca will win, but strangely, there hasn't been any
build for this match. I almost forgot the match was on the card.
And how did EO Sky get a title shot against Bianca? Well, she
got a title shot because she won. I think it was a triple threat
or a fatal four way in which Bailey was going to be a part of,
and then EO Sky into Kota Kai complained that she always gets the opportunities
and that they should let she should let one of them take her place in
that triple threat, and Bailey did and we had EO Sky end up winning
it. So EO Sky that's how she got the opportunity. I'm hopeful of
this is going to be EO Sky losing because of Bailey and Bailey turning an
EO Sky. That's my hope, but we'll see so yeah, I mean,
but to say the least that this build for the Raw Women's Championship is
lack luster, and that's been the case for the Raw Women's Championship for a
long time now, even pre WrestleMania with Oscar versus Bianca at WrestleMania, most
people didn't feel anything for that match at all because they did a very bad
job of promoting it. So the Raw Woman's Championship and even more specifically Bianca
bell Air need a shake up. That's badly all right. Austin Theory versus
Bobby Lashley versus Brownson read in a triple threat for the United States Championship,
you're saying that Theory will win and hopefully move on to a new challenger on
SmackDown. Yeah. Absolutely, this is a this is a no doubt about
it type of Well, I shouldn't say that. The reason I shouldn't say
that is we do have Bobby Lashly on SmackDown and he's an absolute contender to
possibly win. But the idea is to push Theory because Bobby doesn't need the
victory. Here, Austin Theory gained almost nothing from beating John c and at
WrestleMania, which is incomprehensible simply, but well, it's comprehensible because they book
Theory in a very poor way at WrestleMania and how he beats Cina. I've
gone over that. But Austin Theory needs a victory and they need to kind
of hit reset with him that they need to, and I think SmackDown will
do him wonders. All right, let's get to the next match, Ria
versus Zelina for the SmackDown Woman's Championship. You're saying Ria will retain and move
on to face a new challenger. Absolutely, this is a lock them up,
throw the key away decision. I agree Seth versus Omas. I'm booking
Seth for the win. It's still very strange that Rollins and Omas did not
have an interaction or altercation on the go home show this past Mine to Night.
Plus, Omas is a quote free agent. What does that really mean
to be a free agent in pro wrestling? Anyway, this is just another
loss for Omas, who hasn't had a streak of credible wins yet. Plus,
this match, to me will be a one off, so let Seska
move on to a challenger for the World Tavy White title in some sort of
tournament. Yeah, I mean, I can't disagree. I'm not trying to
give away my official previewing predictions for tomorrow night. But hard to argue with
you. Hard to argue with you, dj No, I mean you know,
but yeah, this is another match that you know on paper it sounds
fun, but in execution it's been bad in hype because the hype around Seth
is the title, it's not around Omasa Omas is a pit stop. But
all right, Damian versus Bad Bunny Damian Priests versus Bad Bunny in a San
Juan street fight. Now, if you're asking what the difference is between a
San Juan street fight and just a regular little old street fight, well it's
a San Juan street fight, of course, it's a distinction without a difference.
But I'm booking that Bad Bunny wins this match. In another judgment they
lost on a pay per view. I will think about that, but again,
there's a significant chance you're correct. Cody Roads versus Brock Lessner. This
is a tough one to decide because this could be a Brock win to continue
the few with Cody, or this could be a Cody Rhodes statement win for
him to move on to challenge for the World Heavyweight title. However, with
that being said, I'm booking that Cody Roads will win this match, okay,
And I'm only saying okay because I want to not bury the lead and
make you guys listen to my show tomorrow night. I'm being selfish. Lastly,
but certainly not least, The most likely main event of Backlash then involves
Ko, Sammy and Riddle versus the USOS and Solo. I'm booking the baby
Face win this match to close off Backlash in Puerto Rico. That's it for
now, have an awesome Backlash Sunday. DJ Cozmo was signing off. Thanks
DJ, great predictions. I will say I agree with a significant number of
them, a lot of them for the reasons you mentioned. But tune in
to mor night, guys. We'll get to your voicemail in just a minute.
DJ. Let's talk to Let's see hmm, let's talk to Let's talk
to Eli and he says, let me talk to you. Hope. All's
well, let me get straight to it. I'm more than tired of Roman
Rains's reign as champion. I feel like as fans and the other I feel
like we as fans and even the other ww superstars are being held hostage until
he hits the thousand day mark. I really fear he will hold the Universal
title until WrestleMania, and for what well, I wouldn't fear any longer.
Well, number one, even if we didn't have the World Heavyweight title,
there's still a lot of tread on the tire of Roman reigns and stories to
tell. As I mentioned, there's still bray Wyatt floating out there, and
there's a big history with them, including the fact that Roman's title reign Day
one began at SummerSlam nearly three years ago in a triple threat against Braun Strowman
and bray Wyatt beating bray Wyatt. Okay, let's not forget that. But
there is also a lot of unfinished business with Randy Orton from a year ago.
There's unfinished business of course with Seth Rollins and Jay Usso that's good building
up and eventually Solo and who the hell knows, maybe even Dwayne comes out
of Hollywood for once. So there's a lot, a lot, a lot.
But fear not, because even if that didn't get too excited, there's
now a championship on Raw that we can focus on and we won't have to
be so angry about ww keeping hit this title hostage. Okay, I understand
that he and the Bloodline bring an unreal amount of revenue, but I feel
like at the end of the day, or at the end of this run,
the company will have suffered too many other superstars who have had an opportunity
at least to be Raw our SmackDown champions have had to wait their wait their
turn to a part time champion. Stars like montez Ford, La Night and
even Gunther aren't getting any younger, and day by day, bump by bump,
their title runs are being pushed further out because w w E wants to
churn out a documentary series about Roman. I don't know. I appreciate this
platform event. Yeah thanks okay, Eli. First of all, I appreciate
the La Nights sentiment. It's much appreciated and you get bonus points for that.
But okay, well, I mean you admit that they're bringing in an
unreal amount of revenue, right, and what is w w E. They
are not a charitable organization. They're not a five or one C three.
Okay, they're not a not for profit organization. They are a for profit
organization, and for profit organizations highly value money, money money, So that
is a massive determining factor in and who sometimes is at the top, who
stays at top, at the top. It's not the only factor, but
it's a big one. I mean, they're not in this to donate their
time, and yeah, that's just a fact of business. But yeah,
I mean, yeah, the fact that superstars who were especially on Raw for
over the last year prior to this World Everyweight title announcement, I felt for
them, and I talked about that many, many many times on the show
that I felt for them, you know, and feeling I'm sure they felt
slighted and pissed off that they didn't get an opportunity to main event WrestleMania because
it was all Roman Roman, Roman Roman, and they had to pretend for
a year that they had a top belt when it really wasn't a top belt.
It was the only the US title was only the top belt because of
the absence of the real top belt. So yeah, I agree, though
the montees La Knight, Gunther, well, Gunther's the Icy champion, right,
so I wouldn't put Gunther in this bottle yet and La Knight's still on
the rise, montes Ford is still in a tag team, so it's not
like I don't think they've been restricted those specific examples only because again, La
Knight pretty much new to the scene relatively, montes still in the tag team,
and Gunther's Icy champion, so I don't know if I would put them
in that camp yet. And it's only been a year, right, Like,
it's not like they did this for five years. You know, a
year is significant, but it's not a ton of time in the world of
wrestling. But I hear you though, and I don't think it's all about
the documentary series about Roman. I mean, I know I've been pushing the
thousand Days because I can see them doing a documentary, but it's not the
only reason. Like they're not going to just you know, strip away opportunities
from town and on raw and piss off the fans and take a revenue hit
or whatever just so that they can go, well, we can get that
documentary out. No, but let's be honest, they're doing a documentary right
now with Roman Reigns having cameras following them around. One thousand Days is going
to be a documentary, no doubt. I mean they'd be foolish not to.
So all right, Eli, thank you buddy. Let's see, let's
get to let's get to Jackson from Melbourne and he says, short email today,
I just want to say one thing to you. Oh well, this
is from mister casual wrestling fan, but I'll take it anyway. In my
last email, I was never saying Bianca shouldn't be champion. I'm just saying
she should be heel. I watched her n NXT with his exact same gimmick
and it's stale right now. As a face an NXT, she was a
heel and a very intriguing character. She should be the top champion on one
of the brands she is. Excuse me, she is the single greatest female
athlete in the history of WWE, but God, she puts me to sleep
as a baby face. Also, I bet you popped huge when you saw
your favorite NXT star Cameron Grimes get drafted. Bet you're so excited to see
your favorite Dethrone Roman. Last thing, where do you? Where is the
Good Morning ww podcast? Missing that? Anyways? Guys, enjoy yourself.
Talk to you for a night. Of Champions Zones again. Okay, yeah
again, mister missus kus rusting fan taking a break from the podcast. Nothing
you know, it's nothing nefarious, meaning there's no bad blood between myself and
mister and missus. They are an important part of the show. I have
gotten nothing but admiration and appreciation for everything they've contributed to the show and will
contribute to the show. It's nothing like that. It's just that, I
mean, they've got life. We've all got lives. I mean, I
struggle to get here on a daily basis. It's it's tough, so it
doesn't matter how Sometimes life takes over, that's all. So they'll be back,
they'll be back. But I'm with you on the point you made about
Bianca bell Air. She shouldn't be a baby face. At this point.
It's done, it's round. It's course. I don't need to see her,
you know, skipping down to the ring, twirling her hair, you
know, anymore. I'm ready for the nasty vial just wicked side that I
know, uh that I know she's capable of. And I agree she is
arguably the greatest female athlete in the history of w E. I totally agree.
All right, thanks Jackson. Let's get to cam and wow. All
right, you certainly uh you maximize your minutes here, cab, I will.
I'll get through this as quick as I can. Okay, you you
all right? Here we go. It's Wednesday. My dude's old Vine.
I remembered. Yeah, if if you guys, by the way, don't
know what Vine is, If any of you out there don't know what Vine
is, it was an app before TikTok. It was like the TikTok before
TikTok, and it's got legendary videos and I would really recommend it's it's on
TikTok. I mean, there's there's vyinge accounts dedicated on TikTok to old vines
or on YouTube. They're just so good. It's so nostalgic at this point
from ten years ago. All Right, I'd like to start by saying I'm
glad Drew is drafted, which means which has to mean they have had to
come to some agreement. But now it's time that I bless y'all with a
couple of things I thought through over the week. I'll start by saying my
shortened reason for the one k day rain, one thousand day and that is
it's for the Naye family, not just for Roman. Of course he's in
on a whole nother level, but he is just representing the what w W
wants to show for the Anaye family greatness. I know that Rhodes has done
a lot, but for some reason, I feel like they've given Dusty Hiss
shining recognition for all he has done in in for WWE. But this is
ww He's way to pay homage to Sika Afa Keisha or Kishi Rakishi and most
importantly who I think it's really for Yoko, which I find it amazing that
it would end up being Roman and Manu's dad that would be in a tag
team, and as you know, it's the Rakishi boys that are tag teams.
I mentioned so next I mentioned Dom's song sounding like a cheap knockoff of
Sad but True by the good old Taalica boys. You said you don't know
or don't know the title. I think I can help. Oh I am
American badass. Okay, yeah, yeah, got it? Got it?
Got it? Of course I know that. Another thing I'm kind of sick
of Usologist Zane hm xusologist. Got it? Got it? So Sammy Zane
you're getting sick of. I don't know if you noticed, but how much
of a snake this guy is. He's a he tries mega hard when it
comes to being people's friend. And by this I mean when he was with
the USOS, he'd say, yeat my dog, USI speaking their language,
and with Kevin, he was saying anything he could to get that man to
like him. And now Riddle is around. Okay, I'm not I caught
his ass saying, bro, I'm not sure, like, cut your grass,
there is a snake in your yard. My dudes could just be me,
but it happened. Oh so you're thinking that, from what I understand,
Cam, you're thinking that Riddle is a snake in the grass and he's
going to turn Or are you saying a snake in the grass meeting Randy Orton's
out there? I'm not sure we might get Becky versus want Ronda one on
one. Finally, I agree, and I think it's probably Summer Slam at
the earliest. The est gets her dream many a match of beating the last
Horsewoman. Kind of funny how Street prophets came out after being drafted to smack
Down almost immediately and they were wearing blue, like it was known that they
were going. I know there was so wine. I know they were there,
so why not wear blue? And Texas teams usually are blue. But
it's just funny. Anyone who thought the actual IRL couples would be on separate
shows just made me laugh. Definitely a time when it sucks to no real
information about the wrestlers. By this, I mean when Becky was drafted to
Raw, I instantly knew or through any Seth versus Roman match away until rubble.
Yeah, that's a good point. I'd forgotten about that. I should
have known. You know that. That's a very good point, very good
point, and you know I made it. I just forgot about it.
So thank you Caim for reminding me that, you know I should have.
We should have known that when Becky was drafted before Seth, when she was
drafted to Raw, we should have just gone, oh that's right, Seth's
going Raw. Yeah, I know I missed it, so thank you.
Very curious to see these Beltics changes number six. I can't wait to see
how they make all the NXT picks work. Seeing how they drafted the women's
tag team champs to Raw and the women that are competing for the gold on
Tuesday, got drafted to SmackDown and with Indie just winning the NXC championship,
Like, dang, did they even think that through? And uh, lastly,
let's see you Anthony, and you already touched on this. Anyone who
anyone who was a free agent after the draft was complete. The only thing
I could think about that they didn't hear about was what's their future as in
Biggie Randy Bray just to name a few. Well, I already answered that
earlier in the show. So all right, So I'm going to stop there
only because out of fairness to the rest of the emailers. Uh so,
I know that you have the rest CAM of asking what's next and talking about
the new day and that kind of stuff, But mister, you should give
a shout out to mister and missus casual rossing fans. So yeah, they
are fine. There's there's nothing again, thing nefarious or bad going on.
Just life is taken over, that's all I'll say. So they'll be back,
don't worry, I promise you. So thank you, Cam. I
appreciate it. Let's move on here to Chandler and he says the draft is
officially over. And here's my take. I think Imperium coming to Row will
be nice. I like the NXT call ups, specifically Grayson Waller and Cameron
Grimes. I think it was time for them to come up. And also,
could they be the one I'm putting this in, Nick Chandler, could
they be the one city thrown Roman. We've I mean, for a long
time, I've said that ideally, in a perfect world, it would be
somebody that could use this to launch their career, not somebody that's already a
made man. So just a thought, not saying Grayson Waller or Cameron Grimes
are going to beat Roman rains, but you know, hey, if someone
catches fire, isn't an NXD call up that's got a lot of days in
front of them in the ring a perfect candidate to beat Roman. Food for
thought, Riah being the first pick night too showed how much of a star
she's become. I agree, you know, And but here's the thing with
the draft picks and the order of the draft picks and how we value who
got drafted at what part of the draft. Ultimately people are going to forget
about it. Okay, it's not going to be something that people harp on.
What people care about his execution is building storylines. It could be an
indicator of what WWE wants to do with them, but it's not an absolute
truth, right, Like some people get hung up on who gets drafted and
what selection in round two was this person, but round four was this person?
How is that possible? You know? So ultimately, I would just
say, let the storylines play out. Let's see if something catches fire with
somebody, and that's you know, But I'm with you. Kevin and Sammy
going to Raw confused me because they both hold the tag titles. We're not
even going to get into that. Well. I addressed this earlier about the
conundrum about the undisputed tag team champions being drafted to a show. Okay,
I like Seth going to Raw because he's my favorite, and I'm going to
Row and July so I get to see him. Was anyone really surprised Roman
went to SmackDown anyway? That's it. Have a good week. No,
I'm not surprised Roman went to SmackDown. He's actually made a very nice home
on SmackDown. Very nice. I wouldn't have moved him either. He feels
like SmackDown. He is the face of SmackDown. He is a He is
the absolute foundation. The Bloodline specifically are the foundation of SmackDown. Which is
why I wouldn't push for a quick split of that group. There's still a
lot to be told, a lot of drama to go through, a lot
of money to squeeze out of that before you decide to break up that group
and disintegrate the foundation of your of your show. Yeah, there's there's a
lot to think through. But as far as Seth going to Raw and you're
going to Raw in July, well good, And I'm going to Raw in
three weeks, so I get to see everybody, and I'll be uh in
the I'll be very visible on camera. Let me just say that I'm not
front row ringside, but in Albany, New York, I'm going to Raw
and I will be camera side, and there's the floor seats right, you
have ring side, right, but I'm the cameras pointed at me. I'm
the first level up off the floor row A. Okay, So i will
be front and center hopefully, and I'm going to try to maybe market to
show a little bit. Maybe you see a sign from my show. Keep
stay tuned. All right, all right, let's continue on. This is
a Peter from Melbourne, Australia. A love Melbourne fans. This is crazy.
I mean, this is I think of like three people off top of
my head from from Australia, Melbourne I think specifically. I don't know what
it is about Melbourne, but thanks guys. I really would love to visit
there, honestly someday. I'm quite a new listener to the podcast and find
myself already listening to each installment every day. Makes it easy knowing there's new
content which will be ready to go when I'm in the car. Well,
that's awesome. Peter. First of all, thank you for for making me
a part us, not just me, the team, a part of your
day. I do appreciate that. Again, it's just insane. You never
know who's listening. It's just it's mind blowing to see who and where and
how people listen or you know some I'm sure some people as I said,
driving work at work, on the toilet, you know, like you don't
know what people are doing. All right. My question and thoughts relate to
the draft and mostly surrounding my all time favorite wrestler Randy Orton, what do
you think he where do you think he goes, what brand and where will
that lead him? I certainly see him being a part of the World Heavyweight
Championship picture and potentially some relevancy comes NC, but it kills any Randy Roman
plans which may have been, which may have happened. Quietly, also wondering
what plans are for Bray. I actually like most to all of his character
variations, and dare I say enjoyed the Pitch Black match. It was something
different. Well we ever formally know who Uncle how He is. Anyway,
keep their brilliant content coming. Thanks Peter. First of all, I'm not
going to disparage you for liking the Pitch Black match. You are in the
minority, but so what I'm in the minority and a lot of stuff.
Okay, Yeah, I thought the Pitch Black Match was generally like a D
I didn't think it was a total failure, but it was a D match
quality, length of time, storytelling, botch by Uncle Howdy. Everything has
to be a gimmick with Bray. It can't ever just have a regular match.
There was glow in the dark, confetti. It was just overproduced,
right, that's my personal opinion. But if you enjoyed it, hey awesome,
good for you. As far as ever knowing who Uncle Howdy is,
I'm gonna say no, But we don't know what. Like when Bray gets
drafted and he's going to come back, and I believe he will go to
SmackDown with Alexa Bliss, as I mentioned earlier in the show. I think
SmackDown's a good home for him. He fits there, and again he could
have a program with Roman, program with Roman reigns. But it really is
going to depend where do they pick up the story with Bray when he comes
back. Do they cont with Uncle Howdy? I don't know. I'd imagine
that at this point people don't care who Uncle Howdy is, And maybe that
wasn't even the point, the identity of Uncle Howdy And I don't even know
if it was the point of the story. It was just he's just another
new guy. The ultimate payoff wasn't going to be the identity of Uncle Howdy
revealed. It was I don't know. I mean, it was X whatever
X is. So I don't know. Again, it's hard for me to
tell based on the fact that we don't know where They're going to pick up
where they left off when Brake comes back. So it remains to be seen
as as far as Roman and Randy plans. Look, if Randy gets drafted
to Raw, and I think he will for the aforementioned reasons, with Riddle
and Unfinished Business as a tag team there, and maybe they can face Kevin
Owens and Sammy's Ain and they lose, and that's where Randy turns on Riddle,
and Randy and Riddle finally have their program. But you know what,
Roman and Randy can still happen. How trades. Yeah, I've advocated for
this even before the draft was announced, and we had kind of a schmaus
of a loose old brand split that broke down. And I think trades are
absolutely possible, and they're realistic and they make sense, and they're exciting because
imagine WWE announcing a week ahead of time or on Twitter or whatever, on
Raw or wherever, that there's a there's been an earth shattering trade made between
brands and that they'll announce it next week. How awesome of a hook would
that be? You know, like, how cool of a hook would that
be? In the trade could be Randy Orton to smack down for I don't
know whoever to raw Bray or I don't just making something up. But trades
happen all the time in actual competitive sports all the time, so it's logical.
It's a logical extension for it to go into the pro wrestling world.
So I think that's absolutely possible. Just because someone's drafted to a brand doesn't
mean the trade can happen. Again, barring the nonsense of them just disregarding
the brand rules completely, which they have shown every single time they've done a
draft that they do. Barring that garbage, if they actually adhere to the
rules and do a strict split, hard split and do trades, that's the
road I'd go. Thank you, Peter. All right, let's go to
Darren and he says, Hey, Matt, it's Darren again, second time
writing in thanks for reading my email last time and responding this time. I
do have a question for you. I've heard you mentioned a few times the
possibility of a unification title match between RHA and Bianca. While no doubt it
would be a great match, it seems like everyone hates that they unify the
w W and universal titles as well as the tag titles, so do you
think unifying the women's titles would be something they end up regretting or is the
women's division a different story? Thank you Darren, Well, Darren, thanks
for writing in. So there's pluses and minuses to the unification all the time.
They are right. I mean massive benefit is there's only one, which
makes it more valuable simple economics, there's less of something, it's worth more.
I mean that's a that's it's a constant rule among anything and everything in
this world. When something's more rare, it's worth more. So that's a
massive benefit. Also, the women's division is not as deep as the men's
and therefore if there are a fewer championships, it makes sense that there are
that there's only one women's title, given that the raw the women's roster is
smaller. Now, if I'm going to argue against myself, it's well,
why would you want to to send the message that we recognize the women's division
is smaller. Therefore going along with that instead of trying to bolster the women's
division, add more women, add make them a bigger part of the show.
In keeping two belts. So there's my argument against myself. But here's
the thing. Ria Ripley versus Bianca Belair was teased the money Net raw after
WrestleMania, and it's one that has to happen. It's one that will happen.
The question is will they both be champion by the time this match happens,
and will it be for the titles. If the answers to that is
all yes, then you have a unification match on your hands, which could
go at SummerSlam. I think SummerSlam. I really don't believe Bianca will be
champion much longer. I really don't. She is as she's ice cold flat,
amazing athlete, but she just needs to change it. Yeah, that's
all. She's an amazing athlete, amazing asset to the roster, but she
just needs a shake up badly. But what I if you're gonna put a
gun on my head and say you have to do unification match today, I
would because the women's division right now is not at a point where two titles
would benefit the roster other than being having more women be able to claim they
are women they have been Women's Champion, which I actually think is a negative
because the more women can claim they've been champion, the less it means.
It's just simple, simple concepts here. Not trying to oversimplify this, but
those are my thoughts. Thanks Darren. Okay, only a couple more emails
here, a couple more so. We've got Michael from the UK and he
says, good evening. I thoroughly enjoy your podcast and listen regularly while set
work. Funnily enough, and see what is up with you? Guys.
You can't listen to me at home, You're gonna get yourself in trouble at
work, especially if you listen to the after Dark show on Patreon. Make
sure your headphones are in for that one. I've been meaning to write you
for a while, so here goes. I've been a wrestling fan for around
thirty odd years. I'm thirty six. Oh okay, so we're in the
same We're in the same ballpark, buddy. I took my seven year old
boy, who was first ww Live event last week in Birmingham, England.
He loved it. Anyway, that heat dominic mysterio was getting is absolutely brilliant.
I'm a fan of the guy in the crowd. We're all crowd here.
We're all over him at the live event and especially on Raw this past
week. I didn't like him when he first came in, but since he's
joined the Judgment Day he has improved greatly. I'd also say the same for
Damian Priest, who I also dislike me. He's come really come on heaps.
Ria is class and the Judgment Day has really propelled their careers. But
great if they could add some more titles to their faction, even though they're
doing fine without championship belts. I'm not sure Fenn Balor fits in. He
seems like the odd one out. They were all there at the live event
apart from Ria. That's first of all, that's awesome. You brought your
your your little guy to a live event and indoctrinating his mind into the world
of pro wrestling. I have a little one as well, a little bit
younger, and my goal is to get him into the the pro wrestling cult
as well, so I'll be initiating him in and probably a couple of years
as well, so I'll be joining you. But yeah, I mean,
I agree, the Judgment Day has been really just a surprising. It's been
a surprise to me, especially given that they ousted Edge and I said,
this has been the worst decision ever. And I still believe there were negatives
to that, but ultimately it turned out better than I could have imagined,
bolstering every person's career in a big way. And sure Finn feels a little
bit like the odd man out, but what else you gonna do with him?
Right now? He fits okay in the group, and Damian Priest is
finally getting spotlight. Rha is obviously the star, and I would argue she's
a baby face and heel group. The crowd's ready to cheer Rhea because she
feels like an an initiator of change, doesn't She feels like it's different look
for the women's division, So I think the fans are ready to cheer Rha.
They really are. And of course Dominic on the other side, is
you know, an absolute heat magnet, no doubt about it. But adding
more titles to their faction, sure that would help. I don't think it's
a necessity. Like you said, they're doing fine, but doesn't hurt whenever
a heel faction has titles. At the same time, we just saw that
with the Bloodline for you know, five hundred six hundred days combined with well,
that was the how long the US's held the title. Of course,
Romans held it for nearly a thousand But okay, I'm glad the judgment Day
got away from Edge. Though Edge is overrated, It's always been Christian for
me. Christian is class. Yeah, I would love to see Christian back,
I agree. Moving on, I don't think brock Lessner needs an explanation
for attacking Cody. He could simply say I attack Cody because I can and
I don't need to explain anything to you morons. Well, you know what,
Actually, Michael, that is an explanation, and I would accept that.
But the fact is they couldn't even be bothered to do that, and
I, you know, I would actually be okay with that because at least
it would be consistent with Brock's character of doing whatever the hell he wants for
any time, anytime he wants. But also it is an explanation Brock's saying,
I don't have to tell you because I'm brock Lesner. Okay, So
yeah, but they couldn't even be bothered to do that. That's the worst
part. But that would have gotten him a negative reaction. After all,
he is meant to be an uncontrollable beast. Cody Rhodes is great to be
honest, he gets a very positive response and that's all that matters. His
theme music, he's great in the ring, and his promos are very good.
Cody was at a live event and he finished the night. Yeah,
look, I can't. I can't disagree with Cody and how successful he's been.
It has been a big surprise to me that the crowd has connected with
him this quickly for this long and you know that there hasn't been any waning
in the crowd response. It's been generally very positive. And I don't I
still don't love his baby face character. I don't hate it. It's just
it's just not my favorite. It's too goody two shoes for me at times,
and I think he uses big words to use big words, and I
feel like he's putting on an act like he's more sophisticated than he is,
but he's anyway, I don't want to get into it. Ultimately, at
the core, I do agree with you. He is a big star right
now. He feels like a big star. He plays the part well,
he's a main in the ring. His promos have been more often than not
very good. So I mean, I don't have much to argue against Cody,
I really don't. At the ww Live event, do you know who
got the worst reaction other than Baron Corbyn whose theme music sucks? Bobby Lashley?
Wow, that guy is so bland. Excuse me? Yeah. Lashly
is a conundrum because he is the if you could create a pro wrestler and
what they look like, especially in Vince McMahon's mind, Bobby Lashley would come
out of that mold. I mean, he is exactly what you would want
a pro wrestlor to look like, exact. But the problem is WWE and
anywhere else that Bobby's been in other promotions have never been able to figure out
the key or the code to unlock Bobby's personality. Bobby has personality, We've
seen. I saw it on Broken Skull Sessions with Stone called He's just I
think the problem with him he's too laid back as a person. He comes
across too chill in real life and if that's who he really is, then
you know on TV he's just putting on an act. And what that act
is, I agree, is bland, and having him not being really good
at promos hurts, and when he tries, it's like you can tell he's
trying to create emotion that's not real. And I mean, Bobby Lashley is
a beast, excuse me, and he is an absolute machine. I have
nothing but respect for the guy, but let's be honest. His character is
not exactly a deep, a very It's not a very good character to connect
with the audience, and time has shown that. I agree. Yeah,
it's it is kind of bland his character anyway, in the ring, he's
very good. I got to see my favorite though Austin theory. That guy
is a future in w champ. His promos are decent. He's great in
the ring. I don't think beating seen It with a low blow really matters.
Gutted, there was no La night. Yeah, I feel bad for
you. I'll leave it there for now right in again, Thanks King Scully.
Okay, King Scully, I didn't know that's how you wanted to be
areferred to. But King Scully from the UK, thanks for writing in.
Yeah, I feel you about the Let me talk to you. I feel
I feel for you. But having well, you're saying it doesn't matter,
right, like you're thinking that him beating Sina with low blow doesn't really matter.
But it was WrestleMania It was supposed to be the one of the crowning
moments for Austin theory, beating John Cena, one of the greatest off not
the greatest of all time, and having him do it in a way that
discredits his character. I mean, you don't hear him talking about it too
much, do you. I mean, he when he mentions it. As
fans, you may boo it, but you're thinking, yeah, but you
beat him with a low blow. That's you know, I know that's a
heel thing to do, but you don't do those big heel things like in
moments like like that that are supposed to get you to be established as a
credible badass. They're not always needs to be a cheating end to your match
as a heel, like you can beat somebody clean and maybe that makes the
crowd more angry. You don't always have to cheat to win. And there's
no argument to me that would make sense that all you don't want to hurt
John Cena. Oh come on, you know, hurting John Cena nonsense,
right, But I would I would respectfully disagree with that. I think that
the method in which he beat John Cena did tarnish his victory over John Cena.
But anyway, get back to work. Okay, all right, let's
get to our final email. Yo, it's me. It's me. It's
Rocky T. Hey about that. I love that good stuff, Rocky t
good stuff. I really enjoyed that. All right, he's checking in once
again, and he says, January first till the day of the Rumble was
the longest four weeks I've ever experienced in my life, because I was so
excited to go to my first rumble. Since then, the time has flown
by Chamber Many and the draft or all in the rearview mirror and Monday and
night, or rather the Monday after Backlash, the new rosters take full effect.
Overall, I'm very happy with the draft picks. I'm excited to see
how the NXT collups perform on the main rosters over fifteen. NXT collups will
now be either Raw or SmackDown, and that means new feuds and challengers to
the current champions. On SmackDown, I'm looking forward to Roman battling with Bobby
and the phenomenal AJ styles. I'm also looking for literally any woman to take
the title off Bianca Belair, for her to turn heel and then I'll be
happy in regards to that. Agree. Okay, so you have a little
bit more, but let me comment on this. I'm glad you pointed out
the fifteen NXT collups. I'll take that at face value. I didn't count,
but I'll take you at face value. That's awesome. It's not good
for NXTE, not good for Seaun Michaels who need to continue to build new
stars. But that's the purpose of NXT. That's the point of NXT.
It's an in house farm system and it's been proven brilliant so far. Okay,
but that also is very encouraging for those that want new matchups, new
stars. That the lifeblood of this business is new stars. I know that
some people don't want. You know, sometimes fans, especially those that are
kind of casual, not the casual orsing fan, but just the collective,
casual fan that pops in every now and then, if they don't see a
star they immediately recognize and has household name value, they turn it off or
they go it's not like it used to be, right, that was,
I don't want to watch this right And some fans don't have the patience.
And those fans come and go and maybe they'll pop in for Survivor Series or
Rumble or Summer Slim Romania. But those are the fans that are fickle,
are still of the belief that it should be you know, Stone Cold in
the Rock made inventing every WrestleMania and Triple H and Caine and Big Show like
they are frozen in time from nineteen ninety seven to two thousand and five,
right, And the rest of us, like those of us that listen to
wrestling podcasts, are smart enough to know that this business is built on stars
and building new stars, and the patience that we have as fans is key
to helping ww we build those stars. And so I'm also excited long story
short, I'm also very excited for the next call ups. Very It's time
for new blood and new matchups. So as far as yeah, Bobby Lashly
in aj styles, battling Roman, yes, I agree, so and turning
Bianca heel, I mean, can I get a hell yeah? Okay?
On the raw side of things, I'm looking for Riha to dominate every challenger
in her path. I can't wait for the Mommy Action figure to be available
with the title belt or a combo pack with Ria and Dominic to add to
the Rocky t household collection. When you get that, dude, you have
to send me a picture. I need to see this. Please. If
they're gonna make it, how can they not. I would also agree though,
that Ria should dominate everyone until maybe her and Ronda Rousy clash. Her
and roond are on the same brand. It's possible, so Becky Lynch is
also on the same brand now as as Bianca or rather Ria and then Ria.
Ria is going to be the raw woman's champion, right, They're gonna
swap belt hern Ria are gonna swap belts. They'll have a ceremony and will
be as eventful i'd imagine as Becky and Charlotte's was last year or the year
before, where there was actually real drama going on between them. But uh
yeah, I think that Ria is gonna be dominant. I don't expect Ria
to drop the belt. I mean the earliest would be Rumble or WrestleMania.
I could even see Ria Ripley going through WrestleMania forty as women's champion. She
has a lengthy run ahead of her, as she should. Okay, lastly,
my question this week is if Dusty Rhodes won the NWA title, which
became the w city w World Heavyweight Championship, which is simply own as the
world Heavyweight title in w w E. And if Cody wins the new World
Heavyweight title, well, that counts him finishing the story of his winning winning
the title his father never did. In logical world, yes, in the
world of reality, yes, But in pro wrestling world no, And here's
why, because we has positioned Cody in a way that he needs to overcome
Roman Reigns to finish the story that was. I mean, they could switch
the narrative and have Cody maybe come out next Monday night and as the tournament
again, this tournament, this mythical tournament that hasn't been announced yet that I
would imagine they're doing. He comes out and cuts a promo about how he
wasn't able to defeat Roman. But there's always more than one way to finish
a story, and he could switch the narrative too. Sure, you know
what, I can finish the story by winning this championship and maybe explaining just
as you did, Rocky, those connections. It could be. I mean,
they really could go either way as it stands right now, Cody can
only finish the story by beating Roman unless they have Cody come out next Monday
night after backlash as everything switches focus laser focus to the World Heavyweight Championship tournament.
I think you could easily have the narrative switch too. Yeah, he
can finish the story by winning the World Heavyweight Championship. And here's how sure
sure they could do that? We'll find out next Monday night. I really
do believe that, because who else could possibly win this beyond Cody and Seth.
I mean, we already know the final of this again unannounced tournament.
It'll be hilarious if they don't end up doing a tournament. I don't know
how what else they would do to determine, But I don't know anyway.
How can it not come down to Seth versus Cody? It has to,
right, and honestly, at that point it's a toss up as to who
wins. Either could But thanks Rocky, hope all as well with you.
And that concludes the email portion of the show. Guys. So now now
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two one, Hello podcast. Well this is DJ Couzmo back at it again
on your Mailmac show record drove on a Wednesday morning. And before we get
to a very special episode of the vere Maham Report. Before we get there,
I gotta say, mister and missus Casual a wrestler fan, we miss
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WW, the Good mornay WWE so hopefully mister and missus Cash and Russell Fair
we could hear from you once again. But now let's get to you.
A favorite show to coming every single week on the man Bag. And I
was only about the fear, the fear, the fear, the fear mahad
r Port nowt the er Maha Report did not take place last night on NXT
because for oh my goodness, the breaking news that came late Monday night after
when morning that rose over. Damn my, guys, they in this year
on Fear Maha Songa and the Mother Day Maharajah are getting drafted to Monday Night
Raw. Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh. This is so freaking awesome.
This is so freaking awesome because I've been waiting for weeks, it felt
like three months that I haven't seen on NXT. Yes, they were away
for a couple of a couple for the time off. But now that I
heard the news they got drafted, Oh my gosh, yes, yes,
yes, Now we get to see them go up against some real tag teams,
go up against Ko and Sammy, hopefully for the for the U I
guess the Raw Tac Team champions or the Unified Tag Team Championships, whatever that
is. But I want to see the golf against broun Stroman and damn that
flying flippityflop dude Ricachet, because I can't stand that tag team. I can't
stand braun Strowman. So hopefully they in this shar can make some noise and
whoop some ass and put braun Stroman, especially broun Strumman, in his place,
because they in this shar are here on Monday night Raw. So I
gotta say, I gotta give a shout out to Matt. Thank you Matt
for pointing that out to me. For the past couple of weeks that we
haven't seen him is because they're probably gonna get it, getting ready to get
drafted. So Matt, I gotta give you a lot of prompt for that.
Of course, I gotta give a shout out to NXT and of course
to the Cree Brothers and everybody that ors part of the development off this group
on the inn shar of my guy Fair Mahad Soga and the modern day Ma
Roger Chinna Mahal Now on Monday night Row, Oh my goodness, this doesn't
feel so real. This doesn't feel real. I need I need somebody to
pitch me right now, Oh my goodness. Anyway, anyway, before my
before my time goes up, I can't even contain myself. All you will
have a blessed the week also week me Kai to another. This is your
boy, djos at peace. Dj I love your enthusiasm. You may be
the single most excited person on the planet for this move, and only simply
because they haven't got much exposure, and I think we will learn in short
order that they are a good tag team, well oiled and our new faces
and they are heel, which is a good thing. If you were trying
to have a like you said, a matchup with Kevin Owens and Sammy's ain't
well that happened immediately. Maybe maybe not, you know, maybe it happens
sometime over the summer. But it's gonna happen, no doubt about it,
and it's gonna be a lot of fun to watch. I also have to
ask, were you on the beach or sea side? I heard seagulls?
I'm jealous you hear it up state in New York. Obviously we don't have
any of those. We have got crows and hawks, but we don't have
a very pleasant sound of seagulls. So wherever you were, I'm jealous that
said. Yeah, Look, I wasn't being I'm not trying to be arrogant
about my pick. I'm wrong more than I'm right here. But when you
were telling us a week after week that they weren't here, they're not here.
They've been silent on Twitter, and you know they're not on n XT,
I was hopeful that there was a possibility they were gonna be just simply
being drafted too raw, that they weren't going to be involved in any storylines.
There's no point in it, because they were going to be drafted in
three four weeks and that ended up being the case. And I'm glad it
is, you know, I'm glad that you're excited, and I think the
fans will be as well, you know, once they established their personalities.
To the casual fan that has no idea who they are outside of gender,
mall who most people I think would imagine. I'd imagine most people at least
kind of heard the name or seeing them before. But for Songa right and
very Mahan himself, no, like, they probably have no idea. Most
fans i'd say three out of four probably have no idea who they are.
So they're gonna need time to establish themselves. And Jenner Mahal, I think
will do a good job of helps helps helping with that as he's the biggest
star in the group. So I'm excited for you. So alrighty DJ,
thanks buddy, and we'll talk next week. Voicemail number two on the way,
Thanks Kindle from Baltimore. So I wanted to talk about the draft as
a whole in the and where we are now. I think we're kind of
it's looking let see even but looks great now with with star power on both
shows are kind of are kind of strong. I think SmackDown as the slight
edge but ross no joke over the people that they drafted as well over on
raw Um. And so I'm looking forward to seeing the majority of the edicc
um picks with with with the men and women on both shows to see how
they fare out on may roster. And and uh yeah, this is gonna
be excited. It's pretty much looking at looking at the draft now and the
rosters now, it's kind of like reminded me of NXT of how there's a
lot of XT people from the most part are on the main roster. And
so that'll be fun to see UM pay per views moving forward, like watching
XE takeover in a lot of ways. So that's exciting to see. The
stories should be fun and I'm not the whole ghost shows are very strong and
I'm looking forward to the summer with these new rosters. But when you think
about them, the rosters are on for that damn. But that's it.
They's roll call guy. Yeah, Kyle, I'm glad you asked about the
overall feeling. I feel like I've dove into the weeds without giving an overall
thought about how I feel about both rosters. I would agree. I think
SmackDown has these sladed of edges. I mean, you have the Universal Champion,
the biggest star in the industry right now. You have the Bloodline,
the biggest group in the industry. Okay, but Rows no slouch. And
you also have these free agents rolling around. Lesner biggest star that's a free
agent, you know, uh, John c And at some point eventually we're
we're turning I'd imagine this year for a match or two, and uh,
you know the other free agents that with Dolve Ziggler and von Wagner and Ali
that are gonna kind of fill roles as they need to on whatever show.
There's a whole other slew of free free agent wrestlers as well. I gotta
look up who they are there. They're not exactly you know, household names.
But overall, I feel like it is a well balanced roster. And
that's without Bray Wyatt or Randy Orton even being drafted yet. I mean,
so we are in good shape along with the fifteen new call ups from an
XT. This is this is a this is truly to me in some ways,
the start of the Triple H era. I know it started at what
eight months ago and nine months ago whatever with with the fall of Vince McMahon
and Evince comes back and he's still kind of involved. But you know what,
assuming that Triple H is truly the one in charge now creatively, this
is truly Triple H is roster. Now he has got to He positioned the
people the way he wanted to, with call ups he wanted and now we
can say clean slate. This is Triple H's now his baby. There's no
more while the well, Vince had this and he has to clean up that.
That's done. Things were set next Monday, so I'm with you.
All well balanced and new rivalries on the way. So I'm excited. Alrighty,
let's get to the next one. It's the French guy. He know,
your current European champion, wanted to address your Optosox show, which was
really really nice. I really enjoyed the subject and without diving into it,
you just addressed one of the philosophy, one of the thought about a philosopher
French one, and maybe you knew it when you were talking about the end
of the podcast. It was about it's blessed Pascal a Pasquetal, it's a
French philosopher, which addressed exactly what thought you were into at the end of
the podcast. So this was I don't know if you wanted or if you
knew it, but if you didn't, it was exactly exactly the same train
of thoughts that was addressed by this philosopher. With that out of the way,
I just wanted to address this week that a lot of time in the
podcast. Resting related. Of course, you said that MJF in the WWU
Can't Wait. But let me tell you, is that a good idea?
I am not sure m JF was in w w EV four as a security
guy. Why in that? Why wasn't it in developments? Why didn't have
any chance before? Why did it break through in AW but not in ww
WE before. Of course he's young, but there's a reason about that.
I am not sure that m jfww is such a good idea. Why is
that it's scripted? Creative will have too much control about his character. It
will not be able to express himself as much as possible, but I'm not
talking about insults or something like this. Even like the tone that he's taking
maybe restricted by creatives. So I'm not convinced that MJSWW as is right now,
is a good idea even in the future. I am. I think
that it's maybe not that great having MJF. That's it. Let me know
what you think about that, man. And yeah, seriously, guys,
you next week, Alex, I'm glad you're enjoyed after Dark. And the
topic if those are wondering that I discussed was is time and illusion and are
we living in a simulation? Interesting subjects of which really can boggle the human
mind. So it really invites you. If you want to hear those after
dark shows that are often R rated, make sure you're on the SmackDown tier
or higher on Patreon. So Alex, no, I get it. Yeah,
MJF was a He was an afterthought in WW. He wasn't even a
thought in WW, much less than afterthought. I should say, yeah,
he was playing security, but I mean that wasn't That was an eternity ago
before he was a proven commodity. I mean, he wasn't and didn't burst
onto the scene until a w came along, and now that he has proven
himself to be one of the best, if not the best talkers in the
entire wrestling industry across any promotion. I would argue any promotion, maybe any
era, I would argue in some ways he's better than John Cena on the
mic. Now, John Cena is one of the greatest of all time.
But there's something about MJF. The way he talks. He doesn't stumble,
He's very very focused on what he's saying. The word choice, I mean,
he's just so good. Now, I understand your concern, right,
Like creative in the past has under the Vince McMahon regime been presumed to have
scripted almost everyone. Everything felt very contrived and that people didn't have ability to
kind of go off script and have their own creative freedom on the microphone.
But here here's the thing. It's a new day. Yes it is okay,
it is the Triple H regime. Now, Vince may still have some
say, but ultimately Triple H has the ultimate say, and that means that
there is more creative freedom. We've already seen it on the mic. We've
seen the wrestling, the product change from predictable all the time to not predictable
all the time. But some of the time right brought back new stars,
some of the production things he's done differently, and some of the creative freedom
that you're seeing on the microphone is something. I mean, if they didn't
if they brought an MJF and they didn't allow him to have creative freedom on
the microphone, then what do you even bringing him in for? To just
muzzle him? Makes no sense. And Mjf's a smart guy. He's a
business guy. He says that first and foremost, he's a business guy.
Why would he want to come into a place in which he can't use his
greatest asset to the maximum potential. It makes no sense. In the Ring,
he's still really good. I don't think he gets the credit he deserves
in AW because he's so much better on the microphone. He's so good on
the microphone that even if he's really good in the ring, he gets overshadowed
by how good he is on the mic. And that said, though,
the only thing he may get strangle held by in WWE where he doesn't in
AW is the TV rating. And that's something that even if he gets creative
freedom on the mic, and Triple H says, you know what, I
don't even have I have no script for you. I will never have a
script for you. Here's just where we want to go. Get us there
and the rest is up to you. The problem is, when you're under
a PG umbrella, it's a little bit more narrow than under a TV fourteen
umbrella. So some of the things that MJF has said in the past to
his opponents, he would be a bit more restricted in the PG regime.
So that is the only drawback I could see from him coming to WWE.
But imagine the opponents right if if WW ever goes back to TV fourteen or
they or they can find some creative way around TVPG for his promos, and
I think they could then bring him in. I think there is a lot
of money to be made with MJF in WWE, a lot. We've already
seen a big star transfer from me a w w w E and it has
been massively successful in Cody Rhodes, So it's not unprecedented. The path has
been paved, we've already seen it, and MJF is now a proven commodity.
He's a proven and We've already seen him work with some of the top
talent ad W bring him into the bring him into the WWA, bring him
into the big leagues, and have him work with my god, Roman Reins.
How have him worked with Cody Rhodes. I mean, there's so many
guys. It's just it's mind blowing down. At the end of the day.
Do I think WWE will sign him? I probably I don't. And
the only reason I think A E W needs him more than WWWE needs him.
W E doesn't need him. AW needs him. Therefore, they are
willing to go deeper into the pockets than w w E will, So ultimately
I think he'll probably stay with AW simply based on the number of zeros on
the on the paycheck. So Alex, thanks buddy. Let's get to our
next one. Hey, Matt, it's Braden Florida. I said Braden New
York on your Google Voice whatever. But Brad and Florida. I've never been
happier about a draft call up than I am about Brayson Waller. I am
so excited about this guy. I'm really um just thrill that he's going to
be on the main roster. I think he is so charismatic and funny and
interesting. He just has really the whole package. And for people to say
he's like a Miss two point zero, I couldn't disagree more. I mean,
he's very you know, interesting, and he's got definitely a sense of
humor, and he hosts a show and you know it's called Grace and Waller
effect whatever. But other than that, like I think the Miz is you
know what, and I like them is, but I think he is such
a better athlete than the Miz. He is such a better sort of ring
skills than the Miz has. And let's not to take away anything from the
mis because I think the Miz again is fantastic, But I think Waller is,
you know, in and of himself, just a totally different animal when
you watch him. I think SmackDown extremely interesting with this edition of Waller.
But the one thing I'll say about SmackDown is that they're very heal heavy right
now. Very I mean, I can't even imagine whose theory is going to
feud with on this new incarnation of the SmackDown roster, unless it's you know,
maybe a face turn for La at Night, which I could see.
By the way, Elie Knight is just as good as a face as he
is a heel. It's pretty much the same act, except it's just flipped
around that nothing really changes. But yeah, that's kind of just all I
wanted to say, Normalny out of time. But I am excited about the
new rosters. I'm excited about the draft, and thanks for taking my call.
Min Right, all right, Brad in Florida, I hope you do
well. So yeah, I think you're right. I mean, like you
look at the roster for SmackDown, it is very heel heavy and outside of
a face turn if no one turned. I think he probably continues his program
with Lashley for a little while, even though that's kind of getting a little
bit stale. Right, Lashly and Bronson Reid and Austin Theory are having a
trouble that for the US title, and maybe with Lashley and Austin Theory on
the same brand, continue that for another month or something. But I agree
a Grayson Waller looked. I'm not going to sit here and pretend all of
a sudden, I'm a Grayson Waller expert. You are much more versed in
his body of work as others are than I am on this show. This
is why I have Memphis Mark cover NXT because I just have zero time to
watch it and dedicate to it. But from everything I'm hearing about Grayson Waller,
and I've seen a few of his matches I've seen, I've seen a
little bit of his work from what I captured, I am intrigued. And
what I hear from everybody is that he could be the one to actually take
down Roman Reins. I've heard that he could be, and he's a hell
of a candidate to do that because, as I said earlier in the show,
he checks all the boxes you'd want for someone to take that from Roman
Young able to build on it. You don't need an established star like the
Rock or even Seth Rollins to some degree, although Seth has a stronger case,
but somebody that doesn't need it, like for example, when brock Lesner
beat the Undertaker at WrestleMania thirty to beat the Streak and the Street, that
wasn't needed. I still strongly disagree with that. You don't give that to
somebody that's already established star, much less somebody that's a part time star that's
already beyond a made man. It makes no sense, but that said.
Yeah, so that's my thought about about Austin theory and uh and your analogy.
And I've heard others make that analogy of them is and Grayson Waller,
and I mean I see a little bit of it. But I also have
heard, oh, you know, MJF is you know a knockoff of them?
Is? It's like, no, not even close. The MISS would
be destroyed, you know, on the microphone, MJF would kill them is
outside of just some of their scarves looking the same, and a little bit
of their outfits, you know, some there are some similarities in their outfits,
right, and some of the retire big deal. And they're both young,
okay, right, so I wouldn't put too much stock into that.
I think Grayson Waller will be able to differentiate himself very quickly from the MISS.
So all right, thanks so much, buddy. Let's get to our
final one. Here we go. Hey, Matt and the Diday Podcast family.
It's uh New York Kyle again. I'm not at work again. So
if you hear cars in the background, I actually work at like a I've
been seeing a store outside like and inside like parking lots at like in the
parking lot and then also inside and stuff. I'm not signed up the parking
lot right now to be your cars. That's why anyway, the matter on
the not the row review, the uh if you the current state or the
first night one draft episode, I'm which podcast episode it was? You said,
Uh, you're like, where's idiot? Style has been like like I
didn't know you had young here still, Um, I don't see your rower
view yet. I'm actually about to at work like a couple of minutes,
but um, I'm a I stot reports a long time. I'll go it's
like like the lest times on TV, like i'd been back like November December
time. Um, he's been injured. I'm not trying to be like an
old all right anything like you know I knew he didn't so much times like
that and just informing here that's all. I saw a report a while ago,
um that he's vened. So that's the reason why he's been off TV.
And basically since he was he wasn't here and like you, like you
said, preim with anything Gallaster like his lackeys without Aja here, he abous.
He got no no creative no creative plans for the Ford of them.
We to creative and no plans for them. That's that seemost like the reason
why he isn't been here. The second thing, I want to say one
more thing before I go. I'm sure DJ Kuzmo is very happy right now
and it's probably uh probably he's not going. It's lunchable to celebrate um And
do shear they're finally called up. Vir Mahan is um. Also Vir Mahan
is not coming to row again for months and months and months, and he's
on me him again. They're actually on the main roster right away. And
do shear? Jenner Mahala's back, Songa's first time, Vier and Jarra back.
So that's cool anyway, three minutes are got to be up, so
cool, friend to shear? Fun you guys next time? You know it
all? No, See, this is why I have you guys. You
guys remind me of things that I miss or I forgot, rather and tell
me things I missed and I had forgotten about aj Styles actually being injured.
I vaguely remember that being a report coming out from I mean, my god,
it was like six months ago, right, So I mean it's kind
of a fair assessment of my defense that if you know, you'd forgotten or
missed it that you'd be like, oh, that's right, my god,
he still works here. Um. You know, so that happens for a
time to time. Somebody just disappears from TV and either a report gets buried
by the next news cycle or it's it's very low profile in the news cycle
of wrestling, and you're just like, h you know, what the hell
happened to this person? Right? So uh yeah, so, but but
thank you for that because I didn't know. And honestly, yeah, the
d OC without aj Styles, they are their their level of relevancy goes off
a cliff. It just does like whatever the OC, whatever AJ Styles is
doing, is what the OC is doing. That's it. I mean,
there's all there is to it. So m but you get back to work.
I don't know what you're doing, right, I don't get you in
trouble. I get you guys in trouble to work. A lot of people,
for some reason use me as their work audio, which I'm also I'm
grateful, but I'm also concerned. So thanks so much, Kyle, Thank
you to everybody. Much appreciated this week busy week with the draft and lots
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