You know this company, This company is something else. You know, when
Cody Roads won the Royal Rumble last weekend, We're less than a week removed
from the Royal Rumble. And do you remember the first thing that Cody Rhoads
did after he won the Royal Rumble. Do you remember who he looked up
to and pointed up at when that Royal Rumble was over? Because I do.
I was there, and I remember Cody Rhodes climbing the turnbuckles and he
looked up. And you had both champions in different skyboxes the Tropicana Field.
You had seth Rollins in one and the other you had Roman Reigns in Paul
Hayman, and Cody Rhoads looked up at Roman Reigns and he pointed at him.
He made it very clear who he wanted to go after a WrestleMania.
He made it very clear the championship that he was most interested in going after,
because it was last year at WrestleMania that Cody Roads got screwed. He
got screwed over by the bloodline of WrestleMania, and this was going to be
finally a full circle moment for him. He was going to get his revenge
on Roman Reigns at WrestleMania forty and then on rame Monday night. It was
very odd because we had Seth Rollins come out and get in the ring with
Cody Roads, and Seth Rollins was practically begging this man to pick him,
pick me go after the World Heavyweight title at WrestleMania. This is the workhorse
title, right you want to be the workhorse champion. Roman Reigns never shows
up for work. Roman Rains is never around. I'm the one that you
want to get in the ring with and challenge at WrestleMania. I'm surprised he
didn't get down on his knees in front of this man. It was very
strange. Maybe that should have been a sign. And then they announced that
Cody Rhodes was coming to SmackDown tonight and Roman Rains walked to the ring tonight
and did you notice who the fans were chanting for. Roman Reigns got to
the ring tonight, they were chanting for Cody Rhoades. They had buying from
the audience in Birmingham tonight. They had buy in from the fans who wanted
to see Cody Roads and Roman Reigns in a rematch from wrestle Mani at thirty
nine, And they're very fortunate in that respect, because it would have been
very easy over the past year for the fans to fall out of interest in
seeing this match. Well, we already got it at WrestleMania last year.
Cody's a loser, just like everybody else, and he didn't win over the
course of the past year all the things they had him doing with Brock and
with knock Amra, just biding his time and waiting, but they stuck with
him. They invested in him as one of their top baby faces. He
took the ball and ran with it. Fans haven't turned on him yet,
even though we're all sick and tired of hearing about the story. It's been
played up so much it's a fucking meme now. But they had buy in
from the fans. They were chanting Cody's name when Roman came to the ring
tonight and Roman Reigns is talking crap about Seth Rollins, and Roman Rains is
talking crap about Cody Rhodes and he says, you don't want that guy,
you want me. This is the title that you want to come after.
Here comes Cody Rhoades. He comes down to the ring, clears the ring.
It's just him and Roman Reigns, and he says, that's the title
that I want. That's the belt that I want. That's the title that
was taken away from my father that Bruno San Martino had. I don't look
at it as the Hollywood Belt. You can call it whatever you want.
That's the championship I want. And not only that, I'm gonna move the
goalposts. I want that title. I want to take it from you,
and I'm going to But not at WrestleMania. Now, fuck me. I
could have just sworn that I watched this guy win the Royal Rumble match,
and that the winner of the Royal Rumble was supposed to come out and challenge
so to a championship match in the main event of WrestleMania. But Cody said
he had a chat with somebody. He had a discussion with a certain someone,
and then boom the music hits and here comes the Rock, the newest
member of the TKO board. Very busy man these days. He came out
our raw month ago and said maybe I should take a seat at the head
of the table. And then we got the reports that Rock still hadn't signed
on the dotted line yet. He wanted to do the match with Roman Reigns,
but nothing was etched in Stone, and I just thought to myself,
how is this possible? The Royal Rumble is here. Wwe can't keep waiting
on this guy. They have to have some sense of what they're going to
do at WrestleMania. They have to plan accordingly. They have to figure out
what their plans are going to be. They can't just wait on this guy
to make up his fucking mind. Apparently he made up his mind, and
the Rock came out and everybody lost their minds. And he came down to
the ring and Cody put you know, his handout to accept the Rock's handshake,
and the Rock pulled him in. The Rock gave him a big old
hug. We couldn't tell exactly what he was whispering. He was saying something
to Cody Rhodes. It looked to me like maybe what he was saying is
dreams over you, fucking geek. But his back was turned, so you
know, I couldn't really tell. It was hard to tell. I couldn't
see his lips moving. I only hope that Cody Rhoades when he got to
the back tonight. I really hope that the first thing he did was go
to the trainer's room to seek medical attention for the knife that Dwayne planted in
his back. Because the last thing this company needs right now, this is
the last thing this company can ill afford, is another injury. I mean,
people are They're dropping like fucking flies in this company left and right,
going down to all kinds of injuries. The last thing they need is Cody
ro Ohades to be stabbed in the back and be out of wrestlemate. What
Cody Rose was doing tonight on SmackDown effectively was he was there playing the role
of Brett the hitman Heart at WrestleMania nine, and the Rock was out there
playing the role of Hulk Hogan coming out to save the day. Funny enough,
the champion that night was also part of this whole Samoan tribe. You
know, I would sit here and tell you that this fucking family must have
some dirty photos or something on Vince McMahon, But that guy's got a lot
more on his plate right now. That's the least of his fucking problems,
that fucking debiant, So whatever it is the Samoans always seemed to have,
you know, a nice little cushy spot here in this company as far back
as I can remember, as far back as I've been a fan. See
I'm Punk came on Roll Monday night. He told us that he tourist tricep.
He's at a wrestle medi he was in the ring, he was crying,
his tears were welling up in his eyes, and out the window went
the Night one wrestle Media Maine event. Because there was not a doubt in
my mind that the Night one WrestleMania Maine event was going to be Seth Rollins
defending the World Heavyweight title against CM Punk. CM Punk was going to go
to the elimination chamber, which he was already advertised for. Unlike Roman Reins,
he was going to go to the elimination chamber. He was probably going
to win, and we were going to get Rollins and Punk and that was
going to be your Night one wrestle Media Maine event. Is that what happened
here? Did the CM Punk injury derail their plans? And this was an
audible they called earlier in the week they got the Rock to sign on.
They said, hey, we need you. We lost Punk, we lost
our Night one main event. We need a big attraction, and that was
the catalyst to get Dwayne to sign on and get the buy in from him.
And now we would have had Cody and Roman. But now we're going
to get Roman in Rock because Punk went down. It's possible. It's possible
they panicked and they pivoted to a plan B and this is their Plan B.
Maybe they weren't going to do Rock and Rome in a WrestleMania and now
they are. Or maybe it's just that the Rock gets what the Rock wants.
After all, he is the newest board member, so he's got more
power now than ever before. What the Rock wants the Rock gets. You
know who found that out years ago? CM Punk, and now Cody Roads
is finding out the same thing. And I know why WWWEE is doing it.
I get it. Look, it's the same reason why they did Rock
and John Cena back at WrestleMania twenty eight, which up to that point was
the biggest WrestleMania main event, the biggest WrestleMania box office they had ever done
in their history. It's a huge match, That's why they did it.
I thought maybe it was going to be a passing of the torch moment.
They ended up having this whole three year long storyline that started with Rock at
twenty seven, and then they had the match at twenty eight, and then
he lost to John Cena and he raised his hand at twenty nine. It
was his whole story arc, and then they had to rebuild the Rock like
he's fucking humpty dumpty, because every fucking muscle and part of his body fell
apart in that second match. But that's why they did it, because it's
big business, it's box office. I'm not oblivious to that. I'm not
a fucking idiot. I know why they want The Rock on their shows.
Any promoter would want The Rock on his show because The Rock is one of
the biggest stars in the entire world. And if the Rock wants to come
back, WWE is not going to go Nope, sorry, we don't got
any room for you. So I get it. I understand why they would
want to do it. This is a match that Rock has talked about for
years, has been asked about in interviews for years. It was supposed to
happen last year and it didn't. We wouldn't even be sitting here talking about
Cody losing a WrestleMania last year, because WrestleMania last year very easily could have
been Rock and Roman, and then they put their pencils down because they couldn't
figure out what to do, and so we never got it. But along
the way, WWE made another star. They had a story that it looked
like we were on the way to paying off WrestleMania this year. That doesn't
appear to be the case any long. Cody came out here tonight, he
made it very clear he wants Roman reigns, he wants that WWE championship,
but it's just not going to happen at WrestleMania. And so now we are
led to believe that he is going to take Seth Rollins up on that offer
that he made to him on Raw Monday Night to challenge him for the World
Heavyweight title of WrestleMania. Is that now our new Night one main event in
lieu of Punkin Rollins? Are we going to get Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins
Part four? We've already seen it three times. Cody is three and zero
against this guy. Were going to get Part four for the World Heavyweight title?
The Workhorse title at WrestleMania forty. None of this is confirmed. We
are to infer this from what we saw at the end of the show tonight,
but there are a lot of balls up in the air right now.
We don't know for sure if that's what's going on here looks that way,
or is Cody maybe going to cash in that rumble title match that he's owed
against Roman, but maybe he's gonna do it at the elimination Chamber. That
seems very unlikely to me, but it's possible. It's possible that because of
the Punk injury, things are changing and now Roman Reigns is going to work
the elimination Chamber. But here, do you honestly believe if Roman was going
to work Cody and lose the title, that they would want Roman to lose
on the show before he wrestles the Rock. When Roman has gone undefeated for
all this time, It doesn't really fit in what WWE probably wants this match
to be, which is the battle of their top champion, undefeated now one
on one for so many years in singles matches. The last time he was
pinned in a singles match, forget the tag match against the Ussos last year
in a singles match was at TLC in twenty nineteen against Baron Fucking Corbin.
Are they gonna beat Roman Reigns on the show before WrestleMania and then send him
into combat against the Rock And let's say they do that, Cody Rhodes wins,
he finishes the story, he becomes the WWE Champion. What does WrestleMania
look like now? Because if they're doing Rock and Roman, that's the main
event. No matter what, that's the main event. Cody is the WWE
Champion. All right, Well, what does he do? He defends against
Randy Orton. I'd love to see Cody defend against Randy Orton. I figure
maybe that could be the Summer Slim main event. But if they did it
at WrestleMania, it almost doesn't even matter who it is, because whatever they
choose to do is automatically going to be second fiddle to Rock and Roman.
Not exactly the ideal situation. But is the elimination chamber possible? Sure,
it's possible, I don't think that's very likely. Doesn't mean that Cody Rhods
is going to finish the story at next year's WrestleMania. Are we looking at
twenty twenty five and WrestleMania forty one. You know, Cody Rhods is quickly
because I mean the fucking New York Mets of the WWE. Maybe next year.
There's always next year. Trust me, you don't want to be the
New York Mets of the WWE. So is that where we're looking at it?
We're looking at WrestleMania next year? Perhaps, I sure as fuck hope
not, because that would mean we have another year of Paul Hayman talking into
his phone. Paul Roman rains how riveting, riveting television, which also means,
of course, that that would allow Roman means to pass Hulk Hogan's imaginary
record that everybody is talking about. That doesn't mean a goddamn thing. All
I keep hearing about the Hogan record, The Hogan record. Yeah, Hogan
had a record in nineteen ninety five, and it fucking sucked, although according
to him, he wrote all the songs with Jimmy harton one night. Great
fucking lyricist, this guy is. You want Hogan's record, go listen to
Hogan's record. There is no fucking Hogan record. Every week I have to
hear about the Hogan record. I go really. I hear the word record,
I think, man, this guy's in the top spot. What top
spot is he in? I would love to know. People still fail to
tell me. I keep asking the question. Nobody tells me, Oh,
oh, I see, he's gonna go from number four to number three.
That's the record that you're talking about. That's the record that everybody is crowing
about that he has to be Why because WWE is trying to bury Hulk Hogan.
Because WWE is trying to hide Hulk Hogan from people. The same Hull
Cogan who was a guest at the Royal Rumble on Saturday in Tampa, the
same Hulk Hogan who opened the Royal Rumble literally in the video package, was
basically the de facto host of the Royal Rumble. Y, they're not doing
a very good job of hiding this guy, if that's what they're trying to
do, sounds to me like a lot of people who were talking out of
their ass. Is that what we're gonna get? Are we gonna have to
go? Or another year of this, another year of the bloodline? I
will say that WrestleMania is still two months away. A lot can happen in
two months. All we have is what we saw at the end of SmackDown
tonight. So it's possible that they will throw another curveball our way. Maybe
in the end things will make sense. Maybe in the end it'll be it'll
all fall into it's a place where it belongs. But the way it looks
right now, coming out of SmackDown tonight, we are likely getting the two
part timers one on one in the WrestleMania Made event this year. You know
you have the WWE Championship is in play here. This is a match that,
as I've said countless times before, does not need to be for a
championship. And if they do the match and it's non title, that's even
worse because you're not gonna not have the WWE title defended at Wrestlemane. But
this is a match that doesn't need a championship, nor does Rock need to
be wrestling for one, nor does Rock need to hold one ever again,
this is a match about the head of the table, the tribal chief,
right, who's a number one in that family. If you're gonna tell that
story, that's the only story you need to tell there. It doesn't need
to be for a championship, which is why I said, if they're gonna
do Rock and Roman at some point, cool, but you get that title
away from Roman Reigns because it is not necessary, and you do the match
strictly as a special attraction. As things stand right now at this moment,
as I am streaming live, it does not look like that is going to
be the case, and Roman Reigns is going to go into WrestleMania as the
undisputed WWE champion. And I asked the question why, why, what sense
does that make? Why is that necessary? So they're gonna get their headlines.
They've already sold out or virtually sold out both Knights to WrestleMania, So
at this point it's not even about selling tickets. Boy, they're gonna sell
out ever already basically sold that. It's not even about that they'll have their
highest ever Peacock viewership. I'm sure they'll make headlines all over the world.
Right they get Rock now to go out there and do press for the show.
It's gonna be big for them, and it'll be a nice temporary distraction
from the very real problems that this company is about to face. You think
the last week or so has been bad for WWE. You ain't seen nothing
yet. Just based off the news that came out today, this company is
in for a rude awakening, so this will be a nice little distraction for
a while. They can claim Rock is coming back, He's gonna wrestle his
first match. And however many years it's been, it's been a long time
since we've seen Rock in an actual match. You'd have to go all the
way back to WrestleMania the last time against John Cena. Okay, not counting
the six second bullshit there with Eric Rowing. It's been a long time since
we've seen the Rock in the ring. So they can get a lot of
mileage out of this, and they can get a nice little distraction. All
their problems, though, are not going to be going away anytime soon.
They'll have something to celebrate in the meantime. But make no mistake about it,
they did Cody Rhoades dirty tonight is what they did. He can go
out there and he could put a nice smile on. He's like the John
Cena now of WWE. It doesn't matter what you do to this guy,
He'll go out there. He'll have a smile on his face. Right He's
a great representative for the company. He's everything that they want and a top
guy and all the stuff he does. He's very fan friendly and all that
shit. So he's out there with a smile on his face. But you
know, I don't know when they sprung this news on him. I can't
imagine that they told him weeks ago. This probably all came about very quickly.
I can only imagine what was going through his head when they said,
yeah, you know about that WrestleMania main event, We're going to go in
a different direction this year. We're gonna give it to Dwayne. And I'm
reminded of something that Cody said that John Cena told him after WrestleMania last year.
They had a conversation at some point. I think I forgot where he
said it, but Cody made a comment something to the effective John Cena just
told him based on what happened in last year's WrestleMania main event, because you
know, it had a bum Cody out on some level. I mean,
it's all k fab and everything. I mean, look, he's still in
a great spot right, he's featured, he's probably making great money, but
you know, on some level, he was bummed to have his family and
Negative one and everybody else in the stadium last year and to fall short.
And I think it was John Cena who told him, look, you just
got to go out there for however long it takes and be the champion without
the belt. And Cody's been doing that for the past year, and the
way things look right now, based on tonight, he may be doing that
for a while yet, because even if he gets seth Rawlins at WrestleMania,
no guarantee he's gonna win the World heavyweight title. Maybe he does, maybe
he doesn't. But Roman Reigns in that final segment tonight, was out there
burying Seth Rawlins in the World Heavyweight title. He called him little brother,
and he said that, wait, isn't that the belt that is fought for
by all the people that I've already beaten? I another Romans ever actually beat
seth But he's not wrong, not wrong when he says that. Right,
there's plenty of people in this company right now who have wrestled for that World
Heavyweight title ever since seth Rollins has won it. Drew McIntyre being one of
those men who have been defeated and beaten and thrown to the side by Roman
Raigns. It's like the Roman Reigns scraps and he's out there burying Seth Rollins
and this fucking belt, calling it a second rate belt and telling Cody Rhoades,
well, you know, you can wrestle basically for number two, or
you can come and come for the King basically and wrestle for the real title.
You can wrestle for the WWE Championship. And what Cody did tonight on
the show, what they had him do by stepping aside willingly voluntarily for the
Rock after he just won the Royal Rumble, and he just spent five minutes
on this show tonight telling us, I want that belt. That's the belt
that I want. That's the belt that means something in me. That's the
one that I want. After all of that that he would willingly step aside.
I would love to know what Rock promised him supposedly on this promo.
Did Rock promise him a role in his next movie or so that what he
promised Cody Roads here is you gonna be the fucking Deny Scorpion King. Like
what he promised him, he willingly stepped aside. They made Cody Rhodes look
like a fucking imbecile tonight by willingly stepping aside two months before WrestleMania and sacrificing
a shot at the belt that he wants so bad. He has not shut
up about it ever since he came back to the company from the night after
WrestleMania thirty eight. We have heard about the story, right, he hasn't
shut up about it, and he willingly steps aside. The other thing that
this promo did, it reinforced everything that Roman Reigns had to say in that
promo about the world heavyweight title being second raid, being second fiddle. Little
brother the Rock came out tonight and Cody Rhoades played little brother to the Rock.
No matter what they have him doing now at WrestleMania this year main event
night one cool, little brother versus little Brother. That's all it's gonna be.
The Roman Reigns confirmed what we already knew about that world title. It
just hits a little bit differently to have your top star go out on live
television and reinforce the point and tell everybody what you already know. And that's
exactly what they did tonight. This is your SmackDown review for February second,
Groundhog Day twenty and twenty four. I didn't even see if the fucking groundhog
saw his shadow today. I bet you if the groundhog had popped his head
out to watch this show, he's gonna burrow it back in the ground.
We won't see him again for another year. Even the groundhog is in the
ground saying, oh my god, another year of fucking call Roman reigns.
The groundhog doesn't want to be bothered. I don't blame it. There are
a lot of other things happening on the show tonight too. There's a lot
of talent that's being fought after between the two general managers, Adam Pearce and
Nick Alliss. We have some NXT talent, including bron Breaker, who's a
free agent right now going a one show or the other, we don't know
which. Tiffany Stratton officially signed with SmackDown. A lot of exciting things going
on, overshadowed by all of this, of course, but a lot of
exciting things going on it. One other thing I want to mention here before
we get into this and we'll talk more about this whole situation. I want
to just say rest in peace to Carl Weathers if he didn't see the news.
Carl Weathers actor passed away. We just saw him tonight during SmackDown.
He was in the fan Dual Kick commercial with Gronkowski. I think John Cena
was in the commercial too. There he was right there on my TI television
screen. But Rocky Predator Happy Gilmore. I know he was in the Mandalorian
as well. Very bummed to hear about his passing. So rest in peace
to Carl Weathers. Do me a favor here. I will unpause the superchats
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I'm sure you guys have a lot to say about this fucking show tonight.
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on SmackDown and the new SmackDown announced team for the time being. Anyway,
Corey Graves has been made the lead announcer. I thought he did fine tonight,
but it is possible they could be looking to someone outside the company.
It was a little weird because you Graves tends to be more of a healish
announcer, and so does Wade Barrett, so it was kind of like we
had two heel announcers on the show tonight. But I thought they did fine.
They showed Roman Reigns and the Bloodline arriving to the arena earlier today,
and then they showed Damage Control and Bailey as they were walking into the empty
arena earlier today to look out, Cody Rhodes and Faroh the Dog. They
showed them arriving to the building. I wonder if the rock put the knife
and the dog too while he was there. Logan Paul came out to the
ring for a promo. He is still, as I said, the United
States Champion. He said he underestimated Kevin Owens at first. He said,
he still looks like a pissed off donut. But he gave him credit for
doing more damage to him than Floyd Mayweather did. He said he made Logan
bleed and he nearly knocked him out, and yet Owen still lost and he
is still the United States Champion. He said he is one of the toughest
people on this very brittle roster. And he made fun of all the people
who are hurt right now. He said, booh, I hurt my triceep,
I got a boomboo on my knee. It is ridiculous how many people
are out hurt right now with torn acls. I saw Danny Palmer, who's
a talent on the NXT roster. She just had double hip surgery. Was
she like in her early twenties, So she's all laid up now for god
knows how long. She just had a double hip operation. Apparently the first
one went well. I don't know if she had the second one. Yet
we have Punk with the torn tri SEPs. Bruce Pritchard is out with the
torn try SEPs. If I'm Bruce, I'm hiding out as long as possible,
so I don't know what's going on. Charlotte flares out with the torn
acl So he was making fun of the very brittle roster here. He says,
we all get hurt, everybody except me. The Beast from the East,
the Best from the West, time, unbreakable, one of one.
I am your United States Champion Logan Paul. So the Beast from the East
was interrupted by Kevin Owens, and Owens said that he forgot to add unbearable
idiot to the list of names he just gave. He called the Royal Rumble
a marl victory for him because even though he didn't win the title, he
got to knock the hell out of Logan Paul. But now he says he's
ready to restore a level of prestige and honor to that belt so he can
get it off of him and get it sanitized as soon as possible. Logan
said it's too bad that Owens didn't take advantage of his one and only shot
at the US title. The brass knuckles was a setup. He outsmarted him.
Owen's admitted, yeah, I got caught, and he realizes that everybody
was mad at the referee for that, but he put over the referee.
He said, good job, you did the right thing. He does a
fantastic job by the referee. He goes, I got caught and that's my
fault. But the next time we get in the ring, he says he
doesn't need brass knuckles to beat his dumbass. So he got up in Logan's
face. Logan told him to back up because he smells b I have not
tried Logan Paul's prime drink. I don't know how good it is or isn't.
But Owen said he bathed in it, and Logan told him, look,
it's over all right. You're done. You're not getting a rematch.
You blew it. He told him to focus on your match with Austin theory.
I'm going to go outside here and I'm going to do commentary for this
next match and find myself a real challenger. So the finish of the Royal
Rumble match clearly was set up for a rematch between these two. So it
has to be coming an elimination Shamer Logan Paul against Kevin Owens is the Elimination
Chamber match, not the WrestleMania match that should be reserved for LA night.
So they will do Owens and Logan Paul most likely at the Elimination Chamber.
Nick All, this will make the announcement next week on the show who his
next challenger is going to be, so we'll find out then. But we
had Kevin Owens against Austin Theory here coming out of a break. On the
other half of the match, Owens worked out of a chinlock. He closed
lined the hell out of the sky to slow things down. Owens had a
Tornado DDT before going up top hit a swanton bomb for a two count.
Owens went for a Stunnar. Theory countered with a somersault blockbuster, so Theory
went for a superplex. Owens, though, fought out of it, and
Theory hit a version of a blue thunderbomb got a near fall out of that.
Grayson Waller is there and Grayson Waller is running distraction outside Logan Paul.
Meanwhile, he gets up from the announced steps and he moses on over to
Austin Theory and he passes him a prayer of brass nuts. This time though
Kevin Owens, he gets his hands on the brass knucks and as the referee
was then distracted by logan, Paul Owens knocked the hell out of Grayson Waller
on the apron with them, and then he knocked the hell out of Austin
Theory with the brass knucks, and then it looked like he tucked him maybe
into his kneepad to hide them before the referee could see him. He covered
him and he picked up the wing and when the match was over, Owens
chased Theory through the crowd. Hey, the Juliet, thank you. Not
even in that bre mode he is going to shake me tonight. I am
in rare form, but thank you for that. It was solid stuff here
between these two in the ring. I feel like we've seen this between them
a bunch of times already. The thing with Austin Theory is I've never said
anything bad about his ringwork. If anything, I think I've always been very
complimentary of his ringwork, even going back to NXT, so solid hand in
the ring. There's just nothing there character wise right now. It's just he's
completely devoid of anything interesting, anything exciting, not being given a chance really
to show too much personality. I don't know if the ultimate goal here is
for him to go babyface and then maybe feud with Waller or even feud with
Logan Paul. If that might be the direction they eventually go in, but
it's not going to work unless they give the fans a reason to care about
this guy or something to hang their hat on, something interesting or entertaining about
him. I don't know what that would be. We haven't seen it yet.
But if that's the goal, then they haven't done it yet. I
hope you enjoy it. This the only time Cody gets to finish his story
is here on YouTube. You won't be hearing that at the end of WrestleMania
this year. Hey ABK, thank you for the bomb. So backstage,
Naomi came out of Nick Aldos's office and in her hand she had a SmackDown
contract. She was very excited and with her in the area standing right outside
the office, she was celebrating with Bianca bel Air. Shatzi was there,
Mia Yim was there. She said that she is officially signed to smack Down,
but then out from Nick Aldos's office, came Tiffany Stratton from NXT and
she too had a contract in her hands. She said that she has also
signed with SmackDown, and she told the other ladies that she was the center
of the universe. They wanted yeah, she wanted them to applaud and as
they mocked her, she hauled off and she smacked me a yim Mitchin right
across the face hard and then she walked away and Michin went to go for
her. She had to be restrained. Nick All this came out of his
office. She wanted a match with Tiffany later on, and so All this
gave her what she wanted now. Stratton was said coming out of the Royal
Rumble. It was said, I saw the reports that Tiffany Stratton impressed a
lot of people. She's been impressing me for months and so in the Rumble,
I thought she was fine. I thought she she did good. In
fact, I think when she first came to the ring for the Rumble,
I think the first thing she did was climbed to the top. She wiped
everybody out with a crossbody. I liked the spot where she was hanging on
to Bianca's braid trying not to be eliminated there towards the end, Tiffany Stratton
is the real deal. Tiffany Stratton is a future women's world champion. She's
gonna be up there in that rarefied air in this women's division with Charlotte and
Bianca and Becky and people like that. You give it a few years,
she'll get there. So I'm very happy because she's been ready for a while.
I was very happy to see that she was being called up. Now
I wonder has Bianca bel Air found her opponent for WrestleMania. Could that be
the match for Bianca, because it looks like Bianca, for the first time
in her career, will not be involved in a at least a singles championship
match at WrestleMania. I still think there's a chance, depending on where Jade
ends up, we could get Bianca and Jade as a team challenging for the
women's tag team titles. But I do wonder if we might get a match
between Bianca and Tiffany Stratton at WrestleMania this year. But in lieu of this,
in lieu of Tiffany Stratton coming to the Blue Brand, I went to
check exactly what the current women's roster looks like for SmackDown, and this is
what it looks like. You've got Eosky at the top of the division.
She is the reigning WWE Women's Champion. You've got Asca, You've got Kyrie,
Say, You've got Bailey. We'll get to her in a little bit.
Dakota Kai, who was not on the show tonight, but she should
be back in the next few months from her ACL injury. Charlotte Flair,
Bianca bel Air, Naomi, Tiffany Stratton, Alba Fire, I look on
Miechen Shatzi, Zelina Vega, Electra Lopez was just called up from nxt B
Fab and Scarlet and Bfab and Scarlett. They were on the SHO show later
as well, though we really haven't seen them wrestle on the show. But
you look, I mean in that there's a lot of talent in that division.
Now. If they're going to do a draft in a few months,
I don't know how different that may look. Charlotte Flair, when she eventually
comes back from her ACL injury, she'll probably end up wherever Androte is right
now. Androtti is on Raw. Charlotte may come back and not be on
SmackDown. We don't know, but I do wonder. You know, Jade
Cargill was on the show later on and they did a tease. She is
also looking to be signed by Raw or SmackDown. She could also very well
end up on SmackDown. But I do wonder with someone like Tiffany going to
the Blue Brand, if we may see Jade end up on RAW. I
also wonder about Roxane Perez. She was another NXT talent like Tiffany, who
popped up in the Women's Royal Rumble on Saturday, and I thought she looked
fine. Roxanne a former NXT Women's Champion. I believe she's wrestling Lyra Valkyria
at Vengeance Day this weekend. She end up on Monday Night RAW. I
think she may end up on RAW. We may see coming out of the
show this weekend this Sunday, we may see Roxane end up on ROW.
But that's a pretty stacked division. Now. There are some people there at
the bottom of the list that I read off who are just not featured that
much or we haven't seen much of them in the ring, where they're not
quite as good or as advanced as some of the other people I mentioned.
But there's a lot of talent on that roster. Now, the question is
what does the raw women's roster look like? Who do you add to the
raw women's roster because they could use a couple of fresh names to backstage.
Biaka spoke with Nick all this, and she wanted to know what is she
going to have to do to get a match with EO Sky for the WWE
Women's title, assuming she said that Bailey chooses Rhea Ripley to challenge a wrestle
Matie Logan. Paul walked in and he blew Bianka off, and she kept
telling him, look, we're having a conversation here, and he was very
dismissive of her and said that he was a big fan of her husband,
which didn't go over very well with her. But he wanted to know who
was the next challenger for my US title, and so they kind of bickered
back and forth and that was the entire thing. After this, they pitched
it to a pre produced vignette. This is like something you would see out
of NXT that was probably produced by Jeremy Borash. We've already started to see
some of these on SmackDown recently. We saw a segment like this with Tyler
Bate and Butch several weeks ago before he became Pete Dunn again. Right,
yes, hallelujah, Pete Dunn is back. So we got a very NXT
esque vignette here. This is from earlier today with Legato Dell Phantasma and they
were gathered around a dinner table in a restaurant somewhere. Santos Ascobar told Angel
and Humberto and Electro Lopez, who was with them, I didn't review SmackDown
last week. I was in Florida doing other things for Rumble Weekend. I
watched smacked. I watched parts of smack that I didn't review it though,
so if you missed it. Electro Lopez made her main roster debut last week,
so now she is with them. Escobar told them that they were tasked
with carrying on the legacy of their ancestors and Luca Libra itself, and to
do that they needed to eliminate Raymisterio and the LWO. Raymisterio still is not
back yet, by the way. He also welcomed back La Madrina Electra Lopez,
and she said I never left, and they all toasted each other the
back Live, we had a fatal four way match. We were told this
is the first of two fatal four way tag matches that we are getting.
There will be another one on Raw Monday night, and the winner of this
one is going to wrestle the winners of the Fatal four way coming up on
Monday. The winner of that match will challenge the Judgment Day at Elimination Chamber
for the undisputed tag team titles. It's one of our new super jets there.
Hey Rodamus, thank you. That was the song that played in my
head when the Rock came out and Cody was staring at the rock. That's
the song that was probably going through Cody's mind, the Mario death theme.
That was the death of his dream, his dream of headlining WrestleMania this year
and finishing the story. You know, not to beat a dead horse here,
but I so not even two weeks ago that Cody went on his Instagram
and he just posted a photo of the Rocky statue. He was so determined,
Yes, exactly, he was so determined to finish this story. I'm
telling you he got this news late. I don't think he would have been
tweeting that or instagramming that shit if he knew the way this was gonna end
up. So anyway, they did not announce who was going to be in
the other fatal four way on Raw coming up this Monday. I would imagine
DIY who just got beat this past week, they'll probably be in the fatal
four way. But the winners of tonight's match, who was it, Well,
let me tell you who was in it. First, we had pretty
deadly they were in there, Joaquin Wild and Cruz del Toro of the LWO,
Pete Dunn and Tyler Bate. And we had Angel and Humberto who had
La Madrina the Godmother Electro Lopez in their corner. Joaquin Wild. He repeated
the slingshot splash spot that they did in NXT last month, which looked incredible.
I mean that that is a fucking highlight reel spot. This was not
as good, or at least they didn't shoot it as well. I wish
they had that camera angle. They had that one camera angle when they did
it in NXT that looked so great, and they didn't have that camera angle
here, but they did the spot. It still looked good. He wiped
out all the heels after a commercial break, Elton Prince was working over Joaquin
eventually done the hot tag. He took out both Legato and Pretty Deadly with
a series of inziguries. Pretty Deadly came back. They took down Pete Dunn,
Tyler Bait broke up a pin attempt and Bait then spun Prince in an
airplane spin. Del Toro and Wild. They were gonna they were about to
fly. Electro Lopez, though, stopped them. Zelina Vega then attacked Lopez
and Pete Dunn did the finger spot on Kit Wilson. Bait tagged in and
the two of them hit their double team under hooks sup plex finish to pick
up the win. And that was the correct outcome. Pete Dunn and Tyler
Bait going over here was the right move. Without even knowing who is in
the four way match coming up this Monday, and again, I'm sure DIY
will be one of those teams. I would like to see Bait and Dunn
get the shot and go on to Australia and challenge for the undisputed tag team
titles. They probably won't win. I don't think they're gonna want them to
drop the belts. Well, look, I shouldn't say that because if they
wanted to set up for Finn Balor and Damian Priest in a match against each
other at WrestleMania, they could drop the belts at Elimination Chamber. I just
don't know they're going to drop them to Pete Dunn and Tyler Bait. I
would still rather be DIY. Maybe you do it at WrestleMania. I'm not
expecting a title change there, but I would still love to see these two
guys British Strong Style be the ones to get the shot at the Elimination Chamber.
And it just makes sense anyway, because Lwo and Legato they're in a
program right now. They're feuding with each other, so they sort of cancel
each other out, and so it was either going to be pretty deadly or
it was going to be Done and Bait. And so of course Dune and
Bait they're a new team. You got to get them over, so it
made sense. Now to the back, we had Eo sky Oska and Kyrie
Sayin. They were alone in their locker room and they were laughing it up.
They were talking in Japanese to each other and then Eo told them Bailey's
done tonight. They walked off, and as they walked away laughing, you
could see in the background standing in the doorway she overheard everything, or at
least that last line for Leo was Bailey, and she had a very sad
look on her face. And so there it is right. You knew what
was coming, You knew what was about to happen. Coming up next,
we had Mike Rome in the ring with Adam Pierce to his right. He
had Nick all This to his left, and that brought damage control to the
ring, including Bailey, because it was time for Bailey to make her decision.
She was the winner of the twenty twenty four Women's Royal Rumble, which
means she gets to pick the champion of her choosing to challenge at WrestleMania forty.
Who would it be? Riya Ripley was there. She was in the
back. They showed her watching on a monitor. Dakota Kai like I said,
not on the show tonight. I don't know where she was, but
she wasn't there. So the crowd was chanting for Bailey. She said she's
done everything in WWE, almost but this year is different, this year a
special and she said that she didn't get to where she is on her own
because she had her girls, and she said they supported her when she cried.
She called Damage Control the best women's faction of all time. I mean,
what would the other choice really be? I mean, forget international promotions,
forget that for a second in WWE specifically, what would the other choice
be? I mean, the horse Women were never really a faction, so
I don't count them. I mean, if not Damage Control, who am
I missing here? Who am I forgetting that you would consider to be the
best female faction in company history. I don't know, not that I think
Damage Control has had this amazing run, because I wouldn't. Amazing is not
a word I would use for it. But just off the top of my
head, I'm not sure who. I'm not sure who else it would be.
So when she made that comment about Damage Control being the best female faction
of all time, you could see EO and Oscar and in the background they
were cackling, but then they stopped. When Bailey turned around to look behind
her, she said, when she thinks about WrestleMania, she thinks about beating
one of the best, and that brings her to Rhea Ripley and Bailey continued
and she said, but sometimes WrestleMania is about proving people wrong, and sometimes
the people who you thought were a support system were working against you all along.
And then she called out Eo Sky and she asked her, she said,
what happened? She said a few words in Japanese which shocked EO and
Kyrie and Osca. They were blown away by that. So whatever it was
that, I don't know what she said, but she said something in Japanese
and then she said, are you done laughing? She says she picked up
some of that along the way by hanging out with them. She says,
she's been here for a very long time and she sees everything around her,
including them talking behind her back. She said all she ever wanted was the
best for them, and she wanted to go to WrestleMania to be the best
together. Now, as she's talking to EO, you see Kyrie and Osca
they have now moved in a position where they are now behind Bailey. So
again you can see it coming right, you know exactly what's about to go
down here, And so sure enough, Oska and Kyrie they attacked Bailey from
behind. Eo joins in on the attack. Now Bailey is laying face down
on the mat. I couldn't tell. I guess she had it on her
on her person, but she had a pipe. When she stood up,
she had a pipe in her hand. So she was concealing it the entire
time because she knew and she was prepared for it, and so she fought
off Kyrie and Osca with the pipe and then she held the pipe up and
she stopped herself before hitting Eo. EO had the belt and she stopped herself
from hitting her with the pipe. Eventually, Eo left the ring, Bailey
picked the microphone back up and said that she would see her at WrestleMania,
and the fans popped huge for that announcement. It is now official Bailey will
challenge Eo Sky for the WWE Women's Championship at WrestleMania. I thought this was
very well done, even though we have been seeing this coming for so long,
and I thought the damage control split was originally gonna come months ago,
and then they just kept it going. So it's a little weird for me
to sit here and say that this felt rush in any way. It did
feel rushed to me, because I thought they were going to drag this out
a little bit longer, maybe until elimination chamber or right after elimination chamber,
and so I didn't expect this angle to be shot tonight on tonight's show,
so it felt a little rushed in that regard. I also thought it was
a little strange how in that backstage segment, you know, EO and the
three of them were so open of that out saying Bailey's done tonight. I
mean, they've been doing a good job of sort of concealing their disgusted is
the right word, but they're discussed for Bailey, and then Dakota was always
there to translate and say no, no, no, everything's cool, everything's
cool. And here it was just like they spoiled it and they just had
them in the back saying, all right, Bailey's done tonight. And you
think about it, and it's like, well, why wouldn't they wait If
they were assuming that she was going to pick Rhea Ripley to challenge for the
Women's World title of WrestleMania, and EO wouldn't have to wrestle Bailey, why
wouldn't they just wait, you know, for Bailey to make her choice.
But this is the angle they went with. I still think it was well
done. I love the little reveal when Bailey started saying some stuff in Japanese
and that shocked them. I thought that was cool. The thing I really
liked about that aspect of it is that Bailey now is a babyface, right,
And I like the fact that they didn't portray her as a dumb babyface,
like she was completely oblivious to everything that's been going on around her,
because it would have made her look like an idiot because everybody else can see
what's going on except her. She was aware of it. So I actually
think that they made her look even better in this instance because she saw it
coming, she had the pipe, she was prepared for it, and so
I thought that did her some good bye portraying her in that light. And
look, you know, look, she's been a heel long enough. It's
gonna be five years later. This year would be five years that Bailey would
have been a heel. That's a long time. And you saw the reaction
that she got at the Royal Rumble when she won. I mean I was
there, I'll tell you right now because I know some people watch that show
and said, man, the crown was dead. The whole time. The
crowd was dead for the men's rumble, they didn't really give a shit about
that, but they were very much alive for the women's rumble. And when
Bailey not live Morgan out of the rain, everybody popped huge and they were
cheering for her and chanting for her. And I think people, even though
she's supposed to be a heel, I think people appreciate her in a way
that, you know, it hasn't really been expressed over the years all that
much that Bailey is very good and never really got her flowers in the way
that Charlotte and Sasha and Becky have all gotten their flowers over the years.
They've also had big moments on the main roster. Charlotte, you know,
has won thirty seven hundred titles. Sasha got to Maine event of WrestleMania with
Bianca, and she's also won a bunch of championships. Becky got to main
event, which Charlotte the very first women's WrestleMania main event and got that big
run back in twenty eighteen into twenty nineteen and has won multiple titles and had
big moments. And Bailey never really had a big main roster moment. I
would always go back to the Brooklyn match with Sasha Banks. That was in
twenty fifteen. Dude, it's twenty twenty four. We're going on almost a
decade. It's about time this woman got a moment for herself. That was
the Royal Rumble. She won sixty three minutes. She won the Rumble.
Now she's going to get another big moment. She gets to go to WrestleMania
as a babyface and challenge for the title, and I assume she's going to
win the championship, and I'm happy for her. Yeah, it's been a
long time coming. She had that injury as well. I think it was
ACL. I think right. I think it was an ACL injury, and
so she was out for a long time. She fought for Damage Control.
Vince McMahon, you know, didn't care for it, didn't want to do
it. The moment he went out, the first time Triple H took over,
we saw the debut of Damage Control. So this moment has been a
long time coming for her. And again EO Sky is another one. I'm
happy for EO. Eo gets to go into WrestleMania in a singles match as
the defending champion. There is a period of time just a few months ago,
where I didn't think that was going to be the case. I was
convinced that the title match of WrestleMania was going to in some way involved Bianca
and or Charlotte, because those two are always in a title match of WrestleMania.
Every single WrestleMania match those two have ever had, and Charlotte has had
more of them than Bianca, they involved in title matches, and so I
thought, well, that's probably the direction we're going in. But they kept
the belt on EO. This is a story that's been playing out for a
while. EO gets to walk into WrestleMania as the defending champion, so I'm
looking forward to that match. Now. We were supposed to have a six
man tag. I say supposed to because we never actually got it, but
we were supposed to have a six man tag with Bobby Lashley and the Street
Profits against the Final Testament, which is carrying cross an aop. When Bobby
and the Prophets walked out, they put their fist in the air like the
Nation of Dominating, And I know that's not a Nation of Domination thing.
I know that's been a thing for decades, but I'm just saying the Nation
of Domination co opted that when they were a thing many years ago in WWE,
that was their thing. They would come out, they would pump their
fist in the air, so that's what they did when they came out.
The bell never rang before all six of these guys, they got into a
whole brawl. Things broke down. Cross and Lashley ended up alone in the
ring. Lashly dropped him with a spinebuster, so he puts the hurt lock
on carrying Cross and Scarlett jumps on Bobby's back, so she ultimately is able
to help break up the move because he releases the hold and then b Fab
shows up. BFAB has been flirting with Bobby now for several weeks. We've
seen her pop up in various backstage segments and they would go off talking.
We don't know where. We don't know whether it was to talk or who
knows. So now BFAB shows up. She's wearing this like gold outfit which
kind of matches what Bobby and the prophets are wearing, and she drops Scarlet
with a kick and so BFAB, I guess now is officially part of this
new whatever they're calling themselves. I thought they were calling themselves the Pride,
I know lastly had put that into Twitter bio. They haven't mentioned that name
once on television, so I don't know what the fuck their name is or
is going to be. But BFAB now is going to be part of the
faction with them, and that was it. They played their music. The
Heels were on the outside looking up at the baby faces. The baby faces
were looking down at the Heels, and they played them off. This was
a waste of time. They did this to introduce BFAB as a new member
of the crew, but this was a waste of time. These guys.
When I say these guys, I mean Cross, That's really what I mean.
Cross and AOP. They desperately need to get in the ring for an
actual match and get a win, get that first win under their belt,
because they still they have no credibility yet we have yet to see them in
action. We have yet to see them racking up wins. This just ended.
We'll get the match at some point, but they desperately need to start
racking up some wins. Even after this one segment, I still can't help
but feel like this thing is going to be a bust, you know,
I for Cross's sake. I hope that's not the case. You know,
it would be nice to see him actually do something and find some success with
it here on the main roster. You know, he had some success in
NXT, but his first run, this run, he has not had any
success on the main roster. He needs to hope that this is finally going
to be the payoff for him. So far, this is not very encouraging.
So whatever this was supposed to be, maybe they ran low on time.
I don't know, but this was a waste of time. Now,
bron Breaker was shown in the back with Nick Alldi and he was looking over
a SmackDown contract and Adam Pierce walked in. He told him that you might
want to hold off on signing, that I may have an offer for you
on Raw this Monday night. So Breaker told all this, I'm gonna take
this with me. I'm gonna hold off on signing and I'm gonna take it
with me. And he told Adam Pierce, I'll see you on Monday and
he walked out. Now Raw got andrad if he didn't see it on Monday
night, Androt has officially signed a Monday night Raw contract. I assumed because
Raw got Andrade that bron was gonna go to SmackDown. I still feel like
SmackDown would be the better landing spot for him. I just especially if he's
a babyface, I feel like there's gonna be more people and good people for
him to work with on this show. But I also I believe that he
took Brock Lesner's spot in the Royal Rumble even before it was all being reported
by all these websites this week. I said it the night that I did
my Rumble review. As soon as I got home from the stadium, I
said, the Pat McAfee thing that was not the Brock Lesner spot, bron
Breaker was the Brock Lesner spot. I'd bet anything on that. And so
if he got Brock's spot in the Rumble, it's possible that he's going to
get brock spot at WrestleMania. And the WrestleMania spot for Brock was probably going
to be against Gunther for the Intercontinental title. Well, Brock is done,
Brock is toxic, Brock is persona non grata now in WWE. So he's
off the WrestleMania car that leaves Gunther without any obvious opponent. Well, I
mean there's any number of people you could put him in the ring with.
You could have done Gunther and Rollins. You could also get back to the
story with Gunther and Shad Gable. I'm just saying the story is right there.
They wanted to go back to it. But if they want to slot
bron Breaker in there and have bron Breaker be the first man to hand Gunther
a loss on the main roster and win the Intercontinental title, that could be
another direction. They could make a star in one night. I am still
not totally sold on that, just because I feel like it might be too
much too soon, and you run the risk of there being some blowback on
that. But it might be a risk worth taking. It's not like they
haven't done stuff like this before. I mean when the Honkey talk Man lost
his Intercontinental title at SummerSlam, he lost it in twenty eight seconds. I
think to the Ultimate Warrior, and they made a star in one night.
Right. It's a match and a win that's still talked about to this day.
Madison Square Garden, wind Nuts, you could make a star in one
night and you could play into their history together. Because the last person to
pin Gunther was bron Breaker. He beat him in Gunther's last match in n
XTY. If they want to draw from that history, they can certainly do
so. So that's what makes me think bron maywell end up signing with Monday
Night Raw if they want him to take brock spot. But I'm just glad
that the guy's main roster bound, you know, even more so than Tiffany.
He has just been meandering around. They have him in this dusty classic
teaming with Baron Corbin. It's just like he's been ready for a while and
just sort of stuck in limbo or purgatory. Almost. He's gone as far
as he can go in nxt I would have preferred he get called up as
a heel and then eventually the fans are going to naturally turn him babyface.
Anyway, based on how he was used at the Rumble, it looks like
and even tonight it looks like he may be coming up as a babyface.
But as Bron Breaker walked out, Jade Cargill walked in and she said that
all this wanted to see her, and all this at that point dismissed Adam
Pearson kicked him out, and that was the last that we saw of Jade
Cargill, but obviously we'll be seeing a lot more of her because they're going
to be calling her up. That much is clear. Hey, Michael,
thank you for the Samoa bro, thank you for the nineteen ninety nine and
thank you all for all the super chats. Are just coming in like crazy
again. I'm going to be reading all of your messages, so get them
on in and we'll we'll go through that here in a little bit. We
had Tiffany Stratton in her SmackDown in ring debut one on one with Meechen.
Michin hit a gut wrench suit plex and followed that up with a vertical suit
plex. The action spilled outside, Tiffany took control. She face planted Mia
Yim. They went to a break. After the break, Stratton had control.
Mechin fired up, hit a series of dropkicks and a neck breaker,
and then she hit the double knees to the face and then at the very
last second Tiffany got her foot on the bottom rope to break up the pin.
Michin went for eight defeat. Stratton, though countered with an alibam a
slam, got a good near fall out of that. Meechen came back with
some kicked Stratton though, lifted her up, ran forward, slammed her right.
We've seen her do this before, and then she hit. I say
she mostly missed it. When I say when I say hit, when I
say hit, She didn't really hit as much of it as she would have
liked Meechen was a little too far forward, she wasn't positioned exactly where she
needed to be. But Tiffany went up and she hit the prettiest moon salt
ever and got the pin to win her first match here on SmackDown. Best
moon salt in the business right now is Tiffany Stratton. Chad Gable has a
pretty cool looking moon salt too, but if I had to give the edge,
it's to Tiffany Stratten. Tiffany Stratton is she comes from an athletic background.
She is very talented. She picked this up way quicker than most people
do. I remember when she first debuted in NXT. You could tell how
green she was, and she was playing that, you know, daddy's little
girl gimmick, the rich girl gimmick. But she was very very raw,
very very green, and in a very short period of time she really started
to pick up a lot of the fundamentals, and you would watch her matches
and it was very noticeable how much she improved. And now you watch her
and it really hit me when I was watching her at No Mercy in September
when she had that extreme rules match with Becky Lynch. They had a hell
of a match, and so that had to be a turning point for her
internally in that company. I'm sure she turned a lot of heads with the
performance in that match, and they've probably been getting her ready for this spot,
this call up for the last few months. It was pretty clear that
she was ready for the for the call up, and she's also very self
aware because there was a point early last year she was interviewed on some podcast
I think or radio show and she even she said this at the time.
She said she didn't want to go up to the main roster at that point
because she didn't think she was ready, and she pointed out, there were
a few things I still have to improve on. I'm not good at this.
I'm not good I think selling was one thing she said, I gotta
work on my selling. So she was very self aware of her experience level
and the work that she still had to put in to get to where she
needed to be and when you have that kind of attitude, you'll go far.
And so she's made a lot of stride since then. So she's a
huge pickup here for this backdown roster. And I'm telling you you don't have
to wait very long. Within these next couple of years, she's going to
be in one of these big women's title matches at WrestleMania. Maybe not the
main event, but in the position that we see Eo Sky now and Bailey
and Rhea Ripley, Tiffany Stratton is going to be there and it's not going
to take her that long to get there. Then it was decision time for
Cody Roads. But first it was Roman Reigns and the Bloodline down to the
ring and Roman was serenaded by chance of Rocky Rocky. Oh no, wait,
no, no, it was Cody, That's what it was. I'm
sorry, I mishurt. It was Cody that the fans were chanting. But
first Roman said, I'll get to him, but Birmingham acknowledged me. I
think they were just happy to see Roman Reigns on the show, since it's
very rare that we get him on the television show. He said, there
were some things said on Monday that they just can't let slide. He says,
his little brother Seth rollins, and then he goes as if he didn't
bury him enough in this segment, he goes, little brother Seth Rollins and
then there's no reaction. He goes, exactly no pop. He said,
he's He said he's got the title, so he had to think about it.
Roman said. He goes, didn't he beat everybody competing for that title?
He said, doesn't that make all of them their number? Twos said,
shouldn't they call that the loser bracket title? He wasn't sparing this championship
at all. He goes. Then he had the audacity to say that he's
the guy. He said, you can't be running around here for two years
in your wife's clothes and call yourself the guy. This guy was on fire
here. He goes, do workhorses walk like this? And he started walking
like an old man, started walking like Hulk Hogan without his walking stick,
doing an imitation of Seth and his broken back. He goes, and then
he wants to attack my schedule. He says, yes, I work less
than you. I work ten times less than you, and I still make
ten times more than you. And then he asked the audience. He goes,
you want seth Rollins money or you want tribal chief money. Of course
they wanted tribal chief money. I too would like tribal chief money, especially
if I can get his schedule. He goes, but see, Cody,
he's an idiot. Where's the lie? I gotta get Bobby fish on here.
Where's the lie? Roman was smoking fools here in this segment. I
mean, this is the biggest workshoot I've seen on WWE television of years.
Everything that he's saying, Man, I mean, I'm not finding the lie
in anything this man is saying here in this segment. Calls Cody an idiot.
He goes, he's got values and all that crap. You don't care
about the money. I don't think, so let me break it down for
you. He goes, Cody, I'm not gonna beg you like that other
guy. You could either be the very best number two in this industry or
you could take a crack at number one. Again, it's your choice,
boy. You know Roman. Roman must have walked out there, you know,
after having a couple of wool energies. I don't know because the jebs
that this guy was taken here. They were on point. I mean,
he was roasting fulls here in this fucking segment. So then Cody's music hits
and the idiot, I mean, Cody makes his way out to the ring,
but first they cut to the final commercial break because they went on early
with this segment, so they went to commercial here. It was probably nine
forty two or something like that, so you knew we were getting at least
one more commercial break. After the break, Cody gets in the ring,
he goes, what do you want to talk about? And he asked if
the two of them, if we could have the ring to ourselves, and
so Roman sent away Paul Hayman and Solo and Jimmy and they left the ring
and Cody told them. He goes, you cheated me talking about WrestleMania last
year. Says you cheated me. I had you, and I think you
know it, says Seth Rollins. He made a lot of amazing points this
week, but he made one point that I disagree with. He called that
the Hollywood title. Talking about the WWE Championship. He called that the Hollywood
title. Call it whatever you want, but It's still the title that Bruno
San Martino held. It's still the title that was put into my father's hands
at Madison Square Garden and was swiftly taken away. He says he still wants
that title because let me ask you, what is finishing the story? Because
I've heard you say that all of this is yours, the ring, the
ropes, the canvas, that camera over there, all these people and he
looks at it, the crowd, and he says, all you people apparently
belonged to Roman Raids and they all booed. So is finishing the story taking
that title from you? Or is finishing the story taking everything from you?
Said? Let me make it abundantly clear, I want that title. As
a matter of fact, I'm moving my own goalposts. I want that title,
and I'm coming for you Roman Reigns, but not at WrestleMania. And
as soon as he said those words, I said fuck because I knew exactly
what was coming now. I for the record, I know that the rock
stuff leaked earlier today. I know now, I know there was something that
leaked earlier today. I didn't see it. I intentionally stayed away from the
story on PW Insider they had a big spoiler about a huge surprise tonight.
I didn't see it, so I did not know coming into this that the
Rock was supposed to be on the show tonight until Cody said that line right
there, and then I knew exactly what the big surprise was. So he
said He's not coming for Roman. At WrestleMania, the man who just went
to the Royal Rumble and won the Rumble for the second year in a row
went back to back for the first time since Stone Cold Steve Austin. Even
I was like, man, it would have been nice to have somebody different
win the Royal Rumble, although in hindsight, thank god, see I'm punk
didn't win. But like even I was like, yeah, you know,
Cody doesn't have to win the Royal Rumble. I kind of like getting a
different Royal Rumble winner. Cody could win the Chamber or something like that,
but they had Cody win. They went out of their way to have Cody
win back to back. Nobody has done that in twenty six years. Twenty
seven years. It earns you a title opportunity in the main event of WrestleMania,
and here comes Cody Rhodes. I want that title, but not a
WrestleMania. Oh really do tell and he goes I mentioned about taking counsel,
goes Roman, one of the individuals that I talked to. He knows you
very well. And the people at that point kind of sense what was coming.
I could sense what was coming. And then if you smell, if
you smell, yes, smells like shit to me. Here comes the Rock,
and everybody loses their minds because it's a special thing. When Rock makes
an appearance, it's a big deal. Not discounting that he comes out he's
got goosebumps on his arm. Cody has to stand in the ring this entire
time, by the way, as the Rock takes his time to come down
to the ring and soak up the reaction and get on the ropes and pose
and smell and sniff and all the stuff that he usually does. So Rock
gets in the ring and Cody is staring at the Rock. The Rock is
staring at Cody. The Rock extends his hand out to Cody. Cody accepts.
The Rock pulls him in for a hug. He said something to Cody.
Cody ended up with a smile. I told you what I think he
said to him. Earlier. Whatever he said, Cody, Cody has a
smile again. I could just look at the man's face and I could.
It's like the most insincere smile I've ever seen in my life. I mean,
it's it's just amazing. So Cody smiles and Ben Cody leaves and the
Rock turns to Roman rings. Roman is on the far side of the ring
and he's got his title. Rock is on the other side, the opposite
side of the ring. They're staring each other down and eventually they get closer.
They step to each other, we get the face to face. The
copyright box comes on, and that is how they go off the air.
Rock or Roman rather calling Seth Rollins little brother Rock coming out, Little brothered
Cody Rhads. They newtered Cody Rhoads is what they did. They tried to
make him magnanimous. They tried to make him like, you know, I'm
gonna get my shot. I'm going to finish my story. And look,
I am sure that at some point, maybe even this year, Cody Rhodes
will finish the story and he'll win the WWE Championship because Cody Cody's already I'm
sure Cody's already resigned. Cody's not going anywhere. Cody is still in a
great position, right. They love him. He's always going to be featured
as top guy in this company. He'll finish the story at some point.
But boy, did they newter this fucking guy here in this segment. I
mean, who in their right mind, after what his character just went through
would stand in the middle of the ring two months out from WrestleMania forty the
fortieth WrestleMania and would willingly sacrifice his main event championship match to anyone. I
don't care if it's the Rock, I don't care who it is. Who
would do that? What a nice guy? So they got their Mega match.
All indications based on the way this show ended tonight is that this is
going to be the WrestleMania, the true WrestleMania main event, and it will
probably be for the WWE Championship. There's still a lot we don't know.
Cody did not flat out say he's going to take Seth Rollins up on his
challenge would see Impunk going down due to injury, though, it would appear
that they've made their choice and they're gonna go with Cody and Seth because if
Cody doesn't pick Seth, I don't know what the hell they're gonna do unless
they do Cody and Roman before they do Rock and Rome. And Cody and
Roman is the play in Australia at the Elimination Chamber, which is another big
stadium show again, They'll have fifty thousand people there. They could do the
match there. But then if Cody wins the title again, both title matches
are automatically little brother to Rock and Roman at WRESTLEMANI and so do you do
Cody and Orton on the undercard that night? I mean, that would seem
to be the only logical thing if Cody was to win the belt later this
month. We don't know. All I know is that Cody Rhodes won himself
at Wrestlemaniam main event. And what is he gonna do now? He's gonna
cash in at the Elimination Chamber. Let's just ignore the stipulation and we'll just
cash in at the Elimination Chamber instead. I mean, is that what we're
doing here? Or are we getting another year this shit? Because Rock ain't
beating Roman unless it's a non title match. If it's a non title match
where the title is off Roman. It could go either way. I still
don't see the benefit in having Rock beat Roman, even if it's not for
the title. If Rock is going to come back here for all these years
and they're only planning on doing one match, and he's going to come back
and beat his cousin who's been on top of the company and on top of
the industry now for three and a half years, Rock has to come back
and get the win. Why, I would think if Rock is willing to
put anybody over it, certainly is his cousin. Rock said that when he
comes back, if he ever comes back, he wants to do something that's
never been done before. So I am patiently waiting now to find out if
this is just a straight one on one we're gonna do Rock and Roman deal,
or is there some element to this that I'm not seeing. Is there
some element that I'm missing to this that's gonna make it something that we've never
seen before, that's gonna make it so special it's unprecedented. I don't know
what that would be. When I heard the word unprecedented, I thought maybe
they were really going to plan to do a standalone event, like a standalone
pay per view built around Rock and Roman is the mega match and build kind
of a card around it. And they were going to make that separate apart
from WrestleMania and anything else. But they're gonna go with WrestleMania. I mean,
weather logical conclusion is there to jump to. Cody said it will not
be at WrestleMania me and you, So there you go. That paves the
way that's your WrestleMania forty main event. But they did Cody no favors.
They did Seth Rollins. No. If I'm Seth Rollins, by the way,
he better have a damn good comeback on Raw Monday Night. They better
put a mic in his hand and just let him go off because of I'm
Seth Rollins. Not only have my fucking pissed that I lost my big match,
would see I'm Punk at WrestleMania, and frankly, a match with Cody
may be the only way for him to redeem an actual main event on Night
one. That's why I've been saying Seth and Punk need each other if their
goal is to get the WrestleMania main event on one of those two nights.
Punk going down due to injury, I mean Rollins looked like he was on
the outs as far as that goes. So if they slop Cody in there,
yeah, you'll probably get Cody and Seth in the main event. But
boy, I mean they buried Seth, They buried that belt. They bury
everything that Rollins has done over the past. However many months, nine ten
months that it's been right, maybe not quite ten months yet, but he's
been the World Heavyweight Champion since May, and he's constantly doing interviews, and
he's constantly talking about how I'm trying to make this something special. I'm trying
to make this the most prestigious title in this company. I'm trying to be
the workhorse champion. And in one night, in one segment, it all
flushed away because everything Roman reign said in this segment was true. Rock coming
back at the end only reinforces that Seth and Cody and everything else is just
on the back burner now. Everything is just pushed to the side. Doesn't
even matter. But the comments he made about little Brother and I've beaten everybody
that's wrestled for that belt. Again, I ask you, where's the lie?
Roman Reigns was dropping truth bombs on these people. Tonight. So if
I'm Cody, I'm pissed. If I'm Seth, I'm pissed. If I'm
Punk, I'm pissed because he had a guaranteed ticket to the WrestleMania Made event
and he got hurt. So now that's fucked. It's a lot of angry
people right now that should be on that WWE roster, scept Roman in the
Rock because now they got their match of WrestleMania. Congratulations. Let's take a
look at the Twitter poll see what you guys thought of tonight's show once this
gets off the screen here, and I want to say thank you to the
three thousand plus that have been with me here. Forty one point seven percent
for SmackDown tonight, fifty eight point three percent thumbs down. And I'm willing
to bet that a lot of that is colored by what we saw in the
final five minutes of tonight's show because it was not a it was not a
bad SmackDown tonight. There was a lot going on, Like I said,
you know, people being called up. There's reason to be excited about the
future here on SmackDown. But this was always going to be a very divisive
closing segment on this show, and for good reason. Let's see what you
got. Oh, let's see what you guys have to say about everything that's
been going on so far here tonight. You guys have been very vocal.
Again, I love you for it. Thank you for still hanging out with
me here. Hopefully I had a chance to vent to you about certain things.
I have a feeling a lot of you were in agreement with me.
I know some of you aren't, but I would say probably the majority of
you are in agreement with me, or at least can see things from the
perspective that I'm coming from here. It's just frustrating, you know, when
you have such an obvious story I forget Cody's story, but just such an
obvious story, and you are building to your biggest show of the year.
You build everything around this show, and it just feels like kind of a
last minute sabotage in many ways. You know you're taking the short term gain,
but what are you doing potentially to your existing story or stories in the
long term. That's really is the question here. The real Yes, we'll
kick things off with him. If Vince cared about WWE like he says he
does, then he would not have done the things he allegedly did, even
with NDA's it is going to come out eventually. Well, that is what
happens when you are a selfish sociopath. You don't care about other people.
You're self self absorbed. All you care about is yourself are Jerry Mohler loves
Goomfar the Magnificent All Hell Goomfar, Hey, Aaron, thank you man for
the fifty dollars super chat Nick Grosso. Finally, Bailey and Damage Control split
up? But where was Dakota Kai? And whose side is she on?
They may do it? Whose side is she on? Thing with Dakota Kai?
I don't know where she was. I don't know. Maybe they kept
her out on purpose for that very reason because they want to build to a
story where she has to pick a side. Luis Lopez is Rock versus Roman
a direct effect of Punk getting injured. I feel that WrestleMania has lost a
lot of momentum with Punk's injury and the Vince situation. This did feel to
me like the Punk injury probably played a role in this, And you're right
about the Vince situation. It's a big black eye for this company and it's
not going away. It's only gonna get messier, it's only gonna get uglier.
Doing something like this can take a little bit of the heat off to
some degree because it gets people talking and excited that The Rock is coming back.
That can promote this big match now. So all of those things may
well have had an effect that all boils down to when did the Rock make
his final decision? I suspect we'll find out in the days to come.
Did he make his decision only this week? Because that's what it felt to
me, like, you know, I mean, I feel like if Rock
had already made his decision to last weekend, we would not have had Cody
Rhodes pointing up at Roman Reigns at the end of the Royal Room, him
pointing up at Roman Reigns and making it very clear that that's the guy that
he wanted. And then what we saw tonight are in direct conflict with each
other, which tells me this decision was not made or finalized until sometime in
the last few days. That's what that felt to me like. Asan this
comes off as trying to have their cake and eat it too. They want
to give Rolins a main event, Cody a world title Roman and Rock and
extending the rain past Hogan for some god forsaken reason. You said it,
brother, The Hogan thing is something I'll never understand. I just don't understand.
I just don't understand what the big deal is there. I really don't.
I really don't the idea that, if in fact, that is what
their plan is, that you would sacrifice creatively things that are right there in
front of your face to edge him up on a list of champions in a
worked sport. I mean, what are we doing here? You know what
I mean? Like, I can't. I can't. I just can't understand
the logic behind it. I just don't. And the idea again that some
people think, well, they're trying to erase Hogan in a way. They
want him out of the top three. Nobody gives a shit about the top
three. Maybe they care about number one, number two, number three,
number four, it doesn't matter. It's no less or more impressive to say
that Roman Reigns is fourth all time. And by the way, let me
bring up another point on that. I'm gonna bring up another point on that
Roman Reigns has not even had the WWE title for a thousand days. I
think he's had it for like six hundred and something days, probably about the
same length of time that Gunther has had the Intercontinental title, right. I
think it's maybe a little bit more than that. The WWE Championship is the
lineage here. That's the lineage for Bruno and for Backland and for Hogan.
Hogan had the WWE title for like four years, four and a half years,
maybe it was four about four years. What they're doing is they're taking
the Universal title. The Universal title didn't exist before twenty sixteen. Who gives
a fuck about the Universal title. That's what they're going with. They're not
even using the correct title lineage, they're combining them where they're or just using
the Universal one and not the WWE one, which is again something else that
makes me laugh when I think about this. Doesn't make sense, it's meaningless,
and yet people won't shut up about it. Arabian Night. This is
why we can never get behind a full time talent because they do shit like
this and bring back part timers to take their spot as Triple Ah as a
godsend huh Asan. I honestly don't know who takes the title from Roman.
You cannot do Roman versus Cody at forty one, who's going to care.
He's been going on about this fucking story for years, and right when he
had it, he gives up. That's what he did. That's exactly what
he did. He gave up. Imagine being a fan, like a fan
of his, like a real super fan, right and you've been waiting for
this moment, and then he just willingly gives it up to the man who
has everything. He gives it up to the one person who needs it the
least. Vanilla Gorilla. Do you think Rock versus Roman was planned in advance
or did they have to switch things up in light of the Punk injury.
I think they've wanted to do the match for a very long time. Do
I think it was in the plans, like firmly in the plans for a
while. No. I feel like this only came together, probably in the
past week. PB and Shane love that name. I haven't seen Wwe drop
the ball like this since Daniel Bryan in twenty fourteen. Cody being made an
afterthought to two part timers is damn near heartbreaking. Arabian Night Rock got a
huge ego. Wonder how he would feel if a past star came back in
ninety nine or two thousand or two thousand and one and took a WrestleMania spot
from him like Hogan or Macho, I'm pissed, Fuck Triple H. Holliday
one ninety seven, Cody is facing Rollins at WrestleMania, or if they do
Cody and Roman at Elimination Chamber, who does Cody face at WrestleMania Randy Orton?
There would be little build up. And that's another reason why I don't
like that idea, because Cody and Orton is a potentially great story for a
show like SummerSlam. And so if they put the belt on Cody, let's
just say they put the belt on him in Australia. You've got six or
seven weeks now to build to Cody and Orton for WrestleMania. That's something that
deserves some more time. Instead, it would just feel like they're rushing into
it. So I hope they don't do that. Derrek Y, what do
you think about doing only one rumble a year and alternating each year between the
men and the women. What do you think about Triple H's comments after the
Royal Rumble. I don't like the idea of alternating men's and women's are here
to stay, just like men's and women's elimination chambers and money in the banks
and war games. So ideally you would have one rumble on the show.
I do feel like having toes tire the crowd out. I think that was
part of the problem last weekend. Honestly, it is a lot. I
don't like the idea of alternating them though. As far as Triple H's comments
after the Royal Rumble, they were about as bad as you could possibly make
them. I tweeted about it. I have not had a chance to talk
about it in audio form or video form. I am going to address that.
I mean, let me tell you something right now. This podcast on
Sunday, this is episode eight forty seven coming up. This is not going
to be a show to be missed. Okay, just trust me, you
are going to want to listen to this podcast on Sunday. We have a
lot to get into. I will address the Triple H stuff as well on
that show. He could not have done a worst job. Arabian Night two
thousand says well, I guess it was a fact that Punk was supposed to
win the rumble. Now they're rushing Rock versus Rains because they want to reward
Seth and main event Night one against Cody Yuck. I feel so bad for
Cody. This is BS. I don't think it's a fact that Punk was
supposed to win the Royal Rum well, I think exactly the person who was
planned to win one, Punk would have gone on and won at the Chamber.
Punk was never going to win the Royal Rum of Harrison. The Rock
is going to look like CM Punk in the Rumble when he has a match
far Jerry Mohler loves Gumfar the Magnificent All hell goomfar Hey, Aaron is coming
in hot again with a fifty dollars gunthar bomb Aaron Man, you are the
man. Thank you, sir h. Just to finish off what Jacob was
saying, Rock is going to look like Punk in the Rumble when he has
a match, blown up in five minutes and embarrassing himself in his final match,
we'll see. I didn't think he looked that great in that last SNA
match and that was my god, was that twelve years ago? No?
Eleven years ago? It was eleven years ago. He's eleven years older now.
Tuxedo t servo. It appears Cody's story was just retcon Arabian night,
worst booking decisions since The Fiend in twenty nineteen Hell in his cell or you
can see the Fiend in Goldberg in Saudi Arabia when he got buried in the
fucking desert. The Winston slip says, WHOA, Cody's story was only smoking
mirrors. Very good, very good? That was That was clever. Didn't
Rock tear his abdomen. Rock tore like three different things in that match.
We've seen in the last one. He tore his adductor muscle or muscles off
the bone. He tore something else too. We had to have surgery.
It delayed production on his movie. I don't know if it was. I
don't remember what movie it was. It was grid Iron Gan, I don't
remember what movie it was, but yeah, no, I mean he got
seriously, seriously hurt in that match. I think he tore his hamstring in
the first scene a match, but in the second match he completely messed himself
up. Holiday one ninety seven says, at this rate, I wonder if
Cody will ever win a main title, or at the very least have fans
care if he does win it, they can't defer his win to WrestleMania forty
one. Well, look, this is the risk that you run. Now
we don't know. Cody just said he's not going to get it at WrestleMania.
Maybe he gets it at the Chamber. Okay, so I just put
that out there. We don't know yet. Having said that, that is
another risk that you run by doing this whole cock Teas situation here with Cody,
will you get people's hopes up? They were happy to see him win
the Rumble. Now he's not getting the shot at the Rumble? Why because
of reasons? And so you will eventually run into a situation if you continue
to do this where people are going to lose interest and he's going to become
a punchline. And the one thing you do not want to do is have
your top babyface or one of your top baby faces become a punchline. That
is not what you want. The longer they dragged us out for, the
bigger the risk they run of that happening. Ossie of Steel, you mean
you're not excited for another year of Paul Hayman talking to his phone again?
In all seriousness, this is some BS Cody deserves better. Ali with the
three bucks. The Rock was frozen in carbonite in twenty thirteen and hasn't been
entertaining and wrestling since two thousand and three. Goodbye Sportsnet Sportsnet Plus. He
says, Ali Ali Ali is all elite Orhan? Who do you prefer?
And who is the bigger star? RKO or CM? Who is the bigger
star? I feel like that's a good question. I mean, it's tough
because Punk missed somebody he missed seven years, and from WWE he missed almost
ten years, and that's a long chunk of time to miss. So Orton
is the bigger star. Had Punk stuck around, I might have a different
opinion on that. Orton is the bigger star? Who do I prefer?
You know, it depends. I mean I would almost say Punk on promos,
maybe Orton in matches if you could take the best elements of both and
kind of merge them together. To me, it's not a black and white,
cut and dry kind of thing. Mister Notorious Chico, I don't understand
why people are complaining about this story. He is still winning the gold at
Mania, so relax. And do you think Jacob Bought is going to WWA.
Well, look, if he's going to WrestleMania, they did a very
poor job of framing it that way tonight, because could they do Rock Roman
on one night and Roman and Cody on another. Yes, but Cody made
it pretty clear tonight, I'm gonna win that title from you, but it's
not going to be at WrestleMania. He didn't say night one of WrestleMania.
He didn't say Night two of WrestleMania. He said not WrestleMania. So unless
they completely go back on what they said tonight, it's not happening at WrestleMania.
That much was clear. Do I think Jacob Fotu is going to WWE,
I don't know. I don't know. WWE could have had him years
ago, they didn't take him. I think he would be a tremendous addition
to that roster if they wanted to keep the bloodline stuff going, I think
he'd be an obvious addition to that. And I feel like in the ring
Bell to Bell, he is probably the best of the bunch when it comes
to all those, you know, all the all the Samoan stars. I've
had an up close view of his work having been in House of Glory when
he was the world champion there and calling his matches and seeing what he can
do and seeing him in MLW. He's a tremendous talent. There are other
factors that play here. Booker T talked a little bit about that on his
podcast. Jacob Fotou is another one who I will talk about on the podcast
on Sunday. Yusef this absolutely blow. Cody looks like a total geek.
My brothers and I have tickets for WrestleMania, seriously considering refunds. Hype deflated
andersen Blitz. If you can smell when the Rock steals your WrestleMania spotlight again
and plays the same character all the time and fans still love him, well,
that doesn't really roll off the tongue, like if you smell what the
Rock is cooking. So I don't think you could fit all of that on
a T shirt. I don't think it would sell very well. Fahad,
this is honestly depressing. I have zero percent excitement for WrestleMania. Kels said,
oh with the forty bucks. That was the forty dollars one from earlier.
Hey Kels, thank you. What if Cody does not use his title
shot at Mania and uses it like a cashin that would suck when you say
cash in, if you mean cash in the way that most people can like
Roman wrestles, and then out comes Cody to cash in. If you want
to, if you want to do the absolute worst thing imaginable, do that,
because that is a terrible idea. But Kel's thank you, thank you
for the forty bucks. Alfonso. Seeing Cody leave the ring and walk up
the aisle broke my heart. What the fuck are they thinking after everything,
just to screw him like that? I don't know, man, Sam bluestheen
only watching the women's matches at WrestleMania. I'm done, burnout media. There
had to be a better way to get there than this. There always is,
and I've talked about it on a lot of the podcasts over the last
probably month or so. There were other ways to do this without doing it
the way that it appears they're doing it. We'll see things are still going
to play out, but the way things we were left at the end of
the show tonight, it doesn't look good. Diego Vasquez, did you hear
the ticketing issue at the Royal Rumble? A lot of us got our tickets
recalled and resold, but we got lucky and got floor seats. I did
not hear that. How come my tickets weren't recalled and I didn't get floor
seats? What makes you so special? No, I didn't hear that.
Gregory Allen, Hey, Gregory, thank you for the ten bucks. I
appreciate that Scotie clash with the nine to ninety nine. Rock should have just
been in the rumble and won it, because now Cody's rumble wind feels pointless.
I should be happy, but I'm pissed. Another reason why Roman should
have lost last year. Absolutely, had he lost the title last year,
you could do Rock in Roman this year with no title. Done that Aaron
with the one hundred dollars super chat went from being super excited to see Mania
to not even wanting to watch it at all. They're fucking over Cody again.
There's no need for fifty one year old Rock wrestling for the title.
They made Cody look like a bitch. The story is over. Rock cares
about no one but himself and his family, keeping it in the family.
The Juliet with the twenty five dollars pre mode. Nice job, Rock and
Triple h This wrestle media will get shit on as badly as thirty two and
thirty four were. Cody should go back to aw with this. Well,
let's not get carried away now. I did like what they did with Bailey
and damage Control tonight. Yeah, I thought that was very well done.
I mean again, it's gonna be overshadowed in all the discourse about what happened
at the end of the show, but I thought what they did there was
was well done, and I am looking forward to seeing Bailey and EO or
WrestleMania. At least that's one thing they got right. Annis Fifty to eighty
percent of Lesnar merch off at WWE's shop. That doesn't mean anything all the
people who are reporting this. By the way, I love these websites that
have these news stories up brock Lesnar merchant. Even pw Insider had something about
that earlier. Brock Lesnar merchandise marked down. It takes two seconds to go
to WWE's shop. Pick anybody else, pick the Undertaker. His shit is
marked down too. Everybody's stuff is marked out. Brock Lesnar's merchandise is not
marked down any more or less than anybody else. But nobody bothered to take
two seconds to check some of the other wrestlers that are listed on WWE's shop
because people are fucking lazy and they just want to get out with the story.
So it became brock Lesnar merchandise has been marked down. The bigger story
would be if they if they pulled the merchandise, which they have not done.
But no, them marking it down does not mean anything, so ignore
that. Captain ash Rock wins wasted rub Rock loses wasted time. Matthew Rice
with the nine ninety nine. I'm one of the biggest rock fans around,
but this was the wrong call. Cody should have come out and challenged Roman
Reigns for WrestleMania. That match should be happening, not this one. Shaking
my head, damn. Shout out to the mods by the way, who
are putting in the work tonight in the live chat, got a lot of
people here. ABK, Oh, my god, my boy. You know
when Abk's superchat came in before ABK, I didn't see the dollar amount at
first, I didn't see it, but holy shit, basically a five hundred
dollars four ninety four. It's five hundred, A five hundred dollars super chat
from ABK ABK. You know it's like the other night. I don't think
he was here Monday or Wednesday. Maybe he was, but he didn't chime
in. And I'm like, man, I hope everything's okay, you know,
coming out of the rumbles, no, ABK, and then he'll just
drop. He'll just drop a bomb on you, you know, out of
nowhere, just to kind of remind you of like who the king really is.
Yeah, I love it, he says, I'm back past week in
wrestling, crazy and fuck the Rock. Also, my name isnt Aaron.
I Oh, I know he was. He was offended the other night.
You know, Aaron was dropping so many bombs. I'm like, I wonder
if the A and ABK stands for Aaron, But no, they're two,
They're two different people. We're gonna get Rock and Roman at Wrestle Many,
and we may have to get Aaron and ABK in the ring together at Wrestle
Many. ABK, though, thank you man, Aaron speaking of which says,
wow, ABK calling me out. We're all here to have fun.
It's all in good fun, my friend. Nothing like a little healthy competition.
We're all on the same page here. Uh food Hive, My god,
there's a name I haven't heard in a while. Food Hive says,
Yo, just stop by to say f This company and their imaginary records.
Cody and the Solemn Monster are the reasons I got back into wrestling. Wow,
let Cody finish his story because it makes a better story. I think
it does too. Apparently they feel differently, Paul Van Summer in with the
ten dollars. Bro love the channel, but you're salty as fuck. People
have been talking and telling you that all of this was a huge possibility,
but you didn't want to hear it. Maybe Rhodes wins it at the Saudi
Show. Well, you're coming at me with even worse ideas now, So
Cody Rose will go to what is even the next one? Crown Jewel is
in November, So what's the one in May? I forgot? So he'll
win it in May? No? No? Uh, tire and tie.
Cody versus Roman Summer Slam twenty twenty four. Are you sure about that?
Because then we'll get all the people saying we'll grow. He's only a month
away from beating Hogan's record. You can't have Roman. This is what I
said a few weeks ago, I said that if you keep moving the goalposts,
that's all that's gonna keep happening. You can't have Roman lose itt WrestleMania
because you gotta let it go another year, or you gotta have the Rock
match, but do it. It's Summer Slam, right, and then we
get to Summer Slam, and it's like, we'll brow. You know,
he's only a month away from Hogan's record. You can't beat him at Summer
Slam. You gotta let him get to September because the record, the record
isn't broken until September, so then he'll pass Hogan, and then it'll become
something else. It'll be some other excuse we'll bro I mean, come on,
it's the fall. You gotta beat him in the fall. You gotta
let him go to WrestleMania. Next year, Roman Raids is gonna be walking
out a WrestleMania sixty seven with a fucking gray beard like Merlin the Wizard with
that belt around his waist, Chris Minor the Nine Bucks. I'm still holding
out hope to have Larry David against Elmo at WrestleMania. Elmo has to go
over Automatic Bell for be the booker. I'm almost positive that the whole Larry
David Elmo thing from the Today Show the other day was probably being filmed for
the final episode of the season. The new Curb season starts. Is it
this weekend? I think it might be this. I think it might be
this Sunday, my guess, and this is just me that they may not
yet have the final episode rapped, and that may be in the episode.
Like that's exactly the sort of thing I would expect to see on an episode
of Curb Your Enthusiasm. So I'm kind of hoping it ends up in the
show. But I'm serious. I mean, you saw that that walk that
Roman did in the ring when he was mocking Rollins tonight. He was walking
like this, that's gonna be him walking down the aisle walking down the ramp
at WrestleMania sixty seven AJ with the four ninety nine. Yeah, he didn't
people didn't know about this. Larry David put the claw on Elmo. He
attacked Elmo on the Today Show the other day. That's why I laughed.
You know the comments that Larry made recently on Bill Simmons podcast where he laughed
at him and he mocked me because you watched wrestling and he was mocking him
for it. If it was anybody else that would upset me. But it's
Larry, and it's Larry being Larry. But then I saw him put the
claw on Elmo and I said, this guy's full of shit. I go
that that's that's a von eric claw. If I've ever seen this guy,
he's a closet fan. He obviously big fan of the von Erics watching World
Class, either that or Baron von Rashki. Nobody puts the claw on like
that unless they're a wrestling fan. AJ says just popped in to see how
pissed off Sola Monster was and I was not let down. I hope you
can get a nice stiff drink with this. Cheers, brother, Thank you,
AJ Holliday. Not a wise call to have Roman talk trash about the
World Heavyweight Title when it is so close to WrestleMania and this is the first
year the major belt will be for the first year that the title will be
defended in Yeah, I mean again. The World Heavyweight title sustained a major
blow this week with Punk going down due to injury, so they're already at
a handicap with that belt, letting Roman go out there or having him go
out there unless they're planning on Roman in seth suit sooner than we all think.
Did no favors for the World Heavyweight title because everything he said everybody believes,
so the World Heavyweight title was already wounded. Where the World Heavyweight Title
match was already wounded. I'm earlier this week that segment tonight did not do
it any favors Dallas. This is all because we didn't see Black Adam.
What a joke. Even with Vince being gone. WWE will always WWE.
What an absolute burial and embarrassment edwin. Hopefully this is just a setup for
WrestleMania forty one and somehow Rock gets injured in storyline and Cody gets the title
and revenge in storyline. It this year's WrestleMania. WrestleMania forty one. Who
cares WrestleMania forty one. How about Rock gets injured in storyline in the next
month and Cody has to step back? How about that? Like the chances
of that are less than zero percent now that they've guaranteed people dismatches gonna happen.
But Wrestlemandi of forty one. Yeah, I'm not interested in that,
Ash Queen. What was the point of Cody winning the Rumbland pointing at Roman?
I don't know. You tell me Devin from New Jersey de Solo.
Remember Carl Weather's on the shield? I do? Yes? How did I
not mention that I do? He used to be partners with Vic Mackie.
He showed up in one episode. That's right, that's right, he was
on the shield. Rodimus Prime dumbfounded at what happened tonight. But instead of
the Mets, Cody is becoming the Dallas Cowboys of the WWE. It is
always next year. Yes, that is true. If there is a more
loser franchise and cursed franchise in the METS, it would be the Cowboys.
How about them Cowboys? Here you go, Jamal Bedlam? Why does this
company do things like this to hurt people that dare get invested in the stories
they tell? Rock really heavily teasing the WrestleMania forty match with Roman. Lol.
The Juliet WWE better be prepared to pipe in crowd noise and take signs
from now until WrestleMania after tonight at all TV events, well, evidently not
because the crowd in Birmingham went nuts, and so I am sure that they
have Rock on any of the shows and the lead up between now and then,
you know, there might be some scattered booze in some cities, but
you know he'll be cheer. We'll get this is awesome retro. Koh,
this is not even a problem because Cody's story quote unquote. Rock has no
business taking a mateive events spot when their main events scene is as deep as
it is. Well, you know, that's the funny thing about this whole
thing. There have been other WrestleManias in years past since we've last seen Rock
in an actual match, where you could have said, you know, the
top of the card isn't really as deep as it could be. There's been
a bunch of injuries and they don't really have anybody else like a big attraction,
And that would have been the time to really pick up the phone and
call the Rock and say, hey, what do you think about this?
All the times for them to be doing it, Rock just so happened to
pick the time that WWE business is already booming more than it's ever boomed before,
Like this WrestleMania, this time, right now, at this moment,
even with the injury to Punk and the other injuries they've had, I said,
their bench is deep enough that they don't need to break glass and pull
the emergency lever down and call Steve Austin or the Rock or the Undertake or
anybody else, like for the first time in a long time, They're really
they don't have to do that, And now is the time that Rock has
decided. You know what, I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna get my
match at Roman Rings. Just funny to me, the moldy cheeseburger. What
role will AJ? I thought this said, AJ says AI. What role
will AI play in pro wrestling? If it has a role in it at
all? I heard Eric Bischoff praising it during his podcast, What say you
praising? Praising? What? Praising AI? Yeah, Well we'll see how
much he praises AI until somebody puts together an AI Eric Bischoff and attaches some
kind of weird message to it purporting to be from Eric himself. Well we'll
see if he appreciates the value of AI at that point. Look, I
mean AI, it's just the part of society and life now, and what
role it will play in pro wrestling. It's already playing a role and pro
wrestling. Did you see the new trailer for two K twenty four does not
look like a form of AI to you, the way that they have hul
Cogan looking so young and Steve Austin looking so young. It looks weird.
But and maybe maybe that's not even AI, but I'm sure it'll play a
role. It's I find it very scary, to be honest with you.
A lot of this AI stuff, I would hope and like to think that
it would be regulated in some way, but probably not. JRG, Hey,
thank you for the five bucks. Or Han, Hey, Andre just
subscribed. Thank you, Andre? Or Han says, well, once Punk
gets out of the way, here, here you go. What does Seth
lack to be the guy like Roman and Cody? You know, it's just
sometimes there's that intangible you hear about the word it. Some people have it,
some people don't. Rollins as an in ring performer has it like he's
a tremendous in ring performer, but as a personality, there's just something that
he's missing there and this gimmick that he's had where he comes out and he's
wearing the wacky clothing, and he cackles like a hyena and all that.
I don't find that entertaining. I don't find that to be genuine. Those
times when he gets serious, he's very good, But there's just an an
inauthentic aspect to that character that I'd feel like prevents him from connecting with the
audience in a way that other people do. I think that's what he's missing.
Feels like he's on television playing a character as opposed to really just being
himself. But again, some people just have it. Some people have a
certain charisma about them. Rollins is charismatic, but he's not charismatic in the
same way that someone like The Rock is, you know, and he just
doesn't have that same aura about him. Even when like Roman Reigns walks out.
Those certain guys have that certain intangible that not everybody has. Rollins doesn't
really have that. It's a big star for them. He's very talented,
but he's just he's missing that one ingredient. U Shaolin Island story finished JRG.
Will Rock win the title against Roman and then drop it to Cody a
month or two later. No way, they will have Roman close Mania for
four straight years. Oh you think there were people saying that about last year's
WrestleMania. So do I think that they would possibly close a fourth straight WrestleMania
with Roman Reigns as the champion? Yeah? Yeah, I could see that.
As far as Rock winning the title in dropping it to Code, I
have no interest in seeing that. I think that would be incredibly stupid.
I don't see the point in doing that. What would be the point of
doing that? Like, No, I don't want to see them. Matt
McClure. I couldn't believe how defeated I felt at WrestleMania last year when Cody
lost, and now I feel even more defeated. Cody is the future.
Why are we doing this? Well? Because sometimes you take, you know,
short term gain for longer term plans, which is what you know you
could call this has been a longer term play for them for a while,
but sometimes that short term gain meant very appealing. It's hard to turn down
and say no, be calm. See clearly I rewatched Knackamor's main roster debut.
It was classic. Was that the night on SmackDown when I think Miz
and Maurice were cosplaying Asina and nicky and they went to go leave in and
the violin player came out and played Knockomore Out. Because that was pretty good.
Anti m Bishop seven says, been a long time solo monster. Hope
you enjoyed your vacate, uh kind of and then a part of it was
ruined by the sex pest, so I couldn't fully enjoy it, but it
was still nice to get away for a few days. And to all the
people that said it was not Cody's time last year, what do you have
to say now, Well, there's no point in even asking the question because
those same people will laugh and tell you that, well, it's not his
time now either, So there really is no legitimate answer that you're gonna get
when you asked that question. JD Films with the thirty two Bucks, could
they maybe do a downward spiral storyline for Roman reigns if he loses the title
to Cody at Elimination and Shamber. I think that could be one of the
only ways they could make sense of the Rock and Roman at WrestleMania. They
could if they were to have Rock come out and cost Roman the title,
which would also be fucking stupid, and then Roman could be all pissed at
the Rock and it adds more heat to their match, and now the title
becomes an afterthought. You see what I'm saying here, like if you actually
did that. First of all, I don't like the idea of Rock getting
involved in costing Roman the title. I had no issue if Rock showed up
a WrestleMania and fought off the bloodline to make it a fair fight. I
think that would have been perfect. But the idea of Rock potentially showing up,
Let's say he helps Cody win, or he costs Roman the belt,
he attacks him, hits him with the belt, rock bottom or something.
I hate that. That's stupid because then Cody didn't win shit, Rock won
it four little brother right. I don't like that. But a downward spiral
storyline for Roman, I think it could work. You know, I think
that there is something there. But if that was the way they were to
do it, then I have no interest in seeing Jessica Herman. I feel
like WWE is using Rock versus Roman to get the focus off of Vince McMahon.
What say you? Thanks for being my go to for wrestling analysis.
I think that's absolutely a part of it. I would not be at all
shocked if that's part of their play here. It's like, look, we're
going through this really difficult time now, and Rock is a board member,
so he's well aware of what's going on, and so we got to do
something to try to deflect from what's going on, and this is one of
the things they came up with. Would not be surprised at all, Chris
axc with the way AEW is filling buildings. If you're a free agent,
why would you choose them over WWE? Right now? What do you think
is the decision maker for Okata, Friends and comfort or legacy? Only Okada
knows the answer to that. I don't know that it's just money. If
it's just money to me, He's going to make a lot of money in
AW. He's going to make a lot of money in WWE. It is
possible that AW will offer him more money. So if it's strictly a financial
incentive that he's looking for, he'll go with Tony kah Is. Tony Kann
will fucking blow the bank open on this guy in a way. The WWE
may not you mentioned legacy. If Okada wants to go out there and become
the biggest possible star that he can on the biggest possible stage. He's not
going to do that in AW. He would have to go to WWE.
If he wants that WrestleMania match, right, he wants to rub shoulders with
people like The Rock and stuff like that, he has to go to WWE
in order to do that. If he wants to go somewhere where he's going
to be paid, well, he's got friends, he has people he can
trust. He could potentially still go back and work New Japan if he wants
to, even once a year, and he can work the exact same style
in the race that he has worked his entire career. AW is going to
be the place for because he goes to WWE. There may be certain things
he can do. There may be certain things that you know, the way
he works, he has to adjust certain things. He may not know as
many people. Obviously he knows Nakamura, but I don't know how many other
people he's friendly with in WWE. So if that's important to him, and
I know he's very good friends with the Young Bucks. He's befriended Brian Danielson
in recent months. He has a lot of trust in him. Apparently,
I think he'll end up in aw but ultimately only Olkada knows. Only he
knows what he's looking for. Keep hitting that light button. By the way,
apparently we're closing in on a thousand lights? Can we actually break a
thousand likes here before I even get to the end of the super chante?
Is it possible that you guys can kill it so much that we actually close
in on maybe eleven hundred likes? Because that'd be pretty badass Bobby's world.
You know, when Rock said he wanted to do something that had never been
done before, I didn't know he meant stealing someone else's WrestleMania title shot.
There you go. You may be onto something there. Unprecedented the theft of
a WrestleMania title shot as one in the Royal Rumble. Maybe that was what
Rock was talking about. He wants to do something that's never been done before.
Channel eleven O seven with the nine to ninety nine Rock versus Roman has
been the biggest match WWE can do for the last few years, and the
path to that match was one of the easiest to navigate. Instead, WWE
made an absolute confusing mess of it. Yes they did. Justin Santiago you
created a Cody meme. I sent it to you on X Oh boy.
Well, I will have to check that out out when I'm done here.
Justin says specifically for Bailey, she will get her roses. I hope so
she deserves it. She's waited long enough. Michael Grace with the nineteen ninety
nine, are we really going to see Roman win out his fourth Mania?
I don't know how people can get excited. The outcome is predictable, no
title change, Rock will get injured, and Cody's an idiot going for the
consolation belt. My interest is gone. Well when you put it like that,
Nick Grosso, Now that Bailey is out of the group, do they
get a name change and new theme music? I don't know. If they
get a new name, new music. Maybe new music would be nice.
There is no, but there is well no, I guess there is a
damage control theme. I don't know. I'd like to see them get new
music regardless of what that. They get a new name or not, But
we have to wait and see where Dakota Kai stands and all this as well.
Retro says Roman to seth Real Championship crimea River Greg ninety three X Rock
might as well have come out with beefcake shears and cut Cody's nuts off right
there in the ring. Two years of storytelling down the shitter. Wouldn't it
be something if in the end Cmpunk is the one who fucked all of this
up. Oh Man, Grant Hudson Roman stole Taker's gimmick. For how much
he buried Seth and the Mini Big Gold six feet deep tonight. He literally
little browed him, he did. D E H. Sires feel bad for
EO and Bailey having great segment now overshadowed by such a dumb booking decision at
the end. The show before Emmy was great to me, being main event.
Yeah, there were a lot of things going on on the show tonight.
We had new talent appearing on the show. We had that fatal four
way, we'll get another one on Monday Owens and theory was, you know,
a solid match, if unspectacular, So it wasn't a bad show.
D E H. Sires, thank you again for the four ninety nine.
Barry says, Cody story is getting kind of dumb. It is getting kind
of dumb. This man's been telling us about this story now for two years
and he just willingly gave up the one chance he had to finish it,
so we don't have to hear about it anymore. Everybody should be for no
other reason. Everybody should be fuming right now because of that decision. Even
the Cody haters should be fuming right now, Anti Ambishop, why did that
Cody segment give me the same feeling like watching the Shield when Shane took out
Limb and he had the nerve to cry and say sorry. It's still one
of the saddest scenes in all of television. Aaron with the fifty dollars gunthar
bomb. I would hate this. But what about Rock versus Cody versus Rains
at WrestleMania. You're right, I don't like that. Completely unnecessary. It's
like somebody said before, It's like you're taking something that was so simple and
you're over complicating it. There's no need for it. It would protect Rock.
If you put Rock in a triple threat, you know you can take
him out of the equation. He can go rest in the corner or rest
on the floor. Let Roman and Cody work for a while. Then Rock
pops up, he makes the big comeback. I'm not so sure that wouldn't
be the better scenario for Rock Arabian Night. People gonna sour on Cody.
Good job, Vince, I mean at Triple h Randall the Sandal. I
really hope this is a swerve. Rock has more juice than Tropicana and less
gas than a broken down car. Goldberg Tier booking Ice, I have to
reread that again. Rock has more juice than Tropicana and less gas than a
broken down car. You have a way with words. My friend Aaron with
the twenty bucks. Could you see Rock versus Roman at Mania getting shipped on
by the crowd? Probably not. I think you would have maybe a segment
of the crowd, But you know, look, it's still a big match.
And I feel like if you're paying for a ticket, and tickets for
WrestleMania are only getting more expensive, So if you're paying to go to WrestleMania
and they're going to give you a match like Rock and Roman, most people
are not going to sit there and shit on it. Dan Richards tony Ka
just tweeted that Rock hasn't won a match in eight years, but he is
getting a title match. Where is the outrage watching Dynamite Wednesday? It's great?
Yeah, what's sad about that is I can completely believe you when you
say that that he actually tweeted that Joey Jojo Junior Seth rollins is that fifty
cent meme? Why did he say fuck me for? I thought you were
going to make reference to the Cody meme that story he told at star cast
that one year were the referee fucked on him? Why did Rock fuck on
me? Passion fruity o g hurt. This confirms me to me my theory
that they called an audible at the Royal Rumble, knowing that CM Punk was
injured. It was always going to be Roman versus Rock, Seth versus Punk,
and Cody versus Orton. I don't think so. I don't think so.
I think Cody was always the plan for the Royal Rumble winner. I
disagree Arabian Night. Maybe they promised Robin's the Samoa the Night two main event
next year against Punk, and they do Cody versus Roman Night one. Cody
wins in the Night two Roman against Rock, non title. I don't think
Seth would be very happy about that. I think Seth is gonna work his
ass off with this injury to get back so he can have a big match
at WrestleMania. I don't think telling him maybe next year is going to satisfy
him. Retro koh A's in super Chat nailed it. This is what happens
when you try to make everyone happy. It just muddies the waters. You
try to make everybody happy and instead you end up just pissing everybody off.
You can't make all people happy at all times. It's just not possible.
It just doesn't work that way. Cal They changed Humberto's name to just Berto.
Is that true? Now he's Burdo? I hope not. I hope
that's not true. Aaron with another fifty dollars super Chat. This all sucks,
But does Cody win the title against Roman? It's SummerSlam? Or is
it just wishful thinking? You know we're playing out all these scenarios. Is
it possible, Yes, it's possible. It is possible. It could be
Summer Slam, it could be Elimination Chamber. Somebody said Saudi Arabia. We
don't know exactly when it is going to happen, other than based on what
Cody himself said in the main event tonight, it likely will not be wrestlemaning
because he specifically said that it would not happen at Wrestlemaning. That's what he
said. We've got Barry MK four hundred. They stop using the Universal title
on TV, but the website still counts him as champion. He's still a
champion of a title not even active anymore. The whole thing is stupid.
The whole thing is completely dumb. They put these two titles together. They
had two separate belts. Now we have one, but yet which title lineage
does it follow? We don't know. We don't know, and we have
people talking about records that are being surpassed and broken. But like, again,
the title he's holding, if you count it as the WWE title,
he's nowhere close to being near these people that are at the top of the
list. Like, what are we doing here? Like what are we even
talking about? I just don't understand, Just doesn't make sense. Manuel Nacis,
is there hope for a twenty fourteen situation? Fans turn on Rocks?
So ed Cody to the match? Also, how are you feeling? Are
you on board with the match? I hate this? Is it gonna be
a twenty fourteen situation? I don't think so. I don't think that that's
what we're in for here. I don't think we're getting the dangle Brian reducks
here. There's always a risk. I don't see it. How am I?
Am I on board with the match again? I'd rather not see a
triple threat. The match is Roman and Cody. Cody made it very clear
you cheated me last year. You know that I had you be and now
we get the rematch. There's no need to muddy the waters here, not
saying they won't do it. Am I on board with it? No,
because there's a better way to go about doing it. And Mills, thank
you for the ten bucks. Appreciate it. Carl the Crab, you can
physically take Vince out of WWE, but spiritually and with the booking, he
will always be a part of this company. Such a baffling decision. John
Horton, thank you the two bucks. Slipper House extra extra. The rock
is a bozo. People stay only wait, people say only stay entertained by
a clown for so long? Uh, Slipper, thank you? Hold on,
I have to cough, so hold on a second. Oh man,
I think the show nearly killed me tonight. This show is killing me.
Hey, slipper, Thank you almost choke to death here on the stream.
I choked. I choked to death on the booking here at the end of
the show. You almost lost me here. Sure some of you would enjoy
that. Uh, let's see here. Mark Kwan nineteen seventy six. I
got worried when Cole was taking shots at online fans complaining about Roman. I
can't see him dropping that belt anytime soon. Yeah, that happened last week.
Michael Cole made a comment about fans or online fans not liking how long
Roman's been championed for. I mean, clearly it was a line that he
was fed. But Uri so wait, I miss SmackDown because of work.
It's one hundred percent Cody ain't getting Roman or are we just thinking so?
Says ug glad TNA has been hitting so well recently because I am tired.
Things are still kind of up in the air right now. But Cody specifically
said that he wants that belt. He will get that belt, but it
will not be at Wrestleman. That's what he said. That's Cody's own words,
Turtlehead. It can't be convinced that Punk messed up to plan that much.
If so that's bad that they planned that much around a guy who they
did not even expect to sign. D Eh Sires. The main event segment
has six thousand likes and eleven thousand dislikes on YouTube. I'm not surprised you
don't like the decision. The only thing to do is to let them know,
man, And that's one way that people, I guess, are gonna
let their voices be heard. The likes and dislikes on the WWE YouTube channel
A home Sick Savage is a new subscriber. Welcome, Zachariah Sitchen. I
kind of like this illustration of me. That's why I keep cutting back to
it. I've never been the shape that I'm in here in this illustration.
It's kind of my goal for this year. I'm gonna try to get cut
here like Solo Monster in this image here anyway, Zachariah, thank you for
the nine ninety nine. I would not call the Rocky Box Office draw after
Black Adam Bomb. All I ask is the Rock doesn't do his lame ash
stick in the build up, and I pray it's a five minute match.
We all know he cannot go twenty minutes. Well, you know, the
last segment we saw rocking when he came out. We had a segment on
SmackDown back in September with Austin Theory, and he came back last month.
He had that segment with Gender Mahal, and he borrowed a lot of the
same shtick that he used in September. Right, you're an asshole, You're
a douchebag. We're gonna have this side of the arena go yourra and the
other side's gonna go a douchebagh. Okay. I'm like it's very unoriginal.
I'm like this guy who's like the king of the promo back in the day,
Right, he was so entertaining and he would come out and he had
the crowd in the palm of his hand, and he still can command a
crowd like few people can. But it's like, I'm begging for some new
material here. I'm begging that we get a more serious rock. If they're
gonna do this match and they're gonna bring their family and their family history and
their lineage into it, like go for it, man, Like go all
the way with it. Don't go for this cheap pop shit where it's like
this guy's a popcorn fart. This guy's a douchebag. You get like,
you know what, it's so tired and lazy and uncreative. So I hope
this time Rock brings his a game and we get to see what he can
really do on the mic instead of just relying on the same tired old stick.
Because I was not impressed by what I saw in that segment with Jender
Mahal. He came out there pretending to be Captain America, boring Joey Jojo
Junior Punk twenty eleven and Cody twenty twenty four. The fact that Dwayne is
in the main event of WrestleMania and I'm not makes me sick. Well,
he'll be in the WrestleMania Made event. It'll be the Night one made event.
You know, if they had two nights of WrestleMania back then, Punk
may have been in the WrestleMania Made Event. Alex Schmidt Rock and Rains video
on YouTube has ten thousand likes and twenty one thousand dislikes. Uh oh,
it's growing, it's growing. Ali Ali Ali, Cody Gunna main Event WrestleMania,
and then in parenthesis he puts backlash Jason Smith. I don't want modern
wrestling. But I've been back log I don't want I don't I think it
means watch. I don't watch modern wrestling, but I've been backlogging your content
again and I greatly enjoy it. Thanks for the years of videos. You're
very welcome. I didn't understand what you were saying there for a second,
but now I get it. Thank you very much. I appreciate that,
and I'm glad you enjoy all the content. There's a lot of it.
There's a lot of content going back to two thousand and seven for me,
so no shortage of that to go around Alex with the ten dollars super chat.
Hey, brother, I don't know if this question has been asked,
and if it has, I apologize for joining the chat late. But what
are the chances Tonight's angle is a huge swerve masterminded by Triple H. If
it's a swerve, damned if I know what the point of it is.
I mean, they made it pretty clear that Cody said I'm not gonna win
the title from you at WrestleMania because there's somebody else. Rock came out and
there were a lot of people who were very excited, So you have to
give them that match. Now now you've teased it. I mean they teased
it a month ago, but now we got that first base to face,
so now they have no choice. They have to do rock and Rome.
Whether it's Mania or some other time, they have to do rock and Rome.
So we know that's gonna happen. Cody said, I'm not going to
go after the title or win the title at WrestleMania. What's the swerve?
I failed to see what the swerve is or what the point was in doing
this. It just seems pointless. It's almost like Russo. It's like a
Russo swerve. It's a pointless swerve for the sake of doing one. If
that's the case. So I don't think it's a swerve, just because I
don't really see the sense in the logic behind King of Doug's style. I'm
gonna focus in Bailey finally getting the spotlight she so deserves. Thank you,
Solomster for all the content lately. It's been a lot, and appreciate it.
You're very well. Barry MK four hundred. I did see that Brock
was removed from the WWE Supercard Mobile game. Yes he was. I don't
know if he'll be removed from two K twenty four. It might be too
late, but I guess the mobile game is easy enough to kind of pull
somebody from it. I suspect that will not be the only thing he gets
pulled from. Chris aughto, I desperately want Rock and Roman to mate event
WrestleMania, and I will never ever see Cody as a main event guy.
So naturally I am very happy right now. Well, I am happy for
you. I know there are some people who don't like Cody or they don't
see him at that level, and they want Rock and Roman, and I
don't begrudge those people. If that's what you want. Congratulations, you got
what you want. But not everybody agrees. Tyler Sbuskowitz with a twelve dollars
super chat wwe managed to win me back after twenty twenty this past year,
and here they go reminding me why I left sound off FEN since twenty eleven,
but don't tune in live. Often had to hear your thoughts after tonight,
though, Well, I hope you. I hope you caught the beginning
of the stream. And I don't think I can make myself any clearer than
I was there. Tuxedo t Servo. Turns out Cody's story was old,
Yeller. I mean, seriously, this story, how long is this story
going to be? His story is going to be longer than Moby Dick Nick
Mason Fantasy Bookings should have had Rock in Cody's corner to offer council for him
at WrestleMania, and then when Cody wins, it leads to a Roman Rock
match where they have a year long built to WrestleMania forty one. Yeah,
that would have been fine. That would have been perfectly fine. Uri best
WWE two K Universe YouTube video bookings are better than this, Peter McNasty.
Cody Royal Rumble win is one of the most pointless wins since Sena in two
thousand and eight. Yeah, but with Sena in two thousand and eight,
you got the big surprise in Royal Rumble history, so at least she got
something out of that fallen exposure. Was this all for Rains to carry on
his shriek? It's going to be great when Cody finally wins, but Mania
just feels deflated now, Juice Georgia. When Rock came out, I thought
he was going to be the guest referee for forty and to set up the
forty one main event. Now, as soon as I as soon as I
heard what Cody said there, it was pretty clear who was coming out in
what was going on Zay ninety seven, Better Corn song falling Away from Me
or Freak on a leish Freak on a leish Xavier Walker, thank you for
the four ninety nine no message, just showing some love the Mount Vernon kid
did Christopher Bennett rest in peace? Carl Weathers absolutely iconic? Thank you,
Warm Corn, have me fight Roman and Rock My story starts now. Well,
I don't know about you, guys. I'm rooting for warn now.
The Cody's dream is dead for this year. I am going to hitch my
wagonto Warm Corn for WrestleMania. So you got my vote, Xavier Walker.
They really wrote themselves in a corner. We can't see Cody against Seth again.
They are going to have to make Cody goheel or something. Now.
They're not going to make Cody go hel. The fans may end up making
him go heal at some point soon, They're not going to do that.
I'm thinking Cody and Seth probably is the play here. Super pony Ko against
Randy at WrestleMania. Ya or nay? I like that. What's the story
behind it? Though? You got two baby faces, So if you can
come up with a decent enough story, I'd be all for it. Arabian
Night. Is Rock's ego that big that he would take a spot from someone
he respects? Wow? I wonder if Hogan came back a year earlier and
oh One took his spot against Austin, how he would feel? Probably not
very good? Iconic. Do you think Triph will be fired? He had
to know. We don't know what he did know or did not know,
but we'll talk more about that story on Sunday. Matthew Thomas could have had
the modern boyhood dream at WrestleMania. Zachariot, guess what here in Oklahoma?
We just had an earthquake. Shocking but not a coincidence. If that's not
a sign that we don't want Rock and Roman at Mania, then I don't
know what is well. I hope you're all safe. Hopefully it wasn't a
huge earthquake and all is well. I hope thunder Force well. Now it
looks like the only matches I'm looking forward to at WrestleMania are EO and Bailey
and Rhea and Becky. The latest update, by the way, is that
the WWE video on their YouTube channel of Cody's decision has thirty four thousand dislikes.
ABK against Paul Hamilton, against Aaron against William Long in a break the
Bank super chat match. Hey, I'm all in favor of that, Yuri.
So we're gonna get a roster thinned elimination chamber show. In an Australian
market, you would think they would want to pop. Why can't Rock versus
Roman be there would add to Cody's win. Shaking my head, Bony with
the five bucks. Imagine you're CM Punk and you're injured. You injured,
you're pecking a match, just be the runner up, only for the winner
to give away his title shot. I would fight tears too, Richie.
So the Rock is basically Batista and Cody is basically Dangle Bryan from twenty thirteen.
Again, I'm not so sure about that. I don't know that we're
gonna have the kind of backlash we had in twenty fourteen, not that I
would mind. I mean, hey, look, if if the fans,
here's what I would say. If the fans are really upset about this.
And again we still have to wait and see what Cody is going to say
on Monday, what decision he makes, What does this all mean for his
match at WrestleMania. But if things progress in the way that it looks like
they're going to progress, and people are genuinely upset about this, I think
with Rock on board, they're locked in. But let your voices be heard
in whatever form or fashion it may be on social media, if disliking their
videos on YouTube, or you want to bring signs or be vocal at the
shows. I mean, the fans can voice their opinion. Doesn't mean WWE
is going to listen to what they have to say, But speak your mind,
whatever you think, speak your mind. But Richie, thank you.
We have Motif. Miao Miao, miaou and uh meow, thank you Motif.
Apparently Motif is currently waiting for his vet appointment tomorrow Velvet Floor eighteen.
The fact that Dwayne is in the main event at WrestleMania and I'm not makes
me sick. Does it sound familiar? Yes, it does, Texas Aggie,
twelve ninety nine. For a company that's so successful, they sure know
how to fumble fuck stories. I like that fumblefuck. I'm gonna start using
that fumble fuck stories that are right in front of them. Cody deserves better
than this crap. Grant Hudson with the nineteen ninety nine Apparently Dave said on
the board that combination of Punk getting hurt and the Vince stuff made them,
Uh, I think he fucked up the super chat there, but apparently that
factored into the decision. Says punkin Seth and Cody and Roman were the o
G plans and Rock Roman was gonna happen later in Saudi Arabia or WrestleMania forty
one. Well, you know, again, that's just fucking stupid. If
that's the case. You had plans locked, and I get that Punk got
hurt, he went down, They panicked, They got to figure out a
plan B. This was not it. This was not it. I mean,
if we come to find out that that and all this Vince shit going
on and this was their way of trying to deflect from that, that makes
it even worse, because that just reeks of desperation. That makes it even
worse that they would fuck up their own plans. They had solid plans going
into WrestleMania this year. They had no good reason. If that's true,
they had no good reason to do what they did. That is a panic
move if I've ever seen one, Anthony, I guess it's video packages until
Mania for the main events, since these guys barely show up. Yeah,
I hope you're ready for that. By the way, I mentioned two part
timers in the WrestleMania main event. You think you're gonna get Roman and Rock
on the same show more than once or twice in the build up to WrestleMania.
I don't know. Maybe Rock is on the board now, maybe if
he clears his schedule he can actually appear a few times. But I hope
people are prepared for that. William long Area is, there's my boy William
here with the three hundred dollars super chat bomb solo. I try to be
reasonable. I watch both AW and WWE and avidly avoid tribalism. But tonight
was the most insulted that I have felt as a fan for caring about something
since the Fiend and Rollins in twenty nineteen. Has me about to drop WWE
until Punk comes back. I don't know. For catharsis what bad decisions almost
made you tap out the Allied Powers seriously. In ninety five, I remember
watching the Allied Powers. They put Bulldog and Lugur together as this weird combination
on TV as a team, and that coupled with some of the gimmicks at
the time, the Blue Brothers or Jacob and Eli Blue, and we had
all this nonsense going on, and I was this close to just tapping out
for good. In more recent years, there have been some bone headed decisions
that I hated. I wouldn't say it almost made me tap out, but
yeah, there have been a lot of dumb decisions over the years. But
that's probably the closest I've ever came to just being done with. The whole
thing was in ninety five. Had its moments, but it was pretty fucking
bad. But William, thank you for the three hundred dollars super chat.
I appreciate it, and I'm glad you're still around. Stick it out,
stick it at it'll get better, and if not, you always have me
to rant about it here. So at least you got that motif says I
like turtles. First he's a cat, Now he's a turtle. Elijah Ricard
with the fifty bucks. Hopefully Bailey gets her Hugger theme back now stories over
you fucking geek, line of the year, love you solo again. I
can't confirm it, but it looked to me like maybe that's what Rock whispered
in his ear. Story's over you fucking No, it wasn't story. I
think it was a dream dreams over you fucking geek. Don't quote me on
that, but that may have been what he whispered in Cody's ear. Kevin
Murrillo. This could only make sense if Roman made events WrestleMania Night one against
Rock winner takes on Cody. This gives Roman the greatest night of his career,
only to lose it all on night too. You know what, I'd
be okay with that. I'm just going by what they had in the segment
tonight, when Cody made it very clear I'm gonna win that title from you,
but now to wrestle me. They can make a liar out of him,
and they can pivot and they can come up with that as another plan.
It sounds to me like they're just kind of booking this on the fly.
At least if what that if what Meltzer apparently said on the board is
correct that it was a combination of the Punk injury and the Vince stuff,
and they're trying to deflect, and they're trying to come up with something big.
That doesn't sound to me like a lot of thought was put into this
over an extended period of time, even though they've wanted, you know,
we thought Rock and Roman might be possible, But it sounds like exactly what
I said, This all came together very quickly. You can do Rock and
Roman on night one. You can do Cody and Roman on night two.
Roman beats Rock, he's on you know, he's flying high, goes into
Mania Night two. Rock can do the same thing that I've said before.
You know, he comes back out on night two, but it fights off
the bloodline. Now we have a fair fight. Now Roman doesn't have anybody,
he doesn't have Jimmy, he doesn't have solo, and then Cody wins
the belt. You do that. You could do that. That could be
one way to salvage things for Cody if fucks over Seth Rollins, you know,
if he wants his main event. But you could do that. But
right now, at this moment, it doesn't look like it doesn't look like
it. Brandon Vasquez. Initially it was Cody against Roman, Why would they
pan the camera with Cody pointing to Roman with both of them mouthing off to
each other after Cody's rumble win Hunk's injury changed all of the original plans.
This is all Drew McIntyre's fault, mister Sithe. This was the equivalent of
them making Cody go sit in the cup chair. Between this and Punk's injury,
my excitement for media has gone down the shitter passion fruity yogurt. In
your opinion, if Cmpunk did not get injured, what would he slash Cody
slash Rock be doing at WrestleMania. What would both tie matches look like?
As I've said, Seth and Punk Night one, Cody Roman Knight two.
Rock comes in, chases off the bloodline. This is simple, This is
simple. Any simpleton could have booked that and it would have been perfect.
So we're not for the injury. That's how WrestleMania goes now, Colin see
two possibilities for WrestleMania made event. A Rock versus Roman non title Roman goes
over or B Cody and Rock versus Roman and Solo at WrestleMania No. A
tag team match at WrestleMania. No, absolutely not Tyrone Dunstan, thank you
for the five bucks. Jazz Jack, Rabbit, Rock and Roman would rather
see Hangman against Tayo Leoni. You know, until the other night again,
I didn't put two and two together, and I just you know Tota Leoni
of the Mogul Embassy. It's like someone mentioned tay Leoni and now I will
never be able to look at toa too Leone or Leoni. I can't even
say his name now I'll never be able to look at him the same way.
Now I will always picture Tayleone's face now on his body with all the
tattoos. Wwe killed the rest of the show, example of the bay Or
except the Bailey segment feel violated, which is par for this fin company.
Well, let's not talk about that. This of all weeks, Kreflo half
dollar looks like the Roads to WrestleMania just got a little rocky. I'll be
performing on the Van Wick all week. Good. I hope the birds get
to you the third Morris or Morris when Rock's music hit, did you consider
breaking something or putting a hole in the wall. Well, that wouldn't really
do me any good, would it? I just kind of laughed and then
I shook my head and then and then the anger slowly set in. But
no, I'm not going to break my own shit, Yuri, doesn't this
kill Royal Rumble wins a little bit and make Cody against Seth seem hollow?
If that is the next step, I think even off Cody's emotion tonight shows
that, yeah, Ali Batista did not give up his main event like a
moron. No, he did not. And I actually don't blame Batista at
all for what happened back then. It wasn't his fault. Apparently Batista Batista
actually recognized that if they brought him back as a babyface that night at the
Royal Rumble, he was gonna get booed. And he was right, So
Big Dave with the big Brain retro, koh, unless I am mistaken.
Cody shared on Instagram that he will be on next week's SmackDown. Does anything
change by then? We'll have to wait and see. We'll have to wait
and see. You know, we react to these shows sometimes in a vacuum.
You watch the show, you react to the show. Is it possible
that a week from now things look different than they look tonight. I hope
so, I hope so, I hope so. I would love to be
wrong about as you can only go by what we go by. We only
go by what we see. What we see tonight was pretty clear. You're
telling me Cody is going to be on Spackdown next week. Maybe he is
going to challenge Roman for the Elimination Chamber. Maybe they're going to add Roman
to the chamber and they're gonna do the match there. Uh motif? I
I have a theory, hear me out. Triple H is a calculated mfr
who knows what he is doing. What if he is sabotaging the Rock for
years wwe has been a sanctuary for him to return whenever and get wildly cheered,
And then he continues, What if Triple is wanting the crowds to turn
on Rocky Philly booed Rock and Roman out of the building at the Royal Rumble
in twenty fifteen. Maybe Triple H knows that this Vince scandal might eventually take
him down and he wants to take his oldest rival down too. That is
quite the imagination that you got there, and that is absolutely not what's going
on here. I don't believe that for a second. Do I think that
Triple H still harbors some professional jealousy when it comes to the Rock, Yeah,
I don't think that's ever gone away. But that's a very creative pitch.
But no, that is not what's going on, Hollywood guy. Is
this more of a TKO decision than Triple H's. I don't think TKO would
get involved in the creative process. I'm sure they love the fact that Rock
is involved. Do I think that they made the call? No, I
don't. I don't think they're going to get involved in creative issues. Devin
from NJ is WWE a entertainment company over a wrestling company. That's why a
part time guy like Rock gets the main event over a workhorse like Cody.
WWE has been an entertainment company for years more than a wrestling company, so
it's not shocking they would do something like that. But to answer your question,
that's exactly what they are. I mean the word entertainment. I mean,
I know the word wrestling is in the name, but the word entertainment
is really what they focus on Arabian Night. What if the reason Cody said
I'm not facing your WrestleMania is because Rock against Roman is happening at the Chamber
and Cody is implying that you won't make it to WrestleMania as the champion.
I don't know. I mean I could have sworn the specific quote was I'm
taking that title, but the implication is he would take the title or win
the title, but not a wrestleming. So I mean, if he was
specifically talking about out taking it from Roman or beating Roman, then I might
be able to kind of see what you're saying there. But I thought the
implication was I'm taking that title, just not a WRESTLEMANI, which would invalidate
what you are asking. The Data and Boys podcast, Don't Be a Hater
solo and Smell Smell, Oh it smells, I smell it. Chris manson
Dwayne coming in to pinch it for Cody in the ninth Take all the Glory
to Cody plays for nine innings and then in comes Rock to pinch it,
and then he gets a walk off, a walk off win for the team
when he gets hit by pitch on a basis loaded Ronan Mike clips. I
imagine Punk sitting at his hospital like Rust Cole from Season one of True detective
watching Ras, saying to himself, time is a flat circle. They really
have not been able to replicate the magic of that first season have although I
have I have not yet tried watching the fourth season. I've heard it's pretty
good, but I have not watched it yet. Ronan also says, do
you think Triple H told Cody I'll owe you one pal? Maybe Triple H
has never let go of the hammered to the throne. You know, Cody
has that throne in his gym at the Nightmare Factory in Georgia. As soon
as you walk in, it's to the right, It's right there in the
corner Arabian night. This is all because Punk got hurt one hundred percent because
they had both nights covered and there would be no need for the Rock.
That is the only logical reason thunder Force to quote the goat frustrated. Frustrated
is not the goddamn word for it. Kevin Marilla Rock counseling Cody to give
him the main event is like Hogan counseling Bischoff the sabotage Stark ninety seven because
thing was not tanned enough. That's right, he wasn't ten enough on that
show. He wasn't looking, he wasn't looking the part, so Hogan had
to do what he had to do. Even those thing ended up winning the
title. Hogan really beat Hogan Pindum, fair and square. Never forget Uri
trying to make sense. He says, Roman gets cocky in Roman gets cocky
in face if Rock promising him a match, and Rock uses his known role
as a way to get Cody in versus Roman for night two as a nod
to Roman's run, but payoff. I have no idea what you just said.
I don't doubt that you put a lot of effort into it, but
I have no clue you said trying to make sense. I know you tried,
but it didn't work. Yuri, Thank you. Though, Zay says
Triple Ah is starting to live up to that dufus son in Law title,
and Boobah Rock's music hits and I'm sure solo monster size and then spiles because
he knows his stream is going to be money. Brother. You know what's
funny is that as soon as as soon as that whole segment went down,
I just kind of peered over into the chat and I already I saw the
number of people going up up up, and I said, it's going to
be one of those nights. It's going to be one of those nights where
we all commiserate together. And it was. It certainly was, But that
that covers I think the majority of that. Holy shit. Man, Wow,
we still have well over twenty seven hundred people with us here one point
thirty in the morning. We still got super chats coming in though. Yeah,
I promise you, by the way, be the booker. If we
hit a minimum of four hundred likes. We are closing in on twelve hundred
likes, So let's hit that one two zero zero. Here in a bit.
Hydro Grad just dropped at twenty. My assumption is that Cody against Roman
takes place at the Chamber, Cody beats Roman, a Rock against Roman happens
at Mania without the belt on the line, with Cody going into Mania as
the champion. Either way, this is stupid. This is stupid. Yes,
if it plays out this way, it's very stupid. And shout out
to Anton, by the way, who just dropped his very first super chat.
He says, I hope it's some kind of a swerve. I hope
for a three way. I hope that I wake up and it's all just
a dream, an American dream. Where did I leave off? My god,
there's so many of them on two three, Cody Roman anywhere, but
Mania just isn't the same. Well, look, the Roman Rock fans would
probably say the same thing about their match, right, Oh, it has
to be wrestlemane can't be anywhere else, Jano compo. The Rock Roman match
might be a worse kickout fest for the last ten minutes, like Sena versus
Rock two at WrestleMania twenty nine. You were at the match and did not
like it. No, I hated it. I thought it sucked, And
that's all it was. That's all half the match was. It was just
attitude adjustment, rock Bottom, attitude adjustment, rock Bottom, attitude adjustment,
slips out, rock Bottom, attempt slips out, attitude adjustment rock Bottom,
and then Rock tore his his fucking abdomen another rock Bottom attempt attitude. I
mean, that was the match that was literally lay like sixty percent of the
match, and the people in the stadium were pretty dead for it. So
when they went once in a lifetime, it became twice in a lifetime and
it did not live up to expectation a pop Pops Gaming. Thank you for
the sub Andres Castillo. If Cody can't finish at Mania, can we get
Solo Monster to finish his story on two K twenty three from India instead?
Thanks for everything. At this rate, I'm just waiting for two K twenty
four and we'll just start a new story. I guarantee you I'll probably finish
my story before he finishes his Anton with his very first super chat again,
thank you very much, super Pony. Maybe Cody will win it at Great
Balls of Fire like Samoa Joe did Yuri. It's gonna try again. Rock
uses his TKO position to get Cody in for Night two, even if he
loses as payback for Roman's nonsense. Well, he would have to do it
early. I mean, he's he's not gonna wrestle, you know, and
lose to Roman at Night one and then you know, at the end of
the show be like, oh, by the way, I'm gonna get Cody
in there in that main event the next night. Again, this all we
can. We can sit here all night and come up with so many different
possibilities and permutations. You know, it's just it's silly. It's unnecessary.
This didn't have to be like this retro, says Tea Mama in my soul
stole that match from Cody Roads. Luis Well, Luise can get very animated.
Louise is not happy. He says, screw Roman reigns and screw the
rock. That's right, that's right, you tell him. Louis Booba says,
twelve hundred likes. Wow, let's book a pl brother. You know
what, I think. You guys killed it so much. We may have
to bust out the stipulations tonight. That's what I think. A couple more
here and then we'll get to it. Eight nine text says Heel Cody Rhodes.
You're just gonna undo everything they've worked for over the past year. No
Doctor Bropio objective failed. Fuck you fuck. You can give me nightmares about
that game. Objective failed, Alan Alick, My media hype literally died out
completely tonight. Jeremy Wattley, I finally caught you live. I am an
American living in Germany. It's seven twenty eight. I guess in the morning.
Just wanted to say I always listened to the show. If you get
a chance to go to Europe, it's going by so fast. If you
get a chance to go to Europe, you will enjoy. I would love
to go to Europe. I've never been to Europe. I've been to Central
America. I've been to have I've been. I've been to Canada, multiple
places in Canada. I've been to Mexico. I've been to Costa Rica.
I've been to Columbia. Uh No, never, never Europe. Never been
to Europe. Jazz, How have you been sleeping the past week? Not
very well. I still have not recovered from all the sleep I didn't get
in Florida, so I'm not I'm not doing too well, Tyrone. Imagine
the Rock and Shane McMahon in the same ring today. The amount of sweat
accumulation would flood the entire arena. You could throw a Brocken there too.
He turns purple within two minutes. Dripping would be like the Great flood of
twenty twenty four. It would just wipe out. Every city on the coast
would be flooded. We wouldn't even have to wait for a global warming to
do us in. It would just be in one fell swoop. We'd all
be just washed away into the ocean. Yuri says, I agree, absolutely
unnecessary. Maybe it's shocked disappointment. It probably is a coma. Mikey's burner
Seth versus Cody is not a main event, so there you go. He
says, it's not a main event. Jake Ceiling. At least the Bailey
damage control segment ruled it was very good. I thought that they pulled that
up very well. The Winston slip. If Wrestle Mitia twenty nine, had
Rock seen a punk who faces the Undertaker, it's a good question. I
don't know. I don't know who the available names at the time that would
have made sense. I don't know who it would have been if you made
that a triple threat. They had Triple H and Brock on the show,
so that probably Triple H's match, so that would have been fine. I
mean, who else would have really been available for that spot? I don't
know offhand. You're asking me to go back and remember the twenty thirteen roster.
I don't know they had ride Back against Mark Henry, so maybe I
don't know Undertaker and ride Back, I don't know. I have no idea.
Matthew Thomas, if Cody wants to take the belt from Roman then why
would he risk the Rock winning at WrestleMania. Does that mean the Rock against
Roman is non title? It makes no sense. Well, you've just perfectly
encapsulated everything I said in a few words there. It makes no sense.
Now it's up to them to make sense of it. Camaron Spencer, does
the latest allegations that Vince is a bad man or are the stories about him
greatly exaggerated? Vince is a piece of shit and people need to come to
terms with that. He's been a fucking scumbag for a very long time.
I am not surprised by any of these stories. So is he a bad
man? Yes, yes he is. These are hardly the only stories about
him. Got a few more coming in here. We got Passion is his
passion, my boy passion, fruity Here, Cody is about to start another
wrestling company. I think he already tried that once. I don't know if
he wants to do that again. Year, he says, imagine if they
held off Austin ninety six to ninety eight. Yeah, yo, Steve Man,
I know the people are popping for you, and I know it feels
like it's your time to go in there to wrestle Mania and finish your story
and win the championship here. But man, you know Backlan came back,
and boy, you know Bob wants. You gotta put Bob in there.
Man, Bob's got to go for that title. That presidential campaign didn't work
out too well for him, so we're gonna bring him back and put him
in that match. We got. We got Randy Savage, We're gonna sign
him over from WCW. We're gonna bring him back, and we're gonna put
Macho Man in that main event. You can wait until next year. He'll
be all right. Luise said, have you ever visited El Salvador Viva la
raza salvadorna If I even said that, right, I don't know. No,
I have not visited El Salvador. I just told you where I visit.
El Salvador was not on the list. Jake, I give it ten
minutes before Dwayne tears something. Well, he has uh, he's got two
months to get himself in tiptop. I mean, look, the guy's gigantic.
It's not like he's not like a physical specimen. But that's very different
than getting in the ring and doing a full length a full length match no
one ever said the Rock was not in shape. But that's very different than
being in the condition he needs to be in to have a match and not
get hurt. And the older you get, the harder it gets. Men,
He's even older than Punk. Punk keeps tearing stuff. Rock's even older
than him. The older you are and the bigger you are, like Rock,
I feel like just the more dangerous it's gonna be. So either he
goes out there and he goes balls to the wall because he knows maybe in
his mind, this might be his final match and he wants to go out
there and have a great one and he gets hurt, or to protect himself,
he goes out there and doesn't try to do anything that might, you
know, get him hurt, and it makes for a boring match, and
we get a lot of rest hols, and we get a lot of Roman
Reigns talking trash, doing headlocks and stuff. I mean, take your pick,
right, it's gonna be one or the other six lenses. Cody and
Roman at Mania is like Michael and Billy Jean. It has to happen.
We got hamp with a four ninety nine. Mania will be Rock against Roman
for the WWE title and Cody against Seth Part four for the world title.
That's the facts of life. It is what it is. You take the
good, you take the bed, you take them both, and there you
have the facts of life. There you go, Captain Solo. These people
who still want to defend Vince McMahon are just not intelligent individuals. They're delusional,
is what they are. I think in their mind they just feel like,
you know it, unless every single story, every single minute detail of
the stories and the acts that are alleged, and unless every morsel of it
is one hundred percent true, then he's being wronged in some way and it
can't possibly be true. It's just delusion. It's just delusion. This is
who he is. This is who he has always been, going back to
the eighties. The man is seventy almost eighty years old at this point,
right, he's seventy eight now anything, he's a change man. This is
a new thing. It's a powerful person who thought that he can get away
with it, and he did for a very long time. Now the chickens
are coming home to roost. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy? All right?
Well, like I said, you guys have so apparently the update is.
By the way, on that video they posted on their YouTube channel,
the dislikes, I don't know what the likes are, but the dislikes are
up to seventy five thousand. Wow. All right, well, you guys
killed it. So I'm gonna give you some be the booker with stipulations tonight,
Mike gift to you. Let's do it, ladies and gentlemen, it
is now time to be the booker. We're gonna do some stipulations here and
be the booker. It's the way I like it. That is the way
that it is going to be. Yes, indeed, I'll tell you how
we're gonna do this. Here's how we're gonna do it. We're gonna kick
things off here, and we got more super chats coming in. I don't
care how late it gets. I'm not gonna let you guys be left hanging
here. I promise you I'm gonna get to them all. Well, let's
go ahead and do this. Here. The book a tag team match,
and I'm gonna pick the first team and then I'll throw the stipulation in and
then we'll pick the opponents. So we'll do it that way. So here
we go seventy five Yeah, seventy five thousand dislikes is a lot, is
a lot of dislikes. Wonder if they'll turn off comments. You know what
I've noticed they've started doing on their youtie channel some of the old videos they
have up there with Vince, they have turned off comments. I fully expect
those videos to be pulled completely very soon. I am especially shocked that the
video is still up from two years ago of Stephanie McMahon coming out after the
first allegations came out in the Wall Street Journal where she came out on SmackDown
and led the crowd and a chance of thank you Vince. How long before
they pulled that one? All right, here we go. We pick the
real Americans. We have Cesaro and we have Jack Swagger, who really were
starting to build momentum as a team when they split them up. So the
real Americans. Now we picked the match stipulation. Now let's see what kind
of a match the real Americans are going to be in. Real Americans are
going to be in? A last man standing match? Have we ever seen
a last man standing tag team match in WWE? I can't remember there being
one, all right though, Now, we got to pick the opponent,
Real Americans, Last man Standing against Booker T and gold Dust Love me some
Booker T and gold Dust very entertaining a weird stipulation for a tag team match,
though, But I guess, I guess it's doable, right, You
got to get both men down for account of ten. I guess that's the
way it would work. All right, Women's be the booker. Let's book
a women's match here. Kick things off here with Tory Wilson. How about
that? Tory just sat down with Chris Chris van Vliet for an interview the
other day, made some headlines Tory Wilson, and now we have to pick
a stipulation for Tory's match. What kind of a match will Tory Wilson be
it? Tory Wilson is going to be in a Oh Bliss fan is gonna
love this? Tory Wilson in a Firefly funhouse match? All right, Well,
let's see Tory Wilson Firefly Funhouse. Oh boy, we landed on another
step. Ronda Rousey wants a stipulation added right now or else, or else
She's gonna jump back on social media and start shooting on other executives in the
company, so you better listen to her. So that means we got to
pick a new stipulation. That's what that means, So out with the Firefly
Funhouse. Goodbye Firefly Funhouse. Instead it will be a blindfold match. I'm
not sure we just improve things much, but all right, it's gonna be
a blindfold match. Torri Wilson against Maria Kanellis in a blindfold match. That
sounds terrible. That is not going to be a very good match. And
now we come to the main event. This right here is de cou des
grass. This is what we have been building to all night long. Maybe
if we land on Rock and Roman here, we could just call it a
day, right, since we got it and be the book, or we
don't need it. At WrestleMania, we begin with, Uh, look at
this guy, Big Papa Pump, Scott Steiner. The man's pecks have pecks.
The man's biceps have other muscles trapped within them. This is not a
normal physique. But he's not a normal man though, right he used to
say he's not a normal human being. Scott Steiner is gonna be in a
match. What kind of match to find out? Ah, what kind of
match. An inferno match, an inferno match. Scott Steiner in an inferno
match. That sounds kind of dangerous. This is this is like something out
of like a fucking video game. That's what this is, all right,
Scott Steiner in a in an inferno match. Let's get a drum roll.
Yea. His opponent will be David Arquette, positively awful. That's what we
built. Blt way, no, ignore that. Ignore that. That does
not get the bell. I retract that bell. That is a terrible main
event and it has ruined be the booker for tonight. So excited, I
hit the button. I gave it the bell. I retract that bell.
That does not count. All right, we got a bunch of final superchats
here to get through, so let's go ahead and do it. QB says,
what inning are we in now? Oh yeah, Paul Hayman. What
did Paul Hayman say a few months ago? We're only in the third inning
of this story. I guess now we're in the fourth inning. We're in
the fourth We got we got five more innings to go and then we're going
to hit extra innings. Yuri Cody pinning Roman for the title is in a
way similar to Austin fucking vinceover. At some point the face has got to
win. I don't know. Some of the people here in this chat are
already turning him here, Ritchie. I always thought that the Vince swamping Vince
swamping lounge with Trish and Sable was unnecessary, but now I know why swamp
swamping lounge. That's some kind of a club. Cameron Spencer, what are
your thoughts on people defending Vince. I don't think very highly of them.
Let's leave it at that. Colin c. Jacob fought To's free agent as
of yesterday, do you think he's WWE bound possibly a WrestleMania appearance. I
think that he should be getting a lot of interest from multiple promotions. I
don't know where he's going to land. It should be ww A, but
I don't know where he's going to land. Passion fruity yogurt. Austin always
said, be yourself, but turn it up to ten. Vince six really
makes sense now. There were a lot of weird segments involving him. I
mean it was weird at the time, but you look back on it now
from that SmackDown period, really, from like three onward. I mean,
there was some disturbing shit on those shows involving him, and you kind of
chalk it up too well, you know, he's just hamming it up for
the performance. But no, he's just fucked up. That's what it was.
Arabian Night about to get a Wrestle Media Maine event with Bear Chinholes,
Richie Bill Cosby, Vince McMahon. Harvey Dent said it right in the Dark
Night, you know the quote, Yes I do, Yes, I do.
Although I don't know that Vince was ever really the hero. Some people
like to pretend that he was. But I've told some stories on This Week
in History over the years like he was never really the hero. There are
people who deserve the moniker of hero in this world. Vince McMahon is not
one of them. Will Chisholm. The sad part is that that match would
happen in the last days of WCW of the Scott Steiner Inferno match eight nine
tech. This can't be it right. There must be a twist here,
I hope, So, I hope so Yurie with a little lighthearted kill turkey
or ham you telling me which one I want to eat or which one I
want to kill. I like both. I like turkey and ham, so
give me both. I'll have a turkey and ham sandwich. How about that.
I've actually had turkey and ham from subway before, so I will kill
both and eat both. Matt Setzer, thank you for the ten spot here
from Matt. I skipped out on SmackDown tonight and have come to find out
that I have gone back in time to WrestleMania nine. Maybe there was something
I put in my cereal that made me hallucinate. Maybe you had one of
those woo energies with the with the mushrooms and the courticeps. That's what it
was. The cordyceps has got to your brain. I told you people,
I told you about the cordyceps. Oh man, Well, an amazing night
and unfortunately not for all the right reasons. But you guys killed it here
and bliss Fan, I was not aware of that. My condolences. Bliss
Fan lost his dog yesterday. But what was the dog's name? And how
old was the dog? But I'm very sad to hear that losing a pet
is the worst. It sucks. I've been through it twice. My pet
days are over. But I'm very sorry to hear that. Yes, yes,
I am aware. That's why I mentioned Cordyceps is the the mushroom from
the last of us. That's why you won't see me drinking any of that
WU energy. Do I think Vince McMahon is really gone this time? He
is gone, gn e gone. He is not coming back, not now,
not ever. He's done. His goose is cooked, he's toxic,
he's radioactive. He's done here. He says, Vince never was a hero,
just a villain using our love to promote his pockets. He did a
very good job of it. And Luis scott Steiner against David Arquette in an
inferno match is better. Luis, Thank you, Louis, Alex Hernandez keep
and erase Benoit and Vince. I think they erase themselves. Episode A forty
seven of the podcast on Sunday is going to be one not to be missed.
There is a lot to talk about. Obviously, we're gonna get into
all the new Vince details that came out this week. I will address some
stuff I did not have the chance to address last week because I didn't do
a regular Sunday show. I did other bonus shows I didn't do a show
on Sunday, though, so we'll address all that stuff. We'll talk more
about this if we get more information that comes in from some reliable sources about
the how and when this whole WrestleMania main event plan came to base, we'll
talk more about that. We'll talk about Jacob Batu, We'll talk about the
aw rankings, which I predicted would probably be discarded within six months because they
were ridiculous and I've already been proven right. So we'll talk about that as
well. And if you missed it, I should mention this. If you
missed it, it is now up for everybody my recap of the Undertaker one
dead Man show from Clearwater, Florida. It was part of Royal Rumble weekend
last Sunday. I went to the show. I was sitting there in the
fourth row as a Taker told stories and he brought a former WWE star on
stage with him. So, if you missed the review went up for channel
members earlier this week, and you can now go check it out on the
channel. Make sure you don't miss that twenty minutes. It's an easy listen.
Richie says, I always thought that the swamping I think he means swapping
tongue, but the way he spelled it swamping town brother, Brother, you're
killing me here. Swapping tongue is what he meant with Trici and sable was
unnecessary, even if it was a story. But now I know why.
Yeah, of course, because he could do it, because he could get
away with it. He made out with half the locker room on television,
Kraflow, Is there a playlist of the emergency sound offs? No, there
was no playlist for the Urgency soundoffs. There's no playlist, but there are
a bunch of playlists here on the channel for other things. There's playlists for
all of this Week in History segments, there's playlists for all of my Dark
Side of the Ring reviews, and there is a playlist for SoundOff gamer other
top ten countdowns I've done. Go to the playlist. Actually, you'll find
some good ones there. I try to organize as many of them as I
can. Go ahead and hit that thumbs up on the way out. Maybe
we'll end up with more likes than the video of the WWE put up on
their YouTube channel. But I've gone three hours and twenty minutes. I've taken
up way too much of your time, so be well, stay safe,
have yourselves a great weekend. I got a lot of work to do tomorrow
and a big, big podcast coming up on Sunday. Don't miss it episode
eight forty seven. Until then, take care of guys.