This is WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre and you're listening to the WWE Podcast, the
show the one that everybody wants me God tell stand for sixteen. So God,
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the WWE Podcast. Everyone. It is Friday, February twenty third, twenty
twenty four, and we're gonna be doing a couple of things today with finishing
up the mailbag and the preview and prediction show for Elimination Chamber, which comes
to us tomorrow morning, very early tomorrow morning for most of us. So
if you're up and you're watching, God Bless you, I won't be it's
five am. I mean sometimes my kids wake me up a little bit earlier
and I might be able to, but the problem is in the morning.
I mean, kids are crazy. You can't just, you know, turn
on the TV and tell them to shut up at a young age. It's
not going to work. So I just I'm telling you that not just to
give you insights into my personal life that you don't care about, but also
I want to let you know I don't know if I'll be tweeting as it's
quote unquote live because most of us may or may not be. I know
that those of us are those of you who are listeners over in the UK,
are celebrating. I think I can hear you across the pond cheering that
you finally have a pay per view or a ple that's at a reasonable hour.
But the rest of us, cry babies pun intended, are going to
be, you know, very upset that we don't get to watch it live,
or that we have to stay up super late or get up super early
to watch it. Either way, I won't be probably watching it live.
I'll try to watch it as best I can throughout the day and tomorrow night.
I'm also going to be partaking in some after hours activity if you know
what I mean. Well, actually I probably should tell you otherwise it's very
suggestive. I'm having a few drinks tomorrow night, so I don't know.
If I don't know if I'll be able to get a review up super quick,
it's going to be weird. I'll probably more likely get it up Sunday,
but we'll see. You know, I have a hotel room. We'll
see. Maybe I'll be able to get something up while I'm inebriated and then
immediately get kicked off the platform for you know, an R rated show.
All right. That said, let's get to the preview and prediction show,
and then on the second half we're going to do the mail bag the second
half of it, and I'm going to promise you as best I can.
Then I'm going to get through as many as I can. More have come
in since Wednesday, So this may be just as a warning guys, or
rather more of a disclaimer as the volume grows here on the show for the
mail bag, I have every single show to the best of my ability,
not without I'm not perfect. I've missed emails and voicemails before, but up
till this point, I have been able to get to everyone's or make an
effort to get to everyone's email and voicemail. I don't know if moving forward,
I'm going to be able to keep that promise because the volume is getting
so big or so so high, right so I'm going to make my best
effort to But if you know, push comes to shove and I just don't
have time to do it, I apologize. I mean, I appreciate everybody
sending in their emails, but kind of one of the drawbacks of a show
growing is that you know, we can't get to every single person, but
I'll try up until I mean, I'm getting close to the breaking point of
being able to manage this in terms of just getting everybody on the show.
But all right, so let's get to it. Let's talk about elimination chamber
that comes to us tomorrow night from or tomorrow morning for most of us from
Perth, Australia, And the main event of the show, by the way,
I believe is Riea Ripley and Naia Jacks. I believe that's actually the
main event and it should be think about this though not just exciting. I
mean we're all excited for Rear Ripley. The crowd reaction is going to be
thunderous, as Michael Cole would say, it's going to be and it's going
to be so much fun to hear how what the chants are and the mommy
chance, and I mean it's going to be boo yay, boo yay.
It's going to be electric for Rhea Ripley. But how about Naya Jacks coming
from complete obscurity and no one wanting her back to making it to the main
event of A ple e. So I gotta give her credit. I still
don't really like her, but I can recognize her improvements and give her credit.
From making it to the main event of a ple she has made strides
and good for her. So I'm excited for Naya Jax too. I know
she's kind of the really just the side story, or not even a side
story. She's just the body filling the main event to oppose Ria Ripley.
But we got to remember Nya Jackx too here and the fact that there'll be
a moments in this match that I think will make us believe that, my
God, couldn't I actually do it? And that's what you look for in
these kinds of matches that are so heavily favored for one person or the other.
So we'll get to that in just a ma but I wanted to point
that out up front. Now let's talk. There's not many matches on the
card that's been the triple h. I don't know, fingerprint if you will,
over the last several months, is him having really a trend over the
really over a year or two is fewer matches, longer matches, And I
think I actually enjoy that instead of just having it rapid fire you give the
storylines that are deserving of a pl platform time to breathe and have the wrestlers
allow them more than enough time to tell their story. And I appreciate that,
and I'm sure the wrestlers who get the matches actually do too. So
let's go through it. The Women's Elimination Chamber match, which if this doesn't
open the show, I will be floored. This has to open the show
as it usually does, and that is Becky Lynch, Bianca bell Air,
Live Morgan, Naomi, Tippany Stratton, and Raquel Rodriguez. So what happens,
Well, there there is an overwhelming sense of Becky Lynch winning. Overwhelming
because they have WWA is essentially built to Riha Ripley versus Becky Lynch before it
was even possible that she would win the chamber to get into the main event
to face ree Ripley. So they've been building this before a match even existed
for Becky to challenge Rhea and then Ria Ripley and Becky had their stare off
at the press conference in Vegas a few weeks ago, and that is more
than a foreshadowing, that's just kind of like, hey, we're doing this
it's a formality for Becky Lynch to go through the chamber. And do I
think Becky Lynch is going to win, Yes, I still do. But
they could throw a curveball, and here's the curveball. Beyonce bell Air.
Bianc bell Air could be the curveball that we've been looking for if you're looking
for one, and that is Beyonca bel Air versus Ria Ripley that I think
would actually pose more of a crowd challenge, meaning a posing chance than Becky
and and Rhea. And I know Becky, the supporters out there that are
listening, I understand you. You love Becky. I understand that you have
a connection with her, and she's deserving and it's been two years. But
we've also, at the same time seen a long, many many tonnele reigns
from Becky Lynch that have been lengthy, and we have not seen that from
Ria Ripley yet. I mean, she's she's been champion for my god ten
months now, so great, but it hasn't felt like they focused on her
championship up until the last six months. So Ria Ripley is also catching fire.
She's already on fire, and that momentum is just starting to build.
So at the same time, though, Bianca bell Air is I think on
a bit of a I don't know if redemption, to pull a word from
Live Morgan is the right word. More of a re energization of her career
because she's been kind of in the background a little bit. She hasn't been
the forefront of everything. And Beyonca bell Air and actually I believe Bianca bell
Air and Ria Ripley could have a better match than Becky and Rhea. They're
better suited from a physical standpoint. Becky Lynch is not as strong as Ria,
which poses its challenges. Right when you have two muscular women in there,
there's more they can do, but Becky Lynch poses maybe a little more
speed either way. We also haven't seen Beyonca bell Air and Ria Ripley yet
on the main card anyway, or on the main roster anyway. I think
we've seen it in NXT. We saw a little bit of it a few
years ago at the Rumble when they were the two last women in the Rumble.
I think it was twenty twenty one. Was it twenty one? Somebody
will correct me out there, But Bianca bell Air and Ria Ripley with a
final two and they put on a clinic to end that match that of course
ended with Ria Ripley winning. But we never got an official program with Riha
and Bianca yet. And last year the raw after WrestleMania the very underwhelming.
One. One thing I do remember, and it may be the only thing
I remember from that show, which is sad. But is Bianca bell Air
and Riea Ripley both holding their respective women's championships having an interaction and foreshadowing perhaps
this year's WrestleMania. Now were they thinking that all the way back then?
Maybe? But a lot of change since then. Vince has gone creative has
been you know, shuffled up. Triple H is now truly ahead of creative.
There's been a lot of changes at the board, and I mean right,
so who knows, but we still haven't got it and it could be
the time to pull the trigger. So that's your case for Bianca bell Air
to win this. Everyone else, there's no chance. None, Sorry,
live not happening. Naomi, she's kind of your third potential pick. I
think she's returning. It's fun to see her back, but she doesn't have
a significant chance. Raquel Rodriguez. I'd put at number four as possible,
Live Morgan's five, and then Tiffany Stratton six. But Raquel has no real
momentum coming back. We all feel bad for her, with her you know
her what is it some I can't remember the disease that she's been diagnosed with.
I feel bad for her, and I saw a video of her crying
and it is emotional, and you know all the things she's had to deal
with with her skin and I feel for But as a character on TV,
if you take that out of it, she's not an interesting character. She
belongs to to be a heel. She's a strong woman, yes, but
there's no character development behind her and it's not happening. And as far as
Tiffy Stratton goes, she is the least likely. Although I think she'll have
a good showing. She's not going to get squashed. Tiffany Stratton, I
think is going to be not eliminated first. I think liv Morgan might be
eliminated first and then Tiffany Stratton maybe second. But Tiffoty Stratton is just starting
to get her foot in the door on the main roster and she feels like
she belongs don't get me wrong. She feels like a significant character. Her
moon salt is beautiful, Her character feels authentic, although it is a bit
rare. It is a bit Chelsea Greenish, you know. So Tiffany,
though, is just getting going. It would be ridiculous to put her in
the main event of WrestleMania anyway. I don't mind her earning a shot at
a B level pay per view at this point, but not at a WrestleMania
forty for God's sakes. I wouldn't lose my mind. I would just be
like, Wow, that's a ballsy move, you know. Honestly, none,
none of these would make me angry. But I would be really raising
an eyebrow or two at some of these picks. But if you're looking for
the top two for me, it's Lynch, and then a close second is
Bianca Bellair, who poses a real threat here, and one to keep an
eye on, one to keep an eye on. So Becky Lynch probably does
win. Sure, it's predictable and up and down the card. It looks
predictable, which scares me. Anytime you have a card that looks super predictable,
there's usually one out there that floats that's floating out there that gives you
a shock. I don't know if this will be that one. I think
they may just continue with the build that they've been going with of Becky versus
Rhea and by the way, I expect the physical match, fun match and
could could rival the Men's in terms of quality. But the Men's is just
stacked and we'll get to that in a minute. Okay. Next up is
the Undisputed Tag Team Championship, the Judgment Day versus Pete Dunn and Tyler Bait.
You know this one. I still think the Judgment Day is going to
win. It's kind of weird that Pete Doun and Tyler Bait are getting the
spotlight here given that DIY have been I know that they didn't win, but
they've been getting a pretty good push and the crowds have been behind him.
Also, where the hell are the Creed brothers that put on a wrestling clinic
week after week in the tag team division? Where they you know, I
understand that Pete Done and Tyler Bate earned it, I get it, and
they're trying to give them a platform to get at least just recognition with the
fans. I mean, we all know Pete done right, butch but still
as he's being repackaged with Tyler Bate it is. It is still a new
tag team to the main roster anyway, and to the mainstream fan. So
fine, they'll have a really good match. I don't have a problem with
that. They'll probably cheat to win the Judgment DaLie cheat to win. Probably
Dom will get involved, and Damian Priest and Finbala retained because I believe our
truth and MS who I think may have something to say in this match,
will also show their faces. And I don't think they'll cost Judgment day,
but come close to it or attack them after the match and for a big
pop from the crowd. All right, the men's and by the way,
I'm giving you, guys the order of the matches that I think are actually
going to happen, so as I give you the predictions. So the men's
now, typically the men's elimination Chamber match would be the main event of the
show, but given Rhea Ripley and I don't think it's going to happen.
I think it even was officially made official with Triple H on X earlier that
it was going to be Rhea Ripley who was main eventing with Nia Jacks.
So that's cool. But the men's I think we'll go on third and Drew
McIntyre, Randy Orton, Bobby Lashley, l A Knight, Kevin Owens,
and Logan Paul with a world championship opportunity awaiting the winner against Seth Rollins at
WrestleMania forty. Okay, so wow, stacked, stacked, stacked, stacked.
I mean especially not even just star power, which is pretty high in
this match, but also ability youth in some respects in this match when it
comes to at least Blogan Paul. Everyone else is not exactly a spring chicken.
So maybe youth isn't the right word, but athletic ability. Let's do
that. Okay. Now, Drew McIntyre is the I think, a heavy
favorite. I don't think it's as overwhelming as the Becky Lynch favorite in the
women's match, but Drew McIntyre is a heavy favorite to win this match.
I think when you look beyond Drew McIntyre, Orton is somebody that has really
inexplicably been kind of forgotten. I mean, how the hell do we forget
about Randy Orton ever since he made his return at Survivor series and then his
return was stomped on by Cmpunk, which it was. I know it wasn't
the return directly after Orton return, meaning it like Orton returned and then five
seconds later Punk return, but it was close enough to Randy Orton's return,
and it was at the same event that people forgot about Orton and started talking
about Punk and ever since then, Randy Orton was supposed to go into a
program with Roman. I was excited for a one on one. There's a
big story there dating back eighteen months. They didn't go that way. They
went with a multi person fatal four way, which I still don't believe was
the right call. I know they didn't want Orton to lose, but I
wouldn't have cared, and I don't think people would have looked differently at Orton
if he lost. So we never got the one on one with Roman,
which again is annoying. But Whorton has been kind of a dare I say
dark horse in this match, where yeah, I mean people look at him
as a big star, but I think most people look at him as yeah,
he'll hang around to the last few, maybe even it'll come down to
Drew and Orton, and then it'll be uh, you know, McIntyre getting
the claymore at Orton in some kind of, you know, questionable way,
which is probably the outcome. But Orton is a very believable guy to face
Seth Rollins. There's a history with Seth and uh and and Randy Orton.
Think back to what was it, WrestleMania thirty one, but it was remember
that was was that what it was? I think it was WrestleMania thirty one
when Rollins cashed in that night, but he lost to Orton early in the
night with the crazy RKO that went from a curb stop at the time,
it was called to an RKO, and I remember being super Sonny outside him
like this is weird. I don't like when it's sunny. I don't like
that. But that's what I remember. And so they faced each other at
WrestleMania before. It's been nine years, but they've done it, and there's
a story there. The problem is though, that you'd have babyface babyface.
That's a problem. Bobby Lashley has no chance. He probably has as equal
chance as Logan Paul does. With Logan Paul already being the US champion.
Ain't gonna happen. There's no chance of those two. Kevin Owens is in
like fourth place maybe yeah, I'd say he's fourth place for winning. I
think he's destined for a Logan Paul la Knight US title fatal or a triple
threat at WrestleMania for the US title probably, but La Knight is probably a
third choice. La Knight is probably going to make some noise in this,
get at get an elimination, maybe two, and hit a BFT, but
ultimately he will lose. I think La Knight probably doesn't have a significant chance
either, which again leaves you with Drew and Orton. That's it. The
rest of these guys don't make a much of sense. Elae Knight is the
closest you could make of an argument. I mean, if they put Ella
Knight in seth Rollins together, they'd be I wouldn't hate it. But also,
all these guys except one is a SmackDown guy. So unless somebody's gonna
come over to Raw, which they're not gonna do, I don't think officially
anyway, Drew also makes sense from just a brand standpoint. So Drew I
think is a very heavy favorite to win this. He should win it honestly,
because he has had so much character growth in a short amount of time,
giving us a heel version of himself we've never seen, giving us a
different kind of heel too, where that person believes, as I've said,
is the hero in their own story, that they feel they can't do anything
wrong. It's not that he knows he's doing something dastardly. He thinks he's
always justified in it. It's a great just tweak on us, a typical
a typical heels psychology, and I'm loving it. So Drew McIntyre should win
this match. I don't care how he wins it. I don't care if
it's a low blow. I don't care if it's happenstance. I don't care
if someone interferes. Drew should win this and face Seth Rollins for the world
title because that is the right story to tell right now, and that is
a you know, I think the right way to book this now. Does
seth Rollins interfere in this match? No, he already has his segment with
the Grayson Waller effect. We'll get to that in a minute. So I
think you have a very physical crazy I mean, think about the things Logan
Paul is going to do in this match, Logan Paul, I mean they
should have the EMTs ready, like on standby at the entrance, ready to
rush down, because this is gonna be dangerous. I think at times,
with how physical that steal cage is, there needs to be somebody ready.
And Logan Paul not that he's unsafe, but the dude kills himself in a
normal match. What the hell is he gonna do in you know, a
match with a chamber, for God's sakes. So I mean this is gonna
hurt a lot for Logan Paul, but he's gonna make a name for himself.
As he continues to I still expect a lot a pretty good match here,
I mean really good. Logan Paul is the X factor here when it
comes to crazy crap that he could do and probably will do. But Drew
McIntire's gonna win. I think it's if I'm gonna guess, it's probably gonna
come down to Drew mcatyre and maybe La Knight. I think Orton will get
eliminated second to last or third to last, maybe by uh, you know,
maybe by Orton or maybe by Drew rather But I think l a Knight
and Drew would be a fun ending instead of Orton and Drew. But they
may go with just a bigger star in Orton and Drew, which hey,
I have no problem with this, So this is gonna be so much fun.
Now let's get to the Grayson Waller effect with Seth and with Cody.
So Seth and Cody on the Grayson Waller effect. You know that Grayson Waller
is gonna get his ass kick. Maybe Austin Theory will show up there.
Austin Theory may come to the aid or already be in the ring, and
these two, you know, may battle. As Seth is, I know
he's getting close to being cleared, so he might be able to do some
physicality in the ring brawl with Grayson Waller and Austin Theory who may be there,
but also after they beat them down, I could see Roman Rains coming
in and spearing both guys standing there, Tall, I don't think you're going
to see the Rock. I think Triple H even confirmed that the Rock well
he has he said many other TV dates, this isn't one of them in
Perth, so I don't expect to see the Rock. If he shows up,
it'll be a shock and I wouldn't hate it, but I do believe
Roman reigns after Grayson Waller and Austin Theory get their ass kicked by Seth and
Cody are gonna come in. He's gonna come in, hit the spear on
both of them to deafening booze from Perth, and I think that's the way
it should go. Get some more heat on Roman and build to an eventual
tag team match with Seth and Cody versus Rock and Roman. Wherever or however
that match takes place. I have no clue. I know people are going
with, well, it's WrestleMania forty. Roman's gonna do double duty, you
know, main event both nights. There's good and bad to that. We'll
see how that pans out, but this is clearly a build to that.
So Seth and Roman, by the way, haven't had any physicality in about
two years, two plus years, So that's how I think it's gonna go
down. Now, let's get to the Women's World Championship, the main event,
Riya Ripley versus Naya Jacks, and crowd reaction. Crowd reaction. Crowd
reaction is what to listen for here, as a re Ripley with forty thousand
people behind her, is going to be the hero of the you know,
of the decade over there in Perth and should be the crowd is going to
give I'm sure Ria will never forget this moment. Let me just say that
because Ria has not been I don't think she's wrestled in Australia before as a
WWE wrestler. I don't think she has, but I'll have to check on
that. Either way, this to me, if I'm Maria Ripley looking at
this from a human perspective, I'm thinking to myself, man, you know,
this is a special moment. I know that she didn't grow up in
Perth. She actually grew up like five hours away from Perth. Okay,
her hometown was not near Perth, but it's still the home country. So
for her being in her home country and being the women's World champion, and
she's already got momentum behind her anyway in the United States. Think about the
reaction for Ria in Perth. It's going to be crazy and I'm excited for
her. It's a moment in her life she will never forget. But storyline
wise, there is a zero let me just reemphasize zero percent chance of Nia
Jack's winning. I you know, I if if Niajacks wins, look Out,
it would make the reaction for the Undertaker losing at WrestleMania pale in comparison.
Just I mean, I would actually be scared for the safety of the
wrestlers, right like you know. But there's no chance they're gonna do that.
Does the cynical part of me want to see what forty thousand people who
came to watch Rio and Real win the match do if Ria loses. Yes,
there's a dark side of me that I would love to see that reality
and have Ria just I mean just come in and squash her. Imagine Ria
just comes in, she gets like maybe a couple of punches in Nia Jacks.
Does you know her bowling ball in the corner or not a bowling ball,
but like her squash in the corner. Does a couple of those hits?
He hits her annihilator a couple of times one, two, three,
new women's World champion. I mean, it's not gonna happen. That would
just be that'd be a bad piece of business for just all the way around.
Other than just shock value, it's a bad decision. So I expect
twelve minute match, maybe fifteen minutes, slow paced, high power maneuvers.
This is not going to be Becky Lynch Sasha Banks classic, right, I
mean these women Ria Ripley's powerhouse. Nia Jacks is a heavier woman that I
mean, you know her limitations, but that's fine. I don't need a
million miles an hour in my match, and I think this is going to
be a very well told story from start to finish, with the crowd getting
heavily involved. Ultimately, Riptid if she can get Naya up one, two
three, we have a not a new champion, but Rea Ripley retains the
Women's World Championship and moves on to Becky Lynch at WrestleMania. That's my take.
There's just no other way to do it. Now, could you have
could you have a surprise appearance from say, Jade Cargill, I mean,
I guess, I guess people have been talking about that. I mean,
Jade Cargill right now, outside of the Rumble, has had zero wrestling in
front of w fans, So I mean, I don't expect that that would
be a left field, kind of unnecessary swerve, but I mean, I
guess, but I don't think that's going to happen. I think you're going
to end the show feeling good with Rhea Ripley standing in front of her home
crowd, crowd losing their minds for Rehea Ripley retaining. That's how I take
it, and it feel good ending. So all right, let's now get
to the rest of those emails and I'll get through as many as I can,
but I can't promise I get through them all. I mean, it's
just the reality now, guys. All right, let's start with Seph,
who is a patron and Seph says new patron here. I'll try to keep
it short, as I know the mail bag is getting fuller by the day.
I wanted to write in to follow up what you say around Rea Ripley's
comments that she's open fighting men if their opportunity arose. First, I share
your opinion that a fully mixed arrangement in which any man can face any woman
doesn't make sense, and I also agree it would change the nature of the
as social norms would limit the men from appearing to unleash the fury on the
female opponent in the same way they would a man. All that being said,
I wanted to get your opinion of the idea of a weight class approach
if it had to happen, for example, Live and Bobby Lashley would be
completely ridiculous, but Rhea could have could believably beat the snot out of dom
In my opinion, inevitably, this would still keep the main titles male only
due to the size difference, but would potentially appease those for going in mixed
matches. Thanks for the great show, Seph. Okay, Seph, so
I still fundamentally disagree. I don't care if it's done by weight, if
it's done by number of hairs on their head, of men and women competing,
even in a fantasy sports simulated sports environment, I think it's a horrible
idea. I understand what you're saying, where it's like, well, it's
only based on weight, but that only accounts for weight, That doesn't account
for speed or strength. A woman who's one hundred and fifty pounds is still
not as strong as an average male who's one hundred and fifty pounds just on
average, right, So like somebody who's one hundred and fifty pounds as a
man, and they are able to bench, say two hundred and fifty pounds
as possible, and a woman who's one hundred and fifty pounds. I don't
know if there's anyone in the world who's one hundred and fifty pounds woman that
can bench. Maybe there is a two hundred and fifty pounds, so pound
for pound so to speak, it's still not even. You know, one
hundred and fifty pound wman and one hundred and fifty pounds man are not the
same. There's also just basic biological differences. I know, we're getting into
the weeds big time, but if you break it down, the reason that
men's and women's sports are not just divided by weight, but also just by
are you a man or a woman, which is how it should be,
is men have higher lung capacity, which allows them to distribute oxygen into their
blood a lot faster and at a higher capacity, which means more explosion in
their movements. You know, men have just not just testosterone which people like
to just bring up, Oh, it's more testosterone. There's a you know,
men and women at a cellular level are different. You know, so
if you just do it by weight, well, that still doesn't even the
playing field. You know, I fundamentally reject the idea of men and women
competing. I understand what you're saying that dom and Rhea, and that's maybe
it's possible, maybe it's not. I mean, just because dom Is doesn't
look like you know, doesn't look like I don't know Austin theory doesn't mean
in a real fight, he couldn't you know, beat her up? He
might, he probably could. I mean, men just have a fundamentally biological
advantage. They just do, you know, Like that's why they don't mix
men and women in MMA. Mma is also weight class, but they'd still
separated by men and women. And there have been without getting you know,
too into things, if you know what I mean, men have competed with
women in MMA, and it is it turns out horrendous. It turns out
awful for the women, and even though it's done by well, it's wait
men. I mean, it's kind of crazy that we're even having this discussion,
you know what I mean. I don't mean, Seph, that you're
crazy for bringing it up. But in today's culture, with all the things
that everyone knows what I'm talking about that's going on, everyone all of a
sudden is just denying biology for all of a sudden, since the you know,
the dawn of humanity, everyone's understood that men are you know, men
and women are different, and that there's certain biological advantages men have. Doesn't
mean men are better, just means physically they've been built differently, And all
of a sudden, we're just supposed to ignore this because well, you know,
right, I mean, I don't mean to toe the line of politics
and the hot topics today, but it's starting to bleed into wrestling. And
I have been waiting for this day, not waiting for it and anticipatorily,
meaning like I'm not like, oh, I can't wait. You know who
who I can't wait to? So this happens, and no, I'm I'm
dreading it, but I know I can see it coming and it's starting to
the door is starting to open slowly. And if it happens where women are
competing with men or somebody who is a man that says they're a woman,
right, let's just say what it is. If somebody transgender comes into wrestling
and WW allows it, the whole product goes to I mean, it's just
it means nothing, right like it means it means nothing. We're all supposed
to just accept everything as it is at face value. I don't want to
get into that, but I can see it coming and rear Ripley's comments are
indicative of where the culture's at some people anyway, And I just I think
it's a horrible idea. The system works just fine as it is. The
system works. Why are we trying to There's nobody out there who's an advocate.
I don't think of Oh man, wrestling sucks. It'd be so much
better if men and women could compete. Why do you want to do that
with the NFL? Are we gonna apply this to the NFL? We're gonna
apply this to the Major League Baseball? You know what I mean? Like,
Okay, let's let's bring in some uh, let's bring in some of
the MLB players into a woman's softball game. Let's see how that goes.
It's it's just a just common sense suddenly has just gone out the window for
other things. But there uh. I will just say this. Eventually things
will probably bleed into WWE and I'm gonna have to address them, and it's
gonna be a hotly charged topic and it shouldn't be it shouldn't be. So
there's a long form answer. Step. All right, let's let's go to
where do we go, Simon, Simon, let's go. I believe Drew
mctyre wins the Chamber, Nijacks will destroy rear Ripley, and I believe Becky
Lynch will win her chain. And you think Nya Jacks WrestleMania, Naya destroys
Becky Lynch. And then Jay Uso, my guy with the Intercontinental Championship,
Well that's not happening as we know now. Roman tells Jay before his match,
you are out of the blood line. Well I mean you mean Jimmy,
I think, And okay, so to set up Survivors series bloodline versus
Bloodline. So wait a minute, I'm a bit confused. So you're saying
the rock Jay Uso and Jimmy Uso. I actually don't know what you're saying,
Simon. I'm gonna have to skip over this section because I don't know
what you mean, don't I don't. But let's keep going. I don't
believe Roman is just going for Hogan's run. I believe he will beat Bruno
because it feels like he will never end this run. And I'm not a
Roman fan. It's a possibility that Roman holds the title indefinitely. Fourteen seventy
four, the number of days that is four years and two weeks that Hulk
Hogan's run was and Bruno San Martino was twenty eight hundred and three almost eight
years. Let's see. So yeah, I mean, I still believe that
if Roman goes past forty with the title, he's going to September with the
title, and I will maintain that firmly. If Roman beats Cody at Mania
in some weird way or outright, which the fans would, I mean,
imagine the fan reaction. But if Roman wins and retains, he's going to
beat Hulk Hogan's record. This is the final hurdle. I don't want to
hear about SummerSlam. I don't want to hear about wrestle Ania backlash right.
I don't want to hear about payback. I don't want to hear about money
in the bank. I don't want to hear about, you know, any
Saudi events. If Roman wins at forty, he's going to beat Hulk Hogan's
record. Case closed. So Roman reigns. This is his really final hurdle.
Before Hulk Hogan's record. So okay, yeah, I mean I'm with
you though, I'm with you. Okay, Simon, thank you. Let's
talk to Sam. Quick thought. Next time The Rock does the People's elbow,
he shouldn't throw his armband into the crowd, but walk over to the
apron and hand it to Roman Reigns. Yeah, I like that, Like,
don't give the crowd anything. Heal, Rock is so much fun.
God, it's so much fun. He should don't give the crowd a thing,
take his elbow pad and just like throw it on the mat, like
pretend he's gonna throw it in the crowd and just troll the fans. Oh,
I'd love that, Yes, love that. Thank you Sam. All
right, so let's see Simon. You I know you have another email here
that you have a couple scenarios for forty rus for the Rock at WrestleMania forty
You're saying the Rock could have no match but interferes and so Cody wins on
DQ rules and Roman keeps the belt. That's possible. Another scenario is that
a triplet so Cody has more of a chance as on a triple threat and
there's no d Q, so more people can get involved in a much much
like Austin or Ken Shamrock Ken Shamrock. I guess so, I mean,
I guess costing Cody the match. The third scenario, the Rock faces Logan
Paul for the US title. I believe that's more likely to be Kevin Owens.
I'm with you on that. I don't think the Rock is going to
go I mean, honestly, let's be real. This sounds disrespectful, but
it's true. The Rock is not going to demote himself to the US title.
It is a good motion. It is scenario four, and this is
the one that's going to piss off some people the most. But the Rock
versus Seth for the title and the Rock wins. Ooh, I mean,
I it could, but he's not in the chamber. How does that work?
Does he just appoint himself as the challenger because he's on the board of
the TK of TKO. Perhaps, so you think Drew is gonna win the
chamber and I'll challenge Seth? Yeah, I think so too. All right,
let's continue with with Andrew and he says, hey, ww podcast family,
Andrew from New Zealand. As we all know, there's a lot happening
in the WWE to get our heads around. As I was listening to the
Weekend Review, I had a thought as to how The Rock could turn on
reins at WrestleMania. Not sure what you think. The bloodline comes out with
Roman at the start of the match, including the Rock. After Cody starts
to overpower Roman and goes for a pin, Solo distracts the ref, match
carries on, and then Roman sets up for the spear cue the Shield intro
enters Seth and Dean Ambrose. Roman tells Solo and Jimmy to go after them.
Cody gets Roman from behind, does his stupid finisher three times. Yeah,
he always has to do it three times. It's ridiculous anyway, and
pins one, two, three, While Hayman looking on in disbelief that the
Rock just standing there doing nothing to help. Solo and Jimmy come back to
the ring and pull Roman out. Rock enters and congratulates Cody and tells Roman
Cody was right that his grandfather would be disgusted and how unfairly he can keeps
winning by cheating. Let me know what you think. The Rock could still
fight Night one, but no idea against two. Yeah to me. I
mean the Rock could face Randy Orton, The Rock could face John Cena on
Night one if Sina wants to go that road again, it's possible. But
they could also do the tag team match a Night one. But as far
as you're I like the Shield getting involved. I don't know if Dean Ambrose
has any interesting coming back to the company. I think he still has some
time left on his contract with AW, so I don't know if that's possible.
Dean doesn't seem to have any interest in coming back, but in time.
Here's the thing. I think John Moxley, Dean Ambrose as ww fans
know him, will eventually come back to WWE. Everyone seems to come back
at some point in their lives. Right, you never thought seampunk could come
back? Here we are, right, Hal Cogan, he's back. Well,
he's back in a certain sense. The Ultimate Warrior after decades of trashing
the company eventually came back for a Hall of Fame and a mon of net
raw speech at Hart came back when you never ever, ever ever thought he
would come back. Given the scenario with the Montreal screwjob, right, they
all come back. So I do believe that eventually we will see a Dean
Ambrose return to WWE. But up here's what I'm afraid of, Andrew.
I like your booking. No one's brought that up yet. I don't want
this match to be overthought or overbooked. This doesn't this This is okay.
I like it given. I mean, imagine the pop for the shield,
but I just don't want it to be eighty people involved in this finish.
You know, I think it would muddy Cody's victory. To me, I
would ban everyone from ringside. Anyone that interferes is fired or fined anyone.
But I don't think they're going to do that to allow for people to interfere
and potentially cost Cody. But you know, we'll see, we'll see.
I like it though, Andrew, that was some good thinking. That was
some good thinking. But I don't see right now Dean Ambrose coming back.
I could be wrong, but I do believe he has time left on his
contract. So all right, so let's go to Milan and he says,
Hi, Matt, if Cody beats Roman and Seth loses the World Heavyweight Championship,
which I think will happen at Mania, do the belt switch brands.
I could see Cody taking the Universal Belt to Raw. You mean the undisputed
championship. Don't beat like the Rock Milan. It's the undisputed championship. I
know what you mean, though, and Drew beating Seth and heading to smack
Down with his world title. I've noticed a lot of SmackDown participants in the
chamber, and Drew has been going to a going over to SmackDown a lot
lately, maybe in early tease. Plus, who does Drew have left feud
with on Raw besides maybe Punk down the road. He's already faced Sammy,
Seth and Jay a lot. I feel there are a lot of fresh battles
awaiting him on SmackDown, like bron Breaker, Knight, Orton and Gay Oh
so good, good question, good question. A lot. They could swap
brands, but it always has to be an even swap, right, meaning
they're not going to have somebody retain, say say Roman retained right, or
or rather Cody wins, which most people believe he's going to and then stay
on SmackDown or I'm sorry, go back to Raw because he was drafted to
Raw, and then the World Heavyweight Championship doesn't come to SmackDown. They would
always make sure one show has a championship. So if they're gonna do it,
they could do it and swap it, but it's got to be an
even swap. Now, to me, it's the men who are drafted,
not the belts. When they have the draft every year or every other year
or whatever they do, they draft people. They don't draft inanimate objects,
right like they don't draft, they don't they don't pick in the draft.
The overall draft pick is the undisputed championship, right like it's not. The
belts aren't exclusive to the brand. We may think of the brand synonymously with
that belt, but the belt isn't attached to the brand the person is.
So that means that sure, if someone's a champion that is drafted to Raw
wins a championship that has been typically featured on SmackDown, the belt would stay
on. Come come to Raw with them. But we'll see how it all
plays out. I mean, you know how I feel, though, if
you listen to the show. WWE doesn't give a crap about the brand split.
They don't care. Jrew's been showing up on SmackDown solo and Jimmy show
up on Raw whenever they want with nobody giving a damn, and they stay
throughout the show and interfere in multiple matches, just like they did this past
week, and no one gives a crap. So which is I mean,
it's just insane. It's insanity. But that means that they are allowed to
just kind of do what they want. They have a brand split, kind
of a soft one, and then they just you know, they let people
come over on either brand and do what they need to do from a creative
standpoint and don't care. They put all the brand rules aside. So,
all right, do you think Cody and Rock are in cootes? It smells
very suspicious, or, as the kids would say, smells very sus all
right, I'm forty years old almost saying sus feels weird. I think something
happens that puts Rock in that special ref spot, whether it's Tim flexing his
power, or it's in the contract that if Rock Roman and Rock and Roman
beat Cody and Seth on Night one, Rock gets to referee. In the
end, Rock refs he doesn't help Cody win, but he stops Solo and
Jimmy for interfering, proving the Roman can't beat Cody. Without the Bloodline's help.
This ends Cody's story but starts Roman and Rocks. Sure, yeah,
you know that's that's actually cool, And you know I didn't think about what
would be on the line in this projected tag team match. That's very possible.
But as I've just said and I continue to say, I don't need
this match being overbooked, overplayed, too many people involved. This should be
a story about Cody and Roman and the injustice that Cody suffers last year at
WrestleMania due to Solo Socoa. That should be the story. I understand the
Rock is back and you need to incorporate him somehow, but I would if
you're not going to have it just clean and one hundred percent about Cody Roman,
you need to at least mitigate the amount of booking and crazy returns and
all these things that are going to distract from what could be a monumental title
victory for Cody. So that's my problem, and that's my concern with this
match is it's easily you could easily overbook this, and the temptation to overbook
it is immense. So we'll see how well they're able to to kind of
mitigate that that desire to completely overbook this match. All right, let's go
to Almos. You love my spoiler? Right? Well I got my I
got it from a mate named Billy. Ps. My name is pronounced omas
Ah. Okay, there we go, Omas, I won't forget all right,
it's thanks Somas. So shout out to your friend or mate as you
call him, Billy. I guess since we're going to Australia, I'm just
gonna start pretending that I'm a native. Let's call all my friend's mates.
Although isn't that a British thing too? I don't know. Is that British
or is it just Australian when you call your friend's mates. I'm not sure.
All right, let's go. Let's see here. Let's get to Liam.
Liam says. I have to get out my quick possible outcomes for the
Chamber that are not likely. I will show the percentage of it happening on
the side. Okay, cool, let's go. So you have Ellie Knight
winning the chamber at thirty percent. I think that's actually a pretty fair.
That's pretty fair. Maybe a little high, but I'd say twenty five.
But I think Ellie Knight is a third pick. Yeah, that's that's cool.
Naomi or Live winning the chamber thirty five percent, I think that's really
high per perly. I think Naomi has definitely got a better chance than Live.
But right now the stories about NAOMIIR Live, Naomi should get her chance.
It'll probably be after WrestleMania they'll put the spotlight more on her. But
I think that even when you combine them, Naomi or Live, combining their
chances, I think it's like ten percent. Honestly, Alistair Black returns fifteen
percent. Yeah, I didn't think about that. That's very possible. I'd
say that's true. Nia Jack's winning zero percent, Yeah, exactly, no
chance zero maybe. As I've said sometimes before, if you could do a
negative chance, whatever that means, I would put negative chance of nia Jack's
winning. Yes, a match being made out of the Grayson Waller effect,
Cody versus Grayson forty percent and Grayson versus Seth ten percent. Thank you for
taking the time to read this email. I know it probably doesn't make it
sense. Make it doesn't make sense as it is abys bit rushed. Well,
first of all, I can't read number one, number two. No,
it makes perfect sense, totally get what you're saying, I don't think
you're going to see individual matches made out of it on the event where it'll
take place, But sure you can have Cody versus Grayson, or Cody versus
Theory, who I think will be there, or Seth versus Theory, any
of those commodations. You could easily have them on RAW if Seth's ready to
compete again, or just have them team up. I mean it could be
Cody and Seth versus Grayson in Theory on RAW. I mean sure that absolutely
could happen. The only other downside to this, because I got to look
at the glass half empty because I'm a negative guy, is that Seth Rollins
continues to really put aside his own World Evyweight Championship and continues to look at
this. He's looking at WrestleMania as like the Roman Reign story. He has
his own damn story, and I think as fans, we want to see
him involved in his own story instead of constantly being involved in what's going on
on SmackDown. I understand why I do it, because it's a bigger match.
It just is. But hey, and at some point I want the
World Heavyweight Championship to really feel important heading into WrestleMania, as Seth continues to
just be sidetracked with Cody and his story. But thanks, Liam, I
think this might be the final email. Let's go. This is from Dennis.
He says, Hey, Matt, how are you just a quick short
email? Now that it is obviously going to be the USO brothers facing off
at WrestleMania, who do you think will face? Gunther might pick a Sammy's
Ain because of all the interviews he's doing saying he's going to be a champion
in twenty twenty four. I think he will go after the Icy title first
and beat Gunther. Thanks Matt. Yeah, Dennis, I think you're absolutely
right. You know now that it's not Jay Usso, which is sad,
which saddens me. I think Jay deserves better at WrestleMania. No disrespect to
Jimmy, but Jimmy has been irrelevant for a long time. Now it's Jay,
and Jay was on fire and the Eat movement all of that. But
if it's not Jay, Yes, Sammy's Ain is a nice substitute. He
from a character perspective, makes sense. He's on a losing streak. He's
a lovable loser, right, now. But you know what he's capable of.
You know, if you rally behind him, he can win the big
matches other than last year's Chamber. So yeah, I think that that is
a safe assumption. And having Sam he's a beat Gunther is, I wouldn't
hate it. I'm ready for Gunther to move on and move up rather so,
thank you, Dennis. Okay, that's how many emails I had.
Guys, that was just today. I mean if you go back on Wednesday,
there was a lot more too. So that's why I you know,
that's why the time is always at a premium here because there's so many.
But let's get some of the voicemails. I get through as many as I
can. So here we go. What's going on everybody? This is your
guy, DJ Cools. Well, back at it again on your Mailbag show,
coming two live once again as always on a Wednesday morning, as we
are heading into elimination Chamber. Let's get to your favorite show to come on
every single week on the Mailbag, and I'm talking about the Vere de Verr
de Vere de Vere the Verr Mahar Report. Now, the Vir Mahar Report
took place this past Monday on Monday night, Raw live from Anaheim, Anaheim.
That's right, and I'm Anaheim, Anaheim, California. And once again,
the ind this year a complete no show. No Vier Mahan, no
Sanga, no modern day Maharaja. But I did see four days ago that
none other than Jenna Maja, the Modern Day Maharaja was in Saudi Arabia alongside
Bronstroben, alongside Natalia and Chelsea Green. They were at the WWE Experience.
I guess this is some sort of new some sort of store, mixed it
with some sort of video stuff that they're having over there. Edwardai Saudi Arabia,
he was there connected with some of the fans that were down there in
Saudi Arabia. But once again, where are the in this year. We're
just a couple of days away from Elimination Chamber, We're still on the road
to WrestleMania, and I am not giving up hope. I am not giving
up hope that hopefully the end this year will make some sort of television appearance,
whether it's a backstage segment. You know, you hear me going on
and on every single week about the end this year. You know, the
whole shtick. But I just wanted to say something that no other than Chelsea
Green. She should have won that Royal Rumble Battle Royal matchup to get it
to get into the elimination chamber. She should have won that. No offense
to rock Hill Rodriguez. I'm a big fan of Chelsea Green. I love
Chelsea Green. Justice for Chelsea Greed. But back with the Indus Year.
Let's see what happens next week. Let's see what happens on the road to
WrestleMania. In the words of the Great One, if you're Smit, what
the Indus Year is? Cookie, this is your guy, DJ Cozmo,
enjoy Elimination Chamber. If you're watching it live. Oh you're watching go to
replay, have a bless sweeping kite to wander to stave see my friends and
peace. Wow, all right, DJ, Yeah, I don't know where
the industry are. I don't know they're m I a man. I mean
you're keeping us, You're keeping the industry alive. You are single handedly keeping
the industry in the minds of fans. The wwwe should should you know,
shake your hand. You're doing the Lord's work here for the Indus, here
keeping them at least in the minds of fans that they're at least not there.
I don't know if they're that, if they're at the experience or whatever.
We're weird store was open on Yeah, I would imagine it's merch and
you can cut your own promo, kind of like a little w W experience.
Yeah. I think it's something like that. Uh, you know,
at least they're there doing that. But that doesn't really make me any comp
doesn't have any I don't have any confidence that it means they're going to show
up on the show. I mean, I don't have any confidence anymore in
w WE booking them at all until they show me otherwise. So I hope
you enjoy a chamber there, buddy, hope you enjoy chamber. I know
you'll be. I'm on the discord server for sure, and I appreciate it.
Okay, let's keep on rolling. This is Joshua from port Here on
Michigan, and I was listening to last Friday's episode of the mail Bag,
and I'm on board one percent with Stone Cold showing up like you were disgusting
when you said you need some kind of inclination of any kind of reason of
why he was there or why he would get involved. The one thing that
came to my mind was he's been pretty vocal and it's twelve documented that he
was angry about The Rock getting his match against pul Toga and that's why he
stepped away at one point. Maybe his whole angle could be you took the
match from me, the dream match from me, to make it your dream
match. You're not going to do it again for this kid defending Cody the
only thing I could think of. But Austin's my favorite of all time,
and I think that I would like that angle. So I figured I called
you guys. Thank you, Hey, Josh, I really I appreciate it.
You know that is That's that's something for sure. I mean, they
they could go that road, right like they could, you know, remind
us that the fact that The Rock faced Hogan and Austin didn't. But there
was never any at the time. It wasn't like we felt or storyline wise
that The Rock stepped ahead of Austin. Austin and Hogan is a bigger match.
It just is. But it never happened because Austin actually didn't want it
to happen, and that's been well documented. He has been very vocal about
the fact that he didn't want it to happen because he was in a bad
headspace. He didn't felt like Hogan would be able to have a good quality
match, and so on. If you listen to his reasoning. He's been
very vocal over the last twenty years about why he didn't want it to happen
at the time. The only thing I can think of beyond that is,
perhaps Roman says something in Passing. Perhaps Roman says something on SmackDown that's saying,
like, you know, I'm gonna be the greatest champion of all time,
that the guys of the past, like Hulk Hogan, like Brett Hard,
like Stone Cold, Steve Austin will bow at my feet right. He
says something in Passing which triggers Austin. Austin does need a reason other than
just I'm Austin. I can do anything. They've implemented that with Brock and
I hate that kind of creative but it just it needs to be something loose,
because to me, this isn't setting up a program. It's just giving
a reason for Austin to come out in a massive main event and clear the
deck, evening the deck for Cody, not helping him defeat Roman, just
taking away the others that are trying to cheat to win, right like Solo
and Jimmy. That's how I would do it. Is something something slight against
some kind of slight that Roman says in passing against Austin that I think is
all you need for having a reason for Awesome to come out. So I
think that's how it happens. But thanks Josh. Let's get to a couple
more. Asks the French guy here, your current European champion. This is
WrestleMania season, So any of you in Monday Night Raw, just like your
French guy, can come up and defy me, try to take the European
championship from me, even though you clearly know that you would never take it
from me. I would be champion forever, just like Roman reigns. Okay,
guys, this week in wrestling Awesome Raw for one moment was for one
week it was pretty good. But since the Rock came back, SmackDown was
better and the segment with here Rock was pure goal. That was exactly what
we wanted to see from the Rock. What we wanted to see at at
the beginning, of course, is Roman race versus the Rock, but this
version of the Rock, it is pure gold. And I think I hear
you, Matt and from the weekend review you asked you and Anthony if The
Rock should change the theme song, but he shoot it because nobody should come
out with the Bloodline because like it is a clear statement at the end of
the speech that at the end of the promo that the Rock is part of
the Bloodline right now. And he's also said the most powerful duo in professional
wrestling. I don't think it was planned. I'm not sure, but I
think he wanted to say the Faction or I don't know. I don't think
it was on purpose. But yeah, the Rock finally being full potential at
how can you boogle Rock for being such an awesome promo, such awesome genuine
speech which you don't which you don't find with Cody Rhoads and so on.
So that's just a small comment. Thanks for bringing thing the Cody cry Babies,
thank you for bringing us this version of Rock and uh yeah, and
also received a small note from the Bloodline. Maybe your European champion will join
the Bloodline in a short notice. We'll see about that. Have a nice
week, guys, Bye all. Right, Alex, please don't join the
Bloodline. Please, I'm begging you. I'm begging you. We don't need
another person. We don't need any we don't need anyone else money in the
water. But I understand if you do right. Okay, Yeah, we
can thank the Cody cry babies for this. They are the reason that the
Rock is as entertaining, even more entertain that he would have been just as
his standard babyface return character. And sure this does mean that it's bumped,
that Roman in Rock is bumped probably for a year, which is you know,
it's fine if they're going to do it right and all the fans are
behind the Rock, which is what you want. You do want that.
And this version of the Rock is going to allow people that hate the Rock
to boo them. It's going to give a chance for people that support the
Rocks to laugh at what he says and just love his heel character of being
trolled. And it also is going to take the fans that hate him and
it's going to turn them into supporters because they are going to realize how talented
the Rock is and he's just entertaining. And I think it's going to turn
I would argue in a weird way. The Rock is more babyface when he's
his heel character than he is when he's not. He feels more like an
entertainer when he's a heel. Even though the heel Rock trolls the fans,
disparages the fans, acts like he's bigger than us, but we all know
that he's just so good at that role. It's going to turn him into
a massive babyface, even more so maybe than when he was just coming back
as his standard on the Rock. Yeah. I think this is going to
have a very positive effect for his character down the line, and it gives
those people that don't like the Rock a chance to boo them and get that
out of our system so we can move on. But thank you, buddy.
Let's get to boy do I say one more? One more? Let's
see what happens. Well, So everybody, I could see you here from
Houston's specters, I just want to get your thoughts on that. On a
scenario I have, so everybody assumes that when Rock and Roman find the faith
off, it's going to be a heal Roman versus a favor face Rock.
Why do we all think that? My question to you or my scenario is
which I think might be better. Roman loses a belt sometime this year in
twenty twenty four, and that has the Rock questioning whether Roman still has it
or not, and Turn starts to try to get the bloodline to turn on
the on Romans, which starts to turn Roman and baby face. Then,
so this will keep the Rock in Hell in Hell character for the remainder of
his run, essentially, because I think it's vital that if you have heal
Roman face off of gets the baby face Rock, You're gonna have interference with
Roman going over and that's not really going to establish him as head of the
table if he needs help to lead the Rock. But as you have the
Rock essentially having the bloodline trying to turn on Roman and then have Roman starts
to turn baby Face, and when they finally face off, you have a
baby face Roman defeats a Hell Rock clean, which is the way it needs
to happen. Clean needs to appen clean for Roman to truly be head of
the table, because I don't think it does any favors for Rock to win
and be name head of the table if he's not sticking around after this run.
So I hope I like that out clearly enough for you to understand my
premise. I wanted to get your thoughts because, like you said, we
are going to get a Babyface bloodline eventually. But like I said, you
could have the Rock try to take over which charge the turn Rowlan. It
takes time off after losing the belt, the Rock stays around as the quote
unquote heads the table, but when the True heads the table returns qull on,
Babyface, I think you have to defeat Rock that way. So just
give me your thoughts, everybody. I enjoy listening to y'all every week.
I know I haven't been on as much, but life has really taken over
for me. But again, I'm still enjoying everybody. And don't forget March
twelfth, after Raw the Wrong Review, you will hear the debut of Missus
Rock and Tea along with myself and Matt on ther Raw Review. All right,
everybody, don't have a good day, have a great day. All
right. Uh, I didn't catch your name at the beginning, so I
apologize, Okay, So I like this. It's interesting. It's certainly aggressive
in the fact that you would actually turn this match, this mega match when
it happens on its head where you'd get it, but it would be flipped
in rolls. It's interesting, it's doable. But here's the question, did
the fans want that? Because the Rock right now is so entertaining as a
heel it's it's I don't know if the fans ever truly will hate the Rock,
meaning true heel heat, you know, like what Dominic Mysterio gets or
what Randy Orton got in his feud with Edge a few years ago. You
know, there are moments of true heel heat. The Rock's so entertaining.
I don't know if they'll boo the Rock so he may you may not.
They may be trying to swim upstream if they try to do this. I
know what you're saying that the Rock, you know, Roman comes back after
the blood Line turns on him because Rock is trying to take his you know,
take over the blood Line turn on Roman. Roman goes away. He
tries to come back, but the Dream match. Don't forget the original dream
match, which is still I think the best version of this match is a
baby faced Rock versus a heel Roman. Now sure the head of the table
would be on the line, whatever the hell that means. By the way,
like, what does that exactly mean? Who's the alpha male of their
family? I mean, what does this mean? Like? What is on
the line exactly other than just a meaningless title. When I say title,
I mean I don't mean a physical belt, you know, like the Rock
in Roman could have more than one match, by the way, which if
that happens, you could have the Rock beat Roman the first time, and
then Roman beat Rock the second time. Let me look what they did with
John Cena and the Rock from WrestleMania twenty six, twenty six to twenty seven
or twenty seven to twenty eight, I never can remember, but the Rock
won the first one and then return the favor of the following WrestleMania dropping the
belt of John Cena. So you could have a scenario like that with the
Rock beating Roman and then Roman beating the Rock. You could absolutely have that
happen. I mean, I wouldn't mind more than one match with these two,
but the first encounter needs to be the one that we all clamored for
before the belt got involved and the we want Cody things happened. Remember the
reaction from fans when The Rock said just a month ago, a month and
a half ago, what if I sit at the head of the table the
crowd lost it. That's the version of the Rock that eventually we want to
see versus Roman. And again, I know the Rock is going to go
back to Hollywood. It should be about Roman getting the victory, but you
do that after the Rock's already gotten his big one against Roman reigns. So
again, I think it could be a multi match program, probably not more
than two matches that probably me the max with the Rock and Roman, but
that is I mean, if you try to do a heel Rock as it
is currently, I think the fans will still cheer him because he's so entertaining.
You could argue the Rock isn't really even heel because the fans, even
when he comes out you hear his music, the fans pop massively, and
the Rock is so entertaining with what he says and how he looks and just
the appreciation fans have for him, that it lends itself to cheers rather than
booze. So you can have this version of the Rock face Roman and try
to turn Roman babyface, but I don't think that's gonna work as successfully as
it will with the traditional mega match that we've wanted for nine years now of
Rock Babyface Roman Heel. I mean, I don't know if we need to
try to flip the script here. Just because Cody Rhodes was bumped from the
main event only to have the fans bring him back. That was a specific
Cody Roads and Championshi undisputed Championship situation. The fans didn't turn on the Rock
because he's the Rock and there was something wrong with the Rock. They turned
on him because of the perception that Cody was stepping aside for the Rock when
Cody had a much more intriguing story going on. So now when you remove
the title and Cody had Romans over, I think fans will be back to
supporting the Rock because that was the whole reason they turned on him. They
didn't turn on him just because, right so, but your way is not
impossible. It's possible, but it's risky. It's risky, you know,
And I just I want to be able to cheer the Rock, and I
think most fans feel this way. We all want to be able to say,
you know, the Roman reigns at the heel, Rock is baby Face.
You want to be able to cheer the Rock in the match because that's
what we've wanted from day one, but in two matches, you could you
could mess with the second match and try the way that you're proposing, but
we'll see. I take a breath because I think that's it now, everybody.
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