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This is WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre and
you're listening to the WWE Podcast, the

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show the one that everybody wants me
God tell stand for sixteen. So God,

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your ass is my ear, you
can acknowledge me. And welcome to

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the WWE Podcast. Everyone. It
is Friday, February twenty third, twenty

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twenty four, and we're gonna be
doing a couple of things today with finishing

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up the mailbag and the preview and
prediction show for Elimination Chamber, which comes

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to us tomorrow morning, very early
tomorrow morning for most of us. So

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if you're up and you're watching,
God Bless you, I won't be it's

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five am. I mean sometimes my
kids wake me up a little bit earlier

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and I might be able to,
but the problem is in the morning.

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I mean, kids are crazy.
You can't just, you know, turn

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on the TV and tell them to
shut up at a young age. It's

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not going to work. So I
just I'm telling you that not just to

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give you insights into my personal life
that you don't care about, but also

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I want to let you know I
don't know if I'll be tweeting as it's

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quote unquote live because most of us
may or may not be. I know

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that those of us are those of
you who are listeners over in the UK,

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are celebrating. I think I can
hear you across the pond cheering that

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you finally have a pay per view
or a ple that's at a reasonable hour.

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But the rest of us, cry
babies pun intended, are going to

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be, you know, very upset
that we don't get to watch it live,

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or that we have to stay up
super late or get up super early

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to watch it. Either way,
I won't be probably watching it live.

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I'll try to watch it as best
I can throughout the day and tomorrow night.

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I'm also going to be partaking in
some after hours activity if you know

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what I mean. Well, actually
I probably should tell you otherwise it's very

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suggestive. I'm having a few drinks
tomorrow night, so I don't know.

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If I don't know if I'll be
able to get a review up super quick,

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it's going to be weird. I'll
probably more likely get it up Sunday,

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but we'll see. You know,
I have a hotel room. We'll

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see. Maybe I'll be able to
get something up while I'm inebriated and then

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immediately get kicked off the platform for
you know, an R rated show.

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All right. That said, let's
get to the preview and prediction show,

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and then on the second half we're
going to do the mail bag the second

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half of it, and I'm going
to promise you as best I can.

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Then I'm going to get through as
many as I can. More have come

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in since Wednesday, So this may
be just as a warning guys, or

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rather more of a disclaimer as the
volume grows here on the show for the

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mail bag, I have every single
show to the best of my ability,

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not without I'm not perfect. I've
missed emails and voicemails before, but up

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till this point, I have been
able to get to everyone's or make an

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effort to get to everyone's email and
voicemail. I don't know if moving forward,

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I'm going to be able to keep
that promise because the volume is getting

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so big or so so high,
right so I'm going to make my best

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effort to But if you know,
push comes to shove and I just don't

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have time to do it, I
apologize. I mean, I appreciate everybody

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sending in their emails, but kind
of one of the drawbacks of a show

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growing is that you know, we
can't get to every single person, but

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I'll try up until I mean,
I'm getting close to the breaking point of

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being able to manage this in terms
of just getting everybody on the show.

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But all right, so let's get
to it. Let's talk about elimination chamber

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that comes to us tomorrow night from
or tomorrow morning for most of us from

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Perth, Australia, And the main
event of the show, by the way,

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I believe is Riea Ripley and Naia
Jacks. I believe that's actually the

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main event and it should be think
about this though not just exciting. I

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mean we're all excited for Rear Ripley. The crowd reaction is going to be

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thunderous, as Michael Cole would say, it's going to be and it's going

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to be so much fun to hear
how what the chants are and the mommy

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chance, and I mean it's going
to be boo yay, boo yay.

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It's going to be electric for Rhea
Ripley. But how about Naya Jacks coming

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from complete obscurity and no one wanting
her back to making it to the main

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event of A ple e. So
I gotta give her credit. I still

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don't really like her, but I
can recognize her improvements and give her credit.

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From making it to the main event
of a ple she has made strides

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and good for her. So I'm
excited for Naya Jax too. I know

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she's kind of the really just the
side story, or not even a side

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story. She's just the body filling
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But we got to remember Nya Jackx
too here and the fact that there'll be

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a moments in this match that I
think will make us believe that, my

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God, couldn't I actually do it? And that's what you look for in

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these kinds of matches that are so
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So we'll get to that in just
a ma but I wanted to point

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that out up front. Now let's
talk. There's not many matches on the

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card that's been the triple h.
I don't know, fingerprint if you will,

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over the last several months, is
him having really a trend over the

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really over a year or two is
fewer matches, longer matches, And I

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think I actually enjoy that instead of
just having it rapid fire you give the

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storylines that are deserving of a pl
platform time to breathe and have the wrestlers

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allow them more than enough time to
tell their story. And I appreciate that,

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and I'm sure the wrestlers who get
the matches actually do too. So

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let's go through it. The Women's
Elimination Chamber match, which if this doesn't

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open the show, I will be
floored. This has to open the show

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as it usually does, and that
is Becky Lynch, Bianca bell Air,

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Live Morgan, Naomi, Tippany Stratton, and Raquel Rodriguez. So what happens,

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Well, there there is an overwhelming
sense of Becky Lynch winning. Overwhelming

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because they have WWA is essentially built
to Riha Ripley versus Becky Lynch before it

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was even possible that she would win
the chamber to get into the main event

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to face ree Ripley. So they've
been building this before a match even existed

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for Becky to challenge Rhea and then
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at the press conference in Vegas a
few weeks ago, and that is more

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than a foreshadowing, that's just kind
of like, hey, we're doing this

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it's a formality for Becky Lynch to
go through the chamber. And do I

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think Becky Lynch is going to win, Yes, I still do. But

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they could throw a curveball, and
here's the curveball. Beyonce bell Air.

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Bianc bell Air could be the curveball
that we've been looking for if you're looking

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for one, and that is Beyonca
bel Air versus Ria Ripley that I think

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would actually pose more of a crowd
challenge, meaning a posing chance than Becky

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and and Rhea. And I know
Becky, the supporters out there that are

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listening, I understand you. You
love Becky. I understand that you have

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a connection with her, and she's
deserving and it's been two years. But

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we've also, at the same time
seen a long, many many tonnele reigns

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from Becky Lynch that have been lengthy, and we have not seen that from

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Ria Ripley yet. I mean,
she's she's been champion for my god ten

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months now, so great, but
it hasn't felt like they focused on her

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championship up until the last six months. So Ria Ripley is also catching fire.

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She's already on fire, and that
momentum is just starting to build.

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So at the same time, though, Bianca bell Air is I think on

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a bit of a I don't know
if redemption, to pull a word from

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Live Morgan is the right word.
More of a re energization of her career

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because she's been kind of in the
background a little bit. She hasn't been

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the forefront of everything. And Beyonca
bell Air and actually I believe Bianca bell

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Air and Ria Ripley could have a
better match than Becky and Rhea. They're

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better suited from a physical standpoint.
Becky Lynch is not as strong as Ria,

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which poses its challenges. Right when
you have two muscular women in there,

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there's more they can do, but
Becky Lynch poses maybe a little more

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speed either way. We also haven't
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on the main card anyway, or
on the main roster anyway. I think

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we've seen it in NXT. We
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years ago at the Rumble when they
were the two last women in the Rumble.

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I think it was twenty twenty one. Was it twenty one? Somebody

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will correct me out there, But
Bianca bell Air and Ria Ripley with a

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final two and they put on a
clinic to end that match that of course

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ended with Ria Ripley winning. But
we never got an official program with Riha

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and Bianca yet. And last year
the raw after WrestleMania the very underwhelming.

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One. One thing I do remember, and it may be the only thing

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I remember from that show, which
is sad. But is Bianca bell Air

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and Riea Ripley both holding their respective
women's championships having an interaction and foreshadowing perhaps

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this year's WrestleMania. Now were they
thinking that all the way back then?

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Maybe? But a lot of change
since then. Vince has gone creative has

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been you know, shuffled up.
Triple H is now truly ahead of creative.

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There's been a lot of changes at
the board, and I mean right,

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so who knows, but we still
haven't got it and it could be

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the time to pull the trigger.
So that's your case for Bianca bell Air

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to win this. Everyone else,
there's no chance. None, Sorry,

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live not happening. Naomi, she's
kind of your third potential pick. I

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think she's returning. It's fun to
see her back, but she doesn't have

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a significant chance. Raquel Rodriguez.
I'd put at number four as possible,

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Live Morgan's five, and then Tiffany
Stratton six. But Raquel has no real

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momentum coming back. We all feel
bad for her, with her you know

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her what is it some I can't
remember the disease that she's been diagnosed with.

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I feel bad for her, and
I saw a video of her crying

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and it is emotional, and you
know all the things she's had to deal

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with with her skin and I feel
for But as a character on TV,

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if you take that out of it, she's not an interesting character. She

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belongs to to be a heel.
She's a strong woman, yes, but

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there's no character development behind her and
it's not happening. And as far as

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Tiffy Stratton goes, she is the
least likely. Although I think she'll have

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a good showing. She's not going
to get squashed. Tiffany Stratton, I

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think is going to be not eliminated
first. I think liv Morgan might be

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eliminated first and then Tiffany Stratton maybe
second. But Tiffoty Stratton is just starting

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to get her foot in the door
on the main roster and she feels like

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she belongs don't get me wrong.
She feels like a significant character. Her

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moon salt is beautiful, Her character
feels authentic, although it is a bit

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rare. It is a bit Chelsea
Greenish, you know. So Tiffany,

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though, is just getting going.
It would be ridiculous to put her in

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the main event of WrestleMania anyway.
I don't mind her earning a shot at

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a B level pay per view at
this point, but not at a WrestleMania

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forty for God's sakes. I wouldn't
lose my mind. I would just be

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like, Wow, that's a ballsy
move, you know. Honestly, none,

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none of these would make me angry. But I would be really raising

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an eyebrow or two at some of
these picks. But if you're looking for

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the top two for me, it's
Lynch, and then a close second is

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Bianca Bellair, who poses a real
threat here, and one to keep an

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eye on, one to keep an
eye on. So Becky Lynch probably does

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win. Sure, it's predictable and
up and down the card. It looks

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predictable, which scares me. Anytime
you have a card that looks super predictable,

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there's usually one out there that floats
that's floating out there that gives you

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a shock. I don't know if
this will be that one. I think

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they may just continue with the build
that they've been going with of Becky versus

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Rhea and by the way, I
expect the physical match, fun match and

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could could rival the Men's in terms
of quality. But the Men's is just

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stacked and we'll get to that in
a minute. Okay. Next up is

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the Undisputed Tag Team Championship, the
Judgment Day versus Pete Dunn and Tyler Bait.

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You know this one. I still
think the Judgment Day is going to

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win. It's kind of weird that
Pete Doun and Tyler Bait are getting the

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spotlight here given that DIY have been
I know that they didn't win, but

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they've been getting a pretty good push
and the crowds have been behind him.

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Also, where the hell are the
Creed brothers that put on a wrestling clinic

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week after week in the tag team
division? Where they you know, I

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understand that Pete Done and Tyler Bate
earned it, I get it, and

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they're trying to give them a platform
to get at least just recognition with the

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fans. I mean, we all
know Pete done right, butch but still

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as he's being repackaged with Tyler Bate
it is. It is still a new

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tag team to the main roster anyway, and to the mainstream fan. So

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fine, they'll have a really good
match. I don't have a problem with

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that. They'll probably cheat to win
the Judgment DaLie cheat to win. Probably

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Dom will get involved, and Damian
Priest and Finbala retained because I believe our

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truth and MS who I think may
have something to say in this match,

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will also show their faces. And
I don't think they'll cost Judgment day,

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but come close to it or attack
them after the match and for a big

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pop from the crowd. All right, the men's and by the way,

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I'm giving you, guys the order
of the matches that I think are actually

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going to happen, so as I
give you the predictions. So the men's

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now, typically the men's elimination Chamber
match would be the main event of the

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show, but given Rhea Ripley and
I don't think it's going to happen.

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I think it even was officially made
official with Triple H on X earlier that

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it was going to be Rhea Ripley
who was main eventing with Nia Jacks.

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So that's cool. But the men's
I think we'll go on third and Drew

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McIntyre, Randy Orton, Bobby Lashley, l A Knight, Kevin Owens,

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and Logan Paul with a world championship
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WrestleMania forty. Okay, so wow, stacked, stacked, stacked, stacked.

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I mean especially not even just star
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this match, but also ability youth
in some respects in this match when it

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comes to at least Blogan Paul.
Everyone else is not exactly a spring chicken.

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So maybe youth isn't the right word, but athletic ability. Let's do

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that. Okay. Now, Drew
McIntyre is the I think, a heavy

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favorite. I don't think it's as
overwhelming as the Becky Lynch favorite in the

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women's match, but Drew McIntyre is
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I think when you look beyond Drew
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inexplicably been kind of forgotten. I
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about Randy Orton ever since he made
his return at Survivor series and then his

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return was stomped on by Cmpunk,
which it was. I know it wasn't

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the return directly after Orton return,
meaning it like Orton returned and then five

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seconds later Punk return, but it
was close enough to Randy Orton's return,

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and it was at the same event
that people forgot about Orton and started talking

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about Punk and ever since then,
Randy Orton was supposed to go into a

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program with Roman. I was excited
for a one on one. There's a

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big story there dating back eighteen months. They didn't go that way. They

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went with a multi person fatal four
way, which I still don't believe was

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the right call. I know they
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wouldn't have cared, and I don't
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if he lost. So we never
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which again is annoying. But Whorton
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dark horse in this match, where
yeah, I mean people look at him

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as a big star, but I
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he'll hang around to the last few, maybe even it'll come down to

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Drew and Orton, and then it'll
be uh, you know, McIntyre getting

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the claymore at Orton in some kind
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which is probably the outcome. But
Orton is a very believable guy to face

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Seth Rollins. There's a history with
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Think back to what was it,
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that was was that what it was? I think it was WrestleMania thirty one

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when Rollins cashed in that night,
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night with the crazy RKO that went
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it was called to an RKO,
and I remember being super Sonny outside him

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like this is weird. I don't
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that. But that's what I remember. And so they faced each other at

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WrestleMania before. It's been nine years, but they've done it, and there's

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a story there. The problem is
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That's a problem. Bobby Lashley has
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chance as Logan Paul does. With
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Ain't gonna happen. There's no chance
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like fourth place maybe yeah, I'd
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think he's destined for a Logan Paul
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threat at WrestleMania for the US title
probably, but La Knight is probably a

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third choice. La Knight is probably
going to make some noise in this,

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get at get an elimination, maybe
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ultimately he will lose. I think
La Knight probably doesn't have a significant chance

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either, which again leaves you with
Drew and Orton. That's it. The

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rest of these guys don't make a
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closest you could make of an argument. I mean, if they put Ella

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Knight in seth Rollins together, they'd
be I wouldn't hate it. But also,

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all these guys except one is a
SmackDown guy. So unless somebody's gonna

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come over to Raw, which they're
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anyway, Drew also makes sense from
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think is a very heavy favorite to
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because he has had so much character
growth in a short amount of time,

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giving us a heel version of himself
we've never seen, giving us a

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different kind of heel too, where
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is the hero in their own story, that they feel they can't do anything

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wrong. It's not that he knows
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always justified in it. It's a
great just tweak on us, a typical

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a typical heels psychology, and I'm
loving it. So Drew McIntyre should win

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this match. I don't care how
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it's a low blow. I don't
care if it's happenstance. I don't care

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if someone interferes. Drew should win
this and face Seth Rollins for the world

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title because that is the right story
to tell right now, and that is

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a you know, I think the
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seth Rollins interfere in this match?
No, he already has his segment with

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the Grayson Waller effect. We'll get
to that in a minute. So I

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think you have a very physical crazy
I mean, think about the things Logan

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Paul is going to do in this
match, Logan Paul, I mean they

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should have the EMTs ready, like
on standby at the entrance, ready to

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rush down, because this is gonna
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with how physical that steal cage is, there needs to be somebody ready.

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And Logan Paul not that he's unsafe, but the dude kills himself in a

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normal match. What the hell is
he gonna do in you know, a

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match with a chamber, for God's
sakes. So I mean this is gonna

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hurt a lot for Logan Paul,
but he's gonna make a name for himself.

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As he continues to I still expect
a lot a pretty good match here,

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I mean really good. Logan Paul
is the X factor here when it

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comes to crazy crap that he could
do and probably will do. But Drew

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McIntire's gonna win. I think it's
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come down to Drew mcatyre and maybe
La Knight. I think Orton will get

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eliminated second to last or third to
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maybe by Orton or maybe by Drew
rather But I think l a Knight

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and Drew would be a fun ending
instead of Orton and Drew. But they

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may go with just a bigger star
in Orton and Drew, which hey,

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I have no problem with this,
So this is gonna be so much fun.

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Now let's get to the Grayson Waller
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So Seth and Cody on the Grayson
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is gonna get his ass kick.
Maybe Austin Theory will show up there.

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Austin Theory may come to the aid
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these two, you know, may
battle. As Seth is, I know

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he's getting close to being cleared,
so he might be able to do some

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physicality in the ring brawl with Grayson
Waller and Austin Theory who may be there,

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but also after they beat them down, I could see Roman Rains coming

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in and spearing both guys standing there, Tall, I don't think you're going

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to see the Rock. I think
Triple H even confirmed that the Rock well

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he has he said many other TV
dates, this isn't one of them in

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Perth, so I don't expect to
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it'll be a shock and I wouldn't
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Roman reigns after Grayson Waller and Austin
Theory get their ass kicked by Seth and

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Cody are gonna come in. He's
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both of them to deafening booze from
Perth, and I think that's the way

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it should go. Get some more
heat on Roman and build to an eventual

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tag team match with Seth and Cody
versus Rock and Roman. Wherever or however

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that match takes place. I have
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with, well, it's WrestleMania forty. Roman's gonna do double duty, you

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know, main event both nights.
There's good and bad to that. We'll

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see how that pans out, but
this is clearly a build to that.

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So Seth and Roman, by the
way, haven't had any physicality in about

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two years, two plus years,
So that's how I think it's gonna go

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down. Now, let's get to
the Women's World Championship, the main event,

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Riya Ripley versus Naya Jacks, and
crowd reaction. Crowd reaction. Crowd

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reaction is what to listen for here, as a re Ripley with forty thousand

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people behind her, is going to
be the hero of the you know,

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of the decade over there in Perth
and should be the crowd is going to

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give I'm sure Ria will never forget
this moment. Let me just say that

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because Ria has not been I don't
think she's wrestled in Australia before as a

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WWE wrestler. I don't think she
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that. Either way, this to
me, if I'm Maria Ripley looking at

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this from a human perspective, I'm
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this is a special moment. I
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Perth. She actually grew up like
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her hometown was not near Perth,
but it's still the home country. So

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for her being in her home country
and being the women's World champion, and

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she's already got momentum behind her anyway
in the United States. Think about the

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reaction for Ria in Perth. It's
going to be crazy and I'm excited for

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her. It's a moment in her
life she will never forget. But storyline

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wise, there is a zero let
me just reemphasize zero percent chance of Nia

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Jack's winning. I you know,
I if if Niajacks wins, look Out,

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it would make the reaction for the
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Just I mean, I would actually
be scared for the safety of the

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wrestlers, right like you know.
But there's no chance they're gonna do that.

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Does the cynical part of me want
to see what forty thousand people who

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came to watch Rio and Real win
the match do if Ria loses. Yes,

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there's a dark side of me that
I would love to see that reality

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and have Ria just I mean just
come in and squash her. Imagine Ria

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just comes in, she gets like
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Does you know her bowling ball in
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but like her squash in the corner. Does a couple of those hits?

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He hits her annihilator a couple of
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new women's World champion. I mean, it's not gonna happen. That would

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just be that'd be a bad piece
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Other than just shock value, it's
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twelve minute match, maybe fifteen minutes, slow paced, high power maneuvers.

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This is not going to be Becky
Lynch Sasha Banks classic, right, I

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mean these women Ria Ripley's powerhouse.
Nia Jacks is a heavier woman that I

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mean, you know her limitations,
but that's fine. I don't need a

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million miles an hour in my match, and I think this is going to

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be a very well told story from
start to finish, with the crowd getting

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heavily involved. Ultimately, Riptid if
she can get Naya up one, two

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three, we have a not a
new champion, but Rea Ripley retains the

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Women's World Championship and moves on to
Becky Lynch at WrestleMania. That's my take.

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There's just no other way to do
it. Now, could you have

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could you have a surprise appearance from
say, Jade Cargill, I mean,

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I guess, I guess people have
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Jade Cargill right now, outside of
the Rumble, has had zero wrestling in

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front of w fans, So I
mean, I don't expect that that would

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be a left field, kind of
unnecessary swerve, but I mean, I

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guess, but I don't think that's
going to happen. I think you're going

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to end the show feeling good with
Rhea Ripley standing in front of her home

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crowd, crowd losing their minds for
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it, and it feel good ending. So all right, let's now get

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to the rest of those emails and
I'll get through as many as I can,

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but I can't promise I get through
them all. I mean, it's

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just the reality now, guys.
All right, let's start with Seph,

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who is a patron and Seph says
new patron here. I'll try to keep

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it short, as I know the
mail bag is getting fuller by the day.

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I wanted to write in to follow
up what you say around Rea Ripley's

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comments that she's open fighting men if
their opportunity arose. First, I share

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your opinion that a fully mixed arrangement
in which any man can face any woman

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doesn't make sense, and I also
agree it would change the nature of the

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as social norms would limit the men
from appearing to unleash the fury on the

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female opponent in the same way they
would a man. All that being said,

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I wanted to get your opinion of
the idea of a weight class approach

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if it had to happen, for
example, Live and Bobby Lashley would be

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completely ridiculous, but Rhea could have
could believably beat the snot out of dom

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In my opinion, inevitably, this
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due to the size difference, but
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matches. Thanks for the great show, Seph. Okay, Seph, so

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I still fundamentally disagree. I don't
care if it's done by weight, if

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it's done by number of hairs on
their head, of men and women competing,

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even in a fantasy sports simulated sports
environment, I think it's a horrible

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idea. I understand what you're saying, where it's like, well, it's

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only based on weight, but that
only accounts for weight, That doesn't account

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for speed or strength. A woman
who's one hundred and fifty pounds is still

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not as strong as an average male
who's one hundred and fifty pounds just on

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average, right, So like somebody
who's one hundred and fifty pounds as a

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man, and they are able to
bench, say two hundred and fifty pounds

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as possible, and a woman who's
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know if there's anyone in the world
who's one hundred and fifty pounds woman that

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can bench. Maybe there is a
two hundred and fifty pounds, so pound

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for pound so to speak, it's
still not even. You know, one

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hundred and fifty pound wman and one
hundred and fifty pounds man are not the

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same. There's also just basic biological
differences. I know, we're getting into

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the weeds big time, but if
you break it down, the reason that

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00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:41.400
men's and women's sports are not just
divided by weight, but also just by

400
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are you a man or a woman, which is how it should be,

401
00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:51.920
is men have higher lung capacity,
which allows them to distribute oxygen into their

402
00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:56.079
blood a lot faster and at a
higher capacity, which means more explosion in

403
00:28:56.119 --> 00:29:00.519
their movements. You know, men
have just not just testosterone which people like

404
00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:03.000
to just bring up, Oh,
it's more testosterone. There's a you know,

405
00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:07.799
men and women at a cellular level
are different. You know, so

406
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if you just do it by weight, well, that still doesn't even the

407
00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:17.319
playing field. You know, I
fundamentally reject the idea of men and women

408
00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:21.920
competing. I understand what you're saying
that dom and Rhea, and that's maybe

409
00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:26.960
it's possible, maybe it's not.
I mean, just because dom Is doesn't

410
00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:33.880
look like you know, doesn't look
like I don't know Austin theory doesn't mean

411
00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:36.920
in a real fight, he couldn't
you know, beat her up? He

412
00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:41.359
might, he probably could. I
mean, men just have a fundamentally biological

413
00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:45.839
advantage. They just do, you
know, Like that's why they don't mix

414
00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:51.319
men and women in MMA. Mma
is also weight class, but they'd still

415
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separated by men and women. And
there have been without getting you know,

416
00:29:56.359 --> 00:30:00.039
too into things, if you know
what I mean, men have competed with

417
00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:04.880
women in MMA, and it is
it turns out horrendous. It turns out

418
00:30:06.319 --> 00:30:10.319
awful for the women, and even
though it's done by well, it's wait

419
00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:15.039
men. I mean, it's kind
of crazy that we're even having this discussion,

420
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:18.480
you know what I mean. I
don't mean, Seph, that you're

421
00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:22.000
crazy for bringing it up. But
in today's culture, with all the things

422
00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:26.799
that everyone knows what I'm talking about
that's going on, everyone all of a

423
00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:30.519
sudden is just denying biology for all
of a sudden, since the you know,

424
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the dawn of humanity, everyone's understood
that men are you know, men

425
00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:40.319
and women are different, and that
there's certain biological advantages men have. Doesn't

426
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mean men are better, just means
physically they've been built differently, And all

427
00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:49.079
of a sudden, we're just supposed
to ignore this because well, you know,

428
00:30:49.400 --> 00:30:55.400
right, I mean, I don't
mean to toe the line of politics

429
00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:59.079
and the hot topics today, but
it's starting to bleed into wrestling. And

430
00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:03.759
I have been waiting for this day, not waiting for it and anticipatorily,

431
00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:06.400
meaning like I'm not like, oh, I can't wait. You know who

432
00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:08.000
who I can't wait to? So
this happens, and no, I'm I'm

433
00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:11.839
dreading it, but I know I
can see it coming and it's starting to

434
00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:18.920
the door is starting to open slowly. And if it happens where women are

435
00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:23.319
competing with men or somebody who is
a man that says they're a woman,

436
00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:26.720
right, let's just say what it
is. If somebody transgender comes into wrestling

437
00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:32.039
and WW allows it, the whole
product goes to I mean, it's just

438
00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:36.920
it means nothing, right like it
means it means nothing. We're all supposed

439
00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:40.400
to just accept everything as it is
at face value. I don't want to

440
00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:44.359
get into that, but I can
see it coming and rear Ripley's comments are

441
00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:48.240
indicative of where the culture's at some
people anyway, And I just I think

442
00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:53.599
it's a horrible idea. The system
works just fine as it is. The

443
00:31:53.640 --> 00:31:59.200
system works. Why are we trying
to There's nobody out there who's an advocate.

444
00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:01.400
I don't think of Oh man,
wrestling sucks. It'd be so much

445
00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:06.759
better if men and women could compete. Why do you want to do that

446
00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:08.759
with the NFL? Are we gonna
apply this to the NFL? We're gonna

447
00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:13.200
apply this to the Major League Baseball? You know what I mean? Like,

448
00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:15.720
Okay, let's let's bring in some
uh, let's bring in some of

449
00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:19.480
the MLB players into a woman's softball
game. Let's see how that goes.

450
00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:25.759
It's it's just a just common sense
suddenly has just gone out the window for

451
00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:32.039
other things. But there uh.
I will just say this. Eventually things

452
00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:36.720
will probably bleed into WWE and I'm
gonna have to address them, and it's

453
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:42.000
gonna be a hotly charged topic and
it shouldn't be it shouldn't be. So

454
00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:47.599
there's a long form answer. Step. All right, let's let's go to

455
00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:53.880
where do we go, Simon,
Simon, let's go. I believe Drew

456
00:32:53.960 --> 00:32:58.759
mctyre wins the Chamber, Nijacks will
destroy rear Ripley, and I believe Becky

457
00:32:58.839 --> 00:33:04.119
Lynch will win her chain. And
you think Nya Jacks WrestleMania, Naya destroys

458
00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:08.200
Becky Lynch. And then Jay Uso, my guy with the Intercontinental Championship,

459
00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:13.079
Well that's not happening as we know
now. Roman tells Jay before his match,

460
00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:16.480
you are out of the blood line. Well I mean you mean Jimmy,

461
00:33:16.519 --> 00:33:22.880
I think, And okay, so
to set up Survivors series bloodline versus

462
00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:27.720
Bloodline. So wait a minute,
I'm a bit confused. So you're saying

463
00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:32.319
the rock Jay Uso and Jimmy Uso. I actually don't know what you're saying,

464
00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:37.599
Simon. I'm gonna have to skip
over this section because I don't know

465
00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:42.319
what you mean, don't I don't. But let's keep going. I don't

466
00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:45.240
believe Roman is just going for Hogan's
run. I believe he will beat Bruno

467
00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:49.640
because it feels like he will never
end this run. And I'm not a

468
00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:55.799
Roman fan. It's a possibility that
Roman holds the title indefinitely. Fourteen seventy

469
00:33:55.839 --> 00:34:00.720
four, the number of days that
is four years and two weeks that Hulk

470
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:07.480
Hogan's run was and Bruno San Martino
was twenty eight hundred and three almost eight

471
00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:14.079
years. Let's see. So yeah, I mean, I still believe that

472
00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:17.159
if Roman goes past forty with the
title, he's going to September with the

473
00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:23.360
title, and I will maintain that
firmly. If Roman beats Cody at Mania

474
00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:28.320
in some weird way or outright,
which the fans would, I mean,

475
00:34:28.360 --> 00:34:34.079
imagine the fan reaction. But if
Roman wins and retains, he's going to

476
00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:36.719
beat Hulk Hogan's record. This is
the final hurdle. I don't want to

477
00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:40.000
hear about SummerSlam. I don't want
to hear about wrestle Ania backlash right.

478
00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:43.360
I don't want to hear about payback. I don't want to hear about money

479
00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:45.119
in the bank. I don't want
to hear about, you know, any

480
00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:51.159
Saudi events. If Roman wins at
forty, he's going to beat Hulk Hogan's

481
00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:55.840
record. Case closed. So Roman
reigns. This is his really final hurdle.

482
00:34:58.199 --> 00:35:04.079
Before Hulk Hogan's record. So okay, yeah, I mean I'm with

483
00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:07.280
you though, I'm with you.
Okay, Simon, thank you. Let's

484
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:12.519
talk to Sam. Quick thought.
Next time The Rock does the People's elbow,

485
00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:15.119
he shouldn't throw his armband into the
crowd, but walk over to the

486
00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:19.199
apron and hand it to Roman Reigns. Yeah, I like that, Like,

487
00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:22.559
don't give the crowd anything. Heal, Rock is so much fun.

488
00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:25.800
God, it's so much fun.
He should don't give the crowd a thing,

489
00:35:27.800 --> 00:35:30.960
take his elbow pad and just like
throw it on the mat, like

490
00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:35.159
pretend he's gonna throw it in the
crowd and just troll the fans. Oh,

491
00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:38.920
I'd love that, Yes, love
that. Thank you Sam. All

492
00:35:39.039 --> 00:35:44.480
right, so let's see Simon.
You I know you have another email here

493
00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:49.440
that you have a couple scenarios for
forty rus for the Rock at WrestleMania forty

494
00:35:49.559 --> 00:35:52.960
You're saying the Rock could have no
match but interferes and so Cody wins on

495
00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:59.320
DQ rules and Roman keeps the belt. That's possible. Another scenario is that

496
00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:02.400
a triplet so Cody has more of
a chance as on a triple threat and

497
00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:06.559
there's no d Q, so more
people can get involved in a much much

498
00:36:06.599 --> 00:36:10.639
like Austin or Ken Shamrock Ken Shamrock. I guess so, I mean,

499
00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:15.920
I guess costing Cody the match.
The third scenario, the Rock faces Logan

500
00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:20.239
Paul for the US title. I
believe that's more likely to be Kevin Owens.

501
00:36:20.280 --> 00:36:22.400
I'm with you on that. I
don't think the Rock is going to

502
00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:24.360
go I mean, honestly, let's
be real. This sounds disrespectful, but

503
00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:28.719
it's true. The Rock is not
going to demote himself to the US title.

504
00:36:29.320 --> 00:36:32.639
It is a good motion. It
is scenario four, and this is

505
00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:35.760
the one that's going to piss off
some people the most. But the Rock

506
00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:40.440
versus Seth for the title and the
Rock wins. Ooh, I mean,

507
00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:45.239
I it could, but he's not
in the chamber. How does that work?

508
00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:50.480
Does he just appoint himself as the
challenger because he's on the board of

509
00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:53.760
the TK of TKO. Perhaps,
so you think Drew is gonna win the

510
00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:58.320
chamber and I'll challenge Seth? Yeah, I think so too. All right,

511
00:36:59.079 --> 00:37:04.800
let's continue with with Andrew and he
says, hey, ww podcast family,

512
00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:07.559
Andrew from New Zealand. As we
all know, there's a lot happening

513
00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:09.320
in the WWE to get our heads
around. As I was listening to the

514
00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:12.679
Weekend Review, I had a thought
as to how The Rock could turn on

515
00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:15.519
reins at WrestleMania. Not sure what
you think. The bloodline comes out with

516
00:37:15.639 --> 00:37:20.119
Roman at the start of the match, including the Rock. After Cody starts

517
00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:23.079
to overpower Roman and goes for a
pin, Solo distracts the ref, match

518
00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:28.000
carries on, and then Roman sets
up for the spear cue the Shield intro

519
00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:32.119
enters Seth and Dean Ambrose. Roman
tells Solo and Jimmy to go after them.

520
00:37:32.400 --> 00:37:38.440
Cody gets Roman from behind, does
his stupid finisher three times. Yeah,

521
00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:43.760
he always has to do it three
times. It's ridiculous anyway, and

522
00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:47.079
pins one, two, three,
While Hayman looking on in disbelief that the

523
00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:51.840
Rock just standing there doing nothing to
help. Solo and Jimmy come back to

524
00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:54.880
the ring and pull Roman out.
Rock enters and congratulates Cody and tells Roman

525
00:37:54.920 --> 00:38:00.320
Cody was right that his grandfather would
be disgusted and how unfairly he can keeps

526
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:02.199
winning by cheating. Let me know
what you think. The Rock could still

527
00:38:02.239 --> 00:38:06.400
fight Night one, but no idea
against two. Yeah to me. I

528
00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:09.960
mean the Rock could face Randy Orton, The Rock could face John Cena on

529
00:38:10.119 --> 00:38:15.519
Night one if Sina wants to go
that road again, it's possible. But

530
00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:20.679
they could also do the tag team
match a Night one. But as far

531
00:38:20.679 --> 00:38:23.880
as you're I like the Shield getting
involved. I don't know if Dean Ambrose

532
00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:27.519
has any interesting coming back to the
company. I think he still has some

533
00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:30.320
time left on his contract with AW, so I don't know if that's possible.

534
00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:34.719
Dean doesn't seem to have any interest
in coming back, but in time.

535
00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:38.039
Here's the thing. I think John
Moxley, Dean Ambrose as ww fans

536
00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:43.360
know him, will eventually come back
to WWE. Everyone seems to come back

537
00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:46.239
at some point in their lives.
Right, you never thought seampunk could come

538
00:38:46.280 --> 00:38:50.280
back? Here we are, right, Hal Cogan, he's back. Well,

539
00:38:51.119 --> 00:38:53.920
he's back in a certain sense.
The Ultimate Warrior after decades of trashing

540
00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:58.360
the company eventually came back for a
Hall of Fame and a mon of net

541
00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:01.760
raw speech at Hart came back when
you never ever, ever ever thought he

542
00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:06.599
would come back. Given the scenario
with the Montreal screwjob, right, they

543
00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:10.480
all come back. So I do
believe that eventually we will see a Dean

544
00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:16.119
Ambrose return to WWE. But up
here's what I'm afraid of, Andrew.

545
00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:21.039
I like your booking. No one's
brought that up yet. I don't want

546
00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:24.719
this match to be overthought or overbooked. This doesn't this This is okay.

547
00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:28.320
I like it given. I mean, imagine the pop for the shield,

548
00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:34.800
but I just don't want it to
be eighty people involved in this finish.

549
00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:39.400
You know, I think it would
muddy Cody's victory. To me, I

550
00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:47.280
would ban everyone from ringside. Anyone
that interferes is fired or fined anyone.

551
00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:52.440
But I don't think they're going to
do that to allow for people to interfere

552
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:57.880
and potentially cost Cody. But you
know, we'll see, we'll see.

553
00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:00.000
I like it though, Andrew,
that was some good thinking. That was

554
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.119
some good thinking. But I don't
see right now Dean Ambrose coming back.

555
00:40:04.679 --> 00:40:07.519
I could be wrong, but I
do believe he has time left on his

556
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:15.840
contract. So all right, so
let's go to Milan and he says,

557
00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:20.840
Hi, Matt, if Cody beats
Roman and Seth loses the World Heavyweight Championship,

558
00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:23.000
which I think will happen at Mania, do the belt switch brands.

559
00:40:23.559 --> 00:40:28.599
I could see Cody taking the Universal
Belt to Raw. You mean the undisputed

560
00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:32.440
championship. Don't beat like the Rock
Milan. It's the undisputed championship. I

561
00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:36.519
know what you mean, though,
and Drew beating Seth and heading to smack

562
00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:39.679
Down with his world title. I've
noticed a lot of SmackDown participants in the

563
00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:45.199
chamber, and Drew has been going
to a going over to SmackDown a lot

564
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:49.119
lately, maybe in early tease.
Plus, who does Drew have left feud

565
00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:52.519
with on Raw besides maybe Punk down
the road. He's already faced Sammy,

566
00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:54.880
Seth and Jay a lot. I
feel there are a lot of fresh battles

567
00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:59.159
awaiting him on SmackDown, like bron
Breaker, Knight, Orton and Gay Oh

568
00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:04.800
so good, good question, good
question. A lot. They could swap

569
00:41:04.840 --> 00:41:07.519
brands, but it always has to
be an even swap, right, meaning

570
00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:13.840
they're not going to have somebody retain, say say Roman retained right, or

571
00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:19.519
or rather Cody wins, which most
people believe he's going to and then stay

572
00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:22.880
on SmackDown or I'm sorry, go
back to Raw because he was drafted to

573
00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:28.360
Raw, and then the World Heavyweight
Championship doesn't come to SmackDown. They would

574
00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:31.320
always make sure one show has a
championship. So if they're gonna do it,

575
00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:35.559
they could do it and swap it, but it's got to be an

576
00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:40.840
even swap. Now, to me, it's the men who are drafted,

577
00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:45.079
not the belts. When they have
the draft every year or every other year

578
00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:50.519
or whatever they do, they draft
people. They don't draft inanimate objects,

579
00:41:50.599 --> 00:41:52.320
right like they don't draft, they
don't they don't pick in the draft.

580
00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:58.159
The overall draft pick is the undisputed
championship, right like it's not. The

581
00:41:58.679 --> 00:42:04.000
belts aren't exclusive to the brand.
We may think of the brand synonymously with

582
00:42:04.039 --> 00:42:06.920
that belt, but the belt isn't
attached to the brand the person is.

583
00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:12.559
So that means that sure, if
someone's a champion that is drafted to Raw

584
00:42:12.880 --> 00:42:15.559
wins a championship that has been typically
featured on SmackDown, the belt would stay

585
00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:20.760
on. Come come to Raw with
them. But we'll see how it all

586
00:42:20.760 --> 00:42:22.559
plays out. I mean, you
know how I feel, though, if

587
00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:27.199
you listen to the show. WWE
doesn't give a crap about the brand split.

588
00:42:27.960 --> 00:42:31.280
They don't care. Jrew's been showing
up on SmackDown solo and Jimmy show

589
00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:35.280
up on Raw whenever they want with
nobody giving a damn, and they stay

590
00:42:35.320 --> 00:42:37.920
throughout the show and interfere in multiple
matches, just like they did this past

591
00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:42.079
week, and no one gives a
crap. So which is I mean,

592
00:42:42.079 --> 00:42:46.679
it's just insane. It's insanity.
But that means that they are allowed to

593
00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:50.199
just kind of do what they want. They have a brand split, kind

594
00:42:50.199 --> 00:42:54.079
of a soft one, and then
they just you know, they let people

595
00:42:54.079 --> 00:42:58.239
come over on either brand and do
what they need to do from a creative

596
00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:01.280
standpoint and don't care. They put
all the brand rules aside. So,

597
00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:07.519
all right, do you think Cody
and Rock are in cootes? It smells

598
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:12.360
very suspicious, or, as the
kids would say, smells very sus all

599
00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:15.960
right, I'm forty years old almost
saying sus feels weird. I think something

600
00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:20.119
happens that puts Rock in that special
ref spot, whether it's Tim flexing his

601
00:43:20.239 --> 00:43:23.400
power, or it's in the contract
that if Rock Roman and Rock and Roman

602
00:43:23.440 --> 00:43:27.559
beat Cody and Seth on Night one, Rock gets to referee. In the

603
00:43:27.639 --> 00:43:30.360
end, Rock refs he doesn't help
Cody win, but he stops Solo and

604
00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:34.599
Jimmy for interfering, proving the Roman
can't beat Cody. Without the Bloodline's help.

605
00:43:34.719 --> 00:43:38.119
This ends Cody's story but starts Roman
and Rocks. Sure, yeah,

606
00:43:38.159 --> 00:43:40.519
you know that's that's actually cool,
And you know I didn't think about what

607
00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:45.599
would be on the line in this
projected tag team match. That's very possible.

608
00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:47.719
But as I've just said and I
continue to say, I don't need

609
00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:53.039
this match being overbooked, overplayed,
too many people involved. This should be

610
00:43:53.079 --> 00:44:00.840
a story about Cody and Roman and
the injustice that Cody suffers last year at

611
00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:06.800
WrestleMania due to Solo Socoa. That
should be the story. I understand the

612
00:44:06.840 --> 00:44:09.400
Rock is back and you need to
incorporate him somehow, but I would if

613
00:44:09.400 --> 00:44:13.159
you're not going to have it just
clean and one hundred percent about Cody Roman,

614
00:44:13.480 --> 00:44:17.000
you need to at least mitigate the
amount of booking and crazy returns and

615
00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:22.639
all these things that are going to
distract from what could be a monumental title

616
00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:28.480
victory for Cody. So that's my
problem, and that's my concern with this

617
00:44:28.599 --> 00:44:31.800
match is it's easily you could easily
overbook this, and the temptation to overbook

618
00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:37.559
it is immense. So we'll see
how well they're able to to kind of

619
00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:45.360
mitigate that that desire to completely overbook
this match. All right, let's go

620
00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:51.519
to Almos. You love my spoiler? Right? Well I got my I

621
00:44:51.559 --> 00:44:54.239
got it from a mate named Billy. Ps. My name is pronounced omas

622
00:44:54.320 --> 00:45:00.000
Ah. Okay, there we go, Omas, I won't forget all right,

623
00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:04.719
it's thanks Somas. So shout out
to your friend or mate as you

624
00:45:04.760 --> 00:45:08.079
call him, Billy. I guess
since we're going to Australia, I'm just

625
00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:13.239
gonna start pretending that I'm a native. Let's call all my friend's mates.

626
00:45:14.079 --> 00:45:16.679
Although isn't that a British thing too? I don't know. Is that British

627
00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:22.000
or is it just Australian when you
call your friend's mates. I'm not sure.

628
00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:30.000
All right, let's go. Let's
see here. Let's get to Liam.

629
00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:34.880
Liam says. I have to get
out my quick possible outcomes for the

630
00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:37.519
Chamber that are not likely. I
will show the percentage of it happening on

631
00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:40.679
the side. Okay, cool,
let's go. So you have Ellie Knight

632
00:45:40.719 --> 00:45:45.320
winning the chamber at thirty percent.
I think that's actually a pretty fair.

633
00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:51.039
That's pretty fair. Maybe a little
high, but I'd say twenty five.

634
00:45:51.679 --> 00:45:54.360
But I think Ellie Knight is a
third pick. Yeah, that's that's cool.

635
00:45:55.440 --> 00:45:59.599
Naomi or Live winning the chamber thirty
five percent, I think that's really

636
00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:02.960
high per perly. I think Naomi
has definitely got a better chance than Live.

637
00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:07.760
But right now the stories about NAOMIIR
Live, Naomi should get her chance.

638
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:12.400
It'll probably be after WrestleMania they'll put
the spotlight more on her. But

639
00:46:13.840 --> 00:46:19.119
I think that even when you combine
them, Naomi or Live, combining their

640
00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:23.960
chances, I think it's like ten
percent. Honestly, Alistair Black returns fifteen

641
00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:27.920
percent. Yeah, I didn't think
about that. That's very possible. I'd

642
00:46:27.920 --> 00:46:34.719
say that's true. Nia Jack's winning
zero percent, Yeah, exactly, no

643
00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:38.559
chance zero maybe. As I've said
sometimes before, if you could do a

644
00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:43.880
negative chance, whatever that means,
I would put negative chance of nia Jack's

645
00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:46.360
winning. Yes, a match being
made out of the Grayson Waller effect,

646
00:46:46.519 --> 00:46:52.199
Cody versus Grayson forty percent and Grayson
versus Seth ten percent. Thank you for

647
00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:53.679
taking the time to read this email. I know it probably doesn't make it

648
00:46:53.719 --> 00:46:58.800
sense. Make it doesn't make sense
as it is abys bit rushed. Well,

649
00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:01.360
first of all, I can't read
number one, number two. No,

650
00:47:01.480 --> 00:47:05.920
it makes perfect sense, totally get
what you're saying, I don't think

651
00:47:05.920 --> 00:47:09.239
you're going to see individual matches made
out of it on the event where it'll

652
00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:13.679
take place, But sure you can
have Cody versus Grayson, or Cody versus

653
00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:15.320
Theory, who I think will be
there, or Seth versus Theory, any

654
00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:20.199
of those commodations. You could easily
have them on RAW if Seth's ready to

655
00:47:20.239 --> 00:47:22.079
compete again, or just have them
team up. I mean it could be

656
00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:28.559
Cody and Seth versus Grayson in Theory
on RAW. I mean sure that absolutely

657
00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:30.800
could happen. The only other downside
to this, because I got to look

658
00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:37.039
at the glass half empty because I'm
a negative guy, is that Seth Rollins

659
00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:45.000
continues to really put aside his own
World Evyweight Championship and continues to look at

660
00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:50.159
this. He's looking at WrestleMania as
like the Roman Reign story. He has

661
00:47:50.199 --> 00:47:52.159
his own damn story, and I
think as fans, we want to see

662
00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:57.719
him involved in his own story instead
of constantly being involved in what's going on

663
00:47:57.719 --> 00:48:01.360
on SmackDown. I understand why I
do it, because it's a bigger match.

664
00:48:01.360 --> 00:48:05.920
It just is. But hey,
and at some point I want the

665
00:48:05.920 --> 00:48:12.000
World Heavyweight Championship to really feel important
heading into WrestleMania, as Seth continues to

666
00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:16.199
just be sidetracked with Cody and his
story. But thanks, Liam, I

667
00:48:16.199 --> 00:48:21.039
think this might be the final email. Let's go. This is from Dennis.

668
00:48:21.079 --> 00:48:22.920
He says, Hey, Matt,
how are you just a quick short

669
00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:25.519
email? Now that it is obviously
going to be the USO brothers facing off

670
00:48:25.519 --> 00:48:30.000
at WrestleMania, who do you think
will face? Gunther might pick a Sammy's

671
00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:31.719
Ain because of all the interviews he's
doing saying he's going to be a champion

672
00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:36.079
in twenty twenty four. I think
he will go after the Icy title first

673
00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:37.679
and beat Gunther. Thanks Matt.
Yeah, Dennis, I think you're absolutely

674
00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:42.239
right. You know now that it's
not Jay Usso, which is sad,

675
00:48:42.280 --> 00:48:45.880
which saddens me. I think Jay
deserves better at WrestleMania. No disrespect to

676
00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:50.239
Jimmy, but Jimmy has been irrelevant
for a long time. Now it's Jay,

677
00:48:50.519 --> 00:48:54.000
and Jay was on fire and the
Eat movement all of that. But

678
00:48:54.079 --> 00:49:00.239
if it's not Jay, Yes,
Sammy's Ain is a nice substitute. He

679
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:04.400
from a character perspective, makes sense. He's on a losing streak. He's

680
00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:07.079
a lovable loser, right, now. But you know what he's capable of.

681
00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:08.920
You know, if you rally behind
him, he can win the big

682
00:49:08.960 --> 00:49:15.199
matches other than last year's Chamber.
So yeah, I think that that is

683
00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:20.920
a safe assumption. And having Sam
he's a beat Gunther is, I wouldn't

684
00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:24.840
hate it. I'm ready for Gunther
to move on and move up rather so,

685
00:49:25.360 --> 00:49:30.199
thank you, Dennis. Okay,
that's how many emails I had.

686
00:49:30.199 --> 00:49:32.760
Guys, that was just today.
I mean if you go back on Wednesday,

687
00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:36.000
there was a lot more too.
So that's why I you know,

688
00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:40.000
that's why the time is always at
a premium here because there's so many.

689
00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:43.119
But let's get some of the voicemails. I get through as many as I

690
00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:45.679
can. So here we go.
What's going on everybody? This is your

691
00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:49.119
guy, DJ Cools. Well,
back at it again on your Mailbag show,

692
00:49:49.239 --> 00:49:52.480
coming two live once again as always
on a Wednesday morning, as we

693
00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:55.960
are heading into elimination Chamber. Let's
get to your favorite show to come on

694
00:49:57.039 --> 00:50:00.880
every single week on the Mailbag,
and I'm talking about the Vere de Verr

695
00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:05.480
de Vere de Vere the Verr Mahar
Report. Now, the Vir Mahar Report

696
00:50:05.519 --> 00:50:09.440
took place this past Monday on Monday
night, Raw live from Anaheim, Anaheim.

697
00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:14.760
That's right, and I'm Anaheim,
Anaheim, California. And once again,

698
00:50:15.199 --> 00:50:20.079
the ind this year a complete no
show. No Vier Mahan, no

699
00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:24.920
Sanga, no modern day Maharaja.
But I did see four days ago that

700
00:50:25.119 --> 00:50:31.320
none other than Jenna Maja, the
Modern Day Maharaja was in Saudi Arabia alongside

701
00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:39.800
Bronstroben, alongside Natalia and Chelsea Green. They were at the WWE Experience.

702
00:50:40.280 --> 00:50:45.719
I guess this is some sort of
new some sort of store, mixed it

703
00:50:45.840 --> 00:50:51.599
with some sort of video stuff that
they're having over there. Edwardai Saudi Arabia,

704
00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:54.440
he was there connected with some of
the fans that were down there in

705
00:50:54.480 --> 00:50:59.320
Saudi Arabia. But once again,
where are the in this year. We're

706
00:50:59.400 --> 00:51:01.880
just a couple of days away from
Elimination Chamber, We're still on the road

707
00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:06.840
to WrestleMania, and I am not
giving up hope. I am not giving

708
00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:12.199
up hope that hopefully the end this
year will make some sort of television appearance,

709
00:51:12.480 --> 00:51:15.679
whether it's a backstage segment. You
know, you hear me going on

710
00:51:15.760 --> 00:51:17.760
and on every single week about the
end this year. You know, the

711
00:51:17.800 --> 00:51:22.000
whole shtick. But I just wanted
to say something that no other than Chelsea

712
00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:29.000
Green. She should have won that
Royal Rumble Battle Royal matchup to get it

713
00:51:29.039 --> 00:51:31.719
to get into the elimination chamber.
She should have won that. No offense

714
00:51:31.760 --> 00:51:36.400
to rock Hill Rodriguez. I'm a
big fan of Chelsea Green. I love

715
00:51:36.480 --> 00:51:40.519
Chelsea Green. Justice for Chelsea Greed. But back with the Indus Year.

716
00:51:42.199 --> 00:51:45.920
Let's see what happens next week.
Let's see what happens on the road to

717
00:51:45.039 --> 00:51:52.039
WrestleMania. In the words of the
Great One, if you're Smit, what

718
00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:57.199
the Indus Year is? Cookie,
this is your guy, DJ Cozmo,

719
00:51:57.559 --> 00:52:00.719
enjoy Elimination Chamber. If you're watching
it live. Oh you're watching go to

720
00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:04.280
replay, have a bless sweeping kite
to wander to stave see my friends and

721
00:52:04.760 --> 00:52:07.920
peace. Wow, all right,
DJ, Yeah, I don't know where

722
00:52:07.960 --> 00:52:12.559
the industry are. I don't know
they're m I a man. I mean

723
00:52:12.920 --> 00:52:15.960
you're keeping us, You're keeping the
industry alive. You are single handedly keeping

724
00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:21.400
the industry in the minds of fans. The wwwe should should you know,

725
00:52:21.559 --> 00:52:23.559
shake your hand. You're doing the
Lord's work here for the Indus, here

726
00:52:24.280 --> 00:52:28.840
keeping them at least in the minds
of fans that they're at least not there.

727
00:52:29.880 --> 00:52:31.800
I don't know if they're that,
if they're at the experience or whatever.

728
00:52:31.960 --> 00:52:36.480
We're weird store was open on Yeah, I would imagine it's merch and

729
00:52:36.519 --> 00:52:38.800
you can cut your own promo,
kind of like a little w W experience.

730
00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:42.719
Yeah. I think it's something like
that. Uh, you know,

731
00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:45.159
at least they're there doing that.
But that doesn't really make me any comp

732
00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:47.920
doesn't have any I don't have any
confidence that it means they're going to show

733
00:52:47.960 --> 00:52:51.559
up on the show. I mean, I don't have any confidence anymore in

734
00:52:51.679 --> 00:52:55.800
w WE booking them at all until
they show me otherwise. So I hope

735
00:52:55.800 --> 00:52:59.239
you enjoy a chamber there, buddy, hope you enjoy chamber. I know

736
00:52:59.280 --> 00:53:01.599
you'll be. I'm on the discord
server for sure, and I appreciate it.

737
00:53:02.719 --> 00:53:09.199
Okay, let's keep on rolling.
This is Joshua from port Here on

738
00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:15.159
Michigan, and I was listening to
last Friday's episode of the mail Bag,

739
00:53:15.159 --> 00:53:21.400
and I'm on board one percent with
Stone Cold showing up like you were disgusting

740
00:53:22.079 --> 00:53:25.679
when you said you need some kind
of inclination of any kind of reason of

741
00:53:25.760 --> 00:53:30.599
why he was there or why he
would get involved. The one thing that

742
00:53:30.639 --> 00:53:35.800
came to my mind was he's been
pretty vocal and it's twelve documented that he

743
00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:40.719
was angry about The Rock getting his
match against pul Toga and that's why he

744
00:53:40.840 --> 00:53:45.920
stepped away at one point. Maybe
his whole angle could be you took the

745
00:53:45.960 --> 00:53:50.880
match from me, the dream match
from me, to make it your dream

746
00:53:50.920 --> 00:53:55.000
match. You're not going to do
it again for this kid defending Cody the

747
00:53:55.039 --> 00:53:59.280
only thing I could think of.
But Austin's my favorite of all time,

748
00:53:59.719 --> 00:54:01.840
and I think that I would like
that angle. So I figured I called

749
00:54:02.039 --> 00:54:07.920
you guys. Thank you, Hey, Josh, I really I appreciate it.

750
00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:12.480
You know that is That's that's something
for sure. I mean, they

751
00:54:12.599 --> 00:54:16.159
they could go that road, right
like they could, you know, remind

752
00:54:16.239 --> 00:54:20.800
us that the fact that The Rock
faced Hogan and Austin didn't. But there

753
00:54:20.840 --> 00:54:24.199
was never any at the time.
It wasn't like we felt or storyline wise

754
00:54:24.199 --> 00:54:29.000
that The Rock stepped ahead of Austin. Austin and Hogan is a bigger match.

755
00:54:29.079 --> 00:54:31.159
It just is. But it never
happened because Austin actually didn't want it

756
00:54:31.199 --> 00:54:36.880
to happen, and that's been well
documented. He has been very vocal about

757
00:54:36.920 --> 00:54:39.000
the fact that he didn't want it
to happen because he was in a bad

758
00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:43.280
headspace. He didn't felt like Hogan
would be able to have a good quality

759
00:54:43.320 --> 00:54:46.679
match, and so on. If
you listen to his reasoning. He's been

760
00:54:46.800 --> 00:54:51.119
very vocal over the last twenty years
about why he didn't want it to happen

761
00:54:51.159 --> 00:54:54.760
at the time. The only thing
I can think of beyond that is,

762
00:54:55.519 --> 00:55:01.239
perhaps Roman says something in Passing.
Perhaps Roman says something on SmackDown that's saying,

763
00:55:01.280 --> 00:55:06.920
like, you know, I'm gonna
be the greatest champion of all time,

764
00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:15.039
that the guys of the past,
like Hulk Hogan, like Brett Hard,

765
00:55:15.559 --> 00:55:17.760
like Stone Cold, Steve Austin will
bow at my feet right. He

766
00:55:17.800 --> 00:55:24.559
says something in Passing which triggers Austin. Austin does need a reason other than

767
00:55:24.639 --> 00:55:28.880
just I'm Austin. I can do
anything. They've implemented that with Brock and

768
00:55:29.039 --> 00:55:32.480
I hate that kind of creative but
it just it needs to be something loose,

769
00:55:32.519 --> 00:55:36.320
because to me, this isn't setting
up a program. It's just giving

770
00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:39.559
a reason for Austin to come out
in a massive main event and clear the

771
00:55:39.639 --> 00:55:45.519
deck, evening the deck for Cody, not helping him defeat Roman, just

772
00:55:45.599 --> 00:55:51.440
taking away the others that are trying
to cheat to win, right like Solo

773
00:55:51.559 --> 00:55:55.119
and Jimmy. That's how I would
do it. Is something something slight against

774
00:55:55.159 --> 00:56:00.559
some kind of slight that Roman says
in passing against Austin that I think is

775
00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:04.840
all you need for having a reason
for Awesome to come out. So I

776
00:56:04.880 --> 00:56:07.760
think that's how it happens. But
thanks Josh. Let's get to a couple

777
00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:15.719
more. Asks the French guy here, your current European champion. This is

778
00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:22.400
WrestleMania season, So any of you
in Monday Night Raw, just like your

779
00:56:22.440 --> 00:56:30.079
French guy, can come up and
defy me, try to take the European

780
00:56:30.199 --> 00:56:36.079
championship from me, even though you
clearly know that you would never take it

781
00:56:36.079 --> 00:56:39.920
from me. I would be champion
forever, just like Roman reigns. Okay,

782
00:56:40.840 --> 00:56:49.199
guys, this week in wrestling Awesome
Raw for one moment was for one

783
00:56:49.239 --> 00:56:54.079
week it was pretty good. But
since the Rock came back, SmackDown was

784
00:56:54.159 --> 00:57:01.599
better and the segment with here Rock
was pure goal. That was exactly what

785
00:57:01.639 --> 00:57:06.760
we wanted to see from the Rock. What we wanted to see at at

786
00:57:06.760 --> 00:57:09.280
the beginning, of course, is
Roman race versus the Rock, but this

787
00:57:09.480 --> 00:57:15.639
version of the Rock, it is
pure gold. And I think I hear

788
00:57:16.320 --> 00:57:22.360
you, Matt and from the weekend
review you asked you and Anthony if The

789
00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:28.119
Rock should change the theme song,
but he shoot it because nobody should come

790
00:57:28.159 --> 00:57:32.519
out with the Bloodline because like it
is a clear statement at the end of

791
00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:37.800
the speech that at the end of
the promo that the Rock is part of

792
00:57:37.880 --> 00:57:44.239
the Bloodline right now. And he's
also said the most powerful duo in professional

793
00:57:44.239 --> 00:57:49.119
wrestling. I don't think it was
planned. I'm not sure, but I

794
00:57:49.159 --> 00:57:52.920
think he wanted to say the Faction
or I don't know. I don't think

795
00:57:52.960 --> 00:58:00.960
it was on purpose. But yeah, the Rock finally being full potential at

796
00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:07.679
how can you boogle Rock for being
such an awesome promo, such awesome genuine

797
00:58:07.280 --> 00:58:13.840
speech which you don't which you don't
find with Cody Rhoads and so on.

798
00:58:14.000 --> 00:58:19.679
So that's just a small comment.
Thanks for bringing thing the Cody cry Babies,

799
00:58:20.039 --> 00:58:25.679
thank you for bringing us this version
of Rock and uh yeah, and

800
00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:31.920
also received a small note from the
Bloodline. Maybe your European champion will join

801
00:58:32.599 --> 00:58:38.159
the Bloodline in a short notice.
We'll see about that. Have a nice

802
00:58:38.199 --> 00:58:43.320
week, guys, Bye all.
Right, Alex, please don't join the

803
00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:45.920
Bloodline. Please, I'm begging you. I'm begging you. We don't need

804
00:58:45.920 --> 00:58:50.119
another person. We don't need any
we don't need anyone else money in the

805
00:58:50.119 --> 00:58:54.039
water. But I understand if you
do right. Okay, Yeah, we

806
00:58:54.320 --> 00:58:58.280
can thank the Cody cry babies for
this. They are the reason that the

807
00:58:58.360 --> 00:59:00.159
Rock is as entertaining, even more
entertain that he would have been just as

808
00:59:00.199 --> 00:59:07.159
his standard babyface return character. And
sure this does mean that it's bumped,

809
00:59:07.159 --> 00:59:10.360
that Roman in Rock is bumped probably
for a year, which is you know,

810
00:59:12.440 --> 00:59:14.960
it's fine if they're going to do
it right and all the fans are

811
00:59:14.960 --> 00:59:16.039
behind the Rock, which is what
you want. You do want that.

812
00:59:16.719 --> 00:59:20.559
And this version of the Rock is
going to allow people that hate the Rock

813
00:59:20.599 --> 00:59:23.400
to boo them. It's going to
give a chance for people that support the

814
00:59:23.440 --> 00:59:28.760
Rocks to laugh at what he says
and just love his heel character of being

815
00:59:28.800 --> 00:59:31.599
trolled. And it also is going
to take the fans that hate him and

816
00:59:31.639 --> 00:59:36.400
it's going to turn them into supporters
because they are going to realize how talented

817
00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:38.320
the Rock is and he's just entertaining. And I think it's going to turn

818
00:59:38.800 --> 00:59:45.440
I would argue in a weird way. The Rock is more babyface when he's

819
00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:50.880
his heel character than he is when
he's not. He feels more like an

820
00:59:51.039 --> 00:59:55.840
entertainer when he's a heel. Even
though the heel Rock trolls the fans,

821
00:59:57.599 --> 01:00:00.519
disparages the fans, acts like he's
bigger than us, but we all know

822
01:00:00.599 --> 01:00:05.880
that he's just so good at that
role. It's going to turn him into

823
01:00:05.880 --> 01:00:07.960
a massive babyface, even more so
maybe than when he was just coming back

824
01:00:07.960 --> 01:00:13.719
as his standard on the Rock.
Yeah. I think this is going to

825
01:00:13.760 --> 01:00:15.880
have a very positive effect for his
character down the line, and it gives

826
01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:19.440
those people that don't like the Rock
a chance to boo them and get that

827
01:00:19.519 --> 01:00:22.880
out of our system so we can
move on. But thank you, buddy.

828
01:00:23.320 --> 01:00:27.119
Let's get to boy do I say
one more? One more? Let's

829
01:00:27.119 --> 01:00:29.880
see what happens. Well, So
everybody, I could see you here from

830
01:00:29.880 --> 01:00:32.519
Houston's specters, I just want to
get your thoughts on that. On a

831
01:00:32.599 --> 01:00:39.639
scenario I have, so everybody assumes
that when Rock and Roman find the faith

832
01:00:39.679 --> 01:00:45.000
off, it's going to be a
heal Roman versus a favor face Rock.

833
01:00:45.920 --> 01:00:50.559
Why do we all think that?
My question to you or my scenario is

834
01:00:51.119 --> 01:00:55.239
which I think might be better.
Roman loses a belt sometime this year in

835
01:00:55.280 --> 01:01:01.000
twenty twenty four, and that has
the Rock questioning whether Roman still has it

836
01:01:01.119 --> 01:01:06.480
or not, and Turn starts to
try to get the bloodline to turn on

837
01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:12.559
the on Romans, which starts to
turn Roman and baby face. Then,

838
01:01:12.960 --> 01:01:15.599
so this will keep the Rock in
Hell in Hell character for the remainder of

839
01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:22.639
his run, essentially, because I
think it's vital that if you have heal

840
01:01:22.760 --> 01:01:28.719
Roman face off of gets the baby
face Rock, You're gonna have interference with

841
01:01:29.639 --> 01:01:32.840
Roman going over and that's not really
going to establish him as head of the

842
01:01:32.880 --> 01:01:37.639
table if he needs help to lead
the Rock. But as you have the

843
01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:45.159
Rock essentially having the bloodline trying to
turn on Roman and then have Roman starts

844
01:01:45.159 --> 01:01:51.159
to turn baby Face, and when
they finally face off, you have a

845
01:01:51.599 --> 01:01:57.920
baby face Roman defeats a Hell Rock
clean, which is the way it needs

846
01:01:57.960 --> 01:02:01.559
to happen. Clean needs to appen
clean for Roman to truly be head of

847
01:02:01.599 --> 01:02:07.039
the table, because I don't think
it does any favors for Rock to win

848
01:02:07.639 --> 01:02:12.039
and be name head of the table
if he's not sticking around after this run.

849
01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:15.559
So I hope I like that out
clearly enough for you to understand my

850
01:02:15.599 --> 01:02:20.360
premise. I wanted to get your
thoughts because, like you said, we

851
01:02:20.440 --> 01:02:24.440
are going to get a Babyface bloodline
eventually. But like I said, you

852
01:02:24.480 --> 01:02:30.320
could have the Rock try to take
over which charge the turn Rowlan. It

853
01:02:30.400 --> 01:02:35.119
takes time off after losing the belt, the Rock stays around as the quote

854
01:02:35.239 --> 01:02:39.000
unquote heads the table, but when
the True heads the table returns qull on,

855
01:02:39.039 --> 01:02:43.800
Babyface, I think you have to
defeat Rock that way. So just

856
01:02:43.800 --> 01:02:45.960
give me your thoughts, everybody.
I enjoy listening to y'all every week.

857
01:02:46.000 --> 01:02:50.719
I know I haven't been on as
much, but life has really taken over

858
01:02:50.719 --> 01:02:54.440
for me. But again, I'm
still enjoying everybody. And don't forget March

859
01:02:54.519 --> 01:02:59.400
twelfth, after Raw the Wrong Review, you will hear the debut of Missus

860
01:02:59.480 --> 01:03:01.960
Rock and Tea along with myself and
Matt on ther Raw Review. All right,

861
01:03:01.960 --> 01:03:07.719
everybody, don't have a good day, have a great day. All

862
01:03:07.800 --> 01:03:08.679
right. Uh, I didn't catch
your name at the beginning, so I

863
01:03:08.719 --> 01:03:16.440
apologize, Okay, So I like
this. It's interesting. It's certainly aggressive

864
01:03:16.960 --> 01:03:21.760
in the fact that you would actually
turn this match, this mega match when

865
01:03:21.800 --> 01:03:25.960
it happens on its head where you'd
get it, but it would be flipped

866
01:03:25.960 --> 01:03:31.599
in rolls. It's interesting, it's
doable. But here's the question, did

867
01:03:31.639 --> 01:03:37.800
the fans want that? Because the
Rock right now is so entertaining as a

868
01:03:37.840 --> 01:03:42.880
heel it's it's I don't know if
the fans ever truly will hate the Rock,

869
01:03:43.880 --> 01:03:50.159
meaning true heel heat, you know, like what Dominic Mysterio gets or

870
01:03:50.199 --> 01:03:53.000
what Randy Orton got in his feud
with Edge a few years ago. You

871
01:03:53.039 --> 01:03:57.199
know, there are moments of true
heel heat. The Rock's so entertaining.

872
01:03:57.280 --> 01:04:00.639
I don't know if they'll boo the
Rock so he may you may not.

873
01:04:00.960 --> 01:04:03.559
They may be trying to swim upstream
if they try to do this. I

874
01:04:03.559 --> 01:04:08.039
know what you're saying that the Rock, you know, Roman comes back after

875
01:04:08.039 --> 01:04:10.760
the blood Line turns on him because
Rock is trying to take his you know,

876
01:04:10.800 --> 01:04:13.840
take over the blood Line turn on
Roman. Roman goes away. He

877
01:04:13.880 --> 01:04:18.599
tries to come back, but the
Dream match. Don't forget the original dream

878
01:04:18.639 --> 01:04:23.960
match, which is still I think
the best version of this match is a

879
01:04:23.960 --> 01:04:28.960
baby faced Rock versus a heel Roman. Now sure the head of the table

880
01:04:29.000 --> 01:04:30.000
would be on the line, whatever
the hell that means. By the way,

881
01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:32.880
like, what does that exactly mean? Who's the alpha male of their

882
01:04:32.880 --> 01:04:35.719
family? I mean, what does
this mean? Like? What is on

883
01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:42.159
the line exactly other than just a
meaningless title. When I say title,

884
01:04:42.199 --> 01:04:46.480
I mean I don't mean a physical
belt, you know, like the Rock

885
01:04:46.679 --> 01:04:50.400
in Roman could have more than one
match, by the way, which if

886
01:04:50.400 --> 01:04:55.280
that happens, you could have the
Rock beat Roman the first time, and

887
01:04:55.320 --> 01:04:57.639
then Roman beat Rock the second time. Let me look what they did with

888
01:04:57.679 --> 01:05:00.400
John Cena and the Rock from WrestleMania
twenty six, twenty six to twenty seven

889
01:05:00.480 --> 01:05:05.039
or twenty seven to twenty eight,
I never can remember, but the Rock

890
01:05:05.159 --> 01:05:10.159
won the first one and then return
the favor of the following WrestleMania dropping the

891
01:05:10.159 --> 01:05:14.360
belt of John Cena. So you
could have a scenario like that with the

892
01:05:14.440 --> 01:05:18.760
Rock beating Roman and then Roman beating
the Rock. You could absolutely have that

893
01:05:18.800 --> 01:05:21.320
happen. I mean, I wouldn't
mind more than one match with these two,

894
01:05:21.840 --> 01:05:26.559
but the first encounter needs to be
the one that we all clamored for

895
01:05:26.639 --> 01:05:30.760
before the belt got involved and the
we want Cody things happened. Remember the

896
01:05:30.800 --> 01:05:35.559
reaction from fans when The Rock said
just a month ago, a month and

897
01:05:35.599 --> 01:05:39.239
a half ago, what if I
sit at the head of the table the

898
01:05:39.280 --> 01:05:44.119
crowd lost it. That's the version
of the Rock that eventually we want to

899
01:05:44.119 --> 01:05:46.360
see versus Roman. And again,
I know the Rock is going to go

900
01:05:46.360 --> 01:05:49.880
back to Hollywood. It should be
about Roman getting the victory, but you

901
01:05:50.079 --> 01:05:55.960
do that after the Rock's already gotten
his big one against Roman reigns. So

902
01:05:56.000 --> 01:05:59.440
again, I think it could be
a multi match program, probably not more

903
01:05:59.440 --> 01:06:02.920
than two matches that probably me the
max with the Rock and Roman, but

904
01:06:03.519 --> 01:06:06.159
that is I mean, if you
try to do a heel Rock as it

905
01:06:06.199 --> 01:06:11.679
is currently, I think the fans
will still cheer him because he's so entertaining.

906
01:06:12.760 --> 01:06:15.000
You could argue the Rock isn't really
even heel because the fans, even

907
01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:21.039
when he comes out you hear his
music, the fans pop massively, and

908
01:06:21.159 --> 01:06:26.119
the Rock is so entertaining with what
he says and how he looks and just

909
01:06:26.159 --> 01:06:31.559
the appreciation fans have for him,
that it lends itself to cheers rather than

910
01:06:31.599 --> 01:06:35.360
booze. So you can have this
version of the Rock face Roman and try

911
01:06:35.360 --> 01:06:41.239
to turn Roman babyface, but I
don't think that's gonna work as successfully as

912
01:06:41.239 --> 01:06:45.800
it will with the traditional mega match
that we've wanted for nine years now of

913
01:06:45.920 --> 01:06:48.719
Rock Babyface Roman Heel. I mean, I don't know if we need to

914
01:06:48.719 --> 01:06:54.480
try to flip the script here.
Just because Cody Rhodes was bumped from the

915
01:06:54.519 --> 01:06:58.199
main event only to have the fans
bring him back. That was a specific

916
01:06:58.320 --> 01:07:04.079
Cody Roads and Championshi undisputed Championship situation. The fans didn't turn on the Rock

917
01:07:04.119 --> 01:07:08.920
because he's the Rock and there was
something wrong with the Rock. They turned

918
01:07:08.920 --> 01:07:12.880
on him because of the perception that
Cody was stepping aside for the Rock when

919
01:07:12.920 --> 01:07:16.199
Cody had a much more intriguing story
going on. So now when you remove

920
01:07:16.280 --> 01:07:20.119
the title and Cody had Romans over, I think fans will be back to

921
01:07:20.159 --> 01:07:25.920
supporting the Rock because that was the
whole reason they turned on him. They

922
01:07:25.920 --> 01:07:30.000
didn't turn on him just because,
right so, but your way is not

923
01:07:30.079 --> 01:07:35.760
impossible. It's possible, but it's
risky. It's risky, you know,

924
01:07:35.800 --> 01:07:40.000
And I just I want to be
able to cheer the Rock, and I

925
01:07:40.000 --> 01:07:43.360
think most fans feel this way.
We all want to be able to say,

926
01:07:43.800 --> 01:07:45.840
you know, the Roman reigns at
the heel, Rock is baby Face.

927
01:07:45.880 --> 01:07:48.679
You want to be able to cheer
the Rock in the match because that's

928
01:07:48.679 --> 01:07:54.039
what we've wanted from day one,
but in two matches, you could you

929
01:07:54.079 --> 01:07:58.000
could mess with the second match and
try the way that you're proposing, but

930
01:07:58.360 --> 01:08:01.760
we'll see. I take a breath
because I think that's it now, everybody.

931
01:08:01.800 --> 01:08:08.159
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935
01:08:19.479 --> 01:08:21.119
I think I already gave you a
shout out, but I gave you

936
01:08:21.119 --> 01:08:27.039
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938
01:08:29.760 --> 01:08:32.960
few days. We have a lot
going on as we are going to cover

939
01:08:33.199 --> 01:08:38.600
Elimination Chamber from wall to wall.
I'll give you my reaction to it,

940
01:08:38.640 --> 01:08:43.680
probably again, probably Sunday. I'll
try to do Saturday night, but as

941
01:08:43.720 --> 01:08:46.359
I've told you, I have some
events going on that may prevent that.

942
01:08:46.479 --> 01:08:50.159
We will see. We'll see,
but I will definitely try to give you

943
01:08:50.239 --> 01:08:55.680
my reaction by Sunday. In the
weekend review, and which will really just

944
01:08:55.680 --> 01:09:00.319
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952
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