Speaker 1: This is WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre, and you're listening to
Speaker 1: the WWE podcast.
Speaker 2: Stop the show, the one that everybody wants me.
Speaker 3: God, I'll stand three sixteen.
Speaker 2: So just with your ass is my arn, you can
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Speaker 4: Well, it's here, WrestleMania forty one on the horizon, not
Speaker 4: just on a horizon knocking at our door. Now, we
Speaker 4: have a live show that I recorded earlier, really just
Speaker 4: minutes ago, so you'll hear that in just a moment.
Speaker 4: A couple of minutes here, I'll go through a couple
Speaker 4: of emails. I don't know how many email, voicemails. We
Speaker 4: have time for guys, because I this can't be a
Speaker 4: two hour show. I'm limited a little bit on time tonight.
Speaker 4: But we have an hour long live show in Predictions
Speaker 4: that I did Fittial Predictions. We had a couple of
Speaker 4: a couple of callers, so that was fun. And what
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do because it's WrestleMania season, we will have
Speaker 4: a live show. I'll be doing a live show and
Speaker 4: it'll be after WrestleMania. Now, it's gonna be because.
Speaker 2: I have to do this. I have to do it.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be tired. I'm gonna hate myself in the
Speaker 4: morning because I have to go to work very early
Speaker 4: in Monday morning. And I don't care because we're.
Speaker 2: Gonna do it.
Speaker 4: We're gonna do it, and Saturday night, Tomorrow night, we're
Speaker 4: gonna do it. So post Mania, after the show ends,
Speaker 4: we're going live. We're going live here on Riverside. That's
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Speaker 4: on those platforms if you subscribe now. One thing I
Speaker 4: want to mention before we get to before we get
Speaker 4: to the mail bag here and the actual predictions which
Speaker 4: I have at the back end. I want to talk
Speaker 4: about talking about Triple H because he's come after the
Speaker 4: Internet fans lately and saying, how, you know, how we're
Speaker 4: not enjoying the product and we're just all become critics.
Speaker 4: So at some point along the way, we've all become
Speaker 4: critics and not fans.
Speaker 2: We used to just enjoy it.
Speaker 4: And if it's like watching a movie, how if you
Speaker 4: told me to watch the movie and analyze the things
Speaker 4: you liked and didn't like, you'd view the movie differently. Well, yeah, see,
Speaker 4: there's so many things wrong with this. Now I talk
Speaker 4: a little bit about Roman Reigns, guys, if you're interested
Speaker 4: in that. In the whole story with Roman Reigns exploding
Speaker 4: about his political views about the president, I didn't go
Speaker 4: into politics, but I did go into why that's I
Speaker 4: don't think the best choice for Roman Reigns in our
Speaker 4: live show, So stay tuned for that. But as far
Speaker 4: as Triple H's comments, you know he talked to was
Speaker 4: it Pat McAfee or what's his name? He's on the
Speaker 4: fan as well, Pete Rosenberg, Heete talked to Pete Rosenberg
Speaker 4: about it. I have to say triple h. He's he's
Speaker 4: coming after the internet wrestling fans and how he says
Speaker 4: it's quote not real life. Yeah, no, it is. It's
Speaker 4: real life. We're in real life, right. I am a
Speaker 4: real life person who is in real life on Twitter
Speaker 4: on x okay, so in real life doing real life things.
Speaker 4: I know that he's saying that if it's not if
Speaker 4: it's a movie and you're a critic in the way
Speaker 4: you view it, well, why is this form of entertainment
Speaker 4: is Why are you telling us that this is exempt
Speaker 4: from criticism. Maybe that's how we enjoy it is by
Speaker 4: criticizing what could be better. Maybe that's just how it
Speaker 4: is now. I know our society has an inclination for negativity.
Speaker 2: We do.
Speaker 4: I also know that the explosion of social media has
Speaker 4: allowed everyone a platform to complain, and it encourages complaining
Speaker 4: because you can do it anonymously if you want, and
Speaker 4: you can do it to a large audience.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: So, and when you allow something, you usually get more
Speaker 4: of it, right, And it it's the culture we live in.
Speaker 4: So I think he needs to understand that but also,
Speaker 4: Internet wrestling fans are your entire audience. Now, not everyone
Speaker 4: complaining on X is a know quote unquote in person fan, right,
Speaker 4: You have people on X that complain and those are
Speaker 4: the ones that are the Internet wrestling fans. Well, how
Speaker 4: do you think fans view your your content through the Internet.
Speaker 4: In fact, that's exactly how we're viewing Monday Night Raw
Speaker 4: every week now. When you guys went to the WWE
Speaker 4: network in twenty fourteen, that's how we viewed every single
Speaker 4: plee after the pay per view model went dead. So
Speaker 4: the Internet wrestling community is exactly one of your audience.
Speaker 4: You can't be a WW fan and not have access
Speaker 4: to the Internet. That's what we are. Your entire fan
Speaker 4: base is the Internet wrestling community. Now, I know what
Speaker 4: you're doing. You're singling out those who complain as the
Speaker 4: quot unquote the Internet wrestling community. But everyone who has
Speaker 4: access to the Internet and is a WW fan is
Speaker 4: an Internet wrestling fan. That's the I know that we're
Speaker 4: getting into semantics here, but if you want to try
Speaker 4: to label all of us as Internet wrestling fans, and
Speaker 4: you want to try to degrade fans to that term,
Speaker 4: which again I don't take it as a slight. I
Speaker 4: mean people call us like Marx.
Speaker 2: You ever hear that? Right?
Speaker 4: Oh you're just a mark? Well, yeah, I got news
Speaker 4: for everybody. Mark is not a derogatory term. It just
Speaker 4: means you're a fan of something.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 4: I mean, so when you're shut up, you mars okay.
Speaker 4: It means you're a fan of something. It could be
Speaker 4: like everyone at some point or another likes a certain
Speaker 4: TV show, likes a certain movie, likes a certain form
Speaker 4: of entertainment. You're a mark for that. It's a slang
Speaker 4: term for a fan of So mark is a term
Speaker 4: that I don't know why people get offended. Everyone that
Speaker 4: is a fan of w is a mark, including the
Speaker 4: people that are actual wrestlers in the company. Everyone that
Speaker 4: works in the company is by definition a mark for wrestling,
Speaker 4: or you wouldn't be there. So that goes out the
Speaker 4: win though, And this whole deal again with Triple H
Speaker 4: and you know, basically trying to label everybody that has
Speaker 4: a negative opinion about and not basically saying we're not
Speaker 4: allowed to criticize. He didn't say we're not allowed. He
Speaker 4: wants to tell the fans to f off. And how
Speaker 4: it's not real life. Again, I've already talked about it
Speaker 4: is real life, Okay, it means you're not face to face. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: that's the difference. But this is real life people participating
Speaker 4: in real life in this three dimensional space that you
Speaker 4: and I are all living in, right, So this is
Speaker 4: still real life. But yeah, basically that you know the
Speaker 4: criticism and fu and you don't know, well, yeah, we
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 2: How are we supposed to know? Do you know what
Speaker 2: the next script for the Superman movie is going to be? No?
Speaker 4: But when you see it, do people are when you
Speaker 4: come out of the movie theater, are you only allowed?
Speaker 4: Do they have police outside waiting making sure that nobody's
Speaker 4: criticizing the movie?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Right? You know why?
Speaker 4: First of all, it's a free country, free speech, all right,
Speaker 4: up to up to a point. There's certain things you
Speaker 4: can't say and do, like inciting violence, of course, right,
Speaker 4: But to the extent.
Speaker 2: Of the law.
Speaker 4: This is well within the extent of the law. I'm
Speaker 4: not saying he's trying to get as anybody arrested. But
Speaker 4: my point is we're also not only covered under the
Speaker 4: Constitution to criticize w W or any form of entertainment,
Speaker 4: including the government, right, But we spend our hard earned
Speaker 4: money and time investing in the product that you're managing.
Speaker 4: And we're told all the time that you listen to
Speaker 4: fans and we're the focus group every night. But at
Speaker 4: the same time, well, I don't want to hear criticisms.
Speaker 4: And then you guys don't know mid day Oh they
Speaker 4: hold the keys, but don't give it. Don't tell us
Speaker 4: anything that we should be doing. We'll tell you what
Speaker 4: you're going to take. That's not how this works. And again,
Speaker 4: there's no other form of entertainment in the world. Any
Speaker 4: company in the world that has an entertainment or really
Speaker 4: any other product or service that you pay for that
Speaker 4: says to their fan base their consumers, f off, you know,
Speaker 4: I know online anybody that's criticism us, criticizing us online.
Speaker 4: You guys are all just you know, your your opinions
Speaker 4: don't matter. Now you're not allowed.
Speaker 2: To do that.
Speaker 4: You know, will tell you what you like and what
Speaker 4: products are gonna like. But we don't want to hear
Speaker 4: anything from you, even though you're giving us your time
Speaker 4: and money.
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4: So not the best move for Triple Ah, not the
Speaker 4: best way to endear yourself to fans.
Speaker 2: I here's the thing.
Speaker 4: I also understand the criticism of our criticism. I understand
Speaker 4: that if I was in his position, I would also
Speaker 4: feel like I'm a level above you know why, Well,
Speaker 4: not only have I been in the business, in the
Speaker 4: actual business, you know, and most fans haven't. And I've
Speaker 4: been in positions that most fans haven't. And I've been
Speaker 4: in the ring you guys haven't, you know, And we
Speaker 4: also know the plans that are coming that you don't.
Speaker 4: So you don't do you know, You're you sound stupid
Speaker 4: because you don't know what's coming. Well, yeah, okay, but
Speaker 4: that doesn't that doesn't mean that we that we shouldn't
Speaker 4: and won't be able to voice our opinions. Are we
Speaker 4: supposed to just sit there like good little fans and
Speaker 4: get a pat on the head and be force fed
Speaker 4: anything and everything. No, of course not. Fans don't do that.
Speaker 4: In fact, when you tell us to do that, I
Speaker 4: guess we're gonna do. We're gonna do the opposite and
Speaker 4: do more of it. So he's inviting more criticism. Does
Speaker 4: he know how the internet was he just introduced to
Speaker 4: the internet? Was Paul levec like yesterday?
Speaker 2: Morning.
Speaker 4: Did someone shake him out of his sleep? Asleep out
Speaker 4: of his slumber?
Speaker 2: Hey, Paul, wake up, wake up, dude. You gotta come
Speaker 2: see this.
Speaker 4: You gotta look at this giant glowing screen where people
Speaker 4: all across the world can can get on and they're
Speaker 4: saying things about about wwe look at this, you see?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, it feels like that's he was just
Speaker 4: introduced to the internet. Does he know how it works?
Speaker 4: It is a toxic place. It's not now. It has
Speaker 4: a lot of good, but the double edged sword is
Speaker 4: the Internet. And I don't know why he suddenly shocked
Speaker 4: that people are constantly being critical of his product. Excuse me, Yeah,
Speaker 4: welcome to the Internet, dude, where everyone has an opinion
Speaker 4: about everything. It's not great, but it's the world you
Speaker 4: live in. And if you're also telling me that the
Speaker 4: hashtags don't matter or that the Internet fans don't matter,
Speaker 4: really that's funny because you changed the entire main event
Speaker 4: last year because of a hashtag. The entire Women's revolution
Speaker 4: was started online because of a FFing hashtag. So I
Speaker 4: guess it's only when the good comes out of it
Speaker 4: that he really pays attention or says anything about it.
Speaker 4: But all the bad and criticism. We're all supposed to
Speaker 4: just you know, never do any of that. Now, We're
Speaker 4: just supposed to sit and praise right stop, all right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: we pay our money. Guess what we're gonna do. We're
Speaker 4: gonna have an opinion. So I and I'm not saying
Speaker 4: everyone should be negative just for the sake of being negative.
Speaker 4: I sometimes get caught up in that loop. Admittedly, you
Speaker 4: know why though, some people voice their passion for wrestling
Speaker 4: through criticism because they love the product and they want
Speaker 4: to see it get better and they're trying to give
Speaker 4: suggestions of how it could get better. That's not everybody
Speaker 4: is that way, but some people are. So I wanted
Speaker 4: to say that out right, triple h. I you know, strongly,
Speaker 4: with every cell in my body, disagree with what you
Speaker 4: had to say there about the fans and the internet
Speaker 4: wrestling community. I'm not defending the people that are just
Speaker 4: you know, a holes to be a holes, right, that
Speaker 4: are vile online and insult one another. And yeah, you
Speaker 4: have the the real scum of the earth on the internet,
Speaker 4: of course. But the fans that have a real like
Speaker 4: I have a brain in their head, love the product,
Speaker 4: paying money, investing a lot of time. Maybe they're bringing
Speaker 4: in their family, kids, friends, and they see garbage on
Speaker 4: their television that they want to voice their opinion about that.
Speaker 4: That only only have a constitutional legal right to be
Speaker 4: able to do that, they kind of have a moral
Speaker 4: obligation to do that, because if you're dumping your money
Speaker 4: into something you don't like, but yet you're told by
Speaker 4: the company that you are critical about, that will change.
Speaker 4: If you just tell us what you want, and you,
Speaker 4: guys are the focus group, then you actually have a
Speaker 4: more obligation to tell the company that you don't like something.
Speaker 2: So I digress.
Speaker 4: All right, let's get through an email at too. There's
Speaker 4: just so much content tonight, guys, too much, too much.
Speaker 4: It's WrestleMania.
Speaker 2: What do you expect? All right, let's go to.
Speaker 4: Let's see, I'll go to DJ here, I'll go through
Speaker 4: your stuff quick here DJ. I know it's a bit abbreviated,
Speaker 4: but so night one, you're saying main event jay USO wins.
Speaker 4: You're predicting the new day to win the tag titles.
Speaker 4: The street profits will retain their titles on WrestleMania SmackDown,
Speaker 4: No No, No, No, No, DJ I refuse Speaking of
Speaker 4: Chad Gable. You're saying raymis Teriro gets to win over
Speaker 4: that Americano guy. Jade Cargill wins.
Speaker 1: L A.
Speaker 4: Knight will be defeated by Jacob Fatu for the United
Speaker 4: States Championship, Charlotte becomes Women's champion, and Punk wins. But
Speaker 4: does Paul Hayman leave forty one with Punk rollins or
Speaker 4: neither of the two? Yeah, I went over that in
Speaker 4: my my prediction spoiler alert. I don't care because none
Speaker 4: of those are really that interesting. At least that's how
Speaker 4: I feel. Night two, you're saying that Drew gets the win,
Speaker 4: Morgan and Rodriguez beat Bailey and Lyra, aj Styles and
Speaker 4: Logan Paul.
Speaker 2: Let's see here.
Speaker 4: Aj Styles gets the win. Just a little stat here.
Speaker 4: Aj Styles is currently four and three in WrestleMania matches.
Speaker 4: He's previous WrestleMania win in singles competition was way back
Speaker 4: in twenty nineteen against Randy Orton. Oh that's one thing, guys,
Speaker 4: while I pause, I don't know who Randy Orton's opponent is.
Speaker 4: I didn't bring him up on my predictions because he
Speaker 4: wasn't on the card. I would anticipate it could be
Speaker 4: russev it could be Alistair Black, it could be Nick Aldus.
Speaker 4: Whoever it is, Randy wins. Okay, let me just put
Speaker 4: that out there because I forgot to mention him. Randy
Speaker 4: Orton wins whoever he faces. Okay, we have let's see
Speaker 4: here Dom winning. As far as the intercontinental title, we
Speaker 4: have Bianca. Let's hear the triple threat of the women's title.
Speaker 4: You're predicting Bianca bell Air wins, but she'll win because
Speaker 4: of help of Naomi. Bianca officially turns heel and reveals
Speaker 4: that Postmania that she was the mastermind in plotting Naomi. Okay,
Speaker 4: all right, and the main event Night two, John Sena
Speaker 4: will win the undisputed title. He'll get a seventeenth Randy
Speaker 4: Orton's opponent will be Russev, not Nick.
Speaker 2: All this.
Speaker 4: My hope is that Russov makes this a competitive match
Speaker 4: and not a one sided victory. All right, DJ, I
Speaker 4: apologize for not getting all of the you know, all
Speaker 4: of your little details in there, but I gave your
Speaker 4: your predictions and there it is. I'll see if I
Speaker 4: can get to the Joy Henry report. But I can't
Speaker 4: make too many promises here, all right, So.
Speaker 2: Let's go to.
Speaker 4: Another patron and aj He says, I write this so
Speaker 4: happy WrestleMania. Even a few wishes for the weekend. Okay,
Speaker 4: a few wishes, Gunther retains, I can't handle the yeat
Speaker 4: stuff anymore. It's childish and you can't be a serious person,
Speaker 4: and then start yeating again. Gunner deserves to keep rising.
Speaker 4: He is the future number two. I hope Punk wins,
Speaker 4: but I'd love to see him and just decide that
Speaker 4: he wants nothing to do with the trio and starts
Speaker 4: to manage a guy like bron Breaker or even Bronson Reid.
Speaker 4: There's a name, Bronson Reid. How about Bronson Reid versus
Speaker 4: Randy Orton?
Speaker 2: Ooh, I like.
Speaker 4: That three stone cold. He'll be there for the Hall
Speaker 4: of Fame stuff, so I would expect him to see
Speaker 4: somewhat in action Sunday night.
Speaker 2: Let's hope.
Speaker 4: And lastly, I hope the show ends up being better
Speaker 4: than a lot of the weird and forced build that
Speaker 4: has been happening since the Rumble. All right, I think
Speaker 4: you will get your wish, Ajay, I really do. I
Speaker 4: think this will exceed most people's expectations. So let's see here.
Speaker 4: Let's go to Oh my goodness, let's go to.
Speaker 2: Do.
Speaker 4: You know I'm gonna have to go with you your
Speaker 4: predictions here. I know you've got quite a long email.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to just give your predictions. So Night one,
Speaker 4: Mysterio wins, New Day wins the tag titles. Jay Uso
Speaker 4: beats Gunther, Jade beats Naomi Jacobatu wins the US title,
Speaker 4: Tiffany Stratton retains, Okay n c Impunk wins the triple Threat.
Speaker 4: Night two, Nick and Randy Orton wins regardless. I would
Speaker 4: agree Live and Raquel retain. Drew beats Damien Bianca, defeats
Speaker 4: Rhea and Eo to win the Women's World Championship. Logan
Speaker 4: Paul beats aj styles Dom wins the Fatal four Way
Speaker 4: and the Intercontinental Championship, and John Cena beats Cody Rhodes
Speaker 4: to become the seventeen time world champion. So I will
Speaker 4: mention a little bit about your finish here. You said
Speaker 4: it's an intriguing and exciting scenario. So let's see here.
Speaker 4: You have seen it in the ring, Rock in the
Speaker 4: ring and Travis Scott there's a guy that needs Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: Travis Scott will be there. I really hope Cody rhads legit.
Speaker 4: The shoot punches him right in the face. I've said
Speaker 4: that so many times. He deserves it, Okay, So how
Speaker 4: it leads to this or how it comes about, I
Speaker 4: don't know. But Travis Scott and the Rock are in
Speaker 4: the ring. They're beating Cody down. Then it's Austin. He
Speaker 4: comes to the ring, gives Travis Scott a stunner. If
Speaker 4: Travis Scott gets a stunner, I'll probably wet myself. I'ven't
Speaker 4: wet myself in a good thirty five years. I will
Speaker 4: wet myself tomorrow night and shame my house. I will
Speaker 4: bringing great shame to my family into the honor of
Speaker 4: this house. If Austin does that, and then he turns
Speaker 4: to the Rock gives on the Rack a stunner, the
Speaker 4: crowd goes crazy. He puts his hand out, helps Cody
Speaker 4: up off the mat. Waits a few seconds. Austin gives
Speaker 4: Cody the two thumbs up and then stuns Cody. He
Speaker 4: exits the ring. Sena crawls up the mat. He hooks
Speaker 4: the arm of a Cody's chest for one, two three.
Speaker 4: Sena becomes a seventeen time world champion raw After Mania
Speaker 4: on a Monday is looking very unpredictable, probably the most
Speaker 4: unpredictable in my opinion. Dare I say Brock Lesner, Trick Williams,
Speaker 4: Becky Lynch, Joe Hendry, Raw after Mania could be a
Speaker 4: big one. Enjoy WrestleMania and see everyone in the discord chat? Well,
Speaker 4: thank you? Do you know I appreciate your prediction here?
Speaker 4: I don't think Austin he has nothing against Cody. I
Speaker 4: means his Travis Scott's just collateral damage. He should get
Speaker 4: a stunt, he should get a spear through a barbed
Speaker 4: wire tables what he should get, But Travis Scott's inconsequential.
Speaker 4: There is history with the Rock and Austin, so Rock
Speaker 4: getting stunned makes total sense. Rock stunning Cody. While I
Speaker 4: would love it, and I would probably do more than
Speaker 4: pee my pants, it makes no sense for him to
Speaker 4: do that, as much as I would love it, because
Speaker 4: then it's Austin. Is Austin turning a little heel?
Speaker 2: Here? What's his beef with Cody? You know?
Speaker 4: I could see Austin stunning Sena, but then that might
Speaker 4: give Cody a victory. But that's why I said Austin
Speaker 4: could stun every heel in the ring. That's why I
Speaker 4: think there's an insurance policy between the Rock and Sena,
Speaker 4: with Sena and brass Knux or a seth rollins or
Speaker 4: an unforeseen Drew McIntyre, there's an insurance policy. Just when
Speaker 4: you think Austin's gonna be the White Knight, that clear
Speaker 4: here's the ring and stuns everybody, and it's going to
Speaker 4: allow Cody to retain. There's an insurance policy. And it's
Speaker 4: a John Cena insurance policy. I don't know what it
Speaker 4: is or who it is, but it's something so Austin
Speaker 4: will neutralize, but he won't allow Cody to retain. That's
Speaker 4: still my belief, all right, So thank you, Dino. I
Speaker 4: appreciate it. Let's go to let's see here I do
Speaker 4: hold on. I think I do have another another patron,
Speaker 4: because you guys, patrons get priority. Let me let me
Speaker 4: see if I can go to an in house patron.
Speaker 4: This is Jeff, all right, Jeff, you'll be my final
Speaker 4: one here. It's that time for WrestleMania. What a weekend
Speaker 4: of wrestling. Jade and Naomi. I would love to see
Speaker 4: Naomi win, but I think they're gonna give it to Jade.
Speaker 4: You're picking Ray Massiro to win. You're picking New Day
Speaker 4: to become cham Sampions, Tank Champions, Jacob Fatu wins the
Speaker 4: US title. Hopefully they'll let Tiffany win. Jay Uso is
Speaker 4: our new champion, Seth Punk to win the main event.
Speaker 4: And Night two you're picking John Cena, Eo Sky dom Or,
Speaker 4: Finn Bailey and Lyra and Drew as well as well
Speaker 4: as aj Styles. And since Night two is missing a match,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be Randy Orton versus Russi ver Solo. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna yeah again, I don't think it. Randy should win
Speaker 4: no matter what. But it's gonna be a great weekend
Speaker 4: seeing the Discord Chat have a WrestleMania Discord party. See
Speaker 4: everyone there. Yeah, I may have to stop. I gotta
Speaker 4: stop by. I mean, I just have to. It's my
Speaker 4: own damn. Yeah, you guys are supporting me, and I
Speaker 4: gotta I gotta pop in. I'm gonna pop in, I
Speaker 4: promise I will. I don't I don't know if I'll
Speaker 4: be there the entire show, but uh definitely I will
Speaker 4: make a appearance. So all right, So with that said, everybody,
Speaker 4: let me see. I want to say, if there's one
Speaker 4: more that I could possibly squeeze in. That's not super long.
Speaker 4: That's also let's see here. So I've got one from
Speaker 4: a number, but I don't know who that is. I
Speaker 4: really have no idea who this is. It's literally from
Speaker 4: a number. I won't give the number, obviously, but so
Speaker 4: this I don't know who this is, but here we are,
Speaker 4: says Hey, Matt, Happy Friday. I thought about posting my
Speaker 4: predictions for every match for Mania, but I'm just gonna
Speaker 4: do two and do a prediction after Mania. See you
Speaker 4: have jay Uso winning and Sina winning against Cody. The
Speaker 4: reason I think they're gonna both win is because of
Speaker 4: the Rocks plan of having a champion. What if after Mania,
Speaker 4: rockets jay Uso to be a part of his team
Speaker 4: with Sina. I said something in it about the Discord
Speaker 4: channel jokingly, But the more I think about it, the
Speaker 4: more it makes sense. Travis Scott did come out with
Speaker 4: Jay Uso one time. I believe it was the Netflix premiere,
Speaker 4: and John stated did congratulate Ja after he won the
Speaker 4: I also think this is this will help Jay's promos
Speaker 4: because he always does better as a heel.
Speaker 2: I me know what should think?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Yea, yeah, maybe maybe, But again, I don't think Jay
Speaker 4: turning heel right now is a Jay is on a
Speaker 4: He's in a good place. It took a while for
Speaker 4: Jay to get here, and they eat stuff, they're moving
Speaker 4: a lot of merch with that. They're not going to
Speaker 4: turn him heel. Money talks, despite the fact that you
Speaker 4: may have a decent case here, money money, money, and
Speaker 4: the company is not hinging on Jay USO's uh, you know,
Speaker 4: his his merch revenue. But he's a top guy in
Speaker 4: a championship match at WrestleMania where a lot of fans
Speaker 4: are behind him. He's gotten a decent amount of momentum,
Speaker 4: and he's selling a lot of merch. I wouldn't touch
Speaker 4: Jay in terms of turning him heel. I really wouldn't.
Speaker 4: Jay is a he's likable, he's charismatic. I think he'll
Speaker 4: remain a babyface. But that's just my take, all right,
Speaker 4: So that'll do it here, Scotty, I see your email.
Speaker 4: Briefly you say that, I think, let's see here, although
Speaker 4: that is Scotty. Oh Scotty, so I'm will you the
Speaker 4: one that also messaged me.
Speaker 2: I'm confused.
Speaker 4: Okay, maybe Scotty you also sent me a message on
Speaker 4: a text. I'm not sure I have multiple messages that
Speaker 4: are duplicate. I don't know how that happened from Scotty,
Speaker 4: So Scotty, if if I got that wrong, I apologize,
Speaker 4: all right, Tom, I see your email too. You think
Speaker 4: Drew joins the faction as the last piece, and we
Speaker 4: already have a war games battle setting up with Roman
Speaker 4: Punk Cody j versus Roxena Seth Drew almost working like
Speaker 4: a Star Wars Dark Empire versus the Resist since. Yeah, unfortunately,
Speaker 4: I don't even know. I don't even know the any
Speaker 4: Star Wars references You're gonna really have to spell out.
Speaker 4: Like I'm five, I have seen zero Star Wars. I
Speaker 4: understand zero things in Star Wars other than like, I
Speaker 4: know who R two D two is. I know Princess Leah,
Speaker 4: I know Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker like I could probably
Speaker 4: like I know what they look like, but I know
Speaker 4: zero about the story. I know you know, so I
Speaker 4: appreciate it, though, but my my references of Star Wars
Speaker 4: are like slim th and none. But I appreciate it, Tom,
Speaker 4: thank you, But you're your question is who aligns with
Speaker 4: the Rock and the Rock held three fingers up at
Speaker 4: Bad Blood, aimed at Cody and Roman. One finger was
Speaker 4: presumed presumably Sina. The next you believe the seth Rollins
Speaker 4: and Hayman and something will happen with the Rock. Or
Speaker 4: maybe Hayman, who's working for the Rock, stares at Roman
Speaker 4: and gives the finger and yeah it's possible. Yeah we
Speaker 4: still well, the problem is the Rock just disappears from
Speaker 4: months out of time, and despite the fact that it's
Speaker 4: a big storyline and he's the biggest star in the world,
Speaker 4: it hurts. It hurts the storylines momentum. No one even
Speaker 4: talked about the Rock up until like barely mentioning his
Speaker 4: name in the last few promos. It feels like, you know,
Speaker 4: fourteen years ago that the John Cener turned heel with
Speaker 4: the rocketed Elimination Chamber. It's been like two months. You
Speaker 4: can't tell a story like that. I understand the Rocks like, oh,
Speaker 4: we want to be able to tell a story. Well,
Speaker 4: you got to be here to tell the effing story, dude.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying every week, but for the love of God,
Speaker 4: you can't be taking months off between things like that.
Speaker 4: Fans will only hold their interest for so long and
Speaker 4: you're not capitalizing on it when it's the hottest, but
Speaker 4: you could really get fans totally sunk in. It hurts,
Speaker 4: it sucks. I hate I really don't like when this
Speaker 4: happens with big stars and they do this in the
Speaker 4: goal way, especially with The Rock, who does this. Remember
Speaker 4: he came a bad Blood and then we didn't see
Speaker 4: him til the Netflix premier on Raw and then he
Speaker 4: was just basically Dwayne playing the Rock and then said later, well,
Speaker 4: he's just trying to be nice and nonsense. It's a
Speaker 4: bunch of crap. No, you weren't. It was a total
Speaker 4: derelict of duty, is what it was. But anyway, all right,
Speaker 4: all right, I think we'll stop there. I know there's voicemails, guys,
Speaker 4: I have to pause though. Maybe we'll try to cram
Speaker 4: them in on a later show, but we'll pause there.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it. We're going to get to the live
Speaker 4: show in just a few seconds, so stick around. I
Speaker 4: appreciate everybody, and I'll try to make it into the
Speaker 4: Discord chat again. The links for my shows I'll put
Speaker 4: on Patreon. I'm going to put in our I may
Speaker 4: even put him in the show notes here. And I'm
Speaker 4: definitely gonna put him on on X So look there
Speaker 4: and I'll talk to you guys soon. Welcome to the
Speaker 4: ww podcast, Welcome to the Wrestle. Many of forty one predictions.
Speaker 4: We're doing Night one, we're doing Night two. We're gonna
Speaker 4: be doing potential predictions or spoilers and everything in between.
Speaker 4: We're gonna get to some emails as well through the
Speaker 4: mail bag, and this will be a jam packed episode.
Speaker 4: We'll try to get to voicemails on the back end, offline,
Speaker 4: and I'll stitch the audio together, so we'll do the
Speaker 4: best we can. There got a lot of voicemails. I
Speaker 4: don't know how many we'll get through at the end
Speaker 4: of the show.
Speaker 2: But this is live.
Speaker 4: This is a live show, and there's no filler here.
Speaker 4: There's no safety net for me. If things fall off
Speaker 4: the rails, well then I can't do anything. They fall
Speaker 4: off the rails and I can't edit it out. So
Speaker 4: all right, guys, Russell Madia forty one Tomorrow night. I
Speaker 4: realize SmackDown is going on right now. I realize there
Speaker 4: are things going on. There are final promos, final video packages,
Speaker 4: final pushes for the night, Tomorrow night and Sunday night.
Speaker 4: I realize that there are things going on right now,
Speaker 4: and if you haven't seen SmackDown, I won't really talk
Speaker 4: about them. And really, there isn't going to be anything
Speaker 4: that factors in I don't think on the Friday night SmackDown.
Speaker 2: To my official predictions.
Speaker 4: Everything is pretty much baked in, everything is locked in,
Speaker 4: everything's pretty much set outside of some my small tweaks
Speaker 4: or who gets the little advantage on their way to
Speaker 4: wrestle Mania tomorrow night. But ultimately it's not going to
Speaker 4: change my decisions on who wins, who shows up. All
Speaker 4: of that that shouldn't again, barring some crazy things happening
Speaker 4: on smack Doll that I'm not privy to, that is
Speaker 4: really not going to determine or change my predictions. So
Speaker 4: let's get right to them. I'm going to get right
Speaker 4: to my predictions. I'll throw in some emails maybe in
Speaker 4: between night one and night two, and then I will
Speaker 4: get to maybe voicemails again on back end offline.
Speaker 2: So let's start.
Speaker 4: And again, if we have any anybody who's listening live
Speaker 4: that wants to jump in, let me know in the chat.
Speaker 2: I can bring you.
Speaker 4: On and we can have a conversation briefly about WrestleMania. Now,
Speaker 4: it is interesting this may be to my knowledge, to
Speaker 4: my best, you know, the best areas of my brain
Speaker 4: that I can reach into to figure out. If a
Speaker 4: World Championship match has ever been put on first out
Speaker 4: of WrestleMania, I don't think so. Now, the two night
Speaker 4: format is relatively new. It's only been going on for
Speaker 4: how many WrestleMania thirty seven might have been the first.
Speaker 4: No WrestleMania thirty six, the Silent WrestleMania was the first
Speaker 4: two night WrestleMania, so for thirty five years. Before that,
Speaker 4: it was a one night deal and it was a
Speaker 4: marathon deal. But I think that even in any of
Speaker 4: the formats, this is maybe the first time that we're
Speaker 4: seeing a major championship go on first jay Uso versus
Speaker 4: gun Through And it's confirmed. This is, yes, a projection,
Speaker 4: but this one has been confirmed by WWE that it
Speaker 4: is going to be ja Uso and Gunther starting off
Speaker 4: the pl here. And this program has done exactly what
Speaker 4: I hoped it could do. Because I will be the
Speaker 4: first to admit, like others, that it wasn't the most
Speaker 4: exciting build. It really wasn't the most exciting Royal Rumble Win.
Speaker 4: People were luke warm to jay us so they love Yeat.
Speaker 4: He's connected with the crowd. Is Jauso the best wrestler
Speaker 4: in the world now? But he has charisma and he
Speaker 4: has that X factor which I think can overcome a
Speaker 4: lot of the end ring limitations. And he relies too
Speaker 4: much on the superkick. We all know we're really where
Speaker 4: he shines and where he doesn't. But his match against
Speaker 4: Gunther was a match that we saw just a month
Speaker 4: or two prior to him winning the Rumbles, So it's like, okay, cool,
Speaker 4: we've seen this. But I said that there's a hope
Speaker 4: that we can get to a point where they make
Speaker 4: the story so good that even though we just saw it,
Speaker 4: I'm like, want to see it again. And for weeks
Speaker 4: it was jay Uso kind of just you know, down
Speaker 4: and people people doubt me, people doubt me, bro Yeat
Speaker 4: did people doubt me bro Yeat And it was just, okay,
Speaker 4: I get it, You're you're you're playing the underdog very overtly,
Speaker 4: and it was just, eh, it was okay, didn't help,
Speaker 4: didn't hurt, just kind of there. And then things ramped
Speaker 4: up the last couple of weeks with Jay USO's brother
Speaker 4: Jimmy getting bloodied by Gunther, and then that really ignited things.
Speaker 4: It really brought this rivalry to next the next level.
Speaker 4: And then Jay cuts to the promo of his career
Speaker 4: talking about how he's not afraid of gun Through anymore,
Speaker 4: using his speaking voice, not his promo voice. And then
Speaker 4: you're having this go home promo last week, which was fine.
Speaker 4: It was just you know, a bunch more yeat stuff
Speaker 4: and saying that he's going to have to pray and
Speaker 4: have you ask God to forgive him for who he's
Speaker 4: going to be at WrestleMania. Now, I will have to
Speaker 4: say that Jay, this is not a no holds barred match.
Speaker 4: This is just a regular match. So if you're talking
Speaker 4: about brutalizing and bloodying Gunther, you'll be disqualified. So that
Speaker 4: promise is a bit of a shallow promise. But I
Speaker 4: understand the idea here. So it's going to be a
Speaker 4: fun match. I know we're only on match one here.
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to it as much as I really
Speaker 4: could have hoped. It is a bit of a toss
Speaker 4: up though. This is not an easy match. Another one
Speaker 4: that I would caution anybody who's throwing money, and obviously
Speaker 4: they're in effing Vegas. There's going to be a lot
Speaker 4: of bets on a lot of matches here, whether it's
Speaker 4: in Vegas or other outlets, and this is the one
Speaker 4: I would stay away from. I would not advise people
Speaker 4: put money on this one. This is very difficult. But
Speaker 4: if you want to go ahead, obviously your money. But
Speaker 4: I mean, if as far as I look at this match,
Speaker 4: and I've been back and forth all week, who do
Speaker 4: I think is gonna win?
Speaker 2: Jay U?
Speaker 4: So I think Jay will conquer Gunther the opening match.
Speaker 4: Jay's gonna be the first one out at WrestleMania, get
Speaker 4: the crowd going. Having sixty thousand, seventy thousand people doing
Speaker 4: the yeat with their hands is going to be a
Speaker 4: fun visual and the crowd will explode for him because
Speaker 4: they're fresh, they're ready. It's Jay Us, so let's go.
Speaker 4: And it's a smart move to put it first. Is
Speaker 4: it disrespectful?
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I guess that's up to Guntherer and Jay to decide.
Speaker 4: But I think ultimately Jay's going to win this. He'll
Speaker 4: overcome gun through. I don't want this to be the
Speaker 4: outcome I would have gun Through just destroy him. I
Speaker 4: mean I would have him do a squash match and
Speaker 4: shock the world. They're not going to do that, they
Speaker 4: would never, but that's what I would do. But I
Speaker 4: think this will be a fourteen to fifteen minute match.
Speaker 4: Jay Uso wins the World Heavyweight Championship against Gunther and.
Speaker 2: Uh probably.
Speaker 4: Just like so many manses on the show, a lot
Speaker 4: of kickouts and finishes, and I hate to say that
Speaker 4: we should do a counter like how many finishes over
Speaker 4: the two nights get kicked out? Of how many kickouts finishes?
Speaker 4: I would say over twenty. I mean that's just a
Speaker 4: ballpark guess. I mean, twenty isn't over under it's insane.
Speaker 4: But I bet you over all these matches about twenty
Speaker 4: kickouts of finishes. Somebody should keep itally of this. But
Speaker 4: Jo Soo wins feel good moment for a lot of fans,
Speaker 4: and I think a really good match. I don't think
Speaker 4: I'll be match of the night, but it'll be a
Speaker 4: very solid, entertaining match that back and forth and yet
Speaker 4: and all that. Okay, let's see Raybisterio versus El Grande Americano.
Speaker 4: I will say El Grande Americano is probably gonna get
Speaker 4: I think a lot of a lot of support from
Speaker 4: the crowd. They won't boo Raymisterio. Rayasterio is a legend.
Speaker 4: He's had solid crowd support forever. I don't know if
Speaker 4: there's ever been a heel in w B and El
Speaker 4: Grande Americano. I think we'll get some support as well,
Speaker 4: because I think that there's some love and appreciation for
Speaker 4: what this character is.
Speaker 2: This character is.
Speaker 4: As it's kind of a lighthearted imitation of the luchador
Speaker 4: style wrestling. I know a lot of people are pretending
Speaker 4: to be offended by it. That's I really don't care.
Speaker 4: I think most fans find it fun and this should
Speaker 4: be a fun match as well. I mean, obviously, with
Speaker 4: who we know is under the mask here, it's going
Speaker 4: to be an excellent match, one that probably gets in
Speaker 4: the ten ten minute range and ends up being I'm
Speaker 4: going to guess a probably a El Grande Americano. I
Speaker 4: want Grande Americano to get the victory, but I could
Speaker 4: see Raymons Tereu also pointing out this one does seem
Speaker 4: to also be a little bit on the a little
Speaker 4: bit on the unpredictable side, like a lot of matches
Speaker 4: that wrestle may This is a crazy one, but fun,
Speaker 4: this is lighthearted. I don't know if anyone is gonna
Speaker 4: get involved. I guess you could have, you know, some
Speaker 4: of some support. You could have Chad Gable come in
Speaker 4: an interfere in this match. But that'd be a hell
Speaker 4: of a twist, wouldn't it. I mean, if Chad Gable
Speaker 4: comes out and interferes in this match, that, I mean,
Speaker 4: that's the twist.
Speaker 2: I would do.
Speaker 4: Find somebody that kind of looks like him under the mask,
Speaker 4: throw him in there, and then Chad Gable comes out
Speaker 4: to help him. That's actually be a fun twist.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: So again, jay Uso wins. I'm saying El Grande Americano wins.
Speaker 4: Although Ray Mysterio is again it's kind of a fifty
Speaker 4: to fifty split. It really doesn't matter either for Ray
Speaker 4: and Grande. So all right, let me get through a
Speaker 4: couple more predictions. I'll see if anybody wants to come
Speaker 4: on and give their thoughts here. So the World Tag
Speaker 4: Team Championships, war Raiders and New Day. This one, you know,
Speaker 4: with the reigning champions to war Raiders, I could see
Speaker 4: them dropping the belts to the New Day and then
Speaker 4: dare I say, perhaps we have a returning big Eie. Now,
Speaker 4: that's been a prediction for how many years since Ridge
Speaker 4: Holland broke his neck with an overhead bellied belly suplex
Speaker 4: on SmackDown.
Speaker 2: I believe it was.
Speaker 4: I feels like three years ago now.
Speaker 2: And.
Speaker 4: With the angle with the Big Ee, with Biggie and
Speaker 4: the New Day, Newgate Day getting a bunch of heat
Speaker 4: a number of months ago, and they've cooled off significantly.
Speaker 4: They never really capitalized that, like they peaked when they
Speaker 4: turned on Big Ee, and then they haven't done really
Speaker 4: anything with New Day since then, which has been very disappointing.
Speaker 4: But they're in a tag team championship match and I
Speaker 4: expect them. I expect the New Day to probably regain
Speaker 4: the championships, but it could be I'm hesitant to I'm
Speaker 4: hesitant to bring out Biggie because Bigie could also cost
Speaker 4: them the belt. So dare I say, hmm, how about this?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: I'm changing I'm changing in on the fly because I
Speaker 4: can do that. War Raiders retained because of Biggie. That's
Speaker 4: what I'm gonna call for. All right, Let's go to
Speaker 4: Jade Cargill and Naomi A very well developed story. Jade
Speaker 4: Cargill easily, no doubt about it, the biggest match of
Speaker 4: her career. Naomi certainly a big match for her, uh,
Speaker 4: especially given the fact that she, you know, she turned
Speaker 4: heel is the best version of herself that I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: And we have Jade car Gill, you know, showing some personality.
Speaker 4: But still, I really, I would really caution it with
Speaker 4: this WrestleMania audience. We know what they can do. It's
Speaker 4: a mix of a lot of the you know, the
Speaker 4: quote unquote hardcore audience, the international crowd. A lot of
Speaker 4: people spend a lot of money to be here, and
Speaker 4: it's not typically your families, it's typically your you know,
Speaker 4: your core audience is here, and they can be brutal.
Speaker 4: And I don't think people are connecting with Jade because
Speaker 4: we haven't had a reason to yet. So it's a
Speaker 4: cautionary tale, but one that's not set in stone that
Speaker 4: this could be one that is a flip flop in
Speaker 4: crowd support where people cheer in Naomi and boo Jade.
Speaker 4: It's one of those kind of proceeded with caution pun
Speaker 4: intended on this match, and I think ultimately Jade does
Speaker 4: probably get the win because she's new or newer needs
Speaker 4: a staple victory, even though Naomi's doing excellent work.
Speaker 2: Jade, Yeah, I'm gonna go with Jade. Jade.
Speaker 4: I almost convinced myself otherwise. I think Jade wins the
Speaker 4: match here in a relatively short match. I would be
Speaker 4: surprised if this goes beyond ten minutes. So Jade wins
Speaker 4: the match. And yeah, but crowd support could be fun,
Speaker 4: all right. Jacob Fat Too versus l A Knight for
Speaker 4: the United States Championship. Boy, this match, I don't know
Speaker 4: how I feel about it because I'm worried again about
Speaker 4: crowd support. Jacoba two is the shiny new toy. Jacoba
Speaker 4: two is the is the is the star in the making.
Speaker 4: The fans see it, They're grabbing onto it, They're digging
Speaker 4: their their claws in and seeing if they can go
Speaker 4: along for the ride. At the same time. LA Knight
Speaker 4: is a fan favorite. The fans got behind him a
Speaker 4: couple of years ago and said, hey, what about this.
Speaker 4: Dudew pushed him, pushed him into a championship match with
Speaker 4: Roman Reigns that we all know he wasn't gonna win,
Speaker 4: and then ever since then, he's just been living in
Speaker 4: the United States Championship world and hasn't left since, and
Speaker 4: he's still champion.
Speaker 2: Going in.
Speaker 4: I fully expect Jacob Fatoo. I want to say he's
Speaker 4: gonna win, but there's also Solo Sokoa who could cost
Speaker 4: him and screw him fully turning Jacoba two babyface. I
Speaker 4: I I keep talking myself in and out of these
Speaker 4: decisions because I could see Solo screwing JACOBFA two or
Speaker 4: looking like he doesn't but he meant to actually screw
Speaker 4: him over. But I could also see him still going
Speaker 4: on with Jacob FA two. No turn yet, So perhaps
Speaker 4: that's the way that we go. Let's go to the
Speaker 4: Jacoba two victory. No turn on Solo yet, and or
Speaker 4: if he does, it's after the match, and Jacoba two
Speaker 4: is still champion. So Jacoba two wins the United States Championship.
Speaker 4: All right, two more and then we'll see if anybody
Speaker 4: I haven't really I got.
Speaker 2: To check the studio here.
Speaker 4: I do have a couple of messages, so I'll take
Speaker 4: a look at those in a moment.
Speaker 2: So let me get through night one.
Speaker 4: There's only two more matches that are gonna be at
Speaker 4: Night one, and it's women's Championship. Tioty Stratton Charlotte Flair.
Speaker 4: This is an interesting one as well, very unpredictable night.
Speaker 4: That's kind of the theme here. This has been really
Speaker 4: focused on their promo. This has been focused on the
Speaker 4: outside of the ring stuff. It's been focused a lot
Speaker 4: on x on on Instagram and things that people have
Speaker 4: said about Charlotte Flair. And there was one tweet that
Speaker 4: went around that it was this meme of Charlotte and
Speaker 4: the four cycles that she goes through of win Women's Championship,
Speaker 4: get injured, get a face or get a divorce, and
Speaker 4: you know, get a facelift, returning women win Women's Championship,
Speaker 4: get injured like and it kept going around and Charlotte
Speaker 4: did comment on that. I mean, there is some truth
Speaker 4: to that, but yeah, that that's really what This has
Speaker 4: been focused on a lot outside the ring and Tiffany
Speaker 4: attacking Charlotte personally that apparently went off script, and attacking
Speaker 4: her personal life.
Speaker 2: And her three divorces, and.
Speaker 4: You know, Tiffany being the rookie. This match I don't
Speaker 4: think will be matching the night. I'm not expecting this
Speaker 4: to be matching the night, even though tifty Stratton says
Speaker 4: that she wants.
Speaker 2: It to be.
Speaker 4: I do expect this to be physical. Do I think
Speaker 4: they'll take liberties with each other? I don't, I really,
Speaker 4: I actually don't. They are professionals, they don't want to
Speaker 4: hurt each other. It's not good for anyone.
Speaker 2: To do that.
Speaker 4: So I think they'll be stiff. They're definitely gonna be
Speaker 4: stiff in this match. That's really what we're all looking
Speaker 4: forward to, right is what do they do to each other?
Speaker 4: Are they really getting any real shots in? Because there
Speaker 4: does seem to be some true animosity, So that's the
Speaker 4: interest in this match. Despite that, this build has been
Speaker 4: a little bit uncomfortable, and depending on your view, it
Speaker 4: could be a good uncomfortable or a bad one.
Speaker 2: But we're all still talking about it.
Speaker 4: So, you know, despite Tiffany, or despite Charlotte being just
Speaker 4: generally disinterested in this match, which has been her defense
Speaker 4: mechanism that she's just too good and above this, and
Speaker 4: you know, she doesn't even look at Tiffany and she's
Speaker 4: just this.
Speaker 2: She's basically, as you know, the.
Speaker 4: Kind of what high school girls do. I mean, that's
Speaker 4: just kind of what it is. She's it's very immature
Speaker 4: of Charlotte. Despite the fact that she'll say how mature
Speaker 4: she is, and I don't. I haven't liked Charlotte's demeanor
Speaker 4: at all. I don't mean that in a good heel
Speaker 4: way where I want to see Tiffany beat her up.
Speaker 4: I mean it in a way that's just is. I
Speaker 4: don't even want to like watch her compete. I don't
Speaker 4: want to watch Charlotte in the ring, even though she's
Speaker 4: obviously very good in the ring and we know her legacy,
Speaker 4: she's very insufferable, and again not in a way that
Speaker 4: makes me want to watch her in a match. It
Speaker 4: just makes me want to watch something else. So, you know,
Speaker 4: maybe things change, but I think that ultimately we're going
Speaker 4: to see a fifteenth championship out of Charlotte Flair, and
Speaker 4: you know what, that's how I book it too. I
Speaker 4: would have Charlotte Flair win. The reason people would lose
Speaker 4: their minds. It would get people talking much more than
Speaker 4: if Tiffany retained. I think Charlotte cheats to win, pulls
Speaker 4: a little Rick Flair out and I would as well.
Speaker 4: I would have Charlotte Flair win this thing, all right,
Speaker 4: and then the main event, the weird main event, the
Speaker 4: main event that I have criticized up and down for
Speaker 4: it's just lack of appeal because nothing's on the line
Speaker 4: at all, or what is on the line is laughable
Speaker 4: and nonsensical of just Paul Hayman. We're all fighting over
Speaker 4: a sixty five year old man. Is just it's just silly.
Speaker 4: And you know, they're all butt hurt because the other
Speaker 4: one is talking to Hayman, the other one gets jealous.
Speaker 2: It's like they're recreating.
Speaker 4: Once again, like middle school drama of Oh, you're my
Speaker 4: best friend. No, you're my best friend. You told him
Speaker 4: you were your best friend. Like it feels like that
Speaker 4: that's what this is and I can't I'm I can't
Speaker 4: believe that that's what this is about. And I'm dumbing
Speaker 4: it down. Yeah, I mean, given the Paul Hayman's one
Speaker 4: of the greatest of all time, and see I'm Punkin,
Speaker 4: Rollins and Rains are all Hall of famers, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm just disrespecting the story. I'm not disrespecting the guy involved,
Speaker 4: because they've all done everything that they've been told to
Speaker 4: do and done it as well as they could do it.
Speaker 4: I just don't agree with the premise of this match
Speaker 4: at all. And again, we're blind as fans to what
Speaker 4: this match could be at the end. We don't know
Speaker 4: who could return or what happens here. But I honestly
Speaker 4: don't think there's anything if no one else returns, no
Speaker 4: brock Lesner or nothing like that that they could get
Speaker 4: me interested in who wins, because I don't care who
Speaker 4: wins because there's nothing on the line. I guess implicitly
Speaker 4: it's whoever wins will get Paul Hayman's services, but that
Speaker 4: hasn't been actually outwardly said that that's what's on the line.
Speaker 4: He's in Sampunk's corner. But yet now he owes Seth
Speaker 4: Rollins a favor, and yet now Paul Roman reigns is
Speaker 4: but hurt because Paul Hayman owed a favor to sem
Speaker 4: Punk And there's nothing on the line. So sure, if
Speaker 4: Hayman leaves with Seth Rollins, Okay, that's what most people
Speaker 4: are suspecting. I mean, sure, it's just something we haven't seen.
Speaker 4: But I don't see the value there because Rollins doesn't
Speaker 4: need him. He could turn heel just fine on his own.
Speaker 4: He did it for how many years when he was
Speaker 4: with the authority and then by himself as the Messiah.
Speaker 4: Remember all that, all right? So I just and again.
Speaker 4: The match I'm sure will be excellent. The match quality
Speaker 4: is going to be superb. How can it not be?
Speaker 4: It will be to me though, Punk should not be
Speaker 4: in this match. It should be Rollin's reigns, end of story.
Speaker 4: But they want to talk about Haymen, the Hayman. Hayman's
Speaker 4: the story here and it shouldn't be. So I honestly
Speaker 4: don't care who wins. I just don't care because there's
Speaker 4: nothing at stake for me here. There's nothing at stake
Speaker 4: that would make me go home.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: I hope Roman wins so he gets this, or Punk
Speaker 4: win so he gets this, or Rollin's wins so he
Speaker 4: gets this. Right, there's nothing here for any man other
Speaker 4: than hey, guess what I want?
Speaker 3: Ha ha.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's it.
Speaker 4: This story is bizarre, but I will still watch and
Speaker 4: I'll enjoy the hell out of it. I just have
Speaker 4: to remember that again, we're fans. We have no idea
Speaker 4: what they're planning for this match, and I could eat
Speaker 4: my words. Oh my god, I didn't see that coming
Speaker 4: at the end of the match. Fine, that's what pro
Speaker 4: wrestling is about. But I I just this is a
Speaker 4: this is a weird, weird match for me. But who
Speaker 4: do I think is gonna win? I I mean I
Speaker 4: I would imagine that Seth Rollins wins. He's with Paul Hayman.
Speaker 4: I mean, sure, Seth Rollins wins.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: But I've never been so just indifferent about a Wrestlemaniam
Speaker 4: main event than this one as far as just who wins,
Speaker 4: who I want to win, not quality of match, not
Speaker 4: star power. That's all there, but the big one of
Speaker 4: why fans should care who wins is unfortunately absent from this.
Speaker 4: It just doesn't exist. So in three big baby faces, yeah,
Speaker 4: one of them is turning, right, and most people are
Speaker 4: turning to Seth is the one who's going to turn.
Speaker 4: And it's probably about time, probably about time that Seth
Speaker 4: Rollins turns. Although with the Roman reigns on X lately,
Speaker 4: if you've seen the drama with that and his public
Speaker 4: statements about you know, our president and some politics and stuff,
Speaker 4: people are you know, just getting on him about that,
Speaker 4: and now people are imagining that he's going to get
Speaker 4: booed and all this stuff because he voiced a little
Speaker 4: bit of his political beliefs and who he supports, which
Speaker 4: of course, is never a good idea. If you're a
Speaker 4: public figure of that level, it's never a good idea
Speaker 4: unless you understand the ramifications and don't care to give
Speaker 4: your political opinions. When your opinions, you know immediately are
Speaker 4: going to alienate you with half your audience, and half
Speaker 4: your audience are going to go, oh really, he believes
Speaker 4: that it's never a good idea. I understand he can
Speaker 4: voice his opinions, but you understand also your representing the company.
Speaker 4: It's not just you on your own and and so yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not saying one way or the other
Speaker 4: if you know what he says is good or bad.
Speaker 4: But I'm just saying that his views on those topics
Speaker 4: should be left for another day. But he's no longer active.
Speaker 4: It's just my opinion whether no matter what side of
Speaker 4: the value fall on, whether you're you know, you love
Speaker 4: the president or you hate the president, you just don't.
Speaker 2: You shouldn't. You shouldn't. It's just you shouldn't.
Speaker 4: But now he's going to have to reem the deal
Speaker 4: with the consequences of it, for better or worse. Alrighty, well,
Speaker 4: let me see here, guys. I'm still learning how to
Speaker 4: get through here. I'm still learning how to uh get
Speaker 4: to my Let's see here, all right, let's talk to
Speaker 4: I think I Oh, I know this guy. Uh, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna bring him out for a minute here. Uh hold
Speaker 4: on in one second. I'm I'm doing my best here.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to Yeah, there we go, Jay. What's going on?
Speaker 6: Man? You ready for Wrestlemaniah, I am ready for the
Speaker 6: entire weekend. As matter of fact, you're doing this show
Speaker 6: in the middle of one of the shows this weekend,
Speaker 6: So I'm positive. So I can talk to you.
Speaker 4: Oh, and I feel bad about that I was when
Speaker 4: I were when I set the time like a crap.
Speaker 4: But it has to fit with my schedule unfortunately. So
Speaker 4: but no, that and I saw a little bit of
Speaker 4: seth rollins. I won't spoil anything for anybody, but has
Speaker 4: anything without spoiling SmackDown? Was there anything that happened that
Speaker 4: was really would change WrestleMania, the card, anything like that?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 6: Not yet, but I'm a little behind too.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, So what's your what are your thoughts
Speaker 4: just anything brief about WrestleMania. Some of your big predictions
Speaker 4: or bold ones that you got.
Speaker 6: Well, because I do the NXT review for ww podcasts.
Speaker 6: I'm going to have to wrap that in a little
Speaker 6: bit to my to my statement if that's okay.
Speaker 2: So there are way too many multi.
Speaker 6: Person purpose person matches this year, way too many across
Speaker 6: the boards. They're including the main event, but then also
Speaker 6: the Intercontinental Championship match, and then also NXT. The two
Speaker 6: top titles in NXT are both multi person matches as well,
Speaker 6: plus the last six to one lad match for the
Speaker 6: North American title for women. So like, there's just there's
Speaker 6: a ton of them, like from from the for the
Speaker 6: entire weekend. I just think it's too many for a WrestleMania.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's there's a lot of and I understand probably
Speaker 4: the reason for it is they want a lot of
Speaker 4: people to get exposure on that level. They want to
Speaker 4: be able to say, oh, look, you know, this is
Speaker 4: your biggest match.
Speaker 2: Of your career.
Speaker 4: They want to be able to give everyone a jersey
Speaker 4: to play. But at the same time as a fan
Speaker 4: and yeah, the multiperson matches are overused as a rule
Speaker 4: just on regular shows much less I WrestleMania, wrestle Idea. Yeah, look,
Speaker 4: they're supposed to be it's supposed to be the super
Speaker 4: Bowl of wrestling. We're told that all the time, but
Speaker 4: at the super Bowl of Wrestling, it's it's you don't
Speaker 4: have everyone who was, you know, in the playof at
Speaker 4: the game, like it's for the best of the best,
Speaker 4: and it's just it's morphed into just how many people
Speaker 4: can we crack on the show? And I get it.
Speaker 4: If I'm in the locker room, I'd be like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is awesome. But as a fan, You're like, there's
Speaker 4: just too many people here and I'm so glad, Yeah,
Speaker 4: go ahead.
Speaker 6: And then all of them were no disqualifications, So like
Speaker 6: you've now now you've kind of watered down the no
Speaker 6: disqualification like match if you had one.
Speaker 4: You know, well, I I've been on if you listen
Speaker 4: to me, I've been on the belief that triple thread
Speaker 4: matches shouldn't be tripped, diouldn't be no DQ by default.
Speaker 4: I mean, just because you add another person all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, no rules apply. I mean I did. That
Speaker 4: is just nonsensical to me. Uh but no, I agree,
Speaker 4: And let me ask you this though, for the big matches, though,
Speaker 4: for for the the main roster johnsona Cody Roads, I
Speaker 4: got to get your take on it.
Speaker 6: You know, I honestly think that I think Johnsena's gonna
Speaker 6: pull it.
Speaker 2: Out with help.
Speaker 6: Well, after after last year, I would be stupid if
Speaker 6: I didn't say it was gonna be help.
Speaker 4: So litle bit of bloodline rules kind of a little
Speaker 4: bit of last year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, ok, yeah, but I definitely I think
Speaker 6: I think Sina is gonna do it, and he's gonna
Speaker 6: go a little while as a as a heel champion. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and I think Cody's gonna be gone for a couple
Speaker 6: months just to recover.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, all right, No, I haven't given my
Speaker 4: thoughts on it yet, but I don't think that's the
Speaker 4: worst idea in the world. How about this before I
Speaker 4: let you go, how about the match you're looking forward
Speaker 4: to the most out of both nights.
Speaker 6: Of both nights, I think Ria, Ria, Eo and Bianca.
Speaker 4: I can't disagree with you there. And who do you
Speaker 4: think is coming out on that?
Speaker 6: My heart says Eo, My head says Bianca.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, you're a man after my own heart. I
Speaker 4: I'm on that same boat. I think, yeah, it's it's
Speaker 4: tough one, but I think this one easily could have
Speaker 4: made evented tomorrow night. I mean, yeah, I don't I
Speaker 4: understand that. Oh there, this is a triple thread. And
Speaker 4: look at the names and see I'm punkin Rollins and Rains.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 4: But like these three women, they're in a hell of
Speaker 4: a storyline and they're gonna put on I think match
Speaker 4: of the night. I think this is probably Imagine the
Speaker 4: Night contender by a long shot. And I just don't
Speaker 4: understand why they didn't put it at the main event.
Speaker 4: And I'm with you on that that made no sense.
Speaker 6: I mean the last I mean the last two years
Speaker 6: we've said that the EO. Bailey match was the match
Speaker 6: of the night, and then the year before that there
Speaker 6: Charlotte one. So now we're just kind of bringing everything together.
Speaker 4: That's true. That's very true. So uh well, very good, Jay,
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for stopping by. Feel feel free
Speaker 4: to head on out and watch the rest of SmackDown
Speaker 4: or stick around and listen to the rest of the show.
Speaker 4: I appreciate Yeah, I appreciate it. And uh absolutely, guys,
Speaker 4: if you haven't listened to Jay, he does our nxter
Speaker 4: reviews every single week. Give him a listen. So thanks Jay,
Speaker 4: and enjoy WRESTLEMANI will be in touch. All right, let's
Speaker 4: continue with the card here. We've all gone through night one.
Speaker 4: Let's get to the night to card. Let's get to
Speaker 4: the to big matches here, the ones that a lot
Speaker 4: of people are talking about, for.
Speaker 2: Better or worse.
Speaker 4: So let's go to the Women's World Championship. As Jay
Speaker 4: and I just discussed, Eo Bianca Rhea, a match that
Speaker 4: I was very much in the camp of Bianca versus Rhea.
Speaker 4: Take EO out, EO wins, I don't know where shocks
Speaker 4: the world. We have a new women's champion. What the hell?
Speaker 2: That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 4: But the fans are really behind you, and they've been
Speaker 4: behind you for a while. It's been, I don't want
Speaker 4: to say, a movement. That's kind of an overused phrase today,
Speaker 4: but it's been a progressive momentum for Eo Sky Behind
Speaker 4: the scenes, even during her matches, the fans just all
Speaker 4: of a sudden, even if she's in that just toxic
Speaker 4: damage control group, fans forgot how good she is.
Speaker 2: And then she gets in the ring.
Speaker 4: And fans look, whoa, oh yeah, this this woman's awesome, right,
Speaker 4: and they start cheering for and that's an organic love
Speaker 4: for her. I mean that's stuff that even when she's
Speaker 4: not getting any mic time at all, it's it's a
Speaker 4: respect and it's also a connection that you're forming with
Speaker 4: the fans, and she has that. So I think the
Speaker 4: fans are going to be behind Eo more than Bianca
Speaker 4: or Ria. A close second is Riea and a distant
Speaker 4: third is Bianca. I think Bianca could get booed out
Speaker 4: of the building. It seems to be that way. The
Speaker 4: international fans are back, they've you know, they've made the
Speaker 4: trip overseas.
Speaker 2: They're here.
Speaker 4: We'll hear all the chants, and they'll bring their hatred
Speaker 4: for Bianca with them. And I don't want to hear
Speaker 4: from anybody about racist stuff.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: I only bring that up because I can't hear it anymore.
Speaker 4: It's just nonsensical, right, totally nonsensical that that's you know,
Speaker 4: that that's the reason people boo Bianca.
Speaker 2: But sure believe well, I mean, there are people out there.
Speaker 2: I still believe that.
Speaker 4: And if you believe that, I mean I've I've got
Speaker 4: no I've got no reason to explain to you why
Speaker 4: that's not the case. I've already gone through a chapter
Speaker 4: in verse as to why that's not the case, but sure,
Speaker 4: but Biance is probably gonna get booed out of the building.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be interesting to see what she does with that.
Speaker 4: Does she embrace it, does she ignore it? Does she
Speaker 4: try to resist it? We don't know now. This match,
Speaker 4: as I just mentioned, excuse me, it's probably gonna be
Speaker 4: match of the night on Night two right now it is.
Speaker 4: I think projected for Night two easily easily could be
Speaker 4: a Night one main event. Barring something wild they have
Speaker 4: for Punk, Rollins and Rains, this should have been Night one.
Speaker 4: I know they want to give se him Punk his
Speaker 4: Wrestlemaniam main event, but this isn't about one guy, all right.
Speaker 4: I don't think the fans are that upset. It's really
Speaker 4: only Phil Brooks that that's upset about the fact he
Speaker 4: hasn't had a Wrestlemanium main event.
Speaker 2: But I digress.
Speaker 4: This should be a to the night contender eighteen minutes,
Speaker 4: nineteen minutes, maybe up to twenty minutes. I could be
Speaker 4: extremely over zealous on this, but I'm very much looking
Speaker 4: forward to this matchup with eo Sky. Yes, no wow,
Speaker 4: Eosky should retain Ria. Ripley has no chance. Well, I
Speaker 4: should say the least amount of I think probability to
Speaker 4: win this. It's between Bianca and EO just like Jay said,
Speaker 4: Just like I said, Bianca. If they want to turn
Speaker 4: her full blown heel, Bianca should win this. If they
Speaker 4: want to keep EO Sky champion, they could definitely do
Speaker 4: that and keep it going. But honestly, I think Bianca
Speaker 4: should win it because I want to see what appeal
Speaker 4: Beyonca looks like it's been a long time coming. You
Speaker 4: could get her at some point in the in the
Speaker 4: the feud with Jade and Naomi and have her turn
Speaker 4: on Jade, and if they're still in the Babyface Jade boat,
Speaker 4: you could go there. Plus it would have EO Sky
Speaker 4: in chase mode. Again, that wouldn't be the worst thing
Speaker 4: in the world. So I'm leaning about fifty five percent
Speaker 4: for Bianca and you know, forty five percent for EO Sky.
Speaker 4: I don't say Ria Ripley's zero, but there's just no
Speaker 4: scenario which Ria Ripley winning makes sense. She was just champion,
Speaker 4: she lost it to EO. I understand that it wouldn't Again,
Speaker 4: it's not a horrible choice of Rio one, but it's
Speaker 4: the least interesting by far. So this match is gonna
Speaker 4: be killer if they give the women enough time, and
Speaker 4: they should they better, especially given the fact that they're
Speaker 4: once again not in the main event. And I think
Speaker 4: EO Sky retains, but she's a to me a slight
Speaker 4: slight favorite to I'm sorry, Bianca should win with a
Speaker 4: close second of you Oh Sky retaining. So there it is,
Speaker 4: all right, AJ Styles Logan Paul Another match, another match
Speaker 4: that I keep saying, this also good steal to show.
Speaker 4: Now this one, this one is about moments and spots, right,
Speaker 4: And I don't mean that AJ Styles is a spot guy,
Speaker 4: but it's going to be heavily based on what kind
Speaker 4: of crazy stuff they going to do, right, That's essentially
Speaker 4: what people are thinking.
Speaker 2: In their brains.
Speaker 4: What crazy reversal? What four point fifty eight to twenty
Speaker 4: splash is going to happen? From Logan Paul onto Aj.
Speaker 4: This is not a no DQ match. This is a
Speaker 4: straight up wrestling match from what I understand. So with
Speaker 4: that said, this should limit the craziness of ladders and
Speaker 4: chairs and stuff that I mean, it could happen behind
Speaker 4: the referees back, but it's not going to be used outright,
Speaker 4: you know, during the match, So I expect this mat
Speaker 4: to probably last twelve minutes or so. I don't expect
Speaker 4: this to go obviously going too long, but I definitely
Speaker 4: think that this is going to be a fun, really
Speaker 4: fun match that has the fans, you know, going, oh
Speaker 4: my god, excellent. Now, Logan Paul should win this. Why
Speaker 4: because he's a heel and he needs that WrestleMania victory.
Speaker 4: Let me say this, Logan Paul would gain more from
Speaker 4: winning than AJ would. AJ this point in his career
Speaker 4: is a He's already a Hall of Famer, but he
Speaker 4: can't really be hurt by much. There's not really much
Speaker 4: you could do to AJ's career to damage it, and
Speaker 4: even a loss of WrestleMania. Logan Paul, on the other hand,
Speaker 4: could benefit from this a victory much more and gloat
Speaker 4: about it forever. And I think Logan Paul needs the
Speaker 4: victory here more than AJ. But if AJA wins, it's
Speaker 4: still a feel good moment shutting up the you know,
Speaker 4: the brash, very unlikable Logan Paul. So I think that's
Speaker 4: you know, this is also kind of difficult, but I
Speaker 4: would say Logan Paul should win, and probably does, But
Speaker 4: I'm not you know I don't feel super confident on this.
Speaker 4: All right, I'll go through another prediction here and then
Speaker 4: I'll check on the chat and see if anybody's out there.
Speaker 4: Then wants to give some thoughts on WrestleMania The Women's
Speaker 4: Tag Team Championships Live Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez take on
Speaker 4: Bailey and Lyra. I know a lot of people are
Speaker 4: looking forward to this. I say that kind of with
Speaker 4: a little bit of humor there, because the Women's Tag
Speaker 4: Team Championships have just been such a joke since they
Speaker 4: were introduced. For the most part, not all the time,
Speaker 4: but the vast majority of its existence has been a
Speaker 4: joke and is under some kind of curse by I
Speaker 4: don't know, the Sanderson sisters or something. Please tell me
Speaker 4: you guys understand that reference if I'm dating myself, If
Speaker 4: you don't. The Women's Tag Team Championships, I think are
Speaker 4: gonna change hands here because Bailey and Lyra seem to
Speaker 4: have a nice chemistry. It would freshen things up, It
Speaker 4: would free up the shackles of this the albatross that
Speaker 4: is this Women's Championship from Living Raquel, I think that
Speaker 4: Bailey and Lyra winning is a feel good fun moment.
Speaker 4: Lyra Bailey and Lyra again, as I said, are new.
Speaker 4: They have a nice chemistry. It'd be interesting to see
Speaker 4: where they go. And Raquel Rodriguez is about as interesting.
Speaker 4: I think I made ANALOGI at my show this past week.
Speaker 4: Her personality on air, you know, is about as interesting
Speaker 4: as you know, a house plant. She's just she just
Speaker 4: there's nothing there, you know, she doesn't show anything that
Speaker 4: is that fans go, whoa, you know, And I'm not trying,
Speaker 4: I'm not just respecting on a personal level anything like that.
Speaker 2: It's just professionally.
Speaker 4: I mean, you probably even agree with you to some degree,
Speaker 4: to some extent that this is a character that needs
Speaker 4: to be fleshed out more. The fans just aren't connecting
Speaker 4: with Raquel. They've connected with Live, who has been absolutely
Speaker 4: amazing over the last year and a half. But Racqueal, Yeah,
Speaker 4: she's she's just a strong, big woman that you know,
Speaker 4: does the heavy lifting for Live. And that's all we know.
Speaker 4: And so I think Bailey and Lyra are much more
Speaker 4: suited to win these championships, and in a fairly fairly
Speaker 4: quick match, I don't think this one's going to go
Speaker 4: beyond you know, the ten minute mark, maybe twelve minutes tops.
Speaker 4: So all right, I'll pause there, and we have a
Speaker 4: few more matches here, big matches obviously, with the Intercontinental,
Speaker 4: the Drew mccutire match, and the big big one of
Speaker 4: Cody and John Cena. So let me check here. Somebody
Speaker 4: popped in it out, but I can't see who it was.
Speaker 4: All right, well let's continue. Let's just talk about the
Speaker 4: Interconnental Championship. Guys, Bron Breaker, Penta, Finn Dominic. I've said
Speaker 4: it before, I'll say it again. Please, for the love
Speaker 4: of God, guys, if you are a big on betting
Speaker 4: for WrestleMania, stay away from this match. It will do
Speaker 4: you no favors. You may strike it lucky, but I
Speaker 4: really really would advise anybody who's trying to get into
Speaker 4: this match to make money, don't stay away. Because every
Speaker 4: single one of these candidates has a reason to win.
Speaker 4: Everybody has a legitimate, a legitimate claim to the Intercontinental Championship.
Speaker 4: You can make a case for every single one of
Speaker 4: these men. It is not an easy match. It's a
Speaker 4: match that I would absolutely expect to probably be Match
Speaker 4: of the Night for Night two and be a contender
Speaker 4: for the overall pl E both nights, a contender for
Speaker 4: Match of the Night. This is a I think gonna
Speaker 4: be fifteen minutes, sixteen minutes and be incredible, incredible moments spots. Yes, uh,
Speaker 4: bron Breaker is gonna spear everyone into oblivion, like people
Speaker 4: may actually be split in half. They may have to
Speaker 4: stitch people back together. I think bron Breaker if I
Speaker 4: was to guess, If I was to guess, bron Breaker retains.
Speaker 4: That's my official prediction. But again, every man in this
Speaker 4: match Penta, Baler and Dom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could.
Speaker 4: You could pit Finn and Dom against him one another
Speaker 4: one wins it, But I think the better story is
Speaker 4: one's about to win it, could win it, the other
Speaker 4: one screws the opportunity up the spear one two three,
Speaker 4: the other one hits the spirit and then you know,
Speaker 4: the bron Breaker pins one of them and the other one. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's what I think's gonna happen. Becuse Pence is not
Speaker 4: going to take the pin here. I think Finn Balor
Speaker 4: is probably gonna take the pin from Brown off the
Speaker 4: spear because Dom ends up screwing him all outright or
Speaker 4: has a major screw up, and Ballary just can't take
Speaker 4: it anymore, and that's when the split happens on the
Speaker 4: Monday night ra after WrestleMania.
Speaker 2: So that's my guess.
Speaker 4: All right, let me see if someone else will. I
Speaker 4: think James is out there. Hold on, James, let me
Speaker 4: try to bring you in a second. So we've got
Speaker 4: only two matches left after this and we'll go through
Speaker 4: those predictions and uh, let's let's see here. Let me
Speaker 4: let me bring in uh, let me bring in James.
Speaker 4: H James, what do you think about WRESTLEMANI coming up?
Speaker 2: Are you ready?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm ready.
Speaker 5: I'm just just half half listening to the show and
Speaker 5: half watching Snick down there at the moment. That No,
Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to it. It's going to be good.
Speaker 4: Do you have a specific match that out of both
Speaker 4: nights that you're you know, you're just you're you're you're
Speaker 4: ready for it, like I mean, you can't wait.
Speaker 5: Uh, definitely, the Fatal four Way. I think it's gonna
Speaker 5: be It's going to be a show stop of it,
Speaker 5: and I think the outcome of that will be good
Speaker 5: as well. In regards to what happens between Finland Dom
Speaker 5: that No, I think I think that'll be it would
Speaker 5: be one of my highlights. I'd like to see the
Speaker 5: woman's between Tiffany and Charlotte. I'd like to see I'd
Speaker 5: like to see Tiffany win that. I'm not not a
Speaker 5: fan of Charlotte at the moment. I think she's she
Speaker 5: needs to bow out grace gracefully.
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, it's funny the way we feel about Charlotte.
Speaker 4: It's it's not And people will argue with me that, well,
Speaker 4: if you don't like them that much, that's how you
Speaker 4: know it's a true heal. It's like, no, I don't
Speaker 4: even want to watch her, like I don't. I'm not
Speaker 4: interested in seeing her wrestle. I'm not interested in seeing
Speaker 4: her get beat up. I just don't want to see
Speaker 4: her anymore. And it's just that's how I feel about
Speaker 4: And I also can reckon what she's contributed and how
Speaker 4: good she is in the ring and everything she's done
Speaker 4: for the women's division, but I feel like, just like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm ready for her to just just kind of like
Speaker 4: take your place in the Hall of Fame, and and
Speaker 4: you know that's how I feel as well. And at
Speaker 4: the same time, she's still very good and she could
Speaker 4: have a five Star match if she wants to. So
Speaker 4: it's it's a weird feeling to have about Charlotte.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, definitely, I agree to it. I think I
Speaker 5: think she's done a lot a lot for the business
Speaker 5: and done well, but I think it's time for her to,
Speaker 5: like she take back stiff and just retire gracefully.
Speaker 4: One last question, who do you think? Do you think
Speaker 4: you'll have any big returns tomorrow night? Any surprise returns
Speaker 4: do you think? I mean legendary? Do you think Brock Undertaker, Austin,
Speaker 4: anybody like that or maybe someone were not thinking of,
Speaker 4: like a russev or I don't know.
Speaker 3: Alister Black and Austin Ritturn would be pretty cool, like
Speaker 3: you sid Austin, like he's in his hometown, he's been
Speaker 3: near for the mean some stuff that would be good.
Speaker 5: Take her. He returned last year, but like it was
Speaker 5: out of pace. I don't think he hit a place
Speaker 5: in it this year. Brock coming out with the triple Threat, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that would be cool, but unlikely. I think.
Speaker 4: I would agree, Yeah, Brock Leaser, it would be a weird.
Speaker 4: It would be a fun moment. People would lose their minds.
Speaker 4: But I think it's I'm not predicting it to happen.
Speaker 4: It would just it's unlikely as hell, but I think
Speaker 4: it's possible in the universal possibilities.
Speaker 2: So very good.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you so much, James. I hope you enjoy WrestleMania.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you listening. I just put you back on mute,
Speaker 4: and yeah, I enjoyed. I apologize if you're splitting watching
Speaker 4: SmackDown and watching me or listening to me. I didn't
Speaker 4: exactly time my show the best, but it was the
Speaker 4: only time that I could can do this tonight.
Speaker 2: So unfortunately, I hope people.
Speaker 4: Like, what did you do in the middle of this
Speaker 4: back it's because I had to, so I apologize for that, guys,
Speaker 4: but thank you for taking the time, James, and I
Speaker 4: hope you and enjoy WrestleMania. We're about to get eight
Speaker 4: hours of wrestling in our faces over the next forty
Speaker 4: eight hours, So all right, let's get to the last
Speaker 4: two matches here. One of them we talked about here
Speaker 4: with James. First one though, is Drew and Jamien a
Speaker 4: Sin City street fight. This should lead to a Drew
Speaker 4: mcatire victory. Drew mamctire. Many of us feel that he
Speaker 4: deserved better for WrestleMania. No disrespect to Damien, who has
Speaker 4: really excelled over the last year, especially after leaving the
Speaker 4: judgment day after Hyeah, teaming with Rhea for a bit
Speaker 4: the Terror Twins and having a great really I don't know,
Speaker 4: have great story, an overachieving run as world champion.
Speaker 2: We forget he was world champion. He was.
Speaker 4: I think that still Drew with everything he's contributed, who's
Speaker 4: been a top guy, who has just who has been
Speaker 4: able to really over kind of he's been in I
Speaker 4: don't know if reinvents the word, but alter is character
Speaker 4: to where we haven't seen a heel like him in
Speaker 4: a while. That he's the guy that tells the truth
Speaker 4: and that's why people hate him, and that's the heel
Speaker 4: character he was able to provide us.
Speaker 2: And I've loved it. I've loved it.
Speaker 4: I think Drew deserved better after all the contributions over
Speaker 4: the past year, year and a half, and he should
Speaker 4: have been in a high, more high profile position. Now
Speaker 4: that doesn't mean he can't still do something else said WrestleMania,
Speaker 4: I still think there's a strong possibility he could show
Speaker 4: up and align himself with Dwayne. I've heard that. I
Speaker 4: don't think that's the worst thing in the world. I've
Speaker 4: heard Seth joining Dwayne. I mean, we've heard all these things. Drew, though,
Speaker 4: I think, is probably slated to do something bigger than
Speaker 4: we're seeing. I don't think Damien and Drew, even if
Speaker 4: Drew loses, is going to be the only thing that
Speaker 4: Drew McIntyre does at WrestleMania. I don't think with Drew's
Speaker 4: talent and star power and momentum, that this is the
Speaker 4: only thing he does at WrestleMania. I think he'll have
Speaker 4: a say in some other match, and that's just my guess.
Speaker 4: So who wins this though? I think Drew should. He
Speaker 4: should win this, But they also at WrestleMania like to
Speaker 4: make sure babyfaces win a lot of the matches, so
Speaker 4: they have that going for Damien. Kind of a fifty
Speaker 4: to fifty split. For me, I would let me just
Speaker 4: go with Drew because he should win. It's the right
Speaker 4: decision in a very hard fought match. I don't care
Speaker 4: if he cheats to win. He should win. Let me
Speaker 4: get to the big One. Cody Rhodes John Cena for
Speaker 4: the WWE Championship. Now, before we get to the Tom
Speaker 4: foolery of the finish, which is I think gonna be
Speaker 4: similar to last year, but obviously not exact. This up
Speaker 4: until that crazy point should be fun slower paced match. It'll,
Speaker 4: i think, be a nice change of pace from the
Speaker 4: other matches we're going to see, especially fatal four way
Speaker 4: match with the interconmental title, which is just going to
Speaker 4: be a car crash of epic proportions in a good way,
Speaker 4: and especially with aj styles Logan Paul that's going to
Speaker 4: be very high, high pace match and EO Bianca and
Speaker 4: Ripley I think will be the same way. So this
Speaker 4: will be a nice slower match to end the show,
Speaker 4: which is I'm a big fan of slower pace matches,
Speaker 4: which because I know that let me. I want to
Speaker 4: see high flying boom boom boom, But then you're not
Speaker 4: appreciative of the matches and moves you're seeing. It's just
Speaker 4: give me the next thing, next thing, next thing. It's
Speaker 4: like fireworks let me in a very superficial If you
Speaker 4: do things slower, that means there's more intentionality behind it.
Speaker 4: You can you can tell your story better. Fans are
Speaker 4: able to digest a little bit better what you're doing
Speaker 4: and maybe why especially I'm not saying you need to
Speaker 4: move in slow motion, but there's time to pick it
Speaker 4: up in a match. But generally it should be a
Speaker 4: easy to watch pace. And I think this is what's
Speaker 4: going to be. And also because of John Zena can't
Speaker 4: move at a very high pace, He's never been able to,
Speaker 4: uh in terms of the you know, the lighterweight guys.
Speaker 4: So this match up to that point, it think it's
Speaker 4: me just fine. I think they'll be about probably eighteen
Speaker 4: or nineteen Crossroads kicked out of up until the point
Speaker 4: that the Rock shows up. So I mean, honestly, guys,
Speaker 4: how many Crossroads are going to be kicked out of
Speaker 4: tomorrow night? I hope it's none. I hope they start
Speaker 4: to really re educate fans on what finishers should be.
Speaker 4: I really hope, instead of just always using finisher kickouts
Speaker 4: as a crutch for a pop and a match. But
Speaker 4: I have a feeling it's going to be about four
Speaker 4: Crossroads probably that it's gonna take to put John Cena
Speaker 4: down if he does or tries to. So ho am
Speaker 4: I predicting? I'm predicting John Cena wins. Why not? Just
Speaker 4: because I don't like the Cody Rhoades babyface character. But
Speaker 4: most importantly because it is the right thing for business,
Speaker 4: John Cena winning would be infinitely more interesting of what's
Speaker 4: he gonna do. He claimed he was gonna ruin pro wrestling.
Speaker 2: Excuse me.
Speaker 4: He talked about the Spinner Belt and what he's going
Speaker 4: to do with that and how he's going to take
Speaker 4: the championship and go home. So I think John Cena wins,
Speaker 4: and I think it's going to be, you know, breaking
Speaker 4: Rick Flair's record is going to be you know, mentioned
Speaker 4: obviously made a big deal of he could have his
Speaker 4: own celebration even though he's you know, saying he's going
Speaker 4: to take the belt and go home. There's a ways
Speaker 4: to work around it. I think, I'm would create much
Speaker 4: more of a buzz and interest of what's John Cena
Speaker 4: gonna do? Because Cody Roads has held the belt for
Speaker 4: a year respectable. Not the most interesting run over the
Speaker 4: last year, that's for sure, But if you're a Cody
Speaker 4: Roads fan, nothing wrong with the year now. John Cena wins.
Speaker 4: But how I mentioned the Rock, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 4: He's going to be there tomorrow night or sorry, Sunday night.
Speaker 4: He'll have a say he'll probably as as Cody Roads
Speaker 4: hits the crossroads, maybe the Rock is already at ringside.
Speaker 4: Remember that ramp is very very long, like many wrestlers
Speaker 4: any ramps, So maybe the rocks already at ringside supporting Cody.
Speaker 4: Or the rock comes down as Cody Roads hits a
Speaker 4: couple of crossroads and everybody's down, and here comes the rock.
Speaker 4: Rock hits a rock bottom on Cody Rhodes and he's
Speaker 4: about to pull the ref or he's about to pull
Speaker 4: John Cena on top of Cody and wake up the ref.
Speaker 4: And remember this is not a no DQ, so be
Speaker 4: mindful of that. And then the glass shatters. If the
Speaker 4: glass don't shatter, I I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know what I'm gonna do. I can't.
Speaker 4: I may have to actually search for a therapist because
Speaker 4: I can't go through that again like last year. I
Speaker 4: don't need a gong, I don't need anything. I don't
Speaker 4: I don't need any any other music or sounds other
Speaker 4: than a glass shattering and a stone cold stunner being
Speaker 4: delivered to the rock. Now that that should happen, I
Speaker 4: understand that. Oh, fans know what's gonna happen. So we
Speaker 4: shouldn't do it.
Speaker 2: I don't care. It's a worst kept secret. I don't care.
Speaker 4: It should still happen. Not everything needs to be a surprise.
Speaker 4: That's one thing that doesn't need to be a surprise
Speaker 4: to be a lot of fun, and that should happen
Speaker 4: and just a nostalgic moment. Just for all the history
Speaker 4: of the Rock and Austin have with each other, it
Speaker 4: should be just that they better do that.
Speaker 2: They have to do that.
Speaker 4: Now the Rock will neutralize or I'm sorry, awesome will
Speaker 4: neutralize the Rock. That doesn't mean that Cody ros is
Speaker 4: gonna retain here because johnsona likely has another ally or
Speaker 4: trick up a sleeve. Is the Ally Seth is the
Speaker 4: Ally Drew perhaps, So whoever that ally is, whether it's
Speaker 4: a person or a foreign object, will be the difference maker.
Speaker 4: After Austin neutralizes the Rock, where you think Austin's gonna
Speaker 4: come out, He's gonna save the day. He's gonna help
Speaker 4: Cody Roads retain and it'll be just like last year
Speaker 4: and Austin again. He'll stun the Rock leave and then
Speaker 4: you know the Rock's out. So he's the non factor
Speaker 4: and i'd like to see him and see him stunt
Speaker 4: John Cena. That'd be a lot of fun, and maybe
Speaker 4: Austin gets physically involved. I mean, I don't know, maybe
Speaker 4: just beyond the stunner of the Rock he does do more,
Speaker 4: but I have a feeling it's probably not much more.
Speaker 4: So Okay, fine, they neutralize each other and then here comes,
Speaker 4: you know, the the backup plan, the insurance policy, whatever
Speaker 4: it may be. John Cena, Hookcrook help will win after
Speaker 4: Austin and the Rock do their thing. So that's to
Speaker 4: me what's gonna happen. And Cody Rhodes loses the championship
Speaker 4: to John Cena in a explosive, memorable finish to that match.
Speaker 4: That'll further cement John Cena as a heel. No need
Speaker 4: to over complicate it more than that, no need to
Speaker 4: overbook it like last year. I know many people feel
Speaker 4: that it was the best five minutes of WrestleMania main event history.
Speaker 4: I don't think it was, but I know why people do.
Speaker 4: It's very nostalgic. Oh my god, everyone's coming out, but
Speaker 4: there's like no reasons why any of these people have
Speaker 4: anything any beef with anybody outside of I think at
Speaker 4: the point where it was solo and John Cena, who
Speaker 4: had a match earlier in that year. Anyway, that's how
Speaker 4: I see it going down. So let me recap, let
Speaker 4: me recap Night one all the way down. I'll give
Speaker 4: you my winners.
Speaker 2: Ready.
Speaker 4: Jay Uso wins the World Championship. El Grande beats Ray Mysterio.
Speaker 4: The war Raiders retained because of Big Ee Jade beats Naomi.
Speaker 4: Jacob Fatu wins the US Championship. Charlotte Flair Women's wins
Speaker 4: the Women's Championship for the fifteenth fifteenth time. I think
Speaker 4: so I picked Seth Rollins to win the triple threat
Speaker 4: Eo Sky to lose to Bianca and Rio, so I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Bianca wins the Women's Championship, the World Championship. Logan Paul
Speaker 4: beats aj Styles Bailey and Laarra Vakiria capture the women's
Speaker 4: tag team titles. Bron Breaker retains the Intercontinental title in
Speaker 4: a fatal four way and it just what I hope
Speaker 4: is going to be, just an incredible match. And Drew
Speaker 4: McIntyre beats Damien and John Cena beats Cody Rhoades to
Speaker 4: become w WE Champion. So and almost John Cena has
Speaker 4: to win because all this heel term was for not
Speaker 4: if he doesn't, I mean, like you turn him heel
Speaker 4: and then he loses and then okay, he's still a heel,
Speaker 4: but you don't care because he lost the championship. The
Speaker 4: heat will continue if he's champion. There's almost no other
Speaker 4: way to go about this. Cody is champion, retaining would
Speaker 4: be ultra boring because then okay, John Sena is still
Speaker 4: here heel and he'll you know, okay, cool, like then
Speaker 4: what but if you have seen a win, much more interesting?
Speaker 2: What do we do?
Speaker 4: How do we get the belt back? Gonna do what
Speaker 4: he said? That kind of thing. So certainly going to
Speaker 4: be a hell of a night, tell of a two nights,
Speaker 4: and I know that you guys will be much very
Speaker 4: active on Twitter, active in our discord chat, active in
Speaker 4: our community. As you know, not just WrestleMania, but you
Speaker 4: have xt stand up and deliver. Yeah, of course if
Speaker 4: you have independent shows, they're all over the place. Just
Speaker 4: a crazy weekend of wrestling. And then not to mention
Speaker 4: the Monday night after WrestleMania, the Monday night after WrestleMania
Speaker 4: is right there, So all right, that'll do it for
Speaker 4: our show tonight Live show. Thank you guys for joining us,
Speaker 4: and we're gonna go through offline. We're going to go
Speaker 4: through some emails if I have time, and some voicemails.
Speaker 4: So thanks everybody. Enjoy wrestle Mania.
Speaker 2: We'll talk next time.
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