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Speaker 3: huge show, Huge show today with the mailbag combined with
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Speaker 1: I did get this out a little bit later as
Speaker 1: my day was just too crazy, so I will hopefully
Speaker 1: give you enough time to listen to this and get
Speaker 1: it in before the Royal Rumble event, which again is
Speaker 1: twenty four hours from now. Huge night, Huge, huge night
Speaker 1: coming with potential returns, so much speculation, women's returns, A
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Speaker 1: gotten several of them over the last several days and
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Speaker 1: Let's get to our mailbag and let's talk to those
Speaker 1: who sent in emails this week, and we'll get through
Speaker 1: them as quickly as we can, because I know y'all
Speaker 1: want to hear about the royal rumble and the potential returns.
Speaker 1: What my thoughts are, and we're going to get to that,
Speaker 1: all right, So let's hear from Andrew. Andrew is a patron.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being a patron, Andrew, and he says, Hey, Matt,
Speaker 1: I wanted to share my thoughts on the transfer window.
Speaker 1: I'm actually a fan of the recent transfers. Priest to
Speaker 1: SmackDown Bailey to Raw it shakes up rivalries right before
Speaker 1: Mania season. I also enjoyed seeing Tiffany and Rhea together.
Speaker 1: Why does it bother me that this transfer window sees
Speaker 1: more seems more impactful than the actual draft. They hype
Speaker 1: up the draft for weeks just to see us have
Speaker 1: Carmelo Hayes go. Number one. The transfer window that seemingly
Speaker 1: came out of nowhere has been brand shattering. Also, does
Speaker 1: the transfer window ever end? It feels like w W
Speaker 1: has been using as an excuse for two months and
Speaker 1: quick rumble predictor predictions for the women Charlotte for the men.
Speaker 5: L A.
Speaker 1: Knight all right, Andrew from Flint, thank you good points
Speaker 1: here about the transfer window Number one? Yeah, did I
Speaker 1: miss something? Did w just not give us a deadline?
Speaker 1: Or did they give a deadline and then stop reminding
Speaker 1: us what that was because they didn't want to have
Speaker 1: to stick to it. I don't know. I've been very,
Speaker 1: you know, very much against the draft in principle only
Speaker 1: because they don't stick to their rules. As you guys know,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say that. In principle, the draft is a
Speaker 1: good idea, I think generally, But the problem is they
Speaker 1: they don't adhere to their own rules and break them
Speaker 1: when they want out of convenience and they want to
Speaker 1: have their cake and eat it too is what they want.
Speaker 1: So this transfer window, it does seem more impactful. You
Speaker 1: know why, because the draft is, especially when it comes
Speaker 1: to draft order, is preposterous. I mean, it was very much.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get into the politics of it,
Speaker 1: because I think there were some politics to this, I
Speaker 1: really do. So let's look at the WWE draft order
Speaker 1: right in twenty twenty four, every draft pick that happened
Speaker 1: in April of twenty twenty four. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a look at this. It's absolutely ridiculous. Ready, you want
Speaker 1: to Night one Round one, SmackDown chose Bianca. Now, you
Speaker 1: guys know, I'm a huge fan of Bianca, but she
Speaker 1: wasn't doing jack around this time at all, and she
Speaker 1: hasn't done anything since. How are those first round draft
Speaker 1: picks going for you? Raw chose Jay Uso. That's a
Speaker 1: solid pick, but I wouldn't say he's the first overall
Speaker 1: pick for Raw. Then SmackDown gets Carmelo Hayes, a guy
Speaker 1: that can't find his identity, that gets from a main crowd,
Speaker 1: a main roster crowd perspective, doesn't get exactly the biggest reaction.
Speaker 1: And then Raw chose Seth Rollins. That's a little bit
Speaker 1: more of a I guess some more logical pick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right. How the hell is Carmelo Hayes in the
Speaker 1: first round? He belongs in like the fifth, sixth. Then
Speaker 1: we get round two, which had Randy Orton, bron Breaker,
Speaker 1: Nia Jackson, Live Morgan. All right, Randy Orton makes more
Speaker 1: sense if you're going for star power and you're going
Speaker 1: for in ring ability. I mean, Randy Orton should have
Speaker 1: been like an overall pick. Right, This is very much
Speaker 1: a it's for optics, Okay. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: the order of those draft picks is more about perception
Speaker 1: from the outside world, from stakeholders, shareholders and sponsors. Guys
Speaker 1: read between the lines, why do they want these people?
Speaker 1: Nothing again? Bianca top talent, jay Uso top talent, Carmelo
Speaker 1: Hayes top talent. Well I shouldn't say that, sorry, potential
Speaker 1: future top talent, but urrently way down on the totem pole.
Speaker 1: Why would they do that? M I have my suspicions.
Speaker 1: I have my suspicions that I know that if I
Speaker 1: said it on the show, people would say stuff. But
Speaker 1: you got to remember what time we're living in, the
Speaker 1: perception we're living in the type of company that owns
Speaker 1: w now and what their values are, which are very explicit.
Speaker 1: I'm not interpreting them. They are what they are. I
Speaker 1: think some of that had to do with that, because
Speaker 1: in what world would Randy Orton be picked in the
Speaker 1: second round with over Camalo Hayes all right, Kamalo Hayes
Speaker 1: is that's ridiculous. Also, how did the Bloodline solots to
Speaker 1: call it, Tomatana and Paul Hayman get chosen in the
Speaker 1: third round? How did La Knight get chosen in the
Speaker 1: third round? He was hot on fire at that point.
Speaker 1: Aj Styles Granted he's at injuries, but Aj Styles at
Speaker 1: one point the face of the company is in the
Speaker 1: fourth round. How does that work? So it's just absurd.
Speaker 1: You can draw your own conclusions. You can probably read
Speaker 1: between the lines of what I'm thinking. The reason is ultimately,
Speaker 1: this transfer window back to the point at hand, is
Speaker 1: open for as long as they want it to be.
Speaker 1: That's what it is. That's the rule. That's what the
Speaker 1: they're going for is it's as long as we need
Speaker 1: it to be open to set up the WrestleMania card.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing that kills me. They're doing this
Speaker 1: transfer window, but if they don't adhere to the brand rules, anyway,
Speaker 1: then there's just why even have this, because you're just
Speaker 1: going to have a crossover for no reason anyway, with
Speaker 1: no explanation. I don't know. I just they don't have
Speaker 1: a brand split, but they want to say they do.
Speaker 1: That's what this is. Okay, thank you, but yeah, no,
Speaker 1: the transfers have been good. I mean, if they're actually
Speaker 1: sticking to the rules. Here a priest to SmackDown feels fresh.
Speaker 1: Bailey de raw, I like it helps her, helps him,
Speaker 1: Tiffy and Rhea, Yes, I agree, I totally agree. All right, AJ,
Speaker 1: let's get to your email, and AJ says, really looking
Speaker 1: forward to my favorite pl e or you said pay
Speaker 1: per view. I like paper. I still miss the phrase
Speaker 1: pay per view. I enjoy not having a clear winner
Speaker 1: in month months in advance, like Cody and Bailey last year.
Speaker 1: I do have some personal nightmare scenarios and things I
Speaker 1: don't want to see, like the Rock winning to face Cody,
Speaker 1: and I've seen some people theorize that Roman could win
Speaker 1: and Punk would use his favor to make a triple
Speaker 1: threat with Cody. Either way, I just don't want either
Speaker 1: one because I'm tired of the bloodline hogging all the
Speaker 1: main event. Matches for WrestleMania. They've had the last five.
Speaker 1: The last one they didn't have was Kevin Owns and
Speaker 1: stonecolds the Boston and I think it's time to move on.
Speaker 1: That's a great point.
Speaker 5: JJ.
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about that. Everything all the time
Speaker 1: is Bloodline, And even on this show, I've complained at
Speaker 1: times like, Okay, it's getting old, we need to move on. Bloodline,
Speaker 1: civil War, this version of the lat They keep evolving
Speaker 1: the story to keep the general audience hooked. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: they keep hogging the storylines. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: look at the ratings minute by minute. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna guess that you don't, but if you did, you
Speaker 1: could see that these particular stars drew draw in the fans.
Speaker 1: This story of the Bloodline still does have a spike
Speaker 1: in viewership. And listen to the crowd when they're in
Speaker 1: the arena. It speaks for itself. So I agree that
Speaker 1: from a distance it's like, oh my god. But until
Speaker 1: the crowd changes its mind that they don't want to
Speaker 1: see this anymore, w W is gonna keep cranking out
Speaker 1: different versions and different variations, and the Bloodline splits and
Speaker 1: gets back together and there's turns and there's Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: gonna keep going. I don't have a super solid prediction.
Speaker 1: Sena plus one fifty and Punk plus one seventy five
Speaker 1: are the current betting favorites, but I don't think Sina
Speaker 1: will win because he's so heavily advertised for the chamber.
Speaker 1: That's a great point, aj An excellent point. Excellent If
Speaker 1: John Cena, as he has said prior to his twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five debut of his uh you know farewell tour
Speaker 1: that I mean, boy, you talk about, uh, he's got
Speaker 1: the Roman reign schedule. You know he's not here every week.
Speaker 1: If if people thought he was gonna be here every week,
Speaker 1: you're sadly now mistaken and getting a slap of reality.
Speaker 1: But the key here is that i'd even think about
Speaker 1: until aj brought it up. He said, the rumble will
Speaker 1: be my last rumble. The elimination chamber will be my
Speaker 1: last chamber, which hinted that he'll be in the chamber.
Speaker 1: I would imagine he would be otherwise, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: to one on one match outside, but I doubt it
Speaker 1: he'll be in the men's chamber, which why would he
Speaker 1: be in the men's chamber? Match if he won the Rumble,
Speaker 1: You're not why would the World Rumble winner be there.
Speaker 1: They've already got a guaranteed spot wrestle any what the
Speaker 1: hell are they doing in there? You know? So he
Speaker 1: kind of gave it away up front. I think you're
Speaker 1: exactly right. Ooh, you may be onto something, all right.
Speaker 1: I'll be ritting for Punk, Drew or Orton if he enters,
Speaker 1: but honestly, I think it'll be Roman. I hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: Charlotte is the betting favorite for the women, but I
Speaker 1: hope that doesn't happen either. I would like to see
Speaker 1: Bianca win, but I think the Jade step will overshadow
Speaker 1: so that so I'm hesitantly picking Charlotte. Her and Stratton
Speaker 1: seem like a match Wwe would love to help Stratton
Speaker 1: get over and look like a star he has. It's
Speaker 1: kind of ridiculous that you can bet on scripted sporting
Speaker 1: events and wish me luck. I'm not being stuck working
Speaker 1: too late Saturday. Oh I do wish you luck. The
Speaker 1: good thing is we're in the era of streaming, so
Speaker 1: as long as you stay off social media, which is difficult,
Speaker 1: especially if you have notifications enabled. Sometimes I do that,
Speaker 1: I stay off social media, but then I get a
Speaker 1: notification from like WE or from X, and I'm like, no, right,
Speaker 1: it's like I don't want to see that, and then
Speaker 1: it spoils the whole. So here's the key. Since we're
Speaker 1: in the era of streaming and we're in a luxurious
Speaker 1: time in our lives where we're able to just see
Speaker 1: things on demand even when they're live, turn your notifications
Speaker 1: off for social media. That way, if you do have
Speaker 1: to work late and you don't want things spoiled, you
Speaker 1: can always start from the beginning and not have any
Speaker 1: spoilers to be worried about. So cool, Thank you, AJ.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see here. Uh, let's talk to I.
Speaker 1: Wait now, I already already talked to Andrew. Sorry, I
Speaker 1: was gonna read your It's gonna read your email twice.
Speaker 1: It was so nice, all right. Doc to DJ and
Speaker 1: he says, it's here the Royal Rumble, the pl that
Speaker 1: most of us would probably say is their favorite ple
Speaker 1: of the core four. This will be Triple H's third
Speaker 1: rumble is chief Content Officer, and I got to say
Speaker 1: his past rumbles have been, in my opinion, kind of
Speaker 1: obvious with the choices of the winners for both men
Speaker 1: and the women in twenty twenty three Cody and Rhea,
Speaker 1: and then the last year Rumbles winner Rumble winner and Cody,
Speaker 1: Rhodes and Bailey. However, this year's Rumble has an open
Speaker 1: field of credible and potential challengers, plus the women's Rumble
Speaker 1: looks to be probably the best it's ever been with
Speaker 1: a stacked a roster of SmackDown Raw NXT. And don't
Speaker 1: forget TNA, as Jordan Grace will be making another appearance,
Speaker 1: or maybe even Masha Slamovich. Did I say that right?
Speaker 1: Probably not TNA's knockout champ, or maybe the recent TNA
Speaker 1: return of Tessa Blanchard could make an appearance at the Rumble.
Speaker 1: Don't forget about my guy, Joe Henry. All you gotta
Speaker 1: do is say his name. That's it. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: that simple, all right. Here's your predictions. No spoilers, so again,
Speaker 1: not my predictions, guys. This is DJ's predictions. Cody versus
Speaker 1: Kevin Ladder match for the untersputed title. Cody retains second.
Speaker 1: DIY versus the Motor City machine Guns two out of
Speaker 1: three falls with the w Tag team titles. DIY retains
Speaker 1: all right, straightforward. Three Women's Rumble Match three dark Horse
Speaker 1: picks Naya Live Morgan or a possible returning oscar Ooh,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, we're getting We're getting in there now.
Speaker 1: Two potential picks Bianca or Charlotte. However, my number one
Speaker 1: pick to win the twenty twenty five Women's Royal Rumble
Speaker 1: non none other than Eo Sky. Yoke Sky has been
Speaker 1: a crowd favorite for quite a while since Damage Control
Speaker 1: became Babyfaces, and since she's always had really good matches.
Speaker 1: My only concern is her character. Who is she? What
Speaker 1: is her backstory? For those that never saw her on
Speaker 1: a next year in Japan? I think wwe could work
Speaker 1: on that if she wins the Rumble. Interesting? Interesting, all right.
Speaker 1: The men's were Rumble Match three dark Horse picks Logan,
Speaker 1: Paul True McIntyre or a possible final Boss I e.
Speaker 1: The Rock. Two potential picks Roman or John Cena. However,
Speaker 1: the number one pick to win the Rumble j Uso.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, Main event, jay Uso. I really think it's
Speaker 1: his time to get that moment, to finally get that
Speaker 1: Rumble moment. Jay's been a crowd favorite for a while
Speaker 1: since the Left the og bloodline in twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: and King de Raw. I believe that this year Jay
Speaker 1: Usso finally lives up to his main event name and
Speaker 1: potentially becomes world champion in WrestleMania with a very stacked
Speaker 1: women's and men's rumble this year. I don't think there
Speaker 1: might be it might be any returns, however, I could
Speaker 1: probably think of four omas. Yeah, people can forget about
Speaker 1: a moss aj styles. Nicky I don't really get you know,
Speaker 1: let me just pause there. Nicki Bella is pretending there's
Speaker 1: some kind of grassroots movement, some kind of just some
Speaker 1: kind of organic desire from the fans that's growing for
Speaker 1: her to return. Like no one is asking Nicki Bella
Speaker 1: to return now if she wants to do a one
Speaker 1: off as many of the women do for yesteryear and
Speaker 1: the men's match too, for the rumble, which is fun.
Speaker 1: You know, you have Diesel, You have Diesel one year.
Speaker 1: You know the Honky Tonk man like things like that. Fine,
Speaker 1: you want to have a moment like that Nicky comes
Speaker 1: out and does her stripper pole dance that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just have no time for that. I don't need
Speaker 1: this anymore. I'm sorry, I wasn't a Nicky Bella fan
Speaker 1: when she was in her prime, if there was such
Speaker 1: a thing. I find her her character extremely one dimensional.
Speaker 1: I don't think she's that good in the ring. She
Speaker 1: does nothing thing for me at all. This is my
Speaker 1: personal opinion Nikki Bella. I don't understand. She's the only
Speaker 1: one who's believing her own hype, I think is what
Speaker 1: the problem is. But she could absolutely appear and Becky
Speaker 1: Lynch Yeah, okay, okay, maybe brock Lessener or do I
Speaker 1: dare say Goldberg? No? Please, please don't say it. Hopefully
Speaker 1: you don't say his name and he appears all right anyway,
Speaker 1: Djikuzmas signing off, have a great weekend, enjoy the Rumble,
Speaker 1: and I'll try to appear in the discord chat for Saturday.
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Speaker 1: I've We've got a lot to get through here, so
Speaker 1: let's get to it. Let's get to our first patron
Speaker 1: who message me directly through the system, which I always
Speaker 1: do appreciate. This is Scott and he says, hope you're
Speaker 1: doing well, A couple things for the mailbag and listening
Speaker 1: to the raw review it got me thinking about significant
Speaker 1: moments that got me watching wrestling. So for me, it
Speaker 1: was being eight years old at school and being told
Speaker 1: about stone Cold Steve Boston and watching role the following
Speaker 1: Saturday morning and being hooked. Ever since I'm now thirty
Speaker 1: nine years old, what a time that was. Well, Scott,
Speaker 1: we share the same birth year, I would imagine then
Speaker 1: and I can't. Yeah, Well, first of all, you were eight,
Speaker 1: So if you're my age and you're eight, that means
Speaker 1: you started watching wrestling in like, how are you eight?
Speaker 1: You're hearing about stone Cold? Stone Cold Steve Boston didn't
Speaker 1: really start until like ninety seven is really when he
Speaker 1: started to catch on. I think his character started in
Speaker 1: ninety six. I guess maybe the math isn't mathing for me,
Speaker 1: but I would agree he's the one that got me hooked. Actually,
Speaker 1: Sean and Taker did with their hell Ando Saw match
Speaker 1: that's well documented, but stone Cold, by far and still
Speaker 1: to this day, is the most just powerful character for
Speaker 1: me and my wrestling. You know history, we all have
Speaker 1: different journeys and what kept us watching wrestling and what started.
Speaker 1: But that's cool. What's your favorite rumble moment? I have
Speaker 1: a couple. First, the three faces of Folly in ninety eight.
Speaker 1: How did he not win when he had three attempts
Speaker 1: at it? Shame? I like Folly to have won it
Speaker 1: at some point. The second is John Seene has returned
Speaker 1: from injury oh eight, the look on Triple H's face
Speaker 1: when he entered at number thirty. Those are two great moments, definitely,
Speaker 1: the three faces of fully. I remember watching that and
Speaker 1: I'm like it. I was naiven up at that point
Speaker 1: to believe, like, wait a minute, does he is he
Speaker 1: Triple It? Is this the same guy? And it took
Speaker 1: me a few minutes. I'm like, no, this is the
Speaker 1: same guy. And I found it funny and I still
Speaker 1: do to this day. It's very clever. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a you know, a schizophrenic character with which all three
Speaker 1: characters are well portrayed. It's just great. He had three
Speaker 1: cracks of the rumble and he still failed. He took
Speaker 1: up three spots. It was great. As far as John
Speaker 1: scene has returned, I still remember that. Here's the thing
Speaker 1: about this with John Cena. I during that whole chain
Speaker 1: Gang era where WW turned very soft coming off of
Speaker 1: ruthless aggression. Right at that time, I was resentful of
Speaker 1: John Cena character, not that I didn't understand or recognize
Speaker 1: his talent or I was blind to the success he
Speaker 1: was having, or thinking that, you know, oh well, he's
Speaker 1: just a flash in the pan.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: I mean, I knew he was a megastar, but that
Speaker 1: didn't refrain me. Actually, it kind of ignited me to
Speaker 1: despise his character because he embodied everything that I hated
Speaker 1: about the change to the company. Because I was in
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, I was twenty three years old,
Speaker 1: and I still enjoyed the version of wrestling that I
Speaker 1: had gotten from ninety seven on when they had the attitude, er,
Speaker 1: ruthless aggression TV fourteen, and they went a different strategic
Speaker 1: road for the growth of the company. And sure it's
Speaker 1: worked out great for them, but at the time I
Speaker 1: was extremely resentful of John Cena because he was the
Speaker 1: symbol of that change. You know, hustle, loyalty, respect. I mean, like,
Speaker 1: does it get any more just I mean PG than that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? It just I hated it.
Speaker 1: You go from stone cold beer and middle fingers to hustle,
Speaker 1: loyalty and respect kids. I just that change really turned
Speaker 1: me off. I hated it, hated it so I still
Speaker 1: have some of that lingering to me for me today
Speaker 1: for his babyface character. But now we have Cody Rhodes
Speaker 1: that we can point to for that exact type of character.
Speaker 1: Mister clean cut. Anyway, I don't get on it, but
Speaker 1: some of my moments, I mean, one comes to mind
Speaker 1: that's really funny is Pete Rose and Cain when Pete Rose,
Speaker 1: you know, got Tombstone by Caine, just hilarious. We had
Speaker 1: Drew Carrey in there one year with Caine. The ongoing
Speaker 1: rivalry though with Cain and and Pete Rose and Pete
Speaker 1: Rose was the well was he the mascotters of that?
Speaker 1: That was really funny. Stone Cold's first win, Stone Cold's
Speaker 1: second win in two thousand and one, eliminating Caine was
Speaker 1: I mean, knowing that he was going to main event
Speaker 1: wrestle MEINGI a sevent team at the Rock, that was
Speaker 1: a big moment, you know. So those are some of
Speaker 1: them for me, and also Randy Orton, r ko ing
Speaker 1: Naya Jacks there you go, all right, so your predictions,
Speaker 1: you think EO. Sky is gonna win the rumble for
Speaker 1: the women, Nicky, Jordan, Grace and Mickey are surprised. Mickey
Speaker 1: James are surprise entrants Bailey to be the Iron Woman
Speaker 1: in the match going fifty five minutes. Wow. Becky Lynch
Speaker 1: returns but not Alexa Bliss. Seampunk wins the men Men's
Speaker 1: World Rumble, Joe Hendry, the Hardy's Wow, the Hardies and
Speaker 1: Big E all return and Seth Rollins is the Iron
Speaker 1: Man in this match, lasting over an hour. Keep put
Speaker 1: the good work always a great listen Scott and the UK, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Scott. I hope everything is well across the pond,
Speaker 1: as they say, good stuff. You guys give me a
Speaker 1: lot to think about for my predictions. All right, let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go to what do we want to talk to?
Speaker 1: Let's talk to Jeff he Wrestling Family. First off, I
Speaker 1: want to say JD is a beast after a Monday night.
Speaker 1: I hope he gets better fast and see what they
Speaker 1: do with him next. With that, I wonder with him out,
Speaker 1: what are they gonna do with the judgment day split them.
Speaker 1: He's a great wrestler and needs a singles push. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do. I think JD
Speaker 1: getting injured here. Of course, getting injured always sucks and
Speaker 1: there's never a great time, but sometimes time away allows
Speaker 1: the fans to miss you. And JD's not a major character,
Speaker 1: but he's in a major group, but part of a
Speaker 1: major group that is starting to, you know, certainly wear
Speaker 1: out its welcome. I think it's it's lifespan is coming
Speaker 1: to an end quickly. So sure. I think as Upono's return,
Speaker 1: he could maybe be slotted back in if it's only
Speaker 1: a couple months, but the Judgment Day is probably on
Speaker 1: its way out sometime this year. Having him in a
Speaker 1: singles role going after maybe the Intercontinental Championship is going
Speaker 1: to be fun. So excited for the Rumble, my favorite ple.
Speaker 1: You talked about Rhea possibly entering the Royal Rumble, and
Speaker 1: I do agree. There's no reason for her to be
Speaker 1: in the match, the men's anyway or the women's. The
Speaker 1: only thing I could see her doing is coming in
Speaker 1: eliminating dominic and then leaving. With that being said, my
Speaker 1: picks and predictions are okay. Well, first of all, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that is a very thing to do. But
Speaker 1: the stickler in me, the logical, just a small part
Speaker 1: of my just any logic here, would say she's doubly disqualified.
Speaker 1: If that's a thing from the men's Rumble. Number one,
Speaker 1: she's not a man. Okay, despite what some people say
Speaker 1: today that you just have to declare you're the opposite
Speaker 1: sexon you, bibity bobbityboo, you are one. That's not how
Speaker 1: reality and biology works. But she's not a man. And
Speaker 1: also she's not a legal competitor. So even if she
Speaker 1: was in the women's Rumble and she did this to
Speaker 1: a woman and she it wasn't her time to come out,
Speaker 1: or she was eliminated and did this, it's still not legal.
Speaker 1: So it's doubly illegal, which would I know, two negatives
Speaker 1: don't make a positive here, but you get my drift,
Speaker 1: all right. I really hope that doesn't happen, but it's
Speaker 1: a very debuta be thing to do, so sure that's
Speaker 1: probably right. All right. So you think Cody Rhoades is
Speaker 1: gonna beat Randy Okay, Oh, you're gonna He's gonna win
Speaker 1: because of Randy, got it? D I y wins the
Speaker 1: tag match. And for the men, you think jay Uso
Speaker 1: is gonna win? Wow? Why do you guys are picking jay?
Speaker 1: I gotta say I can't agree with jay Uso. I
Speaker 1: just can't. And I'll talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's either gonna win the Rumble or
Speaker 1: if not, then the elimination Chamber for a championship shot
Speaker 1: at WrestleMania against the champ that isn't chosen at the Rumble.
Speaker 1: The women's match, I'm not too sure is gonna win,
Speaker 1: because to be honest, everyone's already won. But if I
Speaker 1: had to choose, I would say Live Morgan or possibly Charlotte.
Speaker 1: I also heard that Trish will be in the match
Speaker 1: as well. This is gonna be a jam packed night.
Speaker 1: I can't wait see all the Discord chat. Thanks for
Speaker 1: making this podcast, Yeah, no problem, I appreciate it, Jeff,
Speaker 1: and I hope you enjoy the conversation in Discord. And
Speaker 1: you also wanted to add that, apparently, from what I read,
Speaker 1: Triple H was doing and was told during town hall
Speaker 1: that he's going to be the first uninductee into the
Speaker 1: w B Hall of Fame. I yeah, I haven't really
Speaker 1: talked about that w with Triple H an Undertaker or
Speaker 1: I'm sorry Undertaker and Shawn Michaels making this quote unquote
Speaker 1: surprise to Triple H that he's going to be the
Speaker 1: induct first inductee to the Hall of Fame certainly worth it,
Speaker 1: absolutely worth. I mean, Triple H his career is unmatched,
Speaker 1: one of the best heels WWE has ever had ever
Speaker 1: in its entire existence as a company. Triple H is
Speaker 1: doesn't get the credit he deserves for how good he
Speaker 1: was as a heel. I don't think Stone Cold of
Speaker 1: the Rock would have been as successful as they were
Speaker 1: had it not been for Triple H. Not solely, but
Speaker 1: in part. He was a perfect foil, the perfect a hole.
Speaker 1: He was awesome. You legitimately hated him. It was it
Speaker 1: was Yeah. So now with that said, you guys know
Speaker 1: there's a butt here. I have to say I am
Speaker 1: kind of tired of seeing Triple H on my TV screen.
Speaker 1: He and I don't know if it's just the performer
Speaker 1: in him, the wrestler in him rather what it is,
Speaker 1: but he just seems to have this knack, this unsustainable
Speaker 1: urge that he cannot not act on where he has
Speaker 1: to be on camera more than he should be for
Speaker 1: the introduction of a new championship or oh you ready,
Speaker 1: He'll come out at the beginning of the rumble and
Speaker 1: ask us if we're ready. Uh, you know, this is
Speaker 1: I'm seeing too much of him. I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I know, if it was occasionally backstage, you know, fine,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. And now we're gonna see I've
Speaker 1: been more of him moving forward because his induction to
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. I don't know. It's weird that
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm getting a Triple H burnout a
Speaker 1: little bit, but I kind of am. So Again, no
Speaker 1: disrespect to Triple H. He's just an incredible I mean again,
Speaker 1: he is arguably in some circles in the Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame down a Hall of Fame, rout mushroar of wrestling.
Speaker 1: You know, if you want to put Triple H on
Speaker 1: the Mount Rushmore wrestling, there's an argument to be made
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks Jeff's talk to Alex the French Guy,
Speaker 1: and he says, I wanted to say last week the
Speaker 1: following for the first time in many years, the Royal
Speaker 1: Rumble is really unpredictable. It's the same with the WrestleMania card.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a good or bad thing.
Speaker 1: Maybe I know if it's a good thing. If w
Speaker 1: creates a great card, it will be that. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: that's just it. Then here's the kicker for all the fans,
Speaker 1: and now I'm not saying it to you, Alex, just
Speaker 1: just generally, there are so many fans that they complain
Speaker 1: and their sole one dimensional complaint is wrestling's too predictable.
Speaker 1: Oh it's predictable. Oh I saw that coming, right And
Speaker 1: with this WrestleMania season, in this World Rumble, there isn't
Speaker 1: a person a fan on this earth right now that
Speaker 1: knows again, unless you're in the business and indobaby and creative,
Speaker 1: that knows what's gonna happen. This is one of the
Speaker 1: most unpredictable seasons we've had in quite a while. So
Speaker 1: for everybody out there who is just complaining on the
Speaker 1: basis that it's predictable all the time and you value
Speaker 1: predict unpredictability so much, well then right now you should
Speaker 1: be elated. Right now, you should be skipping down the road,
Speaker 1: skipping to work. You're in your glory because you cannot
Speaker 1: tell me with any certainty you know who's gonna win
Speaker 1: the Rumble this year, or WrestleMania for that matter. So
Speaker 1: but here's the thing. Those same fans that love their
Speaker 1: unpredictability and they're going through a lot of it right now,
Speaker 1: will then complain when something happens that they don't agree with,
Speaker 1: So they're going to be they're not getting there. They're
Speaker 1: I guess not giving ww BE credit for things being
Speaker 1: unpredictable right now, but when they have something happen then
Speaker 1: they don't like it. It's like, well you like unpredictability, right,
Speaker 1: So they're trying to have it both ways. I think
Speaker 1: it's a good thing. I do. I think it's a
Speaker 1: good thing. Now, there are so many good options. There
Speaker 1: isn't a glaring option that you're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: they have to do this or it'll suck, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. There's not one that you're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, if they don't get to this match at WrestleMania,
Speaker 1: it's going to be horrible that match doesn't exist. Because
Speaker 1: there are so many good combinations. It's not that one
Speaker 1: is so far above out all the others. Although I
Speaker 1: will say Rock and Rollman is one that I want
Speaker 1: to get to, but that's beside the point here. So yeah,
Speaker 1: good overall. Oh, let's get to Miller from Beautiful South
Speaker 1: Africa here his predictions. All right, what's Miller? He says,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna be Sena because it's his
Speaker 1: final retirement tour. It's his last time to compete in
Speaker 1: the chambers, so he shouldn't win and go the other
Speaker 1: path and compete in the elimination Champion and move Ondo Mania.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, it's funny. I just made that point. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna be soether Punk. Their story is still too
Speaker 1: fresh and not completely resolved. They will have a WrestleMania rematch. Okay, cool.
Speaker 1: Roman Reiins has his story that has to happen this
Speaker 1: year with the Rock. The Rock might either enters thirty
Speaker 1: one with Roman still in. Roman will eliminate the Rock,
Speaker 1: but The Rock will come back and throw Roman Reigns
Speaker 1: over the top to eliminate him. My pick is going
Speaker 1: to be a wild card, but I think jay Usso Man,
Speaker 1: you guys, Juso is gonna win the Rumble and get
Speaker 1: his rematch with Gunther and win the title. The women
Speaker 1: in my pick is Becky to be the first two
Speaker 1: time women's winner and she will go on to face
Speaker 1: Rhea Ripley. Hm Cody will win the latter match. Kevin
Speaker 1: Owens will get Sammy eliminated in the Rumble to set
Speaker 1: up their match at the royal rumble. Cheers to everyone.
Speaker 1: All right, Miller, well he joined the bandwagon of cmpunk
Speaker 1: or I'm sorry, Jay us so winning the rumble. I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, I'll get the my predictions very very soon.
Speaker 1: We're almost there. But other than that, you've got some
Speaker 1: good stuff in here. I will just say that it's
Speaker 1: hard for me to not spoil my predictions by responding
Speaker 1: to you. It's a bit of a contrarian you know,
Speaker 1: a bit of a contrarian issue here. So all right,
Speaker 1: we have one more email. Let's get to it. This
Speaker 1: is kay back on some things, so smack down. Three
Speaker 1: hours is too long? Two hours is perfect, I would agree.
Speaker 1: Why is pretty deadly around? The gimmick sucks and it's
Speaker 1: been flogged for years. I don't know. Pretty deadly is
Speaker 1: on life support. I have to say the women were great.
Speaker 1: Chelsea and Piper are gold with the gimmick. Tiffy's always great.
Speaker 1: As we all keep stating, bel Air has to get
Speaker 1: out of the tag team division. Look for liv and
Speaker 1: Roqueal to be crown soon. Yes, please please? Can we
Speaker 1: put a bounty on it? I mean anything?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: All right? Why are they or I'm sorry what they're
Speaker 1: doing with Ko's very good. The New Piper Austin Saturday
Speaker 1: Night main event Braun versus Jacob was brutal and entertaining
Speaker 1: raw no idea, as you've stated with the New Day
Speaker 1: head scratching. Yeah, what the hell? They had a brilliant
Speaker 1: turn by both men and then they just go into hiding.
Speaker 1: And I shouldn't say that they've been doing stuff.
Speaker 5: But.
Speaker 1: You poured cold water on the whole thing by having
Speaker 1: them lose. I mean, maybe the big turn, the big
Speaker 1: evolution in this is Big EA's return at the Rumble
Speaker 1: to confront them, which I've been and many have been
Speaker 1: pointing to a possibility of All right, FYI, what happened
Speaker 1: to JD was brutal. It could have been catastrophic. Although
Speaker 1: he is not a favorite of mine, he's one tough
Speaker 1: Irish lade. Yet well, that's the whole point I was
Speaker 1: making is he doesn't have to be your favorite to
Speaker 1: just have sympathy for the guy, because if you love
Speaker 1: pro wrestling, you feel sympathy instantly whether he's a hated
Speaker 1: heel or you love him as a baby. But it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. All that goes out the window immediately with
Speaker 1: that hit. How you feel about his character instantly vanishes
Speaker 1: and it's just again, if you have a soul, you're thinking,
Speaker 1: oh my god, is he okay? You know? And luckily
Speaker 1: he relatively was right. Nothing life threatening, which is great.
Speaker 1: So you have a couple of predictions for the rumble,
Speaker 1: a lot of shenanigans throughout. Sina wins, although I can't
Speaker 1: stand him to keep the final two. We're going Charlotte one.
Speaker 1: The Queen is back. Thanks for all you do. Cheers, well,
Speaker 1: thank you, kay, thank you appreciate it. Alrighty, So do
Speaker 1: I have in a minute? Oh wait, I might have
Speaker 1: one more here? This is from Amber. Let's see what
Speaker 1: Amber says. This isn't the best video, but I recorded
Speaker 1: it while watching Saturday Night's main event. A fan along
Speaker 1: the ramp has a sign that says quote a year
Speaker 1: later the story still sucks, which Cody sees and then ignores.
Speaker 1: But after Cody walks by at a security guard walking
Speaker 1: behind him shoves the guy's sign out of view of
Speaker 1: the camera. Interesting. Just thought it was interesting that does
Speaker 1: how desperate WW is to make sure the fans support Cody.
Speaker 1: They don't do this with anyone else. I've been noticing
Speaker 1: a slight decline in crowd reaction for Cody over the
Speaker 1: last few months, and simultaneously an increased effort from WWI
Speaker 1: to shove Cody down our throats as often as possible.
Speaker 1: It makes you wonder what is it about Cody specifically
Speaker 1: that makes WWE desperate for him to be the guy?
Speaker 1: This has been going on since his return at WrestleMania
Speaker 1: thirty eight. They obviously didn't see it in him before
Speaker 1: he left, So I wonder what it is about him
Speaker 1: that made them go this is it. This is the guy,
Speaker 1: even when fans seem to be slowly losing interest, hoping
Speaker 1: he loses the belt at WrestleMania forty one. So I'll
Speaker 1: check out that video, amper, thank you. I mean, here's
Speaker 1: what ww would say in response to that, And I'm
Speaker 1: going to speak officially on behalf of the company, okay
Speaker 1: and get myself in trouble. No, but here's what they
Speaker 1: would say. They would probably say something to the effect of,
Speaker 1: we didn't choose anyone. You guys did, right.
Speaker 4: We are the.
Speaker 1: Ones that continue to support him from day one when
Speaker 1: he returned against Seth rollins Oft WrestleMania thirty eight. We're
Speaker 1: the ones that decided to push the Rock from the
Speaker 1: main event and make Cody the guy to slide in
Speaker 1: and win the belt. Now, there are conspiracy theories of
Speaker 1: WWE formulating that whole scenario to knowing the fans would uprise,
Speaker 1: so it looks like an organic reaction and that we're
Speaker 1: responding to the fans, but in actuality it's manipulating the
Speaker 1: fans to react that way. That's I mean, that's certainly
Speaker 1: possible that we all felt well we I say, you
Speaker 1: guys all fell for it. It's not impossible, but it's
Speaker 1: not the likely scenario. The likely scenario is the fans
Speaker 1: actually decided no, we want Cody, and hence hashtag was born.
Speaker 1: So the fans are there really the ones responsible for
Speaker 1: this continued Cody support, right. WWE at times has shoved
Speaker 1: stars down our throats. A Lah, the big dog character
Speaker 1: from Roman reigns for six years. Horrible John Cena for
Speaker 1: however many years he dominated the top at his baby
Speaker 1: Face character. I never liked his Babyface character very much,
Speaker 1: especially the humorous version of his baby Face character. It's
Speaker 1: one of the worst I've ever seen, but incredible on
Speaker 1: the microphone, and I don't think he gets enough credit
Speaker 1: for how good he is in the ring. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's a you know, a Matt technician, let's be
Speaker 1: all honest, but you know, certainly one of the best
Speaker 1: of all time. I don't think he's the best, but
Speaker 1: one of I can't deny that. But it's not WWE
Speaker 1: shoving him down our throats. They're just trying to create
Speaker 1: the perception that there is no dissension right now for Cody.
Speaker 1: Right if you're the company and you put the you
Speaker 1: went with the fans, and you decided to make him
Speaker 1: the face of this new era, which is exactly what
Speaker 1: happened at Wrestling the A forty, then you don't want
Speaker 1: it to look like especially if there's no plans for
Speaker 1: it right now to turn Cody heel, then you don't
Speaker 1: want it to look like there's any fans that are,
Speaker 1: you know, against this movement. The only way that this
Speaker 1: is going to change is if the fans do it
Speaker 1: in larger numbers, and if there's a little bit less
Speaker 1: of a support for Cody. That doesn't get me excited yet,
Speaker 1: because that's that's Ebb and Flow. I don't care how
Speaker 1: big of a star you are, Stone Cold Hogan, Rock
Speaker 1: Kine Taker go down the line Ultimate Warrior. The supporting
Speaker 1: from fans, ebbs and flows, especially from city to city,
Speaker 1: town to town, country to country, year to year, month
Speaker 1: to month, It all varies. So it's difficult to take
Speaker 1: the temperature of the support for Cody from a single event.
Speaker 1: You'd have to really pay attention to every single show,
Speaker 1: and you know, look at it as an aggregate, you know,
Speaker 1: in totality. You know, from week to week patterns is
Speaker 1: what I'm looking for. And right now I would say
Speaker 1: the slightest of decline for Cody, but nothing that would
Speaker 1: get me excited. I mean, I just don't know how
Speaker 1: people support him. Again, not the man. He seems like
Speaker 1: a genuinely good guy. But this genuinely good guy character
Speaker 1: is actually kind of who he is. But I don't
Speaker 1: want to see that nice of a guy on my
Speaker 1: TV screen being champion, wearing suits, and you know, just
Speaker 1: the way he speaks in his promos. He's a good promo.
Speaker 1: Good's good's great promo, let's be honest, really good in
Speaker 1: the ring. I'm not downplaying his talent, it's just he's
Speaker 1: not my flavor at all. In fact, he is the
Speaker 1: antithesis of what I kind of want out of a champion.
Speaker 1: He's too hard to anger, he's too slow, and he
Speaker 1: speaks he's too self aware of how he looks. I've
Speaker 1: said this before, but I can't explain it any better.
Speaker 1: And part of it is what really annoys me with
Speaker 1: Cody is not his beach blonde hair or his suits,
Speaker 1: although that adds to it. It's almost like when he's
Speaker 1: cutting his promos, when he speaks like this, and his
Speaker 1: promos start out really slow, and I understand there's an
Speaker 1: evolution to a promo, but you can almost feel that
Speaker 1: he's thinking about how he looks as he's delivering it,
Speaker 1: like he's self aware of how he's looking. And I
Speaker 1: don't want to feel that. Now you're trained to know
Speaker 1: how you look. You probably watch tape back of yourself.
Speaker 1: It's a weird point to make, but I can't describe
Speaker 1: it any more than that I wanted to feel ad libbed.
Speaker 1: I wanted to feel like, you don't care how you look,
Speaker 1: You're just gonna speak your mind. Cody feels very controlled
Speaker 1: and produced. He feels very produced, and I've never appreciated
Speaker 1: that about his character. So you didn't you the guys
Speaker 1: didn't think you're gona get an episode without a Cody
Speaker 1: Ran did you come on there? There's some fuel for
Speaker 1: you guys to complain on Spotify that I'm how do
Speaker 1: I like wrestlings? You even like wrestling? I can't stand
Speaker 1: too bad? Get your own show? All right? Uh so yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you so much Amber for that, and I am.
Speaker 1: I'm watching the video right now. It does look like
Speaker 1: he pushed it out away a little bit, but also
Speaker 1: maybe he's leaning a little bit too far, you know,
Speaker 1: to contact with stars. So yeah, I mean sure, that's
Speaker 1: the more fun answer. All right, let's get to some
Speaker 1: of the voicemails, guys. I don't know how many I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get to here because I gotta get to my
Speaker 1: role with predictions and I usually don't want to go
Speaker 1: over an hour here with my time crunch. So let's
Speaker 1: see what we can do.
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Speaker 4: know what time it is.
Speaker 1: It's time to see his name man, hepeers.
Speaker 4: I believe in Joe Hendry.
Speaker 1: I believe in Joe Hendry.
Speaker 4: Desh roight, folks, Joe Hendry is his name. As I
Speaker 4: take it to my twenty ninth.
Speaker 6: Episode of the Joe hendr Report, coming to Your Life
Speaker 6: as always from an on this closed location, as we're
Speaker 6: on the road to the Royal Rubble, which is happening
Speaker 6: this Saturday, February first, live from Indianapolis, Indiana.
Speaker 4: But before we get to the Joe Hendri Report, I
Speaker 4: must mention something very critical, something very important that my
Speaker 4: play a role in Joe Hendry making an appearance, a
Speaker 4: possible appearance at the Royal Rumble, and that is Russell
Speaker 4: Kahn indian It was announced last week on Thursday that
Speaker 4: Joe Henry will be at Russell Khan Indianapolis on January
Speaker 4: thirty first and February first, and it happens to also
Speaker 4: take place that the Royal Rumble is in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Speaker 4: So there's I guess you could say a fifty to
Speaker 4: fifty chance that Joe Hendry will make an appearance at
Speaker 4: the roy Rumble via Russell Khan Indianapolis, which is one
Speaker 4: of those wrestling conventions that happens every year, especially around
Speaker 4: the big pay per views of the big plees in
Speaker 4: the ww So Joe Hendry will be at Russell Khan
Speaker 4: Indianapolis on January thirty first and February first, as we
Speaker 4: all get ready for the Royal Rumble. Now, let's tick
Speaker 4: it to what happened last week on a live episode.
Speaker 4: That's right, folks, a live episode of TNA for Rustling,
Speaker 4: as this was the fallout from TNA Genesis, as Joe
Speaker 4: Hendry was celebrating his championship win as becoming the new
Speaker 4: TNA World Heavyweight Champion. As we see Joe Hendry comes
Speaker 4: in and the crowd is saying, we believe, we believe,
Speaker 4: singing along to his song, the catchy theme song that
Speaker 4: everybody loves and everybody says his name, as Joe Hendry
Speaker 4: thanks the crowd once again for believing in him and
Speaker 4: having that belief and having that movement that we believe
Speaker 4: movement to carry him into TENA Genesis to become the
Speaker 4: new TEENA World Heavyweight Champion. He mentions that he wants
Speaker 4: to be a fighting champion and he told sand Tina Morella,
Speaker 4: the commissioner of ten A par Wrestling, that he wants
Speaker 4: to face any comers, any person from Tena's Rosstar or
Speaker 4: anybody outside of Tena that he wants to defend the
Speaker 4: TENA World Championship against whoever it is. So then here
Speaker 4: comes San Tina Morella as he made a big announcement
Speaker 4: that the main event of this live episode of Tina
Speaker 4: Parustling would be Joe Hendry versus None of the Den
Speaker 4: Matt Cardona. If you remember him in WWE, he was
Speaker 4: known as zach Ryder Woo Woo, you know the whole
Speaker 4: woo woo guy zach Ryder. So Matt Cardona is Joe
Speaker 4: Henry's challenger, his first challenger in his first TNA World
Speaker 4: Heavyweight Championship defense. Now let's take you to the main
Speaker 4: event itself, as we had Joe Hendry versus Matt Cardona.
Speaker 4: The match won sixteen minutes and eight seconds, as we
Speaker 4: had a couple of Shenanigans that won something like this.
Speaker 4: At first, we saw that Matt Cardona accidentally knocked out
Speaker 4: the referee in the right corner, so the referee.
Speaker 1: Was out for a while.
Speaker 4: Joe Hendry went for the pop up powerbomb, and when
Speaker 4: he went for the count, there was no referee as
Speaker 4: the referee was still knocked out. So then Matt Cardona,
Speaker 4: as sneaky as canniving as he is, crawls to the
Speaker 4: outside of the ring to go get the TNA World
Speaker 4: Heavyweight Championship belt to see if he could attack Joe
Speaker 4: Hendry and knock him out before the referee you know
Speaker 4: gets out of his you know, unconsciousness. But anyway, here
Speaker 4: comes John Bradshaw Ladfield again. This time he gives a
Speaker 4: closed line to Matt Cardona as Matt Cardona was trying
Speaker 4: to attack Joe Hendry with the TNA World Have with
Speaker 4: Championship belt. And then it was this very odd, very
Speaker 4: kind of interesting staredown between John Bradshaw Layfield and Joe Hendry.
Speaker 4: Does John Bradshaw Layfield believe in Joe Hendry? This is
Speaker 4: the second time that John Bradshaw Layfield was involved in
Speaker 4: a match with Joe Hendry. Now, I hope this does
Speaker 4: not continue that every time Joe Hendry has a match
Speaker 4: that we see John Bradshaw Layfield. I mean, come on, guys,
Speaker 4: come on, TNA creative, Let's not do that all the time.
Speaker 4: So hopefully this is the last time that we see
Speaker 4: John Bradshaw Layfield appearance doing it Joe Hendry match. Anyway,
Speaker 4: we get to the closing part of the match, as
Speaker 4: the referee finally wakes up, Joe Hendry goes for the
Speaker 4: Standing Ovation after when Matt Cordona has trying to attack
Speaker 4: Joe Hendry with the title belt, so Joe Hendry goes
Speaker 4: for the Standing Ovation choke slab at one two three.
Speaker 4: Joe Hendry gets the victory to retain the championship as
Speaker 4: he has his first successful TNA Championship defense sky Bencher before.
Speaker 4: Joe Hendry will be at the Indianapolis, Indiana this Friday,
Speaker 4: January thirty first and Saturday February first for Russell Khan Indianapolis.
Speaker 4: There's a fifty fifty chance that Joe Hendry might make
Speaker 4: an appearance at the roy Rumble. He will also be
Speaker 4: at the Jericho Cruise on February second and February third.
Speaker 4: So with all the exciting things that are happening in
Speaker 4: the world of Joe Hendry, always remember to say his name, believe,
Speaker 4: Always remember the words that Joe Hendry says any time
Speaker 4: at plays at any show and most so poorly as
Speaker 4: Joe Hendry is your TNA World chap. But always remember
Speaker 4: to do this.
Speaker 1: Strong sight and see.
Speaker 5: Well believe.
Speaker 4: Once again, this is your guy. DJ Coolsbo have a
Speaker 4: blessed week by Kui to one of those stays in
Speaker 4: my friends, believe and peace.
Speaker 1: Thank you DJ for keeping us updated here as we
Speaker 1: certainly are interested in, especially if you're just even a
Speaker 1: casual w fan. Is this guy gott a debut on
Speaker 1: the roster? Is he coming to the Rumble? I? You know,
Speaker 1: my prediction is, honestly, I think he is. Is he
Speaker 1: gonna debut at the Rumble? Uh? Well, I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna debut at the Rumble. He's already been an NXT,
Speaker 1: But I think he's going to definitely be a part
Speaker 1: of the Rumble, see what the reaction is, and then
Speaker 1: he's gonna stay back in TNA as W and TNA
Speaker 1: have a working relationship that has worked out pretty well
Speaker 1: so far in Jordan Grace and then all the rest.
Speaker 1: So certainly, yeah, I think that that's very plausible. Now
Speaker 1: JBL getting involved with Matt Cardona. Those of you that
Speaker 1: aren't following JBL, you know, probably didn't even know that
Speaker 1: he was involved. I didn't. I heard rumors that he was,
Speaker 1: you know, appearing here and there in TNA. I don't
Speaker 1: know what this is leading to. Like you said, I
Speaker 1: would agree, I don't need JBL anywhere near wrestling at
Speaker 1: this point. I don't need a match between JBL and
Speaker 1: Matt Cardona or JBL and Joe Hendry. I'm good now,
Speaker 1: br Like, I'm okay, don't need it. But thank you DJ,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the updates, and I hope
Speaker 1: you enjoy the Rumble. All right, last couple of voicemails
Speaker 1: and then my predictions.
Speaker 5: Hey, Matt Brad in Florida. So if you look at
Speaker 5: the betting sites, and I know you know what I'm
Speaker 5: talking about in terms of you know, odds being whatever
Speaker 5: they are and why that's a tell into sort of
Speaker 5: what's gonna happen. But all the major betting sites that
Speaker 5: offer WWE all have Seth Rollins as a favorite to
Speaker 5: win the Royal Rumble. I can completely see it, especially
Speaker 5: after this Monday's promo with Gunther and Seth opening the
Speaker 5: show on RAW. I mean, Seth is going to win.
Speaker 5: Here's my prediction. Seth is gonna win the Royal Rumble.
Speaker 5: He's going to challenge Gunther Sina, who has been advertised
Speaker 5: like crazy for Elimination Chamber, is going to win Elimination
Speaker 5: Chamber and he's gonna challenge Gunther. And that's when you're
Speaker 5: gonna get teena Seth Gunther three way for the championships,
Speaker 5: because I don't think that Tina can carry a twenty
Speaker 5: to twenty two minute main event match by himself. But
Speaker 5: in a three way, obviously that goal goes out the window.
Speaker 5: You could have set and Comfort doing a lot of
Speaker 5: the heavy lifting and then have Seena, you know, roll
Speaker 5: out of the ring for a or two, catch his breath,
Speaker 5: get his wins under him, come back in, do some
Speaker 5: cool stuff, come out whatever. I think it is the
Speaker 5: most brilliant way to get Sena in the match, and
Speaker 5: I think that is what's gonna happen. I also think
Speaker 5: that CM punk will get into the main event. I
Speaker 5: think it will honestly be Cody versus Roman, but I
Speaker 5: think that CM punk is gonna get the favorite from
Speaker 5: Hayman and get into that match as a three way
Speaker 5: as well. So I think you're gonna have three three
Speaker 5: ways as your WrestleMania Night one and Night two main
Speaker 5: events for the Heavyweight and Universal or Undisputed Championship, and
Speaker 5: I think that's the way it goes down. Then. I'm
Speaker 5: just shocked. I was shocked to see Seth Rollins as
Speaker 5: the betting favorite, and I mean by that by the
Speaker 5: odds makers making him a heavy favorite to win it.
Speaker 5: But after you kind of think about it from that perspective,
Speaker 5: I'd love to know your thoughts. Seventy three degrees here
Speaker 5: today and Sonny, thanks, Matt Bybe came out one other
Speaker 5: thing that I wanted to say that before I forget
Speaker 5: Louise who does your after dark show? This man is
Speaker 5: an unbelievable broadcaster, incredibly interesting. I cannot recommend listening to Louise.
Speaker 5: I believe it's Gonzales Louis Gonzalez anymore if that means
Speaker 5: you have to go up a tier. This guy is
Speaker 5: so phenomenal. It's like listening to Joe Tessitour or something.
Speaker 5: I just and I mean this very seriously. He is
Speaker 5: an incredible broadcaster and just has a really funny, interesting
Speaker 5: way that he puts things that that is really compelling.
Speaker 5: So bravo to you, Louise. I hope this gets on
Speaker 5: the air, And Matt, great job choosing a wonderful after
Speaker 5: dark podcast post there because he is amazing.
Speaker 1: Great All right, well yeah, Louis Is he's awesome. He's awesome.
Speaker 1: He's better than I am. I mean, I'm not saying that,
Speaker 1: like put over, it'll be over. But like he is.
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't need to tell me. I know
Speaker 1: he's better than I am. I mean he could if
Speaker 1: this show ever goes under it, you know, or if
Speaker 1: I die, like I would grant the show to him.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, you know, just he is incredible. It
Speaker 1: also is an incentive, of course, if you guys want
Speaker 1: to go to Patreon and get on there and go
Speaker 1: up a tier. The NXT plus and above get it
Speaker 1: every other week and the SmackDown level gets it every week.
Speaker 1: From Louise, He's great. Dave's great. Just I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: within like two minutes of listening to him, you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I get it. He's just the way he delivers his
Speaker 1: voice was made for audio, I mean just everything. I
Speaker 1: totally agree. Yeah, I mean absolutely so. Thank you for
Speaker 1: the compliments to him. And I'm sure you know, if
Speaker 1: he hasn't listened to this, I'll let him know that,
Speaker 1: you know, to look at the timestamp and hear from
Speaker 1: a listener that really likes his work and couldn't agree more,
Speaker 1: couldn't agree more. I'm learning from him, not that I'm
Speaker 1: trying to mimic him, but certainly he's he's excellent. Can
Speaker 1: agree more, Brad, And thank you for the last little
Speaker 1: quick jab, this little six inch jab about the weather.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Bud. But I'll be in Mexico
Speaker 1: where it's eighty five degrees and sunny for four days.
Speaker 1: But then I have to come back to reality. There's
Speaker 1: nothing worse than coming back from a vacation knowing what's
Speaker 1: waiting for you. I'm already like pre depressed, that's the thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm excited for my vacation for a few days,
Speaker 1: but also like I'm pre depressed for knowing how I'm
Speaker 1: going to feel heading home. But also on top of that,
Speaker 1: like another plane crashed. It wasn't a commercial airline this
Speaker 1: time with you know, obviously we all know what happened
Speaker 1: to breaking airport with the military helicopter that crashed into
Speaker 1: the American Airlines flight disaster, first accident in fifteen years
Speaker 1: for the commercial airlines. But then today, just like an
Speaker 1: hour and a half, two hours ago, a plane, I
Speaker 1: believe it was something a medical plane took off from
Speaker 1: an airport in northeast Philadelphia and just went plummeting to
Speaker 1: earth and killed six people. So I'm sitting here going
Speaker 1: you know, I don't have a really big fear of flying,
Speaker 1: but I'm starting to get it. I'm starting to develop one,
Speaker 1: and so I don't know what I'm gonna do. Maybe
Speaker 1: get some xanax, I don't know. But anyway, thank you
Speaker 1: Brad for that. And you know you present some great
Speaker 1: scenarios there, and let me get into my predictions. Let
Speaker 1: me just do them now, all right, So here here
Speaker 1: on my official twenty twenty five we're all rummel predictions.
Speaker 1: So first of all, let's get some of the other
Speaker 1: matches out of the way. And I don't mean that
Speaker 1: in a derogatory way. So the undisputed uh, well, the
Speaker 1: Tag Team Championship match, I mean, let's be honest, that's
Speaker 1: the least interesting match out of all these for most people.
Speaker 1: I think probably DIY retains in a fun wrestling match
Speaker 1: that we'll get the crowd into it more than you
Speaker 1: think it will. It's one of those matches that on
Speaker 1: paper you go, eh, it's just yeah, yeah, right. There's
Speaker 1: only four matches on the whole car, which is incredible,
Speaker 1: and this is a DIY win, all right, Cody Roads,
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens, Cody Roads retains. I don't even think again,
Speaker 1: how does he retain? Could be Randy Orton. Randy Orton
Speaker 1: could come in, but you also don't want looking like
Speaker 1: Cody needs help, so someone would have to come and
Speaker 1: help Kevin, which could be Sammy. So how about this,
Speaker 1: Cody still retains, the outcome is still the same, but
Speaker 1: how they get there could be Randy. It also could
Speaker 1: be Sammy who looks like he's there to help Kevin
Speaker 1: because Kevin demanded that he essentially help him, and he
Speaker 1: ends up accidentally quote unquote screwing Kevin, leading to the
Speaker 1: eventual match potentially again between Sammy's and Kevin Owens, which
Speaker 1: is I mean, they work well together apart, They've got
Speaker 1: great chemistry no matter how you put them together. So
Speaker 1: that's why I think either Randy or Sammy or a
Speaker 1: combination of both end up screwing Kevin Owens and then
Speaker 1: he's got something else to bitch about for the next
Speaker 1: six week, which is just great. Kevin Owens in the
Speaker 1: delusional state of aggression, the aggressive delusional state is the
Speaker 1: best version of Kevin Owens. I will stand by that.
Speaker 1: But fun match and Cody retains now more fun?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 1: Here we go Women's World Rubble Match a lot of
Speaker 1: people going with the EO. I understand that a lot
Speaker 1: of people going with e O Sky. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Although they haven't really been building much at all regarding
Speaker 1: the Women's Rumble, it has been largely forgotten. I will
Speaker 1: say Charlotte is a heavy favorite for me. She's returning
Speaker 1: and to win the rumble would certainly make a big impact.
Speaker 1: But is she going to be revealed as a potential
Speaker 1: attacker for Jade? She could be that person. I I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go. I'm gonna go Bionc Belle Air. I'm saying
Speaker 1: Beyonce bel Air wins the Rumble because I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna go Bianca Rhea Ripley and I not only because
Speaker 1: I think that, but also I want that. So two
Speaker 1: different things, but hopefully they'll be the same thing. Bianca
Speaker 1: versus Rhea at WrestleMania. It needs to happen. That's a
Speaker 1: right in the tank now, you could have. Yes, Becky
Speaker 1: Lynch could return, although I mean, I don't know. Fans
Speaker 1: aren't dying for her to return. She could, I don't.
Speaker 1: Although Kyle is Kyle that from one of our listeners
Speaker 1: loves Becky, I don't know. I think Becky Lynch has
Speaker 1: kind of run out of ideas and run out of
Speaker 1: things to accomplish, which is kind of also a compliment
Speaker 1: to her. So Becky Lynch I think loses or I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: does fifty to fifty chances she comes back. Yes, the
Speaker 1: big potential return for a one night only stand could
Speaker 1: be a J Lee. The pops she'll get is going
Speaker 1: to be incredible. If aj Lee does come out, I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to that. Trish could make her you know,
Speaker 1: make an appearance and that'll get a nice reaction. You
Speaker 1: could have Tory Wilson, but I hope they don't lean
Speaker 1: on those kinds of entrance and act lean on the
Speaker 1: talent they have more than anything. Yeah, So EO Sky
Speaker 1: is going to be in the final four. I expect
Speaker 1: Bailey to be in the final four, but I think
Speaker 1: ultimately it's Bianca Bellair who's going to win this and
Speaker 1: face Ree Ripley for the women's championship. All right, So
Speaker 1: for the men, boy, this is tough. This is the
Speaker 1: most difficult world Rumble that I've been involved in recent memory.
Speaker 1: So let's look at who's already announced. John Cena, Roman reigns,
Speaker 1: Punk Rollins McIntyre, Uso, Knight Saints, Nakamura, Ramisterio, Logan, Paul Brown,
Speaker 1: Breaker Penta and Chad Gable and Carmelo Hayes. Those are
Speaker 1: the fifteenth. So they gave us half of the entrants
Speaker 1: that are going to be there. This is difficult, This
Speaker 1: is hard. I will say no to Jay Uso. And
Speaker 1: I know a lot of you're like, but he's ready. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he. I think he is. But are the fans, like,
Speaker 1: be real with yourself. I mean, I know you, you
Speaker 1: those of you out there who want jus to win,
Speaker 1: But is it the majority you feel that the fans
Speaker 1: also concur with that? Like, are the fans generally also
Speaker 1: behind you? And I don't think the answer is yes
Speaker 1: on that because there's bigger stars in here with more support,
Speaker 1: like a punk like a Sina who's on the last
Speaker 1: run of his career, Roman Reigns. My god, Jay Uso
Speaker 1: is just not in that top tier. And he just
Speaker 1: had a world title match in which he lost. He lost,
Speaker 1: fair and square. So they really, I think, made a
Speaker 1: statement to fans, Hey, I know you like Jay, but
Speaker 1: not yet, not yet, seth Rollins. Let me look at
Speaker 1: the names in here, just these names alone, We'll tell
Speaker 1: you that Jay has no chance rollins punk reiins Sena,
Speaker 1: no chance. Sorry. Jay is not in that top tier.
Speaker 1: He's in the top of the second tier, but he's
Speaker 1: not in the top of the top tier. Sorry. Great,
Speaker 1: you know, good crowd reactions, but they've been inconsistent with Jay.
Speaker 1: That hasn't been really a story to tell yet with Jay. Yes,
Speaker 1: he has had a couple of championship matches and he
Speaker 1: hasn't been able to cross over the bridge yet, but
Speaker 1: the timing of him, I'm sorry, jay Uso main eventing
Speaker 1: WrestleMania in a one on one doesn't It's not quite
Speaker 1: there for me yet this year because of the way
Speaker 1: things are lining up. I'm not against it. Don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong. If j Uso wins, hey, cool, Like I'm
Speaker 1: on board, man Like, all right, we're building a new
Speaker 1: star here, single star that is ascended into that next level. Cool.
Speaker 1: I'm not against it. I just don't see it happening
Speaker 1: this year because it's Sena, it's Rains, who's in the
Speaker 1: Rumble for the first time in six years. You have
Speaker 1: I see him punk back in the Rumble for the
Speaker 1: first time, and yeah, well actually no, last year he
Speaker 1: got injured, so hopefully it doesn't happen again. But you
Speaker 1: have punk in there as a serious contender, Seth Rollins
Speaker 1: in there, who's gonna be targeting Rains. You have Drew
Speaker 1: McIntyre who's also on the run of his career right now,
Speaker 1: and I'm sorry, Jay Uso just doesn't line up with that.
Speaker 1: So Jay's out for me, Sammy Zane's out, Knakamura's out,
Speaker 1: Raymisterio's out, Logan, Paul's out, bron Breaker, Penta, Gable, Hayes
Speaker 1: all gone. McIntyre, I would love it, but probably not.
Speaker 1: That leaves us with Rollin's Punk Rains Sena, okay, you
Speaker 1: could have a big Ee return. I think Biggie, if
Speaker 1: he does come back, will be set up in a
Speaker 1: scenario where it's Kofeen Xavier in the ring dominating and
Speaker 1: then here comes Biggie, which I imagined for a while, which
Speaker 1: will be fun. But none of those three men have
Speaker 1: any chance. It's about building to a match with those
Speaker 1: three in some way. It can't be a handicap, but
Speaker 1: some way to WrestleMania. If indeed that happens, they're yeah
Speaker 1: us the other the other of course outlier, but possible,
Speaker 1: and would I would even say somewhat likely. Is the Rock?
Speaker 1: Now what does the Rock do if he's in there?
Speaker 1: Does he make himself number thirty one? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean that that got leaked, so you'd imagine we
Speaker 1: if that if that rumble list was true, knowing it
Speaker 1: got leaked would change the plans. So I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: if the Rock's in there, he could win. But if
Speaker 1: he wins, if the Rock enters and wins, those are
Speaker 1: two big gifts. The Rock will challenge Cody because they
Speaker 1: teased that last year, So that's finishing this. They're all
Speaker 1: about finishing stories. There's a story they didn't finish that
Speaker 1: started the Monday Night Raw for WrestleMania last year. But
Speaker 1: you can also have Roman eliminate Rock. I'm sorry, Rock
Speaker 1: eliminate Roman, and then the Rock gets eliminated by I
Speaker 1: don't know, Johnson or whatever. It's kind of immaterial. Rock
Speaker 1: is the one to eliminate Roman, thinking they're on the
Speaker 1: same page. Bam, he eliminates him. Sena eliminates Rock. Two
Speaker 1: massive eliminations. But it was about the Rock eliminating Roman,
Speaker 1: and they build that story to WrestleMania. How about that
Speaker 1: That's why I think it happens if it goes down,
Speaker 1: If the Rock's there, He's going to be there simply
Speaker 1: to eliminate Roman Reigns to start a match to WrestleMania
Speaker 1: forty one. Roman's not gonna win the Rumble. We don't
Speaker 1: need him in another title match yet. Fans are not
Speaker 1: quite ready for him to be there, because part of
Speaker 1: what made the fans turn on the whole thing sourly
Speaker 1: is because he was champion and holding it hostage, and
Speaker 1: Roman Reigns has no intentions in w seemingly has no
Speaker 1: intentions of changing romans schedule back to full time. We
Speaker 1: kind of understand what roman schedule is now, we've all
Speaker 1: accepted it, and it's way more palatable to accept this
Speaker 1: schedule when he doesn't have a championship holding You know
Speaker 1: that he's able to whole hostage. So Roman doesn't win,
Speaker 1: but he's there. He'll be targeted by probably Drew, by Punk.
Speaker 1: There'll be some fun interactions of punkin Roman going face
Speaker 1: to face, punkin SNA going face to face Rock and Punk.
Speaker 1: If he's there to go, there's a lot of fun combinations.
Speaker 1: That's why I said this year is really kind of
Speaker 1: hard to screw up because there's just so many good
Speaker 1: ways to end this that there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: bad ones. So it's a hell of an exciting match.
Speaker 1: So what do I think? Well, the idea that Seth
Speaker 1: wins isn't the most crazy. He could challenge Gunther right,
Speaker 1: he certainly is on the table, and then whoever wins
Speaker 1: the chamber could face Cody, and then you know what
Speaker 1: if the Rock enters the chamber and then he's the
Speaker 1: one to face. There's a lot of crazy ways to go.
Speaker 1: There's two pass to WrestleMania. This isn't the only one.
Speaker 1: It's not one undone. So Seth Rollins winning the rumble
Speaker 1: does make sense. But if they want the focus of
Speaker 1: the winner to face Cody, right, if the winner is
Speaker 1: gonna face Cody, then you could make it more of
Speaker 1: a case for Punk or Rock, not Roman. I don't
Speaker 1: want and I will, Brad, I see your triple threats,
Speaker 1: but I can't imagine WW doing triple that many triple threats.
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of that. But just because I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of it doesn't mean they wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1: But the WrestleMania main events, particularly for championships, should not
Speaker 1: be for triple threats, like it's one on one, you know, traditionally,
Speaker 1: not all the time. I mean, we've fell. The first
Speaker 1: women's main event was a triple threat, but I don't
Speaker 1: think that they would do that many triple threats. There
Speaker 1: could be one out of the two, you know, like
Speaker 1: Punk Rollins and Gunther on one side, and then Rock
Speaker 1: versus Cody or Randy versus Cody. I didn't even bring
Speaker 1: up Randy Orton. Randy Orton there. Jacob Fatu is probably
Speaker 1: gonna have a big night, impactful night. He's going to
Speaker 1: be a fan He already is a fan favorite. Fans
Speaker 1: are getting behind him so quickly because they sniff out
Speaker 1: a big star. They've sniffed it out and they are
Speaker 1: on board. They want to be behind him right from
Speaker 1: the ground level. So Jacobatsu's gonna have a big night.
Speaker 1: And so that's that's my prediction. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: wishy washy prediction because it's such a crazy night, but
Speaker 1: I feel pretty confident about the women. The men is
Speaker 1: a little bit more difficult, but I'll say Seth. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say Seth Rollins to challenge Gunther and then the
Speaker 1: Chambers to decide who faces Cody. But again, if the
Speaker 1: Rock's involved, boy does that change things? It changes things
Speaker 1: because the Rock could win the rumble. Hell, John Cena
Speaker 1: could win. You can make a case for Sena because
Speaker 1: Sena versus Gunther. What's wrong with that? I think Seena
Speaker 1: is capable of it. Why, because these two have a
Speaker 1: style that I think would work well together. There's nothing
Speaker 1: high flying, very much a power for power, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: base match. It wouldn't be anything spectacular, But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm just thinking about all these possibilities that are
Speaker 1: just flying through my head. And Seth is a front
Speaker 1: runner for me, and I see why the money's going
Speaker 1: to him. But boy, Punk also makes sense as I
Speaker 1: go through it too, because Punk hasn't ever won a
Speaker 1: rumble and he got injured last year. So Drew is
Speaker 1: not gonna win. Given that the fact that no one
Speaker 1: wants Drew versus Gunther and Drew versus Cody doesn't really
Speaker 1: well that there's some isn't Drew on SmackDown? Yeah, Drew's
Speaker 1: on SmackDown, So I guess you could do Drew and Cody.
Speaker 1: But Jay, guys, I'm sorry, and I if I eat
Speaker 1: my words, I eat my words. But jay Us so
Speaker 1: I don't think has a chance he'll be in the
Speaker 1: final five or six or four or three even. But no,
Speaker 1: Jaus was not gonna win. Sorry, I mean he just
Speaker 1: had his championship matches, all right. So there you go,
Speaker 1: wishy washy predictions. Because I'm not a man, I can't
Speaker 1: stand by my own word. No, but I really just
Speaker 1: I'm that perplexed about all the potential opportunities here, and
Speaker 1: that'll do it. Thank you so much everybody for listening
Speaker 1: and all your predictions. You guys are probably going to
Speaker 1: be way better than I am with all the predictions.
Speaker 1: As I kind of I'm probably gonna stumble right through
Speaker 1: it from the first match you're going to have. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna go zero for four. I recognize that,
Speaker 1: but that's my best, my best foot forward here. So
Speaker 1: thank you everybody for listening. As you guys want to
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