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Speaker 5: Unlike WrestleMania forty being mostly focused on Cody Quote finishing
Speaker 5: his story and ending Roman's reign, no pun intended, who
Speaker 5: do you think is the main focus for this year's
Speaker 5: wrestle because to me, it seems kind of unpredictable outside
Speaker 5: of j most likely winning the world title and Charlotte
Speaker 5: likely winning both women's championships in some sort of winner
Speaker 5: take All fatal four way with her Tiffany Rhea, and
Speaker 5: the possible winner for the women's chamber being Live Morgan.
Speaker 5: Great question, DJ, one, that is just kind of a
Speaker 5: million dollar question for this year's WrestleMania that if it
Speaker 5: was booked today, does not, I'll be honest with you,
Speaker 5: is not that exciting from a star power perspective. Okay,
Speaker 5: you have John Cena, you have Punk, so it sounds
Speaker 5: I mean, we're spoiled wrestling fans. There is no Rock
Speaker 5: as of this moment, and doesn't look like there will be.
Speaker 5: There's no Austin think he wasn't really in play. There's
Speaker 5: no brock Lesner. He's fading quickly.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: Edge obviously went to aew Takers retired. Randy Orton probably
Speaker 5: will be on the card, So we keep forgetting about
Speaker 5: Randy Orton, who hopefully will be back in time for WrestleMania,
Speaker 5: and I think he will be. This is a very
Speaker 5: interesting WrestleMania again in that the top two programs aren't
Speaker 5: that exciting. And I know people like Jay support Jay.
Speaker 5: I don't think most people expected Ja to be in
Speaker 5: this position, so his success story is kind of whole. Hum,
Speaker 5: it's not a bad one. It is very as the
Speaker 5: kids say, mid and on the Cody road side, Sure
Speaker 5: you've got Sena, You've got potentially Punk and hopefully Rollins
Speaker 5: versus Rains and his solo one on one match. I
Speaker 5: don't mean what Solo's call it. I mean just one
Speaker 5: on one Rollin's Rains grudge match story, Punk versus Sena,
Speaker 5: and maybe you have Orton versus Orton versus Cody Roads.
Speaker 5: That's how I would book it. To me, that's much
Speaker 5: more exciting. Now that you forget about Drew McIntyre, what's
Speaker 5: Drew McIntyre going to do? I would even you could
Speaker 5: swap in Drew and Cody. I'm sorry Drew and Orton,
Speaker 5: but Orton and Cody have such a deep history that
Speaker 5: we're all waiting to see, and Orton turning heel is
Speaker 5: always the best version of Orton, So you can even
Speaker 5: make that a triple threat. I don't like triple threats
Speaker 5: generally as a rule of thumb for WrestleMania main events,
Speaker 5: but in this case, I think you can make an
Speaker 5: exception where you have Drew versus Randy versus Cody in
Speaker 5: a WrestleMania main event here. But how you get there,
Speaker 5: I don't know. Given that the fact there's only one
Speaker 5: winner of the Chamber and it's always been one winner
Speaker 5: of the Chamber, it is a weird focal point for
Speaker 5: w WE. But here's the one thing I will say
Speaker 5: about this WrestleMania. While on paper it is very mid
Speaker 5: the idea that wrestling is always built on stars is true,
Speaker 5: but there's always not going to be big stars around
Speaker 5: because there's something called a star building process. And I
Speaker 5: think we're in that right now. We're in that star
Speaker 5: building process where Okay, you may not have the biggest
Speaker 5: stars that you would hope for available for WrestleMania forty one.
Speaker 5: You don't seemingly have a stacked card like you did
Speaker 5: last year. But this is the part whereas fans we
Speaker 5: have to go, Okay, you know what, every WrestleMania can't
Speaker 5: be Stone col versus the Rock. Every WrestleMania can't be
Speaker 5: you know, Cody and Roman with the finishing of the story.
Speaker 5: Every every WrestleMania can't have back in the day, Hull Cogan,
Speaker 5: Ultimate Warrior. You know, Undertaker's gone. You have to understand
Speaker 5: that WrestleManias at some point are going to come. There's
Speaker 5: gonna come a point where that star power, that name
Speaker 5: brand value that we're used to seeing that marquee name
Speaker 5: or marquee names on a regular basis every single WrestleMania
Speaker 5: that you see may not happen. And I think we're
Speaker 5: reaching that point now. We're reaching that point where the
Speaker 5: even the Attitude era stars or the Ruthus Disgussion stars
Speaker 5: are are fading away. So I think this could be
Speaker 5: a bit of a reset of a WrestleMania where okay,
Speaker 5: we have to understand there are newer stars that they're
Speaker 5: trying to put a focus on, all right, point nineteen
Speaker 5: number two, don't forget seeing it. Pop probably winning the
Speaker 5: elimination chamber, But who does he face and Ciampunk finally
Speaker 5: applying the favor from Hayman at the last minute for
Speaker 5: rest of many forty one? Could that? Might that be
Speaker 5: a possibility? Yeah, that could be. That could absolutely be
Speaker 5: a possibility where Punk is the uh, you know, the
Speaker 5: the final piece put in together where he cashes in
Speaker 5: the chips from Paul Haman and that's the favor as
Speaker 5: he gets a title match. Sure, that's the logical one.
Speaker 5: Like what else? Honestly that everyone's trying to pretend they
Speaker 5: don't know what this is? Like, what else could the
Speaker 5: favor possibly be?
Speaker 3: What else?
Speaker 5: Because what else can't Punk do on his own that
Speaker 5: he needs Hayman to do? What is Punk so unable
Speaker 5: to do that he's going to have to require Paul
Speaker 5: Hammond's assistance to do it? There's very few things, In fact,
Speaker 5: I would argue in reality, there's nothing why because all
Speaker 5: Punk has to do is just the Golden rule, attack
Speaker 5: the champion and you are rewarded with a championship match.
Speaker 5: You don't believe me, go watch every single program that
Speaker 5: has started that way. The person who's the assailant gets
Speaker 5: rewarded with a championship match. Of course, we're supposed to
Speaker 5: put that aside. It's not a part of the pro
Speaker 5: wrestling narrative, but it's true. But outside of that, even
Speaker 5: taking that away, there's nothing that Punk can't do that
Speaker 5: he needs Haman's assistance with. Outside of okay, fine, I'll
Speaker 5: believe that he can't get a championship match without Hayman,
Speaker 5: So there's nothing else. If you want some match with
Speaker 5: somebody and it's a non champion, well he can just
Speaker 5: do that. Plus, Punk has made it very clear that
Speaker 5: his goal is a WrestleMania main event, So if he
Speaker 5: doesn't cash in his chips for a WrestleMania main event
Speaker 5: with Hayman, then his cashing in of the favor makes
Speaker 5: no sense because if that's the only thing he wants
Speaker 5: to achieve and he can have Paul Haman do that,
Speaker 5: then why wouldn't he do that? Now, if he's going
Speaker 5: to be a babyface, he has to do it in
Speaker 5: a way that makes it look like he's not trying
Speaker 5: to take the easy way out or the easy way in,
Speaker 5: as the case may be. But we have to have
Speaker 5: Punk do this wisely. And the wise thing is to
Speaker 5: have the wise man use his political powers to get
Speaker 5: him a championship match, whether it's inserting himself into a
Speaker 5: triple threat or a one on one somehow, even though
Speaker 5: that actually can't happen given the fact that Cody's going
Speaker 5: to have an opponent at the end of the Chamber
Speaker 5: and if it's not Punk, then you're going to have
Speaker 5: to have a triple threat. So it's getting a little muddy.
Speaker 5: Things are There's a lot of possibilities, and I know
Speaker 5: people again are looking down at this WrestleMania compared to
Speaker 5: others and going there's no clear stories, no clear And
Speaker 5: I think maybe that's also the other thing, other than
Speaker 5: Marquis star power that people are so used to seeing
Speaker 5: and coming up to WrestleMania, the idea that you have
Speaker 5: these big story arcs that are about to conclude or
Speaker 5: peak at WrestleMania. That doesn't that's not the case this year.
Speaker 5: There's not a lot this year that you go, oh, man,
Speaker 5: I can't wait for that, you know, for this guy
Speaker 5: to beat this. It doesn't really exist this year. On
Speaker 5: top of it, the stories are just starting to form.
Speaker 5: It doesn't feel like a long story arc ready to
Speaker 5: explode at WrestleMania. One other thing you mentioned about the
Speaker 5: fatal four way Charlotte winner take all. I know that's
Speaker 5: been floated around by Busted Open Radio and Bully Ray
Speaker 5: and all that. While I don't disagree with that on
Speaker 5: its principle, that putting Charlotte as a double champion would
Speaker 5: inflate the fans to a nuclear level, and I would
Speaker 5: love to see it, I think that you have to
Speaker 5: understand what you're sacrificing you do that, and that is
Speaker 5: number one, you're putting the women's championships back together. Unless
Speaker 5: you're going to keep them separate and have Charlotte do
Speaker 5: double duty, it's gonna get messy. So if you're essentially
Speaker 5: unifying them, then that kind of undoes which you just
Speaker 5: did a couple of years ago by creating a women's
Speaker 5: World Title and w Women's Championship. I'm not a fan
Speaker 5: because the idea right now is to give more championships
Speaker 5: to the women, not less, which I don't I actually
Speaker 5: don't agree with just on principle because more of something
Speaker 5: means everything that is there is no worthless. But if
Speaker 5: that's the case, it kind of undercuts what they're trying
Speaker 5: to achieve right now. Plus, you're taking away a championship
Speaker 5: from Rear Ripley and she has a I think a
Speaker 5: date with Destiny with Bianca Belle Ara. I mean, I
Speaker 5: just it's got to happen. It's got to happen. I
Speaker 5: don't need to see Rihan Charlotte again. I don't need
Speaker 5: to see Rihan live again. I don't need to None
Speaker 5: of that interests me. To me, while I understand the
Speaker 5: premise and I wouldn't hate it. I think there's a
Speaker 5: Biancabella area Ripley made event rating waiting right there, all right.
Speaker 5: Third point, the ship has probably sailed that Rock Roman
Speaker 5: is not happening at WrestleMania. But can seth versus Roman
Speaker 5: become one of the most personal former friends feud since
Speaker 5: my personal favorite all time of HBK Triple H during
Speaker 5: the two thousands, Well, yeah it can if they actually
Speaker 5: commit to the damn thing. How many start stops of
Speaker 5: this program of rollins and rains have we seen over
Speaker 5: the last eight years, I mean ever since the turn.
Speaker 5: They had a little bit of a program, but it
Speaker 5: quickly kind of shifted elsewhere Dean Ambrose and then Dean
Speaker 5: Ambrose leaves and goes aw and on John Moxley. Now,
Speaker 5: but there hasn't been a true, longstanding, well thought out,
Speaker 5: proper program with these two. Now. Is it gonna be
Speaker 5: to the level of Triple HHBK. I don't think so.
Speaker 5: That's an elite level program with two elite guys. And
Speaker 5: I'm not saying Roman and Seth aren't elite, but they're
Speaker 5: not Triple HHBK. That's no insult. But they worked so
Speaker 5: well together it was crazy. I mean it was just
Speaker 5: kind of scary crazy. How well Triple HHBK wrestled. I mean,
Speaker 5: every time they got in the ring, it was must see.
Speaker 5: They didn't need to do flip flops and flies. They
Speaker 5: just use good old fashioned, you know, wrestling psychology, nice pacing,
Speaker 5: not one thousand miles an hour, which is unfortunately today's style.
Speaker 5: Again not my favorite, but it is what it is today.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's going to reach that level, but
Speaker 5: at least it could be in the conversation for that.
Speaker 5: But I don't know anybody that feels like this program's complete,
Speaker 5: there's so much left to tell. The promos themselves, the
Speaker 5: video packages you could pull, the interviews, you could do,
Speaker 5: the backstage, the sit down interviews. It's a crazy amount
Speaker 5: of content for something that happened. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 5: I think it was eight years ago, maybe more.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 5: Yes, give me seth Roman one on one. I don't
Speaker 5: need Punk in there. I don't need Johnsena in there.
Speaker 5: The reason is also, if you're gonna have a triple
Speaker 5: threat for just pride and and and bringing a guy
Speaker 5: like Punk or Sina for some weird reason to put
Speaker 5: themselves in there, what what are they achieving here? Just
Speaker 5: to say huh, I win? The program is Rollin's Rains.
Speaker 5: End of story. If you're gonna do a personal feud,
Speaker 5: personal feuds are one on one. It's this guy's issues
Speaker 5: versus this guy's issues, not this guy and this guy
Speaker 5: and this guy's issues. That's a weird thing to do
Speaker 5: with WrestleMania with nothing on the line, with three guys,
Speaker 5: it's a it's doesn't fit the dynamic. It's Rollin's and
Speaker 5: It's Rains. Anybody else would feel like a third wheel.
Speaker 5: And finally, can you make the case for solo Soka
Speaker 5: to beat Cody Rhodes for the undisputed title that elimination
Speaker 5: chamber due to the interference of probably both Ko and
Speaker 5: a newly turned Sammy's Ain because newly he'll turns Sammy's
Speaker 5: Ain because I think it is. Anyway, that's all for now,
Speaker 5: have a great weekend, everyone, DJ couzmos signing off. So DJ,
Speaker 5: I mean, it's possible, but I will say, and I
Speaker 5: said this at the end of WrestleMania last year, even
Speaker 5: before that, when we all knew Cody was probably gonna win,
Speaker 5: Cody was anointed as the face of the new Era.
Speaker 5: I mean, you had everybody come out there, triple h
Speaker 5: half the locker room, Samantha Irvin was in tears. Everybody
Speaker 5: loved Cody. I mean the exception to me in a
Speaker 5: couple others. You're not gonna have Cody lose the belt
Speaker 5: before WrestleMania this year. It was minimum one year, and
Speaker 5: then you can start to talk about Cody losing the belt,
Speaker 5: maybe even at WrestleMania, maybe depending on what his who
Speaker 5: his opponent is. It could be Randy, could be Punk,
Speaker 5: it could be Drew. I think those are really the
Speaker 5: three that you look at or it could be some
Speaker 5: weird triple threat was seen a Punkin and Cody. Sure,
Speaker 5: but I don't you know, I don't think that solo.
Speaker 5: So can I make the case?
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 5: I couldmit, here's the case solo Socoa wins and then
Speaker 5: you have for sure a fatal you have some kind
Speaker 5: of fatal four way, fatal four wight elimination style Allah
Speaker 5: WrestleMania two thousand, ie WrestleMania sixteen, uh where it's you know,
Speaker 5: at that time it was what big big show rock
Speaker 5: triple h mankind they get that right, and all a
Speaker 5: McMahon in each corner, remember that, and it ended up
Speaker 5: being at all of McMahon's were in cahoots. No Austin
Speaker 5: for that WrestleMania because of his injury, or at least
Speaker 5: he went to go get surgery so he was out
Speaker 5: until that following September. But this again, that's the only
Speaker 5: case you could make is he's gonna win it to
Speaker 5: create a fatal four way. But then what to just
Speaker 5: drop at a WrestleMania. You think, really, it's so hard
Speaker 5: for me to make a case of this because it's
Speaker 5: so improbable, because you're gonna have him retain it WrestleMania.
Speaker 5: I mean, we're really building around Solo, so CoA a
Speaker 5: guy that has been overshadowed very quickly by his you know,
Speaker 5: his brethren, right, I mean, I don't think so. The
Speaker 5: Werewolf is already behind ahead of him in terms of
Speaker 5: star power, incredibly in terms of the fan support, in
Speaker 5: terms of who the fans want. It's not Solo. It's
Speaker 5: not Solo. So I will say that now, it's hard
Speaker 5: for me to make a case for that. It's almost
Speaker 5: for me impossible. But hey, I was totally wrong the
Speaker 5: last time when you said jay Us would win.
Speaker 1: So what do I know?
Speaker 5: All right, let's go to another patron here. I know
Speaker 5: we got more, a couple more. Maybe let's check out
Speaker 5: Alex the French guy, and he says, hello, I heard
Speaker 5: that Drew was complaining about his WrestleMania plans, allegedly with
Speaker 5: Damian Priest story wise or something else. I couldn't agree
Speaker 5: more with Drew on his take. He is the superstar
Speaker 5: of the year twenty twenty four. He is the most
Speaker 5: talented guy in the roster right now. He deserves Cody
Speaker 5: at WrestleMania and deserves the title that would make sense
Speaker 5: or have him lose and attack reins to vengeful achieve
Speaker 5: final vengeance. If Drew goes against Damian Priest, no disrespect
Speaker 5: to Damien. He was a former world champion and did
Speaker 5: a did a above expectation job of being world champion.
Speaker 5: Drew does not deserve Damian Priest or Damien the Priest
Speaker 5: doesn't deserve Drew is probably the better way to phrase it.
Speaker 5: That doesn't make any sense at all. See, that's the
Speaker 5: kind of match. Sure, they could end up having a
Speaker 5: really good match and people are like, oh wow, that
Speaker 5: was better than I thought. But fans aren't going to
Speaker 5: emotionally get into this match. How I mean, what are
Speaker 5: we going to do here with Drew? Drew and Damien
Speaker 5: for what?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I could eat my words in their program exceeds expectations,
Speaker 5: But what's the story here? What's the story? Sure, when
Speaker 5: he was in Judgment Day Drew, you know at one
Speaker 5: point Drew was a baby face and they were screwing
Speaker 5: with Drew. What what are we doing?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: It feels like just two guys that don't have a
Speaker 5: path that they want to put together that are bigger stars,
Speaker 5: specifically more Drew than Damien fans. You took a vote
Speaker 5: on that fans would vote this one down immediately. I agree,
Speaker 5: Cody and Drew much more deserving. So thanks Alex. All Right,
Speaker 5: I think we have another email floating around here, and
Speaker 5: this one is from k O. Case says, Hey, Matt,
Speaker 5: sorry for my rent on Friday, but it was needed.
Speaker 5: Been a wrestling fan for over fifty years and yeah,
Speaker 5: I know fifty years, my god. All right, so you
Speaker 5: have me beat by twenty all right on Monday, Gunther
Speaker 5: interrupting the Yeat nonsense was brilliant. But Gunther is done
Speaker 5: at WrestleMania. He is so good, but money talks. But
Speaker 5: if he's so good, then why are we getting the
Speaker 5: why are we advocating for him to lose the belt?
Speaker 5: I feel like it's an incomplete run. It's like he
Speaker 5: got half historian.
Speaker 7: Barely.
Speaker 5: You know, he doesn't compete on Raw very much. You
Speaker 5: don't see him in a ton of promos. He has
Speaker 5: been on and off Raw in a program, you know,
Speaker 5: coming out in his suit doing you know, talking with
Speaker 5: Jay or calling people street trash or whatever. And it's
Speaker 5: been fun. But Gunther, we haven't seen the best of
Speaker 5: him yet. I still feel like there's some of him
Speaker 5: being held back. I don't know. I'm not ready for
Speaker 5: him to drop the belt to anyone.
Speaker 6: For that matter.
Speaker 5: There's really not a guy on the roster, not one.
Speaker 5: I don't care if it was on SmackDown too, that
Speaker 5: I would want to take the belt from Gunther.
Speaker 2: No one.
Speaker 5: I think about this too. Gunther was the longest reign
Speaker 5: of Interconninental Champion of all time, six hundred and sixty
Speaker 5: seven days whatever it was, six hundred and sixty six days,
Speaker 5: and you knew that that was really a promotion once
Speaker 5: he lost it. It was a promotion to move into
Speaker 5: the world title picture, and it was he wins it,
Speaker 5: and you're thinking, oh my god, here we go. Not
Speaker 5: that it's going to be another two year rain, but
Speaker 5: you're thinking, all right, solid rain at least maybe through WrestleMania,
Speaker 5: and if he drops at a WrestleMania, it's gonna be
Speaker 5: someone big is jau So really does he really fit
Speaker 5: the resume that you're looking to have Gunther lose to
Speaker 5: I just don't see it. It doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 5: Would I lose my mind over it? No, I wouldn't
Speaker 5: lose my mind. It's just he's not the guy, or
Speaker 5: at least again, here's what I would say splitting the difference.
Speaker 5: They have an amazing match, it goes twenty minutes, twenty
Speaker 5: five minutes even, and they are I mean, they're having
Speaker 5: one of the best WrestleMania matches in years. Again, incredibly
Speaker 5: high bar. But this, in my perfect world, this is
Speaker 5: how it would go, where somebody unexpected comes out to
Speaker 5: help Gunther. Maybe he didn't ask for the help, maybe
Speaker 5: he just maybe he did whatever, but Jay has him
Speaker 5: on the ropes. You know they're gonna do four hundred
Speaker 5: and fifty fourth finishers here in this match to make
Speaker 5: it more exciting, which I don't agree with, But I
Speaker 5: would have them have somebody come out and ultimately be
Speaker 5: the deciding factor where Guntherer retains but Jay was he
Speaker 5: could have beaten Gunther, So Guntherer retains, but Jay comes
Speaker 5: out still looking very strong. That's my take on that.
Speaker 5: That's what I would do. And here's what I would
Speaker 5: also start doing, just generally in matches, especially long matches,
Speaker 5: how about we don't see a finish until like the
Speaker 5: last move set. I don't need to finish in the beginning,
Speaker 5: in the middle, in the semi end, how about it's
Speaker 5: just imagine going twenty minutes without even teasing a finish.
Speaker 5: Imagine that, not even teasing a finish, No false finishes,
Speaker 5: no kickouts of finishes. You don't hit a finish until
Speaker 5: it's actually, oh, I don't know, time to finish the match.
Speaker 5: So all right, anyway, this is not gonna happen. But okay,
Speaker 5: number two. I am not a fan of AJ, but
Speaker 5: that promo with Dom the Douche was ten out of ten.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: AJ's good. AJ trips over his words like I do
Speaker 5: a lot, but he's good and there is still some
Speaker 5: gas left in the tank. Not enough to make him
Speaker 5: the face of the company ever again, or make him
Speaker 5: even a world champion at any point, probably not, but boy,
Speaker 5: he is good to just still have a kick ass
Speaker 5: match with. And if you want somebody to get a
Speaker 5: little shine from a major star and have them work
Speaker 5: with a absolute professional, he's the guy. AJ Styles is
Speaker 5: the guy. Could he go on a small run with
Speaker 5: the ic US title, He could, sure, But I think
Speaker 5: right now AJ is he's in the sunset of his career.
Speaker 5: He is, and that's that's fine. Still looks like a
Speaker 5: million bucks, Still can wrestle pretty damn well. But he's
Speaker 5: just not the focal point of the company at least
Speaker 5: I don't think he will be.
Speaker 6: Again.
Speaker 5: What are they doing with bron Breaker? He is awesome.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 5: They're too busy putting cowboy hats on him. I guess
Speaker 5: seeing you know, maybe trying him out for a new gimmick.
Speaker 5: Maybe Jimmy wang Yang team up with him. Those of
Speaker 5: you who understood that joke, you know, you go back
Speaker 5: with me here, Yeah, yay, Jimmy wang Yang. Anybody else
Speaker 5: remember that guy? I think he was on SmackDown back
Speaker 5: in the day, back in the early ruthless Aggression era.
Speaker 5: Pretty sure, pretty sure saying well, or here's another weird gimmick.
Speaker 5: Paul Burchell was a pirate. Remember he came in swinging
Speaker 5: on a rope. Mordecai comes out being the wannabe Undertaker.
Speaker 5: Trying to think some others. Hide and Reich that era, yeah,
Speaker 5: that era, Hide and Reich. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I can come up with some others, but those are
Speaker 5: some names. If you've gone back, you probably haven't heard
Speaker 5: in a long time. Nothing else interests me, But why
Speaker 5: did the Loser Day attack on Ray Holy build up?
Speaker 5: Batman to them losing to the lw O. Boy, I
Speaker 5: don't know. The New Day, The New Day needs some help,
Speaker 5: you know what they need?
Speaker 6: They need Big E.
Speaker 5: The New Day need Big E because that's what we're
Speaker 5: all waiting for. They have a fiery promo, the talk
Speaker 5: of the entire week or weeks for WWE, and you're thinking,
Speaker 5: oh my god, Okay, they're setting them up for the
Speaker 5: Royal Rumble of Royer Rumble return leading into a wrestle
Speaker 5: mini match and oh no, no, Big Ee's still doing
Speaker 5: the pregame show just like nothing happened. Nope, I don't know.
Speaker 5: So now Biggie still could make a return. The elimination
Speaker 5: chamber still exists, weeks after, still exist, but it's certainly
Speaker 5: going to Uh it's certainly not looking great for a
Speaker 5: Biggie return right now. Hopefully that changes, but that's what
Speaker 5: you're looking for to heat this back up.
Speaker 6: Thank you? Kay?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 5: I think that does it for the emails everybody, so
Speaker 5: I will uh, let's me. I know I got one, two,
Speaker 5: two voicemails, so let's get to those voicemails right now.
Speaker 4: This is DJ Cooles melt Back add it again on
Speaker 4: your Mail Back Show record to live on a Wednesday
Speaker 4: board and you know what time it is.
Speaker 5: It's time to see his name.
Speaker 7: Man, he peers.
Speaker 4: I believe in Joe Hendry.
Speaker 2: I believe in Joe Hendry.
Speaker 4: That's right, folks, Joe Hendry is his name. As I
Speaker 4: take it to my thirty first episode of the Joe
Speaker 4: Hydropo Am, I go always cover two live from it
Speaker 4: on this closed location. Like I mentioned last week, Joe
Speaker 4: Hendriy made appearance at the roy Rubble, coming in at
Speaker 4: number fifteen and lasting three minutes and thirty five seconds.
Speaker 4: But there were seventy thousand fans. Over seventy thousand WWE
Speaker 4: fans were singing along to Joe Hendry's music. So this
Speaker 4: was the big exposure that Joe Henry got on a
Speaker 4: big platform on a big stage like though Royal Rumbles.
Speaker 4: So this was a great moment for Joe Hendry. This
Speaker 4: was a great moment for TNA as this is the
Speaker 4: possibility that we could see Joe Hendry make another appearance
Speaker 4: at another wwepl or at another WWE show, whether it's
Speaker 4: Raw SmackDown or NIX. Anyway, let's take it to what
Speaker 4: took place this past Thursday. On the episode of TNA Parrestlake,
Speaker 4: as Joe Hendry had a concert, but not just any concert.
Speaker 4: He had a championship concert, as he's still celebrating his
Speaker 4: championship win from a couple of weeks ago from TNA
Speaker 4: Genesis when he became the new TNA World Heavyweight Champion.
Speaker 4: Now we had a couple of songs. One of them
Speaker 4: was a cover song similar to the song We Are
Speaker 4: the Champions by Queen As. The name of that song
Speaker 4: was called Hendry is the Champion, and it goes something
Speaker 4: like this, I'll do it to the best of my ability.
Speaker 2: Hendry is the champion, my friends, and he'll be the
Speaker 2: champion to the end.
Speaker 6: Hendry is the Champion. Hendry is the Champion. No time
Speaker 6: for losers. Hendry is the Champion.
Speaker 2: Of the world.
Speaker 4: And then that was the first song. The second song
Speaker 4: was a little bit of an original as it was
Speaker 4: called Henry Joe Hendry Wonder Belt, and it goes something
Speaker 4: like this, Joe Hendry wonder Belt. Oh, Joe Hendry wonder Belt.
Speaker 4: And during the course of that song, here is the
Speaker 4: kick of my friends. I guess he kind of got
Speaker 4: a cue from Elias because every time when Elias does
Speaker 4: a concert he gets interrupted, and he did a part
Speaker 4: of the verse that says, this is the part of
Speaker 4: the song when an upcoming challenger cuts me off and
Speaker 4: in the middle of my concert. And then all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, here comes a TNA wrestler by the name
Speaker 4: of Jake Something coming in at six foot two, two
Speaker 4: hundred and sixty two pounds, a monster Roman kind of
Speaker 4: similar to Broun Strowman. But anyway, he comes into interrupt
Speaker 4: Joe Hendri's championship concert by seeking a championship opportunity to
Speaker 4: face Joe Hendri for the TNA World Championship next week
Speaker 4: on an episode of TNA Parresseling. And of course Joe
Speaker 4: Hendri as the fighting champion that he is, he says
Speaker 4: I except in his singing voice. So anyway, next week
Speaker 4: on TENA Prestling, we're gonna have Joe Hendri versus Jake
Speaker 4: sup for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. That's all for today, folks,
Speaker 4: as I'm gonna have this short episode for the Joe
Speaker 4: Hendry Paul And like always, always remember to believe, say
Speaker 4: his name, always remember the words that Joe Hendry says
Speaker 4: any place, anytime, at any show, and most so.
Speaker 2: Poorly, most so poorly. Always remember to do this.
Speaker 4: Sight science.
Speaker 7: Well believed you.
Speaker 4: Once again, this is your guy, DJ Coulsmo, have a
Speaker 4: blessed week. Be kai to one of those stays in
Speaker 4: my friends, Believe and Peace.
Speaker 7: DJ.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure I don't have a record of since
Speaker 5: this show started, and I've actually been podcasting for ten
Speaker 5: years under four years under a different name, and eight
Speaker 5: years under this name, or sixty eight years under this name.
Speaker 5: I don't think anyone's ever sung on this show. I'm
Speaker 5: pretty sure that's a first. I know for you, it's
Speaker 5: a first, and I've taken a lot of voicemails. I
Speaker 5: used to do live shows. I don't think I've ever
Speaker 5: ever had anybody sing on the show. So congratulations on that.
Speaker 5: Thank you for the update. I actually had to go
Speaker 5: back as you were talking because I was looking at
Speaker 5: see what's going on in TNA, and I watched the
Speaker 5: actual TNA Impact, at least the segment with Joe Hendry
Speaker 5: where Santina Santina Morrell not Santina Santino Marla attacked Joe
Speaker 5: Hendry after Joe Hendry versus. I had to look this up,
Speaker 5: Jake something, and I thought at first, I'm like, what
Speaker 5: do you mean, Jake Something. I'm like, well, you don't
Speaker 5: know his last name, and so I had to go
Speaker 5: back and look, I'm like, no, that's actually his name.
Speaker 5: His last name is something, So Jake Something. That's a
Speaker 5: pretty funny name here. And so anyway, thank you for
Speaker 5: keeping the updated, thank you for this, for the song,
Speaker 5: thank you for uh the actual match we're going to
Speaker 5: get next week with Joe Hendry and his eventual massive
Speaker 5: debut into WWE full time, which we all was coming.
Speaker 5: It was a test case, you know, test the waters,
Speaker 5: see what his reaction is from fans, and it, I'll
Speaker 5: think beyond exceeded expectations for If I'm WW management, I'm elated,
Speaker 5: you know, with the reaction that WWE fans gave Henry,
Speaker 5: even if he was on the rubble for three minutes,
Speaker 5: that's fine, massive moment. He got to wrestle Roman Reigns
Speaker 5: for a little bit. It's as big of an exposure
Speaker 5: as you can get if you're a star. And to
Speaker 5: see where the fans land and if WW is thinking themselves, okay,
Speaker 5: does do the fans even know who this guy is?
Speaker 5: And clearly they do. He was in NXT for a
Speaker 5: hot minute. Bent back to TNA, the TNA and ww's relationship.
Speaker 5: They have a very good working relationship. This is going
Speaker 5: to benefit not just TNA, but of course Joe Hendry
Speaker 5: when he eventually lands in WW full time. So thank
Speaker 5: you for the update. Lot to see. The key here
Speaker 5: is going to be this and it's not a one
Speaker 5: hundred percent of the time, but it's a overwhelming amount
Speaker 5: of the time, probably in the nineties, where the person
Speaker 5: when they're moving on, not just in divisions like okay,
Speaker 5: I lose the IC like Gunther did. He it's a
Speaker 5: sign he's going into the world title picture. It's like
Speaker 5: promotion by losing the belt, which is weird, but especially
Speaker 5: when you're moving promotions like if you're leaving to go
Speaker 5: to AW or you're going from AW to potentially back TOW,
Speaker 5: which hasn't been too many of but some or in
Speaker 5: this case TNA and to WW. The key is to
Speaker 5: look out when Hendry drops the TNA World title. Now
Speaker 5: I don't know what his contract is with TNA, how
Speaker 5: long it lasts, but I would keep an eye out
Speaker 5: for when he drops that belt. It could be a
Speaker 5: very good sign that he's imminently about to debut in
Speaker 5: WWE for real, So keep that in mind. I think
Speaker 5: we all should as we move on. Thank you, DJ,
Speaker 5: and let's get to I think our final voicemail and
Speaker 5: we'll call it a night. And actually, as I just
Speaker 5: listened to it off the air, it's Alex the French
Speaker 5: Guy and Alex the French Guy, it's let me give
Speaker 5: you a sample again. Just you don't think I'm bsing you.
Speaker 5: Let me let you just for a few moments. Everybody
Speaker 5: bear with me. I'll just want to show you so
Speaker 5: prove to you. This is the voice quality I got.
Speaker 5: So this is why I can't play it.
Speaker 7: I like the French guy here, no European champion, Matt.
Speaker 7: I wanted to address you on something addressed, but just
Speaker 7: to explain a little bit more the passion of the French.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I don't know what you're gonna address me on.
Speaker 5: Maybe my comments about Uh. I'm gonna guess I didn't
Speaker 5: listen to her the rest of your voicemail because it's
Speaker 5: just it's hard to listen to. I mean, with a
Speaker 5: bad connection, nobody wants to listen. Uh. Nothing against you,
Speaker 5: just generally right, I'm gonna guess it has something to
Speaker 5: do with my comments about men showing emotion or I
Speaker 5: could be wrong because I got a lot of comments
Speaker 5: about that, and which is you know, expected. But if
Speaker 5: it wasn't cool too, I'd invite you to call back,
Speaker 5: retry the connection, and I'll be happy to play it
Speaker 5: next week. So there we go. I told you a
Speaker 5: bit of a shorter voicemail email segment here tonight on
Speaker 5: the show. That does allow me to go and look
Speaker 5: at any other things that are going on in WWE,
Speaker 5: any other news, and let's see here. I don't see
Speaker 5: anything crazy. Oh we did get to Michelle McCool who
Speaker 5: got nominated for the Hall of Fame. She's been selected
Speaker 5: to be in the Hall of Fame. No, I'm sorry, No,
Speaker 5: I don't care. If she's the wife of Mark Hallaway,
Speaker 5: I don't care. I don't know if that had anything
Speaker 5: to do with it. I probably had a small, small,
Speaker 5: small part. But Michelle McCool in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5: Can the fans vote on this? I mean, I don't
Speaker 5: there's problems with that too.
Speaker 1: But I.
Speaker 5: Don't understand what their metrics are. What are their qualifications
Speaker 5: again for being in the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 4: What are they?
Speaker 5: And if there aren't any what are the intangible ones?
Speaker 5: Like okay, fine, you can't tell me they have to
Speaker 5: reach this threshold because that's difficult to do. You have
Speaker 5: to be a former world champion of this many times.
Speaker 5: Like that's preposterous, right, Like it's all intangible metrics that
Speaker 5: they use, Fine, explain them intangibles. Then they had a
Speaker 5: connection with the fans, they had a long lasting connectionable
Speaker 5: who says who says they did? Did you talk to
Speaker 5: the fans who actually supported this person? Or is that
Speaker 5: your perception? I'm sorry, Michelle McCool, And this is again.
Speaker 5: I know there's a celebrity wing and Drew Carrey's in it. Fine,
Speaker 5: that's all just that's all fine, But Michelle McCool, I
Speaker 5: don't feel it with lay Cool.
Speaker 6: What I don't know?
Speaker 5: Oh, how do you guys feel about this? Remember Layla
Speaker 5: and Michelle McCool. The only thing they did that I
Speaker 5: remember outside of being just insanely obnoxious to the point
Speaker 5: of like not even watchable, Like it's the heat that
Speaker 5: you just go, I don't even want to watch them,
Speaker 5: so I change the channel. It's not the heat that
Speaker 5: you go, Oh my god, I want to see somebody
Speaker 5: beat them up.
Speaker 7: It's the heat.
Speaker 5: You're just like, nah, I don't want to watch them
Speaker 5: get pretend beat up. I just don't even want to watch.
Speaker 5: That's the difference, And people sometimes don't understand the difference between. So,
Speaker 5: you know, no, of they're really annoying you, doesn't really
Speaker 5: annoy you. Is the goal for the company to make
Speaker 5: you change the channel or in this case, you can't
Speaker 5: change the channel anymore, change what you're watching on Netflix? No,
Speaker 5: So some people I try to always decipher that, But
Speaker 5: my point is really what I know, she was a
Speaker 5: tag team, she's a former women's champion. Are we just
Speaker 5: gonna induct everybody that we just remember, like anybody that
Speaker 5: you're like, oh, yeah, that's right, I forgot about that person. Oh,
Speaker 5: since I've rem them, let's put them in the Hall
Speaker 5: of Fame. I don't get it now. I know the
Speaker 5: Undertaker would probably find a way because it's his wife
Speaker 5: and he should defend her. But if you're looking this
Speaker 5: subjectively from you know, a macro view, what really, oh,
Speaker 5: I mean, are the standards no disrespect? Although it kind
Speaker 5: of is, are the other standards this low that we're
Speaker 5: gonna put Michelle McCool in the Hall of Fame. I mean,
Speaker 5: at this point, are we just trying to fill quotas?
Speaker 5: Is that what we're doing? Is there some I mean
Speaker 5: that's the problem with doing the Hall of Fame every year,
Speaker 5: and they have a class they have to do that
Speaker 5: tells you they have to find people to put in.
Speaker 5: But the Hall of Fame should be it shouldn't be
Speaker 5: dictated by the year. It should be dictated by the
Speaker 5: talent that are available that deserve to go in. And
Speaker 5: you can't tell me every year that there's like fifteen
Speaker 5: people that deserve to go in.
Speaker 7: It's not.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I could maybe somebody will come up
Speaker 5: here and give me a real explanation as to why
Speaker 5: Michelle McCool deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Sorry, Michelle, if you're listening to this, listen, my Hall
Speaker 5: of Fame standards are just a lot higher because it's
Speaker 5: the Hall of Fame. Like you're reaching legend status. You're
Speaker 5: really going to tell me you're a legend?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Sorry, I don't buy a single bit of that. Nothing
Speaker 5: against you personally, just professionally. Again, tell me exactly why
Speaker 5: you're a legend. I don't know, So I don't understand anyway,
Speaker 5: so I'll leave it at that, But so excited stuff
Speaker 5: coming up, guys. I hope everyone's feeling well, not getting sick,
Speaker 5: and you know, right in the heart of flu season
Speaker 5: and all that. So I hope everyone's doing well. Hope
Speaker 5: I have a great Valentine's Day, and I think the
Speaker 5: next holiday, what is Saint Patrick's Day, and then after
Speaker 5: that it's Easter if you celebrate it, and then Memorial Day.
Speaker 5: So we're cranking along here. February is halfway over. If
Speaker 5: you live in the northern part of the country, you
Speaker 5: are grateful that it's heading to March and April. Let
Speaker 5: me just tell you that. So all right, thanks everybody
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