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Speaker 1: This is the Action Network podcast Champion versus Champion title

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Speaker 1: for China's Elephant.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Action Network podcast. This is the WrestleMania

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Speaker 2: thirty seven gambling preview. I'm your host Colin Wilson, and

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Speaker 2: joining me is sports gambler and wrestling fanatic like myself.

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Speaker 2: Nick Costos, host of You Better You Bet Podcasts. On

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Speaker 2: today's episode, we're gonna cover WrestleMania thirty seven matches, discuss

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Speaker 2: the story, build, the predicted winner, possible ramifications for the

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Speaker 2: huge Monday Night Raw after WrestleMania. But first let's start off, Nick,

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Speaker 2: how are you doing and what is your all time

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Speaker 2: favorite WrestleMania moment?

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Speaker 1: First off, brother, great to be on with you. Normally

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Speaker 1: you're around with me on You Better You Bet. So

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Speaker 1: great to be doing stuff with you here with our

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Speaker 1: friends over at the Action Network. Last last time you

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Speaker 1: and I worked together a bit of a different circumstance

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Speaker 1: WrestleMania thirty six podcasts. But you know it was started

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Speaker 1: the pandemic. Nothing else was going on. So we're coming

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Speaker 1: off the NCAA tournament, we got the Masters, so a

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Speaker 1: lot of good stuff going on in the world this sport.

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Speaker 1: So I'm doing great. Great to be on with you

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Speaker 1: here talking WrestleMania No WWE obviously a passion of mine,

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Speaker 1: my entire life favorite WrestleMania memory. I'm actually going to

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Speaker 1: go back to the first WrestleMania that I really remember watching. Now.

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Speaker 1: I watched WrestleMania six, but I don't remember a lot

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Speaker 1: about it other than Warrior winning at the end, and

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Speaker 1: I was a huge Warrior fan. But seven was the

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Speaker 1: first one where I was like really cognizant and like

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Speaker 1: and I was a huge Warrior Mark Warrior Savage WrestleMania

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Speaker 1: seven career ending match is my probably my favorite wrestling

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Speaker 1: match ever. I don't think it's the best match ever

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Speaker 1: as far as like your work rate goes or whatever,

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Speaker 1: but as far as the storyline goes from build, you know,

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Speaker 1: So Warrior beating Savage followed by Savage's face turned reuniting

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Speaker 2: I love it. I love it because that really kind

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Speaker 2: of plays into when I started watching wrestling, well really

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Speaker 2: WW religiously, because I can't really I was. I was

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Speaker 2: lived in the South, I was born in the South.

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Speaker 2: So WTBS was a real I'm a New.

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Speaker 1: Yorker, I'm a New New york I don't want I

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Speaker 1: don't watch w CW until until Hogan's like drop of

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Speaker 1: you know, Savage and be a Badge at the Beach ninety.

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Speaker 2: Six right, right, So I think everybody's listening to this

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Speaker 2: podcast you have to realize that Nick was Nick is

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Speaker 2: a New Yorker. Oh, by the way, he's a Shawn

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Speaker 2: Michaels guy. So let's just get past that because I'm

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Speaker 2: a Bretteart fanatic, so we'll we'll table that for later

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Speaker 2: on in the podcast. But Nick is a New Yorker.

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Speaker 2: Which w W was very territorial back then, right, I

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Speaker 2: mean it was stampede wrestling. There was all these different territories.

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Speaker 2: I'm down here watching the von Erics fight in Texas,

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Speaker 2: I'm lawler in Memphis, and WTVS is on Rick Flair,

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Speaker 2: Dusty Rhodes, uh, the original Four Horsemen, Harley Race magnum Ta,

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Speaker 2: Nikita cole Off. I'm down here watching this and I

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Speaker 2: don't really know about this side show that's going on

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Speaker 2: up in New York called w w W E right,

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Speaker 2: and and these these characters, because these characters didn't exist

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Speaker 2: there's the I almost said, the ding Dongs, the red

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Speaker 2: and the million Dollar Man. The fact that who is

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Speaker 2: everybody's gonna pay.

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Speaker 1: Man all way, it's his way.

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Speaker 2: The fact that a guy could just buy a title

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Speaker 2: from Andrea the Giant was like the most fascinating thing.

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Speaker 2: So even though my most favorite WrestleMania moment is gonna

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Speaker 2: That's fine, I think, right, as long as you come

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Speaker 2: on the podcast and didn't tell me your favorite moment

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Speaker 2: was a WrestleMania at twelve sixty minute overtime.

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Speaker 1: By the terrible match.

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Speaker 2: I'm losing MLB extra innings unders to extra runs, and

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Speaker 2: I'm using college I'm losing college basketball unders to overtime.

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Speaker 2: So I don't want to hear about wrestle Mania at

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Speaker 2: twelve and Shawn Michael's winning an overtime.

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Speaker 1: It's a terrible match, by the way. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: I actually think that's the best work of Brett's entire career.

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Speaker 2: He feel he felt so bad about saying the United

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Speaker 1: One of the great lines of all time.

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Speaker 2: Though I was on the floor. I was like, this

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Speaker 1: And I'm American and I loved it because I loved

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Speaker 1: So well, I don't know when when when Michaels walked

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, definitely, so you guys, hopefully from that little

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Speaker 2: This isn't. I mean, even though that we think this

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Speaker 2: We're gonna we're gonna start off with our betting card. Now.

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Speaker 2: WrestleMania thirty seven is a two night event like it

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Speaker 2: So maybe some more fireworks, you know, I believe Nick

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Speaker 2: correct me if I'm wrong. There's going to be a

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I just did media with an Odyssey Sports

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Speaker 1: So this was my initial thought was McIntyre was kind

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Speaker 2: Really, the thing that keeps me away from the Bobby

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Speaker 2: five minutes. Rollin's waves as the crowd. He's got his title.

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Speaker 2: That's it. That was the end of this huge WW

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Speaker 2: So I'm trying to think long term and why I

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Speaker 2: don't know what's up with creative, but they get into

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Speaker 2: And so that tells me that, you know, and whoever

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Speaker 2: we didn't get we didn't get Lesner. So Lashly Lesner interchangeable,

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Speaker 2: But I actually think he carries himself really well with

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Speaker 2: So count me in for Lashly. Not a huge bet here,

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Speaker 2: but the fact that it's going first, it's just not

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Speaker 2: that big of a It minimizes what Drew McIntyre is

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Speaker 3: I'm an answer the way tapping Bobby lastly.

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Speaker 1: But you agree though that like Drew ain't losing clean, no,

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Speaker 1: like there is an interference involved, and then Drew goes

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Speaker 2: Thing that's in the back of my head is that

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Speaker 2: fantastic lass. Yeah, absolutely, And for some if we can

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Speaker 2: about how Roman has not been penned in quite a

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Speaker 2: buzz in the world of social media, and the Miss

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Speaker 2: is right at the center of it. Right, So we

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Speaker 2: have Bad Bunny and Damian Priest. Yes, Bad Bunny the artist,

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Speaker 2: I mean much bigger things than WWE. That's that's Bad Bunny.

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Speaker 1: There is Okay, I get that he's the biggest star

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Speaker 1: in the world in the music business. This is not

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Speaker 1: where you belong to.

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Speaker 2: Mister Bunny is taking on the Miz and Morrison, which

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Speaker 2: I think getting Damian Priest exposure in WrestleMania is probably

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Speaker 2: a good idea. The Miss has just got to be

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Speaker 2: Bad Bunny. But everything that I'm reading is we're going

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Speaker 2: to do everything with Bad Bunny to make him look great.

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Speaker 2: Damian Priest did the radio circuit this week. He said

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Speaker 2: he's going to surprise a lot of people. He's adedant

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Speaker 2: about getting respect from the WWE locker room, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I think the Miss is just content, just being involved

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Speaker 2: So I think what we're looking for here, Nick, because

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Speaker 2: the line is just way too high to bet on this, right,

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Speaker 2: I think Bad Bunny and Damian Priest winning is easily

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Speaker 2: easily what's going to happen here, But the Bunny bump,

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Speaker 2: the potential bunny bump at the end of this match

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Speaker 2: could either be the most talked about moment of WrestleMania

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Speaker 2: or it could be a complete disaster. It's still talked about.

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Speaker 2: But this bump that he's obviously been preparing for every

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Speaker 2: where it's he's going to fall off of. I don't

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Speaker 2: know how it's going to happen. But the big, you know,

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Speaker 2: crux of this match is the bunny bump, Right, Yes?

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Speaker 1: Does that you feel like they might lose?

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Speaker 2: No? No, but Bunny Bunny, Bad Bunny is not losing

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Speaker 1: Right, agreed? Now, So apparently, like just from reading like

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Speaker 1: and like apparently like Bad Bunny's like like your lifelong

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Speaker 1: Mis is like say, whether you love or hate him, Like,

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Speaker 1: priest can obviously go. I think the match is gonna

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Speaker 1: be good. I think whatever bet, I think this is

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm just worried about this bump. I mean, there's

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Speaker 2: that's what I'll be looking for. But I don't think

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Speaker 2: don't think there's any chance at that Bunny loses this,

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Speaker 2: also good too. We're gonna move on to two guys

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Speaker 2: there's no way they're in a fewd because they're like

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Speaker 2: They're buddies. And that is Seth Rawlins and Cesarro. You know,

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Speaker 1: He's I think the fits have been good for Seth

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Speaker 2: building up to that, and then once you have the child,

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Speaker 2: tell that seth Rawlins is like, now I'm a dad, right,

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Speaker 2: we want to look between the lines right now, Cesarro

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Speaker 2: rumor is that Czarrow is going to get a title

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Speaker 2: it's backlash, he's going to get a good four week

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Speaker 2: run against Roman or Edge. So it makes sense to

429
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Speaker 2: build him up here and to get the pen cleanly

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Speaker 2: over what is his off screen best friend, seth Rawlins,

431
00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,640
Speaker 2: who probably has no problems jobbing. So do you see

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Speaker 2: this going any other way.

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Speaker 1: Nope. I think Cizara wins. I think it's as easy

434
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Speaker 1: as that. I think you nailed it. I think this

435
00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,480
Speaker 1: has the potential to be the best, the best match

436
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Speaker 1: on Saturday Night. So I think the match itself is

437
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Speaker 1: going to be is going to be pretty awesome. I

438
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Speaker 1: personally love Seth Rollins persona right now, super entertaining. The

439
00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:12,879
Speaker 1: outfits are great. I think the match is going to

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Speaker 1: be great. And like you said, like, I don't think

441
00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:17,119
Speaker 1: Seth cares about putting people over. I don't think this

442
00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:19,160
Speaker 1: is that. We saw him put Ko over last year,

443
00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,000
Speaker 1: obviously put Orton over the year we won the title

444
00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:23,960
Speaker 1: later on in the night at the thirty one when

445
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Speaker 1: when he catched in the money in the bank. I

446
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Speaker 1: think Cizara wins. I think it's clean. I think it's

447
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Speaker 1: going to be a great match. And I actually I

448
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Speaker 1: actually hadn't considered that that minus three hundred is probably

449
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Speaker 1: like that's decent. Actually, I'm with you, man, I think

450
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Speaker 1: it makes no sense for Rolins to win. And normally

451
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Speaker 1: you'd say, well it's WWE, and that would be a

452
00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,119
Speaker 1: fair point. But I think their real life friendship, like

453
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Speaker 1: could you imagine like Seth and Cesarro sitting there in

454
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Speaker 1: the locker room and they're like, well, Seth's like, well,

455
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go over, So here's how we're going to

456
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Speaker 1: do it. They look at each other like this is

457
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Speaker 1: so stupid, Like, no, we're not doing this. So I'm

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Speaker 1: with you. I agree with your analysis one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: And outside these two wrestlers, I mean outside Seth rows

460
00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:00,840
Speaker 2: you can't find any but he is saying anything bad

461
00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:03,159
Speaker 2: about Cesarro, like his work, ethic, the way that he

462
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Speaker 2: I mean, he has tremendous matches, and we're gonna get

463
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Speaker 2: to Apollo Cruise later. It's just like you can't find

464
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,600
Speaker 2: the gimmick that's gonna get you talked about after the show.

465
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Speaker 2: But he has great matches. Let's pivot into Oh and

466
00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,800
Speaker 2: by the way, Seth Rollins my fourteen year olds. You know,

467
00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:19,800
Speaker 2: you always if you want to know where ww's hot,

468
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,959
Speaker 2: you need to ask your young teenager. Seth Rawlins used

469
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,720
Speaker 2: to be number one in this house for years.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: It's Matt Real. We'll get to Matt Reel later. But

472
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Speaker 2: if I got to hear bro in my house one

473
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Speaker 2: more time, I might I might throw up. Broh. So

474
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Speaker 2: next we're going to talk about the Raw Tag Team Championship,

475
00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:42,720
Speaker 2: the New Day versus AJ Styles and the first match

476
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Speaker 2: for almost the seven foot correct me if I'm wrong here,

477
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Speaker 2: the seven foot three. This will be his first match ever.

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Speaker 1: He he is so big, he looks actually bigger than

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's because he's always standing next to AJ who's

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Speaker 1: probably like five nine, but like he looks legitimately like

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00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:02,200
Speaker 1: yell meng, like he's a monster.

482
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Speaker 2: This dude. Yeah, when he puts his hands on Kofi Kingston,

483
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:07,880
Speaker 2: I mean like the other guy. I was just looking

484
00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:09,960
Speaker 2: at this, like it's just amazing to me that Kofee

485
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,359
Speaker 2: standing in the ring almost is almost as tall, Like

486
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Speaker 2: his hands are are are bigger than a bulldozer. I

487
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Speaker 2: mean he listen. Let's get some background on the story.

488
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Speaker 2: New Day regains the titles from the Hurt Business. The

489
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:24,800
Speaker 2: Hurt Business tag team has now broke up, so there's

490
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Speaker 2: really no one for them to fight there. Styles throws

491
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Speaker 2: out the challenge. This will be almost his first ring action.

492
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Speaker 2: So when I think about this with Aj Styles and

493
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Speaker 2: almost that are around, you know, minus four hundred, this

494
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,880
Speaker 2: win is what makes AJ Styles a Grand Slam Champion

495
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Speaker 2: within five years of being in WWE. He will already

496
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Speaker 2: become a Grand Slam champion with this win. In my opinion,

497
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Speaker 2: the New Day doesn't have any challengers, and so on

498
00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:50,240
Speaker 2: the raw side, I don't think there's any reason to

499
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Speaker 2: retain the belts because there's nothing for them to go to.

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Speaker 2: What it would be the point of putting New Day

501
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Speaker 2: over here?

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Speaker 1: It would be less, I think putting New Day over

503
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 1: and more if they're going to split Styles and almost

504
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:03,680
Speaker 1: here and it almost just like destroys him after the match,

505
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,800
Speaker 1: and it's less about New Day than it is about

506
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Speaker 1: those two separating and then maybe Styles like carrying almost

507
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 1: to a good match afterwards here. I don't think that's

508
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Speaker 1: outside the roma possibility that that could occur. But I

509
00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:15,280
Speaker 1: think is more likely though, is that this is like

510
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 1: your new Owen Hart Yokozuna team where they go over

511
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,040
Speaker 1: and and almost obviously plays the Yoco role rest in Peace,

512
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Speaker 1: where he's like the big dude that doesn't have to

513
00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:24,679
Speaker 1: do much and it's just big Styles does all the

514
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 1: work and bumps all over the place. But I don't

515
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Speaker 1: think this is like a clear cut and dry like

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Speaker 1: Slam Dunk win for Styles and almost here, Like I

517
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Speaker 1: could definitely see a situation where Almost, well, let's say

518
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,200
Speaker 1: let's say Styles takes the pin right and then Almost

519
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 1: is kind of like standing there, like well, like you

520
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,119
Speaker 1: lost the match, Styles is laying their Styles gets up

521
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 1: and it's like padding almost like let's go back to

522
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Speaker 1: the locker room and Almost just stands there, and then

523
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Speaker 1: Styles like pushes him like come on back with me,

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Speaker 1: and then Almost just beats the crap out of him

525
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Speaker 1: and the fans go nuts, or Almost is the heel

526
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Speaker 1: and just destroys Styles and Styles turns face as a result.

527
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Speaker 1: So I don't think this one's cutting you dry here.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if if you agree with that

529
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Speaker 1: analysis here, but I don't think this is a Slam though.

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Speaker 2: The problem is is you and I are two forward

531
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 2: thinking and we're doing w WWE's creative work for them.

532
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,120
Speaker 2: I think that that is the storyline, but I don't

533
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 2: think it's gonna happen in one night. I think aj

534
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Speaker 2: Styles gets his Grand Slam Champion by becoming tag team.

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Speaker 2: Then there's a progression of a problem with Almost, which

536
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 2: eventually ends up into what a Summer Slam one on

537
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Speaker 2: one match between the two. I think Almost before he

538
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,160
Speaker 2: turns heal and says, I'm done with this shit. AJ

539
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,360
Speaker 2: styles like he's got to get some end ring time

540
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 2: first before he has a one on one match, So

541
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Speaker 2: it's good to disguise him in a tag team like this.

542
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 2: Let AJ do all the work while he almost gets

543
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,440
Speaker 2: familiar with being in the ring. So yeah, I think

544
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,440
Speaker 2: that's actually actually very much the plan. I just don't

545
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,440
Speaker 2: think it's gonna happen on WrestleMania on Night one, but yeah,

546
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 2: I could see a head to head matchup for SummerSlam

547
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 2: for these two.

548
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Speaker 1: It's so new day, Yes it is heard. It not.

549
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 3: The eleven time w or w Ray Tag Teams Champions.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna move on to a mad that I have

551
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 2: zero interest in. It feels so repetitive. First off, Shane

552
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 2: mcmann's in WrestleMania shocker. You shouldn't never think that he's

553
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 2: not going to be in a match. Braun Stroman's in

554
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 2: a match thrown together last minute because they never had

555
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 2: a plan for him in the first place. Again, he's

556
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 2: bron Stroman's about minus five hundred to win a steel

557
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 2: cage match against Shane McMahon. The intro to this is

558
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 2: basically the rivalry has been brewing since the underground matches

559
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 2: that were going on where Stroman was dominating everybody that, yeah,

560
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,119
Speaker 2: pushing Shane around. Give me this, give me that the

561
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:34,960
Speaker 2: steel cage was picked to keep Elias and Jackson Reiker out,

562
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Speaker 2: so there can't be any outside interference here. There was

563
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 2: a strong showing for bron Stowman on the bron Stroman

564
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Speaker 2: on the go home show of Raw this past Monday,

565
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Speaker 2: so that would lead you to think that he's going

566
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Speaker 2: to get the win here. But I don't know. First off,

567
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if I care. Second off, I can

568
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Speaker 2: see Shane McMahon doing something, winning this match and then

569
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,919
Speaker 2: proving that bron Stroman is stupid or thick or whatever

570
00:25:57,960 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 2: it is he's trying to prove that Braun is. So

571
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,480
Speaker 2: do you have any feel one way or the other here?

572
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 1: Look, WWE does dumb stuff all the time, so I

573
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Speaker 1: guess it's possible that, like it could be like a

574
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 1: Shane is ending from a couple of years ago, right

575
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: where like Schroman kills him and then like there's interference

576
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: and like Shane gets his arm over him and wins

577
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,360
Speaker 1: the match and they continue this view. It's just it's

578
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 1: really bad, like even by WWE standards. This is just

579
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 1: absolutely atrocious. Like the storyline is so stupid, like oh,

580
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,400
Speaker 1: like Braun's like Braun, You're dumb, and like that's that's

581
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: that's what this is about. Like come on, like I

582
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 1: don't know, I feel like this needs to be old Yeller,

583
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 1: take it out back, shotgun to the head, killed is dead,

584
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 1: Get Braun onto something else here. So I think what

585
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 1: we're gonna get is the most obvious result, which is

586
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: Shane takes a bump off the cage through a table,

587
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 1: Braun ends up winning, and everyone goes home happy and

588
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 1: we never speak of this ever again. I hope that's

589
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Speaker 1: what we're gonna see.

590
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 2: How are you having a cage match which eliminates Braun

591
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,639
Speaker 2: Stroman running around the ring and running over everybody like

592
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 2: a bowl, Like why would you pick this format?

593
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: Well, I think the whole the whole point of it

594
00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,680
Speaker 1: is not like they're gonna get out side of the cage,

595
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 1: because like Shane's gonna take a bump and that that

596
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: spot's gonna happen. I guess that's kind of like the

597
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 1: whole point.

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00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously Shane's like obviously Shane is in the back

599
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 2: with WW creative saying Okay, yes, I'm getting up there

600
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 2: in age, but I will climb to the top of

601
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 2: a steel cage WrestleMania and jump off onto a table

602
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 2: once again. Uh you know, so I think I don't

603
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 2: know if I feel like I've seen this before, I

604
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 2: feel like I'll see it again. And and for the

605
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,120
Speaker 2: love of God, get Stroman some real direction, like give

606
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,719
Speaker 2: just let him have one path and get him up

607
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,479
Speaker 2: there with the big boys. You know, I want more

608
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 2: Lesnar and McIntyre fights. I've had enough of this, So

609
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,719
Speaker 2: we're gonna move on to what we think is the

610
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 2: Saturday night main event. This is the SmackDown Women's Championship.

611
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 2: Sasha Banks the champion, going in against Bianca bel Air. Wow,

612
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 2: come to Tennessee.

613
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Speaker 1: Bionca the e st of NXT. What a female athletics

614
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Speaker 1: superstars on the entire roster with confit's attitude and swaggered up.

615
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 2: Back it up. The sophomore I guess we could call

616
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Speaker 2: her since her real breakout performance came in the twenty

617
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 2: twenty Royal Rumble before the pandemic hit really shut everything down.

618
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 2: Bianca came in and cleaned house in the I mean,

619
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Speaker 2: the star of that Royal Rumble. I mean you're talking

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Speaker 2: about a women's division at the time that was loaded Charlotte,

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Speaker 2: Becky Bailey, Sasha, Ronda Rousey, Osca. I mean, just some

622
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 2: really hot names in a women's division. And Bianca came

623
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Speaker 2: in and stole the show in the twenty twenty Royal

624
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:36,919
Speaker 2: Rumble parlaid that into winning the Royal Rumble this past January.

625
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 2: And so I don't like the storyline direction, of course.

626
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 2: I always have a complaint about WW creative. Let's tag

627
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 2: Banks and bel Air up and chamber and fascinate like that.

628
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 2: There's I mean, you're you're killing the rivalry build here.

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Speaker 2: I mean, like you you haven't built any kind of

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Speaker 2: story whatsoever. So Bianca bell Air is minus four hundred here, Nick,

631
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Speaker 2: I think that this is an easy win. Wins the

632
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Speaker 2: Royal Rumble moves on to WrestleMania wins a time, uh

633
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 2: you know, pretty history says that's what's gonna happen.

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00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think, and do you agree with me

635
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: that this either opens or closes. And same thing with Drewlashley.

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00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 2: I think it closes it now. And we're gonna get

637
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 2: to this with the with the match that's scheduled for Sunday.

638
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 2: But I feel like all four horsemen for horsewomen participants

639
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 2: need to be free to collectively come together in case

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Speaker 2: there's a Becky Ronda show up.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense.

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Speaker 2: So getting the title off of Sasha, putting it on Bianca,

643
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Speaker 2: letting her go through the women's roster on the SmackDown side,

644
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Speaker 2: while Sasha becomes some sort of free agent for big

645
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Speaker 2: things that may happen. We'll talk about it with the

646
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Speaker 2: with the Raw Women's Championship, but I think that this

647
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Speaker 2: is a one and done. I don't think this continues

648
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Speaker 2: to go. Of course, quality of match matters too, but

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Speaker 2: I think, what are you suggesting that Sasha probably wins

650
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Speaker 2: this and it moves on to a best of three or.

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Speaker 1: I think Bianca will win. But like, okay, so yes,

652
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Speaker 1: that is my prediction. So I agree one hundred percent

653
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Speaker 1: with what you said. But if the show opens with

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Speaker 1: this match, would that change you are feeling on a

655
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Speaker 1: potential winner or are you still like Bianca wins no

656
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Speaker 1: matter what?

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Speaker 2: Well, then I fall back.

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Speaker 1: I think I'm still on that train, but curious what

659
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Speaker 1: you think in terms of match placement.

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Speaker 2: Then I fall back into Bianca squash mode, similar to rawlins.

661
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 2: I think whoever open, I think whatever championship match opens

662
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Speaker 2: the show on Saturday, it's not that long of a match.

663
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Speaker 2: Quick and dirty, quick and dirty, and and and and

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Speaker 2: you know, move on and so. But we think this

665
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Speaker 2: is going to be the main event. It'll be interesting

666
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Speaker 2: to see. I mean, Bianca is an unbelievable talent, and

667
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Speaker 2: I think rewarding her here makes a lot of sense.

668
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Speaker 2: And letting her cut her teeth on a on a

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Speaker 2: So kind of a yeah, I mean this can be

671
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Speaker 2: the main event, but at the same time, I feel

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Speaker 2: like it's probably one of the more predictable matches.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and also, Beyonca is my girlfriend's name, so I'm

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Speaker 1: somewhat partial. So give me Bianca to take this one home.

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Speaker 2: So Nick and I will move on to Sunday right

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Speaker 2: two night Event. Do you are you a fan of

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Speaker 2: the two night Event? I actually kind of enjoy it

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Speaker 2: because I don't like seven hour WrestleManias.

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Speaker 1: I hate seven hour WrestleManias. I'm always for more of

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Speaker 1: a good thing, excep when people complain about, oh, there's

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Speaker 1: an extra wildcard game now in the NFL, all while

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Speaker 1: it saturates the products, more teams make the playoffs, or

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Speaker 1: and hear me out, it's more stuff for us to

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Speaker 1: watch in bed on. So I'm give me three night WrestleMania.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, give me a week straight. I'm all for it.

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Speaker 2: I think it's kind of interesting from like when a

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Speaker 2: fans return to the arena standpoint, like if you're gonna

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Speaker 2: buy tickets for you and your family or you and

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Speaker 2: your buddy to go, how do you know if you're

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Speaker 2: buying Saturday or Sunday, you obviously want to see your star,

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Speaker 2: You want to see your match. So I think it's

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Speaker 2: gonna be interesting that. I think they need to solidify

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Speaker 2: who's fighting on Saturday and Sunday. But I mean, I

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Speaker 2: don't know, potentially something for WW figure out. I do

717
00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 2: like the two night event, you know this. I think

718
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 2: it was also smart for WW to push this farther

719
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 2: out from March Madness so they can own a weekend

720
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Speaker 2: to push us out on a weekend where really MLB's

721
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Speaker 2: gotten two weeks in. I think they're very cognizant. They're

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Speaker 2: very cognizant that when Monday Night football comes on and

723
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Speaker 2: what their ratings are going to do with Raw. So

724
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Speaker 2: I think that this is a good call by WW

725
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Speaker 2: and hopefully they keep it up. So for Sunday, if

726
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Speaker 2: the big main event with Roman, reigns Edge and Daniel

727
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 2: Bryan are going to be the main event, then is

728
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 2: the Raw Women's Championship going to be the kickoff? And

729
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 2: that would mean we need to talk about OSCA current

730
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 2: champ versus Rhea Ripley. Ripley currently listed at minus four hundred,

731
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Speaker 2: which kind of shocked me. The rookie just getting called

732
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 2: up and we say, well, how do we get here?

733
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Speaker 2: I thought Charlotte was due for a run here. Charlotte,

734
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Speaker 2: you know, was her whole steam, her whole build up,

735
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Speaker 2: you know, tagging up with OSCA, making a run at

736
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 2: Naya and Shana for the Tag Team Championships. That was

737
00:33:55,720 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 2: all just shut down. Charlotte was pulled off promo posters,

738
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 2: she was pulled off TV. She was completely like and

739
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 2: it was a mystery, like it just all of a sudden,

740
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 2: like we don't know what Oscar's doing in WrestleMania.

741
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: Now you follow Charlotte on Instagram?

742
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 2: Yes, I do.

743
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's been she's been posting some good pictures.

744
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 2: Maybe so obvious.

745
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 1: She may she may be off the billboards, but uh,

746
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 1: but she's still get She's still getting the job done.

747
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: I would say about Charlotte Flair.

748
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 2: When let's talk about Charlotte. That picture, the the uh

749
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 2: the nude white jean jacket picture that was floated out there.

750
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 2: So what happened to Charlotte was is apparently an interview

751
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:33,799
Speaker 2: that was completely Spanish. Androtti, the uh, the significant other

752
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 2: of Charlotte, fellow WWE superstar.

753
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 1: Uh, you got fired? Right?

754
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 2: Is he fired?

755
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: I think that. I think I think he's no longer

756
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 1: with the company. I think they let him go.

757
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 2: How many tests can you fail?

758
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: Imagine screwing that situation up.

759
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 2: I mean, it's so a year ago we're talking about

760
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 2: Androtti and alis Are Black taking over the ww and

761
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,320
Speaker 2: being the future, and now these two are on the

762
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 2: back of a milk carton. I don't even know what

763
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 2: Androtti's contract situation is if he's been fired for so

764
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 2: many you know, failed tests, and I don't even know

765
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,280
Speaker 2: where Alistair Black is after his wife was promptly fired

766
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 2: because she suggested that there should be a union, right,

767
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 2: oh yes, yeah, yeah, right, So they've had Alisair black

768
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 2: off TV for quite a while. But in this scenario,

769
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Speaker 2: Androtti gives a Spanish interview and suggests that Charlotte had

770
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Speaker 2: at least some levels on a test that showed her

771
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Speaker 2: positive for pregnancy, and Charlotte went and said in a

772
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 2: further interview, I believe she said that, uh, you know,

773
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,399
Speaker 2: that was a lost in translation interview that Androtti gave.

774
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 2: I had a you know, a false pregnancy test. And

775
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 2: then the storyline on TV was Riha comes in and

776
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 2: says Charlotte can't come to wrestle Ani because and then

777
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 2: she because of COVID. Right, so now they're using COVID

778
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 2: as a cover for what actually happened was is we

779
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 2: had a false pregnancy test for Charlotte. By the time

780
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 2: she got removed from everything, you know, it was that she,

781
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 2: you know what, wasn't positive for being pregnant. So we

782
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 2: should see her back, if not a WrestleMania, we'll see

783
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 2: her back on Monday Night Raw, the night after.

784
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: Whi's always good because you know more, Charlotte Flair is

785
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: always good. And I'll also just add Androtty may no

786
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: longer be with the company, but someone needs to get

787
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: his theme music because that may be the most underrated

788
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 1: theme of all time. Love it.

789
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 2: I do like that music too. You can go have

790
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 2: her on Drotti. I'm gonna stick with Alistair Black. Alistair

791
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 2: Black Centro to me has potential to be bray white undertaker.

792
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: Ish, soh you know, not only into that, but yeah,

793
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 1: that's fair, fair enough.

794
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 2: I don't think you and I have to worry about

795
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 2: either of these two true, So Ripley fully embraced. She

796
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 2: gets onto raw. We don't know who's the face, who's

797
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,839
Speaker 2: the heel, because Oscar has the ability to not only

798
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,800
Speaker 2: support the entire division by herself, but she can play heel.

799
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 2: She can play face. I've been pretty pissed off the

800
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 2: last four months that she is just a side show

801
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 2: to the tag team division, like we'll tag her up

802
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 2: with anybody. She's taking the pins in these matches. She's

803
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 2: the world champion, She's a raw women's champion. Why are

804
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 2: you booking her to be pinned all the time?

805
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:07,359
Speaker 1: Oh?

806
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 2: By the way, let's not mention that she's also like

807
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 2: the most respected in the locker room like she was

808
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 2: long overdue from NXT to get up like she is,

809
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 2: in my opinion, the best end ring worker out of

810
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 2: all of them. So for some reason, I don't know

811
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 2: why Oscar has I just think she's given too much

812
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 2: of herself in the last four or five months. But

813
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 2: Ripley fully embraced the heel role on the Go Home

814
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 2: Show of Raw, making Oscar the face she turned on her,

815
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,919
Speaker 2: and you know kind of you know, did some sort

816
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:37,919
Speaker 2: of heel stuff on the on the go Home Show

817
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 2: of Raw, you know, attacking Osca, which you know kind

818
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 2: of sets up the good guy bad guy here. If

819
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 2: you're into betting just good guys at WrestleMania, which is

820
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 2: usually pretty profitable, Osca is the dog here. Now we

821
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 2: have to talk about the Volumes podcast that Colin Cowherd

822
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 2: cut with WW president Nick Kahn just yesterday, mentioning Becky

823
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 2: Lynch and Ronda Rousey are skill scheduled to return at

824
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 2: a certain point. We all know we've heard reports that

825
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 2: Becky Lynch is working out, is getting in ring shape,

826
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,919
Speaker 2: which is not an easy thing to do. Nick, would

827
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 2: it not make sense to keep the title on OSCA

828
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 2: if Becky is coming back.

829
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 1: Yes, it would not make sense, Yes, because it just

830
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,879
Speaker 1: destroys Ria Ripley, like like you cut her legs out

831
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: from under her as soon as she debuts, like it

832
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: can happen, Like I don't know how they're going to

833
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: finagle this after the fact, but like Rhea is a

834
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: potential star and like she has to win this match

835
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: now whether she will or not is not up to

836
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 1: you or I obviously here, but that's an insane booking

837
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: decision right to have her lose, like her momentum is

838
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 1: killed dead, Like she's dead at this point, good is

839
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: dead da and I'm not talking the old tag team

840
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 1: from back in the day. Like it's over for her.

841
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 1: She has to win, So like I that's the bet

842
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: for me is Ria Ripley.

843
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 2: So you think the price is absolutely legit, the minus

844
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:51,800
Speaker 2: four hundred on Rio Ripley.

845
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 1: Like but like how does she look? And I offer

846
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: this caveat Kana with everything that we talk about, like

847
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,359
Speaker 1: it's WWE, so like you never know, like they could

848
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: do something dumb, but like this, I feel like it

849
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 1: has to go like this, Like she's a potential star.

850
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: You can't have her debut and then job her out

851
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 1: immediately like it's it's over at that point for her,

852
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 1: if that's what happens.

853
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think the booking with Oscar has been

854
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 2: she's been taking the pen, she's been taking the beatings,

855
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 2: like she has not been the dominant force that she

856
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,280
Speaker 2: was when she had her first WrestleMania against Charlotte.

857
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: And a loss doesn't hurts Osca like Oscar's like made,

858
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:27,439
Speaker 1: you know, like she can lose and like she still

859
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,280
Speaker 1: has She's still Osca. It doesn't matter. A loss kills

860
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: Riha Ripley here. Yeah.

861
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 2: And I think if you're betting on Rhea Ripley here,

862
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,479
Speaker 2: I would be a little bit cautious over the fact

863
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 2: that she may get disqualified for using excessive force or

864
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 2: maybe a weapon or maybe something that gets her disqualified. Here,

865
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 2: you want to make her so the goal is to

866
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 2: keep Rhea looking good. Now she lost last WrestleMania, her

867
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 2: WrestleMania debut Charlotte. Yeah, Charlotte, So you're going to start

868
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 2: her off oh and two in her career. When this

869
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 2: is somebody that you want to you want to put

870
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 2: a booster rocket on her back and fire her like into,

871
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 2: you know, off the face of the planet with her

872
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 2: career you wanted to start off oh and two in

873
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 2: WrestleMania's so I think that they have to make Ria

874
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 2: Ripley look good, which Oscar can do. But I'm not

875
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 2: so sure that she just shows up in three weeks

876
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 2: later she's the champ. So I think there's potential here for,

877
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 2: if not outside interference, for Riha Ripley to use a

878
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,399
Speaker 2: weapon or something to get disqualified, thus giving Osca the win.

879
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,320
Speaker 2: I would be cautious here of betting on Ripley.

880
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,880
Speaker 1: Okay, I think that's that's more than fair and the

881
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: price is obviously heavy. How about this, can we can

882
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 1: I just well, I guess you win, right, If it's

883
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 1: this qualification that you bet on Oscar, you win. I

884
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: guess I would just not bet on this then.

885
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 2: So I actually do think Oscar's worthy because I think

886
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 2: that's the direction. Because let's think next night, right Monday

887
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 2: Night Raw after WrestleMania, is Becky Lynch showing up asking

888
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 2: for asking for a match because she never lost the

889
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 2: title in the first place, and it just doesn't make

890
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 2: sense for her to like take that back from Rhea.

891
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: Okay, so here's what would be cool. I think this

892
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,399
Speaker 1: is where you were going and I apologize I'm stealing

893
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 1: your thunder here. But let's say that, like they're putting

894
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: Rio and she's got the look for it too. I

895
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: kind of love her whole deal.

896
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 2: Man.

897
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 1: I would say like, like, look at her, like Ria

898
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: Ripley would kick my ass, and I kind of like it.

899
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 1: Like if Ria just turns this into like don't care,

900
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna beat the shit out of Osca here and

901
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: get disqualified. Then Oscar shows up the next night. Let's

902
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: say she loses to Becky Lynch, then you're gonna have

903
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 1: Ria come out and attack Becky Lynch, and there you

904
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: have your face heel program. Like that's something that could

905
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: potentially So I think you bring up a good point here,

906
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 1: But again I think the likely scenario is that Rio

907
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: wins and then we go from there and then maybe

908
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: maybe Becky's the face challenger to and Ria's the champion.

909
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: So that's where I would go still, just because again,

910
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: like I feel like you kill her dead if she

911
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: loses the match, maybe they kind of finakel it the

912
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: way you're talking about. I'm actually kind of more interested

913
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 1: in this match now after talking to you than I

914
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:50,359
Speaker 1: was like before we did this.

915
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 2: Well, don't. I mean think about it. Also, there's a

916
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 2: potential for Becky to come out during this match and

917
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 2: make sure that Osca gets the win just so that

918
00:41:58,040 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 2: she can face her because she wants to get her

919
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 2: title back. So I think I think the Becky Lynch thing,

920
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 2: I think that really ties into this match, and I

921
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 2: think that.

922
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: Turns Becky heel if she does that. I feel like

923
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: the audience is sophisticated enough to know that's bullshit.

924
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 2: If there's no such thing. Becky Lynch is so far past,

925
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 2: she's never gonna be a heel again.

926
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 1: But that's like what Hogan did rest at Royal Rumble

927
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: ninety two, where like he like gets eliminated and then

928
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: like he's holding Sid, Sid gets eliminated and the crowd

929
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: turns on Hogan, Like the crowd isn't gonna buy that.

930
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,439
Speaker 1: Like Becky coross Rhea Ripley the match because she wants

931
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: to beat Oscar. I would boo the shit out of

932
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: Becky Lynch if I were in the crowd. Now that's

933
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: me the only one.

934
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 2: Nobody's booming. Becky Lynch here to attorney. No matter what

935
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 2: she does, she can come out and say I'm a

936
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 2: bad guy. I'm always gonna be a bad guy. I'm

937
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,760
Speaker 2: always gonna cheat, and she will never get booed again.

938
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 1: Right, maybe maybe we'll see I mean, look at.

939
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 2: Daniel Bryan trying to be a heel coming out with

940
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 2: this whole earth.

941
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 1: And uh, you know he was good man, he got booed.

942
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 1: I loved it.

943
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 2: I loved every minute.

944
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: I mean you'll loved it because he's awesome and like

945
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:56,280
Speaker 1: he was hilarious, but like, but he was getting booed.

946
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 2: God, that was such a great angle that it was.

947
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 2: My belt is made out of repurpose. Yes, yeah, that

948
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 2: is one thing that w W should have kept up with.

949
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 2: All right, so we will keep her eyes on this one.

950
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 2: I think Becky lives potential involvement here. If not on

951
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,879
Speaker 2: Monday Night, we'll see her. Next one, I believe is

952
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 2: one of their biggest storylines. But I think it's a

953
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 2: complete squash. I think there are other things to be

954
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 2: talked about, and it is Bray Wyatt the Fiend listing

955
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 2: it almost minus a thousand. You'd have to lay one

956
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 2: hundred bucks to win ten over Randy Orton. I think

957
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:41,799
Speaker 2: if you don't look at the story arc here, But

958
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 2: I could talk forever I don't want to waste podcast

959
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:47,760
Speaker 2: space because these two have been with the are killing

960
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 2: brain cells. The Fiend was reborn at fast Lane, a

961
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:55,840
Speaker 2: new Burnt Crisp outfit, a new Burnt Crisp mask. There's

962
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 2: I think. I think the latest word that I've heard

963
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 2: is that this is going to be an actual match cinematic. Yeah,

964
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,799
Speaker 2: it's not gonna be the Undertaker AJ Styles, which in

965
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 2: my opinion, stole the show.

966
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 1: It was great last How about this? I got a

967
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: hot take for you. I thought the Fiend sena cinematic

968
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: match was amazing last year. I thought it was great.

969
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 2: They do really well with these cinematic matches. They need

970
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 2: to keep it. I don't care that it might have

971
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 2: been filmed two weeks before. I mean, when AJ Styles

972
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 2: said to the Undertaker, does Michelle know you're out this late?

973
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 2: I almost I am still dying a year later. That

974
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,799
Speaker 2: was a great match. And unfortunately it looks like they're

975
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 2: not doing it this way.

976
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:30,839
Speaker 1: But you know, and I don't know if you agree

977
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: with this, and this is the tangent here, but that

978
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: was like very early on into the pandemic, when we

979
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: were still like in kind of quarantine. That was like

980
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: on the moment where after that match, I was kind

981
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:43,799
Speaker 1: of like sitting there at the end of Night one

982
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: of WrestleMania that Saturday night, like I felt good for

983
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:50,360
Speaker 1: the first time in a long time, Like I actually

984
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: felt like I was smiling, like I was buzzing about it,

985
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: Like that was great. And I actually think like the

986
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: Fiend Sena match was like a legendary piece of storytelling

987
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: when you look at everything that way into it, like

988
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,760
Speaker 1: seen Alecsa combing to the devil inside him, like actually

989
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 1: like getting becoming evil, like the Fiend beating him in

990
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 1: that way. I hope they do something similar. I have

991
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 1: no interest in an actual match between these two, so

992
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: I hope it goes cinematic, but I think Fiend goes

993
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:15,399
Speaker 1: over either way.

994
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, Fiend's gonna win here. So if you can parlay this,

995
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 2: Bray Wyatt is your pick. But I think the more

996
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 2: important thing is for smarks, you know, to see if

997
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 2: you know, this is what we call the hashtag cult

998
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 2: of Wyndham. The birth of Bo Dallas, who is you

999
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 2: know in real life named Taylor Rotunda. He is the

1000
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,840
Speaker 2: He is the real life brother of Bray Wyatt Wyndham,

1001
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 2: the son of I. R. S of course, son of

1002
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 2: ir S former Tag Team champ with Million Dollar Man.

1003
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 2: So the two Rotunda brothers who also have an uncle,

1004
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 2: and Barry Wyndham former United States for Horsemen. If these

1005
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 2: two are actually going to be in this program together,

1006
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 2: with Taylor Rotunda being underneath the mask of the Fiend

1007
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 2: while bray Wyatt plays you know, Bray Wyatt funhouse, firefly,

1008
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:08,959
Speaker 2: funhouse sweater, topknot hair, while Taylor Rotunda is underneath the mask,

1009
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 2: I think there's two things to look at here. Bray

1010
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 2: Wyatt continually gets into mentions on Twitter and has the

1011
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 2: hashtag cult of Wyndham. I think that may be a

1012
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 2: little bit of foreshadowing. But he also made a Twitter

1013
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 2: mention like within the last week that his body is

1014
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 2: looking much better now.

1015
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: Oh interesting, Okay, I see where you're going with that.

1016
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, And so if you look at that, like

1017
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 2: his brother Taylor bo Dallas, Taylor Rotunda is a very

1018
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 2: much smaller version of Bray Wyatt Wyndam Rotunda. And if

1019
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 2: so they're going to put Bo Dallas in that mask

1020
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:41,840
Speaker 2: as the theme, it's going to be a different body shape.

1021
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:43,479
Speaker 2: And if you look at the promo for this match,

1022
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,919
Speaker 2: like if you look at the poster like the Fiend

1023
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 2: is smaller. He's way smaller, like way thinner than bray

1024
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 2: Wyatt is. So I think we get the introduction of

1025
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,439
Speaker 2: his real life brother Bo Dallas as the new theme

1026
00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:00,879
Speaker 2: and Braywhittt runs around playing his firefly fun house self.

1027
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 2: So I think that's really the what to look for

1028
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:04,880
Speaker 2: in this. Or is this a spot where Alice or

1029
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 2: Black finally makes a comeback after his wife got fired?

1030
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 2: Do they put him in some sort of sorcery wizard

1031
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 2: whatever this shit is that they do. But I think

1032
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 2: that's all we've all expected with the intro that he has.

1033
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 2: It's very undertaker ish. But do you have any other

1034
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 2: feelings about this?

1035
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: Nope, I think you kind of nailed it. I definitely

1036
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 1: expect the Fiend to win. I think that would kind

1037
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 1: of be cool if they did it the way you're

1038
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: talking about. I'm just hoping, hoping please that this is

1039
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 1: a cinematic match and not an actual match.

1040
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 2: We can all pray. We don't know what they're gonna do.

1041
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 2: Intercontinental Championship Biggie Versus Apollo Cruise. I was completely uninterested

1042
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,359
Speaker 2: in this for a very long time because I think

1043
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 2: Biggie had beaten Apollo Cruise maybe seven times straight, but

1044
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 2: Cruz continues to go on the heel aggressive attacks, and

1045
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 2: then a month ago he comes out as a Nigerian

1046
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 2: prince with two guards watching over him. He's got his

1047
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:06,439
Speaker 2: Nigerian prince scarf, and he has adopted a new accent,

1048
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:08,520
Speaker 2: which is kind of funny because Kovie Kingston was originally

1049
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 2: Jamaica and then he Wasn't you see, I'm not from

1050
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 2: the hood and I'm not from Suburbia. I'm from Nigeria.

1051
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 2: My ancestors are Nigerian royalty. This is the real me.

1052
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:26,240
Speaker 2: So I like these accent changes midstream of your character.

1053
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 2: So I had no interest in this, But now that

1054
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 2: Apollo Cruz is essentially a heel role in a new

1055
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 2: character development, I think there's absolutely this is Apollo Cruz

1056
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 2: minus one forty on the betting line. You have to

1057
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 2: bet on Apollo Cruse here. Now, I don't want to

1058
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 2: fade Bigie. I never want to fade Biggie. But to me,

1059
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 2: this fills a WrestleMania narrative that has been around forever.

1060
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 2: You want to look at Demon Baylor beating Lashley for

1061
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 2: the Icy title at WrestleMania thirty five, or Zach Ryder

1062
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 2: winning the ladder match over Kevin Owens in WrestleMania thirty

1063
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 2: two or WrestleMania three. That's the big one I'm talking

1064
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 2: about is when Steamboat beat the Macho Man so that

1065
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 2: Randy Savage could ascend to the next level. This is

1066
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 2: beyond rustling ability.

1067
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,240
Speaker 1: This is cuts Pusson.

1068
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 2: Apart what not. Because before an enter connin Hill champion

1069
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 2: ascends to world title status, they have to lose the belt.

1070
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 2: They have to drop the belt. Now we all know

1071
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 2: the big Ee. They want him on the stage for

1072
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 2: the world title. They want him in a program. I

1073
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:24,719
Speaker 2: don't know if that Summer Slam. I don't know if

1074
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 2: that Survivor series, but they want Biggie at the world

1075
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 2: title level. So in my opinion, Apollo Cruise gets the

1076
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 2: win here. Maybe we get a couple more matches between

1077
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 2: the two during the summer, could be the big you know,

1078
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 2: three three matches, money in the bank, Backlash, extreme rules.

1079
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 2: But you know, Biggie drops the belt and eventually you're out.

1080
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:47,800
Speaker 2: Suber Slam gets to push into the edge Roman picture,

1081
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 2: whatever that may be at the time. But for Biggie

1082
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 2: to move on to the world title. He's got to

1083
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:52,399
Speaker 2: drop the icy title.

1084
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:54,279
Speaker 1: I think you nailed it. I think that's kind of

1085
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 1: the direction they're going to go on with big Ee.

1086
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 1: And also, like I kind of dig this. I think

1087
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:00,720
Speaker 1: Apolo's doing great work. He looks like a million bucks

1088
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: right now. I don't think it makes sense for him

1089
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 1: to lose here. And I think this is kind of

1090
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:05,880
Speaker 1: a match where like you said, like, yes, it's like

1091
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: a quote unquote loss for Biggie, but it's gonna end

1092
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:11,919
Speaker 1: up springy boarding, springboarding him to bigger and better things.

1093
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,360
Speaker 1: So maybe, like the thought process if people want to

1094
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: make an argument for Biggie winning would be like, okay,

1095
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:19,359
Speaker 1: first singles match in front of a crowd, like where

1096
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:21,840
Speaker 1: he's in like this, He's obviously had singles matches before,

1097
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: but like in this role that he's in now, where

1098
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 1: he's clearly like being groomed as a baby face now

1099
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:28,480
Speaker 1: to make this huge run and he gets the win

1100
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:30,840
Speaker 1: and then maybe loses another time the belt. I just

1101
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,319
Speaker 1: think now's the perfect time at WrestleMania. Give Apollo Cruz

1102
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: some shine and let's get this rolling now with Biggie.

1103
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 1: So I'm with you here. I think Cruiz is a

1104
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: really solid bet at minus one forty.

1105
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of vibes coming off of the

1106
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 2: gender mahole here where you know, we have a new character.

1107
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:48,399
Speaker 2: We're embracing our heritage. I've been given to cronies and

1108
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 2: now I'm gonna play a heel role with a belt

1109
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 2: on me and use everything that I can to keep it.

1110
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:54,479
Speaker 1: I liked gender. I feel like I'm like the only

1111
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 1: person that like gender. He'll run as champion.

1112
00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 2: I didn't like what is that match where they had

1113
00:50:59,880 --> 00:51:01,439
Speaker 2: to bamboo sticks up you can't see?

1114
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that was stupid. The Punjabi prison match?

1115
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 2: Ya prison? What the hell do you think?

1116
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 1: What do you think, Randy? They told Randy Orton when

1117
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 1: they were like, hey, Randy, thanks for all your years

1118
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: of service. You're gonna put Ginger Bahul over in three

1119
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:14,400
Speaker 1: straight pay per views?

1120
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 2: Well, I mean if the pay is good, right.

1121
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, I listened. You pay me, I'll do it right.

1122
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:22,800
Speaker 1: I'll drop the gender.

1123
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 2: You give me that nice vacation schedule, only work one

1124
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 2: day a week, I'll job in the Punjabi. So what

1125
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 2: is is a Nigerian drum match? Is that what this is?

1126
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 2: Do you know what that is.

1127
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 1: It's basically I think, like I know holds Bard match

1128
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 1: under a different name, so I think that's really what

1129
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 1: it is.

1130
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 2: Well, I mentioned to see if generally, here's what they

1131
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,239
Speaker 2: do with WW when you have two cronies. These are

1132
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,840
Speaker 2: the two people that are shadowing and guarding Apollo Cruise.

1133
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:52,440
Speaker 2: They are NXT type development wrestlers that they somehow need

1134
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 2: to break into the business. And I'm wondering if who

1135
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,720
Speaker 2: these two guys are I was watching I've been watching

1136
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 2: film of it on SmackDown. I can't figure out who

1137
00:51:58,520 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 2: these two guys are.

1138
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 1: But they're gonna get put root tables, probably by Biggie,

1139
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: and then Biggie will turn around and Apolo will beat him.

1140
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 2: Right, So I mean, eventually, you know, even if New

1141
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 2: Day loses their titles, maybe we got maybe we got

1142
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:11,200
Speaker 2: the New Day going up against Apolo Cruz and his

1143
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 2: two cronies the Nigerian Prince Angle. So yeah, Cruz takes

1144
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:17,520
Speaker 2: it here. I think that's pretty cut and dry and

1145
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:19,800
Speaker 2: probably best value on the board for all the favorites

1146
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 2: at minus one forty side.

1147
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:21,319
Speaker 1: How good.

1148
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 2: Now, before we get kicked off, we're gonna move into

1149
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:25,880
Speaker 2: a match that we've seen seven thousand times, and that

1150
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:29,959
Speaker 2: was before the two wrestlers got to WWE. Kevin Owens

1151
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 2: listed minus three fifty against his real life best friend

1152
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 2: Sammy z Ain. Owens refuses to be in a documentary

1153
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 2: that Sammy Zain is filming about a conspiracy theory to

1154
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:44,839
Speaker 2: hold Sammy Zain down and to lose the Intercontinental Championship.

1155
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:48,880
Speaker 2: Sammy Zain attacks his real life best friend Kevin Owens. Shocker,

1156
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 2: We've seen that a zillion times now. Logan Paul YouTube

1157
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:54,280
Speaker 2: star Logan Paul is going to be involved with this match.

1158
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 2: We don't know if it's a ref as a special enforcer.

1159
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:00,839
Speaker 2: Sammy Zain wants him to be there to help him

1160
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 2: expose this conspiracy theory. Logan Paul's been with the ww

1161
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 2: before and he was not well received backstage. So I

1162
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 2: don't know what to make of this match. I don't know.

1163
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:13,400
Speaker 2: I think my care level is about a two and match.

1164
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:15,000
Speaker 1: Will be great though. With these two, match is going

1165
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:15,439
Speaker 1: to be good.

1166
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:18,200
Speaker 2: These two, I mean, they know each other so well, right,

1167
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 2: I mean, the match can't be bad. It's like his

1168
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 2: are on rawlins. The match can't be bad, yep. I

1169
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:26,319
Speaker 2: mean the match between Ambrose and rawlins or rains. No

1170
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 2: matter when it happened, when the shield broke up, the

1171
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 2: matches were always great. Yep. So I don't have an

1172
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 2: opinion here and I don't want to bet it. And frankly,

1173
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:37,319
Speaker 2: I the Logan Paul thing has a chance to be

1174
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 2: a disaster. Uh So do you, I mean, do you

1175
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 2: have any betting opinion? Do you have any you know

1176
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 2: what's going to happen with Sammy z Ain after this?

1177
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:46,479
Speaker 2: You love Sammy Zin. We've had this talk. I hate

1178
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:48,799
Speaker 2: Sammy's Ain. He drives me nuts. And that's when you

1179
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 2: tell me he's doing his job and he's doing it

1180
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 2: very well.

1181
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, well, just exactly what I was going to say,

1182
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: which is how you know we've had this conversation. I

1183
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:58,200
Speaker 1: think he's hilarious, Like he actually like makes me laugh

1184
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:01,040
Speaker 1: out loud. Yeah. I think Kevin Owens is like a

1185
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 1: lock to win this match. I think it does nothing

1186
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 1: for Zane to win. Zane is one of these guys

1187
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: that literally his gimmick is is that there's a conspiracy

1188
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:11,479
Speaker 1: theory against him. Why would he win? Like when they're

1189
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:13,879
Speaker 1: like losing kind of furthers it. And I think what's

1190
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,399
Speaker 1: probably fairly obvious is that Paul's going to like knock

1191
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 1: him out and then either after the match, during the

1192
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: match and Ko is going to beat him. It's actually

1193
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 1: pretty coodn't dry? Like I kind of think it's like

1194
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 1: close to a lock that Ko wins.

1195
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 2: Okay, well then we'll roll with that. I'm not going

1196
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 2: to go against that, especially this being WrestleMania and we

1197
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 2: like to get the good guys over. Crazy enough, seeing

1198
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 2: Ko is a is a good guy, He's much better

1199
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 2: as a bad guy doing Swanton's off the top of

1200
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 2: a of a fork. Left.

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Speaker 1: So, lets said buddy Vince McMahon.

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Speaker 2: So listen, I say, I dislike Sammy's Ain, but I

1232
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:18,320
Speaker 2: got news for you when he comes on the screen.

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Speaker 2: My preteens, my teenagers, young teenagers, they love watching Sammy's

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00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 2: Ain because they dislike him too, but they can't stop

1235
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:27,919
Speaker 2: watching him as a wrestler. Another wrestler. They can't stop

1236
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:31,400
Speaker 2: watching Matt Riddle. So let's move on to the United

1237
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 2: States Championship match Matt Riddle's list of minus one sixty

1238
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 2: against Seamus. Uh. The storyline here just happened two weeks ago.

1239
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 2: Seamus attacked Matt Riddle with his own scooter. Now, if

1240
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 2: you don't know who Matt Riddle is, you need to

1241
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:48,120
Speaker 2: know that he says bro all the time, surfer looking guy.

1242
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:50,600
Speaker 1: The stoner gimmick. Yeah, I don't say that, but that's

1243
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:51,160
Speaker 1: the gimmick.

1244
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a little sort of little beat up. But hey, at.

1245
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 3: Least I get to fight Seamus at wrestle Mania. And

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00:56:58,160 --> 00:56:59,840
Speaker 3: check it out, I got.

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Speaker 1: My again, Russell's barefoot stoner.

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Speaker 2: Bro. Yeah, Bro, everything is bro. And let me tell

1249
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Speaker 2: you what's going.

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00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 1: On about Elon Gated though not just like bro like bro.

1251
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really long, like the interest of this interview

1252
00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 2: is Bro. Matt Mitchell. Cue the intro to Matt Riddle's music. Please, Bro,

1253
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Speaker 2: Bro listen. Here's the thing. About four months ago I

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Speaker 2: told you this was a Seth Rollins house. About four

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Speaker 2: months ago, my fourteen year old comes up to me

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Speaker 2: and says, Dad, I need this ring tone on my iPhone? Like,

1257
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Speaker 2: what a ring tone? So I buy him the ninety

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Speaker 2: nine cent ring tone? And what is it? It's Bro,

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Speaker 2: It's just that that's it. Right. So now every time

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Speaker 2: my fourteen year old gets a text, Bro, every time

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Speaker 2: he gets an email, Bro, every time like a notification

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Speaker 2: from freaking Fortnite. Bro. You want to know if Matt

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Speaker 2: Riddle's hot. He has hit the demographic of thirteen to

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Speaker 2: sixteen years old herd, especially with the scooter. So then

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Speaker 2: my son asked for a scooter. Now my son, who's

1266
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Speaker 2: got a bike, we bike miles together on weekend mornings.

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Speaker 2: He's got a scooter just because he wants to be

1268
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Speaker 2: like Matt Riddle. So Matt Riddle is a pretty hot name.

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Speaker 2: And it's kind of interesting here for the Wilson House

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Speaker 2: because we actually met Seamus in the Tulsa Airport at

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Speaker 2: the time. I think my sons were like eight years old.

1272
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:17,960
Speaker 2: He was the money in the bank briefcase holder. He

1273
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 2: was flying through Tulsa after a raw SmackDown that used

1274
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:23,680
Speaker 2: to be Monday Tuesday back in the day, and my

1275
00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 2: son walks up to him. It's when he had the foexhawk,

1276
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 2: the mohawk, and my son walks up to him and

1277
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 2: he says, my dad says, your hair looks stupid nice

1278
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 2: and he's like, I want to meet your dad.

1279
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 1: Come over there.

1280
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:39,560
Speaker 2: And I meet him and he was so nice to

1281
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:42,520
Speaker 2: my two sons, and I was like, and my son's asked,

1282
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:44,400
Speaker 2: you got the money in the bank briefcase in your suitcase?

1283
00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 2: He's like, yep, I got it in there. My son's

1284
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 2: asked him, what do you have in the money in

1285
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 2: the bank briefcase? He says, I got a ham sandwich.

1286
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 1: Corn beef would have been more on brand.

1287
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,920
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's just amazing to me how nice some

1288
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:57,920
Speaker 2: of these ww superstars are outside, because I mean, they

1289
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:00,160
Speaker 2: have to be pestered everywhere they go. Oh yeah, I'm

1290
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 2: all torn here on who I want. I would like

1291
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 2: to see Matt redle Gidbet because I can't get my

1292
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:08,120
Speaker 2: son to quit saying bro. But although he is a

1293
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 2: rising star, no matter if you hate him outside the rings,

1294
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:12,760
Speaker 2: a lot of people do, he is a rising star.

1295
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 2: I don't have an opinion here. I could see Seamus

1296
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 2: getting the title for a month just because he's earned it.

1297
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 2: He's worked so hard.

1298
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:21,600
Speaker 1: I like Matt Riddle here. You know, Riddle has got

1299
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 1: like kind of like the CGI now when he kind

1300
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 1: of kicks off the sandals or whatever he wears, but

1301
00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 1: Porty Russell's barefoot with the birds and everything. I don't

1302
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:31,160
Speaker 1: think it would make a lot of sense take the

1303
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 1: belt off Riddle at this point here. So I think

1304
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 1: Riddle as a small favorite. I actual think there's some

1305
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 1: pretty decent value here, Like why would they kind of

1306
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 1: give him like the like the enhancements here with the

1307
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:41,200
Speaker 1: presentation if he was gonna if he was gonna do

1308
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:43,280
Speaker 1: the job in this match, So that's kind of like

1309
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:45,480
Speaker 1: minor build to this match. Why would you put shame

1310
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 1: is over? I don't think it makes a lot of sense.

1311
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:49,560
Speaker 1: So I think Riddle wins in some kind of underhanded fashion,

1312
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:51,959
Speaker 1: maybe keeps heat on Seamus, But I think mad Riddle

1313
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:52,880
Speaker 1: is going to retain the belt.

1314
00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, it falls into the Samoa Joe like I need

1315
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:58,880
Speaker 2: a Lifetime Achievement award. You should just slap a strap

1316
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 2: on him because of all the good I mean, Seamus

1317
01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:03,880
Speaker 2: has been an MVP of keeping up with Drew McIntyre,

1318
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:06,840
Speaker 2: Like he can pivot into so many different roles, good guy,

1319
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:10,000
Speaker 2: bad guy. He can fill so many things on the roster.

1320
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:12,160
Speaker 2: And I think if Seamus was to win the US

1321
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 2: title for a month, it would just be a you

1322
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:16,360
Speaker 2: deserve it. But then again, you don't want to steal

1323
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:18,000
Speaker 2: this thunder from Bertle So I agree with you. We'll

1324
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:20,840
Speaker 2: take Riddle here and we'll continue to listen to Bro

1325
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:25,560
Speaker 2: around my house all the time. This will lead us

1326
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:30,360
Speaker 2: into the main event on Sunday, the Universal Championship. Roman

1327
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 2: reigns Edge Daniel Brian a three way match, and by

1328
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:37,560
Speaker 2: the way, they're all at plus money right now. Roman

1329
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:40,680
Speaker 2: reigns plus one fifty Edge plus one fifteen Daniel Brian

1330
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:43,800
Speaker 2: plus two hunderd completely mispriced in my opinion, if you

1331
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:45,320
Speaker 2: want to look into this match, Edge wins the Royal

1332
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 2: Rumble pretty predictable, teases both champions whether he's going to

1333
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 2: go after Drew McIntyre at the time, or if he

1334
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 2: was going to go after Roman Reigns at the elimination chamber,

1335
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:56,760
Speaker 2: he makes his decision by spearing Roman reigns. Then Daniel

1336
01:00:56,800 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 2: Brian makes Roman rains tap it fast lane. Edge pummels

1337
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,320
Speaker 2: you know, both of them for the rains pin over

1338
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:05,200
Speaker 2: Daniel Brian, and Daniel Brian petitions his way for the

1339
01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 2: three way match. I don't know why this is a

1340
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:09,760
Speaker 2: three way match. And let me just say this, I

1341
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:11,440
Speaker 2: don't know why this is threeway match. Why it just

1342
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 2: couldn't have been Edge in Roman to close out WrestleMania.

1343
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 2: But what this tells me with Daniel Brian's addition, whose

1344
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:20,160
Speaker 2: contract is up, his full time contract is up, he

1345
01:01:20,240 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 2: is signing a part time contract so he can have

1346
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:25,280
Speaker 2: that dad time at home, show up for matches every

1347
01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:27,840
Speaker 2: once in a while. The only reason Daniel Brian was

1348
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:30,120
Speaker 2: added to this match, in my opinion, is to not

1349
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:32,640
Speaker 2: just you know, add a superstar somebody that's won a

1350
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:35,320
Speaker 2: title at WrestleMania before. But it's because he's there to

1351
01:01:35,320 --> 01:01:37,160
Speaker 2: take the pin. He is absolutely there to take the

1352
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:39,600
Speaker 2: pen because Roman Reigns has not been pinned I think

1353
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:42,920
Speaker 2: in almost two years. You know, this is a spot

1354
01:01:42,960 --> 01:01:45,880
Speaker 2: for Edge winning the Royal rumble Daniel, Brian takes the pin.

1355
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 2: It just depends on who he's taking it from. I

1356
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 2: think he takes it from Edge.

1357
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:50,320
Speaker 1: I think Brian's gonna win.

1358
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:54,120
Speaker 2: What I said completely misprice plus two. I think you

1359
01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 2: should be like plus one thousand and you're telling me

1360
01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 2: he's gonna win.

1361
01:01:56,960 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna win. I think edges to take

1362
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:01,600
Speaker 1: the pin here, and I think they're kind of like,

1363
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 1: all right, hear me out here, first events in over

1364
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 1: a year, in front of fans Sunday night, send the

1365
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:11,720
Speaker 1: fans home happy, Daniel Bryan wins the belt Brian against Rains.

1366
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:15,000
Speaker 1: Is your program moving forward? Then maybe you do Brian Edge,

1367
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:17,120
Speaker 1: or then maybe Brian Rowlet rides off into the sunset

1368
01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:19,880
Speaker 1: after he loses to Roman again, Roman doesn't have to lose.

1369
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:22,040
Speaker 1: Edge is a heel now. It doesn't hurt Edge to

1370
01:02:22,080 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: loose at all in a triple threat match. I think

1371
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 1: Brian wins. Fans go home happy, first WrestleMania, first event

1372
01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:29,320
Speaker 1: with fans back boom.

1373
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:32,280
Speaker 2: But does Edge winning not make the fans happy too?

1374
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:32,800
Speaker 2: No matter?

1375
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 1: It just like a heel now, though, right is he?

1376
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:38,240
Speaker 2: I mean? Yeah, we go back to like Vince McMahon's

1377
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:40,880
Speaker 2: touching the buttons in the back. I'm not booing Edge,

1378
01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:42,160
Speaker 2: no matter if he's.

1379
01:02:41,960 --> 01:02:44,200
Speaker 1: Like, well, you're not booing Edge, but like you're not, like,

1380
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:45,520
Speaker 1: is your son gonna boo Edge?

1381
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:49,520
Speaker 2: Probably? And I guess I'm not. I guess forty year

1382
01:02:49,520 --> 01:02:51,240
Speaker 2: old male is not the target base, right, it's the

1383
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:54,480
Speaker 2: fourteen year old right. So okay, so at least we

1384
01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 2: both agree on one thing, that Roman Rains is not

1385
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:58,800
Speaker 2: taking the pin and that he's not winning this match.

1386
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:02,120
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anyway Roman Reigns gets pinned, Like,

1387
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:05,160
Speaker 1: no matter what happens, it's zero percent chance that happens.

1388
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 1: So Rains is not going to get pinned. So I

1389
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 1: think Edge takes Edge gets pinned by Brian, and then

1390
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:13,720
Speaker 1: Rains will get the belt back from Brian another time.

1391
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:17,320
Speaker 1: Fans go home happy at WrestleMania. You get electric content

1392
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:20,360
Speaker 1: from Roman Reigns and not having lost, going absolutely ballistic,

1393
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:22,960
Speaker 1: Brian being the face champion kind of like poking, like

1394
01:03:23,040 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 1: poking the bear a little bit. Rains goes over, sends

1395
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 1: Brian back home to Bribella and their kid, and then

1396
01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:30,960
Speaker 1: maybe and I don't know where Edge goes from there,

1397
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:33,440
Speaker 1: but that's kind of yeah. I think I'm surprised you

1398
01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:35,200
Speaker 1: think Brian's mispriced. I think he's gonna win.

1399
01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:39,960
Speaker 2: Wow, Wow, I thought. I mean just Brian's whole contracts,

1400
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:43,640
Speaker 2: Danna Bryan's contract situation, you know, pivoting from a full

1401
01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:45,680
Speaker 2: time role to a part time role because he wants

1402
01:03:45,680 --> 01:03:48,400
Speaker 2: more time with his kids. If we think that gets

1403
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:51,360
Speaker 2: delayed till SummerSlam, or maybe he's still a weekly contributor,

1404
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:54,280
Speaker 2: like as a world champion. Like Okay, So here's how

1405
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:57,280
Speaker 2: we should attack this. Whose story is it easier to

1406
01:03:57,280 --> 01:04:00,160
Speaker 2: write off When they lose Daniel Bryan loses, he goes

1407
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:01,520
Speaker 2: and spends time with his kids, and he has the

1408
01:04:01,560 --> 01:04:04,600
Speaker 2: part time contract. When Edge loses this way and takes

1409
01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:06,320
Speaker 2: the pen, what do they do with him?

1410
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:08,360
Speaker 1: I don't know. He just becomes more of a dastardly

1411
01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:09,920
Speaker 1: bad guy.

1412
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:12,560
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, we're gonna throw him back into a

1413
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:15,160
Speaker 2: program with RKO. He's talked before about how he wants

1414
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:18,440
Speaker 2: to have a program with with seth Rawlins. We don't

1415
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:20,920
Speaker 2: know if that's possible. Do we have some sort of

1416
01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:22,720
Speaker 2: crossover with Drew mcintiter?

1417
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:24,800
Speaker 1: Can I ask you this, who's more likely to win

1418
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:29,000
Speaker 1: in your opinion Edge or Daniel Bryan Edge Edge. I

1419
01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:32,280
Speaker 1: think Edge is the least likely of the three to win.

1420
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:34,680
Speaker 2: Wow, and he has the best and he has the

1421
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 2: odds that should well. I mean they're all pretty close, right,

1422
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:40,040
Speaker 2: but Edge at plus one fifteen suggests that And maybe

1423
01:04:40,120 --> 01:04:42,960
Speaker 2: I'm just square money. Maybe I'm just public fish square

1424
01:04:43,040 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 2: money reading, or.

1425
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:47,200
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm maybe I'm on the square dog like that's

1426
01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:49,120
Speaker 1: why I think. That's why I think this this main

1427
01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 1: event is going to be really fun because who the

1428
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:51,760
Speaker 1: hell knows? That's cool?

1429
01:04:51,920 --> 01:04:53,560
Speaker 2: And it could be the fact that they haven't made

1430
01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 2: their decision yet, but I mean, Roman and Plus we

1431
01:04:56,360 --> 01:04:58,120
Speaker 2: have to say this recording this on a Thursday, so

1432
01:04:58,120 --> 01:04:59,600
Speaker 2: we don't know what's going to happen on SmackDown the

1433
01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 2: Go Homes Backdown show on Friday. But at least we

1434
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:05,720
Speaker 2: both agree that there's no way that Romans is taking

1435
01:05:05,720 --> 01:05:07,200
Speaker 2: the pen. Does he come out of this match with

1436
01:05:07,240 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 2: his belt? He could? He could, I don't think so, though.

1437
01:05:10,320 --> 01:05:11,800
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're going to have this be the

1438
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:15,000
Speaker 2: end of WrestleMania, there's a title change, I can't remember

1439
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:18,280
Speaker 2: the last time WrestleMania ended without a title change.

1440
01:05:18,280 --> 01:05:22,120
Speaker 1: When Lesnard beat Roman and retained tright. Probably right, yeah.

1441
01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:23,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and there's no money in the bank

1442
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:25,320
Speaker 2: floating a round, so you can't have something weird like

1443
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:27,920
Speaker 2: that happen. I don't know. It's really hard to like

1444
01:05:28,080 --> 01:05:30,680
Speaker 2: for me to imagine that there's not a title change here,

1445
01:05:30,720 --> 01:05:33,680
Speaker 2: so that means Rome doesn't eliminate Roman, and for me

1446
01:05:33,760 --> 01:05:36,080
Speaker 2: to have them put the belt on Daniel Brian, who's

1447
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:38,880
Speaker 2: going to part time. So I guess I will stick

1448
01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:41,400
Speaker 2: with Edge. I think you should wait on your danel Brian.

1449
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:42,920
Speaker 2: I think that number is going to get better, but

1450
01:05:43,040 --> 01:05:43,440
Speaker 2: will know.

1451
01:05:43,520 --> 01:05:46,200
Speaker 1: Won't wait, or or maybe it won't will.

1452
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:48,800
Speaker 2: Know by Sunday, these odds will shift. Now that doesn't

1453
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:50,440
Speaker 2: mean everything, right, if you wake up on Sunday and

1454
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:52,440
Speaker 2: you check the odds, that doesn't mean everything. I mean

1455
01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:54,440
Speaker 2: they then sits in the grill a position if he

1456
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:56,320
Speaker 2: wants to change his mind right before they walk out,

1457
01:05:56,560 --> 01:05:58,440
Speaker 2: he's gonna change his mind and they're going to switch everything.

1458
01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:01,440
Speaker 2: It's happened before. So I will stick with Edge at

1459
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:04,720
Speaker 2: plus one fifteen. Nick is gonna stick with Daniel Bryant

1460
01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:07,280
Speaker 2: at plus two hundred. Other than that, you have any

1461
01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:09,440
Speaker 2: other thoughts, like I mean, we're I don't think you

1462
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:11,240
Speaker 2: know that Andre the Giant Battle Royal is gonna be

1463
01:06:11,240 --> 01:06:14,480
Speaker 2: on SmackDown. Not enough, no big betting takeaways there. The

1464
01:06:14,520 --> 01:06:18,400
Speaker 2: Women's division is having a tag team turmoil over the

1465
01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:21,360
Speaker 2: top Row Battle Royal to termine who faces Shanna, Shana

1466
01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:23,760
Speaker 2: and Naya. I don't think there's any real good takeaway there.

1467
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:27,760
Speaker 2: The SmackDown Tag Championship, I believe, is being defended on SmackDown,

1468
01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:30,120
Speaker 2: not at WrestleMania, so there's no real takeaway there. Do

1469
01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:32,880
Speaker 2: you have anything else for the WrestleMania.

1470
01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 1: I guess maybe Knackam to win the Andre the Giant

1471
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:36,720
Speaker 1: Battle Royal would kind of make a little sense, But

1472
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:37,720
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know.

1473
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:39,800
Speaker 2: Is he somebody else too that's on his way out?

1474
01:06:39,840 --> 01:06:42,360
Speaker 2: Though it does? Does he have a desire to return

1475
01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:43,120
Speaker 2: to Japan?

1476
01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 1: If he went back to Japan, he'd be like the

1477
01:06:45,560 --> 01:06:47,800
Speaker 1: thirtieth best worker in the company at this point?

1478
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, kidding, all right, So that'll do it for us, Nick,

1479
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:53,760
Speaker 2: thanks for joining me. That'll do it for our WrestleMania

1480
01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:56,760
Speaker 2: thirty seven gambling preview. As a reminder, our guy Stucky

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Speaker 2: and Chris Raybond returned later next week for an NFL

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Speaker 2: Win Totals episode and do yourself a favor and check

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Speaker 2: out the Favorites podcast with Chad Milman. Their new Thursday

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Speaker 2: Thunderdome episodes are a lot of fun. Thanks to bet MGM,

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Speaker 2: the official odds provider of the show. Thank you for listening.

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Speaker 2: Do you have anything else you want to throw in

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Speaker 2: there before we might have to go another year before

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Speaker 2: we pot on on WW again.

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Speaker 1: I got a great number on jordan'speed, so hopefully he

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Speaker 1: wins the green jacket this weekend. That Agusta National.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to talk about how much money I

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Speaker 2: put on Victor Hovel and the guy starts off with

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Speaker 2: a triple. Nick, really appreciate you joining me, and I

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Speaker 2: hope I did as good a job getting you on

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Speaker 2: this podcast and introducing you as you do for me

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Speaker 2: on You Better You Bet podcast. Everybody please check out

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Speaker 2: you Better You Bet podcast and we'll see you next

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Speaker 2: time on the Action Network podcast.

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Speaker 3: We're finished talking