WEBVTT - WWE Elimination Chamber Best Bets and Predictions (Ep. 675) 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:03.160 Welcome in everybody to betting pros. It's time to place 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:05.960 your bets. It's be Joey Big Joe b Zapia and 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:08.360 it's time to look at the elimination chamber. And that's 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:12.520 right this Saturday, somebody is going to wrestle Mania. It's 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:14.760 not gonna be me. We just got back from Las 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:16.640 Vegas for our team trick, where I got to hang 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:19.520 out with my good pal Terrell Ferman Junior, who's on 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.800 the show today, and of course sal Stefanelli. We are 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:26.279 here breaking down on betting pros the elimination chaper for 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:29.360 ww and it should be a very entertaining program with 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.159 a lot of questions and a lot of chaos. I 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.520 feel like still possibly to happen. It's a small card. 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:37.959 We're gonna run through it pretty quickly. We're gonna see 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:40.559 if there's some value potentially on some of the wagers 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.040 we can make here on this elimination chamber. It's going 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:46.760 to be in Toronto, in the homeland of sal So, 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.279 but not close enough for him to be attending on 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:52.040 this one. But I'm gonna ask you a question, Salas 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:56.360 start off, what do you find more frustrating the Dwayne 0:00:56.480 --> 0:01:00.240 Johnson promos in twenty twenty five where he goes from 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.760 heel to face, from face to heel every five seconds 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:04.880 and rambles on and on for twenty minutes. Or the 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:08.640 Hulk Hogan interviews where he continuously just lies about everything 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:10.920 that we've already seen and witnessed in person and know 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.240 that he's lying about. What's more frustrating to you in 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:13.640 this era? 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.080 I think there's enough line in the world as is. 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.839 I'll take a rock trying to steal someone's soul over 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:21.040 that any day of the week. 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.920 Ah. Yes, the soul stealing of Cody Rhodes, which is 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:26.800 on the table at elimination chamber, because we don't get 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.640 the rock there too. So to that Pointterrell, we all 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:31.920 waited with baited breath to see maybe we are going 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.400 to do the Cody rock match after all, and then 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.760 it just got weird, And now we're going to maybe 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.680 kind of sort of have some semblance of moving forward 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:43.720 an elimination chamber, and I think we have to start 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:47.320 there because depending on whether or not, Terrell, you think 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.440 that Cody is going to sell out and go heal, 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.120 that basically is how you see elimination chamber, you have 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.720 to write that story of whoever wins either being the 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.560 heel to Cody saying no, I'm not going to sell out, 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.760 or it's who's gonna be the face to Cody becoming 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.200 the corporate champion. Do you agree? 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:08.520 Drum, Yeah, pretty much. I'm very interested where things are going. 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.800 We're gonna talk about the betting odds in a second, 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.960 but a lot of these storylines just feel like they 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.720 kind of don't make sense. And if but it does 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.080 if Cody turns heel, Like if Cody turns heel, that 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.640 puts Cody and Rollins back on the table, and that 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.519 gives that a legit storyline, and that gives something that's 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.239 been building because they just went through this last WrestleMania 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.600 and you go a year later and now you're Buddy 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.440 Buddy drinking Tea Monta Tequila with the rock and all that, Like, no, 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.720 that's not cool. So that reinvigorates seth Rollins for me. 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.160 But then it's like where do all the other Domino 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.400 pieces fall? If you go like that, what happens with 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.120 Sina's people think a lot of people think Sena is 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.519 gonna win here, Like what happens does that mean that 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.680 we're getting a heel Cody versus a Overseena. I don't know. 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:57.480 It's very interesting and I'm lost and perplexed at everything 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.000 right now, but I think that's a good thing. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.560 First of all, on you for popping the rocks Tequila 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:03.200 here on the show. As if that guy doesn't get 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:07.840 enough publicity, sorry spot, shame on you, at least not yet, 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:09.839 unless you want to make a sponsor rocket in case, 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:11.639 I love m be it. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.680 A responsible, responsible tre minus sponsor. I could be that. 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.280 Oh we've had Tekilo companies in the past, and I 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:19.959 am all for it. I would love to get the 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:21.880 sponsor of the show to be at tequila company again. 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:26.080 Let's start with the men's elimination shaper, though, because John 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.240 Cena is the very heavy favorite, it doesn't feel like 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.359 he's the guy that turns corporate champion at this point 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.000 in his career. To make John Cena heel now is 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:34.840 such a waste. If you were going to do that, 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:36.880 you should have done it ages ago and seen what 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.119 was in that tank. I don't think the last run 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:40.720 of Sena is going to be that. He is the 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.640 heavy favorite. He went from minus four hundred about a 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.240 week of change ago to minus two thousand, then minus 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.120 two thousand again a couple of days ago, and now 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.400 as of recording this minus eighteen hundred. So there's no 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.480 value on John Cena at this stage. It's looking for 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.760 other ways to go. Let's start with CM Punk, who's 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.320 a plus two to seventy five right now. So the 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.720 CM punk option here is interesting because if you take 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.200 a look at what cmpunk said on his return, I'm 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.840 not here to make friends, I'm here to make money. 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:13.640 Now he is the anti establishment guy, the anti establishment guy. 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.680 Going establishment is a way you can go Seeampunk can 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:21.640 pull anything off like that. There are some misgivings I 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:23.880 have about that because if you go back to WrestleMania 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.120 seventeen when they did this with Stone Cold Steve Austin, 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:29.960 it felt kind of flat, like it just the people 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.640 didn't like it, they didn't want it. The anti hero 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.320 is the people's real champion, and that was always Stone Cold, 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:37.039 and I feel like that would be a similar feel, 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.279 although if anybody can get it over in the microphone, 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.800 it would be CM Punk. Can you make a case 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.719 at two seventy five for the Punker to win elimination Chamber? 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.120 I think you can tell yourself a story for like 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.120 sixty percent of the people in the elimination Chamber, including Punk, 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:57.200 And I understand Punk is the anti hero. You kind 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.800 of really enjoy him in his current iteration in the 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:03.560 day right now, But it would be an interesting dynamic 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.880 to see play out as Punk like the twenty twenty 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:10.680 five version of the corporate champ under the Rocks. I 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:14.679 don't know, do we say tutelage leadership. 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:16.520 Fifty year old. 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.080 Guys, I'm not sure what we call it what it is, Yeah, 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.640 but as the you know, second odds on favorite, he 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.760 presents much better value than John Cena, and I would 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.960 be interested to see uh sena who basically has like 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.320 no bs, which he's done up till now. It's like 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.240 you mentioned, not here to make friends. I'm here to 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.040 make money. If you align with the Rock, that's one 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:38.880 hundred percent what you're gonna do. Whether you get paid 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.720 in like actual dollars or just tequila cases a different story. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:46.040 But seeing Punk go in winning the elimination Chamber because 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.400 he decided to be the one to take up the 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.640 Rock on his offer first, is that how it would work? 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.719 Like does he go up and interrupt Cody and the 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.520 rock doing there? Will you sell your soul to me? Bit? 0:05:57.880 --> 0:05:59.479 Which is a question I have for you guys later on, 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.760 is what happens first in this pay per view? Is 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:04.560 it old Rock and Cody or Ema? 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.360 I think it is. I think it is Rock and Cody, 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:11.320 and to me then it feels like Cody's saying no 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.279 and then some kind of drama unfolding. I want to 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.120 throw this at U Terrell when it comes to Sempunk too, 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.520 because looking ahead on the calendar to next year, the 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.039 Royal Rumble next year is in Saudi Arabia, not a 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.599 place necessarily where you expect to see CM Punk for 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.800 his own private reasons which I can certainly understand, which 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.280 means he's either champed then or he's just not participating. 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.160 Does that put more of a pressure to put him 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:37.760 into this main event? Because if he asked me a 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:39.760 week ago this time, before the rock stuff came up, 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.040 I think the biggest match you could do was Cempunk 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.320 and Cody Rhodes. I thought it at Royal Rumble. I 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.240 didn't get that right. Nobody got that right pretty much. 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.000 So do you think that there's sort of a time 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.080 element here where if you don't pull the trigger on Punk. 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.039 You might miss out on twenty twenty six. 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.320 I don't think so. I think that there's still for 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.719 him to get there. I think that we've seen the 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:06.719 World Championship go over at SummerSlam, and that's something that 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:08.400 I could see for a Punk. But it really feels 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.560 like the WrestleMania main event is going to be it, 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.400 and so I'm looking at it, now, how does Punk 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:17.920 get there without winning the elimination Chamber Dog? He still 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.880 has a favorite to Cash. He still has a favorite 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:21.960 to Cash, and what. 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:22.440 Walk me through that? 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.640 So, but the favor was with Paul hamon how those 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.440 are ways that I could see that this plays out. 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.160 And I kind of have it played out in two 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.360 ways where one Punk wins the chamber and one Punk 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.760 doesn't win the chamber. One Punk wins the chamber. Is 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.280 I was watching TikTok as I normally do every single day, 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:38.600 and of course during this time of year, you start 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.720 to get elimination Chamber footage and the clip of Sean 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.680 Michael's coming out of the Sewers to super kick the 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:50.560 Undertaker and give Chris Jericho the World Championship. It played 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:54.080 and I was like ooh, Roman and Seth got some 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:58.600 serious beef after that Royal Rumble, and I could see, hey, 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.800 maybe a little favorite cash Roman comes in, gets involved 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.480 in elimination Chamber, takes out Seth. That sets up south 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.040 in Roman at WrestleMania, and then you go ahead and 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.040 you get Punk Cody, which I think would be the 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:10.960 match if it's not going to be a Roman Cody 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:12.760 and beat Punk Cody. I would like to see that. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.200 So I could see that, or I could just see 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.320 kind of like Punk talking about how he's been talking 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.160 in interviews of like, hey, I actually proposed me to 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.200 lose stuff a lot more than me winning. I would 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.640 like the people to see the chase of me chasing 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.400 to get to that title. So I could see Punk saying, hey, no, 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.120 I don't think it's my time to win yet. And 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.560 I also still have this favorite cash in why don't 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.320 I lose this? And then we build this next two 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.720 months going into WrestleMania on this favor that gets me 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.760 into the main event, and that something else kind of happened. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:43.560 So I could see it playing out different ways, but 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:45.200 I think that favor has to come in. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:49.160 Now you mentioned Seth Rowins Drell he's a plus two 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.960 thousand right now. I don't see the pathway there, and 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.240 we've done a trilogy of matches already. It just seems 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.240 like a round peg square hole to me. Do you 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.000 see a case for sus Seth Rowlins in this chamber 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.360 coming out to the victor, because I think that's one 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:04.840 of the harder cells in this point. 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.720 I didn't until Friday, not until the Rock segment. Once 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:09.600 the Rock segment happened, and then we came back on 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:13.240 Monday and Seth came out and approached Cody. It seems 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.240 like that's probably a long term storyline build to when 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.600 Cody actually eventually does turn heel and agrees to work 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.760 with the Rock and Seth Rollins coming back during that. 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.840 But like I could see them pulling the sugar that 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.120 on that now and saying, hey, like we need somebody 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.120 to win. We're about to have a bunch of chaos, 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.199 and we've got it now. We got a book Roman 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.560 in a match, and I think that Drew and Priest 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.000 are kind of going on this collision course where they're 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.360 gonna meet up at Mania. So like you're trying to 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.080 get everybody booked and you're trying to figure out what's 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:46.120 the right situation for everybody, and so it could be, hey, 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.240 maybe we do have to throw Rollins into a main event. 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.520 We know it's gonna be a great match because Seth 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.880 Rollins is an amazing performer. So I could see them saying, hey, like, 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.840 all right, it's steps time, we're gonna throw them in there. 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:00.839 But it just feels like the Roman thing is loam 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.800 being over my head too much, where it feels like 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.360 we're getting Seth Roman now and not waiting anymore. 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.120 Yeah. Where I struggle style with Seth is that we've 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.440 already seen corporate sell out Seth Rawlins, Like, we've seen 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.280 that storyline. I don't want to see Seth Rawlins do 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.760 that again. We've already done that with Triple H before 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.240 and it was good. We did it, It's good. Do 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.240 you want to do that again? I think to Trerell's point, 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.240 maybe flipping it around the other way is more interesting, 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.000 But it just feels at this point a little I 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:32.800 don't know. I think there's more heat with Rowlins and Roman, 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.280 and I think that is more interesting a story to tell. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.160 I also think it's imperative that we have a WrestleMania 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.960 finally that doesn't have Roman reigns just once. Let's take 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:45.520 a breather from him in the main event, because look, 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.400 I love Roman, dude. I supported Roman when nobody else 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.720 like Roman and everybody's crapping on Roman. I thought they 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.120 should have turned him heel the night after the Undertaker match. 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:55.400 I think he's still may I think even though he's 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.560 not quote unquote in the main event. If you tell 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.880 me you have a card and you have seen a 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.559 let's go with the highest ods Sana Cody Rhoades on 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.040 a on a card that is quote unquote in the 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.240 main event, JAMESO and gun Thro that's quote unquote the 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.800 main event. And then you have Seth Rollins and Roman 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:12.520 Reigns on a card. I don't care if you call 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.200 it the main event night. I think that it has 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:15.440 main event pedigree. 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.319 I agree with you. I would put Roman and Seth, 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:20.720 especially if Punk is in that as a three way 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.880 match at the top of Night one. And I would 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.760 also have Gunther go over by the way on Jay 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.320 Usso and make Gunter the new killer of WWE and 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.880 the new long term champion. But so, do you have 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.120 any case for Seth Rawlins, Because again, I feel like 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.240 him getting involved in this particular end of the storyline 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.080 with Cody. Although the Raw promo was really good and 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:41.800 really fun, I think that's a little bit of a 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:43.280 red herring they were just throwing out there. 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.000 I think it's kind of to when we had the 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.160 go home show of Raw and Seth Rawlins was involved 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.520 in the gunther promos, like, oh hey, maybe Seth Rawlins's 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.400 gonna be the one that wins wins wrestleming and fights 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.199 a gun there. I think there's a lot of deja 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.640 vu in wrestling, and it might be like a lazy 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:59.959 trope to think, well, yeah, Seth has done it before, 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.080 but his character right now is kind of stagnant. Yeah, 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.560 he just keeps going on and on and on about no, 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.720 I did this for you, Cody, and it's all gonna 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.000 go to waste if you're just gonna side with the Rock. 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:12.880 And he become the Roads. I did it for the Rock. 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.959 And he has that history of being a Weasley turncoat 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.120 right and becoming the corporate champ. Does he just do 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.040 it again, but this time with the Rock. Got at 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:29.400 plus two thousand odds to we get heel Seth Rollins. 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:29.960 The corporate champ? Well, why isn't it Cody, Like, why 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.840 doesn't Cody just turn heel and Rolin stays who he is? 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.400 I'll answer that, I think because then it has to 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.600 Then I think you want ce M Punk to continue 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.280 to be the anti hero, like that's where he lives 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:44.480 so well he is. I mean the people love Seeam Punk. 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:48.680 He definitely gets outside of Cody. The Juso entrance Again, 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.080 I think it's more of a vibe than it is 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.719 people really investing too much in Jay Luso. It's it's 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:57.120 seem Punk that gets him off their seat, and I 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:01.080 think he would be the better guy to pair with 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.839 Cody in that sense. Then seth Rawlins seth Rowlins will 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.680 be a Bee choice for me. I think a far 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.480 Bee choice like the a choice is clearly see mpunk. 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:10.600 I want to get to some of the other guys 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.480 here too. I don't think it's Logan Paul's turn. I'm 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.320 just putting that out there. And Damian Priice, I think 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.040 we've seen enough of that, especially in those main event matches. 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.120 He's not quite up to snuff in those. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:24.600 Hasn't been penned since o Sober has not been pinned. Yes, 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.560 he has been protected, not been pinned since ots sober, Well, 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.880 that's fine. This Yeah, I was about to say, this 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:32.600 will be the first time he eats a pin since 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.000 otsber like, that's really good. 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:36.679 Good. Well, they had to build him back up because 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:37.920 you know, when you take the belt off a guy, 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.360 you don't want him to just fade into oblivion. And 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:42.880 I think he's relaxed a little bit and I think 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.600 he's found himself again. The guy's kind of looming out 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:49.080 there at plus nine hundred. It's fascinating to me. And 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:52.840 it's Drew McIntyre. Now here's why at some point, Cody 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:54.880 Drew McIntire makes a lot of sense. Especially why do 0:13:54.920 --> 0:14:00.000 you move Drew over to SmackDown when you did, unless 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.320 you are going to few those two guys together. Here's 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.480 an interesting one. Once upon a time, the guy that 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.960 was groomed to be the corporate champion, the chosen one 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.480 was Drew McIntyre. I think it would be really interesting. 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.840 Maybe go back to the old music, maybe go back 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.600 to some old fields there. Sal Can I sell you 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.600 on Drew McIntyre being the dark horse to win this 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.840 because if you see what they've done with the booking recently, 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:25.720 it's built up all these main event guys and then 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.120 throw a swerve at us. Could they do that again 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.440 here at elimination Chamber, first with Jay Usa with the Rumble, 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:31.800 and then again with Drew McIntyre. 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:33.840 I know you don't have to sell me because I'm 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:37.880 already there. I think there's only two people you can't 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.000 make a case for winning the Chamber. It's Damian Priest 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:43.280 and Logan Palm. Drew McIntyre would be the perfect choice 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:46.080 as the corporate champ because I think he'd be more 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.480 than willing to take The Rock up on his offer 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.680 and then eventually find a way to rid of himself 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.240 of the Rock, just to get that championship match of wrestlemanic. 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.400 Because we've seen Drew mcnie. He'll tell you straight to 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.560 your face he hates you. He'll stab you right in 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.479 the front, sady the back, he doesn't care, hates the bloodline. 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:04.400 He's not a big fan of Code. Right now, all 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.040 he wants is his championship belt that he lost, that 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.840 he feels like he didn't rightfully lose, and he'll do 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.840 anything it takes to get it back. And plus nine 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.840 hundred odds. I don't see why he wouldn't know sprinkle 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.960 a few dollars on that for elimination chamber. He just 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:25.040 he his persona is Yeah, maybe I'm the corporate champ, 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.960 but I'm not the corporate stooge. I can fight the 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:33.320 Rocket every single battle point that they're whatever. This like 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.960 soul stealing plan. 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.480 The Rock as in mind is I'll ask you this, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:43.520 Terrell WW loves the big marquee. Sena Rhodes is a 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:47.320 big WrestleMania I two main event punk code. Any circumstance 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.040 is look, it is not maybe not for you and me, 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:54.160 but for the more casual fans or the people who 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.280 will turn into peacock is like, oh, I know John 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.240 Cena and could it gets a lot of eyeballs on 0:15:58.280 --> 0:15:59.240 the product whether we like it. 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:02.240 If this Scena roads for real, I think that confirms 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.000 for me what I already knew is that Cody is 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.640 legit number two in the company. Like he's legit number 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.440 two in the company. He should not have to play, 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.320 He should not have to play into the Sena farewell 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:17.120 to are angle at WrestleMania. Here. I don't disagree because 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.080 if he wins, If he wins, what did you do 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:23.240 you beat? However, Old John Cena and if you lose, 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:25.480 you just lost to a Howard over old John Like. 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.320 It's really like it. There's no real win there for Cody, 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.000 and it would just it's solidified. 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:33.040 It's Hogan Warrior all over again, which is I never 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:34.080 wanted in the first place. 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.520 It really shouldn't be that. It would solidify Cody as 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:38.320 the beat as you know, as much as he wants 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:39.680 to say he's number one in a lot of people 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.400 push for him to be number one, it would solidify 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.120 for me that answer if that happens. 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:48.680 Again, whether what we agree, but the perception out there 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:52.960 is Sena is a Markey match. We know that. See 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:55.320 a punk Cody Roads is a Marque match. We already 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:59.480 know Roman Punk, like all the combinations there is, Drew McIntyre, 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.720 Cody Rhodes. I know for maybe us as wrestling fans, 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.679 But do you think from a business standpoint, wweces that 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.760 potentially as hey, we're making new stars, we're doing this thing. 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.239 Is that big enough for Night two WrestleMania. If the 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.639 Rock is also involved here and Drew McIntyre is his guide, 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:17.959 does that work for you? Does that move the needle 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.600 in your opinion? From the perspective of the company Toron. 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.679 I think it can because I trust Drew. Drew's had 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.000 an amazing year and I think he does deserve for 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.520 it to be capped off big at WrestleMania. That's why 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.879 I kind of really really wanted some type of triple 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.760 threat between Drew, Seth, and Punk. It felt like that 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:36.760 would be a great end to a year where all 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.280 three of those guys were feuding with each other. And 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:43.000 so maybe you know, getting it is the reward. I mean, 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.720 Drew would be only the second person ever to win 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.199 bat to back elimination chambers if he did this. The 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.000 only person ever to do was Triple H and he 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.600 did it twice. There was a one year gap in 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:54.119 two thousand and three and two thousand and five, but 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.160 there was another time where he had bat to back 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.080 chamber wins. That's the only other person that's they will 0:17:58.119 --> 0:17:59.560 been able to do it bat to be back years and 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.399 that would be Drew in this spot. So if you 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.040 do it, it would be for a big spot light 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.600 to go into a program with the Rock And maybe 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.159 Drew is the corporate champion that we're looking at, so 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.480 I could see an angle there. I just think that 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.080 I don't know I feel like Cody wants that big 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.920 marquee match and I just can't get away with this 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.320 field of this field of choices is punk for me. 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.720 I think putting Punk in that match makes it more 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.000 appealing for the marquee. And also to your point, Sal 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:31.120 you've heard it and I've heard it. Punk's talking about 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.440 I'm just here to take pins. Basically at the stage 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.480 of my career, That's what I'm here to do. If 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:37.960