WEBVTT - WWE Royal Rumble Best Bets and Predictions (Ep. 663) 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.120 Welcome in everybody to Betting Pros. It's time to place 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:05.520 your bets. It is me Joey P joe P Zapia 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:08.600 and it's time to rumble. That's right. The road to 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:12.800 WrestleMania begins this weekend at the Royal Rumble. And it 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:14.680 just so happens. You may or may not know this. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:16.720 I'm the host of the End This Ring podcast for 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:19.400 the last eight years, my labor of love, because I 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.439 love professional wrestling. I spent almost twenty years as a 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:25.160 professional fight choreographer. I still work with a bunch of 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:29.080 guys in the industry and it is a passion of mine. 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:33.080 Pro wrestling and all different forms of the WWE sometimes 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:35.280 aw even though it makes me frustrated. And of course 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:37.960 New Japan, all the innd's and TNA and everything in between. 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:40.440 And it just so happens. I'm not alone here a 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:44.879 Betting Pros Troll, Furman Junior and South Stefanelli. Our amazing 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.800 team here at Betting Pros, our producers, our hosts. We 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.720 also happen to be all really passionate about this. So 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:53.680 instead of just doing shorts and articles, we decided to 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:55.800 do an entire podcast dedicated to our picks for the 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:58.320 Royal Rumble, and I am super excited now. Terrella and 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.920 I message a lot about wrestling. Sally and I go 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.280 back and forth before every single show talking about whatever 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.840 we saw. Saturday Night's main event is in the can 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.040 we know who was in and gentlemen, I'm very excited. 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.440 Last year's Roald Rumble again under Triple H. Some people thought, well, 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.120 you know, it was kind of cookie cutter. We knew 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.080 it was gonna come out of it. We got to 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:18.240 see impunk injury, which turned out to be one of 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.560 the best things that could possibly happen. But Terrell Furman, 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.280 anything can happen in the Rumble, and anything can swerve around. 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.320 What was so stunning to me as I was making 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.639 my picks here and I've got the men's and women's 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:32.560 right here my order, We're going to break down the 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.480 booking that I have and see what the guys think. 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:36.880 What was so stunning to me, especially the Men's Rumble, 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.920 is how much high end, main event level talent we 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.720 have and how we've intertwined them all in the last 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.560 year and a half. It is kind of stunning. It's 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:49.240 very nineteen ninety two Rumble esque, except the championship is 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:49.920 not on the line. 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.040 Yeah, And I think it's really really good how they 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.480 have decided to interswine all of these stories into one 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.920 and the fact of we have a pool of about 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.600 seven to ten main events that they could just throw 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.240 out of there and we could be like, oh wow, 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.200 that's a main event in WrestleMania. Oh wow, that's the 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.480 main event in WrestleMania. Is so many storylines that all 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.000 kind of intertwine with each other on both brands that 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.760 you're like, oh wow, this is this can be good 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:17.280 because it's like which way are you gonna go with? 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.040 Are you're kind of looking like, oh is it gonna 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.160 be a Cody Roman or is it? Oh Roman? Punk 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.160 is over there? And oh wait, wait good, there's over 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.040 there and soon. So's so many options. I love it. 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.520 So many options, and they're all gonna be tested. That's 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:29.840 what you get in the Rumble two is you have 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.160 these test moments of booking, typically sal where we're gonna 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.560 tease certain matches and say, what are these what does 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.880 this pairing look like together? How much heat is that 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.840 gonna get from the crowd? And maybe there's been some 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.680 failures sometimes in the women's division under the Triple Ah regime. 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.840 It looks like the rehabilitation is in full swing for 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.280 the tag team division twenty twenty five, that's starting to 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.200 go in a much better direction. But you can't knock 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.840 the main event stars that they have put together because 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:56.760 you're going through the list here, and when we get 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.600 to the men's rumble, it is either former champions or 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.160 believe it, Bull could be going after it, or people 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.840 will already have belts right now. It's kind of stunning 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.560 to think of what they've built up in terms of 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:11.160 the very top of the line of this talent roster. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.079 Yeah, I think it's it's pretty ridiculous just how much 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.600 talent there actually is. But I do feel storyline wise, 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.800 we're kind of lacking on the women's side ever since 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.560 the Ria and Live storyline. I think that's kind of 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:27.040 if it's not done long term, it's on the shelf 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.360 for now, especially if you've read, like No the Dirt Streets, 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.160 how they're saying Live and Raquel might be going for 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.920 the tag titles at WrestleMania, so that kind of takes 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.440 Live out of the picture. But talent wise, that's ridiculous, 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.720 and that you know Charlotte Flair has been gone for 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.080 how long? So you bring her back? You got Bianca Eo. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.160 Becky might be coming back. I mean they've talked about 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:51.800 Alexa Bliss coming back. Jade Cargo has been off off 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.280 TV for a little while, she could be returning. We 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:59.080 haven't even mentioned Jordan Grace, who recently actually signed full 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.040 time with w W. Remember her Royal Rumble appearance last year, 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.320 how that was like to me? That was a shock, 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.480 That was one of the best. It was one of 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.480 the best moments of the Rumble weekend. And I feel 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.760 like she's in store for like a really fantastic performance 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.760 at this year's Rumbule. So you could just keep going 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.840 down down the list, and like, especially with women who 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:23.080 are returningly, that's insane, Like Charlotte's been gone, Becky's been gone, 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.000 Oscar has been gone. They can all potentially be returning 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:29.839 this weekend. So like the Royal Rumble star powers. 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.680 And saying, well, speaking of lists, in the words of 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.200 Chris Jericho, I made a list right here, and we're 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:36.800 gonna get to the list right here. We're gonna get 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.240 to the booking. Talk about that, give us, give out 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.479 the picks. 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And guess what, we 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.560 did pretty well with some of those picks last year. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.520 Nailed all those, including the Mania picks as well two 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:13.880 years in a row with the Rumble and on my podcast, 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:15.960 I have gotten this is true story nine of the 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.840 last ten between the men and the women, right. That 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:20.800 one I did not get was that one wacky brock 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.839 lesnar year that nobody quite saw coming. That was let's 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.279 not talk about that all right, Let's get to the 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.760 women's rumble here. I always say, boys, you gotta start 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.080 with something. We're gonna do these tens of time you 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.359 have to begin with somebody that's gonna get the crowd 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.120 ready to go, get him engaged right away. And you 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.320 want some people have some big entrances and some big 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.599 feel So I'm gonna start with Chelsea Green. You want 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.960 to also highlight the new bell too. She's the United 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.120 States Women's champion. I think a lot of casual fans 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.640 don't even know that they're secondary women's titles. Now I 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.880 want to start with her. I want to go EO Scott, 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.679 who's gonna be my workhorse coming in at two? Really 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.440 build up Eo here as the marathon woman. Then we're 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.960 gonna go. We need some bodies to get rid of eventually. 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.120 Here we're gonna bring an Islad, Dawn Zoe start that, 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.000 Talia ganit a good hand like Natalia in here at five, 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.720 Selina Vega, Piper Niven at seven, Naomi at eight, Sonya 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.440 developed nine, and then Bailey at ten. Teral. What do 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.240 you think of the opening here with Chelsea Green and 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:11.880 EO Sky? 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.640 I think it's pretty good. I'm curious if EO Sky 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.760 is gonna get the Iron Survivor push, and it could 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:21.680 very well happen and we could see her go back 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:23.719 in the trajectory, and she's really been doing a lot 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.440 of the grunt work over the course of the full year. 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.280 So I kind of think of like those starters as 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.919 the Iron Survivor push, those people that may get the 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:35.400 most eliminations of hey, we're starting to reward you, of hey, 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.560 get ready for this next year, because we're about to 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.520 put you on your back. Bailey went and got the push, 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.560 and she ended up winning the Rumble and ended up 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:44.960 going on winning in Championship and had a good year 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.200 leading through Summer Slam. So she really got a really 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.320 big push. In the year before that, you had Ria 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.880 who was the Iron Survivor and she, you know, she 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:57.480 went bonkers. It serves a superstardom, So I think that 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.480 I could really see that for an EO, and I 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.600 don't really know anybody else that I think really, uh, 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.680 they want to give that responsibility to of this next year, 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.240 you're really going to be like all hands on deck 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:08.640 for us. 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.720 So I have EO making it to my final four? 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:14.400 Do you have her in that same grouping? 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.280 No, I wouldn't argue against it, though. 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:22.240 All right, I'm not arguing against it. Why why why 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.920 do you not have her in there? Just out of curiosity, just. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.560 The other four I have. She she didn't make the 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:29.280 I mean, that's a simple answer. 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.480 She just fell at all. 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.440 Right, So after okay, go back to your point about 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.040 like the big entrances starting the show, and then throw 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.120 about the iron surviron. There's a couple of names you 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.680 didn't mention in there who I think could potentially be 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.400 either the first woman entrant or like in the top three, 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.080 is again Jordan Grace or Bianca Belair, especially when you say, 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.360 like the big grand entrances, who has a better entrance 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.440 these days than Bianca Belair, Like we've seen it in 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.160 the past, paper easy premium blind events like that'd be 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.520 a great way to get the crowd going. And I'm 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.559 a spoiler. I'm kind of like all in on Jordan 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:02.880 Grace for this royal rumble. 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.520 Oh I am too, But I think we're gonna make 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.760 everybody wait. And I've got a plan here, because the 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.000 plan is the slow burn. This is the Triple Ah 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.240 slow Burn. And remember, we've got to fill the ring 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.840 with some bodies if we're gonna make somebody else look strong. 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:18.720 If you don't have those bodies going in, you have 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:20.560 the Jordan Graces of the world come in too early. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.480 If you have her coming in the top you know 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.280 five people. To me, that kind of puts her in 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.120 a bad spot because then she's got a battle through. 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.880 She gotta be in the corner, biding time with some 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.679 bad caicks and punches until spots open up. You want 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.640 her to come in when there's a full body of 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.000 women to throw out of the ring and make them 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.880 look strong. So at eleven, another good hand Candice Loray 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:47.080 Alba Fire thirteen Live, Morgan Shanea Bazler at fourteen, Bianca 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.120 bell Er at fifteen. So halfway through, I give you 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.200 Bianca because right now it feels a little loss in 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.160 the booking troll? Do you agree? I feel like Bianca 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.199 feels a little lost. I think I know where we're 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.120 going with this storyline, but considering this is somebody who 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.520 main invented Mania couple years ago with Sasha Bangs, it 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.199 feels like it's good to have you go away a 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.040 little bit till I miss you. But it almost feels 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.080 like she's gone so far away that I can't see 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.640 her in the main events scene right now. 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.839 And I think it feels like that too, And it's 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:16.040 kind of disheartening as a huge Bianca bell Air fan. 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.280 But the thing that I think that she carries on 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.200 is the fact that she is polarizing and she is 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:25.640 one of the biggest superstars, not women superstars in the WWE. 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.480 Great think about what Raw on Netflix and how big 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.800 Raw Netflix is and where you saw you saw a 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.200 Bianca's face on every single Raw on Netflix poster, and 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.120 then we got to Raw on Netflix and she's sitting 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.280 in the crowd, but she's on every post. That's how 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.760 big she is. So I think that it's okay if 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.719 she doesn't get the full shine because they know, hey, 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.080 we can pick this back up whenever. Let's keep building 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:51.520 this storyline with her underlying, underlying, underlying. So I think 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.200 you got her in a good spot, middle of the 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.800 pack and she can go in there do some damage. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:57.760 I think she could have a lot of eliminations here 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:02.000 along with Jordan Grace and and probably end up making 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.600 the final four, but just not there yet. 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.719 All right, sal Bianco bel Air, Is she in your 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:09.280 final four? Yeah? 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:09.640 She is. 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:11.719 I mean, I know you mentioned she's kind of been 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.480 like off to the side, even though she's a tag champion. 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.719 But with WWE specifically it doesn't take long for them 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:19.880 to heat up a feud or heat up a rivalry. 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:24.360 And with Rea Ripley the champion, I envisioned a narrator 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.840 where Bianca could potentially win this and challenge Rhea, and 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.880 we get that Ria Ripley Bianca Blair match at WrestleMania. 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.679 We've seen the history between them, especially in NXT. Those 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.439 two can bring it. I think that'd be a pretty 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:40.559 remarkable WrestleMania match. I you know, Bianca could pull off 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.480 the victory. Whether she does not, that's the different story. 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:43.520 But I could envision it. 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.240 At sixteen, we're going to bring in the women's inter 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.320 Continental Champion, Lyra Valcaria, who's had a really good run 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.520 here I think so far. You know, she was heated 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.000 up first, got a little quiet, and then the tournament 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:57.880 really punched her up a little bit. I think we. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:00.920 What's that were all shocked by that? 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:02.280 Are her winning? 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.319 No? Not at all, really at all. 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:06.920 I thought it was Dakota's time, you. 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:08.280 Know what, It would have been nice if it was 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.720 Dakota's time. The problem is, once again, Dakota's on another 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:13.760 injury now, right, And I think whenever you put belts 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:15.800 on folks, you have to say, Okay, what's the durability 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:16.959 of this person. It's one of the things that I 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.000 always worried about with Darby Allen. It's like, look, if 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:20.679 you're gonna put him at the very top of your 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:24.400 board as you're champion someday, what's the durability of that 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.640 guy gonna be to deliver those matches for six months 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.319 at a time, every single night. That's hard. It's hard 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.040 to be at the top physically speaking. And Dakota one 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.160 of my favorites. Dakota suffers from Dolph Zigler syndrome for 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.839 me too, which is she makes everybody else look so 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.680 damn good. Yeah, that she forgets to get herself over. 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:42.400 Do you agree with that? 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:44.200 Yeah? Same, I think the same. 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.520 I think she's she's not gonna be in this rumble either. 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.640 It seems it seemed like they were getting ready for 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.400 a really good push with her. It felt like it 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:53.040 was about to go somewhere, and I was like, oh, 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.440 I guess this kind of leads into a make card title, 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.959 But I'm not. I'm not mad at the Liral pick, 0:11:58.000 --> 0:11:59.800 but I was like, Oh, I thought Dakota was finally 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:00.600 going Yeah, I'm. 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.240 Not mad at either. I think we might be pushing 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.360 for trying to elevate those secondary titles too. More on 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.120 that to come here. Nikki Bella at seventeen now she 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.920 is my only returning. She's been kicking around the last 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:12.840 couple of weeks out. Have you noticed this? And it 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.520 feels like whenever that happens you kind of roll your eyes, 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:17.160 You go, all right, I guess is what we're gonna 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.360 get here. I don't have aj Lee as much as 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:23.160 I want her returning. It feels like TRIPLEA doesn't really 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.000 big into the member berries with some of these royal 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.760 rumble things as much as the Vince regime used to be. 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:32.280 And I don't think considering where Campunk is currently right 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.960 now in that spectrum, it feels like it might be 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:36.840 his night. And if so, I just don't feel like, 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:38.400 you know, what we've see now the relationship with the 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:39.839 two of them is that she's gonna come in there 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.040 and have anything to do with his night. What do 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:42.280 you think? 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.439 She just doesn't really seem that interested in coming back 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.240 to WW She's got so much stuff going on outside 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.680 of wrestling that it's not like a lot of legends 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:53.960 you see that kind of cling on to WWE because 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.960 they just they need to come back. Aj Lee does 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.480 not need wrestling whatsoever. 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.280 Now, but I think she could use some closure on it, 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.960 and I do see her eventually getting one run. I 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.200 just don't think this is gonna be where it is. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.480 I think this is gonna be the road to WrestleMania 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.400 for seam Punk, and we've been building it as such. 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.800 So Nikki Bella at seventeen, Rakel Rodriguez at eighteen, meets 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.640 it at nineteen, who's had also a pretty good finish 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:19.680 to twenty twenty four. Just want to shout her out. 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.439 She has been a workhorse for that company. Here we go, 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:24.600 Now you're ready. So we got all these bodies in, 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.480 we got to start throwing some bodies out. Let's start 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.440 at number twenty Nya Jacks, here we go, so she's 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.439 gonna come in there. And right after Naya Jacks, it's 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.920 time to bring back Wu Charlotte Flair at twenty one. 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.880 Now there's some heat there. What a perfect moment. Let's 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.280 embrace the heat. Sal I feel like this one thing 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.280 Triple H loves. It's to embrace some of the real 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.119 heat between some people because he knows it's good television. 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:49.240 I want twenty and twenty one. I want Naya to 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:50.880 come in throw some people out, and I want Charlotte 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.839 Flair to come in right after her and have that 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.560 moment where Nya is looking down the ramp and she 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:57.920 sees Charlotte Flair. What do you think? 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:02.240 So thought about those who queen back to back in 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.880 the rumble, but I can definitely. 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.760 See it are here. That's the question I met for 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.480 it for sure. All right again, we need some more 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:16.480 bodies here twenty two, Maxine Dupre, twenty three, Nikki Cross, 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.240 rox and Perez at twenty four. She is the only 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:20.880 NXT person I have. I know there's been a lot 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.080 of rumblings Durel about a lot of more NXT people 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.320 maybe making some debuts here. I think it becomes less 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.320 special when you have more than one. So I'm gonna 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.080 stick to one here in the men's and one of 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:32.880 the women's. What do you think roxanm. Perez is a 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:34.000 finally time to move her up? 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:34.720 Uh? 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.360 I think it is, but I disagree with the amount. 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.440 I think that that NXT talent division is too like 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.920 they don't have enough time on NXT for all of them. 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.200 They're having segments with like four or five girls in 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.400 the segment, trying to get some airtime for all of 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.120 them because they're so good. I think you have to 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.080 take the opportunity at the Rumble where you can throw 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.240 in a couple of extra bodies. They're not saying it's 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:58.560 gonna be a lot and not saying we're going to 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.440 throw in the whole division. Is gonna be be like 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.200 a three brand war in the Rumble? No, no, no, 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.600 But I think we can get one or two maybe 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.880 other people in there. So I think three is a 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.280 very good number for NXT representation. 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.120 Question though, but when you start bringing the NXT women 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.720 guys and they like like the Stephanie Vakors or the 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.520 Julia's and have these belts, does it do them a 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.280 disservice though, because you're just bringing them in there to 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:23.800 get thrown over the top and eliminated. 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.080 But also it gives them, you know, like a platform 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.520 to audiences that don't watch NXT. They'd be like, hey, 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.920 look the amount of talent we have down XT. They 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.880 give them Remember the Keith Lee moment for example a 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:35.640 few years back. 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:36.800 Yes, and it. 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.920 Feels like, I know, like, who is this guy, this 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:42.720 guy's before. 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.120 That's with the NXT. 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.360 I'm gonna let you keep going with this, but I 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.120 think there's one NXT woman who you might not mention. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.480 I think should be in the rum. Well, you could 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.920 tell me who I left out. You guys can tell 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:56.520 me who I left at all. Right, At twenty five, 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.840 you waited long enough, rox and Perez, We've got our smaller. 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.400 Now we're gonna bring in the uh the Jordan Grace 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.520 at twenty five. Now we start to build, So we 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.760 bring the crowd up for Roxane Perez, we bring them 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.600 up some more with Jordan Grace, and we come down 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.600 at twenty six for Ivy Nile. Then we have a 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.440 returning Alexa Bliss at twenty seven. I don't buy any 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.040 of the contract stuff. I think that's all a bunch 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.080 of huha. I think the only reason they're doing it 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:21.800 is to throw people off the scent, because they've done 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.280 that before in the last couple of years. Returning Oscar 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.760 at twenty eight, Returning Jane Cargill at twenty nine. People 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.440 are losing their minds, going look at all these people 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.680 coming back, what's gonna happen? And at thirty who's possibly left. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:34.280 Who can it be? 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.920 It's Becky Lynch at thirty making her return. So I'm 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.160 spiking from twenty five Jordan, Grace, Ivy Nile again. We 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:45.320 gotta bring him down a little bit, Bliss, Osca, Cargill, Lynch, Terrell. 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:48.080 Have I sufficiently inflated the bubble here at the end 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:49.000 of the rubble? Yeah? 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:53.240 How many returns is that? Jesus, I've got more returns? Think, hey, 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.080 this is more for in row. This is more returns 0:16:56.160 --> 0:17:01.320 than Monday after Black Friday, then Chris Day after Christmas. 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.800 Day. This is right there. That's a good Canadian joke 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:06.919 for Sal. So I like that one. 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:14.000 So Sal again, Becky, you said who else? 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:15.600 Who else is Jade? 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.359 He said Jade Car Gill. So I had Alexa, Oscar, 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.120 Jade and Becky. But here's also part of the reason too. 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.320 Alexa hasn't worked in forever, Oscar's coming off an injury, 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.199 Becky hasn't. You know, Becky's the big star whatever you 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.240 get that big pop at thirty. We could really embrace 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:31.600 that last moment. She doesn't have to rush it. And 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:35.080 same thing with Jade too. Again you worry still about 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.440