WEBVTT - Vince - Early News 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:06.680 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:16.400 By from San Francisco. I'm a Sports Byline Broadcasting network. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:19.720 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with your hosts, 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:24.080 Brian Alvarez and Mike SEMPERVV. Are you ready? 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:25.160 Are you ready? 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:27.560 Let's get it off. 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:31.680 Let's get it. Mike semper Vv here with you for 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:35.280 the next hour talking about professional wrestling, which is something 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.800 we do every single day here on the Sports Byline 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:43.680 Broadcasting Network. Tune in, iHeart American Forces Radio Sports Byline 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.239 dot Com over the air affiliates like KMAV ninety nine, 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:51.120 KMSR and The Mighty Er ten ninety. Maybe you're listening 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:55.240 to me via podcast or replay on SiriusXM, or maybe 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.480 you're video streaming on twitch or YouTube. However you're joining 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:00.920 me today, I just like to say thank you. Hopefully 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.880 wherever you are at sonny outside and if not, hopefully 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.520 it's sunny inside. Your mind's sunny here today. I'm my 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:11.600 portion of Del Marva pushing seventy degrees right now. I'm 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:16.320 going outside immediately after this show is over. Actually that's 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:19.120 not true. Immediately after the show is over, I'm going 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.560 to wait for the file. I'm going to upload that 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.640 to the site, and then I'm going outside. So you 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.200 hear about all those people on their podcast talking about 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:32.080 find me outside, catch me outside, I'll be outside. Don't 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:36.040 show up my house, though I'll shoot you. I don't 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.319 know jiu jitsu. I don't want to know jiu jitsu. 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.319 Stay away from me, especially if you have a creepy 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:46.120 Vince mcmahonstyle mustache. And I was going to begin the 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.360 show by saying, I'm happy I won't have to speak 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:53.400 too much about it today because the whole Vince story 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.640 that is going to be the big shadow that hangs 0:01:55.680 --> 0:02:00.160 over pro wrestling for at least the immediate future. There 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.000 was not a whole lot of news until right before 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.200 I got on the air. And this is not confirmed, 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:13.919 but it is very possible that Slim Jim has notified WWE. 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.440 This is the word that is apparently going around the 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:20.239 locker room. There's a lot of rumor about this now online. 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.519 Slim Jim has notified WWE that they are pulling their 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:30.800 sponsorships from tomorrow's Royal Rumble due to the allegations against 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:35.240 Vince McMahon. I'll check on this during the break and 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.760 find out if anything has been made official, and we'll 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.200 get into the rest of the news on what is 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.679 a very busy weekend in the world of professional wrestling. 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:47.200 It's Wrestling Observerlive. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.160 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live on the Sports 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:08.919 Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.000 Welcome back to the show. Mike Sepper VV here with you. 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:16.639 You know, we do this show right here for an 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:18.520 hour at a time, but if you want us twenty 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.880 four to seven, you can find me at semper vv 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.440 on Twitter slash x. The timeline for this show is 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:28.880 at wof four w and the broadcasters at Sports Byline USA. 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.359 I won't bring up Brian Alvarez or Filthy Tom lawlers 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.360 twitters because they're not here. I don't know where they are, 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:37.760 but I'm pretty sure that Jim Valley is going to 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:41.240 be here with you tomorrow live every Saturday at one 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:44.800 pm Eastern time, ten am Pacific, and Andrews Aarian will 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:48.480 be here on Sunday starting at six pm Eastern three 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.400 pm Pacific. I'd also like for you to make the 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.040 Wrestling news part of your day. 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I also got a 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:35.080 submission into the ending on Bacha Mania, which is I 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:39.440 believe the third time that's happened, maybe second, I don't know. 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.600 And that's not a botch. I'm just burnt at this 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.320 point to a crisp I hope you like the wire 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:51.120 and if you do, Ocota is coming, you should enjoy that. 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:53.719 I hope you enjoy that. It's actually a little longer 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:56.960 than what you're gonna see on on Bacha Mania. And 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:01.160 that is because New Japan is so copy right strike happy, 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:05.440 and how copyright to strike happy? Are they? About two 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:10.279 weeks ago or so, they dmca'd their own YouTube page. 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:16.120 That happened, So being concerned about that, the Batchamania one 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.000 a little bit shorter, but I'll put it up on 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:23.159 my Twitter page at semperbb until it gets taken down 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.200 there as well. So there's that. I still have not 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.720 found out anything else new on the slim Gym deal. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.600 As the show goes on, I'll keep my eyes posted 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.400 and check and see if any news has been reported 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.520 on that. I would figure by the end of the 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:43.800 quote unquote business day five pm Eastern time, we should 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:47.479 have an answer on this. Again, keep your eyes posted 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:52.040 to at wonf fow that is the website's Twitter page, 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:54.720 or just go to the website Wrestlingobserver dot com. There 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.680 is a new edition of the Wrestling Observer newsletter up 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:01.080 there for subscribers, as well as a ton of shows 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.400 and other stuff as well. So just hang out, refresh 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.880 that page and we'll see what happens as we get 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:11.360 closer to the Royal rumble. TKO Group Holdings, the parent 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:15.760 company of WWE. And look, I know there are most 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.520 of you know what's going on, but there are a 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.440 few of you out there, and I mean a few 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:24.919 that Wrestling Observer Live is your entire lifeblood to the 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:29.880 wrestling business. A lot of you are overseas listening to 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.760 us on American Forces Radio, or you're part of our 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.599 syndication package and listening to us over the air. But 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.000 since we last talked to you, other than what I 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:44.680 mentioned about the possibility of slim Gin pulling out, which 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:49.480 is a recent happening today, there's only really been two 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.880 notable things about the Vince McMahon story since we last spoke, 0:06:55.080 --> 0:07:01.599 and that is TKO Group Holdings eight yesterday issuing a 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:08.279 statement about the whole deal with Janelle Grant, the former 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.720 WWE employee that is alleging that she was the victim 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:16.320 of physical and emotional abuse sexual assault in trafficking at 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:21.160 WWE in a lawsuit that names McMahon, WWE, and John 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:27.880 Laurinidis as defendants. Since we last spoke, a TKO spokesperson 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:33.080 issued the following statement to Variety, which responds to Grant's allegations. Quote, 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:37.120 Mister McMahon does not control TKO, nor does he oversee 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.880 the day to day operations of WWE. While this matter 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:45.080 predates our TKO executive team's tenure at the company. We 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:49.880 take miss Grant's horrific allegations very seriously and are addressing 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:54.560 this matter internally end quote. McMahon was among the TKO 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:59.360 representatives present at the New York Stock Exchange this Tuesday 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.840 when Dwayne the Rock Johnson rang the opening bell. Nik 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.560 Cohn was also there, Paul Laveck was there. Several people 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:10.440 from the board were there also. Since we last spoke 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:14.680 to you, a statement also released late last night from 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:19.680 a Vince McMahon spokesperson indicates that the TKO executive chairman 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:23.640 is going to fight these allegations. The following was released 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:28.040 to several media outlets by McMahon's legal team. Quote this 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:32.160 lawsuit is replete with lies, obscene, made up instances that 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:36.240 never occurred, and a vindictive distortion of the truth. He 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:40.920 will vigorously defend himself end quote. So that is the 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:45.720 extent of anything new thus far. TKO Group Holding stock 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.439 closed Thursday afternoon at eighty seven point fifty one a share. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:55.400 It is currently trading at eighty six seventy four right now, 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:59.079 as we rapidly pull towards the close of the trading 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.320 day and the trade week on the New York Stock exchange, 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.040 so by the time the show is over, we'll have 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.520 an idea on where that stock is closing. I doubt 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:11.400 it's going to drop a whole lot more unless the 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:17.280 slim Gym news causes speculation and maybe causes pardon me, 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:21.040 a little bit of a further drop. There is actual 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:26.520 wrestling that WWE is trying to put on this weekend, 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:31.199 including live tonight from the Casilla Center in Miami, Florida, 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:36.800 the go home show for Saturday's Royal Rumble added earlier today, 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.040 Solo Socoa and La Knight, which is a rematch from 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.800 the October thirteenth SmackDown where Knight defeated Socoa, and the 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.440 build up to Challenging Rains for the Universal Roman Reigns 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.160 for the Universal Title and November's Crown Jewel Show. Roman 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.880 Reigns is going to be defending the Universal Title in 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:59.360 a four way on Saturday against Night, aj Styles and 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.280 Andy Orton. I would figure that this match ends in 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.440 some sort of schmas ending here, but I also would 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.400 have figured that it's going to be the main event 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.320 of the show. If it's not, the main event of 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.600 the show will likely be Katana Chance and Caden Carter 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:18.240 defending the WWE Women's Tag Team title against the Kabuki 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:23.200 Warriors of Oska and Kyrie Saine. With Bailey, Dakota Kai, 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:27.440 and EO Sky in their corner, I'm not going to 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.439 get what I want, which is the Kabuki Warriors winning 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:35.400 those titles. No way. You saw the vignette that was 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:39.559 done with Caden and Katana partying it up. Now, No, 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:41.720 We're gonna have them hold on to the titles for 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.080 a little while, and it will probably be something that 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:49.640 Bailey does which causes the Kabuki Warriors to lose the 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:53.720 pride of Bobby Lashley in the Street Profits. Hey, a 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.199 bunch of lions, I guess Bobby Lashley in the Street Profits. 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.960 They will have a face to face with the final 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.200 Testament of Carrie and Cross, the authors of Payne Scarlett 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:07.920 and Paul Elring, Carmelo Hayes and Austin Theory. They're going 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.880 to try it again. A couple weeks ago the terrible 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:17.560 landing off the seated Spanish Fly by Austin Theory where 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.320 the two guys clonked heads, theory was out with in 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.040 the concussion protocol for a little bit. Hayes's face was 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.360 busted up a little bit, but everybody ended up. Okay, 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.080 They're going to try this thing again tonight. On the 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:33.840 show also announced Carlito with Cruiz del Toro, Joaquin Wilde 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:37.120 and Zelina Vega in his corner. We'll face off against 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:40.640 Santos Escobar, who will have on hell Garza in Uberto 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:44.080 Correo in his corner. So all of this is leading 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:49.960 into tomorrow's royal rumble from Saint Petersburg, Florida, at Tropacana Field, 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:55.000 the home of Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays. Finished 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.560 the season so disappointing last year, but that doesn't matter 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:02.600 right now. What matters is there's only four matches, and 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:07.240 in two of those matches, of the sixty participants, we 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.679 know eleven of them. And I know a lot of 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.520 people are annoyed by that. But let's be honest here. 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.959 If they gave you a bunch of names, right, if 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.360 they said, hey, the miss is in there, and this 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:23.280 person and that person in Tozawa and Otis and Ivar 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.440 and okay, they put like twenty four people in, and 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.360 they do the same on the women's side, I mean, honestly, 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.040 would you really be any more interested in the Royal Rumble. 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:37.439 I mean, honestly, would you probably not. If you're bitching 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.720 about this now, you just ain't gonna watch that show 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.240 in all likelihood. But I'm going to watch that show, 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.600 and I'm a little bit excited about it. I've got 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:46.839 predictions and I'll give them to you when we come 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.000 back from break. Wrestling Observer Live anyway, having sex and 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.000 up for God, and nobody can see us because the 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.200 windows A quality claims are around me. 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:55.240 It's gonna be aha me. 0:12:55.360 --> 0:13:03.319 I hope the president apart. 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:07.079 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.760 and Mike semper Vv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.040 Back on the show, Mike semper Vv here with you're 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:19.520 Wrestling Observer Live. Just went to the slimgym dot dot 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:24.640 com slash w we the splash page that's still up 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:28.319 right now, Yeah, I don't. We'll find out if Slimjim 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.920 is a sponsor come tomorrow, but as of now still 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.960 sponsoring the Royal Rumble. We'll see what happens going forward. 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.360 We'll see what the fallout is going to be. It 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:42.200 will be interesting to see who says what and what 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.720 is what when it comes to advertisers and you know, 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.360 will they lose because I see in the twitch chat, 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:51.600 you know a little talk about you know, cricket five 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.000 G is one of their their big sponsors, and you 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.760 know we've seen commercials with Seamus and Bianca bell Air 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.880 and Charlotte Flair and all that stuff. We'll see if 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:05.199 anybody starts a crusade online or if if just on 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.480 their own, some of these sponsors kind of look at 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.920 the situation and go, okay, you know what, we'll see 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:14.920 in a bit here. To be real about it, if 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.920 those sponsors are like the sponsors for UFC, it won't 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:23.040 really matter whatsoever. Because with what happened with Dana White 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:27.320 and his wife, with Sean Strickland being Sean Strickland with 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.800 you know, a lot for a lot of different reasons 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.320 that that one may want to point out, it's not 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:36.000 like their sponsors have departed from them. So we'll see 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.840 what happens here. The stock price is where it is 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.680 right now, eighty six dollars and seventy four cents, probably 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.240 not going to vary too much from that. It got 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:49.160 its bump about what it was garn near fifteen dollars, 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.160 I believe it was a couple of days ago from 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.800 where it had stagnated at because of that deal being 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:59.360 announced with Netflix, and WWE seems now to have dropped 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.000 a little bit settled in where it's at. It's going 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.280 to be interesting to see where that stock is going 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.720 forward as well too, again because the only other chips 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.800 that are available in play right now would be where 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:14.400 UFC resigns, and that may be bigger for the stock. 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.200 It probably is going to be bigger for the stock 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:21.040 than anything that has happened with WWE. I think Wall 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.240 Street and in general, everybody kind of feels the way 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.720 they feel about WWE programming, and it didn't matter what 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.000 their increase was going to be. We got that last 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:33.200 bump because it was a lot bigger than expected and 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.400 very flashy. But we'll see when people start to pick 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.560 it apart, because we've already had Dave Meltzer pick it 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.080 apart a little bit, We've already had Brandon Thurston pick 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.400 it apart a little bit. We've already had other people 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:50.480 in the financial sphere pick it apart and go, you know, 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:55.400 this may not be as fruitful for a deal for WWE, 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:59.120 as you know, investors may want it may be good 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.920 because you're in front of three hundred million eyeballs worldwide 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.000 and you can play up all that sort of stuff. 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:09.920 But for the average investor that may not mean so much. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.240 But we'll have to see where the stock ends up going. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.080 Went off on too much of a tangent there. The 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.280 Royal Rumble is going to be on the WWE Network 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:25.040 on Peacock Saturday, as I mentioned, and the US title 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:29.840 match between Logan Paul and Kevin Owens. Logan Paul talking 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:31.840 as if he's going to be more of a full 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:36.640 time WWE wrestler. Could Logan Paul hold on to that 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:40.680 title leading into WrestleMania. I think that would make sense. 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.600 I think Logan Paul being on WrestleMania would make a 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.320 whole lot of sense. It's just a matter of what 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:52.640 you do. You can have Logan Paul and Jake Paul 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.520 against Kevin Owens and Sammy Zin if you so chose, 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.080 if you wanted to go in that direction, take the 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:03.080 belt off of Logan and put it on I don't know, 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:07.480 Ray Mysterio put it on Santo's Escobar put it on 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.920 Dragon Lee, which would then lead to a match between 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:16.520 maybe Dragon Lee and Santos Escobar at WrestleMania. I still 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.119 like that idea. I still like the idea of Mask 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:23.600 versus Hair, Santos against Ray Mysterio and having the US 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.840 title be on the line, and if Ray can't be 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.720 there because he's banged up, obviously, Dragon Lee would slide 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.120 right into that place, with Carlito being the stepping stone 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.960 for Santos to get to either Ray or to get 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.600 to Dragon Lee in that, you know again, And you 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.480 don't need the US title for that either. But you know, 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:46.440 a situation where it's maybe Logan, you know again, Logan 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.640 defending the title on his own against somebody would probably 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.880 be good. But considering that he's hooked up with Kevin 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:57.200 Owens right now and he's he's talked about sticking around, 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:02.040 and we usually like spectacles matches or you know again, yes, 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.840 we all like they like spectacle matches. We as fans 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:08.680 like spectacle matches sometimes during WrestleMania weekend, and that would 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:10.920 certainly be one of them, and it would certainly get 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.320 both sides a lot of attention. And we've seen the Pauls. 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:16.439 You know, it may not be ideal if you're the 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:18.919 biggest Kevin owns or Sammy's ain fan in the world 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.680 that they're facing off against, you know, Logan and Jake Paul, 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.640 especially if you're a little bit of an older wrestling fan. 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.760 But in the era we're in right now, I'd actually 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:31.159 be all for that. That's got nothing to do with 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.320 the match tonight other than or tomorrow night, other than 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:38.960 I believe Logan Paul holds onto that title Universal title. 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:42.359 Roman Rains defends against AJ Styles, La Knight and Randy 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:46.199 Orton in a four way Roman Rains holds onto that title. 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:50.280 There's no other ending out of this. It's just a 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:54.240 matter of what happens now. What's the feud going to be? 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.760 Is it a three way feud between Styles, Knight, and Wharton. 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.600 It seems as though AJ Styles really wants to beat 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:03.879 up La Knight. That seems like it would make for 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.320 a decent enough feud. You know La Knight doing the 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.680 talking and AJ Styles, you know, kind of carrying the 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.639 weight in the ring. Randy Orton was about a different 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.080 million different directions that he could go in, about a 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.280 million different people that he could work with. It's just 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:22.680 a matter of placing him in there with somebody. Men's rumble. 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:28.760 We've got seven people announced, Shinsky, Nakamura, CM Punk, Bobby Lashley, 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:35.200 Drew McIntyre, Cody Rhoads, Damien Priest, and Gunther. My prediction 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.679 is either The Rock or Cody Rhoads wins, because I 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:40.879 believe we're either going to get The Rock or Cody 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:46.560 Roads against Roman Reins at Night two of WrestleMania. The 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:49.360 way things are going, it feels as though it's going 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:53.560 to be The Rock, the whole deal, the teas of 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:57.000 the head of the Table. It feels as though, I mean, 0:19:57.080 --> 0:19:59.840 even though this has been said before, if it's not 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:02.480 going to be this year, when's it going to be. 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:08.200 Of course, obviously that throws a big wedge into Cody 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:12.320 Rhoads finishing his story, But we have a whole new 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:16.000 chapter that could be penned with cmpunk as part of 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:19.919 that story. And I thought they did a great job 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:24.280 on Monday. I thought they did a wonderful job with 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.560 the most simplistic stuff in the whole wide world too. 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:31.480 It was just, you know, I went away, you went away. 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:35.040 You know, hey, you're you know, I'm kind of more 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:37.080 of the American dream than you. Well, I'm kind of 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:40.080 more cmpunk than you. Oh, really, your cm Punk, Well, 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:42.840 let me tell you how your WrestleMania story's going to go. 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:45.880 If you're me and they just did a good job, 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:48.800 slowly just digging in a little more to each other 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:51.879 and building it up. I would like to see that match. 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:55.000 I would like to see Cody Rhoads finish his story. 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:57.760 But if we're not going to go in that direction, 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:03.000 Cody Rhoads and Cmpunk, that's a big match, and that's 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:06.440 a big feud, and that's a big build and those 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:13.159 are two pros, and you know, I that is something 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:16.480 that I would look forward to a lot there. So again, 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:18.919 it's either going to be Cody or The Rock. I 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:21.840 think the Rock ends up coming in at number twenty 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:24.439 nine or number thirty more likely. I know Cody did 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:27.080 it last year from number thirty. Maybe Rock can come 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:29.040 in at number twenty nine or whatever, and then you 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:32.520 could have a comedy figure B thirty or something like that. 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.080 But you know, you can't have Rock out there for 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:37.800 too long because he will blow up pretty quick. You know, 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:40.200 in fact, that they go have the Rock and then 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:43.160 Gender Mahal come out at number thirty. When it comes 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:48.159 to the women's Rumble, four people announced Becky Lynch, Bailey, Niajacks, 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:51.240 Bianca bell Air. This is where it's interesting when it 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:59.080 comes to possible, you know, fun people coming in surprises 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:04.359 and where it to debuts. Do you debut Jade Cargill here, 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:07.600 even if you're not going to use her in something? 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:10.320 Do you have her in this match where she can 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:14.600 be seen have a big entrance. You don't expose her 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:16.600 as far as her wrestling in the ring, and then 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:19.240 she just gets tossed out late after she tosses out 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:22.560 a couple people. You could do that same thing goes 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:25.199 for like a Tiffany Stratton in that position. You know, 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:27.600 we're probably going to have some people from the NXT 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:31.000 roster up and involved in this thing. You know who 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:34.640 are we going to see possibly in the match? Saying, man, 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:37.159 that's the same thing on the men's side too. You know, 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:39.280 are we going to see Carmelo Hayes in the match? 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:42.040 Are we going to see Trick Williams be in the match, 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:45.600 or or you know somebody that they like right now, 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:48.399 obviously they like Josh Briggs, a big guy. Do you 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:51.160 put him in the Royal Rumble in a position where 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:53.320 you have like four or five other big guys in 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:56.480 the ring, just to give him a little bit of experience. 0:22:56.640 --> 0:22:59.760 That way be very interesting to see what they do. 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:03.399 I think at the end of the day, Becky Lynch 0:23:03.480 --> 0:23:06.160 is going to be the one who wins the thing 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:10.239 and then goes on to challenge Rha Ripley in the 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:13.840 match for WrestleMania, and that match is probably going to 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:16.399 be the main event of Night one. I would do 0:23:16.480 --> 0:23:18.520 that at least. I think that is enough in a 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:21.159 big enough match on its own that you can go 0:23:21.160 --> 0:23:24.359 ahead and do that. I'm also thinking next year, and 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:27.159 I could be again, you're gonna have Cody Rhoades maybe 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:30.560 possibly in Roman Reigns go at it again next year. 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:37.080 But Ria Ripley against Bianca bel Air, if built up correctly, 0:23:38.320 --> 0:23:42.120 that feels to me at like the only match if 0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:45.720 you were going to try the main event the second 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:48.879 night of WrestleMania, and I think you would have to 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:52.000 keep them away from each other, you know, for a 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:54.719 while on different brands, but you would have to have 0:23:54.840 --> 0:23:58.120 them kind of somehow sniping back and forth with each other. 0:23:58.200 --> 0:24:01.760 But of all of the matches that I could think of, 0:24:02.000 --> 0:24:04.240 you know, when it comes to the women main eventing 0:24:04.280 --> 0:24:08.119 the second night of WrestleMania. I think one day and 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:11.480 possibly next year, although again if it's Cody and Roman, 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:14.000 it ain't gonna be. But I could see one day 0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:18.720 where Rhea Ripley and Bianca bell Air main event WrestleMania. 0:24:18.760 --> 0:24:21.840 But this year, I think Becky wins the rumble, moves 0:24:21.840 --> 0:24:25.840