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Today are Not see I'm wrestling.

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What is Solos the Co, his

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role in his new blood line

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and what does M F T

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even mean? Real Ripley relinquishes her

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title. Did The Rock just tell

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us when he's coming back and

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our fans going to turn on

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Cody Rhodes? This is not see

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and wrestling. To

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this is. Introducing

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your hatched from New

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York. Hearing from. Ah

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well. For the

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four hundred and ninety six,

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the welcome to not say

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I'm wrestling. Hope you're all

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doing well, Hope you're all

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ready for another massive Ras

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Lynn week! As. The

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W W E draft is quickly approaching

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and. I toyed with the idea. what are we doing.

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Here are not same wrestling are we

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gonna do a fantasy draft? But right

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now there is so much. Going.

1:01

On in the world of of

1:03

Ww Ii. It. That easy been.

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There's too much to cover before we get into

1:07

the draft. I feel like the draft we're going

1:10

to kind of realize. You. Know

1:12

beginning to middle. Of

1:14

this week. Oh, we're in it. Oh.

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Come. Friday. The whole thing is

1:19

starting so I don't know. maybe we'll me mid week. To.

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Talk about the draft. but. First.

1:24

We talk about the bag that

1:26

Rio ripley. Is. No longer.

1:29

The. Women's World Champion of all the

1:31

luck of all the times for

1:33

it to happen. Immediately

1:36

after Wrestlemania. Were.

1:38

Jazz Driving Up or whatever that next

1:40

program is. You know you, You have

1:42

to. Admit. That.

1:45

At Wrestlemania. Rear.

1:48

Ripley ascended to another level and

1:50

we knew she would. It's what

1:52

the match was designed to do,

1:54

and the match didn't disappoint. I

1:56

mean, Nine one? One of the

1:58

highlights. Absolutely. With. Rhea

2:00

Ripley's entrance into that

2:03

stadium with the band playing

2:05

and everything. Every bit of her felt

2:08

like the massive star that she's

2:10

become. Then the victory over Becky

2:12

Lynch and now her

2:14

taking her spot as without

2:17

question the number one superstar on

2:19

the roster. Of course the Monday

2:21

after WrestleMania we get the backstage

2:23

interaction between Liv Morgan and Rhea

2:25

Ripley. Apparently at some point an

2:28

injury occurred and Rhea Ripley shows

2:30

up on Monday Night Raw and

2:33

announces that she can't compete, she's

2:35

not cleared, she'll

2:38

be out for an undisclosed

2:41

amount of time. I think

2:43

the reason it's an undisclosed amount of time

2:46

is that if you listen

2:48

to CM Punk on Aria

2:51

Hawani's show, he was talking

2:53

about his injury and this

2:55

idea that it's not just a matter of

2:57

okay you'll come back exactly when you're cleared

2:59

to come back. It's a

3:01

matter of okay when will you be cleared to

3:03

come back? Okay business

3:05

wise when makes sense for

3:07

you to come back? If Rhea

3:09

is gonna be out for three months and

3:12

there's a four-month story to tell then maybe it's

3:14

better that Rhea be out for four months and

3:16

then the big comeback happens. I don't know but

3:19

you know I think options are just gonna be

3:22

kept open. There was some question

3:24

as to why she had to relinquish

3:27

the championship. You know this

3:29

this era of a champion

3:31

must defend the title every 30 days is the

3:35

product of a bygone era. Nobody

3:37

thinks that way anymore. I think

3:39

Brock Lesnar since Brock Lesnar won

3:42

the WWE championship that idea

3:44

that a champion has to defend their

3:46

title every 30 days went out the window because it

3:49

doesn't happen anymore. I mean look what

3:51

we just had. I think that's what that's what people

3:53

look at right? You look at Roman Reigns and I

3:55

don't think he defended

3:57

the title last year Even

3:59

once. When Wrestlemania in summertime and maybe a

4:01

say, well Roman Reigns, a special Roman Reigns has

4:03

the tribal T v the head of the table.

4:06

The rules don't apply. When. You

4:08

are responsible. For. Everything

4:10

under the sun in the world

4:12

today W E That might be

4:14

true, but I think more likely.

4:17

Is that? It's

4:20

going. To be that much sweeter right when

4:22

you think about the come back because that's what

4:24

you have to start thinking about. You have to

4:26

go like this. six. Ria.

4:28

Ripley. At the

4:30

highest point that she's ever been out in

4:32

her career gets put on the shelf in

4:34

the in a way that you couldn't have

4:37

expected. How

4:39

to make the best of it? While. You tell

4:41

the best story. And I

4:44

think that the first of all,

4:46

it's really, really interesting. Did.

4:48

This all happened just as

4:50

your seemingly. About to

4:52

hit the gas. On a

4:55

story that revolves around Ria Ripley

4:57

injuring live Morgan. Live.

4:59

Morgan well before Wrestlemania. Return.

5:02

To The Ww Ii and announced that she was

5:04

on the Revenge to. Where. She's.

5:07

Only there. To. Get

5:09

revenge on Ria Ripley and would ever see

5:11

has to do to get into the ring

5:13

with Ria Ripley. She will do it. To.

5:15

Make sure that she

5:17

can inflict furious vengeance

5:20

upon Ria Ripley. She.

5:22

Blames Ria for injuring her. She

5:24

blames rear for taking months.

5:27

Away. From her career. Well.

5:30

Before. We even get the live Morgan

5:33

Ria Ripley match. I mean the positive

5:35

spin on it is. This.

5:37

Story That would have been a story

5:39

that we and always however many months

5:41

is now extended even further. Because.

5:44

What's happened is. Totally

5:47

by mistake, but. This. Is.

5:50

Where the cards at lay. Rear

5:53

Ripley is in the same position that live Morgan

5:55

is it? Meaning. That several months

5:57

from now. When real Ripley comes

5:59

back. From or injury. She's.

6:02

Gonna be the one. That

6:04

is then in the position. That.

6:07

Live Morgan was in a week

6:09

ago, right? She's gonna be the

6:11

one that's going Okay. good. Year.

6:14

Events tour is over. Minds.

6:17

Just beginning. Because. Now

6:19

I'm here. To get their revenge. And

6:21

by the way, Everything that you

6:23

claim I took away from you. You.

6:26

Took it away from me ten fold. I

6:29

was at the highest of highs. I

6:31

was the women's World Champion. I had

6:33

beaten Becky Lynch at Wrestlemania. You've

6:36

never sniffed air like that,

6:38

morgan. And this is.

6:40

this is a story that were telling and I think that this

6:43

is where we're going because. Instead

6:45

of going real life right and

6:47

having live morgan kind of. Feel

6:51

a certain type of way about.

6:54

Injuring real Ripley. Live.

6:56

Morgan came out still live in the

6:58

gimmick, brother, still full on in character,

7:02

Go. Yet is awesome! I'm so glad I

7:04

did! That is fantastic! Knows everything I could

7:06

have want it. Now I just got

7:08

to get your title while you're gone. And.

7:12

It's I got. Use. This

7:14

now. I think

7:16

this did. The.

7:18

Reason: The real reason that I'm

7:20

optimistic about the rear ripley return?

7:23

Because when I look at this.

7:25

I. Go as much as you don't want

7:27

anybody get injured, and as much as quite

7:30

frankly, I don't want. A week

7:32

of television to go by without Ria

7:34

Ripley on it, let alone months of

7:36

television to go by without Real Ripley

7:38

on it. There. Isn't a

7:40

person watching the show that doesn't

7:42

have some kind of affinity or

7:44

affection for real Ripley? Everybody loves

7:46

Ria Ripley. Everybody sees the star

7:48

power and rear Ripley. Not one

7:50

person wondered why she was the

7:52

one to beat Becky Lynch at

7:54

Wrestlemania. Everybody sees it now. everybody's

7:57

on board. The

8:00

fact is that she's going to

8:02

be prone for such a comeback.

8:05

Run All of this equity that

8:07

she's built goes nowhere, and if

8:09

anything, he gets built upon. Biggest.

8:12

Potential: You're going to look at people

8:14

who do succeed post Wrestlemania. And.

8:18

You're going to realize that there was so much

8:20

potential for her to do and you not going

8:22

to say well, what if it hadn't panned out?

8:24

What if it's your only gonna think about the

8:26

positives A could have been, this could have been

8:28

that. And so that's

8:30

going to build. That legend is gonna

8:32

build and build and build on. When

8:34

she finally comes back, it's going to

8:36

be an absolute explosion if if on

8:38

W I believe I'm keeping Ria Ripley

8:40

completely off television. I'm not. Having.

8:43

People mention her. After

8:45

the like, the next year, whenever a couple

8:47

weeks of course you know, Firstly,

8:50

This week. The week after you go? Yeah,

8:52

yeah, no. Real. Ripley vacated the

8:54

title. Now I have real Ripley title

8:56

but eventually. Don't. Even

8:58

bring an opening more. Because

9:01

when that moment hits. When.

9:04

This is my brutality. Gets

9:07

played throughout whatever arena or stadium

9:09

he gets played throughout. Could.

9:13

Be money in the Bank Could be Summer Slam Could

9:15

be an episode of Raw or Smackdown. The

9:18

place is gonna come unhinged. And

9:21

go nuts and. I

9:24

think I realized why I'm so

9:26

optimistic about. Ria Ripley

9:29

potentially coming back in the

9:31

best way possible after this

9:33

extremely unfortunate injury. And

9:36

it goes back to the same

9:38

thing I said about why the

9:40

solo sicko up taking over the

9:42

bloodline thing works so well. Who.

9:45

Is the person. Who had the

9:47

end of the day? Is

9:49

responsible for all of the creative on the show

9:52

whose their head of creative right now. It's.

9:54

Triple H. Who.

9:57

Would you say. Has

9:59

the. best return

10:02

from an injury ever. Who

10:05

knows better than anybody

10:07

else how to end up

10:09

on the shelf for months only to

10:11

come back in an even

10:13

bigger position than when you left. He

10:17

lived it. I sat there

10:19

at Madison Square Garden in

10:21

2002, I want

10:24

to say. When

10:26

Triple H returned and by the

10:28

way it wasn't exactly the same

10:31

scenario as I'm setting up for Rhea

10:33

Ripley because those music videos had played

10:35

those vignettes had played you too it's

10:37

a beautiful day and you saw Triple

10:39

H training and you saw Triple H

10:41

going through surgery and you heard from

10:43

Triple H how much this

10:45

meant to him and this acknowledgement of how

10:48

far he's come and how far

10:50

he still wants to go to the

10:52

point where as a fan you realize

10:55

the character of this person you realize

10:57

who they were you realize he is

10:59

one of us and

11:02

you couldn't help but

11:06

be chomping at the bit to see this guy

11:08

return so when it was announced that he'd be

11:10

back at Madison Square Garden and

11:12

the only thing that he came back to do was stand

11:15

in the ring and announced that he was going to

11:17

be in the Royal Rumble later that month they

11:21

saved it all the way to the end of the show and

11:23

to this day I've

11:27

sat in Madison Square Garden I

11:29

was there when John Cena

11:31

returned at the Rumble I

11:33

was there for WrestleMania 20 I've been Madison

11:38

Square Garden countless times I was at Madison

11:40

Square Garden for CM Punk's first

11:43

match back in a WWE ring in 10

11:45

years Triple

11:47

H still has the

11:49

loudest ovation that I've ever heard

11:52

in that building from

11:54

his return to injury so now Triple

11:57

H realizes what he's got on his

12:00

the WWE realizes what they've got

12:03

on their hands, a game-changing superstar

12:06

in Rhea Ripley. And

12:09

I think that you're going to see some of

12:11

that magic used on

12:13

Rhea so that when she does come back,

12:16

it will be an earth-shattering

12:19

return to the WWE that will, I

12:22

mean, throw the entire division on

12:24

its head. Triple

12:26

H's injury return ended up with him going

12:28

into the Rumble, winning the Rumble, going to

12:30

WrestleMania, winning the Championship. We're

12:34

talking about going into

12:36

WrestleMania 18. I

12:41

think that he's aware of that, and

12:43

even if he wasn't, everybody who's watching

12:46

is aware of how important Rhea Ripley is. So

12:48

I can't wait. I can't wait

12:50

for the return. And I love that

12:52

when she went out, it

12:54

wasn't happy. It wasn't sad.

12:57

It was angry. It wasn't,

13:00

hey, you know what? I

13:02

got knocked down, but I'll get up again.

13:04

You're never going to keep me down. No,

13:06

no, no, no, no. It wasn't, you

13:09

know, it's never a good time to get injured, but

13:11

with your support, I think I can get back stronger

13:13

than ever. No. It was rage.

13:16

It was fury. It was anger.

13:18

It was, I'll be back, and when

13:20

I come back, I'll be back for

13:22

blood. Ugh. It

13:25

was awesome is

13:28

what it was. And

13:30

I love the idea of a new

13:32

women's champion being crowned, but

13:35

just looming over that women's champion is

13:37

this notion that we'll all have, whether

13:40

it's mentioned on TV or not, that at

13:42

some point, mommy

13:44

will return like a

13:46

horror movie. Just

13:50

realizing, don't say mommy's

13:52

name three times because she

13:54

will at some point make

13:56

her appearance known. And when that happens, nobody's

13:58

safe. Not least. if Morgan, not

14:01

whoever is holding the champion, nobody.

14:03

And we're all going to be along for that ride. I

14:06

can't wait. Speaking of being along for

14:08

the ride, how about

14:11

as the bloodline turns, just

14:14

continuing on and on

14:17

way beyond WrestleMania? We all

14:19

wondered if WrestleMania would kind of at least

14:22

put a pause on the bloodline. Not at

14:24

all. Solo Sakoa

14:27

and his MFT on

14:30

SmackDown, leaving

14:32

more questions than answers, but I

14:35

think keeping everybody hooked. So Paul

14:38

Heyman is the first person from the

14:40

bloodline that we see on SmackDown. Of

14:42

course, of course, no Roman, but no

14:45

J. He's on Raw and no Jimmy at

14:47

all. Jimmy is, who knows what happened

14:50

to him after the attack of last week. Paul

14:53

Heyman is out there in the parking lot and

14:55

Solo Sakoa shows up. Solo

14:58

Sakoa has got a different vibe. Solo

15:00

Sakoa is not there

15:02

to enforce. He's not there to follow

15:04

orders anymore. He

15:07

shows up and he's got the mock turtleneck on.

15:10

He's got the blazer on. He's got the

15:12

chain on just looking

15:15

like a million bucks. And

15:17

Paul Heyman goes, nice threads.

15:22

But this is the genius of Paul Heyman. He does it

15:24

in such a way where he's

15:27

surprised. He does

15:29

respect the ensemble, but

15:31

is also worried.

15:35

He's nervous about the

15:37

fact that Solo Sakoa is

15:40

dressing like a leader. I think that's the way

15:42

I interpret it. There's

15:44

no way to get

15:47

this twisted. When you see Solo Sakoa roll

15:49

up in a suit, we've never seen him

15:51

roll up in a suit. The guy doesn't

15:53

even really wear shoes. So

15:55

the fact that he rolls up in a suit, you

15:58

go, oh. This

16:01

is different, and

16:04

Paul Heyman, I think, doesn't

16:06

want to acknowledge, ironically,

16:08

what's going on. It's

16:12

in Paul Heyman's best interest to

16:14

keep everything copacetic with the bloodline.

16:18

You know, we saw what happened. Last time Roman

16:20

Reigns was off TV. Paul Heyman

16:22

would show up. He hasn't shaved. The

16:24

gray was coming out in his hair. This

16:27

Paul Heyman character that we've come to know

16:30

and love, he's got a hell of a

16:32

meal ticket in being the wise man to

16:35

the tribal chief and the head of the table

16:37

Roman Reigns. But

16:39

when Roman Reigns isn't there, what

16:44

does Paul Heyman have? What lifeboat does

16:46

he have? Well, he's

16:48

got the bloodline. He's got what he thought

16:50

was Solo, Sequoah, and Jimmy Uso, but

16:54

is now apparently Solo, Sequoah, and Tomatanga.

16:57

So when Solo comes in

16:59

and Paul Heyman knows that – if

17:01

Solo doesn't want to listen to Paul Heyman, there's nothing that

17:03

Paul can do to stop it. When

17:06

Solo shows up looking like

17:09

a leader, it's a little scary for

17:11

Paul. Tomatanga

17:14

rolls through, and

17:17

it's really interesting because

17:20

Solo, Sequoah goes my

17:22

MFT and

17:24

gives Tomatanga a hug. My

17:28

MFT, lots

17:30

of people wildly speculating, which if

17:32

you're watching the product, you should

17:34

be speculating wildly as

17:36

to what MFT stands for. A lot

17:39

of people, assuming that the MF

17:42

in MFT stands for MF-ing. I'll

17:45

say that. Some

17:47

people think MFT could stand for my

17:49

family tree, but he says my MFT,

17:51

so it wouldn't be my family tree

17:54

because then he would be saying my, my family tree.

17:58

This is MFT is what he would say. Did.

18:00

The my as big dip. So. There's

18:02

no way that M can stand for Mike as he

18:04

says my M F T. So that doesn't

18:06

make any sense to me. At

18:10

one point, Now. You could say

18:12

this is my M F in three.

18:15

right? Leg. You're almost like. Not.

18:18

Saying family in their you say i'm

18:21

ass in three. To go again

18:23

family tree. You. Korea could

18:25

be. Rare because

18:27

at one point is looking at his thumb

18:29

because then they go into grilled position without

18:31

Tama Tonga there. And.

18:34

I. Think Paul Heyman asks where your M F

18:37

T V with us or something like that and

18:39

so A looks it is Some. And.

18:41

Goes ahead. So.

18:43

Then we were going as dumb and like all maybe M

18:46

F T means. Ah, M

18:49

F and some you know that could be what M

18:51

F T stands for. M F had some. I

18:54

mean he could be M F and Tongan

18:56

right? Tama. Tonga. He's

18:59

a Tongan person. We're. Seeing this, the

19:01

Samoans in a Tongans come together now

19:04

in the Bloodline on on television. Movie

19:07

but I don't know. My.

19:10

M S and Tom Tom. I don't know.

19:15

But. The presentation of solo said

19:18

cola. Is perfect Solo

19:20

sick our and I really noticed

19:22

this. As they were coming

19:24

out of gorilla position when Paul Heyman is

19:26

talking to soloists a coma and is pleading

19:28

with so. He's. Trying to get

19:30

through to him. He's saying. Solo.

19:33

These decisions will be

19:36

yours to make every

19:38

decision. Will. Be yours

19:40

to make. One

19:42

day. But. Today

19:44

is not that day. And

19:47

it goes back to what we're talking about on the

19:49

podcast last week. That. I think

19:51

that are in my opinion. All

19:54

of these solos, the co actions

19:56

that we're seeing play out. Ultimately,

19:59

a revolt. Around the fact. That.

20:02

Before Wrestlemania. Roman.

20:05

And the wise Man both said. That

20:08

solos The tower is next in line

20:10

to be the tribal chief and again.

20:12

We. Thought this was mainly a

20:14

shot at jimmy. But. In

20:16

reality it was a set up for solo.

20:20

I think that's all it is. I think if

20:22

you're looking beyond that, You. Might

20:24

be digging too deep. I.

20:26

Think it's a matter of solos the

20:29

code, taking action in to his own

20:31

hands and deciding. That

20:33

they need a new leader now and since he

20:35

is next in line, he's gonna take the lead.

20:40

But. After he says that after Paul Heyman says you

20:42

know these will be your decisions one day. And

20:45

the camera follows so low into

20:47

the arena. Bo bo bo bo

20:49

bo bo Mobo Bomb! And.

20:51

Solo Sick Oh A walks out. You

20:54

can see both in the way that

20:56

Soloway shot like everything is obviously intentional.

20:59

In the ways solo is shot. And

21:02

away Paul Heyman positions himself.

21:05

The tamra kind of comes

21:07

around solo. And it's

21:09

just slightly from below. But Paul

21:11

Heyman is back. And

21:13

to the right I wish back into unless. Back

21:15

into the rat back. Into the

21:18

right of Zola ago. And

21:21

so will you end up with is this clean

21:23

shot. Of. Solo in all

21:25

his glory with this Sudan.

21:29

Walking. To the ring in

21:31

fold take charge mode and then

21:33

as you kind of wide now

21:35

you see Paul Heyman kind of.

21:38

Slinking. Next to him for the

21:40

first time in a long time. Completely. Unsure

21:44

of himself. It's.

21:46

It's. Really cool

21:48

to see all that detail be

21:50

put into it. And.

21:54

Paul. Heyman starts again. Things.

21:58

have been up the bloodline as he does and the

22:00

fans start chanting, we want Roman, we want

22:02

Roman. And

22:07

isn't it amazing? Isn't it

22:09

remarkable that after

22:12

a week, two weeks after

22:19

WrestleMania, Roman

22:21

went in the biggest villain there

22:23

is and

22:26

people instantly, the minute the title

22:29

is off that guy, instantly,

22:32

are ready to give that guy credit for

22:34

what he did. I said this months

22:37

ago, that once the title

22:39

is off Roman, you're not

22:41

going to have a choice. Roman is

22:43

too good. Once he

22:46

is no longer the person holding the

22:48

title hostage, there's no

22:50

place for him to go but to be

22:52

a baby face. And this is not a

22:54

suffer and succotash type of baby face. This

22:56

is not a poor dog food

22:58

on Baron Corbin type of

23:01

baby face. This is

23:05

the tribal chief version of Roman Reigns

23:08

type of baby face. This is an acknowledgement

23:12

of all the stuff that you were saying as

23:14

a heel. We had to boo you because you

23:16

were the one saying it but it was all

23:18

true. And us just

23:20

celebrating the fact, the

23:22

greatness is here. And Roman feeling

23:24

secure in that. All you really

23:26

have to do because

23:28

nothing, here's the thing about Roman

23:30

Reigns. Everything

23:32

that he says about himself is true in

23:36

terms of his level of

23:38

greatness, in terms of

23:40

his level of accomplishment, in

23:43

terms of his ability to win matches. Everything

23:46

that this character has ever said is

23:48

true. When

23:50

he talks about being the

23:52

person responding

23:55

and responsible for the house, It

23:58

is essentially chaos. Through when he

24:01

talks about how big his family tree

24:03

is. And he is the

24:05

one that's responsible for bringing home

24:07

the line share of the income.

24:09

It is true that sees

24:12

the one responsible. For.

24:14

Finding spots. For.

24:16

His cousins and nephews. it is.

24:19

True. That. Nobody.

24:23

Has a title reign in a modern

24:25

era that will ever come close to

24:27

what he did for one thousand and

24:29

three hundred and sixteen days. All.

24:32

Of it. Is true. What?

24:34

Makes Roman Reigns a villain.

24:38

Is his inherent in security and

24:40

the fact that he needs people

24:43

around him including the audience? To.

24:46

Acknowledge him. That

24:48

he needs everybody around him to

24:50

fall in line. And a

24:52

kind of bow at his feet. Roman

24:54

has never even betrayed anybody. He's

24:57

of a trade anybody. Everybody

25:00

betrays Roman reigns. Whether.

25:02

It's gone back to Seth Rollins. Whether

25:05

it's. J. Do so

25:07

at one point: Jimmy Uso,

25:09

Sami Zayn, Everybody.

25:12

That's why you're waiting for the rock to

25:14

betray this guy. Everybody but phrase Roman reigns.

25:16

not just from the perspective of Roman Reigns,

25:18

but it I mean you can justify it.

25:20

You could say it's because of the way

25:22

he treated people, but you would never say

25:24

Roman turned on same using. At

25:27

the Royal Rumble in Twenty Twenty Three, Sami

25:29

Zayn turned on Roman Reigns. In

25:31

made him a baby face but he still the one who

25:33

did the turning. So all we've

25:35

seen his Roman reigns tout

25:37

accomplishments that are legitimate. And

25:40

be betrayed by people that he's

25:42

trying to put into higher positions.

25:46

There's nothing about any of that

25:48

behavior. That has to

25:50

change to make this character a hero.

25:53

All. That has to change is. He.

25:56

Can't. Demand. respect he

25:58

just has to accept it when it

26:00

naturally comes, and

26:03

he can't treat people poorly. He

26:06

just has to trust in them to do

26:08

the right thing. Those two

26:10

just shifts of the knob. And

26:13

all of a sudden, this character

26:15

is a complete babyface. He's Hogan. I mean,

26:18

he's, he's, he's whatever you want

26:20

him to be. And

26:22

I think that's all you're going to

26:24

need. You know, and

26:26

the crowd knows that. The crowd

26:28

knows what he did. The crowd

26:30

knows that as you, as you look at

26:32

sold out arena after sold out arena after

26:35

sold out arena, as you look at the

26:37

rock coming back to be a part of

26:39

the WWE more regularly, as you look at

26:42

storytelling as a whole changing

26:44

in every perceivable way

26:47

in terms of presentation for the better,

26:51

fans know that the nucleus of all of it

26:53

is Roman Reigns in the bloodline. And

26:57

Roman Reigns losing the title has allowed us to step

26:59

out of that and go, yeah, we can

27:01

appreciate that now. And

27:03

it's already happening less than two

27:05

weeks after he lost the title, as

27:07

we want Roman is ringing through the arena. Paul

27:14

Heyman is getting ready to respond to these requests. You

27:17

know, he's going to say how badly he wants Roman

27:19

to. It almost brings him to tears.

27:21

Paul Heyman, the wise man. He

27:24

loves his tribal

27:26

chief, but

27:28

solo just like the

27:31

week before snatches the microphone away

27:34

from Paul Heyman before he can rain

27:37

compliments down on Roman Reigns because solo

27:40

doesn't want to hear about anybody else being the tribal chief. That's

27:44

when the fans start booing him. And this is

27:46

the only spot that I would say we need

27:49

to be a little careful here.

27:52

Because booing bad guys is fun. It

28:01

is great to boo bad guys. To boo

28:03

bad guys so much that they can't even

28:05

talk is fun. Roman

28:09

Reigns, when he grabbed a microphone and started

28:12

to get booed, he would

28:14

say, either you stop or I'm leaving,

28:16

I've fulfilled my obligation. What

28:20

you don't want to do in

28:22

that position is to be

28:25

anything like Dominic Mysterio. Dominic

28:28

Mysterio's whole character is

28:30

based around the fact that for some reason

28:32

this guy thinks that he's super

28:34

badass and tough. He's

28:36

got people around him that

28:38

are for whatever reason agreeing with him,

28:41

but we all know that it's not

28:43

true. He's a

28:45

weaselly bad guy. That's

28:47

not solo-sakoa. Solo-sakoa

28:50

is graduating to this

28:53

place where all the

28:55

control and

28:58

ability that he had as the enforcer

29:01

now graduates up to

29:03

being in this leadership position. If

29:07

Solo is getting booed, he

29:10

should just stand and allow it to happen. There

29:13

shouldn't be any – Solo gets cut off by the booze.

29:15

He should be more powerful than that. It's

29:18

okay for it to happen once. It's fun, but

29:21

you can't have fun

29:23

segments with solo-sakoa, especially when

29:26

they're leading to Kevin Owens

29:28

coming out a bloody mess. The

29:30

idea is that solo-sakoa and tomatonga,

29:33

when linked, are

29:35

a real credible threat. If

29:38

Dominic Mysterio was trashing Roman

29:40

Reigns and Roman Reigns comes

29:42

back, the idea is

29:44

that Roman Reigns is not really threatening. It's

29:47

just going to be fun to

29:49

watch Dominic get his. I think

29:52

solo-sakoa is a different

29:54

conversation because what you

29:56

want is you want people to doubt

29:58

whether Roman Reigns is a bad guy. Roman Reigns can

30:00

beat Solo Sokol, you at least want

30:02

to believe that the character of Roman

30:04

Reigns may doubt himself because

30:07

of how good Solo Sokol is,

30:09

especially when he's got his MFT

30:11

with him, Tomatanga. So

30:14

Tomatanga brings Kevin Owens

30:18

out to the ring, and Kevin Owens is

30:20

a bloody mess, and Paul

30:23

Heyman clearly has

30:26

no idea what's going on. Kevin

30:28

tries to fight back, they end up getting the better of him,

30:31

and Solo and Tomah put their ones

30:33

up, and Paul Heyman

30:36

is just brilliantly cowering in

30:38

a corner with

30:40

his one kind of shaking

30:43

there in the air. And

30:45

this is great. The idea of

30:47

Paul Heyman being a wise man

30:50

who is held hostage is

30:54

beautiful. That

30:56

Roman Reigns, and it's going to

30:58

allow Paul Heyman to

31:00

actually potentially be a good

31:03

guy, be a baby face, because we're

31:05

going to want to see Roman Reigns show

31:07

up and free Paul Heyman. Now

31:12

Paul Heyman, in every

31:15

nature, every fiber of

31:18

that character's being is

31:20

a villain. So

31:23

it's an exciting idea to me.

31:25

As much as Paul

31:28

Heyman turning baby face, and Roman Reigns, and

31:30

Jey Uso, and Jimmy Uso, and Paul Heyman

31:32

being a baby face teen that's going to

31:34

take out the new bloodline is just fun

31:37

and awesome and maybe good enough that you

31:39

don't have to rethink it until you're blue

31:41

in the face. There

31:43

could also be some fun in Paul Heyman

31:46

appearing to be held hostage, but

31:48

when Roman Reigns comes back to save him,

31:50

he realizes it was a ruse,

31:52

and that Paul Heyman is also on board with

31:55

Solo Sakoa being the

31:57

tribal chief right now. We,

32:00

we get the impression that Tom

32:03

Itanga, his MFT

32:05

maybe could be

32:07

more dangerous than initially thought because

32:10

Nick Aldis shows Paul Heyman that Tom

32:13

Itanga drove his car into Kevin Owens car.

32:15

That's how this brawl started. And

32:18

Paul Heyman is just sitting there going,

32:20

this was not authorized. This was not

32:22

authorized. You have to understand this was not

32:24

authorized. Paul Heyman here is not worried

32:26

about what Nick Aldis thinks of him.

32:29

Paul Heyman is worried about the fact that

32:31

he's clearly lost control of

32:34

the bloodline. You hear that

32:36

when he's talking to Solo Sakoa. I'm not trying

32:38

to piss you off. I swear, I swear. We

32:41

also don't know for sure why Kevin Owens

32:44

is the one being hunted right now. Maybe

32:47

they're going enemy by enemy

32:50

of the bloodline to take people out. Maybe this

32:52

is a way to drag Sammy back into it.

32:54

I don't know. But

32:59

I feel like we're just going to keep

33:02

looking for answers, keep being

33:04

presented new questions and watch

33:06

as this new chapter in

33:08

the bloodline continues. Speaking of chapters,

33:11

um, the rock did something

33:13

very interesting on Instagram and I got

33:16

inspired. I'm going to have a special

33:18

podcast coming out later this week within

33:20

a couple of days. It'll be on

33:23

YouTube, uh, not same wrestling YouTube and

33:25

the audio podcast feed, but the

33:28

rock has kind

33:30

of, uh, uh, closed the book

33:32

on chapter one of

33:35

the final boss. He's been posting a

33:37

lot on social media and he keeps

33:39

talking about this being the end of chapter one,

33:42

which is great for two reasons. Number one,

33:45

it gives you bookends on where we're at

33:47

with the character. But number two, he doesn't

33:50

close the book. The implication is heavy that

33:53

we have not seen the end of not

33:55

only the rock, but this version of the

33:57

rock, The final Boss. So.

34:00

I decided to go in and

34:02

do a full recap. An.

34:05

Analysis of the first chapter of the

34:07

Final Boss So that will be a

34:10

a special bonus show that are be

34:12

available to everybody for free. They'll be

34:14

up later this week but. I.

34:16

Bring it up to say that beyond.

34:19

Ah, Talking. About this being the

34:21

under the first chapter. The.

34:23

Rock. Did. Something that was even

34:25

more intriguing you just as little nugget. That.

34:27

Was piped into one of his Instagram videos. He

34:29

was in the gym I guess. just. Feeling.

34:32

Appreciative for everything that happened

34:34

and was reflecting on Wrestlemania.

34:36

And. He. Was that?

34:38

Congratulating everybody involved. Use congratulating his cousin

34:41

Roman Reigns on the on the title

34:43

run that he had. Congratulating

34:45

Cody Rhodes on I'm becoming the new

34:48

Champion and in were code is off

34:50

to. He. Congratulated

34:52

Seth Rollins that he called Seth Rollins

34:54

the Mvp of Wrestle Mania, which I

34:56

think is true. Not.

34:58

Only because he was a

35:00

key component in three different

35:03

matches. Which. Is the

35:05

main event of night One Tag

35:07

team match, the World Title, Drew

35:09

Mcintyre Match, and to me the

35:11

Linchpin. Of. The

35:13

storytelling in the main event between Roman reigns

35:15

and co you wrote the mean that was

35:17

it's. Parent. Leaves

35:19

doing it while injured as well. I mean,

35:23

You. Talk about somebody who deserves every

35:25

flower you could possibly given that Seth

35:27

Rollins. But. Would. I

35:29

found the most intriguing is

35:32

rock. That.

35:35

Was last year's Wrestlemania. Ah,

35:37

I now have my sights set on next

35:39

the next Wrestlemania but we'll get to that

35:42

later and he kept going and I go

35:44

whale oil the next. Wrestle Mania. So

35:47

you're telling us the ideas are already starting.

35:50

And the where you to get the rocket

35:53

next year's Wrestlemania. Now here's here's. the

35:55

question is that to say that the rocks

35:57

next match will be at wrestlemania biggest Some

36:00

people are thinking, okay, we can do

36:03

Cody Rhodes versus Rock at SummerSlam,

36:05

and then Roman Reigns versus Rock

36:08

at WrestleMania. Some people are

36:10

going, Cody Rhodes at SummerSlam. Rock

36:12

could go into WarGames at Survivor Series and

36:15

have the new Bloodline versus the old Bloodline

36:17

with the Rock on the side of the

36:19

new Bloodline, and then do Rock versus Roman

36:21

at WrestleMania. Or he

36:24

keeps talking about how he's a long-term

36:26

player. We

36:29

could end up seeing Cody

36:31

versus Rock at

36:34

WrestleMania 41 and

36:36

Roman versus Rock at WrestleMania Maybe

36:40

the Rock is in no rush. Maybe the Rock

36:42

just sees himself as a WrestleMania guy.

36:47

And if that means that

36:49

at least for the next two years, starting

36:53

around January and going through Q1,

36:56

if quarter one in WWE means

36:59

that the final boss is back to tell us

37:01

a new story, oh my

37:03

God. It's

37:05

almost like I almost want

37:08

to say, don't spoil us. Don't

37:11

give us Rock at SummerSlam. Don't give us Rock

37:14

at Survivor Series. Just wait. Just

37:17

make it a tradition. For the next two

37:19

or three years, the first quarter

37:21

of every year, we

37:23

get the final boss back to tell us a new

37:25

story. And

37:28

next year it leads to Cody and the year after that

37:30

it leads to Roman Reigns. Can

37:33

you believe we're sitting here talking about

37:35

like two,

37:37

three years worth of storylines? That's the

37:39

way wrestling should be. It's

37:42

awesome. But yeah,

37:46

I think the idea of the Rock

37:48

just being somebody who is consistently there,

37:51

making quarter one enormous for

37:54

WWE. And then

37:56

just as you're like, oh, I'm ready to take

37:58

a breath. starts up again,

38:01

right? Because you go like, oh my

38:03

gosh, going from WrestleMania to Backlash and

38:05

the draft. You're like, okay, that's

38:07

gonna take us there. And then coming off

38:10

of Backlash, you're already getting into May, June,

38:12

here comes King of the Ring, here comes

38:14

the new Money in the Bank. The new

38:16

Money in the Bank's gonna twist everything around

38:18

too. You're gonna have storylines that are built

38:20

coming off of that going into SummerSlam. Boom.

38:22

Coming out of SummerSlam, you got your fall.

38:26

Fall is gonna lead into WarGames, which again

38:28

is gonna be one of those stories that

38:30

are told over the course of months. Post-War

38:32

Games, you're already talking about the Royal Rumble,

38:34

which is what? Quarter one, which means the

38:37

final boss is back. I love it. It's

38:39

just got a lot of potential, is all

38:41

I'm saying. I

38:44

do also, before we move on, I want

38:46

to tell you that not

38:49

only will there be a video all about

38:52

the final boss going up this week on

38:54

the Nott Sam Wrestling YouTube channel, as well

38:56

as the Nott Sam Wrestling podcast feed, but

38:58

if you go to the Nott Sam Wrestling

39:00

YouTube channel, you can see video from our

39:02

live show in Philadelphia of the segment with

39:04

R-Truth. R-Truth coming out and

39:06

not only being hysterical, not only saying

39:08

words that he's not supposed to say,

39:10

but also getting real and

39:12

bearing it all and kind of telling the story

39:15

of how serious his injury

39:17

was and why this is such an

39:19

important time for him. It's a remarkable

39:22

piece of footage that I would recommend you guys

39:24

go check out at the end of this podcast.

39:28

And then I also wanted to say that

39:31

we may not only will we have to

39:33

cover the draft potentially later this week, but

39:35

you're probably wondering why we're not talking about

39:37

AEW Dynasty and this week's episode. It's because

39:40

I'm recording this episode before AEW

39:42

Dynasty, so I don't want to

39:45

like guess. I don't want to speculate because

39:47

by the time you hear and see this,

39:49

it will have already happened, but

39:51

I couldn't stay up until four o'clock in the morning

39:54

doing this and still have it out. You know, I want

39:56

to make sure this is out Monday morning. That's

40:00

why there's no coverage of that, but I'll

40:03

figure out a way either later this week

40:05

or on the Patreon or next week where

40:07

we'll get into what happened at AEW Dynasty.

40:09

But there's a very interesting

40:13

kind of, I don't

40:16

know, narrative that's been

40:18

going around. And maybe it's

40:20

just more, you know, a certain

40:23

section on the internet. You definitely don't hear

40:25

it in venues. But it

40:28

feels like there are a lot of people that

40:31

are talking, speculating, wildly wondering,

40:33

are fans going to turn

40:35

on Cody Rhodes? And it's

40:37

just really kind

40:39

of a you're damned if

40:41

you do, damned if you

40:43

don't scenario, because,

40:45

I mean, there were

40:48

people saying, if Cody

40:50

loses at WrestleMania, he'll lose the fans. And

40:53

now that Cody's won, there are people saying,

40:55

if Cody loses, now that Cody's won, he's

40:57

going to lose the fans. Cody's

41:00

not going to lose the fans. It's

41:03

a different time. He's a different

41:05

type of cat. There's

41:07

a connection that Cody Rhodes has with

41:10

the fans. And what's – I mean,

41:12

because what's interesting about Cody Rhodes is

41:15

that as much as he is a

41:17

classic wrestling babyface, he's coming

41:19

out there. He's smiling. He's telling you

41:21

what you want to hear. You're not

41:23

going to catch him in a bad

41:25

mood unless, you know, The Rock bloodies

41:27

him in a parking lot. But generally

41:30

speaking, he's just a classic good guy

41:32

wrestler. The

41:35

connection that he has with the fans

41:37

is there is something inherent in

41:40

him that is

41:42

authentic. And no matter

41:44

how, you know, traditional good guy wrestler

41:46

he is, there

41:48

is still an ingrained authenticity

41:51

because people know how he got there. People

41:54

know where he came from. The

41:57

fact that He wasn't –

42:01

I handpicked. Main. Event or

42:03

he wasn't a chosen one. The.

42:06

Fact that you do two minutes

42:08

of history on this guy. And

42:11

you realize that the reason that is in the

42:13

position that he's in. His. Because

42:15

he busted his ass. Any change?

42:17

The entire industry. Cody. Rhodes

42:20

changed the wrestling industry.

42:23

And. Nath how he got to

42:25

the position that he's in. When.

42:28

He left Ww Ii. He was Stardust.

42:31

He had to go make a name for

42:34

himself. He was so successful in making a

42:36

name for himself independently without the machine that

42:38

he was able to be a key part.

42:41

In making the first. Nationally.

42:44

Televised Wrestling Organization to

42:46

be competitive with Ww

42:48

Ii in two decades.

42:52

And then left. Came.

42:54

To Debbie W E and hasn't had to

42:56

look back. Sense: whether it's merchandise weather's reception

42:58

from the audience, whether it's just ticket sales

43:01

in general. He's.

43:03

A He's a guy who move the needle. Because.

43:06

People getting kids. They

43:08

see him and they get it. Adults, they see

43:10

him and they get it. You can't look at

43:12

that guy and not think he deserves to be

43:15

where he's at. And every step

43:17

of the way. The

43:20

course of action is taken that furthers

43:22

that point. Where. There's the Helena

43:24

Cel match with a torn pack the stuff

43:26

of legends now whether it's the fact that

43:28

he lost at Wrestlemania Thirty nine. If

43:31

he were to be handed everything, he would have

43:33

one. And I said this then

43:35

and I'll say it now if he had one

43:37

at Wrestlemania Thirty Nine. He would

43:40

be. At. Risk of losing.

43:42

Stance. He. May have had to become

43:44

a villain. But. The fact

43:46

that he lost at Wrestlemania Thirty Nine. The

43:50

fact that he maintained fan support.

43:53

Throughout. The entire year which a lot of people

43:55

that he wasn't in to be able to do.

43:58

The. fact it as a good As a

44:00

hero, he was able to walk into a

44:03

stadium full of people in Philadelphia of all

44:05

cities and still be cheered. And

44:09

the fact that he was able to give us the

44:12

most feel-good end of

44:14

WrestleMania, I mean,

44:19

in at least 10 years and do it

44:21

at the expense of

44:24

Roman Reigns of all people. It's

44:28

not, I mean, the, the, I

44:31

hate to use the word equity again, but

44:34

the amount of goodwill created

44:36

is not something that is going to

44:38

be easily disposed of. You

44:41

know, and I think that there is this thing of

44:43

those of us who love Roman Reigns, and you know,

44:45

I'm a blood-laying guy. You

44:47

want to believe that there's a chink in the armor. You

44:50

want to believe that this was a bad decision. But

44:54

I don't see how. I

44:57

mean, Cody has been headlining

45:00

live event after live event after live event before

45:02

he was champion and now as the champion. People

45:05

are there to see him. They're losing their minds for

45:07

him. They're asking him to be a part of the

45:10

most important days of their lives, whether it's a wedding,

45:12

whether it's some kid who wants to be, uh, just,

45:15

just, just have Cody be a part of

45:17

his life. You

45:22

know, I, I just, the idea that, that

45:25

we're not ready to go on. And I think we

45:27

are. I don't think it's a, it's

45:30

a well thought out argument. It might just be an

45:32

emotional argument and that's okay too. But I don't, I

45:34

don't think Cody is in

45:37

any danger of losing steam

45:39

anytime soon. And

45:42

you have to allow for that steam to rebuild. You

45:44

know what I mean? Like Cody

45:47

just got the

45:51

biggest win. I

45:54

mean, if it's not the biggest win

45:56

in the history of the business, It's

45:59

the biggest. It's the second biggest

46:01

when behind only Brock Lesnar beating the

46:03

Undertaker Street. There's. Really,

46:05

not much more you could do to make

46:07

a guy. Then. Have him beat

46:10

Roman Reigns. You. Know

46:12

I I. I

46:14

just don't see a change for Cody anytime

46:16

soon. I think I think. For.

46:18

The first time in.

46:23

I don't know how many years. Years and

46:25

years and years and years. You.

46:28

Have a good guy. That.

46:31

Is a traditional good guy. That's.

46:34

Gonna be able to lead the company and and.

46:36

People. Are going to be here for it and people are going

46:38

to be cheering for I just. I think

46:40

that's what we're what we're looking at.

46:43

I also think and is another conversation

46:45

about Cody. People are talking about the

46:47

title. And whether it's gonna

46:50

be redesigned. One of the favorite things

46:52

that Cody has ever done amongst the

46:54

fan base is when he won the

46:56

Intercontinental Championship. And.

46:58

He was able to get the old

47:00

design back. You. Know there's something

47:02

about those late eighties early nineties

47:05

designs. Weather's the Tag Team championship,

47:07

The Intercontinental Championship where the W

47:09

W E Championship. Did. It

47:12

is universally. Everybody's favorite

47:14

design. Everybody loves that era of belt.

47:16

I love that era of belts. And

47:20

so you know there are

47:22

ah people that are hoping

47:24

thinking assuming. That. Code gonna

47:26

get the. Debate. Of You

47:28

Eat Universal Are or Undisputed I

47:31

believe it's called the Undisputed Divvied

47:33

Up You A Championship Now the

47:35

Undisputed Ww Ii Championship Redesign: We

47:37

saw the new Tag titles. Debut.

47:40

Which were ah on

47:43

raw. The. World Tag

47:45

Team Championship that it appears to

47:47

take design inspiration from did give

47:49

you to be World Heavyweight Championship

47:51

and the Women's World Championship. And

47:54

then on Smackdown. A Town down

47:56

Under. Received. the new

47:58

w w e tag championship

48:00

titles which draw

48:02

inspiration from those original

48:06

Smackdown Tag Team Championship titles but

48:08

those obviously drew

48:10

inspiration from those

48:13

late 80s early 90s Tag

48:15

Team Championship. The titles the Demolition held, the

48:17

titles of the Heart Foundation held, the titles

48:19

that the Legion of Doom held. And

48:24

I mean I and I like and you can see it

48:26

in the in the sort of shape of the plate and

48:28

everything. I think it's really really cool. When it comes to

48:30

Cody's title I don't personally think that it

48:32

should be redesigned. If it did I'd be fine with

48:34

it you know if you throw a winged eagle on

48:36

there I'd be you know I'm not

48:38

I'm never gonna complain about a winged eagle. But

48:42

the reason that I don't think it

48:44

should be redesigned is because I think

48:46

that Cody's accomplishment is

48:49

that he beat Roman Reigns. And

48:52

I think that every time Cody holds

48:54

that title up, every time Cody wears

48:56

that title around his waist, every time

48:59

you see that title you

49:01

should be reminded that Cody

49:03

is the one guy on

49:06

the entire roster that could beat

49:08

Roman Reigns. And in order to do

49:10

that I think it should look like the title that Roman

49:12

Reigns held. I think that you've

49:14

got many many many many months of

49:18

credibility in that specific title

49:20

belt because it's the one

49:22

that Roman held and now

49:24

Cody's holding it. Eventually

49:26

we'll get past it. Eventually

49:28

Cody will define that title

49:31

as his own. But for right

49:33

now there's just so much je

49:36

ne sais quoi about the

49:38

fact that he took it from Roman Reigns that

49:41

I don't really want it redesigned. I

49:44

want Cody to walk out

49:46

reminding people that what used to be

49:48

Romans now belongs to Cody. That Cody

49:50

not only finished his story but

49:52

fulfilled the promise that he made. That

49:56

said I love the tag title redesigns so. We'll

50:00

see. Obviously, it's fun

50:02

because Triple H is a belt guy.

50:04

Triple H likes championships. You

50:07

know, he has championships in his office. He has

50:09

a collection of them. So, you know,

50:12

this idea that he's the

50:14

one whose hands are on when it comes to,

50:16

you know, approving designs and whatnot,

50:19

at least that's what I'm assuming. It's

50:22

an exciting time. It's really, really cool. A

50:26

couple of news and notes before we get into

50:28

the emails. You

50:30

know, it's always a bummer to hear about

50:33

talent releases. And WWE released

50:35

a few this week. You

50:37

have Zion Quinn, who

50:40

was in NXT for a while and

50:42

then was part of the WWE Draft

50:44

last year. He was in the

50:46

free agent pool, I think. He

50:48

was last seen, he was one of the guys who Braun

50:51

Breaker beat in short

50:54

order on SmackDown. But

50:56

Zion Quinn released. Zaya

50:59

Lee released. I love Zaya

51:01

Lee. I think she's

51:03

an awesome human being. I think she's a great

51:06

pro-rassler, just in terms of like

51:09

the character. She's strong.

51:12

I feel like there's

51:14

more for Zaya Lee to do. And

51:16

I hope she gets the opportunity to do it. Indus

51:19

Sheer, which is kind of a

51:21

surprise going away. I mean, Veer will

51:23

always be remembered for the

51:25

fact that for many, many weeks on Mighty Night

51:28

Raw, we heard that Veer was coming. Eventually

51:32

he came. And now he's gone. But

51:36

I do think that they, I mean, they're just such

51:38

big glutes that

51:40

I feel like Indus Sheer could

51:43

be an asset elsewhere. And then

51:45

the biggest surprise of the releases was Jinder

51:47

Mahal. Jinder Mahal, of course, who we last

51:49

saw at the beginning

51:51

of January, first in that segment with The

51:53

Rock when The Rock returned. And

51:56

then when Seth Rollins...

51:59

and gender Mahal had their match

52:01

on Raw. I mean, I thought

52:03

that it's a shame because

52:05

I thought that gender kind of knocked it out

52:07

of the park in

52:09

his promo that The Rock interrupted. Like he

52:12

did more with that little bit of TV

52:14

time than I think most

52:16

people would ever kind

52:18

of be able to do. I'm

52:21

a gender Mahal guy, you know, that for

52:24

a long time I've requested that Noah

52:26

and Hindor gender. I think that that's the worst

52:28

thing that you could do. And I don't think

52:30

gender will be hindered at this point.

52:33

I think there are

52:36

a lot of places for him to go. I think,

52:38

you know, AEW is always a

52:40

possibility, but I think really when you look

52:42

at gender Mahal, if

52:45

I'm gender, I'm

52:47

gonna look at what Matt Cardona

52:49

did. I'm gonna look

52:51

at what Drew McIntyre did. I'm gonna look at

52:54

what Cody Rhodes did. I'm

52:56

gonna go, you know what? There

52:58

is this level of appreciation for me. I

53:02

am totally devoted to my

53:04

physique. There

53:07

is fan support, you know,

53:09

and I am a former WWE

53:11

champion. Whether that's used

53:13

as a troll or not, it's a hundred percent true

53:16

and he had a run. So

53:19

I think that there's a lot that he can do. TNA

53:23

is obviously making

53:26

themselves known. You know, I think

53:28

TNA is pretty smart in not

53:31

locking people down as much in the

53:33

sense that like, when

53:35

a superstar becomes a free agent, TNA

53:38

is a stop that they can make, but while they're

53:40

doing stuff with TNA, they can also do stuff over

53:42

in New Japan. They can do stuff over here, they

53:44

can do stuff over there. You know, Nick Nemeth did

53:48

it. And then you turn on TNA

53:52

Rebellion over the weekend and

53:54

not only do you have Shawn Merriman, you

53:57

know, they said lights out, lights out Shawn Merriman.

54:00

swerve though because not only do you have Shawn Merriman

54:02

getting involved but Santana

54:05

from LAX makes his return to TNA and

54:07

I love that form I think it's the

54:10

perfect spot for him to really kind of

54:12

show everybody what he's capable of as a

54:14

single star but then at the end of

54:16

the night the lights went out and here's

54:19

broken Matt Hardy. Matt

54:21

Hardy back in TNA of course you

54:23

know broken Matt

54:25

was invented in TNA. There's

54:28

not too many gimmicks that

54:30

are so good that they were created

54:32

in TNA of all places and were able

54:35

to make their way. Broken Matt was

54:38

created in TNA and was able to make

54:40

his way from TNA to Ring

54:42

of Honor to WWE to AEW

54:46

and now it's back to

54:48

TNA. Now Matt didn't stay broken in all

54:50

those scenarios but broken Matt showed up in

54:52

all of those organizations. So now broken Matt

54:55

is back to the place where broken Matt

54:57

was born. I think that full circle journey

55:00

is awesome but

55:03

I think TNA could be a great place

55:05

for gender. I think the lights going out

55:07

and the lights coming back on and seeing

55:09

gender Mahal there to challenge Moose. I think

55:11

that would be a great spot. I think

55:13

GCW would be

55:15

a great place for gender Mahal. You

55:17

know you look at the landscape and I believe Matt Cardona

55:20

just went down with some kind of pectoral

55:22

surgery that he'll be out

55:24

for several months. Now I believe that

55:26

gender might have a 90-day non-compete

55:31

but still if

55:33

you can get in there and be

55:37

that guy, that WWE superstar,

55:39

that antithesis to everything that's going on on

55:41

these indie shows and be that heel. I

55:44

think gender is in a perfect position to do that and

55:46

I think if played right gender

55:48

can really show what his

55:50

value is. I

55:52

mean gender could do anything right? I think

55:55

if you look Maximum

55:57

male models at the moment.

56:00

Are. Doing it as well as anybody that

56:02

I've seen. Maximum male models are just

56:04

popping up places. Mess. Y

56:06

M R Say as a team. You.

56:09

Know they did some any gigs. then

56:11

they show up on Mavens You Tube

56:13

channel. Then over the weekend

56:15

they showed up in as T

56:17

w the know but as T

56:20

w Soft ground wrestling they went

56:22

to Uganda. So these these are

56:24

you These these folks in Uganda.

56:26

They. Set up a ring but they

56:29

don't have a real ring. They do

56:31

basically set up posts and robes on

56:33

this kind of soft money area. And.

56:35

They've created that's why call soft

56:37

ground wrestling. To. The I think

56:40

they go barefoot and they wrestle legs on

56:42

a on a on a on a mud

56:44

ground. With. Posts and ropes around them.

56:47

And. They put the videos out online and it's

56:49

it's it's it's called. A lot of fire

56:51

on the internet has become kind of a global

56:53

thing. Which. I think is is

56:55

remarkable an amazing and shows you the power

56:57

of professional wrestling. You know they always say

57:00

that w w ease appeal. Is.

57:02

An it is a global appeal. Because.

57:04

You can speak any language in the world and

57:06

you can understand the fight that's going on in

57:08

the ring. With. End

57:10

is the same thing for stuff happening outside.

57:13

Of. The United States that the when you

57:15

see. This. Soft ground wrestling

57:17

and the effort that's been put in and

57:19

and the fact that they're actually trying to

57:22

create characters and trying to tell stories. and

57:24

when with a budget of zero dollars trying

57:26

to put in whatever production value they turn.

57:29

It's. An appealing thing. It's really, really cool

57:31

in the fact. That. Must.

57:34

Say I'm a swath. The. Maximum Male

57:36

models went down there. The videos are all over

57:38

the internet. look at up. The. Fact that

57:40

they went down there. To.

57:43

Uganda of all places. To.

57:45

Do this thing is like to me

57:47

so impressive. Ah, speak

57:49

so highly of their. In

57:52

televisions of how important it

57:55

is. In. Sports entertainment to

57:57

to just get eyeballs. That's all it

57:59

is. Get eyeballs be where the

58:01

people are looking. And think

58:04

outside the box. That's.

58:06

What they're doing and I think it's already

58:08

paying off. In going to get ten you.

58:11

To. Pay off for those guys. Genius

58:13

genius move if you think yeah

58:15

the same as me if using

58:17

differently. Than. Or go

58:19

ahead an email An email

58:22

Not see him wrestling edgy

58:24

emailed.com That's not Sam wrestling

58:26

at a D mail.com Not

58:28

Sam wrestling at G Mail

58:31

dot Com is our email

58:33

address. And. Let's go. To.

58:35

The emails all for a boy

58:37

wants to know. I know you

58:39

say that Cody as Batman sets

58:42

his his Joker? Yes, But I

58:44

wanted to challenge that idea because

58:46

to me Cody, a Spider Man

58:48

and rainy will be his venom.

58:52

When they eventually you'd let me explain.

58:54

Cody may have a family heritage like

58:56

Bruce Wayne, but he's much more similar

58:58

to Peter Parker. They.

59:01

Both aren't the strongest or most

59:03

more powerful, but they will fight

59:05

for their loved ones. Ah,

59:07

for their city and do whatever it takes

59:09

to fight for the right cause. And Randy

59:11

as like Eddie Brock be anti hero. The

59:13

person that you never really know. I mean

59:15

I think that you just think that Randy

59:17

as like then him because. He's.

59:20

A viper. And. There's

59:22

venom running through his veins. Vs.

59:24

Me says it's like the Joker but Roman

59:26

is in Batman so I decided set is

59:28

dead. Yeah, I mean you just making up

59:30

superhero things? okay like. The.

59:33

Rule is. He.

59:40

Cody. As Batman and says

59:43

is the Joker. Is.

59:45

There to. Establish

59:47

and set up and describe their

59:49

relationship. If

59:51

you want to describe, go to his relationship with

59:53

Randy Orton. You can People are going to have

59:55

more than one rival. But.

59:59

you could argue that

1:00:01

Randy and Cody are always

1:00:03

connected. But I

1:00:05

mean, their relationship probably would be more like Eddie Brock

1:00:08

and Peter Parker in the sense that they knew

1:00:10

each other before there's a whole, but like, I

1:00:13

mean, Seth

1:00:16

and Cody to me are

1:00:19

forever linked. And

1:00:22

that came back to WrestleMania where

1:00:25

ultimately they will fight again, but

1:00:27

they need each other. Look

1:00:31

at the end of Christopher Nolan's Batman movie. I

1:00:34

think we're destined to fight forever. There

1:00:36

is this acknowledgement that without Joker, there's no

1:00:39

Batman without Batman. There's no Joker. That

1:00:42

is the relationship between Seth Rollins and Cody

1:00:44

Rhodes. And

1:00:47

why is Seth Rollins the universal

1:00:49

champion or the undisputed champion right

1:00:51

now? Ultimately, has a lot to do with

1:00:54

Seth Rollins. They're forever linked. I don't

1:00:56

know. You

1:00:59

could talk about it's not one

1:01:02

or the other. You could say, okay, the

1:01:04

same way that Cody is like Batman and

1:01:06

Seth is like the Joker. Could you also

1:01:08

say that Cody is like

1:01:10

Spider? Because Spider made a bit by a radioactive spider

1:01:12

and shoots well. I

1:01:15

don't think Cody has a Peter Parker vibe at all. All.

1:01:22

I mean, Peter Parker is

1:01:24

just a good guy who got bit by a spider.

1:01:28

It happened like here's why Cody Rhodes

1:01:30

is like Batman, not Peter Parker. Peter

1:01:33

Parker is a superhero because of something that

1:01:36

happened to him. Had

1:01:38

he not got bitten by a radioactive

1:01:40

spider, Peter Parker would not dedicate his

1:01:43

life to fight

1:01:45

in crime. Peter Parker would not

1:01:47

try to clean up New York City had

1:01:49

he not been bitten by a radioactive spider.

1:01:53

Cody Rhodes chose

1:01:58

to take the path. And as a matter of fact, every

1:02:00

reason for Cody Rhodes not to do it.

1:02:03

The only reason Cody Rhodes is fighting

1:02:05

the bad guys now is

1:02:07

because he worked tirelessly

1:02:11

for the privilege of getting

1:02:13

to do it. The same way

1:02:15

Batman was like, you know what? I'm

1:02:17

just going to dedicate myself to

1:02:20

becoming a rich ninja with all the technology

1:02:22

in the world, and I'm just going to

1:02:24

fight crime. That's

1:02:27

Cody in deciding like, no, I'm

1:02:29

going to do everything. I'm

1:02:31

going to work harder than anybody so

1:02:34

I can come back and be the man in

1:02:36

WWE. Nobody

1:02:39

placed him in this position. Peter

1:02:42

Parker was placed in his position. You

1:02:44

see what I'm saying? Avic

1:02:48

writes in, what's the Haps from London? WWE finally

1:02:50

got rid of those horrendous 10 pence

1:02:53

looking tag belts. They did look like a 10

1:02:55

pence. Question is, which scenario do you

1:02:57

see most likely for money in the bank? Okay, I

1:02:59

like this question. Sami wins the

1:03:01

briefcase in Canada and finally cashes in

1:03:03

down the road calling his shot first

1:03:06

as he has a baby face. Gunther

1:03:08

wins, cashes in in Berlin, calling

1:03:10

his shot if he comes back. Not every baby face

1:03:13

has to call his shot. CM

1:03:17

Punk didn't call

1:03:19

his shot. You don't have

1:03:21

to call your shot if

1:03:23

you're a baby face. C Drew

1:03:26

beats Damien in Glasgow. Damien

1:03:28

wins money in the bank a second time. Punk

1:03:31

beats Drew at SummerSlam. Drew

1:03:33

attacks Punk. Damien cashes in

1:03:35

on Punk. D, what you think will happen

1:03:38

as of now? I don't know, dude. I

1:03:40

think of those scenarios, Gunther

1:03:43

winning is the most likely. I think

1:03:45

like Sami literally

1:03:47

just beat Gunther for the Intercontinental Championship.

1:03:49

If they also have to give him

1:03:51

the money in the bank, then why

1:03:53

would you don't give somebody a

1:03:55

win over Gunther at WrestleMania and then also

1:03:57

money in the bank? Like

1:04:00

how much do you have to give this guy? That's

1:04:03

like Cody Rhodes year one. I

1:04:06

mean you're... Damien having to win

1:04:08

the tight the money in the bank briefcase

1:04:10

a second time and

1:04:12

then cashing in on punk like It

1:04:15

would just be like well like we just saw

1:04:17

this Are we just like

1:04:19

recycling stuff? So I mean Gunther

1:04:21

winning is probably and I don't know if he'll cash

1:04:24

in Berlin I don't know when he'll cash in but Gunther

1:04:26

winning of those three options is the most

1:04:31

Appealing to me Raj

1:04:34

writes in from Queens I

1:04:36

never liked the idea of putting an active member of the roster

1:04:38

into the Hall of Fame I think I'm with you on that

1:04:41

at first. I didn't like the idea of Haman going into

1:04:43

the 2024 class I thought it

1:04:45

was too early however with the way the bloodline saga

1:04:47

is going and Romans eventual turn to babyface I think

1:04:49

it makes perfect sense first Roman

1:04:51

was humble and acknowledged his wise man and inducted him

1:04:54

into the Hall of Fame then Haman had

1:04:56

on Had one of the

1:04:58

best if not the best speeches at the Hall of Fame

1:05:00

He's probably the best Hall of Fame speech ever Reminding

1:05:03

new and old fans how revolutionary he was

1:05:05

so what you're saying is Everything

1:05:09

counts which is true and

1:05:11

that Paul Haman going in and Roman

1:05:15

inducting him and that

1:05:17

level of appreciation that we then

1:05:19

feel for Paul Haman and in term Roman

1:05:21

reigns adds

1:05:23

to this idea That

1:05:25

will feel good about both of them being

1:05:28

babyfaces down the road when Roman returns I

1:05:30

don't think that's a bad

1:05:32

thought. Yeah, it is interesting in

1:05:34

an era when everything counts Putting

1:05:37

somebody into the Hall of Fame. That's an active member

1:05:39

of the roster does hit differently and it is something

1:05:42

we should discuss differently Simone

1:05:45

writes in Hey

1:05:47

Sam Simone from Belgium here. I love that.

1:05:49

I hope you and your family are doing

1:05:51

great Kudos to solo for mouthing now

1:05:54

you do to the fans chanting. We want

1:05:56

Roman love that Now and not so

1:05:58

wild speculation. Yeah, now you do. The

1:06:01

Great. I. Don't think Aj an

1:06:03

early night or done yet. they're one one.

1:06:05

Now it's time for Alley Night to fly across

1:06:07

the ocean to smash a do a chair during

1:06:09

his title match to fuel the hatred between

1:06:11

each other. This will all combination of Final Mansion,

1:06:13

Saudi King, Queen of the Ring and I

1:06:15

think it should be a Helena Sell L A

1:06:18

Knight has proven himself over and over again

1:06:20

and last year and the only thing he misses

1:06:22

in this Ryan is a great sell match. After

1:06:24

that there be no reason to keep the

1:06:26

mega stars. Ah waste. Doubtless, while I have to

1:06:28

figure out what bout you're talking about, you

1:06:30

get your adding discovery. Everybody. Deserves a

1:06:32

championship float everybody. I'm.

1:06:35

So. You know I think.

1:06:37

Ah, The. Idea of

1:06:40

Aj styles. The.

1:06:43

Aj styles like. Code

1:06:45

is first undisputed Debbie

1:06:47

W E Championship defense

1:06:49

ending in interference. I

1:06:51

think would be a let down to a lot of people. Are

1:06:54

you Cody vs Aj? Needs.

1:06:57

To Be is just a solid

1:06:59

great match. With Cody

1:07:01

overcoming this bad guy. Hanging

1:07:04

it's more intriguing to me. Is

1:07:08

a day in l A night are both in

1:07:10

the King of the Ring tournament. And

1:07:13

then. There. In the

1:07:15

finals together to the finals. and maybe

1:07:17

they get drafted to two separate roster.

1:07:19

Don't forget the draft is happening. so

1:07:21

maybe you draft. Ah. You. Keep

1:07:23

Aj on smackdown disease facing Cody and

1:07:25

you draft l a night to wrong.

1:07:28

But. They're both in the king of the room tournament. So.

1:07:31

We finally got. The

1:07:33

Last L A Night Aj Styles

1:07:35

Match The Rubber Match: Raw vs

1:07:37

Smackdown L A vs Aj. And

1:07:40

then L a night can beat Aj to become the King

1:07:42

of the Ring. That. Might be and it would

1:07:44

give him a title not around his waist but on his

1:07:46

head he be a you know the king. I don't think

1:07:48

he'd have to call himself the kings of the get up

1:07:50

to work crown. But. L A

1:07:52

in A, winning the King of the Rain and

1:07:54

beating Aj in the finals front of the way

1:07:56

I would go with your scenario. ah

1:07:59

caden rights and What do you

1:08:01

think about the idea of WWE having an

1:08:03

NWO bloodline sort of faction so far

1:08:05

sounds bad? We

1:08:08

already have solo and Tomatanga and Paul Heyman

1:08:10

We could see it money in the bank

1:08:12

the Usos go against solo and Tama and

1:08:15

they keep saying third man like bash at

1:08:17

the beach 96 and it's Jacob fatu Then

1:08:20

we see Roman eventually come back with the

1:08:22

Usos as a wolf pack situation while

1:08:26

When the Usos and Roman be NWO

1:08:28

Hollywood the wolf pack would be

1:08:31

solo would be the new guys

1:08:34

And have the two bloodline feuding

1:08:37

all the way to WrestleMania then

1:08:40

adding members Like

1:08:42

Nia Jax Naomi and even Zilla like

1:08:45

dude. No, here's the problem on

1:08:48

an a bloodline civil war is

1:08:52

a great idea I Love

1:08:55

the idea of Roman

1:08:57

and the Usos versus

1:09:00

solo Tama and whoever

1:09:02

a third whether it's Jacob fatu whether it's

1:09:04

somebody else. That's all good But

1:09:06

this idea of going all the way and

1:09:09

you being like hey remember when the NWO

1:09:11

got really bad We should

1:09:13

do that to the bloodline like That

1:09:16

didn't work for the NWO. That's

1:09:18

looked at as when the NWO lost all

1:09:21

their steam So if

1:09:23

you're gonna repeat stuff, it should not be

1:09:25

stuff that was bad. It

1:09:27

should be stuff that was Good

1:09:29

and then we do a finger

1:09:31

poke of doom Where

1:09:33

where Roman Reigns pokes solo on his chest

1:09:36

and is able to pin him for the

1:09:38

title, you know, no, no Andrew

1:09:45

writes in love your work got an email for you because

1:09:48

I think it's gonna be a while before you hear this

1:09:50

again I think you're gonna like

1:09:52

it and I think you might find this ready

1:09:54

damn cool. You know, I'm a sucker for that Where

1:09:57

A couple of weeks removed from WrestleMania and I've had time to

1:09:59

remember. Like in ah, the moment, the

1:10:01

last few minutes of Wrestlemania Forty were

1:10:04

arguably the greatest ever. Yeah, But a

1:10:06

few days later I thought what you

1:10:08

thought before the show, having run ins

1:10:10

from seen it in Austin, didn't make

1:10:12

much sense. However, Austin made more sense

1:10:14

than taker, which is what we got.

1:10:17

Ah, Not

1:10:19

necessarily. A would be like seeing

1:10:21

Batman at the end of the adventures and

1:10:23

game. Now. Yeah. That would be

1:10:25

cool, unexpected and surprising to but after the

1:10:27

movie you'd say why the app was Batman

1:10:30

there but then even more in the past.

1:10:32

ah day it in the days passed and

1:10:34

I realized it Pro wrestling sometimes didn't have

1:10:36

to make sense and you've just got to

1:10:38

enjoy the moment. And it's moments like the

1:10:40

Wrestlemania Forty Adding that make his love wrestling.

1:10:42

I don't agree with you at all. He

1:10:44

Andrew I agree with you that the moments

1:10:47

are great but. He's.

1:10:49

Not making sense at all. I totally

1:10:51

disagree with. Fair.

1:10:55

I mean. Batman is a D

1:10:57

C character. The. Avenger

1:10:59

Is is a Marvel franchise. So.

1:11:03

The. Undertaker wouldn't be like Batman coming into the

1:11:05

As and years. It would be like if like.

1:11:09

I. Don't know who's a Wc Gabi you guys.

1:11:12

It never showed up in Ww Ii. Are there

1:11:14

any left leg was. A

1:11:16

villa give load. He showed up percent or

1:11:18

like or the you really have Sabbath showed

1:11:20

up. And. Be like what a sad blue have

1:11:22

to do it does. He was an easy job you guys. You.

1:11:24

Know this makes no sense. Well. Yeah,

1:11:26

but it's cool to see Sabeel. that's not what we

1:11:29

got. When

1:11:31

I think is that. Ultimately,

1:11:34

The. Undertaker. Has.

1:11:37

Always been. The purveyor

1:11:39

of what's right and just in

1:11:41

the W W E locker room.

1:11:43

Everything we've heard about the Undertaker

1:11:45

on screen and off screen is

1:11:47

wrapped around this idea. That.

1:11:50

he is there to make sure that

1:11:52

what should happen happens and what's right

1:11:55

happened everybody has heard the story about

1:11:57

wrestlemania fourteen and people were worried that

1:11:59

so Michael's wasn't gonna do business because he

1:12:01

was problematic Shawn at the time and

1:12:04

they said that the undertaker was wrapping his

1:12:06

fists in gorilla So

1:12:08

that Shawn knew that if he

1:12:11

tried anything funny the undertaker would

1:12:13

make sure that the right thing happened

1:12:16

Everybody's heard the wrestlers court stories where the

1:12:18

undertaker is like the judge or whatever. Everybody

1:12:20

knows this stuff So

1:12:23

Seth Rollins weeks in advance Setting

1:12:26

up that that this was bad

1:12:28

for the locker room that he the reason

1:12:31

Seth is on Cody's side Is

1:12:33

because it's what this locker room needs

1:12:35

this locker room cannot have the bloodline

1:12:38

Because he didn't want Cody to pick Roman. He

1:12:41

wanted Cody to pick him He

1:12:43

doesn't want Cody to be the Universal Champion But

1:12:48

he Wants even less for

1:12:50

Roman to have that title hostage because

1:12:52

it's bad for the locker room So who is the

1:12:55

ultimate guy to make sure that the locker

1:12:57

room is taken care of who is the locker

1:12:59

room leader the undertaker? And that's who you saw

1:13:01

at WrestleMania CL

1:13:05

writes in First I

1:13:07

got back into WWE in an odd way after Bray

1:13:09

Wyatt's Passing I dug into who

1:13:11

he was in the storylines. He helped develop and

1:13:13

boom. I was sucked back in after 20 years

1:13:15

away Even even

1:13:17

post-mortem Bray Wyatt is making a huge difference Okay,

1:13:20

the meat of my email I immediately thought that

1:13:22

taker popped up to choke slam the rock because

1:13:25

the rock kept saying and cursing to Cena get

1:13:27

out of my Ring. Okay, that's another one.

1:13:29

I'll buy that well, I think

1:13:31

most fans would agree that WrestleMania is

1:13:33

taker stomping ground and so he

1:13:35

showed up almost as if summoned by the

1:13:37

rock Calling it his ring

1:13:40

to remind the rock who mania belongs to

1:13:42

in the annals of pro wrestling history He

1:13:44

said something to the rock as he pointed

1:13:46

his finger at him post

1:13:48

choke slam And I can only speculate it

1:13:50

was something like this is my ring and

1:13:52

don't you forget it speculative? Yes, but to

1:13:54

my wife who is new to pro wrestling.

1:13:56

Yes. She likes the storylines athleticism and muskles

1:13:59

She thought this actually I love the podcast

1:14:01

and your humility and owning what you get

1:14:03

wrong PS seeing as I came

1:14:05

back due to Bray White's death I sincerely hope

1:14:07

Bo Dallas comes back in some characters

1:14:10

brother created Well, I I mean it I

1:14:12

keep seeing those uncle howdy hints But yeah,

1:14:14

I mean even more so

1:14:16

than WrestleMania just the fact that you know

1:14:20

Historically the WWE and the ring

1:14:22

is the Undertaker's yard So

1:14:24

when the Rock saying this is my ring and undertaker

1:14:26

saying no, this is my yard I

1:14:28

think that I would I would add

1:14:30

your theory and my theory together to create a super

1:14:33

theory Pancho writes in

1:14:36

sup Sam. I'm pancho. Nice

1:14:38

time emailer here. I'm glad you've been counting I wonder

1:14:40

if they all get on the air. I strongly

1:14:43

believe I and if you are If

1:14:46

your email doesn't get on the air Do you still

1:14:48

count that as an email sent if a tree falls

1:14:51

in the woods? I strongly

1:14:53

believe that when or if the

1:14:55

OG bloodline reunites to fight the new blood

1:14:57

Don't say the new blood say the new

1:15:00

bloodline again We're going back to

1:15:02

terrible things that happened in WCW The

1:15:04

new blood was the worst the millionaires Club

1:15:06

versus the new blood was a hideous time

1:15:08

in professional wrestling Do not call

1:15:10

this new bloodline the new blood Sami

1:15:15

Zayn has to be involved in some shape or form

1:15:17

man. That would be very appealing I

1:15:19

know he's not blood and I know he has nothing

1:15:21

to do with the new bloodline and possibly with the

1:15:24

rocks involvement However, Sami was a fundamental part in what

1:15:26

made the bloodline peak Around

1:15:28

the end of 2022 2023.

1:15:30

I dare to say the bloodline didn't elevate him.

1:15:32

He elevated the bloodline. I would definitely say Well,

1:15:36

I know the bloodline definitely elevated him,

1:15:38

but his story also elevated the bloodline

1:15:40

both are true He

1:15:43

doesn't need to be a full member. I

1:15:45

feel like this is gonna lead to a

1:15:47

big endgame Again and also we already had

1:15:49

endgame WrestleMania was already endgame. So don't keep

1:15:51

saying endgame, please not you but in general.

1:15:53

I Like this email by

1:15:55

the way punch up Just

1:15:57

a minute. Yeah. I mean I Like what you're saying. Our

1:16:00

that you're saying. I think that. There.

1:16:03

Is this saw it as. If.

1:16:07

You had I. Solo.

1:16:10

Tama and say Jacobs that to.

1:16:12

And. Then you had. Ah, Roman

1:16:15

and you. So you got your three on three right

1:16:17

there. But of all of a sudden, The

1:16:19

Rock showed up to support solo.

1:16:22

And. His game. Then that's

1:16:24

when you could have. J Come

1:16:26

in and go. Who's I found somebody?

1:16:29

And series music hits is Jay

1:16:32

says ooze I found somebody. And.

1:16:35

Sammy comes out. I'm

1:16:37

in the. Air. With can't

1:16:39

even picture how in San Diego

1:16:41

Fuck? ah. Goosebumps.

1:16:44

Goose bumps, They're. Under

1:16:46

my shirt sleeve. I swear. Yeah with the

1:16:48

yes yes. Case

1:16:50

Rights in. Ah, Or.

1:16:53

Rian. A. Second time

1:16:55

emailing Okay, Just. Wanted to say

1:16:58

you made Wrestlemania season awesome with your pod yes

1:17:00

and videos and you do! You really added a

1:17:02

great perspective and hype. To all the storylines

1:17:04

along the road, this is not just the Wrestlemania

1:17:06

season podcast broke will be are All year. The.

1:17:09

Main motivation of for writing you would

1:17:11

the Are Truth interview on your tail.

1:17:13

watching you tense up it every I

1:17:15

M F drop was hilarious. Thank you.

1:17:18

That videos absolute gold. You gave everyone

1:17:20

a glimpse. Suicide A Truth the we

1:17:22

don't get to see blesses you your

1:17:24

family. Thank you my friend Arm I

1:17:26

do feel strongly about the live shows

1:17:29

that I do. I think it's what

1:17:31

separates our live podcast from any other

1:17:33

live wrestling podcast on. It's It. If.

1:17:35

You watch the one we did with Rear Ripley.

1:17:37

You get different side of real Ripley. If you

1:17:39

watch the when we did a year ago, you'll

1:17:41

get a different side of Baron Corbin. If you

1:17:43

watch the one we just put up, you get

1:17:45

a different side of our truth. and ah, I

1:17:47

just don't think there's anything else. Like.

1:17:50

It. right? Now and I'm really proud

1:17:52

of it. So yeah, I appreciated that

1:17:54

that you said that because that is

1:17:56

my intention. Ah, mario ride

1:17:59

san Hey Sam,

1:18:01

did WWE miss a huge match opportunity years

1:18:03

ago for an Undertaker Rock match

1:18:05

at Mania? With the premise being the

1:18:07

Rock bragging about besting Cena, Hogan, and Austin at

1:18:10

Mania, and now he has to conquer the ultimate

1:18:12

challenge, the streak. Well,

1:18:15

so you're saying, If it's

1:18:19

Hogan, Cena, and

1:18:22

Austin, well, I

1:18:24

don't know, that means it's gotta happen post-WrestleMania. Well,

1:18:26

you've only got one year. Like,

1:18:29

so you're saying at WrestleMania 30, they could have done

1:18:31

Rock versus Undertaker. No, I mean, I think if they're

1:18:33

gonna do Rock versus Undertaker, it would have had to

1:18:35

be early on. I

1:18:38

mean, the Rock coming back after

1:18:41

he wrestled Cena. So

1:18:43

WrestleMania 30 or beyond, the Rock

1:18:46

coming back to wrestle the Undertaker,

1:18:48

like, no, when

1:18:50

these guys come back, I

1:18:53

wanna see them with newer guys. Like, I want, having

1:18:55

the Undertaker, WrestleMania 30 or beyond,

1:18:59

Wrestle the

1:19:02

Rock, WrestleMania 30 or beyond, becomes

1:19:04

just this spectacle. It's cool to

1:19:06

see, but ultimately, who does it

1:19:08

do anything for? No one.

1:19:11

So, no, I don't think they missed the boat at all. That's

1:19:14

a long one, I'm gonna, wow, it says upcoming

1:19:16

draft, and we didn't talk enough about it. This

1:19:19

is from Jeff, from Jeff. Listener,

1:19:22

since the Lin and Doll era, good

1:19:24

for you, and enjoy each week. I

1:19:26

thought about the upcoming draft. Recently, I

1:19:29

was watching an interview with Detroit Lions

1:19:31

wide receiver, who

1:19:33

can list all 16 wide receivers drafted

1:19:35

before him. Other NFL players are the

1:19:38

same way. Why

1:19:40

not take this concept to wrestling?

1:19:42

When someone is drafted 40 or 50,

1:19:44

they start a quest to beat everyone

1:19:46

that was taken before them, as

1:19:49

it was basically a personal insult that

1:19:51

they were drafted as low as they

1:19:53

were. This would be an excellent lower

1:19:55

card moving to mid-card story that doesn't

1:19:57

revolve around a title, at least at

1:19:59

the. Beginning the fans can get behind. I

1:20:01

think ideally it would be a heel in

1:20:04

the role. On wow know either

1:20:06

you would have to be a baby. they

1:20:08

serve as a heel. The.

1:20:11

Rather lose our time right? To.

1:20:13

The be a. They. Look. Then. Ah,

1:20:17

This. Could be a way to bring Baron Corbin back to

1:20:19

the main roster. You know, I don't know because I'm. The.

1:20:24

Problem is, you're not going to get that

1:20:26

high up. So. It's

1:20:28

best case scenario, you've got somebody that

1:20:30

was drafted forty that my get up

1:20:32

to like thirty two. And

1:20:35

what are they gonna do? Be like ah,

1:20:37

you thought I was the forty best. I'm

1:20:39

actually number thirty two stoves think you know.

1:20:42

So. Yeah.

1:20:44

I mean I think of your main

1:20:46

event or the gets drafted seventh. Then.

1:20:49

You might be able to do that story of like know

1:20:51

I should be number one on a beat all these people

1:20:53

when they might be able to beat a lot of them.

1:20:56

But. of your seventies gets drafted low.

1:20:59

You're. Not going to beat that many people as where you

1:21:01

get drafted so low so. That the only

1:21:03

thing I have. Ah,

1:21:06

John Deere, Sammy Soft Ground Mansoor and

1:21:09

Ma Se are seemingly scheduled to go

1:21:11

wrestling soft ground wrestling and is maybe

1:21:13

the most shocking cross over since Rec

1:21:15

Room showed up at like in Raw.

1:21:17

Please discuss I did. I. Did

1:21:20

good email that I did discuss that

1:21:22

and I think it is absolutely awesome.

1:21:24

Say. Buggy Ride Santa! New era

1:21:26

has begun! So excited to see

1:21:28

where this wild roller coaster will

1:21:30

go! I have an interesting match.

1:21:32

I think we may get somewhere

1:21:34

down the line. Bad Bunny vs

1:21:36

Priest rematch for a championship. For.

1:21:39

The championship. Hear.

1:21:41

Me out bad Bonnie is. Up

1:21:43

and Pre Priest is a proud. Individual.

1:21:46

Most of his appeal like know I, I. I

1:21:51

just and will do one more email after this. On.

1:21:56

The problem is the bad Bunny should not be

1:21:58

wrestling for the world. Tim. Well.

1:22:02

I. Guess technically one point he beat the champion.

1:22:05

Fab. On he should I be wrestling for

1:22:07

the championship the World champion Damien Pre should

1:22:09

not be entertaining said for quests. And.

1:22:12

I mean, for the love of God, Bear

1:22:15

Bunny certainly shouldn't be beating the champions, so

1:22:17

I don't. I just don't think it puts

1:22:19

the parties involved in the best like like.

1:22:22

Why? Not have yelled. Bad. Bonnie

1:22:24

against somebody that he can either be to

1:22:26

Make Sands. There's a story there, you know?

1:22:30

Okay, Andrew from New York with the

1:22:32

last email. I love the show, but

1:22:35

I gotta get something off my chest.

1:22:37

I've grown increasingly frustrated with your reaction.

1:22:39

The listener emails your frequently rude and

1:22:41

insulting towards people's ideas, often calling them

1:22:43

stupid and you always make sure you

1:22:46

sas dies people on air for writing

1:22:48

one emails. Yeah, Other. Wrestling

1:22:50

Podcast House. I listen to. Our

1:22:52

all read their emails of gratitude and respect

1:22:54

towards their listeners to take time out of

1:22:57

their day to write. Any help make the

1:22:59

show better. If people are nice enough all

1:23:01

to right into your show, a great start

1:23:03

would be to respond to them respectfully. Your

1:23:06

ideas are often unique, an insightful. That's why

1:23:08

I love the show. But. I'd love

1:23:10

them even more of your nice to people

1:23:12

during your email segments. To put in wrestling

1:23:14

terms, be a baby face, I'm not a

1:23:16

he'll keep up the great work brother! Best

1:23:18

Andrew You know why my work is great

1:23:21

and Drew. Number.

1:23:23

One. I'll never be a real

1:23:25

baby face. And number

1:23:27

two. Is.

1:23:30

Everything is Every pie Kissed her is

1:23:32

like. Being. Super respectful to their

1:23:34

email or so listener those emails Segments: I

1:23:36

do it at the end of the show

1:23:38

Stop the show right before the email segment.

1:23:41

You. Know this is what made this is why we

1:23:43

do the email saying that were having fun. Were.

1:23:46

Roasting a little bit. Okay. With.

1:23:50

That crush are pearls here. I.

1:23:52

Always do with a giggle. Yeah I by the

1:23:54

way, some ideas are done. Some.

1:23:57

Ideas are dumb. okay

1:24:00

If I can't express the fact and then by the

1:24:02

way, it makes it even sweeter when I get something

1:24:04

wrong, right? Doesn't it

1:24:06

great when sam the guy

1:24:08

who can't read somebody's email without making

1:24:10

some kind of Smart-ass remark get something

1:24:12

wrong. Doesn't that feel good to hear

1:24:14

we all feel great after it? I

1:24:17

get my comeuppance too. Don't worry about

1:24:19

it but answer

1:24:22

For the love of god you're gonna

1:24:24

come into the I mean you want to talk about

1:24:26

dumb emails You're

1:24:30

gonna come in. This is you're

1:24:32

gonna come in to

1:24:35

the last professional broadcasters house

1:24:37

and Tell him

1:24:39

how to broadcast. I mean

1:24:41

and What

1:24:43

are we crazy? I'm

1:24:46

the goat That'd be

1:24:48

like going and telling Roman Reigns how he should be winning

1:24:50

his matches He doesn't

1:24:52

need that. He's the one winning all of

1:24:54

them I'm the last

1:24:57

professional broadcaster But I appreciate

1:24:59

the email and I'm glad that I'm glad

1:25:01

that you wrote in I doubt I

1:25:03

will change my general approach I mean

1:25:05

look you're telling me I gotta be

1:25:07

nice to everybody I tell people every single week don't write

1:25:10

long emails and then they write a long email I'm

1:25:13

supposed to just go well, you know, I said

1:25:15

that's right along email, but it's okay. I appreciate

1:25:17

it. Anyway, it's never gonna happen who

1:25:21

like People should just be

1:25:23

able to do whatever they want. I just read whatever Come

1:25:26

on Andrew get a hold of yourself

1:25:28

dude. Get a hold of yourself. I'm into one

1:25:30

more just because that was absurd Okay

1:25:35

Let's go to Lewis. This is Hi

1:25:39

Sam bow came across excellent in

1:25:41

the Bray Wyatt documentary if

1:25:43

they all want to appear in their

1:25:45

masks for the Re-debut I

1:25:47

think that's cool. But to really connect with

1:25:49

the characters. I Want

1:25:51

to see bow without the mask? What are your thoughts?

1:25:53

Well, I don't know I don't I mean You

1:25:57

know, I I

1:26:00

think – I don't

1:26:02

know, right? I think

1:26:04

the idea is Uncle Howdy, but I don't know what

1:26:06

that looks like. I don't know what it looks like

1:26:08

on its own. I don't know what it was ever intended

1:26:10

to look like. There is something to that. It's not the

1:26:12

craziest thing in the world to say because when

1:26:15

Bray Wyatt first came back, that promo that everybody

1:26:17

loves is when Bray got to go to the

1:26:20

ring and just be himself and

1:26:22

talk about his relationship with the fans and talk about

1:26:24

all of that. I mean

1:26:26

it's certainly not the craziest thing in the world,

1:26:29

but also

1:26:31

I love those characters so

1:26:33

much. I don't know that they

1:26:35

– I don't think – I

1:26:39

mean look, I don't know. I trust them to do what they do.

1:26:42

The people who are around Bray

1:26:45

are the ones that are still there, right?

1:26:48

And they haven't made – again, this goes

1:26:50

back to like I do

1:26:53

this. This is

1:26:55

what I do. I'm not going to tell people

1:26:58

who have been writing

1:27:00

great stories how to write great stories. They've

1:27:03

been doing great stories. There's no reason for

1:27:05

me not to trust the people that are

1:27:07

making these stories right now. I

1:27:10

love horror movies. I love characters. I

1:27:13

loved Bray Wyatt. I loved The Fiend.

1:27:15

I loved The Burned Fiend. You

1:27:18

know, I don't

1:27:20

personally think that –