Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hey, listen, hello.

Good day.

How are you?

And since we are live, hey, man,

happy Easter, man.

Happy Resurrection Day.

This is a resurrection of

wrestling content today.

You know, I don't know how,

and I've never knew how

Jesus and the Easter Bunny

had collabed for a day like this.

And, you know,

not going to take time to figure it out.

Um,

I'm in my fourth decade of life and it

just, nah, I just look, I believe in God.

That's where we don't leave it at.

And I enjoy a hard boiled egg or two.

There it is.

Got to cut back on the candy

because sugar when you're 40, it's bad.

Okay.

But that will not stop us

from talking about the literal runway.

We are literally running.

Five steps away from WrestleMania weekend.

Yes,

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All right.

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Excuse me,

but great show playing for y'all

today because, of course...

oh oh Wrestlemania

Pump it up.

Pump it up.

They did that for us.

They did that for us.

Yeah, they did the pump it up part for us.

But man, we are at WrestleMania week.

It is finally here.

The Showcase of Immortals is

going on this Saturday and Sunday.

Then if you add in Friday,

Smackdown Friday, WrestleMania Friday,

plus the Hall of Fame ceremony.

We are here at WrestleMania

week starting with the

The Raw WrestleMania,

which is coming up tomorrow.

April Fool's Day,

Landon's birthday as well.

Shouts out to my

five-year-old son tomorrow.

But The Rock and Roman

Reigns is going to be in Brooklyn.

So considering what happened

last week in Chicago, out of all places,

first of all, let me...

Chicago always show out

during WrestleMania weekend.

Sure.

And this was no exception.

This was... Let me jump out

with the hot take.

Okay.

That was one of the best

Raws I've seen in years.

That Raw, from beginning to end,

was one of the best laid shows ever.

in recent memory,

and it started with The

Rock doing something that

I've never seen The Rock do.

I've never seen The Rock

come into the ring and not say a word.

Yeah, you know what?

Wow.

Man, fair.

And then leave.

and shouts out to mike b um

from some dude pod he was

there he sent me videos and

screenshots about how lit

that that that crowd was

okay but we talked about

this a little bit on some

dude how that whole thing

was unexpected the crowd

was pissed that the rock

was like damn I ain't gonna

say none of y'all I'm just

gonna whisper and cody's it but

Inside the ring or inside the audience,

when Cody was getting his ass beat,

shock and awe.

Like, really?

Okay, what's going on here?

Because we ain't never seen

The Rock like this.

So I ask you,

because when this whole thing

started with The Rock,

it didn't start off good to us.

Yeah, no.

It's like, uh, to, no, hell no.

But ever since after,

like literally after Sing

Along with The Rock,

it seems like we've gotten The Rock 5,

6.0.

It's been turnt up a notch.

This man is sadistic,

to use a term always used in the WWE.

The Rock has turned sadistic.

But my question to you is

similar to what we talked

about last week.

but stepping that up a notch.

Is this The Rock's

WrestleMania and everybody

else just living in it?

Yeah, absolutely.

Absolutely.

I had no idea that when we got to 2024,

we would see Def Jam Vendetta Rock,

right?

The final boss.

He is Def Jam Vendetta Rock.

you had to play that game to

understand not only what

that means but how hard the

final boss was in depth and

vendetta right you know who

dude was red I had no idea

but now we know mr rock so

if they ever make a movie

called no way the rock

can't do it so um but yeah man hey listen

I don't know about many

other podcasts and how they

talk about wrestling,

but I know for sure the

first Black Champ podcast

has been adamant about saying, yo,

The Rock is taking over WrestleMania.

Everybody with a belt don't matter.

Everybody that ran or won

into the Royal Rumble don't matter.

It don't matter if you were injured.

It don't matter if you were booked early,

booked late,

booked in the midst of things.

The conversation nationally

globally has been the rock.

And it really went to show

it don't matter how I feel

about the promos.

Don't matter how I felt

about Sing Along with The Rock.

It don't matter that I felt

that The Rock was

cosplaying The Rock or that

this version of him was

trying too hard to be a heel.

The one thing that's been

synonymous with this entire

runway to WrestleMania,

especially over the last, what,

four to six weeks,

has been The Rock,

where The Rock is gonna be,

what The Rock is gonna say,

how many of his classless, tasteless,

or just unfunny jokes were

gonna get over or fall flat.

It's all been about him,

to the point where, again,

hard subject to change,

I don't think would change

anything right now because

everybody's talking about The Rock, good,

bad, or indifferent.

It's like he's going to

WrestleMania by himself.

And that's pretty major

considering who he's

aligned with in this

program for this era and this story.

How impressed are you

with this version of The Rock.

Like this, like I said,

after Sing Along with The Rock,

it's like a switch hit.

And Last Monday in Chicago

was a rock that I don't

think we've ever seen.

How impressed are you with

this version of The Rock

and where he's taken this story?

You know, I'm kind of on the fence, man.

I'll be honest.

It's like I get it, but I'm not impressed,

if I'm just being honest.

Now, granted,

I didn't realize how many

times that we had seen Rock

become a victim.

in storylines like this but

he would eventually like

conquer over until he was

running with the

corporation and he was the

corporate champ and then he

got to victimize somebody

but um and then there's

like just hollywood rock

which technically lasted

longer than all the other

rocks because we would

eventually get like

nostalgia based rock like

fitness like I'm 40 plus

but I'm just gonna be like

the swollest dude ever but

I'm still a movie star right

And that's the one that went

against John Cena.

And now we got this

family-oriented final boss rock.

And yeah, he's brash, aggressive, vulgar,

very venomous.

And to be honest,

that literally speaks to

everything I like in a lot

of my wrestling characters.

But I just don't feel it from this guy.

I just don't feel it.

And obviously, you know,

I'm not in the demographic

that's supposed to take

everything that I see

seriously or as realism

when I'm watching wrestling.

But I think there is a layer

of acting to me that is

taking away from the

authenticity that normally

I feel The Rock possesses.

So for me personally,

I only get it and I totally

understand what it has to be,

but it's just,

it's not connecting with me.

I'm impressed with the pivot.

The pivot is something that

I don't think we was

getting final boss rock

when all of this started.

The pivot is what is

impressed to me because

this was definitely, to me,

feel like on the fly.

And now he's hitting his stride.

I think if we had, excuse me,

I think if we had a little

bit longer time,

I would probably be more impressed.

But, you know,

if you had those like five

boxes where it was like not

impressed at all, somewhat impressed,

neutral.

somewhat impressed, very impressed,

I would be in the somewhat

impressed because of the pivot.

And I feel you with the

acting part because when

The Rock shared the video

of the continuation of Cody

Rhodes getting his ass beat

after Raw went off, I was like,

we're getting hella

performative at this point.

It was hilarious.

It was more, come on, man,

with the rock on, fam.

I ain't saying cut and then pick Cody up,

but stop hitting him.

You can stop now, my G. But

i was impressed with the

owning of the character at

that part I was like yo we

acting right now but he

owning it at least and I

ain't gonna front if this

was 13 yo bang 13 yo bang

would be like yo rock went

nuts not saying I would

have been scared I just

would have been like yo

Yeah.

What's going on with Rocky, fam?

I'm right with you.

Who had sex with Danny?

That's what I would have been.

Did Cody Rhodes nail Danny

and we didn't know?

That's how 13-year-old Bang

would have felt.

41-year-old Bang is like...

All right, man, cut.

You ain't got to do all of this.

But it was great to see

everybody else in on the act.

You saw Bobby Roode sitting there like,

what the hell going on?

You saw the camera people

and the other producers

looking around like,

I don't know what I'm

supposed to do here.

The commitment was great.

The overacting, I was like, ah.

Yeah.

But see,

I think that helped it all for me.

When I seen the exclusive,

I was like, yo, The Rock is, I was like,

either everybody know that

the camera could be on them,

or The Rock really got some

of these white males that

are supposed to be part of

the demo spooked right now.

And that I do appreciate.

I was like, you know what?

Hey,

maybe the final boss is really

something that he really just saying, hey,

I'm going to show up and just,

I'm going to do what I want to do.

And nobody knows truly what that is.

Yeah,

I would have loved for this to been a

build up from like war

games to now because man,

does that make perfect sense to me?

But

it's just again like you

said the switch that had to

be hit because uh the rock

goes from being endearing

uh by all to being you know

vilified by the new crop of

the new generation of

wrestling fans and to now

having to hit the switch to

this it's like oh okay well

This could get interesting.

And I will say he has made

it interesting because I

don't know if I'm talking

about Cody and Roman too at all, really,

based on what I've seen,

if The Rock is not part of it.

But now I'm starting to wonder,

is that by design?

All right, so let's go into that.

It was an article that came

from the Bleacher Report yesterday.

Um,

the title WWE would be foolish booking

Roman reigns to lose versus

Cody Rose at WrestleMania 40.

Um,

I'll go with the first

couple of paragraphs here.

The writer of this, Chris Rowling, says,

"...there's not one single

great reason for Cody

Rhodes to beat Roman Reigns

at WrestleMania 40.

A segment of pro wrestling

fans might call that a hot take,

scorching even.

Some might even suggest Paul

Heyman is ghostwriting it himself.

But it is a take that

continues to be proven true."

It was true one year ago

when Rhodes was ham-fisted

into family-based bloodline story,

earning a layup of the

Royal Rumble victory,

proven true after his loss

when he floated around

purgatory in a Brock Lesnar

feud for months.

Won tag titles, remember that,

and did other random stuff.

And it is perhaps truer than ever today.

The Rock is back,

dwarfing all superstars in the process,

where must-see television

is setting up some

compelling family-based programming.

So it's two questions that I have for you.

How do you feel just about

that title alone that this

writer believes that it

would be foolish for Cody

Rhodes to win and...

Is The Rock showing us that

they had it right all along

in having him go up against

Roman Reigns instead of

finishing the story?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it sounds like he's a

fan of this show.

Listen, let's keep it.

I'm not going to regurgitate

a lot of the things that

I've said over the last few weeks.

But yeah, man, finishing the story again,

I've never been on board

with finishing the story at

WrestleMania specifically.

I've never been on board with that.

And The Rock, you know,

you can play any card that you want here,

right?

But let's look at like some

stone cold facts here, all puns intended.

There's a handful of guys

that we've seen in our lifetime,

who can show up over 45 years old

Show up and say that they're

going to be at WrestleMania

and start telling a story

that gets everybody excited

about WrestleMania.

And The Rock has proved that

he is now in that class.

It was Steve Austin.

It was Hulk Hogan,

whether you love him or hate him.

Hell, it was Ric Flair.

And I would even say The

Undertaker and Shawn Michaels.

That is it.

That is it.

I know Triple H wanted to be in that class,

and you've done something.

You spent the budget.

You broke the bank on a lot of them intros,

bro.

But unfortunately, you're not there.

And it's no disrespect,

because I think the only

guy that's next to get in

that class is going to be Randy Orton.

And that's just, and again,

that's just respectfully

speaking to everyone.

And what that means to me here is,

Yeah,

The Rock was going to do what The

Rock does.

It's like, you know,

we call people legends.

We call people icons.

And we say that they move

the needle and all these

buzzwords and everything

that comes out about certain superstars.

And I'm not saying that it's wrong,

but The Rock has definitely

proven that there is levels

because he don't wrestle every year,

okay?

He don't even got the

Undertaker schedule when

this is happening.

And for everything

considered with the

prototype of wrestling and

how we all have that moment

where we hate to see people get released.

We hate when people

unfortunately pass or they

go to a different

federation or organization

or they just disappear and

we wonder what happened to them.

and then the game forgets them.

And we don't mean to do it.

It's just that we're just

dialed in on being fans,

and we always have that what now moment,

and then we move on.

This is one of the true

anomalies where everybody

that matters arrived,

and The Rock showed up late,

and The Rock is running shit.

That's crazy.

That ain't supposed to happen.

Vince McMahon couldn't have called this.

And we've seen audibles.

We've seen some pretty damn good audibles,

not just for WrestleManias.

So that's what makes this

even more important.

The fact that The Rock is

able to come and do this at 50 plus,

when literally we were

saying at January 1st that

hottest wrestler in the

world is Cody Rhodes.

And we knew for it, like,

even though the bloodline

thing was getting stagnant,

we were hoping for

something to just resurrect.

Seth Rollins on fire.

CM Punk is back.

Drew McIntyre is resurrected.

But all of that,

all of that looks like it's

just a level or two lower

than The Rock deciding that

he want to whoop everybody's ass, cuss,

and go to WrestleMania for

the entire weekend.

Yeah,

I think The Rock is out to prove a point.

The Rock is out to prove a

point that this is supposed

to have been the main event.

Roman Reigns versus me.

And I think that sometimes

when you're acting,

you can pull from experiences.

You can pull from things

that you really truly believe.

I think what The Rock is

doing is a big fuck you to the fans.

Oh, absolutely.

In a good way.

This is what y'all want?

I'm going to show you why

y'all shouldn't have wanted that.

Because, quite honestly,

we'll have our predictions later today.

But if I was a casual fan,

I would have looked at

Monday and been like,

why the fuck The Rock going

up against him?

That's what's going on at WrestleMania.

I ain't watching this shit.

Like,

this is not even David versus Goliath

at this point.

Y'all want to talk about burying somebody,

y'all?

Y'all want to talk about burials?

Just speak it for me.

The Rock buried Cody Rhodes on Monday.

Let's talk real.

If the conversation y'all be

wanting to have on these

interwebs is how people get

buried and all of this stuff,

The Rock buried Cody Rhodes

twice this week.

He buried him on Monday and

then he buried him when he

shared that Instagram post.

Because they said cut and he said,

fuck y'all cut.

Boy,

He buried him twice based

off of the rules that the

internet wrestling

community has said is buried.

Cody Rhodes goes into

WrestleMania night one and night two,

quite honestly,

having no chance at all to win any match.

Yeah.

And if they want to go on

Friday and Paul Heyman says,

Roman set all of this up,

Okay,

so y'all want to give The Rock the

Zeus role, huh?

Okay, cool.

Well,

the difference between this version

of Zeus is The Rock is one

of the greatest WWE

superstars of all time.

He is massively bigger than Cody Rhodes,

ladies and gentlemen.

When you get into this match,

it's not quite Rey Mysterio

versus Great Khali.

But it's Hulk Hogan versus

Andre the Giant where you do the look up.

Now, some people might say, hey,

Hulk Hogan won that.

But he was still Hulk Hogan.

Cody Rhodes ain't finished no story yet.

So y'all telling me that I'm

supposed to suspend belief

that Cody Rhodes will beat The Rock?

No,

which means that Sunday is going to be

a bloodline rules match.

So now,

if y'all tell me that... You may

want to save this for later,

but I'll say it now.

If y'all want to tell me...

That John Cena, Stone Cold,

and The Undertaker are

going to help Cody Rhodes

win the WWE Universal

Championship on Sunday?

Ladies and gentlemen,

you can kind of piece

together what my prediction

might be about this match is right now.

But that is literally the

only way he's going to beat

Roman Reigns on Sunday

because I can tell y'all right now,

cue that damn intro music

by the dude that just got

kicked out the company that he created.

But there's no chance in the

hell to me that Cody Rhodes

and Seth Rollins is going to beat,

is going to beat The Rock

and Roman on Saturday.

So you're going to leave

WrestleMania in Philly night one,

and you're going to cut off Peacock,

and you're going to be like, yo,

Cody ain't got no goddamn chance.

How is he going to beat

Roman after he just lost

against The Rock and Roman?

Because I'm sorry, y'all.

The Rock ain't losing night one.

He's not.

The Rock is not taking the L,

and it's a clean fight on Sunday.

I don't see that happening.

And listen,

I wanted to up the ante a

little bit on what you were

saying about Cody getting

buried because the fact is

Cody got buried by a guy

who's supposed to be a

nostalgia act that was

really only there to put over his cousin.

But y'all wanted to tweet.

That's what happened.

So now he was like, well...

Okay,

I'm just going to take over everything.

Hey, and you know what?

Because you're right, Ben.

The Rock is right to do this.

The Rock is right to do this

because this is the wrestling business.

This is really the wrestling business 101.

It's like, yo,

I get what you got going here,

and I get what y'all are saying,

but we got to make money too, though.

We got to keep the company profitable.

We got to make sure that

things are going the way

that they need to go.

Because I'm with you as well.

But I'm going to say this, though.

I officially don't even care

how the match ends on night one.

It don't even matter to me.

Don't matter.

Because the thing is, Cody Rhodes,

unfortunately, has been out-talked.

outclassed outworked and

beat the up by a guy

technically ain't supposed

to be there and we wouldn't

expect him to see night two

anyway so I don't care how

the match ends it don't

matter it don't matter

because the thing is from

what we've seen on raw

The bloodline could lose the match,

still tear off on Cody Rhodes,

and then he got to wrestle again.

Don't matter.

It don't matter.

Well, look, man,

we're going to have more

into our WrestleMania

predictions coming up later

on in the show.

Stick around.

You've probably got a sneak

peek into some of our

predictions and stuff like that,

but you'll find out later on in the show.

All right,

so let's now get into what I

told y'all that was going to happen.

No, bang me knowing moment.

I told y'all that when Jade Cargill,

when she debuts,

it was going to be a six women tag match.

I've christened that fight

the Sally Beauty Supply Street Fight.

Where the sisters with suplexes,

which is Jade, Naomi, and Bianca Belair,

was going up against the nail shop,

which is damage control.

And that has happened.

Congratulations, y'all.

Now, first of all, let me say this.

Shouts out to Triple H and them.

Because SmackDown looked

real black at the end of it.

Yeah, for sure.

It looked very much like...

Shouts out to the Essence

Festival that Triple H put

together at the end of the show.

Because it definitely looked

like the Essence Festival, fam.

Like...

And I loved it.

I was all for it.

I was very happy to see Jade, Bianca,

and Naomi,

especially when the internet

wrestling community was

shitting on how Naomi was

supposedly being handled.

yeah see that's why internet

wrestling community doesn't

need to shut the up

sometimes all right it's

okay to just wait something

out because naomi gets back

and y'all like oh she's a

former tna knockouts

champion why they doing her

like this now look at naomi

in a prime spot at

wrestlemania 40 with two

other black women

In a six-women tag,

main event at SmackDown,

they pointed at the sign to end the show.

When you point at the sign to end the show,

that's a big spot.

Y'all need to chill out, y'all.

I pray for the day that

people truly understand wrestling

tv time and what it means

and also the aspect of

winning and losing in the

long scheme of just

programming yes so now

we're getting sisters with

suplexes versus the nail

shop at wrestlemania 40.

but let's talk about jade

cargill's debut huh so

because I do agree with the

nail shop so are is it the

nail techs and their number one customer

It's not even a number one customer.

Oh, no.

No, Dakota Kai is the manager.

Oh, she's the manager.

Ah, yeah, with the tag.

Okay.

She's the manager.

I don't want to go too far.

It's racism.

It's not racism.

It's stereotyping.

I am stereotyping willingly

for content on the show.

Two different things, y'all.

That being said, let's go to Jane Cargill.

She signs a contract

She poses,

she has on something that Grace

Jones will be very proud of.

And I think that white men

ages 18 to 34 really loved

seeing that black woman

come down to the ring

in that attire.

What was your thoughts on Jade Cargill,

her promo speech and

everything and what you

feel like we can expect from Jade?

You know,

I'm going to speak in a manner of

giving grace.

So as I give grace to Jade Cargill,

I'm going to say she's

doing a really good job.

She's doing a really good

job at the slow burn, at the slow cook.

Yes,

he came out with the favorite flavor

of fruit roll-up on her body.

Yes,

Wade Barrett tapped into those days

when he was dating Alicia

Fox and was like, yo, yo,

y'all don't realize how

real Wade Barrett is

keeping it when Jay Cargo come out.

He want that.

Like, he want that.

And we know she married,

so respect and all of that.

But, yo, if Wade Barrett can,

he's getting that.

That's a guarantee that

ain't meant for this show.

That's the NSW, wait, FW,

not suitable for work.

Yeah, that's my NSFW guarantee this week.

Jake Cargill better watch

out because Wade Barrett

want to Adam Copeland that.

All right?

So... I'm afraid I got some bad news.

Hey, right.

Hey, Corey Graves,

keep calling him bad news.

It's like, yeah, he is going to... Hey,

but shout the way you bear it.

Hey, respect.

I get it.

But I'm going to offer some grace, man,

because you know what?

Even as I was initially very critical...

of jay cargill being

thrusted into the spotlight

in the wwe I look at a lot

of just the other women in

the roster that honestly

she's not at the back of

the line and then she never

was she's somewhere in the

middle with that it x

factor slider on 99 you

know what I'm saying so um

I look at this as a great

moment for her and you know

with bianca and naomi you're

obviously gonna be 100 when

it comes to the actual

match so they are literally

just giving her iso to be a

star and everything on

smackdown proved that I

think they got her in the

right mix and uh man hey

listen this is this is

protect your future 101

that we're watching here

and uh and I'm not mad at it

I'm I'm not mad at it even

though like bianca is still the future

But the fact that they are

going to leverage this for

Jade and Bianca to exist at the same time,

y'all need to understand how big that is,

as well as how Naomi is in

that mix as well.

The layers of how great this

is for all three of these women,

but especially Jade right now in 2024,

going into WrestleMania 40 in Philly.

That Philly crowd is going to love Jay.

And that is a very big, like,

just a moment in time, man.

Please do not get on the

internet with that bullshit next weekend.

Enjoy this.

Embrace this.

Because it will definitely

mean something way much

more by the time we get to

WrestleMania 50.

Oh, yeah.

So let me first say this is

why I wish I had a daughter.

Because as much as I watch wrestling,

my daughter would watch it.

And she would see three strong black women

that is up on that stage and say,

I could do that too if I want to.

Like from an optic standpoint,

from a women's standpoint,

black women's standpoint,

black women's history month

coming up in April,

women's history month

currently going on in March.

This is great.

It's almost like Triple H was like, yo,

so what's going up?

Well, you know,

it's women's history month.

So yeah, we got to...

We got to do something

around that with the women.

Oh, we didn't know this holiday existed.

Black Women's History Month was in April.

Oh, word.

Oh, say less.

It's almost like Triple H

planned this perfectly for

the tent poles that was going on.

With that being said, oh, man,

if the ring working,

ain't saying she got to be out here doing,

you know,

she's not saying she has to be

Charlotte Flair, Mercedes Monet.

Mm-hmm.

Becky and Bailey.

Well, I removed Bailey out of that.

She could be Bailey.

Or Becky.

Because I like their work in the ring,

but they're different.

They're not as acrobatic.

They're matte technicians, so to speak.

So she could be

three-fourths of what they are.

Ladies and gentlemen,

y'all got a megastar on y'all hands.

Because if y'all listen to that crowd...

how that crowd,

it wasn't even like a pop to me.

It was shock and awe.

Some of it is because of what she had on.

But a lot of it was,

it's just flat out because

of what she got on.

You can tell she's a physical specimen.

Like how she entered the screen in general,

the silhouette, and then she posed.

And you saw all of the curves in her arm.

Get the body edge.

It's in the heart.

She's a physical specimen

that has enough power moves

in the arsenal where you like, yeah,

we need that.

And just even when she did a finisher,

rode Kari Sane over and did

the lick of the hand.

Oh.

Better,

you can guarantee the demographic

nuts was moist after she did that shit,

Kari Sane.

They was like, yo, word.

Right.

Yeah,

that's on slow-mo and somebody PC

right now.

Yeah, hey.

Somebody wife was like, yo,

you looking too hard at that TV.

Sorry, Amber.

You're right.

You're right, babe.

Mm-mm.

Shout out to Amber.

Let me go ahead and pause

this so I can go ahead and

clip this for me.

Put this in my iPhone.

Yeah.

So that's one.

Two,

I think they set up the win because

you're putting her up next

to Naomi and Bianca Belair.

The optics on that is great, of course,

but the other part of it is

that she's not going to

have to work heavy.

I can already tell you right now,

the people who's going to

be taking the bumps...

The person who's going to be

taking the bumps is Naomi.

Absolutely.

The hot tag is going to go

to Jade Cargill.

The save is going to go to Bianca Belair.

The pin is going to go to Jade Cargill.

Absolutely.

Set it up.

That's how it's going to go.

And Jade is going to be better for it.

Jade gets the slow burn like

Diesel got with Shawn Michaels.

We'll see what happens when

we get to SummerSlam.

But the slow burn is going to continue.

And they're going to make

sure that she's done right.

And if done right, ladies and gentlemen,

y'all got a megastar on y'all hands.

She will mess around and

overshadow every woman on

that roster just off of her look alone.

got a question for you that

was good I'm sorry I

apologize if you were not

finished with that

statement but that was good

do you feel like just again

just from the royal rumble

to this build up to

wrestlemania from just a

character development

Do you feel that Jade's work

in the WWE has already

superseded her impact and work in AEW?

Oh, shit.

That happened at the Royal Rumble.

Her time at the Royal Rumble

superseded anything she did at AEW.

It's not even close.

And see...

That's what I want this just

naive wrestling community to understand.

Because you can show up in

the organization.

You can win a belt.

You can hold it for a year.

And you can win all these matches and blah,

blah, blah, laissez-faire.

You can call up rappers and

actors and athletes and

slap people in the face, all of that.

But what does it mean?

What does it mean?

At the end of the day.

LL was doing that shit.

That nigga did that shit

about five times on Raw.

You know what I'm saying?

That was in the Deep Blue Sea promo.

What's that Deep Blue Sea or

what's that rollerball?

No,

it was Deep Blue Sea because it was

supposed to be like the shark thing,

right?

I think.

I don't know.

Hey, if it was Rollerball 1, that's crazy.

I'm trying to give him some

grace with Deep Blue Sea

because at least it was

sharks involved and he was

in the water and all of that.

And he was like Deep Blue Sea.

It's like a shark's fin.

I remember the sign.

But saying all that, man, listen, man,

this is what real character

development is all about.

And I know a lot of people

just don't maybe recognize

when they hear that, but

This is how you really build

the future of wrestling.

This is how you build superstars.

For everything that we can

say bad about the machine that is the WWE,

you love the people you

love or you hate the people

you hate because they were

presented to us the right

way and they did the right

things to make moments happen.

And good wrestling came with that.

I still say to this day,

If you are going to just

show up and win matches and

think that's what's putting you over,

then you really don't want

to be a wrestler.

You just want to be popular

for being around in your

underwear holding gold.

Like, bro,

you can go to Dubai and do that.

You might get beat on,

but you can go to Dubai and do that.

This is a little different, man.

This is wrestling.

wrestling yeah well we're

gonna get into our

predictions a little bit

later on in the show but

it's definitely a great

look to see what is going

on with jay gargiel and the

sisters with um and it

really leads into the next

topic black star power all

over wrestlemania kip

So let's start with Stand

and Deliver coming up this

weekend where it has been

announced that the main

event for Stand and Deliver

will not be the NXT

Heavyweight Championship

between Dragunov versus Tony D'Angelo.

It's going to be Trick

Williams versus Carmelo

Hayes in a grudge match.

A heated grudge match.

First of all,

shouts out to the promos that

took place on NXT.

They definitely promoted

Carmelo Hayes and Trick

Williams very well and

showed how personal this

match is between these two.

Then you go from there and you head into,

you know,

WrestleMania night one or night two,

depending on, you know,

when these matches take place.

But you have Jade, Naomi and Bianca.

You have R-Truth and the New

Day in the tag match.

And then, of course,

you have The Rock headlining all of this.

Would you say or could you

say that even though Sasha

Banks and Bianca Belair did

main event headline

WrestleMania night one a

couple of years ago,

and of course that was big

for women and big for the culture,

does this weekend supersede that weekend,

that night,

where for the first time you

saw two black women main

eventing a WrestleMania?

I believe so.

I believe so because, you know,

if you really watch

WrestleMania and just what it's meant,

like,

for Black wrestlers to be seen to be

beyond something that is

enhancement talent.

and for them to be in a

position where it's like oh

it's a pick them it's not

oh you definitely losing

this is definitely a work

tonight you know you about

the job like when when you

have an abundance of just

oh man they could win they

could win that everybody

black could win and it

makes sense tonight again

like you gotta love to

understand how how great that feels

And like,

we don't gotta feel like

everybody got robbed or

somebody got robbed or, you know,

we don't get a fair shake, you know,

because yes,

main eventing the premium event,

the event of events that matters.

That's super important.

But the value that they see

and specifically these

black wrestlers that bang just mentioned.

And they not all in the

battle Royal and they not

all in the pre-show when

maybe one getting the

chance to be like match

three of day two of day one.

That's big.

That is, that is major,

especially considering how

the push is obviously for

international superstars, you know?

You know, Becky's from Ireland.

You know what I mean?

Like, people from the UK, they're from,

you know, Puerto Rico.

They're from Mexico.

They're, like,

everybody's from somewhere else, India.

Like,

and yet we got so many black superstars,

black American superstars

that are going to be a part

of this week and weekend.

Man, that is phenomenal.

That is big.

Again, do not take this shit for granted.

Don't get in your feelings

about no wins and losses.

Look at what you're watching.

and really understand it.

Yeah, man, I agree.

And it's all about evolution too.

Like, remember we said on this podcast,

and I don't think a lot of

people realized it,

that Lawrence Taylor was

the first black man to main

event at WrestleMania.

Yes.

WrestleMania 11,

Lawrence Taylor made black history.

First black man to main

event at WrestleMania.

And then you take that to The Rock, right?

Yeah.

And then you carry this

stuff all the way over,

you know what I'm saying,

to Sasha and Bianca Belair.

But this year you can't

discount that it's black

people all over

WrestleMania in meaningful matches.

Like, quite honestly,

the most underrated match

out of all of what we

talked about is Carmelo

Hayes and Trick Williams.

And them main eventing over

the championship match.

And more than likely being

called up after WrestleMania.

Like the whole thing around

that has been great

long-term storytelling and dope too.

The rise of Trick Williams

from being Carmelo Hayes'

manager to being a very hot

prospect and some saying a

future WrestleMania main eventer himself.

You know, like, no,

this is all around dope.

You can look around and I

have a prediction that is

going to seal all of this

in a bow when we do our

WrestleMania predictions.

But, man, it's just dope to see.

I remember going through a

WrestleMania and not

necessarily seeing us.

I remember going through a

WrestleMania and The Rock

not even mentioned being black.

Yeah, and Trick did swoop out.

Trick did swoop in.

You know what I'm saying?

He did swoop in.

Shouts out to him.

Shouts out to the last legend, too,

because when she pulled up on that,

she got up on the top of that ring,

you saw, you saw that P right there.

You know what I'm saying?

So, yeah.

You know, you saw, boom.

But, yeah, man, it's just dope,

that lowercase d. You know

what I'm saying?

So, shouts out, you know, because...

Yeah, man, it's going up.

Shots out the last legend.

But no, it's just great to see, man,

like everybody in a nice

position and matches that

you can see them win.

This is not Coco B. Webb versus, you know,

Butch Reed.

Right.

This ain't Coco B. Webb

losing to Rick Martel at

the beginning of WrestleMania VI.

Yeah.

You know, this ain't, you know,

Ahmed Johnson and the Royal Warriors.

versus the nation of domination.

Nah fam, this weekend is,

even when you get to shout

out to Wale Mania and all

of those black wrestlers

that's gonna be involved, you know?

And we don't even know

what's going to happen

during the Andre the Giant

Memorial Battle Royal on Friday.

So you even got that, too,

even though I don't think a

black person is going to win it.

I got a prediction for that, too.

um but nah man I think it's

dope to see so shouts out

to everybody black you know

we rooting for everybody

black for sure just like at

every game show we watch

y'all you know when a black

person gets up on that

screen we going for that

person and we hope that person wins

not saying that you know

well we know one's gonna

win between trick and

carmelo you know but you

know what's gonna happen

with jay no naomi and

bianca was gonna happen

between our truth and the

new day we wanted to win

and the rock winning him a

match so hey man we looking

good this weekend man let's

celebrate and now

Let's just go ahead and get

into the predictions, man.

So WrestleMania 40 with The

Weeknd being the theme song

for it feels like the

eighth time in a row.

Meek Mill making an

appearance at WrestleMania.

I have a thought around how

we're going to see Meek

Mill at WrestleMania

outside of him just

performing Dreams and Nightmares.

Right.

Which, you know, hey, Meek Mill, Meek,

you can make money for the

rest of your life, fam,

off of that one song.

And it's the first song on

your first album.

And a lot of people can't say that.

But we have, let's see, we have 1, 2, 3, 4,

5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 matches.

announced so far um of

course we have the

bloodline versus cody rose

and seth rollins on night

one night two we have the

title matches seth and drew

um roman and cody but then

we have the other matches

that will be announced what

nights that they are having

but we're going to start

with the wrestlemania

friday andre the giant

memorial battle royal who

do you see winning that event

man I obviously I we don't

really know who's all in it

in it for sure for sure but

based on just how the last

two weeks have went I'm

gonna go chad gable gonna

pick uh yeah yeah yeah I'm

gonna pick chad gable to

win it because um I like

the shift that's happening

with him and um

Oh, okay, before you even go,

before you go, let me throw out the list,

some of the list of people

who have been announced.

This popped up a couple of hours ago.

The participants in the Battle Royal.

So that was a graphic that

was shown on Saturday on

the SmackDown Lowdown.

And it listed the following wrestlers.

Not saying it'll be more,

but this is who was listed.

Andrade.

Ricochet, Chad Gable, Big Bronson Reed,

Shinsuke Nakamura, Omos,

Julius and Brutus Creed, Ivar,

Okira Tozawa, Otis, JD McDonough,

Apollo Crews, Cedric Alexander,

Ashante D. Adonis,

Elton Prince and Kit Wilson, yes boy,

Cameron Grimes, and Veer Nsenga.

um from you know dude's

group um so more could be

announced but those are the

people who've been

announced so far so now I

ask you again um well we'll

ask you is chad gable still

your pick to win it's about

absolutely absolutely still

my pick that actually made it worse

I thought she was going to

throw a name out there

that's going to be like, oh,

you know what, man?

He could do it.

No.

No, not going to do it.

Not doing that.

Hey, listen.

Chad Gable,

I like the shit that's

happening with him.

I like the fact that after

losing to Sami Zayn, he was like, yo,

hold up.

Like,

he had a Kanye West verse to touch

the sky moment.

Man,

these niggas that much better than me?

Nah.

Nah.

He was like, I need to go to WrestleMania.

Like, you already been there.

Like, I like to be taken losing personal.

He could really suplex

people with a waterhead.

So I'm picking Chad Gable.

Chad Gable,

Alpha Academy is about to turn up.

And maybe, maybe, just maybe,

they either all turn like a

heel faction or he just

goes solo and just starts

suplexing the life out of everybody.

But I'm here for it.

I'm officially also stamping

Chad Gable as having a

second wind of a breakout

year because of that.

Big, meaty men bumping me.

Yikes.

Bronson Reed is going to win

the Andre the Giant

Memorial Battle Royal.

Once he beat Sami Zayn on

Monday with interference, you know,

and yeah, but still he won.

I was leaning actually

towards Omos being in it

and winning it because I

know they just be trying

things with him and stuff.

But I've leaned on the big

Bronson Reed to win the

undreaded giant Memorial

Battle Royal in honor of big meaty men.

bumping me wild all right

work all right let's go

from I'm gonna go on

linkedin linkedin excuse me

I'm gonna go on wikipedia

and go from bottom to top

right now do the show hey

man some of these folks

might end up on linkedin

after wrestlemania you know

what I'm saying but let's

go to the lwo ray mysterio

and now the newest member

Of the LWO.

Dragon Lee vs Santos Escobar.

And Dirty Dominic Mysterio.

Let me say this now.

This match.

Has me pissed off.

This match should be.

A mask vs hair match.

But it's not.

And it is pissing me off.

That two years in a row.

The WWE can miss the boat.

On a mask vs hair match.

Right.

But I got Rey Mysterio and

Dragon Lee winning this match.

Who you got winning this match?

I got Dom and Santos with

Carlito helping him.

He's like, yo, wait, hold up, bro.

Yeah,

I got Dom and Santos with Carlito

helping him to the point where, like...

The real story is like, yo,

I think they're going to

keep playing on the is Rey

Mysterio a really good guy story.

I think they're going to

keep going with that.

And I think this is just

another situation where

that happens because honestly,

no matter what,

and there's honestly no

disrespect to any of them,

but the match I would much

rather see is Carlito

versus Rey Mysterio out of

all these five gentlemen.

That's what I would like to see.

If we're going to see a match,

I want it to be them.

And that's only because Dom

is not ready to go against

Carlito in the manner that

I think he could accelerate

his career to.

It is.

I'm going to move on to the next match.

Bianca Belair, Jade Cargill,

and Naomi versus Damage Control.

I'll kick this off by saying

you damn well better

believe that the sisters

with suplexes is going to win this match.

No question.

I told you how the match is going to go.

Bianca Belair is going to start it off.

She's going to tag in Naomi.

Naomi is going to take the beating.

The hot tag is going to go.

to Jade Cargill.

Bianca Belair is going to make the save.

And then Jade Cargill will

give her finisher to Dakota Kai,

the manager of the Nail Shop.

And she is going to win it for the team.

Her music plays at the end.

Who you got?

I definitely got Sisters with Suplexes,

right?

However, I do have...

jade getting the pin on

kairi saying only because I

think there's good program

between her and dakota that

could happen and good

program with oscar that

could happen and um because

it's like so just like yo

kairi take this pin it's

wrestlemania like you know

it's cool we got the rest

of the summer matches might

lead to a tag team title

metro um the bra after wrestlemania

Well, so that's a theory.

Logan Paul, Randy Orton, and Kevin Owens,

triple threat match for the

United States Championship.

Who wins and who takes the pin?

Man, y'all know the vibes, man.

Listen, even though I'll say this,

this is WrestleMania.

This is WrestleMania.

But no matter what, my pick is Logan Paul.

And I'm actually going to say

Randy Orton is going to take this pen.

I, I wanted it to be Kevin Owens,

but I'm officially just not

sure what is happening with

Randy York now.

And once we've seen him

really like power through

the elimination chamber, I don't know,

maybe,

maybe he's more in the mindset of a

yo man.

What if I just really get

this kid over and we just retool?

So my mind says that Randy

Orton takes the pin for Logan,

but my original heart pick

was Kevin Owens is taking

this pin to Logan Paul.

We agree on this one, on both counts.

I think Logan Paul wins and

Randy Orton is taking the pin.

Randy Orton taking the pin.

He's going to put the kid over.

I think this is the best way to do it.

Randy Orton is going to do good by the kid,

especially with SummerSlam

coming up in Cleveland.

Maybe we could see Logan

Paul versus Randy Orton in Cleveland,

which would be dope in the

boys' hometown.

But I have the same thing.

Randy Orton is going to put the kid over.

So let's get it.

Twin versus twin.

Twin, where have you been?

Uso versus Uso.

Jimmy versus Jay.

Rikishi's kids.

Who wins this match?

Go on with Jay Uso, man.

Everything Jey Uso, main event Jey Uso,

it's a real thing, a very real thing.

And honestly,

he just got to knock some

sense into his brother so

he can start making those

crackhead eyes at him during his promos.

You know what I'm saying?

You know what I'm saying?

What I love about Jey's promo,

I want to say it was maybe

two weeks ago now,

He was like, hey, bro, just come on.

Just jump down.

Just come back.

Like, we ain't got to do all this.

Like, it don't got to be this way.

So now I think he got to

take it back to Roman's

original promo when this

tribal chief stuff started.

I'm going to whoop your ass.

And then it's all love.

Like, I'm going to whoop you.

And then you can jump down with me.

And we good.

And that's what I see happening for this.

I'm picking Jey Uso, no question.

I'm picking Jimmy.

I'm picking the older

brother because the older

brother needs the rub more

than Jey needs it.

No, so my prediction is Solo gets involved,

and he gives his brother

the thumb to the throat,

and Jimmy wins this match,

signifying the first win of

the weekend for the Bloodline.

Like I said,

Jimmy needs this more than Jay.

Jay still is going to be

main event Jimmy after this match.

This signifies Jimmy as a

player going forward.

Off the sound click and now

doing the 2,000-seater.

There you go.

All right, man.

One of the matches, well,

the match that you felt

like is going to be

matching tonight or could

be matching tonight, L.A.

Styles, yeah,

versus AJ Styles in a grudge match.

Who you got in this match?

Man, I'm going to keep it so real here.

Uh-oh.

Because this is, this is, it's a pick'em.

It's a pick'em.

I even watched the home

invasion thing again.

I'm like, okay.

Now I'm going to say that to say this.

LA Knight has to win this

match or he done out here.

And I know that might sound pretty wild.

But the one thing,

even as we were building up

the LA Knight character,

and I kept saying,

the guy who has been on board, I was like,

he needs these significant wins.

And right when I thought he

pieced some together, damn,

it really looked crazy that

he didn't beat Roman Reigns

the way he did.

And then he really started

just losing again.

Or everybody seemed to be

jobbing for LA Knight.

While he is still hot,

not as hot as he was this

time last year or last summer,

I'd say probably be best last summer.

And now I feel like LA

Knight has to win this so

he can get put in the last

half hour of SmackDown.

Not somewhere in the 30 to 45 minutes.

He needs to either be in

minute one or last 15 minutes,

and it's going to come with

beating AJ Styles.

Do I think AJ Styles needs

the victory just as much?

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

But AJ Styles can lose this

match and get right back in

the program with Karl

Anderson and the rest of the OC.

So he good.

But ask yourselves this question.

What LA Knight gonna do if

AJ Styles beat him in

Philly WrestleMania?

Like what's next for him?

So I'll say this because I

believe that we have not reached

even the halfway point of this feud.

And because we have not

reached the halfway point of this feud,

AJ Styles is my pick to win this match.

I think that LA Knight will

eventually win this feud,

but it has to continue at some point.

And what I mean by that is,

is that you can see them

going head to head with

each other the next time we

see each other on TV.

So my pick in this match is AJ Styles,

so he could get back in the win column,

but also continue to feud.

All right,

let's go to the six-pack tag

team ladder match for the

Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championships.

Judgment Day,

Finn Balor and Damian Priest

versus your favorite tag team, DIY,

versus The Awesome Truth.

versus the New Day, A-Town Down Under,

and the New Catch Republic.

Camp,

I am picking the awesome truth to win

the Undisputed Tag Team Championships.

Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages,

it is now time to give our man, our truth,

his moment.

His moment is winning the

tag team championships with The Miz.

I am full steam ahead with this one, man.

I am very confident that

after this match is over,

this will be the biggest

pop of the night.

because people will be so

excited to see R Truth win

another major title.

He is technically,

he is the most decorated

WWE champion of all time

because of how many times

he's had the 24-7 championship.

But it was built off of comedy.

And this is kind of built off comedy too.

But if you notice,

the feud has really been

the Judgment Day versus R-Truth.

Our truth will be taking

home the tag team

championships with his man, The Miz,

who has been laying in the weeds.

But ever so often,

you need The Miz elevated.

Ladies and gentlemen, the awesome truth.

The next WWE Undisputed Tag

Team Champions.

What's so wild with your

pick is that I absolutely agree with it.

I absolutely agree with it.

Hey, listen.

Part of me was thinking, right?

At first, my pick was A-Town Down Under.

It was.

And I thought that they were

going to do this thing

where when the tag titles

and they end up losing and

turning on each other.

And I still ain't quite sure

who going to turn on who yet.

But it's happened.

They breaking up A-Town Down Under.

And

I think now that

WrestleMania is going to be

the part where everybody

sees what I've been seeing

the last three times these

two have been in the ring

together in some capacity.

And so with that said,

this six-pack challenge is

the culmination of R-Truth

versus the Judgment Day.

It's this is the end.

They end this story because

everybody has a story, gentlemen,

ladies and gentlemen.

Hey, look, everybody has a story.

Cody just told you his.

Okay.

Like,

so I do see awesome truth winning

this because again,

you just have to put the

titles on the hottest

people in the company.

have to that's really how

this works and our truth is

not fake hot he's a lot of

things but he ain't never

been fake hot and I don't

think nobody can explain it

I got awesome truth winning

I got damian priest taking

the pen and I got philly

going absolutely crazy when our truth

And The Miz win,

giving The Miz that one

time in his WWE career

where he's won a match and

everybody actually loves

him for at least 90 seconds.

Yes, we are on the same page.

I am happy to hear that.

Let's go to our man Goon.

Gunther versus Sami Zayn for

the Intercontinental Championship.

Do we see the longest

reigning Intercontinental

Championship reign of all time in?

Or do we see it continue?

I'm going to go with continue.

Mm-hmm.

I'm picking gunther I know I

know what this is supposed

to look like but nah nah

not with the room not what

the run gunther's been on

to tell I i don't care how

great this match is bang I

don't care how great this match is

You can't paint a picture to

me where Sami Zayn going

over on Gunther and winning

the Intercontinental title

at this stage in the game

makes sense to me.

You just can't do it.

Because I don't then want to

turn around and see Sami

Zayn versus Ricochet on the Monday after.

I don't want to see that shit.

I don't want to see Sami

Zayn versus Chad Gable for

the Intercontinental Champion afterwards.

I just don't want to see it.

I want to see sheer dominance, fear,

arrogance.

I want the competitors to

get better and the

competition to get tougher

so Guther can keep doing

what he's been doing,

which is making the

Intercontinental

Championship prestigious.

And sought after.

So I'm picking Gunther.

Respect to you, Sami Zayn.

But nah.

We ain't getting two

WrestleManias in a row with

Sami Zayn having a historic

and dramatic-ass night.

This is going to beat the shit out of this,

man.

It's going to be a nice match.

I'm actually predicting this

to be match of the night.

This will be the match that

we look back after this.

I'll even go as far as to

say that this will be Macho

Man versus Ricky Steamboat quality.

This will be Chris Jericho

versus Shawn Michaels quality.

This is going to be an amazing match.

But Gunther is going to win

for everything that you just said.

Triple H.

Also,

it just shows us that he is putting

quality over quantity.

You know,

the WWF that we end up starting

to see as we got into our

teens and our 20s and 30s

is multiple championship

rings being the thing.

And I think that Roman

Reigns has said something

on Pat McAfee that makes a

lot of sense about how he

rates his title reign over

other people's.

It's like, yo,

it's about the length of

time and not how many times you got it.

And I think this is the same

thing with Gunther and all

the championships.

It's about the length that you have it.

It's about the dominance,

showing the dominance and, you know,

the...

When you get to where we are

at with Gunther, yes,

the underdog mentality, the can he do it,

works better than the

multiple championship reign

type of situation.

With that being said,

we ain't at that level with Gunther yet.

And we're not about to get

two of these in a row with Sami Zayn.

No,

that doesn't even happen at WrestleMania.

So Gunther continues his streak.

And he is the Intercontinental Champion.

Let's go to the Women's

World Championship.

That's Rhea Ripley versus Becky Lynch.

On this one, Becky Lynch, reportedly,

allegedly, according to her,

however you want to put it.

But she says she ain't

signed that contract yet.

And she got two more months.

My prediction is after this match,

you're going to start

seeing Becky Lynch less.

And because she's a mom and

she wants to spend time with her daughter,

this is the last time we're

going to see Becky Lynch

for quite some time in the WWE ring.

She puts Rhea Ripley over.

Shouts out to Rhea,

your women's world champion

after WrestleMania.

Absolutely.

Even if I didn't know the

backstory of Rebecca's personal life,

still picking Rhea Ripley.

I don't think I need to give

y'all a reason why I'm

picking Rhea Ripley.

Like, I don't think I need one.

So I'm not going to offer one.

Because I want to.

There we go.

So there we go right there.

All right,

let's go to the WWE Women's Championship.

Io Sky versus Bayley.

Who you got?

Hey, man, listen.

I've been picking Bayley

damn near annually for it.

Where everything first black champ related,

as far as predictions go,

this will absolutely be no different.

I am picking Bailey to win her.

I don't know what championship this is,

but I know that she is high

up on that list of just the

title holders in general, um,

going over on EO sky.

Totally ending the feud with Judgment Day,

moving on as being now this

new reinvented face in the WWE.

Oh, man.

First of all,

I pop up on Facebook and I see this post.

I'm going to text you this

so you can see what I was

talking about as far as Carlito goes.

Oh, Carlito, okay.

But look at my man's face right there.

But, yeah, Bailey to win, man.

Bailey is about to get her

WrestleMania moment.

We're not getting Hugger Bailey,

but we're going to get

somebody who feels like this is my moment,

and she is going to cheer.

And, yes, Carlito for the turn heel.

He going to do something for him.

My man's face was just like...

Like, if he did, look,

if he didn't know that that

was going to happen, or if he did know,

hey, Carlito's a great actor.

So, shout out to him.

But yeah, Bailey's going to win that.

All right.

Let's go to night one.

The Bloodline.

Cody and Seth freaking Rollins.

If Rose and Rollins win,

all member of the Bloodline wins.

will be barred from ringside

during the undisputed WWE

Universal Championship

match on night two.

If The Rock and Roman Reigns win,

the match will be headlined

under bloodline rules.

This match will be held

under bloodline rules,

which means there is no rules.

Everybody gonna be in that bitch.

Camp, I'll go first.

Okay.

Like I said earlier,

The Rock ain't losing at

WrestleMania to no Seth

Rollins or no damn Cody Rhodes.

The Bloodline will win the

main event at night one of WrestleMania.

Making everybody go,

how is Cody Rhodes going to

finish this story?

Oh, my God.

The odds are against him.

The Rock is going to be on

color commentary.

Jey Uso is going to be ringing the bell.

And our man Solo is going to

be the guest enforcer.

Some callbacks, y'all.

Remember the guest enforcer?

Those three men will be

ringside for night two at WrestleMania.

Who you got for night one in

the main event?

Night one.

Night one main event.

So, man, look,

I'm going to be honest with y'all.

Three weeks ago,

my prediction was that Seth

and Cody are going to win at night one.

and they were going to win

at night one because that

was supposed to inevitably

uh even the playing field

for cody who was going to

lose anyway that's I

literally felt that way

that was my february

prediction that was my

early march prediction I

had seth and cody winning this match

And it just was going to be like, look,

but we still going to beat

Cody S. And he's got to

wrestle in less than 24 hours.

That was going to set up for

Roman Reigns to get his

first clean victory in like

two years over Cody at

WrestleMania Night 2 to prove, hey,

fuck your Royal Rumble,

both of your victories.

um solo not here the rocking

here like use any excuse

you want you showed up for

the match I beat your ass

it is what it is that's

what I had but then the

rock started rocking and he

started final boston and he

totally started

overshadowing his cousin

along with every other

contender in wrestlemania

and in the match so now I

have no choice but to pick

the rock and roman reigns

And then,

but I'll save my prediction now

for night two.

But yes, I got the bloodline winning.

I got the bloodline rules.

It just is what it is.

I also think, though,

in a matter of speaking,

they let Seth Rollins live a little bit.

They let Seth Rollins win.

I don't think Seth Rollins

is going to really be in this match.

If I'm being honest with you,

I got Seth Rollins actually

getting taken out by Drew

McIntyre and Solo before

this match really happened.

So really what y'all gonna

see is a handicap match

between Cody Rhodes, The Rock,

and Roman Reigns.

So that way, no matter what happens,

you already know

That Cody is not leaving

Philly with a title around his waist.

Man.

So, let's go into night two.

Let's start with Seth

freaking Rollins versus Drew McIntyre.

Who leaves that match the

world heavyweight champion?

Damian Priest.

I'm not wavering.

I'm not wavering.

And we both got Damian and

Finn Balor losing the tag

titles the night before.

So I literally have the

regroup for Damian Priest

specifically being catching in.

And it don't matter if it's

a triple threat match.

It don't matter if Seth win.

It don't matter if Drew win.

But I don't have Drew winning because,

again,

sticking with my prediction from

February.

I got Seth getting cashed in

on screwing Drew McIntyre

out of his shot.

So now the feud now becomes

Damian Priest versus Drew

McIntyre because CM Punk is

still not healthy enough,

but he can't antagonize for

him saying like, yo, I'm not even there.

You still can't get it done.

Like, hey, who chose you?

Who chose you?

Like,

that's an important question that we

still got out here.

So, yes,

I got Damian Priest leaving as the

World Heavyweight Champion

on night two at WrestleMania.

So,

let's just say there's going to be a

lot going on in this match.

Facts.

Because CM Punk is

apparently going to be at

the announcer's table.

And you do have the threat

of Damian Priest.

And I think that threat of

Damian Priest is going to

carry into the match.

I just believe, however,

that Damian Priest will not cash in.

Because I'm going to hold on

to my prediction that

happened some years ago.

I'm actually going to go in

a different direction with

a prediction that I said months ago.

seth rollins will retain the

championship because drew

mcintyre and the damian

priest will get screwed

remember months ago on the

show I told you that that

briefcase damian priest is

going to cash it in they're

going to open it and the

contract is not going to be there

Remember,

they gifted him the senior money

in the bank case.

I believe that he's going to

try to cash in.

He's going to realize ain't

shit in that briefcase.

He's going to be like, what?

He's going to get jumped by

the word of the newest

leader of the Judgment Day, CM Punk.

And because of that, Seth Rollins.

And because of that,

not only will Seth Rollins

retain his championship,

because at this point in time,

Drew McIntyre hates CM Punk,

and CM Punk hate him,

but CM Punk hate him more

than he hate Seth Rollins.

He's going to be gifted...

The briefcase and CM Punk

will also leave

WrestleMania as the holder

of the money in the bank briefcase.

Wow.

What an intricate and elaborate plot.

If we're going to do predictions,

it can't just be standard-ass predictions,

y'all.

You got to throw some bold

predictions out there.

And both of us throwing out

some bold predictions.

But my prediction is it's

similar to how Adam Cole is at AEW.

He can't wrestle,

but he leading the group.

And that group could do his bidding.

CM Punk can have a group

that is his once again,

and he will have the Judgment Day.

Wow.

Wow.

Hey, listen, man.

Let's do it.

Hey, listen.

And you know what?

And that's not a bad ending

and a restart for everybody.

hey it actually kind of

makes sense to the point

where it's like yo you know

the judgment day could just

be given drew his receipt

and the judgment day has

also been trying to take

the belt off of seth

rollins what better way to

do it than with the guy

that none of them like and while

putting Damien Priest back

in his place because dog

you think you run shit and

you don't you don't run a

damn thing fam that's fine

not only do you don't run a

damn thing CM Punk shows

Seth Rollins fam I could

take your belt anytime I

want to you don't know when I'm healthy

Or not.

But just know I got this briefcase.

And I can take this shit from you.

Anytime.

I want to.

Now.

Final match of the night.

Now.

Both of our predictions.

Led to.

A bloodline rules match.

Right?

Yeah.

So.

Bloodline rules.

Anything goes.

Roman Reigns versus Cody

Rhodes for the Undisputed

Heavyweight Championship.

Camp,

what's your prediction for this match?

You know, I still say,

in spite of everything,

because the way I got night one going,

I got Roman Reigns coming

out there and winning clean.

clean because I look the

bloodline is already going

to put Cody down the night

before I really do think

that's what's going to happen um

with that you know cody is

going to do his classic

cody thing right cody's

going to come out there

he's going to give the

valiant effort the children

that are four to seven

years old are going to cry

and they are going to want

him to really win and the

thing is you know with the

whole bloodline rules thing

it just says I think it's

got to be present you know

they're they're in control

of the show I think that roman reigns

in an effort to draw the

biggest amount of heat possible,

is just going to pick the

bones of Cody Rhodes at night, too.

And he's really going to lay Cody down,

no ditty.

And he's going to just dominate in Philly,

and it becomes more of a

family celebration

than anything with their thoughts of like,

well, what is next for Cody?

Is the story ever going to end?

I think that Twitter gets

set ablaze with E-Tiers and

all this other nonsense.

But, you know, this is what it should be.

This is what I think the

plan was originally,

and they're going to get to

it one way or another.

I don't really see this being...

A great match.

A detailed match.

I think night one is the

night for all these gentlemen.

And Cody is just going to

pull in the heartstrings a

little bit more while Roman

Reigns dominates one more day.

And then we can't say he

never beat anybody clean.

That's what I think is going to happen.

I ain't going to lie.

I got low expectations for

this match because I think

night one is the night.

That's the rocks night.

Lowered expectations.

Yeah, indeed.

Well,

so that was a rumor that came out a

couple of weeks ago.

That John Cena, Stone Cold Steve Austin,

and The Undertaker will be

a part of WrestleMania in

some type of capacity.

And then I wondered,

what type of capacity...

Will these three legends be

a part of WrestleMania?

Then I had thought about

that opening sequence, excuse me,

of WrestleMania, where it was The Rock,

Stone Cold, and Hulk Hogan in the ring.

Well,

Hulk Hogan mistakenly said the wrong city,

and The Rock and Stone Cold

had to save him.

And I was like,

maybe they could host WrestleMania.

or they could do the same

thing at WrestleMania,

especially since The

Undertaker is all of a

sudden in the talking mood.

Mark Calloway is out here chatty-patty.

And then I thought about it.

If it's bloodline rules,

and as anything goes,

and as The Rock said,

you can have him at the announcer's table,

Jimmy ringing the bell, and Solo,

you know what I'm saying,

being around the ring in some capacity,

with the wise man running around.

I said to myself, that's a three on three.

So my prediction is Cody

Rhodes will win this match.

He will finish the story.

He's gonna finish the story

because John Cena,

The Undertaker and Stone

Cold Steve Austin,

will stop the interference

of the bloodline,

thus giving Cody Rhodes the

one-on-one that he so

rightfully deserves.

Wow.

Don't y'all want to see the

Rock and Stone Cold hit each other again,

y'all?

Don't y'all want to see that?

Nope.

They older than the WrestleMania number.

Nope.

Well, you're going to see it.

It's going to be nostalgia.

If you want to get a thought

process of what I'm talking about,

go watch Sting versus Triple H,

ladies and gentlemen.

I was literally...

That's what y'all about to get.

Cody Rhodes will win the

Undisputed Universal Championship,

therefore finishing the

story because The Rock, Solo,

and Jimmy will be stopped

by The Undertaker, Stone Cold,

and John Cena.

John Cena gonna beat up Solo.

The Undertaker going to beat

up Jimmy and the Rock and Stone Cold.

Get ready, y'all.

So now with all of this, with all of this,

where does Jay fit in this story,

in this match night thing?

He's going to raise Cody's hand.

Oh, wow.

He's going to raise Cody's

hand because that's the

homie who got me out of all of this.

And then that's when you're

going to see that

WrestleMania 10 type

situation where you see

niggas come down to the ring, you know,

celebrating with the dude

who just won the championship.

However, Camp,

I'm glad that you asked that question.

Mm-hmm.

Well, my prediction is Cody Rose winning.

Here's also something to think about,

and that is Jey.

Also remember what I told

y'all a couple of months

ago when I said it would

not shock me or surprise me

that if Jey Uso was set up

to be the heir to the

tribal chief for Raw.

Where's Cody Rose at on Raw?

It would not shock me or surprise me

that if after all of that,

nobody does come down there to celebrate,

what will happen is that

Jey Uso will super kick

Cody Rhodes to either cost

him that championship and

Roman look and goes, Cuzz-O.

What would not shock me and

surprise me is that after the match,

jay uso congratulates cody

and then he super kicks him

making the first title

defense for cody is jay uso

at wwe black on

wrestlemania backlash

whether it is wrestlemania

night which I doubt I said

it wouldn't surprise me

But I doubt because they

wouldn't want to end

WrestleMania in that way.

They would want to end

WrestleMania on top.

Pyro, boom, boom, boom, and all that.

But it wouldn't surprise me.

But Monday, but on Monday,

Jey Uso could very well

super kick Cody Rhodes to end the show.

You know what?

I'm not mad at the Jey Uso

involvement piece.

Not mad at it.

I like it.

I like it.

Thank you.

It's that week, my G. WrestleMania week.

It's that week.

It's here.

We went through all of this

pomp and circumstance to

get to this point.

So we will see what happens

next week on this show.

We'll talk about night one

And then we're getting a night two,

but we gonna be,

you know what I'm saying?

We gonna be on the first

Black Champ group page,

chatting it up with

everybody on these nights.

But next week, I'm telling you,

it's gonna be some surprises on deck.

And if any of my surprises come through,

whether it is, you know,

Damien Priest trying to cash in,

But CM Punk and the Judgment saying, at,

at, at.

Whether it is Jey Uso having

something to do with Cody

winning or Cody losing.

Because he could also very

well super kick Roman and

get him the hell out of here.

Yeah.

You know, whether it is some heel turns,

some face turns.

It's a lot of black star

power that's going on next week too,

y'all.

So y'all enjoy y'allself in Philly.

Meek Mill try to get from

underneath this Diddy shit.

Because I also believe that

Meek Mill is going to lead

the sisters with suplexes

out to the ring.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Then we're coming out to

Dreams and Nightmares.

Makes sense.

They're going to do the

Dreams and Nightmares performance.

And then the women are going

to come out one by one.

To that thing.

And then they gonna give my

man a high five.

And then they gonna go to the ring.

To face damage control.

It's a lot to be anticipated.

But I can tell you right now.

If my prediction.

Of as Brando just said.

The WWE Avengers.

Stone Cold.

Undertaker.

John Cena.

Comes out there to help Cody

finish the story.

Y'all understand.

That came here first.

Yeah, yeah.

Be clear.

That came in first.

Be clear.

Time stamp that.

We recorded this on March 31st.

Mm-hmm.

Amen.

And y'all ain't seen one

report saying that that's even rumored.

It ain't one.

It don't exist.

The only rumor is them three

will be at WrestleMania.

Ain't no rumor about their involvement,

y'all.

Wait till the end of

WrestleMania night two.

When you hear John Cena's

music pop off and then you

hear The Undertaker and

that motorcycle pop off and

then you hear that glass

shatter and Paul Heyman be

sitting there like and then

they all get pushed out

for Cody and Roman to finish the story.

And then Jey Uso pop out.

And everybody's like, what's Jey gonna do?

And that's all, camp.

Listen, man.

We hope you enjoyed the show today.

We hope you enjoyed this

WrestleMania 40 prediction show.

WrestleMania XL, all right?

A lot of things said today.

And I just want y'all to

remember that the first

Black Champ podcast told you first.

V.

F-B-C-P-O-D.

Let me spell it off for you.

T-H-E-F-B-C-P-O-D.

Told you first.

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You dig?

Take some time to really

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Absolutely fuck Johnny Wrestling.

He ain't winning, huh?

No.

Hey,

and you couldn't even steer the train

to make a victory for DIY, could you?

Nope, couldn't do that one.

No.

It's Black Excellence, y'all.

That's why.

You Pixar face-ass boy.

This is Johnny Wrestling.