<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble is my favorite event of the year. Always

<v Speaker 1>enjoyed the Royal Rumble ever since I was a little monster.

<v Speaker 1>Always my favorite event. So it kills me when we

<v Speaker 1>get one that is mediocre. And that is what the

<v Speaker 1>men's match was here this year in the Royal Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>It was the definition of mediocrity. Funny enough. Mediocrity is

<v Speaker 1>the word that Roman Reigns use when he was on

<v Speaker 1>Pat McAfee show this week when he was doing what

<v Speaker 1>I took to be a mostly in character interview, But

<v Speaker 1>it was a word that he used when he was

<v Speaker 1>on the show the other day talking about the current

<v Speaker 1>crop of young talent in the company. He was remarking,

<v Speaker 1>basically in so many words about waiting for someone to

<v Speaker 1>step up, how he laid the groundwork and kind of

<v Speaker 1>set things up for success, and he's been waiting for

<v Speaker 1>somebody else to step up to the plate and kind

<v Speaker 1>of take the baton and run with it. Talked about

<v Speaker 1>the young talents who he says, complain about guys like

<v Speaker 1>him hogging up all the TV time, which can't possibly

<v Speaker 1>be true of Roman Reigns, because if we get him

<v Speaker 1>three or four times in a six month period, that's

<v Speaker 1>a lot. So I don't know who the young guys

<v Speaker 1>are referring to. You're certainly not Roman Reigns when they

<v Speaker 1>talk about that. But this is part of what he said.

<v Speaker 1>He said, I give them plenty of space to create

<v Speaker 1>whatever type of superstardom they want. Get over, that's what

<v Speaker 1>he says. Get over. Get over kids, you know what

<v Speaker 1>I mean. And we're two years here now, and we

<v Speaker 1>haven't advanced. We haven't evolved. Two years of course, in

<v Speaker 1>reference to the amount of time that has gone by

<v Speaker 1>since he lost the WWE Championship to Cody Roads in

<v Speaker 1>Philadelphia at WrestleMania. Well, he's right about one thing. We

<v Speaker 1>haven't evolved because Romans, the same Roman Reigns who declared

<v Speaker 1>for the Royal Rumble via on screen graphic is your

<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six Royal Rumble winner. Put those fingers to

<v Speaker 1>the sky. The OTC is going to WrestleMania. He has

<v Speaker 1>punched his ticket. And you know, it's funny to listen

<v Speaker 1>to him again, whether in k fab or not, telling

<v Speaker 1>the younger talent to get over. You gotta go out

<v Speaker 1>there and you gotta get over. We haven't advanced, right,

<v Speaker 1>you got you gotta get over someone's got to get over.

<v Speaker 1>And this is from a guy who was pushed very

<v Speaker 1>hard from day one in spite of not being as

<v Speaker 1>over as the company wanted him to be as a babyface. Right.

<v Speaker 1>If anybody in here has been a wrestling fan for

<v Speaker 1>the last decades, you know exactly what I'm talking about,

<v Speaker 1>because it's been eleven years of Roman Reigns. In fact,

<v Speaker 1>it was eleven years ago that Roman Reigns last won

<v Speaker 1>the Royal Rumble. And when he won the Royal Rumble,

<v Speaker 1>he was booed out of the building. They booed the Rock,

<v Speaker 1>the Rock all because he got in the ring and

<v Speaker 1>raised his cousin's arm. They booed the Rock. That is

<v Speaker 1>how much the fans rebelled against what WWE and Vince

<v Speaker 1>McMahon were doing with Roman Reigns all those years ago.

<v Speaker 1>We don't want him, We don't want him as the

<v Speaker 1>top babyface, right, because I think things would have been

<v Speaker 1>very different had they gone and turned Roman heel a

<v Speaker 1>lot earlier than they did.

<v Speaker 2>Now.

<v Speaker 1>In the end, it all worked out. We got the

<v Speaker 1>tribal chief right, So hey, things happened for a reason.

<v Speaker 1>But it really wasn't all that long ago that you

<v Speaker 1>and I can remember a time when Roman Reigns was

<v Speaker 1>being pushed over anybody and everybody else, and at the

<v Speaker 1>expense of other people in the company. And who knows

<v Speaker 1>that those people would have gone on to be bigger

<v Speaker 1>stars or not, But at the expense of everybody else.

<v Speaker 1>It was all about Roman. Roman was the hand pickedure

<v Speaker 1>chosen one, and whether the fans wanted it or not,

<v Speaker 1>whether he was over or not, we're going to push

<v Speaker 1>Roman Reigns. He's our guy. And so here we are,

<v Speaker 1>all these years later. I don't know. It's just funny

<v Speaker 1>to me to hear him making comments like that and saying, well,

<v Speaker 1>you gotta get over. If only everybody would be so

<v Speaker 1>lucky as to have had the endorsement of the men

<v Speaker 1>in charge and be pushed as heavily as he was

<v Speaker 1>all those years ago, perhaps some of them would. But

<v Speaker 1>now he stands before us with his second Royal Rumble win.

<v Speaker 1>He won a Royal Rumble that, as I mentioned before,

<v Speaker 1>the word I would use to describe it as mediocre.

<v Speaker 1>And when it was over, we were faced with either

<v Speaker 1>Roman Reigns now going to wrestle Maya by the way,

<v Speaker 1>going to WrestleMania to break his own record for the

<v Speaker 1>greatest number of main events in WrestleMania history. I'm pretty

<v Speaker 1>sure he already owns the record, especially if you count

<v Speaker 1>these two night WrestleManias in Philadelphia two years ago. He

<v Speaker 1>we got two main events, so he owns the record.

<v Speaker 1>He'll break his own record this year. And now the

<v Speaker 1>question is which championship is he going to challenge for?

<v Speaker 1>Because he must be challenging for a championship even though

<v Speaker 1>he was already the WWE champion for thirteen hundred days.

<v Speaker 1>Why not do it all over again, or at least

<v Speaker 1>he's the possibility. So right now the champions are cmpunk,

<v Speaker 1>he is the World Heavyweight Champion. Andrew McIntyre after tonight

<v Speaker 1>is still the WWE Champion, which I don't think anybody

<v Speaker 1>is surprised about, because I don't know how many people

<v Speaker 1>honestly expected samby Zain to leave Riod as the WWE champion.

<v Speaker 1>Probably not very many, especially judging by the reaction that

<v Speaker 1>that match got Tonight. Roman reigns against cm Punk is

<v Speaker 1>the more interesting of the two options. It's not a

<v Speaker 1>match that I'm necessarily opposed to. There's certainly bad blood,

<v Speaker 1>there's history, there's been Wars of Words between the two men.

<v Speaker 1>We saw the interaction between them and War Games a

<v Speaker 1>couple of years ago, although they seem to be okay

<v Speaker 1>with each each other at the end of War Games

<v Speaker 1>this past year, it was Roman and Cody who were

<v Speaker 1>still teasing a potential issue. But Roman reigns one on one,

<v Speaker 1>not in a triple threat like last year. One on

<v Speaker 1>one with Cempunk is a match that would be a

<v Speaker 1>big match to do and has some appeal. And Roman

<v Speaker 1>a few years ago on a podcast, actually a few

<v Speaker 1>years ago, it was a year ago. He was on

<v Speaker 1>a podcast and he was talking about the World Heavyweight Championship,

<v Speaker 1>which he has always talked about as being beneath the

<v Speaker 1>WWE title, and he was asked, well, how would you

<v Speaker 1>try to increase the value of the World Heavyweight Championship

<v Speaker 1>And he said, well, have me hold it. If I

<v Speaker 1>win it, the value automatically goes up. Without me, it

<v Speaker 1>doesn't mean as much. So maybe they could factor that

<v Speaker 1>into a storyline. I mean, those are comments that you

<v Speaker 1>would think would be brought up right if we end

<v Speaker 1>up getting a storyline between him and Cmpunk, But we

<v Speaker 1>also have the possibility of Roman reigns. Maybe again Drew

<v Speaker 1>McIntyre for the WWE Championship. And again it's not as

<v Speaker 1>a match, It's not a match that I would hate

<v Speaker 1>to see, and there's certainly history there with Drew being

<v Speaker 1>screwed over by Roman in the Bloodline so many times,

<v Speaker 1>and it would be something other than Drew McIntyre against

<v Speaker 1>Cody Rhoades, which I certainly don't want to see again

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania. But there's just something about I don't there's

<v Speaker 1>something about that match. There's something missing there, especially at

<v Speaker 1>the idea is that Roman would go into WrestleMania and

<v Speaker 1>win back the belt, which absolutely should not happen. Let

<v Speaker 1>us not forget that Roman Reigns is not full time.

<v Speaker 1>Roman Rains will never again be a full time performer,

<v Speaker 1>and the idea of putting a championship back on Roman Reigns,

<v Speaker 1>as popular as he is, makes no sense to me whatsoever,

<v Speaker 1>And that really is at the heart of the issue

<v Speaker 1>that I have with him. Even though I predicted him

<v Speaker 1>to win the Rumble, I didn't say I wanted him

<v Speaker 1>to win the Rumble, but it was so obvious to

<v Speaker 1>me that he was very likely going to win the

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble. But I don't have any use of seeing

<v Speaker 1>him holding a championship. We've already seen him with an

<v Speaker 1>iron fist ruling for thirteen hundred days as the WWE champion,

<v Speaker 1>and what a run it was that he had. But

<v Speaker 1>now it's over and it's time for other people to

<v Speaker 1>take the title and take the mantle, right, take the

<v Speaker 1>baton and run with it, and Roman he could be

<v Speaker 1>a special attraction on the show, but yet here he is,

<v Speaker 1>yet again, back in the main event, challenging for a title.

<v Speaker 1>We're also faced with a possibility, of very real possibility

<v Speaker 1>that Drew McIntyre may not make it into WrestleMania as

<v Speaker 1>the WWE champion. There are reports out there that he's

<v Speaker 1>supposed to and he's going to walk in there as

<v Speaker 1>the champion. There have been a lot of reports and

<v Speaker 1>fifty percent of him might be right, fifty percent of

<v Speaker 1>him probably or not. Plans also change, which if you

<v Speaker 1>watch WWE Unreal, you would know that very well. We

<v Speaker 1>could very well have Cody Rhodes winning back the championship

<v Speaker 1>at the Elimination Chamber. Now he could be in the

<v Speaker 1>elimination Chamber, but he could also win the belt back

<v Speaker 1>of the elimination Chamber McIntyre is the one who helped

<v Speaker 1>eliminate Cody Rhodes from the Royal Rumbleton Night. The issue

<v Speaker 1>between the two of them is far from over. So

<v Speaker 1>if Cody were to win the championship back, I mean,

<v Speaker 1>Roman's gonna have to make a choice soon. I don't

<v Speaker 1>think there's a time limit, but maybe there is. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know. It all depends, I guess on when he

<v Speaker 1>makes his decision. Elimination Chamber is still a month out,

<v Speaker 1>but the possibility of Cody Roman three is still very

<v Speaker 1>much alive. Another match that I do not need to

<v Speaker 1>see again at WrestleMania for what would that be the

<v Speaker 1>third time in four years? Yeah, no, thank you. I

<v Speaker 1>don't look at this as being a lot of great options.

<v Speaker 1>It just feels like old hat. It just feels like

<v Speaker 1>we're going back to the same well that we always

<v Speaker 1>go to because we're just too afraid. We're just too

<v Speaker 1>afraid to break out of that and try something a

<v Speaker 1>little bit different. Talk about playing it's safe. I use

<v Speaker 1>that term before when it comes to Triple H and WWE.

<v Speaker 1>Of course, for them it's understandable because it's the easy

<v Speaker 1>thing to do. You just go at your big stars

<v Speaker 1>who no one is saying Roman is not over. You

<v Speaker 1>heard the reaction he got when he came out tonight.

<v Speaker 1>But for them it's very easy, Well, let just go

<v Speaker 1>with our big stars. They're the ones that are going

<v Speaker 1>to be the most recognizable, They're the ones that are

<v Speaker 1>going to be the most well liked in theory, they're

<v Speaker 1>the ones that are going to be on the marquee,

<v Speaker 1>and we can market wrestle Mania around and we'll just

<v Speaker 1>keep doing that until it doesn't work anymore. It was

<v Speaker 1>a good night though in the Rumble for a few

<v Speaker 1>people other than Roman Reigns. Powerhouse Hobbs, who made the

<v Speaker 1>jump from AW to WWE made his debut in the

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble, actually coming out to that name before it

<v Speaker 1>quickly transitioned into his new name. It's the same thing

<v Speaker 1>they did with Kenta many years ago when he debuted

<v Speaker 1>an NXT right it was Kenta and then it changed

<v Speaker 1>to Hideo A Tommy. So they did that with Powerhouse Hobbs,

<v Speaker 1>and it was good to see him in that match,

<v Speaker 1>and I hope the best for him. He took a

<v Speaker 1>chance on himself. He wanted to try something different, new surroundings,

<v Speaker 1>new people to work with new opportunities, new horizons. I

<v Speaker 1>hope he finds all the fame and fortune he's looking for.

<v Speaker 1>No Chris Jericho in the Royal Rumble. I can't say

<v Speaker 1>that I'm terribly disappointed by this, mildly surprised, But we

<v Speaker 1>talked about this in the lead up to the Rumble,

<v Speaker 1>where there's a chance that maybe, you know, especially in

<v Speaker 1>Jericho's mind, he would rather come back and have a

<v Speaker 1>return that is, you know, kind of divorced from all

<v Speaker 1>the noise of the Royal Rumble, where you have other

<v Speaker 1>people who were making their return or other people who

<v Speaker 1>were making their debut. He's one of many, and maybe

<v Speaker 1>it's better of his return because it would be a

<v Speaker 1>big deal him coming back first time, back in what

<v Speaker 1>seven or eight years. Let it breathe and stand on

<v Speaker 1>its own. I have every expectation that we're going to

<v Speaker 1>be seeing Jericho and aj Lee back on television very soon.

<v Speaker 1>Aj Lee was another one who surprised me. She was

<v Speaker 1>not in the Women's Royal Rumble, but I have every

<v Speaker 1>reason to believe that she will be the one wrestling

<v Speaker 1>Becky Lynja Wrestlemaniam. So those were two surprising things in

<v Speaker 1>terms of who did not show up on the show tonight,

<v Speaker 1>but for NXT. You look at the NXT influence in

<v Speaker 1>both of these rumbles, right, it was very evident in

<v Speaker 1>terms of people who either were making their first appearance

<v Speaker 1>or were recently called up. Obafemi made his debut main

<v Speaker 1>roster debut here in the Royal Rumble. You have other

<v Speaker 1>names also, like Javon Evans, who recently became full time

<v Speaker 1>on Monday Night Row. Javon Evans was in the Rumble

<v Speaker 1>tonight for over forty minutes. Not bad, not bad for

<v Speaker 1>his first Rumble Soul Ruka Lola Wee, j C Jane Right,

<v Speaker 1>I mean there was a lot of NXT in flow,

<v Speaker 1>Trick Williams, a lot of XT influence on the show.

<v Speaker 1>And that's great because they need these guys to get over.

<v Speaker 1>They need these guys and gals to kind of take

<v Speaker 1>that spotlight and run with it and become the next

<v Speaker 1>Roman Reigns, become the next big star Rhea Ripley, whoever.

<v Speaker 1>Because this is this is where we are right now.

<v Speaker 1>You know, there's a lot of guys on that roster

<v Speaker 1>who have been around forever and after a while it

<v Speaker 1>gets old and you're just looking for new stars to

<v Speaker 1>step up, and we kind of got a little bit

<v Speaker 1>of a taste of that tonight. Right, They're not quite

<v Speaker 1>there yet, but it's encouraging, right, there's hope for the future.

<v Speaker 1>So it was a good night for Obafemi and a

<v Speaker 1>lot of those names. And you know the thing about it, though,

<v Speaker 1>I joke about Triple H when he makes I mean,

<v Speaker 1>how many fucking times do we hear from Triple H

<v Speaker 1>about oh, it's a new era tonight, it's the start

<v Speaker 1>of a new How many fucking times as he said

<v Speaker 1>this in the last few months, Right, So there he

<v Speaker 1>is on the Post Show and he's talking about the

<v Speaker 1>Royal rumble and he makes a comment about how it's

<v Speaker 1>a new era. I don't even care if it makes

<v Speaker 1>sense in the context that he was using it in today,

<v Speaker 1>there's no way that he is oblivious to the fact

<v Speaker 1>that we have at least one new era every month

<v Speaker 1>from Triple Ah. He does it on purpose. At this point,

<v Speaker 1>I'm convinced he does it on purpose every month we

<v Speaker 1>have a new I can't wait to find out what

<v Speaker 1>the new era in the month of February is going

<v Speaker 1>to be. What do you think the new era in

<v Speaker 1>March and then April. April's WrestleMania. That's going to be

<v Speaker 1>a big new era. I can't wait to find out. So, yes,

<v Speaker 1>if you were wondering on the postion of Triple H,

<v Speaker 1>did mention yet another new era. So if you have

<v Speaker 1>that on your bingo card, or if you're playing a

<v Speaker 1>drinking game, go ahead and take a shot. So there

<v Speaker 1>were a few positive takeaways from this year's Royal Rumble,

<v Speaker 1>not enough to make this a great show. A few

<v Speaker 1>fun moments or a few positive takeaways, that's great, right,

<v Speaker 1>that's better than none. But this was not a great show.

<v Speaker 1>This was not a great Royal Rumble. The best thing

<v Speaker 1>on the Royal Rumble was actually neither of the Rumble

<v Speaker 1>matches themselves. The best thing on the Royal Rumble card

<v Speaker 1>here was actually the saddest thing on the show, which

<v Speaker 1>was aj Styles for the final time inside a WWE ring.

<v Speaker 1>He did, in fact step in there with Gunther and

<v Speaker 1>he lost. He lost in a match that was exactly

<v Speaker 1>what I would have wanted the John Cena match to

<v Speaker 1>be at Saturday Night's main event, and you would think

<v Speaker 1>it would have been because John Cena. I mean, look

<v Speaker 1>in the context of WWE, Sena was around longer. Scena

<v Speaker 1>was far more important to WWE and a bigger star

<v Speaker 1>in WWE than AJ Styles was. But aj had the

<v Speaker 1>sendoff match with Gunther that Sena should have had. I

<v Speaker 1>loved everything about the match itself. I thought the match

<v Speaker 1>was great. It was easily the best thing on the

<v Speaker 1>entire show. It was an emotional roller coaster with a

<v Speaker 1>lot of the near falls, and the fans were in

<v Speaker 1>and of course they would be because the stipulation. How

<v Speaker 1>can you not be AJ is this beloved figure in

<v Speaker 1>the company. He's been wrestling all these years, and now

<v Speaker 1>the possibility that his career could be over. You knew

<v Speaker 1>that that stipulation was going to make every near fall

<v Speaker 1>in that match, every submission hole, that much more dramatic.

<v Speaker 1>I thought it would happen in April. We got it

<v Speaker 1>a lot sooner than I thought we would. But it's

<v Speaker 1>still sad because he lost. And no, I don't think

<v Speaker 1>that he you know, he's going to go back on

<v Speaker 1>his word or at some kind of angle at least

<v Speaker 1>in WWE. AJ Styles is done. And that really is

<v Speaker 1>the question, which we'll get into later. Is he truly done?

<v Speaker 1>Is he done done? Or is he only done in WWE?

<v Speaker 1>The way Triple H was talking about it on the

<v Speaker 1>Post show, you know, he made it sound like AJ

<v Speaker 1>told him he's no, he's done, like fully done. Whether

<v Speaker 1>or not you you know, believe that. Whether or not

<v Speaker 1>that's the case, that remains to be seen. The Women's

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble, the Women's Royal Rubble clear the Men's Royal

<v Speaker 1>Rumble this year. I don't think I would have said

<v Speaker 1>that last year. I remember thinking the men's Rumble last

<v Speaker 1>year was actually very good. I know a lot of

<v Speaker 1>people shit on it because jay Uso won and everything,

<v Speaker 1>but I actually thought it was a very strong men's

<v Speaker 1>rumble last year. The Women's Rumble was easily the better

<v Speaker 1>of the two this year, at least the second half

<v Speaker 1>of it. The first half was just the definition of

<v Speaker 1>mid and then in the second half is where it

<v Speaker 1>really picked up. But I actually thought the finish was

<v Speaker 1>very dramatic and very well done. Liv Morgan is going

<v Speaker 1>to WrestleMania. She is going to challenge the champion of

<v Speaker 1>her choice. And boy, you know, Bianca bel air Man,

<v Speaker 1>she must be super fucked up and she was not

<v Speaker 1>in the Rumble, and so that just makes me sad,

<v Speaker 1>but I have no issue with Live winning. I figured,

<v Speaker 1>if I said it the other day, Bianca is not

<v Speaker 1>in the Rumble, Live is my pick to win. I

<v Speaker 1>think it's well deserved. She's one of the biggest stars

<v Speaker 1>in the company, really, but certainly on Monday nightra and

<v Speaker 1>so I have no issue with her going to WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>and wrestling for a championship. One of the surprises that

<v Speaker 1>we got on the show, and I wouldn't say it

<v Speaker 1>was a night where we had a ton of surprises,

<v Speaker 1>there were a few in the rumble matches. One of

<v Speaker 1>the surprises I legitimately was not expecting, Like I knew

<v Speaker 1>Nikki Bella was going to be in the Rumble. It

<v Speaker 1>was kind of spoiled the other day because somebody had

<v Speaker 1>uploaded a video they were testing inside the stadium, the

<v Speaker 1>screens and everything, and her tron was there, her logo

<v Speaker 1>was there, So I knew she was going to be there.

<v Speaker 1>What I was not anticipating was I'm sitting here and

<v Speaker 1>I'm doing my notes, and I'm looking over and I'm

<v Speaker 1>watching the Rumble and then I hear bream Moud, and

<v Speaker 1>I I know that many of you probably immediately ran

<v Speaker 1>to Twitter to see and I reacted instantly, and what

<v Speaker 1>I typed out on Twitter was my actual instant reaction.

<v Speaker 1>Oh god, no, as soon as I heard it. As

<v Speaker 1>soon as I heard it, But would you believe that,

<v Speaker 1>of all the people that we saw on the show tonight,

<v Speaker 1>if you had to rank them and have a top five,

<v Speaker 1>a top three of who got the biggest and best

<v Speaker 1>reactions of anybody on the entire show, Fucking Brebella got

<v Speaker 1>one of the biggest reactions of anybody on the entire show.

<v Speaker 1>I mean this stadium. And whether you want to attribute

<v Speaker 1>it to who she's married to because they were doing yes, Chap,

<v Speaker 1>doesn't matter. She came out this place, went absolutely out

<v Speaker 1>of their minds. And I don't know what that says

<v Speaker 1>about us as a people that, in twenty twenty six,

<v Speaker 1>the Bella Twins and Bribella are the most overthing on

<v Speaker 1>the show that I was not expecting, But as soon

<v Speaker 1>as I heard, as soon as I heard the opening chords,

<v Speaker 1>it was just the memories that came flooding back into

<v Speaker 1>my head. If you remember the MRI story that I

<v Speaker 1>told on the podcast many years ago, this is where

<v Speaker 1>it all goes back to. This is where It all

<v Speaker 1>goes back to I had an MRI many years ago

<v Speaker 1>for something, and if you have ever had an MRI,

<v Speaker 1>you got it lay very still inside this tube and

<v Speaker 1>it could be claustrophobic. But they let you listen to music,

<v Speaker 1>and I said, great, I have my phone or whatever.

<v Speaker 1>You can play music. I had a wrestling playlist and

<v Speaker 1>it's randomized. Just play it. And let me tell you something.

<v Speaker 1>You haven't lived until you have laid still unable to

<v Speaker 1>move inside of an MRI machine. When bre mode comes on,

<v Speaker 1>A single tear began to fall down my face. So yes,

<v Speaker 1>I had a little PTSD when they hit that music.

<v Speaker 1>But my god, I was not expecting that reaction. Drew McIntyre, Yes,

<v Speaker 1>that's exactly what it is. Anobie Drew McIntyre and Sammy's Aan.

<v Speaker 1>That was the other match on the show. Not a

<v Speaker 1>lot of matches on the show, but that was the

<v Speaker 1>other match on the show, WWE Championship match. As I'm

<v Speaker 1>not going to say it was a bad match any

<v Speaker 1>other night, any night in general, it would be a

<v Speaker 1>good match, but at best, that's all it was. It

<v Speaker 1>did not have any sort of real heat, it did

<v Speaker 1>not have any sort of reaction that would indicate people

<v Speaker 1>were terribly invested in this match, which I will say

<v Speaker 1>was surprising given how popular Sammy's Ain is over there

<v Speaker 1>in Saudi Arabia. I mean every time he goes there now,

<v Speaker 1>they'd cheer for him. Know, he's like a returning hero,

<v Speaker 1>and he got a positive reception. You mean, you heard

<v Speaker 1>it on SmackDown last night, but this was as heatless

<v Speaker 1>a WWE Championship match. It's kind of sad for me

<v Speaker 1>to sit here and tell you that the WWE title

<v Speaker 1>match was the come doown match. It was almost like,

<v Speaker 1>you know, you've heard about the piss break match, right,

<v Speaker 1>That's kind of what this was on this show. And

<v Speaker 1>Drew McIntyre wins. He is now twelve to zero in

<v Speaker 1>his career against Sammy's Ain. He's running up the score

<v Speaker 1>and that was it. But I think a lot of

<v Speaker 1>it also had to do, frankly, with the fact that

<v Speaker 1>they were in a terrible spot on this show because

<v Speaker 1>this match came immediately after the AJ Styles match with

<v Speaker 1>Gunther where AJ was retired and people were just stunned

<v Speaker 1>and sad and disappointed. It's like when the Undertaker Street

<v Speaker 1>came to an end at WrestleMania. I want to say

<v Speaker 1>it was maybe the Diva's Battle Royal or there was

<v Speaker 1>some sort of divas match. I think that came right

<v Speaker 1>after it. I was in the building for that WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>and I vaguely even remember what came after. Like it's

<v Speaker 1>weird how your memory works, what you remember and what

<v Speaker 1>you don't. Everything else after that, except for the main event,

<v Speaker 1>was just a blur, but I vaguely remember. I think

<v Speaker 1>it was a women's match and aj Lee won and

<v Speaker 1>Vicky Guerrero was out there, but it's like spotty, you know,

<v Speaker 1>in my memory. So when you have this big dramatic

<v Speaker 1>finish to a match, especially something that's just shocking, it

<v Speaker 1>definitely like I wouldn't want to have to go out

<v Speaker 1>there and follow that. So I definitely think there was

<v Speaker 1>some of that going on in that match. But when

<v Speaker 1>the show was over, the word I kept coming back

<v Speaker 1>to was underwhelmed. I was underwhelmed by this year's Royal Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>And let me tell you, there was some horres booking

<v Speaker 1>and just bizarre decisions that were made in terms of

<v Speaker 1>some of the things that were done, in particular during

<v Speaker 1>the men's match and when it came to certain spots

<v Speaker 1>and eliminations, Like my mind is still blown that brock

<v Speaker 1>Lesner was eliminated from the Royal Rumble while jay Usso

<v Speaker 1>was still yeating in the middle of his Forever entrance,

<v Speaker 1>Like I'm watching this going what the fuck? Who the fuck? Book?

<v Speaker 1>That there were just and there were certain eliminations that

<v Speaker 1>should have been more impactful and should have meant more

<v Speaker 1>than they did, and they were just kind of done.

<v Speaker 1>And I don't know, there were a lot of very

<v Speaker 1>bizarre things that happened in that match. But yeah, the

<v Speaker 1>jay Uso entrance, some people say it still might be

<v Speaker 1>going on. I'm not sure the entrance is even done.

<v Speaker 1>I'll let you know when it is, because we're gonna

<v Speaker 1>go through this entire show here. This is your twenty

<v Speaker 1>twenty six Royal Rumble review. I am the solom Monster.

<v Speaker 1>I want to thank you for joining me here on

<v Speaker 1>a Saturday night. It was a little bit different than

<v Speaker 1>usual because the Royal Rumble for the first time was

<v Speaker 1>at two o'clock in the afternoon Eastern time. We've never

<v Speaker 1>had a Royal Rumble that early before because they were

<v Speaker 1>over in Riods. So this is certainly a change normally

<v Speaker 1>I'd be watching the Rumble and probably going live in

<v Speaker 1>a couple of hours, but it's nice to be live

<v Speaker 1>with you a little bit earlier than usual. Like and subscribe.

<v Speaker 1>Super chats are open or I will open them back

<v Speaker 1>up here in a moment. We do have a bonus

<v Speaker 1>goal superchat goal going on in the chat. Gee, I

<v Speaker 1>wonder if there may be a if there might be

<v Speaker 1>a certain donation that pops up tonight. I guess we'll

<v Speaker 1>find out. But get those messages in. I'm going to

<v Speaker 1>be reading them. I want to know what you guys

<v Speaker 1>thought genuinely of these royal rumble matches in this entire show,

<v Speaker 1>So get them on in. And also, you knew we

<v Speaker 1>were going to do this. We have to bring out

<v Speaker 1>the wheel. So what we do here I new here

<v Speaker 1>we usually have a likes goal. There's a little segment

<v Speaker 1>at the end we we do called be the Booker,

<v Speaker 1>which is unique to this channel, and so we have

<v Speaker 1>to hit the number of likes needed to do be

<v Speaker 1>the Booker. And I'm going to take this wheel for

<v Speaker 1>a spin real quick, and we're going to find out

<v Speaker 1>how many likes you guys need to get for us

<v Speaker 1>to do be the Booker. Oh, this is this is

<v Speaker 1>not even fair. Have we already hit that goal? We've

<v Speaker 1>already I think, okay, well, we can't do that. We've

<v Speaker 1>already we've already broken that three hundred and sixty one likes.

<v Speaker 1>We're over four hundred already. We tried this one more time.

<v Speaker 1>I think, I see, I should have changed the values

<v Speaker 1>on here, okay, four thirty two word four forty okay,

<v Speaker 1>So basically the wheel is useless tonight, and be the

<v Speaker 1>booker is guaranteed, So I see, my my fuck up.

<v Speaker 1>I should have I should have changed the values on

<v Speaker 1>there for tonight. Anyway, that's the first time that's ever happened,

<v Speaker 1>by the way, where you've already smashed the goal before

<v Speaker 1>the wheel even stops spinning. How about that? That is

<v Speaker 1>the best, isn't it? I think it is all right.

<v Speaker 1>Let's get into this here, so at least you know

<v Speaker 1>you're getting one round later. Fair? Fair is hey? Fair

<v Speaker 1>is fair? I should you know what though, I should

<v Speaker 1>double it. Let's make it six hundred. How about that?

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna I'm gonna overrule that six hundred minimum? Six

<v Speaker 1>hundred minimum? The hell am I doing so? At the

<v Speaker 1>beginning of the show, of course, Triple h was featured

<v Speaker 1>heavily in the opening intro v. He's also, by the way,

<v Speaker 1>on one of the covers for WWE two K twenty six.

<v Speaker 1>There is a King of Kings edition of the game

<v Speaker 1>coming out. Somebody told me it's one hundred and fifty dollars.

<v Speaker 1>Oh boy, yeah, one hundred and fifty bucks. So anyway,

<v Speaker 1>he opened the show and it's basically him walking the halls,

<v Speaker 1>and they have images of different people winning the Royal

<v Speaker 1>Rumble over the years, and then of course culminating with him.

<v Speaker 1>He won the Royal Rumble twice. So there he is

<v Speaker 1>walking around and this has become a signature of his

<v Speaker 1>where he's got to be a part of all of

<v Speaker 1>this stuff. In case you didn't know, this is the

<v Speaker 1>Paul Lavec era, another new era of WWE. Let me

<v Speaker 1>talk about the location in the stadium here, because I

<v Speaker 1>know that there was and there is in the chat

<v Speaker 1>a lot being made of this. This was the first

<v Speaker 1>major pl in Saudi Arabia. Up to this point. We've

<v Speaker 1>had Crown Jewel and Super Showdown. We had the Greatest

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble. That was the first one I think they

<v Speaker 1>did back in twenty eighteen, and there have been some

<v Speaker 1>great shows too that they've done in Saudi. You know,

<v Speaker 1>first they were like these special shows, and then after

<v Speaker 1>a while you would actually see title changes and you

<v Speaker 1>would see things that were actually important on those shows.

<v Speaker 1>But we've never had a Royal Rumble or a WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>or a Summer Slam. I mean, a Summer Slim in

<v Speaker 1>the Middle East sounds like just hell on Earth. But

<v Speaker 1>the Royal Rumble coming to Saudi, this was a first

<v Speaker 1>time ever thing and they had an empty what was

<v Speaker 1>an empty parking lot. It's like WrestleMania nine, where they

<v Speaker 1>had the parking lot at Caesar's Palace and they had

<v Speaker 1>to construct their own arena, their own stadium for the show.

<v Speaker 1>In this case, they had about a month to build

<v Speaker 1>a twenty five thousand seat outdoor stadium for the show.

<v Speaker 1>And as sad as it is for me to say,

<v Speaker 1>the literal build of the stadium for the Royal Rumble

<v Speaker 1>was far more interesting than the build for this show,

<v Speaker 1>but they got it done very impressive. It was just

<v Speaker 1>a massive I guess it's made entirely out of scaffolding,

<v Speaker 1>I think they said, And they claimed they had twenty

<v Speaker 1>five thousand people there. The problem is the stadium looked

<v Speaker 1>more than half empty when the show started because they

<v Speaker 1>have this gimmick where every seat, like it must be

<v Speaker 1>the back of every seat has like an LED light.

<v Speaker 1>Now this it kind of reminded me if you remember

<v Speaker 1>the first raw on Netflix last year that they did

<v Speaker 1>from that newer arena in LA and you saw like

<v Speaker 1>little dots out in the crew. I think they had

<v Speaker 1>something similar, but I don't remember looking like this where

<v Speaker 1>it made the arena look like it was empty. So

<v Speaker 1>I'm watching this and I'm like, this is fucking horrendous.

<v Speaker 1>This looks awful because I know I can hear people,

<v Speaker 1>I know they're there, but it literally legitimately looked like

<v Speaker 1>I'm watching the Royal Rumble in a half empty building.

<v Speaker 1>And thankfully, I would say maybe not even midway through

<v Speaker 1>the Women's Rumble, they either saw the same thing or

<v Speaker 1>they at least were looking on social media and they

<v Speaker 1>were being savaged over this, and somebody had the good

<v Speaker 1>sense to turn those lights off and then they only

<v Speaker 1>use them, I think during the entrances, and then it

<v Speaker 1>looked a little bit bit. Honestly, it's still looked kind

<v Speaker 1>of empty. I don't know if it was the way

<v Speaker 1>it was lit. I don't know. There were pictures from

<v Speaker 1>inside the stadium, but people like, hey, we got people here,

<v Speaker 1>so I know they were there, but just I'm talking aesthetically. Visually,

<v Speaker 1>it looked fucking terrible. Don't ever use those lights again,

<v Speaker 1>because we're getting WrestleMania in Saudi next year. Can you

<v Speaker 1>imagine looking around. I don't know where WrestleMania is even

<v Speaker 1>gonna be, uh, but I'm sure it'll be some big stadium.

<v Speaker 1>And yeah, if they have these lights again, it's just

<v Speaker 1>gonna look horrendous. So thankfully they at least turn them off.

<v Speaker 1>But then I also saw people saying, man, you know,

<v Speaker 1>there were no reactions on this show was so quiet. Man,

<v Speaker 1>the crowd sucked. They weren't making any noise. We're gonna

<v Speaker 1>get WrestleMania and no one's gonna be making a sound.

<v Speaker 1>There were parts of the show, in particular during the

<v Speaker 1>women's rumble or certain people who would come out during

<v Speaker 1>the rumbles where it was like you could hear a

<v Speaker 1>pin drop. But I think people are over exaggerating, Like

<v Speaker 1>the stuff that you would expect to get a reaction

<v Speaker 1>on the show got loud reactions on the show, like

<v Speaker 1>I'm watching the aj styles and gunther match and the

<v Speaker 1>crowd's fucking loud. They're into it. The big spots and

<v Speaker 1>moments during the rumbles, they were loud, they were into it.

<v Speaker 1>So sure there were moments like that during the show,

<v Speaker 1>but I think people are over exaggerating the crowd noise

<v Speaker 1>stuff when it comes to the show. I mean, to

<v Speaker 1>hear some people talk about it, you would think that

<v Speaker 1>it was just Stone silent the entire time. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know what show you were watching. I heard noise. I

<v Speaker 1>just couldn't see the fucking people, but I heard noise,

<v Speaker 1>so I knew they were there. They opened with the

<v Speaker 1>thirty woman Royal Rumble match, with Charlotte Flair out at

<v Speaker 1>number one. She was the winner of last year's Royal

<v Speaker 1>Rumble and number two, wouldn't you know, completely at random

<v Speaker 1>her tag team partner Alexa Bliss. So Charlotte. She did

<v Speaker 1>tease eliminating Alexa, but ultimately they decided to just wait

<v Speaker 1>for number three to emerge, and that ended up being

<v Speaker 1>Keana James and Keana James went on a little run

<v Speaker 1>of offense. Ultimately, though Charlexa, they double teamed her until

<v Speaker 1>Naya Jacks rumbled out to the ring in number four.

<v Speaker 1>Number four, by the way, was my draw for our

<v Speaker 1>royal rumble pool in the Facebook group, so I was

<v Speaker 1>hoping that number four would win either in the men's

<v Speaker 1>rumble or the women's rumble. And then I saw Nya

<v Speaker 1>Jax come out and I said fac So I said,

<v Speaker 1>I guess we're gonna wait for the men's rumble and

<v Speaker 1>see who comes out of number four. Number five was

<v Speaker 1>Ivy Nile, who came out to chance of you Suck

<v Speaker 1>to her American Maid theme. It's got that curd angle

<v Speaker 1>kind of beat to it, so to the American Maid theme,

<v Speaker 1>they were chanting you suck. Number six was Lolavice from NXT,

<v Speaker 1>making her main roster debut. She doled out some spin

<v Speaker 1>kicks to everybody and took Charlotte down with the German

<v Speaker 1>suplex and she was pretty over. Now for somebody who's

<v Speaker 1>never appeared on the main roster before, she was pretty over.

<v Speaker 1>So Keana at one point got Naya up on her

<v Speaker 1>shoulders and took her down for a samo and drop.

<v Speaker 1>Candice Larray came out at number seven. My god, this music.

<v Speaker 1>She came out to the most just generic catalog music

<v Speaker 1>that you could possibly find. Like legitimately, Deaf Rebel is

<v Speaker 1>sitting there probably going all right, let's go through this.

<v Speaker 1>K you know what, this song sounds good. We'll just

<v Speaker 1>go with this, the most generic shit that you could buy. Like,

<v Speaker 1>nobody even knew who was coming out. They didn't care,

<v Speaker 1>not that they would have popped if you know, Candace

<v Speaker 1>Lray had a bitch and theme because what are they

<v Speaker 1>doing with Candice Larray on TV? So that coupled with

<v Speaker 1>the fact that they had no idea who it was,

<v Speaker 1>she got no reaction coming out. This is also the

<v Speaker 1>point in the Rumble where they find turned those awful

<v Speaker 1>led lights off. So Jordan Grace entered at number eight

<v Speaker 1>in the Rumble. Here, she wasn't wearing her silver surfer

<v Speaker 1>outfit that she was wearing backstage on SmackDown Friday Night.

<v Speaker 1>She had a different one on, and almost instantly she

<v Speaker 1>dumped out Candace and Lola, and then she eliminated Ivy Nile.

<v Speaker 1>Nya put a stop to her momentum and Nya Jax

<v Speaker 1>ended up out on the Apron with Alexa Bliss as

<v Speaker 1>Alexa and Charlotte. They were both trying to get rid

<v Speaker 1>of Naya. Alexa was on the apron, Charlotte was in

<v Speaker 1>the ring. So Charlotte hits the ropes on the opposite side.

<v Speaker 1>She comes off with a big boot. The only problem

<v Speaker 1>is she booted Naya. As Nya went off the apron,

<v Speaker 1>I think she grabbed onto Alexa, Alexa goes with her,

<v Speaker 1>and so because Charlotte booted Nya, it ended up eliminating

<v Speaker 1>Alexa Bliss in the process, her own partner, her own friend.

<v Speaker 1>So Alexa is looking up at Charlotte and she can't

<v Speaker 1>believe it. Charlotte was not happy about what happened. She

<v Speaker 1>didn't mean to do it, or did she. So that's

<v Speaker 1>going to be a problem for the two of them.

<v Speaker 1>Now coming out of this, one would think Becky Lynch

<v Speaker 1>was out next to number nine, and we got Charlotte

<v Speaker 1>and Becky fighting it out briefly and so then ended

<v Speaker 1>up outside under the bottom rope fighting over by the

<v Speaker 1>announced desk was Charlotte and Becky Again, they didn't go

<v Speaker 1>out over the top, so they're still in. When sol

<v Speaker 1>Ruka from NXT, that's what she does right. Ruca comes

<v Speaker 1>out gets a pretty good reaction. At number ten. The

<v Speaker 1>fans were hyped for a confrontation with her and Becky,

<v Speaker 1>and she put Becky down. Then she took down Keana

<v Speaker 1>and Jordan with a double drop kick off the middle rope.

<v Speaker 1>Roxane Perez who set the record last year in the

<v Speaker 1>Rumble for the longest stay ever in a women's Royal Rumble,

<v Speaker 1>she was the runner up with Charlotte. She was in

<v Speaker 1>that rumble last year for one hour seven minutes, so

<v Speaker 1>she was in next. Maxine Dupree was number twelve. She

<v Speaker 1>went right after Becky Lynch and then at number thirteen

<v Speaker 1>it was not Natalia, it was Natty and she still

<v Speaker 1>has that Brett Hart guitar riff at the beginning, but

<v Speaker 1>it's new music now that she has. So she ran

<v Speaker 1>down to the ring. She went after Maxine, who ended

<v Speaker 1>up getting Natty in an ankle lock. Becky though snuck

<v Speaker 1>up with a manhandle slam, and then Becky Lynch dumped

<v Speaker 1>Maxine out of the ring like nothing. So she beat

<v Speaker 1>Maxine to get her belt back and then just to

<v Speaker 1>put the cherry on top, she eliminated her from the

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble as well. I don't know why you wouldn't

<v Speaker 1>have had Natty do that, but what do I know.

<v Speaker 1>So Maxine was dumped out. Becky then tried to dump

<v Speaker 1>out Natty from behind. That was a mistake, it did

<v Speaker 1>not work. And then Natty, this was a surprise. Natty

<v Speaker 1>eliminates Becky Lynch. I wasn't expecting that. So I guess

<v Speaker 1>maybe that's now going to set up an intercontinental title

<v Speaker 1>match between the two of them on TV, because you know,

<v Speaker 1>Natty did say she was coming after Becky's belt. Becky

<v Speaker 1>talked about that in a backstage promo on Monday, So

<v Speaker 1>I guess that feeds into an upcoming match between the

<v Speaker 1>two of them. Liv Morgan was out next to number

<v Speaker 1>fourteen and immediately hit an oblivion on Keana James. So

<v Speaker 1>keeping track so far, that is two of the three

<v Speaker 1>Judgment Day ladies in the ring. Number fifteen now there

<v Speaker 1>he is again. Look at this even in wax form,

<v Speaker 1>Triple H has to have his face all over. Everything

<v Speaker 1>just popped up on my screen. SMG Kobe for the

<v Speaker 1>four ninety nine solo you ruined my night. I had

<v Speaker 1>number one in the Facebook pool Oba was eliminated by

<v Speaker 1>Brock and in my shock, I then hear ooh, so

<v Speaker 1>wait to kick a man when he's down What are

<v Speaker 1>you blaming me for? How was that my fucking f

<v Speaker 1>It's not my fucking fault. I don't know why you're

<v Speaker 1>blaming me. I didn't send him out there. Number fifteen

<v Speaker 1>was Lash Legend. Now, if you remember what I said

<v Speaker 1>in my Rumble predictions, I had tabbed her for the

<v Speaker 1>monster spot and the most eliminations in the women's Rumble

<v Speaker 1>this year. It just felt to me like this would

<v Speaker 1>be the perfect spot for her. They see big things

<v Speaker 1>in her future, and I just said she would be

<v Speaker 1>perfect for that spot. So she came in at number

<v Speaker 1>fifteen and immediately a double choke slam to live in

<v Speaker 1>Keana soul Ruka did a springboard off the ropes, and

<v Speaker 1>Lash just booted her out of mid air. So Legend

<v Speaker 1>ended up on the apron with Jordan.

<v Speaker 2>Grace, the Amazing goom thar Oh Boy, Jerry Maler loves

<v Speaker 2>goomhar the Magnificent, All hell, Goomfal.

<v Speaker 1>I will bow down, All hail Row Row Roman reiins

<v Speaker 1>gently down the street. All Hail the Mighty gunhar Row

<v Speaker 1>row Roman reiins gently down the street. Yeah, row him

<v Speaker 1>right back into the main event of WrestleMania. Well, now,

<v Speaker 1>thank you, thank you for the super chat, says I

<v Speaker 1>was saying, Lash ended up on the apron with Jordan Grace,

<v Speaker 1>had her on her shoulders and then just dumped her

<v Speaker 1>to the floor just like that. Jordan Grace is eliminated.

<v Speaker 1>Number sixteen was Zelena Vega. Oh my god, Number sixteen.

<v Speaker 1>Zelena Vega comes out brother. Her music gets a negative

<v Speaker 1>reaction every time she comes. It's like the fans are

<v Speaker 1>actively recoiling when she comes out, Like if it was possible,

<v Speaker 1>if it was possible to get a negative pop to

<v Speaker 1>your music, this song does it every single time it hits.

<v Speaker 1>And it actually takes me about five seconds if I

<v Speaker 1>don't look at the screen where her name is up there,

<v Speaker 1>it takes me a good five seconds before I could

<v Speaker 1>even figure out whose music is this. Every time, without fail,

<v Speaker 1>it happened again. I'm watching this Rumble, I'm like, eh,

<v Speaker 1>But they have like the graphics on the screen now

<v Speaker 1>and everything, so make it a little bit easier as

<v Speaker 1>far as who's coming out. And I think the graphics

<v Speaker 1>started last year and it's probably like a leaf fitting

<v Speaker 1>production thing with Kevin Dunn being gone. But I just

<v Speaker 1>remember at the Rumble two years ago. I was there

<v Speaker 1>at the Rumble in Tampa, and I'm sitting in the crowd,

<v Speaker 1>and I actually really enjoyed the women's rumble two years ago.

<v Speaker 1>But I'm looking up and I was not the only

<v Speaker 1>one in my section, and I'm sure other sections in

<v Speaker 1>Tropicata Field where we had to look up at the

<v Speaker 1>screens and try to figure out, like, can you show

<v Speaker 1>the name? Because half the women in that rumble we

<v Speaker 1>could not identify them because the music was so generic

<v Speaker 1>and horrible. So part of me wonders if the reason

<v Speaker 1>that we now have graphics on the screen, at least

<v Speaker 1>for the people watching at home, is so that we

<v Speaker 1>could at least identify who these women are. And they

<v Speaker 1>do it now for the women and the men. But

<v Speaker 1>that's how bad it was. So again, it just goes

<v Speaker 1>to the issue of how important entrance music is. When

<v Speaker 1>you have a really good entrance song or one that's

<v Speaker 1>really identifiable or I hate to even use this one

<v Speaker 1>as an example, but you know Kit Wilson. Everyone loves

<v Speaker 1>Kit Wilson's song and it's just such a frick It

<v Speaker 1>just sounds like AI. But h and by the way,

<v Speaker 1>where the fuck was Kit Wilson? I just hit me,

<v Speaker 1>where the fuck was he? What the hell happened to

<v Speaker 1>Kit Wilson? We had fucking mister Iguana in the men's rumble.

<v Speaker 1>The Triple A guys, by the way, got no reaction, none, none, Laparka,

<v Speaker 1>mister Iguana. Nobody cared, nobody knew who they were, or

<v Speaker 1>they didn't give a shit. You have room for those guys,

<v Speaker 1>but you can't put Kit Wilson. I do think his

<v Speaker 1>entrance wouldn't have gotten a big reaction. Where the hell

<v Speaker 1>was he? Again? One of those mystifying decisions that I

<v Speaker 1>just don't understand. Oh, I'm sorry, Did I say it wrong?

<v Speaker 1>Will Son? Will? Where was Kit will Soon? I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. But anyway, the borral of the story

<v Speaker 1>is that, as many other people in WW, Zelena Vegas

<v Speaker 1>music is trash and it does her no favors when

<v Speaker 1>she comes out to the ring number seventeen, Raquel Rodriguez.

<v Speaker 1>So this now completes the trifecta of the women in

<v Speaker 1>the judgment day. So you knew there would be drama

<v Speaker 1>that was going to be incoming very soon, but they

<v Speaker 1>were working together cohesively here for a little bit live

<v Speaker 1>Roxanne and Keana. They all ended up out on the

<v Speaker 1>apron at the same time, and Raquel came flying in

<v Speaker 1>with a boot and she knocked Keana to the floor.

<v Speaker 1>So the Judgment Day ladies they all shared a hug

<v Speaker 1>and everything was copasetic. Everything was good. And then we

<v Speaker 1>had number eighteen was Chelsea Green. She immediately confronted the

<v Speaker 1>Judgment Day women and tried to get them to join her.

<v Speaker 1>Live slapped her, so Chelsea slapped her back. They all

<v Speaker 1>ganged up on her. Alba Fire was out there, so

<v Speaker 1>she wasn't officially in the rumble, but she came out

<v Speaker 1>to the ring with Chelsea, and so she reaches in

<v Speaker 1>and she's trying to like help Chelsea, but she ends

<v Speaker 1>up getting pulled into the ring and Raquel close lined

<v Speaker 1>her back out to the floor. Even though she was

<v Speaker 1>not in the rumble, she got eliminated anyway by being

<v Speaker 1>closelined over the top rope. So then Julia Women's United

<v Speaker 1>States Champion enters at number nineteen. I was hoping. I'm

<v Speaker 1>watching this and I'm like, man, I hope she's in

<v Speaker 1>there long enough to share a moment or in exchange

<v Speaker 1>or something with Osca and or EO. So she comes

<v Speaker 1>out to the ring and there was a funny spot

<v Speaker 1>here where Albo was outside on all fours. Chelsea was

<v Speaker 1>almost eliminated, but she landed feet first on Alba's back.

<v Speaker 1>Alba was providing a platform for her so she wouldn't

<v Speaker 1>be eliminated, and Chelsea was able to get back into

<v Speaker 1>the ring. But speaking of EO, guess who entered at

<v Speaker 1>number twenty EO Sky So she comes out thirty four

<v Speaker 1>minutes in counting, by the way, so far for Charlotte Flair.

<v Speaker 1>And then we got number twenty one, and oh my god,

<v Speaker 1>it's Oscar ask and you shall receive. We have Julia,

<v Speaker 1>we have EO, and we have Osca, all in the

<v Speaker 1>ring together at the same time. And Oscar actually put

<v Speaker 1>her hand out to shake Julia's hand. They were going

<v Speaker 1>to gang up on EO. Julia slapped it away. They

<v Speaker 1>ended up working together anyway, until Osca kicked Julia in

<v Speaker 1>the face, So, I mean it was brief, but they

<v Speaker 1>did get to do some stuff together, so I thought

<v Speaker 1>that was kind of cool. Number twenty two was Rhea Ripley,

<v Speaker 1>and I think she was wearing clown makeups. Wasn't that obvious.

<v Speaker 1>It was very faded, But I uh, when they got

<v Speaker 1>some close ups of her face. I'm pretty sure she was.

<v Speaker 1>She was dressed like a clown. Maybe she's going to

<v Speaker 1>be part of a JCW. Maybe she's secretly a juggalo.

<v Speaker 1>She did dress up as Art the clown in War Games.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, but she made her way. She was

<v Speaker 1>dressed in all black, skin tight from neck to toe,

<v Speaker 1>and she even got Pyro for a Royal Rumble entrance.

<v Speaker 1>That's how you know she's a big deal when you

<v Speaker 1>get Pyro during your Royal Rumble entrance. Julia and Zelina

<v Speaker 1>they ended up out on the apron. Julia blasted her

<v Speaker 1>with the arrivader chi Ni, sending her to the floor.

<v Speaker 1>Ria dumped out Chelsea. Roxanne tried for pop rocks to

<v Speaker 1>Ria Rio, though countered out of it into a razor's edge.

<v Speaker 1>She gave her a razor's edge out over the top

<v Speaker 1>rope onto Chelsea and Alba on the floor, and so

<v Speaker 1>that was the end of Roxanne. Number twenty three was

<v Speaker 1>Bailey the winner of the twenty twenty four Royal Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>Number well, actually forty one minutes at this point and

<v Speaker 1>counting in case you were wondering for Charlotte Flair JCW

<v Speaker 1>partnership in coming. I don't think so. Triple H and

<v Speaker 1>Russo working together, Yeah, I don't think so. And Tran

<v Speaker 1>says it's coming, it's coming. Solomo, Oh, it's coming. I

<v Speaker 1>know I'm almost there. It's coming all right. Number twenty

<v Speaker 1>four was the NXT Women's champion j C. Jane. I'll

<v Speaker 1>never forget my reaction when I heard the news live.

<v Speaker 1>I was doing TNT. It was a Tuesday night and

<v Speaker 1>the news came in that Stephanie Vequier had been defeated

<v Speaker 1>and had lost her NXT Women's championship to j C. Jane.

<v Speaker 1>And my reaction was, j C. Jane, the hell did

<v Speaker 1>that come from? Like of all the members of Fatal Influence,

<v Speaker 1>I would have fallen Henley maybe, but Jace Jane, especially

<v Speaker 1>the way they had protected Stephanie up until that point.

<v Speaker 1>But she went on to have herself a very nice

<v Speaker 1>year and she entered the rumble here and I thought

<v Speaker 1>she did very well. She got a little bit of shine,

<v Speaker 1>she got some little run of offense there for a

<v Speaker 1>little bit. I think jac Jane has improved and has

<v Speaker 1>come a long way. I will eat crow when it

<v Speaker 1>comes to jac Jane. Natty was beefing with Rhea, and

<v Speaker 1>then Live Raquel got her out on the apron. Live

<v Speaker 1>flew in with an oblivion into the ropes and the

<v Speaker 1>momentum sent Natty backwards to the floor, so Natty was gone.

<v Speaker 1>And then it was number twenty five. It was the

<v Speaker 1>Hall of Famer Nicky Bella. Fearless Nicky Bella out to

<v Speaker 1>the ring here, number twelve, and I thought that was it.

<v Speaker 1>As far as the Bella's go, I'm like, all right,

<v Speaker 1>Nicky's in, She'll be out soon. No harm, no foul,

<v Speaker 1>Speaking of foul. Number twenty six was Bird Girl Lyra

<v Speaker 1>Valkyria Bailey and Lyra. They worked together to eliminate Julia.

<v Speaker 1>Number twenty seven was Kalanie Jordan from NXT went right

<v Speaker 1>up top, hit a version of a phoenix, splash onto

<v Speaker 1>j C Jane, who was laying on the mat double DDT,

<v Speaker 1>then takes down both Live and Raquel. Number twenty eight

<v Speaker 1>was the Pirate Princess Kyrie saying Oscar's got help. Remember

<v Speaker 1>Kyrie said that she was going to make sure, one

<v Speaker 1>way or the other that Oscar was going to win

<v Speaker 1>the Royal Rumble. That was her goal here. I wasn't

<v Speaker 1>even sure if Kyrie was actually in the rumble, I

<v Speaker 1>thought maybe she would come out and be in Oscar's corner.

<v Speaker 1>I never heard her officially declare, but she was in

<v Speaker 1>the Royal Rumble. Uh So her plan to do whatever

<v Speaker 1>it takes to make sure Oscar wins didn't work out

<v Speaker 1>so well. It did not work out the way she intended.

<v Speaker 1>Oscar ended up out on the apron. She was hanging

<v Speaker 1>on by a thread, and Kyrie came in with a

<v Speaker 1>forearm shot, like a sliding forearm shot to EO, who

<v Speaker 1>ducked it. So she missed EO, and she blasted Oscar

<v Speaker 1>in the back of the head, and then Oscar fell

<v Speaker 1>to the floor, so Oscar she actually eliminated Osca from

<v Speaker 1>the Royal Rumble. And then EO dumped out Kyrie and

<v Speaker 1>Oscar was not happy. That is not going to end

<v Speaker 1>well for poor Kyrie. And then it was time for

<v Speaker 1>number twenty nine. I'm sitting here trying to rack my brain, like, man,

<v Speaker 1>we got two spots left. I'm like, I'm waiting for Bianca.

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, she's got to be number thirty, right, She's

<v Speaker 1>got to be coming out. Maybe she's twenty nine. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know, but gotta be coming out, and like legitimately,

<v Speaker 1>I was not expecting to hear bremode and I almost

<v Speaker 1>just my body see up a little bit when I

<v Speaker 1>heard it. But then I heard something that was even

<v Speaker 1>more shocking, which was a gigantic pop. As Brie Bella

<v Speaker 1>made her way out to the ring, she got the

<v Speaker 1>biggest reaction up to this point of anything on the show,

<v Speaker 1>and so she runs down. I'm just sitting here like

<v Speaker 1>dear God, no, God, no, she runs down to the ring.

<v Speaker 1>The fans are going ape shit with the yes chance

<v Speaker 1>they zoom out. Everyone's putting their fingers in the air.

<v Speaker 1>She did the yes kicks and then she hugs her sister.

<v Speaker 1>They got taken down though, So then the final entrant

<v Speaker 1>was out at number thirty. I was convinced hoping that

<v Speaker 1>it was Bianca bell Air, just because it would be

<v Speaker 1>great to get her back, and God knows SmackDown can

<v Speaker 1>use another big name right now, and so what better

<v Speaker 1>time than the royal Rumble. She's been gone long enough

<v Speaker 1>and it was not Bianca Bellair. Number thirty was Tiffany Stratton.

<v Speaker 1>We have not seen since she lost her championship a

<v Speaker 1>couple months ago to Jade Cargill, So Tiffany makes her

<v Speaker 1>way out. She came face to face with Charlotte. That

<v Speaker 1>was last year's WrestleMania match, and so they went at it.

<v Speaker 1>We had the Bellas going at it with Bailey and Lyra.

<v Speaker 1>The Bellas dumped them both out with head scissors, head

<v Speaker 1>scissors to Bailey, ahead scissors to Lyra. Again, huge pot

<v Speaker 1>when they eliminated them from the match, and again they

<v Speaker 1>broke into yes chance. Jac Jane eliminated Colonie Jordan, but

<v Speaker 1>then got caught with a soul snatcher, best finish in

<v Speaker 1>all of wrestling, and then Jace got dumped. So lash

<v Speaker 1>Legend then single handedly, single handedly dumped out both Bella twins.

<v Speaker 1>And if I tell you the heat that this woman

<v Speaker 1>got for eliminating the Bellas, you would be stunned. But

<v Speaker 1>she did. She got legitimate heat. Fans did not like that.

<v Speaker 1>Lash Legend then eliminated Charlotte Flair just short of an

<v Speaker 1>hour in this match, and Charlotte is gone. So the

<v Speaker 1>final seven live Morgan, Raquel Rodriguez, Rhea, Ripley, Eo, Sky

<v Speaker 1>Lash Legend, Tiffany Stratton and soul Ruka Lash caught Eo

<v Speaker 1>by the throat off of a springboard, tried to dump Eo.

<v Speaker 1>They both ended up on the apron. They were hanging

<v Speaker 1>from the middle rope. Eo is latching onto Lash's leg

<v Speaker 1>almost looks like she's trying to apply some sort of

<v Speaker 1>like knee bar, but she's hanging on to her leg

<v Speaker 1>and Lash is hanging onto the ropes like EO's not

<v Speaker 1>even hanging on the ropes anymore. And Lash just takes

<v Speaker 1>her other foot and just it's like she stomped her

<v Speaker 1>down to the ground. And so now Eosky is gone.

<v Speaker 1>She is officially eliminated choking another one up here, another

<v Speaker 1>elimination for Lash Legend and boy, this pissed off Rhea Ripley.

<v Speaker 1>They zoomed in on Rhea's face and you could see

<v Speaker 1>her mouth the words. She was telling her, You're gonna

<v Speaker 1>pay for that. So there was a clothesline. Did not

<v Speaker 1>put Lash down. She went for a head butt, did

<v Speaker 1>not put Lash down. Legend puts Ria down though with

<v Speaker 1>a pump kick, and then it was Raquel standing up

<v Speaker 1>to Lash, who hit her with a fallaway slam. But

<v Speaker 1>here comes Ria and she close lines Lash Legend out

<v Speaker 1>to the floor. Her run is over and then I'm

<v Speaker 1>watching Raquel. Raquel picks up Rihea in position for a

<v Speaker 1>Tehana bomb, and she ends up delivering a Tehana bomb

<v Speaker 1>onto the ring apron. I don't mean like she just

<v Speaker 1>sort of gently put her down. She fucking slammed this

<v Speaker 1>woman on the apron, right on the edge of the ring.

<v Speaker 1>And then Ria falls to the floor, and it looked

<v Speaker 1>like it heard. It looked like it sucked. Ria falls

<v Speaker 1>to the floor. Rhea Ripley has been eliminated. She was

<v Speaker 1>one of the favorites coming into this match. But here

<v Speaker 1>comes Live Morgan from behind, and Live Morgan eliminates Riquel.

<v Speaker 1>I told you the drama was coming with the judgment day.

<v Speaker 1>So now we're down to Live Morgan, Sol Ruka and

<v Speaker 1>Tiffany Stratton Live went for oblivion. Tiffany intercepted Soul, Ruka

<v Speaker 1>hit them both with a double soul snatcher. Soul tried

<v Speaker 1>to dump them both, but she went over with them.

<v Speaker 1>So now they're all hanging on. All three women are

<v Speaker 1>out on the apron and they're all hanging on. And

<v Speaker 1>Soul made a very dumb mistake. She made a rookie

<v Speaker 1>mistake here. You know what this reminded me of because

<v Speaker 1>there have been some dumb things that wrestlers have done

<v Speaker 1>in the Royal Rumble, and I always used to laugh

<v Speaker 1>whenever there was a wrestler in the Royal Rumble who

<v Speaker 1>would try to pin somebody, I'm like, what the fuck

<v Speaker 1>is wrong with you? And the biggest, most egregious example

<v Speaker 1>of this, because you would think he would know better,

<v Speaker 1>and I love him to death, but the macho man,

<v Speaker 1>Randy Savage in nineteen ninety three, at the very end

<v Speaker 1>of the Rumble, comes off the top rope and drops

<v Speaker 1>an elbow on yoko Zuna and what does he do.

<v Speaker 1>He covers him like he's trying to pin him. And

<v Speaker 1>it was one of the most ridiculous looking finishes ever

<v Speaker 1>because Yokozuna basically the spot was that he powered him

<v Speaker 1>up and Savage had to basically jump over the top

<v Speaker 1>rope to eliminate himself. It was just so stupid. So

<v Speaker 1>I'm watching soul Ruka here and I could see what

<v Speaker 1>she's about to do, and I'm like, why would you,

<v Speaker 1>why would you even attempt this? You're on the apron,

<v Speaker 1>she's looking at the ring post, and she's going to

<v Speaker 1>hit a soul snatcher on the ring apron. This does

<v Speaker 1>not go well for soul Ruka because as soon as

<v Speaker 1>she gets airborne, Tiffany Stratton just shoves her off, shoves

<v Speaker 1>her to the floor, and soul Ruka goes splat and

<v Speaker 1>soul Ruka is eliminated from.

<v Speaker 2>The Royal Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>But here comes Live Morgan, flying in with an oblivion

<v Speaker 1>and the momentum takes Tiffany Stratton off the apron. She

<v Speaker 1>hits the floor, and Live Morgan, after being the runner

<v Speaker 1>up two times, always a bride'smaid, never a bride, is

<v Speaker 1>finally a Royal Rumble winner. Live Morgan picks up the victory.

<v Speaker 1>So a few things here. I would say the first

<v Speaker 1>fifty or sixty percent of this rumble was very, very,

<v Speaker 1>very mid even even bad frankly in some spots, just

<v Speaker 1>because it was very boring, So there wasn't a whole

<v Speaker 1>lot going on there. And where it got great was

<v Speaker 1>in the last I would say ten to fifteen minutes,

<v Speaker 1>and then it got very good, and I thought that

<v Speaker 1>finish was great. I thought it was electric. I said,

<v Speaker 1>coming into this Bianca bell Air, I really believe she

<v Speaker 1>was going to return. If she returned, I don't see

<v Speaker 1>the point in her returning and losing. So I had

<v Speaker 1>her as my pick to win, but for some reason

<v Speaker 1>she wasn't going to be in there. Liv Morgan was

<v Speaker 1>my pick to win. So when Live won, I wasn't

<v Speaker 1>disappointed or underwhelmed or anything, and it got a great reaction.

<v Speaker 1>And she's always really on raw, been in the middle

<v Speaker 1>of everything in the Judgment Day. The Judgment Day they

<v Speaker 1>say has no leader, but you know, at one point

<v Speaker 1>Finn Balor clearly was like he was that guy, right,

<v Speaker 1>and Live has been that person, especially since she came

<v Speaker 1>back from her injury. If you had to say, who

<v Speaker 1>is the leader, who's the you know, the straw that

<v Speaker 1>stirs the drink in the Judgment Day, it's Live Morgan.

<v Speaker 1>So she's in the middle of a lot of different

<v Speaker 1>things any given week. She's become a great character on

<v Speaker 1>that show. And I also think her in ring has improved.

<v Speaker 1>If you go back and look at Live Morgan is

<v Speaker 1>a babyface three years ago, four years ago when she

<v Speaker 1>was in the riot squad, right, She's She's a much

<v Speaker 1>better performer in ring now than she was then. She

<v Speaker 1>is not among the elite in that company when it

<v Speaker 1>comes bell to Belle, but she's fine but she's you know,

<v Speaker 1>a big personality on the show, and whether or not

<v Speaker 1>she's going to be wrestling Stephanie Vicer Is she going

<v Speaker 1>to cash in her opportunity at WrestleMania against Jade Cargill.

<v Speaker 1>I think not. Is Stephanie going to be the champion,

<v Speaker 1>because there's an interesting little wrinkle here. Stephanie is defending

<v Speaker 1>her Women's World title on Raw this Monday in a

<v Speaker 1>Philadelphia street fight against Raquel, who was eliminated in the

<v Speaker 1>rumble by Liv. So we're looking at a situation potentially

<v Speaker 1>where liv Morgan could be going into WrestleMania with her

<v Speaker 1>best friend as the women's champion. I don't think Stephanie's

<v Speaker 1>losing on Monday, but it doesn't mean that Raquel is

<v Speaker 1>not going to play a role, you know, in the

<v Speaker 1>women's title picture heading into Las Vegas. So storyline wise,

<v Speaker 1>there's definite, you know, different directions here, definite pads that

<v Speaker 1>they could take to make the story a lot more interesting.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe Raquel ends up on the outside of the judgment

<v Speaker 1>day and splits away from them. I don't know what

<v Speaker 1>they're going to do with it, but man, how bad

<v Speaker 1>is Beyonc's hand? How fucked up is her head still

<v Speaker 1>that even the royal rumble like this woman has lost

<v Speaker 1>a year of her career because someone fell on her hand,

<v Speaker 1>like in a match coming off of what I had

<v Speaker 1>is my match of the year in twenty twenty five,

<v Speaker 1>and it's just it's crazy to think, I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, I don't know what's going on. She's

<v Speaker 1>gonna come back with a fucking hook for a hand

<v Speaker 1>at this point, which actually would be kind of cool.

<v Speaker 1>But yeah, anyway, just look, I hope she gets well soon.

<v Speaker 1>That's all I can say. I don't know if she's

<v Speaker 1>had any sort of setback. I don't know if she

<v Speaker 1>needs another surgery, if she ever even had surgery. I

<v Speaker 1>think she was trying to avoid it. Maybe that's part

<v Speaker 1>of the issue. Maybe she should have had surgery and

<v Speaker 1>she didn't, and it just hasn't healed on its own,

<v Speaker 1>because for those of you who don't know, the issue

<v Speaker 1>was she really she didn't break her finger so much

<v Speaker 1>as she broke her knuckle at the joint, and so

<v Speaker 1>there was a lot of swelling. And the issue is

<v Speaker 1>that if it doesn't heal properly, you can't wrestle like

<v Speaker 1>that because it just makes the chances of your rebreaking

<v Speaker 1>that much higher, and so you can't do that, you know,

<v Speaker 1>and it's not safe if you're trying to lift people

<v Speaker 1>and hold the mump, and that's what she does. You know,

<v Speaker 1>she's very strong, and she's always you know, military pressing

<v Speaker 1>people and superplexing people, and it's not it's just not practical.

<v Speaker 1>So it's a tough injury. But yeah, hopefully we'll get

<v Speaker 1>to see her soon. I was surprised not to see

<v Speaker 1>aj Lee in the Rumble. I thought we would see her,

<v Speaker 1>But again, I fully expect it'll be her and Becky,

<v Speaker 1>you know for the Intercontinental title of WrestleMania. You know,

<v Speaker 1>when Natty eliminated Becky, that pretty much told me, oh, okay,

<v Speaker 1>I guess we're not getting aj here in this match.

<v Speaker 1>So these are the surprises from NX T, J C,

<v Speaker 1>Jane soul Ruka, Lola Wes and Kalanie Jordan and Brie

<v Speaker 1>Bella that was the other one. Those are your surprises

<v Speaker 1>in the Women's Royal Rumble match. And how we live

<v Speaker 1>in a world where the Bella Twins got a bigger

<v Speaker 1>reaction than just about anything else on the show. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know. I don't know. I don't know what to

<v Speaker 1>say to that, but I guess we know who's going

<v Speaker 1>to be going after the women's Tech Team titles at WrestleMania.

<v Speaker 1>Because if this was meant to be a one off

<v Speaker 1>for Brie Bella, it ain't no more. Because I guarantee you,

<v Speaker 1>if it was meant to be a one off, they

<v Speaker 1>heard that reaction, Believe me, they're going to bring her

<v Speaker 1>back for more. We haven't seen the last or pre mode.

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure of the names they really put over here

<v Speaker 1>in this match, Soul Ruka. She lasted over fifty minutes.

<v Speaker 1>We got a bunch of soul snatchers. She was pretty over.

<v Speaker 1>I thought they put her over a very strong lash legends.

<v Speaker 1>She got the monster spot like I thought she would.

<v Speaker 1>I'm pretty sure she had the most eliminations. I think

<v Speaker 1>she had five, five or six eliminations in this match,

<v Speaker 1>and they were all very impactful ones. You know. She

<v Speaker 1>dumped out Charlotte Flair, who was in there for almost

<v Speaker 1>an hour. She dumped out both Bella twins, she dumped

<v Speaker 1>out Jordan Grace, she dumped out Yo Sky. She was

<v Speaker 1>the dominant one in the Royal Rumble this year, and

<v Speaker 1>then we'll see what the fallout is from Charlotte accidentally

<v Speaker 1>eliminating Alexa live dumping Raquel Kyrie eliminating Oscar. It's one

<v Speaker 1>of the things I liked about the Women's Rumble when

<v Speaker 1>it was over. They had a few different spots and

<v Speaker 1>sequences like that where there's going to be fallout and

<v Speaker 1>you will have to tune into the television to see

<v Speaker 1>where it goes. But there's no way there are there's

<v Speaker 1>not going to be some sort of consequence for these friends,

<v Speaker 1>right or partners eliminating their other partner. So we have

<v Speaker 1>some stories now coming out of this match. But second

<v Speaker 1>half much better than the first, and they ended very strong.

<v Speaker 1>Avas says Keana looked great. Kana looked good, and she

<v Speaker 1>had a nice run of offense and therefore, so then

<v Speaker 1>it was the ring general had Gunther against the phenomenal

<v Speaker 1>AJ styles and if AJ loses, he must retire from

<v Speaker 1>the ring. They were singing and they were going crazy

<v Speaker 1>for AJ early in this match, which again is what

<v Speaker 1>makes me laugh when I hear some people saying, oh,

<v Speaker 1>the crowd was quiet for the entire show. No, they weren't.

<v Speaker 1>If you believe that, then you obviously took a piss

<v Speaker 1>break or went to go make a sandwich during this match.

<v Speaker 1>I suggest you go back and rewatch this match from

<v Speaker 1>beginning to end, because they were certainly into it, right

<v Speaker 1>from the beginning of the bell, Right from the opening

<v Speaker 1>bell here of this match they made Honestly, they made

<v Speaker 1>more noise for these guys here in this match in

<v Speaker 1>the first three minutes than they did for anything except

<v Speaker 1>bre Mode in the women's rumble. So it was a

<v Speaker 1>slow start for Gunther. But with Aj and the ropes,

<v Speaker 1>he got booted out to the floor very hard, took

<v Speaker 1>a hard fall. This is where the tide turned. Gunther

<v Speaker 1>went over to the announced desk, picked Aj up and

<v Speaker 1>dropped him right on top of the desk. He sent

<v Speaker 1>Aj into the ring post back inside. Aj was still

<v Speaker 1>selling a rib injury and Gunther was working him over,

<v Speaker 1>including a huge back body drop.

<v Speaker 2>I love it.

<v Speaker 1>We don't get enough of those anymore. That's one of

<v Speaker 1>those spots we used to get in almost every match,

<v Speaker 1>and then we rarely get them now. Row row Roman

<v Speaker 1>reins jetly down the street. You don't really see a

<v Speaker 1>lot of back body drops row row Roman reins jetly

<v Speaker 1>down the street. But Aj got some height on this one,

<v Speaker 1>I will say so. I also noticed here at this

<v Speaker 1>point the referee was putting his black gloves on, and

<v Speaker 1>so that means someone is bleeding. And then I saw

<v Speaker 1>AJ's arm and he had a gash. I think it

<v Speaker 1>was his left arm, but he had a gash on

<v Speaker 1>his arm like his forearm, and it was it was

<v Speaker 1>bleeding pretty good enough so that the referee put the

<v Speaker 1>gloves on. I think I think they said it happened

<v Speaker 1>when he got dumped on top of the announced desk.

<v Speaker 1>His arm may have clipped one of the monitors. He

<v Speaker 1>was leaving little blood puddles here and there, so hopefully

<v Speaker 1>that thing didn't get infected. Gun There got him in

<v Speaker 1>a Boston crab. Aj, though fought out of it, and

<v Speaker 1>he went on offense for a little bit. He got

<v Speaker 1>dropped though by a hard lariat. Styles got a calf

<v Speaker 1>crusher applied finally, but gun Thro immediately just reaches over

<v Speaker 1>and grabs the rope. So Gunther killed him with a

<v Speaker 1>shotgun drop kick into the power bomb with the high stack.

<v Speaker 1>AJ kicks out. So Aj got the calf crusher applied again,

<v Speaker 1>and this time he got it applied right in the

<v Speaker 1>center of the ring, so gun there was nowhere near

<v Speaker 1>the ropes. But remember, and I pointed this out to

<v Speaker 1>you when I reviewed Saturday Night's Made event one week ago.

<v Speaker 1>We had that great match between Aj and Shinsky Nakamoura,

<v Speaker 1>and at one point during the match, he got Knackamoor

<v Speaker 1>in a calf crush sure for what felt like ten minutes,

<v Speaker 1>and knackamorran never getting Knackamora, who doesn't do anything on

<v Speaker 1>television anymore, was locked in the calf crusher forever in

<v Speaker 1>a day and didn't tap out. And I said, well,

<v Speaker 1>that takes a lot of the drama away from that

<v Speaker 1>at the rumble, because if Knackamora didn't tap to the

<v Speaker 1>calf crusher in ten minutes, how am I supposed to

<v Speaker 1>believe that Gunther is. So I'm sorry for me. There

<v Speaker 1>wasn't a whole lot of drama here once I saw

<v Speaker 1>him in the calf crusher. But Gunther got out of it.

<v Speaker 1>He bought the sleeper hole applied, AJ worked up to

<v Speaker 1>his feet, transitioned into a sleeper of his own. Guntherer

<v Speaker 1>though got out of it. He applied the sleeper again,

<v Speaker 1>but Aj used the momentum of his own body. He

<v Speaker 1>kind of ran towards the ropes and that sent Gunther

<v Speaker 1>flying through the ropes out to the floor. So Styles

<v Speaker 1>then comes down with a springboard forearm to the floor

<v Speaker 1>bull's eye. He nails guntherer right between the eyes. AJ

<v Speaker 1>puts him back in the ring. He goes up top,

<v Speaker 1>Gunther cuts him off and he climbs up with him.

<v Speaker 1>So here comes the superplex, but AJ stuffs it. He

<v Speaker 1>slips underneath him, and AJ got a power bomb of

<v Speaker 1>his own with a stack. Gunther kicks out. So AJ

<v Speaker 1>goes to the apron and he's lining him up for

<v Speaker 1>a springboard four fifty and then he got the big

<v Speaker 1>guy up for a Styles clash, but Gunther kicked out.

<v Speaker 1>And this was great stuff here so far and again

<v Speaker 1>the fans are invested, and they're loud, and they're just

<v Speaker 1>they're hanging on to you know, every near fall. Everything's clicking,

<v Speaker 1>and now it was time for the phenomenal forearm. Gunther, though,

<v Speaker 1>catches him in a sleeper on the way down. AJ

<v Speaker 1>switches into one of his own. Gunther grabs the referee though,

<v Speaker 1>and so the referee's view is obstructed and he gives

<v Speaker 1>Aj a mule kick low but the referee did not see.

<v Speaker 1>And then came the power bomb with the deep stack

<v Speaker 1>and AJ kicks out and the place went nuts. That

<v Speaker 1>was a great, great near fall spot, very believable. Gunther

<v Speaker 1>is screaming at the referee saying that should have been

<v Speaker 1>a three count. And now Gunther starts just brutalizing Aj

<v Speaker 1>in the corner. He's kicking him, he's chopping him as

<v Speaker 1>hard as he fucking can. The referee has to get

<v Speaker 1>in between them and back gun Through up like he's

<v Speaker 1>going to disqualify him. It's like back up, and the

<v Speaker 1>referee goes over to Aj and he's asking him do

<v Speaker 1>you want to quit? Do you want to you know,

<v Speaker 1>do you give up? Do you want to stop? Of

<v Speaker 1>course Aj, he's not gonna quit. I mean, who do

<v Speaker 1>you think he is? John Cena. So the match continues.

<v Speaker 1>Gunther goes back into the corner and again more chops

<v Speaker 1>and just relentless. So again the referee backs him up,

<v Speaker 1>and I mean, look, if he were to be disqualified there,

<v Speaker 1>that would in theory save AJ's career. I'm just saying.

<v Speaker 1>So again the referee is asking if he wants to continue,

<v Speaker 1>and Gunther is telling him, get up, get up, and

<v Speaker 1>we got some more wicked chops. AJ collapses to his

<v Speaker 1>knees hard lariat and this is getting ugly. Now. It

<v Speaker 1>looks like AJ's got nothing left. He's got no fight

<v Speaker 1>left in him. This thing is gonna get called here

<v Speaker 1>any minute, right, That's what it's looking like. So finally

<v Speaker 1>AJ fires back with some forearms. The phenomenal forearm is attempted. Gunther, though,

<v Speaker 1>grabs him off, like as soon as he gets up

<v Speaker 1>onto the top rope to begin the motion, Gunhther comes over.

<v Speaker 1>He just grabs him gently and places him on his

<v Speaker 1>shoulders and he ends up getting the sleeper applied to Aj.

<v Speaker 1>So he gets Aj down to the mat. The legs

<v Speaker 1>are wrapped, He's got the he's at the body, grapevine.

<v Speaker 1>The legs are wrapped around the body. There's nowhere for

<v Speaker 1>Aj to go. Aj, though, starts to elbow out of it,

<v Speaker 1>and the crowd comes alive. They see him throwing those elbows.

<v Speaker 1>They're like yeah. Gun Through though, drops some anvil elbows

<v Speaker 1>of his own. He gets Aj back down on the mat.

<v Speaker 1>Aj is trying to fight out with more elbows. He's

<v Speaker 1>powering back up. He gets to the ropes and he

<v Speaker 1>didn't get he didn't get the full rope break, but

<v Speaker 1>he's close enough to the ropes where he got like

<v Speaker 1>a fingertip on the rope, which apparently was not good

<v Speaker 1>enough for a rope break. Guntherro just pulled him back

<v Speaker 1>towards the center of the ring. More elbows from Gunther

<v Speaker 1>and again he takes Aj down in the sleeper. AJ

<v Speaker 1>has nowhere to go. He's starting to fade and his

<v Speaker 1>arm dropped, and dan Engler checks the arm once and

<v Speaker 1>it drops because he's out. Aj is out, and the

<v Speaker 1>referee calls for the stoppage. Now I have to say,

<v Speaker 1>if I have one criticism here, and this is more

<v Speaker 1>of a general criticism here, it is that they need

<v Speaker 1>It's very silly how sometimes they'll do the gimmick where

<v Speaker 1>the arm has to drop three times. That's what they

<v Speaker 1>did when I was a kid, and so like in

<v Speaker 1>a Hogan match, right, the armor drop once, and then

<v Speaker 1>the armor drop twice, and the armor drop three times.

<v Speaker 1>But now the arm goes back off right for dramatic effect.

<v Speaker 1>But now everything is so reality based, right with tapouts

<v Speaker 1>and triangle chokes and all the influence they borrowed from

<v Speaker 1>from MMA. If the arm drops once and honestly, it

<v Speaker 1>makes more sense to do it this way. That means

<v Speaker 1>the person is unconscious, you should call the match, and

<v Speaker 1>generally that's what they do in the John Cena match,

<v Speaker 1>though I think it was you last month they did

<v Speaker 1>there the three arm drop, and sometimes they will go

<v Speaker 1>back to doing it that way. There has to be

<v Speaker 1>some consistency to it. It's just silly that in some

<v Speaker 1>matches you do it this way and other matches you

<v Speaker 1>do it another way. So it's like a minor thing.

<v Speaker 1>But it's just one of those things. I think for

<v Speaker 1>the sake of consistency, they should just stick to the

<v Speaker 1>one just the one drop, and if it drops, then

<v Speaker 1>that's it. You call the match off. And that's what

<v Speaker 1>the referee did.

<v Speaker 2>Here.

<v Speaker 1>The crowd is stunned, silent, and they immediately cut to

<v Speaker 1>a shot of the different fans in the crowd. Their

<v Speaker 1>jaws have dropped, they're sad, they're just stunned. They can't

<v Speaker 1>believe it, they can't believe that he actually lost. And

<v Speaker 1>I think there were a lot of people in the

<v Speaker 1>crowd who don't live on the Internet or social media

<v Speaker 1>who probably just saw it for what it was, which

<v Speaker 1>is okay, aj lost the first match, and he's putting

<v Speaker 1>his career on the line and it's only January, so like, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>he's talked about how twenty twenty six is going to

<v Speaker 1>be his final year, but like, this can't be it,

<v Speaker 1>like the year just started and we're so close to WrestleMania, Like,

<v Speaker 1>there's no way that AJ is going to lose this match,

<v Speaker 1>and then he fucking loses a month after John Cena

<v Speaker 1>lost his final match, and they're just stunned. They can't

<v Speaker 1>believe it. It's like one of those Undertaker streak type

<v Speaker 1>of reactions here, and a week ago I would have

<v Speaker 1>been part of that crowd. I wouldn't have believed it either,

<v Speaker 1>Like there's no fucking way he's losing this match. They've

<v Speaker 1>booked themselves into a corner. How are they going to

<v Speaker 1>get out of this? Because surely AJ is not just

<v Speaker 1>going to go in there and lose, right, There's gotta

<v Speaker 1>be more to it than that. And then my tune

<v Speaker 1>started to change when I noticed that they were speed

<v Speaker 1>running through all of these big matches for AJ, Like

<v Speaker 1>we got the first AJ Gunther match on like the

<v Speaker 1>second raw of the year, and I'm like, okay, well,

<v Speaker 1>I mean maybe they could hold off on doing the

<v Speaker 1>rematch for a while, but then they went and they

<v Speaker 1>made the announcement that they were going to have a

<v Speaker 1>match at the Royal Rumble and aj was going to

<v Speaker 1>put his career on the line, And I thought, well,

<v Speaker 1>why the fuck are they doing that at the Royal Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>That was the match I pitched for WrestleMania when I

<v Speaker 1>did my predictions at the beginning of the year, I said,

<v Speaker 1>you do that stipulation for WrestleMania. Why are they doing

<v Speaker 1>it now? What are they going to do for a

<v Speaker 1>third match? Because I'm still thinking, right, oh, this is

<v Speaker 1>going to go to a third match. So when I

<v Speaker 1>saw that, and then I saw that on twenty four

<v Speaker 1>hours notice they put him in the ring with Shinsky

<v Speaker 1>Nakamura for like one last match together, I was like, huh.

<v Speaker 1>And then Monday is where I was convinced he's leaving

<v Speaker 1>like he's done, and it was two things number one.

<v Speaker 1>In the opening promo on Monday, he talked about how

<v Speaker 1>there were a lot of guys, especially in other locker rooms,

<v Speaker 1>that he would love to have the chance to get

<v Speaker 1>in the ring with one last time, and then they

<v Speaker 1>made the match with him and Cmpunk for the World

<v Speaker 1>Heavyweight Championship. And I said, if they're doing that match

<v Speaker 1>on Monday, if they're doing that match unannounced, it's not

<v Speaker 1>even like they had a week to promote it. They're

<v Speaker 1>just throwing it out there. CM Punk and aj Styles

<v Speaker 1>first time ever in WWE, and it's for the World

<v Speaker 1>Heavyweight Championship. They are speed running through this because he

<v Speaker 1>is leaving, because he is done. At the Royal Rumble,

<v Speaker 1>that's when I knew it was over. Like I did

<v Speaker 1>a total one eighty. I said, holy shit, he really

<v Speaker 1>is done. So it wasn't really a shock to me

<v Speaker 1>to see it go down, you know the way that

<v Speaker 1>it did. Hear he awoke when it was over. He

<v Speaker 1>didn't realize what had happened, right. He had to be told, hey,

<v Speaker 1>you know it's over. You went out. He got to

<v Speaker 1>his feet and the fans showered him with applause. He

<v Speaker 1>slowly began to remove his gloves one by one and

<v Speaker 1>he went to go lay them on the mat. He

<v Speaker 1>couldn't bring himself to do it. Every time he would

<v Speaker 1>bend over to put the gloves down, he would come

<v Speaker 1>back up and the fans are like no, no, no, And

<v Speaker 1>when he came back up, they start cheering, and so

<v Speaker 1>finally he puts the gloves back on and it gets

<v Speaker 1>this big reaction because I think people thought, Okay, he's

<v Speaker 1>not going to retire, but no, he put the gloves

<v Speaker 1>back on to do the little, you know, the pose

<v Speaker 1>that he does. He did it to all four sides

<v Speaker 1>of the ring, like one final salute, and then he

<v Speaker 1>climbed the turnbuckles one last time to pose for the fans,

<v Speaker 1>and you know, I don't know, the whole thing was

<v Speaker 1>very it was very sad to see. And then he

<v Speaker 1>headed to the back and I'll say this, this was

<v Speaker 1>everything that the John Cena match should have been on

<v Speaker 1>Saturday Nights. Made event, and maybe they just didn't want

<v Speaker 1>to do the same finish back to back. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>there was no harm in doing it because you have

<v Speaker 1>guys that are fighting until their last breath. You know,

<v Speaker 1>they're putting in everything they got. They're not going to

<v Speaker 1>go down, you know, with a smile on their face.

<v Speaker 1>You know they're going to fight till the very end.

<v Speaker 1>Because this smug prick is not going to be the

<v Speaker 1>one who gets to go around saying that I tapped

<v Speaker 1>out so and so, or I beat so and so

<v Speaker 1>until finally your body just you know, gives out on you.

<v Speaker 1>And it's just funny comparing the two matches, it's like

<v Speaker 1>night and day. Aj just fought tooth and nail until

<v Speaker 1>the very end, you know, looked like he could still

<v Speaker 1>hang all the way through, would not surrender. Every time

<v Speaker 1>you thought he was done, he would power back up

<v Speaker 1>to his feet and start firing off some elbow and

<v Speaker 1>the crowd was totally into it. The crowd was invested,

<v Speaker 1>and yeah, they were disappointed when it was over because

<v Speaker 1>he lost, and what the what the implications of that were,

<v Speaker 1>But I don't think anybody would tell you if you

<v Speaker 1>watch this match that you know they were disappointed with

<v Speaker 1>the match up to that point, like everybody was into it.

<v Speaker 1>Everybody was having fun with it. It was dramatic. It

<v Speaker 1>was a great match. It was better than their first one.

<v Speaker 1>Uh and it was just it was just a great match.

<v Speaker 1>And he never gave up until the very end, until

<v Speaker 1>he had absolutely nothing left to give and then his

<v Speaker 1>body went out on him. And this was the It

<v Speaker 1>was the emotional spectacle that I was hoping it would

<v Speaker 1>be at WrestleMania. I wasn't expecting it this early. But

<v Speaker 1>it was with that stipulation, it was exactly what I

<v Speaker 1>was hoping it would be, and I'm not gonna lie

<v Speaker 1>like for me it was it was emotional watching him

<v Speaker 1>there at the end. It just felt like the end

<v Speaker 1>of an era, like it did last month watching Sena.

<v Speaker 1>Sena was more, you know, he was more of a

<v Speaker 1>singular figure in this company who really defined an era

<v Speaker 1>all by himself. I wouldn't say that there was an

<v Speaker 1>Aj Styles era in WWE, like it was never really

<v Speaker 1>his place the way that it was seen his place.

<v Speaker 1>TNA was AJ's place WWE. That was seen his place

<v Speaker 1>because he was the guy. So it was a bigger

<v Speaker 1>deal when Sena went out because that truly felt like, Wow,

<v Speaker 1>this is really the end of the end of an

<v Speaker 1>era for Aj. It was ten years to the very

<v Speaker 1>event where he debuted in WWA, so there was that

<v Speaker 1>where it was almost like, Okay, if he was going

<v Speaker 1>to go out, you could think of worse times I

<v Speaker 1>guess for him to go out there as a ten

<v Speaker 1>year anniversary thing, but it does feel like the end

<v Speaker 1>of an era. You know, in many ways, a lot

<v Speaker 1>of these guys they're just you know, they're going away,

<v Speaker 1>They're going away almost all at once. You know, it

<v Speaker 1>feels like but AJ is just the one of a

<v Speaker 1>kind performer. He truly is the kind of performer who

<v Speaker 1>when you look back at this generation, like last twenty

<v Speaker 1>five years and who you feel are the top performers,

<v Speaker 1>especially in ring performers in wrestling, AJ Styles is at

<v Speaker 1>or near the top of that list, Like he is

<v Speaker 1>one of the best in the world and has been

<v Speaker 1>now for more than two decades. Like there's a reason

<v Speaker 1>why you have legends in WWE who never had the

<v Speaker 1>chance to work with him, or like the example with

<v Speaker 1>the Undertaker, they had a cinematic match, but it's one

<v Speaker 1>of Undertaker's great regrets that they weren't able to have

<v Speaker 1>the match they were supposed to have it wrestled made

<v Speaker 1>at thirty six before COVID shut everything down, and so

<v Speaker 1>it was just cinematic. He felt like AJ was that

<v Speaker 1>one guy on the roster who could give him that

<v Speaker 1>one last sendoff match, kind of like the one he

<v Speaker 1>had with Sean Michaels. And I don't know if Undertaker

<v Speaker 1>could have had that kind of match physically at that point,

<v Speaker 1>but if anybody was going to be able to give

<v Speaker 1>it to him, it would have been AJ Styles, like

<v Speaker 1>the fact that we never got AJ and Shawn Michaels

<v Speaker 1>like want to match that would have and AJ has

<v Speaker 1>said he tried, he wanted to, he tried to do

<v Speaker 1>it and it just didn't work out. When you have

<v Speaker 1>legends like that who are like man, I wish I

<v Speaker 1>could have worked with that guy. That's how you know,

<v Speaker 1>like you're you're one of one. You know, you're not

<v Speaker 1>just like anybody else. And so that's the kind of

<v Speaker 1>you know, wrestler that AJ Styles is and it's just

<v Speaker 1>now it's too bad we're not going to see him

<v Speaker 1>in WWE again. But that's the question. We're not going

<v Speaker 1>to see him in WWE again? Are we going to

<v Speaker 1>see him elsewhere? My gut tells me his contract was

<v Speaker 1>up and maybe they tried to negotiate something and they

<v Speaker 1>couldn't come to an agreement, or his contract was coming up,

<v Speaker 1>and he just he wants to have more of an

<v Speaker 1>actual retirement tour. Yeah, they called it a Johnson a

<v Speaker 1>retirement tour last year, but this really could be a

<v Speaker 1>true retirement tour where he doesn't just wrestle in WWE,

<v Speaker 1>but for the remainder of the year as long as

<v Speaker 1>he wants to go doesn't have to be the whole year.

<v Speaker 1>He could pop up anywhere he wants if he's free

<v Speaker 1>and clear contractually especially, he can show up wherever he wants.

<v Speaker 1>TNA would make a lot of sense because he was

<v Speaker 1>just there. He was just there teasing a match for

<v Speaker 1>the TNA World Championship. You know, he was staring at

<v Speaker 1>Frankie Kazarian. Mike Santano wins the belt back and then

<v Speaker 1>cuts a promo and says, Aj you want it, you

<v Speaker 1>know where to find me. Leon Slater, like, there are

<v Speaker 1>matches there that you can do with Aj Styles. In

<v Speaker 1>the how he talks about SmackDown, it's the house that

<v Speaker 1>Aj Styles built. TNA is the house that Aj Styles built.

<v Speaker 1>It would be very appropriate for him to go back

<v Speaker 1>there and have at least one more match. The idea

<v Speaker 1>of him going to aw for a short run. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know how practical it is. I don't know if

<v Speaker 1>that's something Aj wants to do, but it's a hell

<v Speaker 1>of a lot more believable now than it would have

<v Speaker 1>been if you would have asked me this question six

<v Speaker 1>months ago. Because if Aj has it in his head,

<v Speaker 1>like I want to have the retirement tour that I

<v Speaker 1>want to have. Let's and frankly, let's not have a

<v Speaker 1>repeat of this John Cena retirement tour. You know what,

<v Speaker 1>there are certain guys in other locker rooms I would

<v Speaker 1>love the chance to go work with. So I'll work

<v Speaker 1>at TNA show, you know, in a smaller venue and

<v Speaker 1>wrestle Mike Santana. I'll work with AW on a short

<v Speaker 1>term contract for a few months and maybe get a

<v Speaker 1>Wembley Stadium match against MJF for a match with Kenny

<v Speaker 1>Omega or a match with you know, something like that.

<v Speaker 1>Why is that so unbelievable. I don't think it's that unbelievable.

<v Speaker 1>I can't get an AJ's head. I don't know where

<v Speaker 1>his head is at it if he truly just can't

<v Speaker 1>do this anymore, like physically, like I don't want to

<v Speaker 1>do this anymore. I'm done. I want to do other things.

<v Speaker 1>I just physically cannot do it. You know, the the

<v Speaker 1>prep and the recovery when the match is over. You know,

<v Speaker 1>I remember him slipping and that tag match on Saturday

<v Speaker 1>Night's Made Event livest Man. You could tell he was

<v Speaker 1>so angry, like he was so he was trying not

<v Speaker 1>to show it, but he was very upset about that,

<v Speaker 1>and it's just little moments like that that might burn

<v Speaker 1>it in his brain, Like this is exactly what I'm

<v Speaker 1>trying to avoid. I can't run the risk of going

<v Speaker 1>out there and having more moments like that, or I

<v Speaker 1>slip here and I messed this up, and because that's

<v Speaker 1>not how I want people to remember me. It's very

<v Speaker 1>possible maybe we really have seen the last of him

<v Speaker 1>in the ring. But I'm watching him when the match

<v Speaker 1>is over, and he teases putting the gloves down, but

<v Speaker 1>he does it. He puts them back on, and he

<v Speaker 1>didn't leave his boots in the ring. Remember seeing that

<v Speaker 1>he left his tennis shoes in the ring, or Team

<v Speaker 1>three D in the ladder match with the Hardys a

<v Speaker 1>few months ago, bound for Glory hand their boots over

<v Speaker 1>to the Hardy's. There was nothing like that. When this

<v Speaker 1>was over, the boots, the gloves, like he took them

<v Speaker 1>all with him. I kind of took that to mean

<v Speaker 1>I'm done here in WWE. But I'm not like done

<v Speaker 1>done yet. There's still more to come before I hang

<v Speaker 1>up the boots for good. And maybe that's just me

<v Speaker 1>clinging to the hope I don't know. I just think

<v Speaker 1>it would be really cool to see him go out

<v Speaker 1>there and work in other places, maybe even outside the US,

<v Speaker 1>and not like he would be doing a full schedule,

<v Speaker 1>because I don't think he I don't think he wants

<v Speaker 1>to do that. But why not why not have another

<v Speaker 1>handful of matches in other places and write your own ending.

<v Speaker 1>This doesn't have to be an ending written by WWE

<v Speaker 1>wwe would love to have him back after in like

<v Speaker 1>a coaching position or something, you know, or maybe even

<v Speaker 1>be some sort of I mean, look, hey, nxten, he's

<v Speaker 1>a new general manager. I'm just saying Eva just left.

<v Speaker 1>There's any number of things he could be doing. But

<v Speaker 1>let him go out truly on his own terms. And

<v Speaker 1>so if by chance this is the end, what a

<v Speaker 1>fucking career, first ballot Hall of Famer And yeah, I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. There's just there's a lot that can

<v Speaker 1>be said about the career of aj Styles, But if

<v Speaker 1>this truly was it, what a great match to go

<v Speaker 1>out on. At least we're not going to look back

<v Speaker 1>and go, man, he had a shit match with guntherer.

<v Speaker 1>I wish he could have had a better match. Like,

<v Speaker 1>they're not going to get much better than what we

<v Speaker 1>got tonight. So this was easily the best thing on

<v Speaker 1>the show. Gunther now has the gimmick of the career killer.

<v Speaker 1>I think they even trademarked that name, be honest with you.

<v Speaker 1>Goldberg already announced that that was going to be his

<v Speaker 1>last match. It just so happened that Gunther was chosen

<v Speaker 1>to be the opponent. John Cena already announced in advance

<v Speaker 1>that was going to be his last match. It just

<v Speaker 1>so happened that Gunther won a tournament and he ended

<v Speaker 1>up being the opponent. So when we talk about Gunther

<v Speaker 1>being the career killer, yeah, I mean yes and no.

<v Speaker 1>In this situation, it makes more sense because this was

<v Speaker 1>not supposed to be AJ's final match, but Gunther beat

<v Speaker 1>him and made it his final match. This is the

<v Speaker 1>first time where you can honestly truly say Gunther retired someone.

<v Speaker 1>I don't need to see him retire anybody else. He

<v Speaker 1>beat Goldberg in his last match, he beat Sena, he

<v Speaker 1>beat AJ. At some point, this is gonna get very old,

<v Speaker 1>and like who's left Brock Lesner, I'd rather see Obafemi

<v Speaker 1>frankly be the one to beat Brock. If Brock was

<v Speaker 1>gonna have one last match. I don't think Brock's going

<v Speaker 1>anywhere anytime soon. As long as the money is good

<v Speaker 1>and they got a big WrestleMania coming up in Saudi

<v Speaker 1>Arabia next year, I don't think Brock Lesner is going anywhere.

<v Speaker 1>So then who, like? Who else? Jericho? I mean, Jericho's

<v Speaker 1>not even back yet, Like he's gonna retire Jericho? Is

<v Speaker 1>he gonna retire? Randy Orton? Randy Orton has talked about

<v Speaker 1>how he wants to keep wrestling until he's fifty. He's

<v Speaker 1>not going anywhere. You're gonna run out of people anyway.

<v Speaker 1>It just gets old after a while. So with Guntherro,

<v Speaker 1>I think the key there is just making sure you're

<v Speaker 1>very selective in in who you put him in the

<v Speaker 1>ring with in like a big program, but make make

<v Speaker 1>it so that when he finally does lose again, the

<v Speaker 1>person who beats him can truly benefit from it. And

<v Speaker 1>so it shouldn't be someone like an AJ Styles or

<v Speaker 1>a Randy or And it should be someone newer. It

<v Speaker 1>should be someone younger. It should be someone dominant maybe

<v Speaker 1>and again I'm just throwing ob out there as an example,

<v Speaker 1>but someone like that. Make it someone who can really

<v Speaker 1>truly benefit from being the person who finally beat this

<v Speaker 1>guy for the first time since all of this shit started.

<v Speaker 1>But I don't think he needs to just be the

<v Speaker 1>career killer where it just becomes, oh, okay, guntherell be

<v Speaker 1>the guy who they wrestle in their last match, because

<v Speaker 1>after a while it just it just fucking boring, you know.

<v Speaker 1>But it looks like that's gonna be his gimmick, so

<v Speaker 1>they're probably just gonna keep doing it. We had Drew McIntyre. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>Mark Buckingham just subscribe. Welcome Mark, Welcome everybody else. We

<v Speaker 1>got almost three thousand people. Eric, thank you for hanging

<v Speaker 1>out with me. Get those super chats on in. I

<v Speaker 1>want to hear what you guys thought of the Royal Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>Did you love it? Did you hate it? What'd you

<v Speaker 1>think of the led seats? Weren't that was great? Yeah? Now,

<v Speaker 1>Drew McIntyre defended the WWE Championship against Sammy's Aye. McIntyre

<v Speaker 1>was in control until Sammy dumped him from the ring.

<v Speaker 1>He followed with a flip dive out to the floor

<v Speaker 1>and Zane sold it and it looked like a rough landing,

<v Speaker 1>like he landed on his tailbone, so he was selling

<v Speaker 1>it like he heard his lower back. McIntyre actually got

<v Speaker 1>up before he did back inside. Drew followed with a backbreaker. Oh,

<v Speaker 1>I knew, I knew that was coming. I knew it.

<v Speaker 1>I knew it was coming. Richie, Thank you, Richie, thank

<v Speaker 1>you for the twenty five son of a bitch. So

<v Speaker 1>McIntyre followed with a backbreaker and a hard Irish whip

<v Speaker 1>into the corner. He set up for a superplex and

<v Speaker 1>Sammy countered into a sunset flip power bomb for two. Zay, though,

<v Speaker 1>was in too much pain to hit the Blue Thunderbomb,

<v Speaker 1>so McIntyre hit a neck breaker and then tried for

<v Speaker 1>a Claymore kick. Sammy cut him off with a boot

<v Speaker 1>hit the Blue Thunderbomb only got two. Sammy went to

<v Speaker 1>the top, McIntyre met him there, hit an avalanche White

<v Speaker 1>noise only for a near fall. So we got three

<v Speaker 1>count them three, one two three straight future shock ddts

<v Speaker 1>to Sammy's ain and he kicked out. Well, at least

<v Speaker 1>he doesn't use it as his finish anymore, because if

<v Speaker 1>he did, he wouldn't be able to anymore. So the

<v Speaker 1>match continued. McIntyre hit consecutive running clothes lines. In the corner,

<v Speaker 1>Sammy tried to catch him off guard by running up

<v Speaker 1>behind him with a halluva kick. Drew saw it coming,

<v Speaker 1>he ducked it. He hit a claim wore kick, but

<v Speaker 1>Zaye got his foot on the bottom rope in the

<v Speaker 1>very last second. For the rope break, McIntyre argued with

<v Speaker 1>the referee, which is always a smart thing to do

<v Speaker 1>in the middle of a championship match, and then Zaye

<v Speaker 1>caught him off guard with a halluva kick. Didn't cover

<v Speaker 1>him straight away though he finally did though just couldn't

<v Speaker 1>get the three. McIntyre rolled to the floor. Sammy followed,

<v Speaker 1>so McIntyre power bombed him right through the announced table

<v Speaker 1>and the officials went over to go check on Sammy McIntyre.

<v Speaker 1>They'll rolled him into the ring to continue the attack

<v Speaker 1>as well he should. Drew smacked him around and Sammy

<v Speaker 1>gave him an exploder in the corner. He went for

<v Speaker 1>a halluva kick. McIntyre, though, caught him instead with a

<v Speaker 1>clay more and he didn't go for a cover. Though

<v Speaker 1>didn't go for a cover, not right away. Sammy slowly

<v Speaker 1>got up to his knees and McIntyre hit one last

<v Speaker 1>Claymore to retain the time. I you know, it's weird

<v Speaker 1>again to call this the come down match here because

<v Speaker 1>it was for the WWE Championship, but that's what this was.

<v Speaker 1>There were people who were still reeling, i think, from

<v Speaker 1>the outcome of the aj Styles match, and it was

<v Speaker 1>also a great match where the people were very loud,

<v Speaker 1>and so that just happened sometimes where you have a

<v Speaker 1>match where the fans are really up and then they

<v Speaker 1>have to have that come down before you get to

<v Speaker 1>the main event, the main event being the Men's Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>This was in that kind of weird spot, coupled with

<v Speaker 1>the fact that aj Styles just got retired by Gunther

<v Speaker 1>and people weren't very happy about that. And on top

<v Speaker 1>of that, it was a match that was devoid of

<v Speaker 1>any actual real heat, which was a little surprising because

<v Speaker 1>again Sammy is very popular over there, and also there

<v Speaker 1>is a lot of history between these two. It's not

<v Speaker 1>the hottest feud in wrestling or anything like that, and

<v Speaker 1>the match was only really set up. Over the past

<v Speaker 1>week we've I've talked extensively about how fucking awful the

<v Speaker 1>build to this Royal Rumble show was. I mean, on paper,

<v Speaker 1>the card actually looked pretty good, but they just didn't

<v Speaker 1>do a whole hell of a lot in the weeks

<v Speaker 1>leading up to the show to really get me excited

<v Speaker 1>for it other than just me naturally wanting to see

<v Speaker 1>the Royal Rumble because it's my favorite event. So they

<v Speaker 1>didn't have a lot of prep time to really put

<v Speaker 1>into this to begin with. As a match, it was solid,

<v Speaker 1>you know, it was good. It was unremarkable. It was

<v Speaker 1>a match that if you were to tell me that

<v Speaker 1>it was going to be the main event of any

<v Speaker 1>given week on SmackDown, like this could have been a

<v Speaker 1>big TV main event on SmackDown. There was nothing terribly

<v Speaker 1>great or captivating about anything they did here in this match.

<v Speaker 1>It was actually kind of like I was waiting for

<v Speaker 1>it to kick into that next gear and it just

<v Speaker 1>never did and then it just ended. So it was

<v Speaker 1>kind of disappointing in that regard. But just I mean,

<v Speaker 1>bell to bell, the work was fine, but like, I

<v Speaker 1>don't really have a whole lot else to really say

<v Speaker 1>about it. When it was over, it didn't feel to

<v Speaker 1>me like there was this great thirst to see Sammy's

<v Speaker 1>ain as the champion. Now I think this bumps him

<v Speaker 1>down from oh and eleven to now oh and twelve

<v Speaker 1>against Drew. It feeds into their overall story. They're going

<v Speaker 1>to be back in Saudi Arabia for WrestleMania next year,

<v Speaker 1>could very well be, you know, a place where they

<v Speaker 1>want to tell that story where Sammy'szane finally wins a

<v Speaker 1>world championship and it happens in Saudi. They're going to

<v Speaker 1>really have to, you know, get people invested in that

<v Speaker 1>story enough to want to see it, because I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>it's just it was almost like a feeling of apathy here.

<v Speaker 1>You know, it's kind of weird, like Drew beat him

<v Speaker 1>and didn't get a whole lot of heat for it,

<v Speaker 1>maybe in the way that you thought he would, but

<v Speaker 1>he also didn't cheat. You know, maybe if he had

<v Speaker 1>done something nefarious and really cheated and did something like

<v Speaker 1>vile and evil, then maybe it would have gotten more heat.

<v Speaker 1>But you know, it was a match, it was a

<v Speaker 1>match on the show, and now we move onward, and

<v Speaker 1>it was the correct outcome, by the way, because honestly,

<v Speaker 1>heading into WrestleMania this year, I would rather see Drew

<v Speaker 1>McIntyre walk in as the champion then I would Sammy Zay,

<v Speaker 1>so I don't have an issue with the outcome. Are

<v Speaker 1>we up to nine hundred likes? Ricky said, nine hundred?

<v Speaker 1>Is that where we're up to? Oh, only one hundred more? Huh,

<v Speaker 1>only one hundred more will hit quadruple digits. That was

<v Speaker 1>easy for me to say, let's talk about the big

<v Speaker 1>main event here on this show because they close with

<v Speaker 1>the thirty Men over the Top Rope Royal Rumble Match,

<v Speaker 1>the Men's Royal Rumble match last night on SmackDown. If

<v Speaker 1>you were watching on the international feed, you were watching

<v Speaker 1>early like I was with my VPN, you saw a

<v Speaker 1>very funny flubb when Axiom came out to the ring

<v Speaker 1>with Nathan Fraser for his match with Johnny Gargano, and

<v Speaker 1>instead of putting his nameplate on the screen, they put

<v Speaker 1>a graphic up for about two seconds before or they

<v Speaker 1>pulled it. It was one of these lower thirds that

<v Speaker 1>we saw during the Rumble tonight where they would put

<v Speaker 1>the name of the person the entrant, and then their

<v Speaker 1>height and weight where they're from. They put the name

<v Speaker 1>played up the graphic up for bron Breaker entering number

<v Speaker 1>one in the Royal Rumble, and I said, oops, someone's

<v Speaker 1>getting in trouble and I said, I wonder if they're

<v Speaker 1>going to pull that from the USA network feed when

<v Speaker 1>it airs in the States. And I didn't watch the show,

<v Speaker 1>but I had people tell me that yes, they they

<v Speaker 1>edited that out of the show. Now at that point,

<v Speaker 1>what do you do? What do you do? What's the

<v Speaker 1>easiest thing to do? You move him from number one

<v Speaker 1>to number two. That's exactly what they did. They shot

<v Speaker 1>an angle on the pre show where Adam Pierce is

<v Speaker 1>on set talking to like Biggie and whoever was there

<v Speaker 1>with him, and incomes Paul Hayman, and he's very upset

<v Speaker 1>and he wants to know why bron Breaker is being

<v Speaker 1>forced to enter the Royal Rumble at No. Number two.

<v Speaker 1>So they switched it from one to two. That there's

<v Speaker 1>no difference between one and two. It is literally the

<v Speaker 1>same thing. You are both starting the Royal Rumble. The

<v Speaker 1>bell will ring, It is no different whatsoever. So that

<v Speaker 1>was the big change that they made here. So out first,

<v Speaker 1>the new number one here in the Royal Rumble was

<v Speaker 1>the ruler Oba Femei, former NXT champion, did not lose

<v Speaker 1>his title. He left it quite literally laying in the

<v Speaker 1>middle of the ring, and he vacated it to move

<v Speaker 1>on to bigger and better things. So he comes out,

<v Speaker 1>and if there was ever a prospect out of NXT

<v Speaker 1>that was a sure thing on the main roster, it's

<v Speaker 1>this guy. And if it goes any other way, unless

<v Speaker 1>he gets himself in some sort of disciplinary trouble, that's

<v Speaker 1>about the only thing that or injury that could derail

<v Speaker 1>this man's career. If this man is not a world

<v Speaker 1>champion soon enough, if this man is not in the

<v Speaker 1>upper echelon of talents in the main event scene in

<v Speaker 1>this company inside of a year, then all the people

<v Speaker 1>in charge of booking Oba Femi should be relieved from

<v Speaker 1>duty and replaced with somebody else. Because if ever there

<v Speaker 1>was a sure thing, he's a sure thing. Every single

<v Speaker 1>box that you could possibly want to check on what

<v Speaker 1>you would be looking for at a professional wrestler, he

<v Speaker 1>checks that box. And you know they love the size, right.

<v Speaker 1>He just towers over everybody, but he can do it all.

<v Speaker 1>So he comes out everyone to do it like he

<v Speaker 1>does the dance on the way to the ring. Everyone

<v Speaker 1>in the crowd, they're doing the Oba dance, right, I'm

<v Speaker 1>gonna start doing that when I walk into the store,

<v Speaker 1>I go food shopping, and stuff. I'm going to walk

<v Speaker 1>into the supermarket like that man. I love it. So

<v Speaker 1>he walks out to the ring first and number one,

<v Speaker 1>Number two is bron Breaker, So he makes his way

<v Speaker 1>down to the ring. He's walking down, taking his time.

<v Speaker 1>He's coming down the aisle with Paul Hayman. Sudden Breaker

<v Speaker 1>is jumped by someone in a black hoodie. Now, I

<v Speaker 1>don't know what the obsession that Triple H has with

<v Speaker 1>men in black hoodies. How many fucking times have we

<v Speaker 1>seen this? We saw this with Austin Theory, we saw

<v Speaker 1>this with Jacob Batu. We've seen this other times as well.

<v Speaker 1>Becky Lynch at one point, right, she was dressed up

<v Speaker 1>in a black hoodie and then revealed herself. So we

<v Speaker 1>have yet another mystery man in black and they jump

<v Speaker 1>bron Breaker. They're beating him up, and this person, whoever

<v Speaker 1>this person is, gives him a stomp. Gee, I wonder

<v Speaker 1>who they want you to think it is. And I

<v Speaker 1>thought he was gonna pull the thing down get a

<v Speaker 1>big pop. It was Seth Rawlins, right, and Seth Rollins

<v Speaker 1>doesn't even have to be clear to wrestle for him

<v Speaker 1>to just deliver a stomp. He never revealed himself, probably

<v Speaker 1>because Seth Rollins did not make the trip to Saudi Arabia.

<v Speaker 1>He may end up being revealed in the end as

<v Speaker 1>the mass Man. But again, it would be a little

<v Speaker 1>too obvious, right, just like when Austin Theory showed up

<v Speaker 1>and he stomped God who'd be stomped in the War

<v Speaker 1>Games match to win it for the Vision, and then

<v Speaker 1>you know, we come to find out, oh, it's not

<v Speaker 1>Seth Rollins, it's Austin Theory. You can always substitute whoever

<v Speaker 1>you want to in there once you do the big reveal.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, it would be kind of interesting, honestly if

<v Speaker 1>we come to find out that it was actually a

<v Speaker 1>member of the Vision. Now it wouldn't be Bronze and

<v Speaker 1>Reid obviously because this person was very slender. So like

<v Speaker 1>if it was if it was Theory, or if it

<v Speaker 1>was Logan, Paul Logan. Paul was very agreeable on TV

<v Speaker 1>the other night when it might have been on Friday

<v Speaker 1>night when he was like, the one member of the

<v Speaker 1>Vision who should win the Royal Rumble is bron Breaker.

<v Speaker 1>I think we should all agree he was a little

<v Speaker 1>too agreeable, So who knows, Maybe it ends up being

<v Speaker 1>a Logan Paul and he ends up getting bounced out

<v Speaker 1>of the vision. But it it could just be also

<v Speaker 1>a placeholder for Seth Rollins when he's good and ready

<v Speaker 1>to come back. If they have a sense, then maybe

<v Speaker 1>he'll be back sooner than later. That could be the

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania match, you know, it could be Seth Rollins against

<v Speaker 1>bron Breaker. But we did not get a reveal because

<v Speaker 1>the officials came over and he whoever the mystery man was,

<v Speaker 1>he jetted off into the crowd. But bron Breaker ends

<v Speaker 1>up being put in the ring and bron Breaker gets

<v Speaker 1>eliminated promptly by Oba Femei. That was all bron Breaker did.

<v Speaker 1>He did nothing in the Royal Rumble. He did not

<v Speaker 1>have one offensive maneuver in the Royal Rumble. He got

<v Speaker 1>jumped and he got dumped and that was it. And

<v Speaker 1>that is a choice. Now, obviously this is going to

<v Speaker 1>play into a story that will play itself out on TV,

<v Speaker 1>possibly with Adam Pierce involved. So maybe we'll look back

<v Speaker 1>at this in a few weeks and be like, Okay,

<v Speaker 1>you know what, this all it was worth it, It

<v Speaker 1>made sense. But I'm watching this and I'm going that's

<v Speaker 1>certainly a fucking decision. That's certainly one way to bounce

<v Speaker 1>bron Breaker out of the Royal Rumble. It was shocking,

<v Speaker 1>I'll give them that. I don't know if it was good,

<v Speaker 1>but it was certainly surprising. So he was one of

<v Speaker 1>the favorites. And just like that, boom gone, solo sokoa,

<v Speaker 1>he was out next a number three. Speaking of people

<v Speaker 1>that will not be winning the Royal Rumble, no lantern

<v Speaker 1>to guide him to the ring. Oba ran right through

<v Speaker 1>him with the shoulder tackle. And now I'm sitting here

<v Speaker 1>and I'm pulling for number four. I'm pulling for number

<v Speaker 1>four because again I have number four in our Facebook pool.

<v Speaker 1>Naya Jackson was number four in the women's rumble. I

<v Speaker 1>wasn't winning shit with that, so my only hope was

<v Speaker 1>number four and number four was Raymysterio, and I said, fac,

<v Speaker 1>I guess there's always next year. And then it hit

<v Speaker 1>me as he was coming down to the ring and

<v Speaker 1>I see him flying all over the ring, and I

<v Speaker 1>wasn't even sure if Ray was going to be in

<v Speaker 1>the rumble, because remember he got injured or he got

<v Speaker 1>hurt obviously not seriously. But on Monday something happened there

<v Speaker 1>and there was some question as to whether or not

<v Speaker 1>he would even be in the Rumble, but he's flying

<v Speaker 1>around in there. I'm like, it's twenty years since he

<v Speaker 1>won the Royal Rumble. He won the Rumble in two

<v Speaker 1>thousand and six. It's twenty twenty six and ray Masterio

<v Speaker 1>was still out there in the Royal Rumble flying around

<v Speaker 1>fifty years old. It's pretty amazing. There was a period

<v Speaker 1>of time in the early twenty tens where he had

<v Speaker 1>I mean, it was like glass knees, and I said,

<v Speaker 1>this guy's not going to last another six months. He's

<v Speaker 1>got to hang it up. It's just one knee injury

<v Speaker 1>after another knee injury. And then he got the stem

<v Speaker 1>cells and he started. I don't know what else he's

<v Speaker 1>doing to keep himself in shape. Whatever he's doing, he

<v Speaker 1>has added years on to his career. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>how much longer he plans on going, but I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>It's pretty crazy. Just to hit me, like, twenty years

<v Speaker 1>since he won the Royal Rumble and there he is.

<v Speaker 1>He's still in there, flying around. So Russev was out

<v Speaker 1>at number five. Oh boy, Russev comes out. He immediately

<v Speaker 1>eats a six y one nine and then he got

<v Speaker 1>dumped out by Oba Femi and I literally I just

<v Speaker 1>wrote in my notes, Lol, Russev, he is one of

<v Speaker 1>those people, and you know what, fuck it, I'm gonna

<v Speaker 1>put Alistair Black on that same list. Alistair Black, I

<v Speaker 1>will have you know. Alistair Black was flown all the

<v Speaker 1>way out to Saudi Arabia. He made the trip, he

<v Speaker 1>was gonna be in the Royal Rumble, and they pulled him.

<v Speaker 1>They pulled him allegedly because they decided that they were

<v Speaker 1>going to bring him back to TV in a different way,

<v Speaker 1>so we're not going to use you, so they flew

<v Speaker 1>him all the way over. There wasn't even in the Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>And if you look at the entirety of his runs

<v Speaker 1>so far since he came back to WDE, I don't

<v Speaker 1>honestly believe even though he's had more singles matches, and

<v Speaker 1>I can never figure out why Tony Kahan just almost

<v Speaker 1>refused to use him in singles matches but for a handful.

<v Speaker 1>But I can't honestly sit here and tell you that

<v Speaker 1>his run in aaw was Eddie worse than the run

<v Speaker 1>he's had since he came back to WWE. He actually

<v Speaker 1>had a better run in AW he did. He actually

<v Speaker 1>got a couple of big wins over Cody Rhodes, he

<v Speaker 1>was a trios champion. He did more in aw than

<v Speaker 1>he has so far since he came back to WWE.

<v Speaker 1>And then I look at Russev and I don't know

<v Speaker 1>what the fuck happened there. That's just the bizarre situation

<v Speaker 1>where you got Russev talking about how all I want

<v Speaker 1>to do is work. I want to wrestle. I want

<v Speaker 1>to work. I don't want to sit at home. He

<v Speaker 1>was in that company for like three or four years,

<v Speaker 1>barely wrestled. You would think if you wanted to wrestle

<v Speaker 1>that badly, I'm sure Tony would have loved to have

<v Speaker 1>put him on TV to this day, I have no

<v Speaker 1>idea if it was just a just creative differences. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know what the issue was there, but it became

<v Speaker 1>like a punchline, like, man, this guy's run sucks. Look

<v Speaker 1>at the run had in this company. It's awful. He'll

<v Speaker 1>go back to WWE. We'll get Russev Day and all

<v Speaker 1>this other stuff. He went back to WWE, Can you

<v Speaker 1>honestly tell me that the run that he has had

<v Speaker 1>since he came back is any better than what they

<v Speaker 1>had him doing early on in his run in AAW

<v Speaker 1>when he was like TNT champion, he was actually doing stuff.

<v Speaker 1>Give me a fucking break. He is a he's an

<v Speaker 1>even bigger loser now to a bigger fucking geek now

<v Speaker 1>on WWE television than he ever was in AAW. So

<v Speaker 1>that's two examples right there of guys who made the

<v Speaker 1>jump back who were actually no better off so far

<v Speaker 1>for going back, and would have been better off staying

<v Speaker 1>where they were working in AAW. And I never thought

<v Speaker 1>I would even hear myself say those words. But you

<v Speaker 1>cannot honestly tell me they are better off right now

<v Speaker 1>than they were before. And it really hit me watching

<v Speaker 1>him here. What a fucking geek he looked like, walking

<v Speaker 1>out there and getting dumped out like some Saturday morning jobber.

<v Speaker 1>Give me a fucking break. So then Solo Socoa got

<v Speaker 1>eliminated by Oba Femei and that was his third elimination

<v Speaker 1>so far. Mysterio hit Oba with a six y one nine.

<v Speaker 1>All that did was pissed the big guy off, and

<v Speaker 1>that led to him eliminating Ray. So Oba was all

<v Speaker 1>alone in the ring when number six entered and number

<v Speaker 1>six was Matt Cardona, Poor bastard, poor guy, you talk

<v Speaker 1>about the luck of the draw. So he makes his

<v Speaker 1>way down to the ring. Opa just mows him down instantly.

<v Speaker 1>Cardona manages a missile drop kick off the middle rope.

<v Speaker 1>Oba dropped him with a fall from grace and goodbye,

<v Speaker 1>Matt Cardona, See you later. Number seven was nam Ian Priest,

<v Speaker 1>Oba's gonna kill you. These are the chants that rang

<v Speaker 1>out when Priest came down to the ring. See dude's

<v Speaker 1>already over. First night in He's already over. So we

<v Speaker 1>got a cyclone kick by Priest and then another one

<v Speaker 1>and he takes down Oba with a clothesline. Number eight

<v Speaker 1>is the bounty boy Javon Evans, who has a history

<v Speaker 1>in NXT with Obafemi. He went for the o G

<v Speaker 1>cutter Oba, though stuffed the attempt. He did take him

<v Speaker 1>down though with a springboard kick. Number nine was mister Iguana.

<v Speaker 1>Mister Iguana from triple A to absolutely no reaction whatsoever.

<v Speaker 1>These people did not either know what to make of

<v Speaker 1>him or did not care about him, maybe a little

<v Speaker 1>bit of both. I don't know, but he got he

<v Speaker 1>got no re I guess they don't watch Luca Libra

<v Speaker 1>and Riad. Evidently he tried to attack Priest with Layeska

<v Speaker 1>his stuffed iguana. Priest though, gave him and the iguana

<v Speaker 1>a double choke slam. Number nine. I want you people

<v Speaker 1>to remember something, okay, I want you to remember when

<v Speaker 1>you're watching stuff like that, and this is it's a

<v Speaker 1>lighthearted comedy moment. Nothing against mister Iguana. I'm sure he's

<v Speaker 1>a fine, a fine man. But him and Laparca, who

<v Speaker 1>was another one from Tripaa who came in like these

<v Speaker 1>people got spots in the Royal Rumble. Finn Balor could not.

<v Speaker 1>I want you to remember that. So Number ten was

<v Speaker 1>Trick Williams who eliminated myster Iguana. Then we got a

<v Speaker 1>three way face off between Trick Williams, Obafemi and Javon

<v Speaker 1>Evans and the fans rang out with chance of an xt.

<v Speaker 1>Number eleven was the American Nightmare Cody Rhodes, entering early

<v Speaker 1>this year looking for his third Royal Rumble win in

<v Speaker 1>four years, doing what only one other man in history

<v Speaker 1>has ever done, winning his third Rumble. And I said

<v Speaker 1>that would be a huge mistake, especially if you listen

<v Speaker 1>to the crowd on SmackDown last night when Cody came

<v Speaker 1>out and talked about winning a third Rumble, and he

<v Speaker 1>got booed every time he even teased the possibility of

<v Speaker 1>winning the Royal Rumble again he got booed. So, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>that would have been a pretty fucking terrible decision on

<v Speaker 1>their part if they would have had Cody win another

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble, win an elimination chamber, that's fine. Winning another

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble would have been awful, but they kept singing

<v Speaker 1>his song even after the song stopped. Cody Cutter takes

<v Speaker 1>down Damian Priest and so it was back to Cody

<v Speaker 1>and Oba after their recent match on Saturday Nights made Event,

<v Speaker 1>so they were about to go out it here when

<v Speaker 1>number twelve came out. It was El Grandi Americano. He

<v Speaker 1>slipped the metal plate under his mask. He started taking

<v Speaker 1>guys out with headbuts, and then at number thirteen we

<v Speaker 1>had El Grande Americano, HM the og, the original El

<v Speaker 1>Grande Americano. Yes, Chad Gable is back and he's got

<v Speaker 1>a beard, you could see it coming through the mask,

<v Speaker 1>and he's jacked as fuck. This guy has been training

<v Speaker 1>his ass off. I mean, I don't know what it

<v Speaker 1>is with some of these guys when they come back

<v Speaker 1>when they've had like a long layoff from injuries. Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton aj styles this guy comes, he comes back, he's

<v Speaker 1>as cut up as I've ever seen in before. But

<v Speaker 1>Chad Gable is finally back from the torn rotator. Cuff

<v Speaker 1>gets into the ring and we got a high angle

<v Speaker 1>German suplex by the original El Grande, so Americano Gable

<v Speaker 1>eliminated Americano Kaiser. They went at it a little bit.

<v Speaker 1>He eliminated Kaiser, but then Americano Gable got knocked off

<v Speaker 1>the apron headfirst right into Americano Kaiser, so both men

<v Speaker 1>were gone. Cody Rhodes then eliminated Trick Williams pretty nonchalantly.

<v Speaker 1>They were just this is one of many examples of

<v Speaker 1>eliminations in this rumble that just sort of happened and

<v Speaker 1>should have been a bigger deal, and it just was

<v Speaker 1>like nothing. It's like, oh, all right, let's just throw

<v Speaker 1>this guy out. So he eliminates Trick Williams and then

<v Speaker 1>at number fourteen, I'm looking at the screens and I

<v Speaker 1>didn't mention this. I do have to say the stage

<v Speaker 1>was very nice. There's a very elaborate WrestleMania esque stage.

<v Speaker 1>So they had the giant they had like these giant screens,

<v Speaker 1>and yeah, the names would come up, and I'm watching

<v Speaker 1>this and it says Powerhouse Hobbes. Now we had heard

<v Speaker 1>that he was getting a new name. He was gonna

<v Speaker 1>get the name Royce Keys. Royce is the name of

<v Speaker 1>his young son. I don't know where the Keys come from,

<v Speaker 1>maybe Alicia, I don't know, but it says Powerhouse Hobbs,

<v Speaker 1>and I don't know if I wouldn't say it got

<v Speaker 1>a huge reaction because I'm sure there were a lot

<v Speaker 1>of people who don't know who he is, or you know,

<v Speaker 1>didn't know the significance of that. But I'm like, oh shit,

<v Speaker 1>maybe they swerved us and he's actually coming in with

<v Speaker 1>the name. But then it switched to Royce Keys. So

<v Speaker 1>I don't really know what the point of that was.

<v Speaker 1>But they kind of tease you there for a second

<v Speaker 1>that he was coming in his Powerhouse Hobbs, and then

<v Speaker 1>they kind of swept the rug out from under you

<v Speaker 1>and went, psych not happening, and we'll get used to

<v Speaker 1>the name. It's not a big deal, but it's not

<v Speaker 1>as good as Powerhouse Hobbs. But there he was it's

<v Speaker 1>powerhouse Hobbs. It's the worst kept secret of wrestling that

<v Speaker 1>he signed with WWE, and so he uh oh Keys

<v Speaker 1>is his mother's maiden name? Is that true? I see,

<v Speaker 1>that's the one thing I didn't know where that part

<v Speaker 1>of it was from. All right, So there you go.

<v Speaker 1>Royce lost his keys. Don't you hate it when that happens?

<v Speaker 1>All right? So there you go. There the family significance

<v Speaker 1>of the new name. So he comes out to the

<v Speaker 1>ring and they immediately erase his aw passed by switching

<v Speaker 1>the name first man that he gets into the ring with.

<v Speaker 1>And I kind of laughed at this, and I think

<v Speaker 1>I even made a comment when I was talking about

<v Speaker 1>Hobbes a couple of weeks ago and the possibility of

<v Speaker 1>him coming to WWE and how different things might be

<v Speaker 1>in AW. There aren't a lot of like really physically

<v Speaker 1>big guys, right, They have a handful, and they generally

<v Speaker 1>don't really know what to do with them. Like Big

<v Speaker 1>Bill is an example of someone who they should absolutely

<v Speaker 1>be doing more with, and he's just wasting away. Hobbes

<v Speaker 1>at least was getting a better push than Big Bill

<v Speaker 1>was Hobbs relative to a lot of other people on

<v Speaker 1>the roster. He just he looked like a big guy, right,

<v Speaker 1>And I'm not saying he isn't in WWE, though, you

<v Speaker 1>have more of those big guys like Gunther is like

<v Speaker 1>a deceptively large man, Drew McIntyre is a large man. Like.

<v Speaker 1>There's a lot of like bigger physically bigger guys on

<v Speaker 1>the roster, and would Hobbes look as menacing standing next

<v Speaker 1>to one of them. First person that he gets in

<v Speaker 1>the ring with and goes face to face with is

<v Speaker 1>Damian Priest, And I'm looking at the two of them like, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>side by side on screen, and Priest is like, I'm sorry,

<v Speaker 1>but Priests is like almost dwarfing him. It's probably not

<v Speaker 1>that much bigger than him. But I'm like, I why,

<v Speaker 1>why would you do that? But they're face to face

<v Speaker 1>and Hobbs hoists him up onto his shoulder. He gives

<v Speaker 1>him a power slam, and then he closed line Priest

<v Speaker 1>out over the top row for the elimination. So at

<v Speaker 1>least they had him eliminate a former world heavyweight champion

<v Speaker 1>here on the show. So then he hit a wicked

<v Speaker 1>spinebuster to Javon Evans probably would have made more sense

<v Speaker 1>for them to go maybe face to face, although Javon's

<v Speaker 1>another one. Actually, Javon is also pretty pretty tall. So

<v Speaker 1>then Cody spins him around, and Michael Cole said, Cody

<v Speaker 1>has had some run ins with this man in the past.

<v Speaker 1>And I was racking my brain trying to remember. Was

<v Speaker 1>there like a Cody Rhodes Powerhouse Hobbs match? Did they

<v Speaker 1>ever wrestle on Dynamite? I don't remember. RDH says Hobbs

<v Speaker 1>is like six foot see that's what I mean, Like,

<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't want to be face to face with him.

<v Speaker 1>I see the thing about Hobbes, like his facial expressions

<v Speaker 1>and stuff like, he just looks like a badass. But again,

<v Speaker 1>you gotta be careful with who you put him in

<v Speaker 1>the ring with because they just they have these other

<v Speaker 1>guys that are gonna make him look small, and that's

<v Speaker 1>part of his appeal, you know. That's I don't think

<v Speaker 1>that's the way you want him to come off. So

<v Speaker 1>just in terms of his presentation, just be mindful of

<v Speaker 1>stuff like that number fifteen was Austin Austin theory. I

<v Speaker 1>don't want to get your hopes up there. Austin theory

<v Speaker 1>was number fifteen and nothing of note to say that

<v Speaker 1>he did before number sixteen came out, which was the

<v Speaker 1>other member of the vision. I think the final member too.

<v Speaker 1>Oh not the final member. We had one more, but

<v Speaker 1>Bronson Reid came in. Number sixteen. He hit the ring.

<v Speaker 1>The first thing he did was climb to the top

<v Speaker 1>and pancake Javon Evans with a tsunami splash. Number seventeen

<v Speaker 1>was ilya Dragon of who was actually part of one

<v Speaker 1>of the moments here in this royal rumble that pissed

<v Speaker 1>me the fuck off, and I'll get to that in

<v Speaker 1>a little bit, but he was in at number seventeen.

<v Speaker 1>Number eighteen was La Parca from Triple A with his

<v Speaker 1>thriller knockoff theme and again to absolutely no reaction, just

<v Speaker 1>like mister Iguan. Number nineteen was Dragon Lee. Number twenty

<v Speaker 1>was the final entrant for the vision. That was Logan Paul,

<v Speaker 1>making the vision whole all but bron breaker, I guess.

<v Speaker 1>So Logan got taken down right away by Royce with

<v Speaker 1>the World's Strongest slam, but Bronson Reed took Hobbs out

<v Speaker 1>over the top with a clothesline, and so goodbye Powerhouse Hobbs.

<v Speaker 1>Powerhouse Hobbs was eliminated from the Royal Rumble. Now it'll

<v Speaker 1>be interesting to see which brand he ends up on.

<v Speaker 1>The belief is that Oba is gonna end up on Raw.

<v Speaker 1>If Oba's going to Raw, I think Hobbs goes to SmackDown,

<v Speaker 1>and I think SmackDown, frankly would be the better place

<v Speaker 1>for him. And SmackDown definitely needs more heels. But I

<v Speaker 1>like the idea though, of him ending up as a

<v Speaker 1>heater for Trick Williams. I think that would be a

<v Speaker 1>good role for him too. He was gonna be more

<v Speaker 1>like a like a paid enforcer who occasionally wrestles and

<v Speaker 1>then eventually, you know, you do the split and everything.

<v Speaker 1>Either way, I think SmackDown would be the best place

<v Speaker 1>for him. So Laparka got dumped and then Dragon Lee

<v Speaker 1>got dumped and then out at number twenty one with

<v Speaker 1>the Vision showing dominance in the ring, Ladies and gentlemen,

<v Speaker 1>he's back La Knight. Yeah. The last time we saw

<v Speaker 1>La Knight he was being squashed on top of a

<v Speaker 1>car by Bronson Reid. He got taken out by the Vision,

<v Speaker 1>so it's only appropriate here that he hits the ring

<v Speaker 1>goes right after the vision. Knight sends theory out to

<v Speaker 1>the floor. He tries to closeline Bronson read out over

<v Speaker 1>the top, can't do it, nothing doing, so he hits

<v Speaker 1>a BFT and then he closed lines read out over

<v Speaker 1>the top rope and he is gone officially from the

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble. This got the biggest reaction yet of anything

<v Speaker 1>in the Royal Rumble. And I just I watched this,

<v Speaker 1>and I just go push this fucking man because despite

<v Speaker 1>all of the start and stops and everything, all the

<v Speaker 1>bullshit they've done with him, somehow there but by the

<v Speaker 1>grace of the wrestling gods, this man is still over

<v Speaker 1>and they will continue to do absolutely nothing with him.

<v Speaker 1>He'll be wrestling Chris Jericho Wrestle Media this year and losing.

<v Speaker 1>Come up with something for this man, or at least

<v Speaker 1>he can win some matches and not just lose all

<v Speaker 1>the time. So Logan Paul is the only member of

<v Speaker 1>the Vision that is left, or is he? Because out

<v Speaker 1>at number twenty two being escorted down to the ring

<v Speaker 1>by Paul Hayman brock Lesner his first Royal Rumble in God,

<v Speaker 1>what was the last Rumble he was in? He was

<v Speaker 1>definitely in the one in twenty twenty two. Hmm. Was

<v Speaker 1>he in the twenty twenty three rumble. I think he

<v Speaker 1>was because twenty twenty three was the last year before

<v Speaker 1>he went away, so I'm guessing he was probably in

<v Speaker 1>there in twenty three, so this was his first rumble

<v Speaker 1>in at least three years. So he marches down to

<v Speaker 1>the ring. Cody Roads is in the ring making a

<v Speaker 1>mean face and he's waiting for Brock. So immediately Cody

<v Speaker 1>got suplexed. La Knight then got suplexed. He took a German.

<v Speaker 1>Javon Evans goes flying. I'm surprised he didn't go flying

<v Speaker 1>out of the ring. Ilia Dragonov gets close lined down.

<v Speaker 1>Javon then gets picked up for an F five, and

<v Speaker 1>then we got the showdown that we were waiting for now.

<v Speaker 1>One of my predictions coming into the Royal Rumble was

<v Speaker 1>that Oba Femi was going to eliminate Brock Lesnar as

<v Speaker 1>the kickoff to a match a program between them heading

<v Speaker 1>into WrestleMania forty two. So I was waiting for this.

<v Speaker 1>So we got Brock. He locks eyes with Oba, Oba

<v Speaker 1>locks eyes with Brock. We're about to get it here.

<v Speaker 1>The fans are going nuts, but the countdown clock goes off.

<v Speaker 1>It interrupts this great stare down that we have here.

<v Speaker 1>I'm thinking, boy, there must be a big name coming

<v Speaker 1>out here. Maybe Roman Reigns is coming out at number

<v Speaker 1>twenty three. And then we hear I came to play.

<v Speaker 1>I came to play. It's the Miz. The Miz comes

<v Speaker 1>missing all the way down to the ring. He goes

<v Speaker 1>to slide in, he looks up and he says, oh shit,

<v Speaker 1>and he immediately slides right back out. But before Lesner

<v Speaker 1>and Oba could clash, they both get jumped. So in

<v Speaker 1>the corner we have Iliya Dragonov, the former United States Champion,

<v Speaker 1>the man who has been having kick ass matches on

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown and has gotten himself over through those kick ass matches. Right,

<v Speaker 1>his matches actually get a reaction, and one of the

<v Speaker 1>most intense professional wrestlers that you will ever see. Bleeds

<v Speaker 1>in every match, not like buckets of blood. He's not

<v Speaker 1>like John Moxley, but he's just so intense. He's always

<v Speaker 1>getting by. His fucking forehead is bleeding, his nose is bleeding,

<v Speaker 1>probably rolls over in bed in his fucking puddle of blood. There.

<v Speaker 1>I love the guy. He's fucking great. I was actually

<v Speaker 1>kind of hoping we would get some sort of confrontation

<v Speaker 1>here with him and Gunther in the rumble, but we

<v Speaker 1>didn't get it. But he's in the corner with Brock

<v Speaker 1>Lesner and I'm like, wow, this is a pretty good

<v Speaker 1>confrontation here. This should be good. He is chopping the

<v Speaker 1>shit out of Lesnar in the corner, and Brock is

<v Speaker 1>no selling all of it. He is doing what Goldberg

<v Speaker 1>did to Gunther in their match on Saturday. It's made

<v Speaker 1>event where Gunther was chopping him and Goldberg just stood

<v Speaker 1>there and and like laugh literally laughed, smiled at him,

<v Speaker 1>laughed at him. No souldan. Brock stands there, he knows

<v Speaker 1>sells everything that Dragonov does to him, and like he's

<v Speaker 1>mocking him. He looks at him, he's laughing, he's sticking

<v Speaker 1>his tongue out like ah, he's sticking his tonge that ah,

<v Speaker 1>Like what the fuck? And then as casual as can be,

<v Speaker 1>he takes Dragonov right and he dumps him out of

<v Speaker 1>the ring, just throws him out of the ring like

<v Speaker 1>like a little jobber, goodbye, get out of my hair.

<v Speaker 1>You're annoying me. And I'm watching this and I'm like

<v Speaker 1>what the fuck. Like of all the people to do

<v Speaker 1>that with why the fuck would you do that with

<v Speaker 1>Ilia Dragonov kissed me the fuck off watching that, Like

<v Speaker 1>even like Lesner, eliminating him isn't even the issue, Like okay, fine,

<v Speaker 1>he's the bigger star and whatever. The Dragonov wasn't winning

<v Speaker 1>the Royal Rebel, but to no sell all of his

<v Speaker 1>shit and then mock him and throw him out, Like

<v Speaker 1>who the fuck book that? Like who came up with

<v Speaker 1>that idea? It's just stupid German supplex to La Knight.

<v Speaker 1>So we're back to Lesnar and Oba. But it's time

<v Speaker 1>for another entry. It's time for number twenty four, Ray Phoenix.

<v Speaker 1>This should be good, so Brock hits a German supplex

<v Speaker 1>to Oba sends him Flying Phoenix gets into the ring,

<v Speaker 1>and poor Ray Phoenix he eats an F five and

<v Speaker 1>then Ray Phoenix is dumped out to the floor. This

<v Speaker 1>one didn't surprise me as much as the dragon Ov

<v Speaker 1>spot did. But I could say the same thing for

<v Speaker 1>Ray Phoenix, Like, boy, you know, you could kind of tell,

<v Speaker 1>based on the way that they have been booking Ray

<v Speaker 1>Phoenix that they don't truly value him, you know, like

<v Speaker 1>he's a lutrador who goes in there and does very

<v Speaker 1>impressive stuff, and he can fly around and he's very dynamic.

<v Speaker 1>But he is not someone that they're ever going to

<v Speaker 1>seriously push, not unless or until they get him and

<v Speaker 1>his brother together, and they push him in the tag

<v Speaker 1>Tea division, which is for Ray Phoenix's sake, exactly what

<v Speaker 1>they should be doing with him. Penta doesn't really need

<v Speaker 1>Phoenix Phoenix absolutely, I mean, he needs to be praying

<v Speaker 1>that they put him together with his brother as soon

<v Speaker 1>as possible, because you could just tell from the way

<v Speaker 1>he was utilized here in this rumble what they think

<v Speaker 1>of him and how low on the totem pole he is.

<v Speaker 1>He's dead. He's dead without that tag team, without some

<v Speaker 1>tag team. He actually had a pretty good team there

<v Speaker 1>with Androde and then Androte left. But yeah, he his

<v Speaker 1>future is directly tied into how quickly they can get

<v Speaker 1>him and pent It together. Does not look good for him.

<v Speaker 1>So Oba charges in with a clothes line. Brock, though

<v Speaker 1>ducks it and Oba then knocks him down. Oba tries

<v Speaker 1>to or he turns to eliminate Logan Paul and Lesner

<v Speaker 1>dumps out Oba Femi. So they did the reverse of

<v Speaker 1>what I was hoping they would do, and instead of

<v Speaker 1>having Oba eliminate Brock, which would have gotten this big reaction.

<v Speaker 1>It would have been a big statement elimination, they had

<v Speaker 1>Lesner eliminate him instead. Now, if they still work towards

<v Speaker 1>an Oba Femi Brock Lesnar match of Wrestlemaniam, then maybe

<v Speaker 1>it's all Maybe. I look back and I'm like, all right,

<v Speaker 1>it was worth it because at least it got them

<v Speaker 1>kind of started in that direction. So I'll reserve judgment

<v Speaker 1>on that. But I was not happy about that. I

<v Speaker 1>was not happy about having Brock be the one to

<v Speaker 1>eliminate Oba. But overall, if you look at Oba's run

<v Speaker 1>here in the Rumble match, he had a pretty good run.

<v Speaker 1>I can't really complain. I mean, he got a bunch

<v Speaker 1>of eliminations. He was in there from the number one spot,

<v Speaker 1>so he looked pretty good. I just again, it was

<v Speaker 1>a little odd having him be the one to be

<v Speaker 1>eliminated by brocket out the other way around. So then

<v Speaker 1>after this, it was time for number twenty five. Oh man,

<v Speaker 1>it was jay Uso, the winner of last year's Royal

<v Speaker 1>Rumble Match. And jay Uso is entering through the crowd

<v Speaker 1>as he always does, and he stops and he starts

<v Speaker 1>yeating with the fans, and I don't know they were

<v Speaker 1>showing the people in the section that he was in,

<v Speaker 1>and I wouldn't say that they were all just yeating

<v Speaker 1>with him. I think they were waiting for him to

<v Speaker 1>get to the ring. Frankly, but you know, the eating

<v Speaker 1>thing is a big fun thing that the live fans do.

<v Speaker 1>And then they're in the crowd. But we're in the

<v Speaker 1>middle of a royal rumble here and this man is

<v Speaker 1>coming through the crowd and he's yeating. So Cody Roads

<v Speaker 1>in La Night in the ring as this is going on,

<v Speaker 1>Cody Roads at La Night, they close line brock Lesner

<v Speaker 1>out of the ring and brock Lesner is eliminated in

<v Speaker 1>the middle of Jay Usso. His music is still playing

<v Speaker 1>and Jay Usso is still yeating and still making his

<v Speaker 1>entrance to come into this match, and in the middle

<v Speaker 1>of all of this is when brock Lesner is eliminated.

<v Speaker 1>What the fuck? This is what I'm talking about. There

<v Speaker 1>were certain spots and eliminations in this match that had

<v Speaker 1>me scratching my head, like who booked this? Who laid

<v Speaker 1>this out? In the middle of Jay Husso's entrance, where

<v Speaker 1>all the focus was on him. This was almost like

<v Speaker 1>an afterthought. The camera quickly cuts we at least could

<v Speaker 1>see the elimination, so his music is still playing. So

<v Speaker 1>finally Jay's music ends. But then, of course he decided,

<v Speaker 1>we gotta run it back, we gotta run it back

<v Speaker 1>here in the middle of the royal rembel, so they

<v Speaker 1>play his music again the next entry. This has taken

<v Speaker 1>so long now that the next entrant the countdown is

<v Speaker 1>already in progress to the next entrant coming into the

<v Speaker 1>match here, and the next entrant is already on their

<v Speaker 1>way out. It's number twenty six. It is Roman Reigns,

<v Speaker 1>the tribal chief has re emerged for the first time

<v Speaker 1>since Wargames. So Roman Reigns makes his way down to

<v Speaker 1>the ring just so we can get Roman and Ja

<v Speaker 1>that's how that's why this was all designed this way.

<v Speaker 1>So Roman gets into the ring and we got a

<v Speaker 1>face to face with him and his cousin, and Roman

<v Speaker 1>is looking at him, and Roman goes, okay, run it

<v Speaker 1>back here, run it back again, eh. So they play

<v Speaker 1>the music for a third fucking time, and then thankfully

<v Speaker 1>Roman puts an end to this with a thrust to

<v Speaker 1>jay Uso and they kill the music once and for all,

<v Speaker 1>So choke Slam from Roman to Javon Evans, Superman Punched

<v Speaker 1>to Mike the Miz and then one for Logan Paul

<v Speaker 1>Spear to the Miz so Audios Mike. He gets dumped out.

<v Speaker 1>Roman and Cody Dow are about to face off, but

<v Speaker 1>we got number twenty seven now who was on their

<v Speaker 1>way out to the ring and it is Jacob. Fatu

<v Speaker 1>and Cody went for a suicide dive. Fatu. They'll cut

<v Speaker 1>him off with a thrust. Fatu pop Javon Evans as

<v Speaker 1>high up into the air as you will ever see

<v Speaker 1>on a pop up Samo and Drop or a pop

<v Speaker 1>up power bomb, or a pop up anything, pop up

<v Speaker 1>video fucking VH one, you remember what I'm talking about.

<v Speaker 1>See he pops him up high into the air and

<v Speaker 1>he catches him and he ate like he pauses with him,

<v Speaker 1>and then he goes over for the Simo and DRW

<v Speaker 1>I's the best Simo and drop I've ever seen. So

<v Speaker 1>down goes Javaiah's beautiful. So Fatu teas is a face

<v Speaker 1>off with Roman. Cody though knocks him down. Roman and

<v Speaker 1>Jay they worked together for a one d on Cody

<v Speaker 1>Rhodes and then it was time for number twenty eight,

<v Speaker 1>which was Penta. Of course, his brother was already gone.

<v Speaker 1>I thought maybe we'd get some kind of spot between

<v Speaker 1>them in this match. I guess that's too much to

<v Speaker 1>ask for. So Penta comes out at twenty eight. He

<v Speaker 1>was the iron Man last year of forty two minutes.

<v Speaker 1>La Knight drops Roman with a BFT, ends up on

<v Speaker 1>the apron though, and Cody knocks him off with a

<v Speaker 1>disaster kick. La Knight is eliminated. Cody gets booed, not

<v Speaker 1>like a ton of booze, but he got booed. Some

<v Speaker 1>fans did not like that. So number twenty nine was

<v Speaker 1>out next, and now I'm thinking to myself, all right,

<v Speaker 1>who's left? I couldn't remember, you know who was left here?

<v Speaker 1>And I'm like, I don't know. They going to save

<v Speaker 1>Jericho for number thirty. Is there some big surprise coming

<v Speaker 1>that I'm not thinking of? So number twenty nine was

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton. I'm like, of course, how can I forget

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton? So snap power slam to Jay one for Penta,

<v Speaker 1>then a double draping DDT for j and Penta Rko

<v Speaker 1>to Logan. Paul. Penta goes for a springboard right into

<v Speaker 1>an RKO and the final entry into the Royal Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>That's truly just blanked. I'm like, unless it's some kind

<v Speaker 1>of big surprise name like I didn't even think of,

<v Speaker 1>like Joe Hendry. I thought we'd see like Joe Hendry

<v Speaker 1>in there. That he wasn't in there, I'm like, I

<v Speaker 1>don't know, let's find out. And number thirty comes out

<v Speaker 1>and it's Gunther. So I wasn't even sure if Gunther

<v Speaker 1>was in the Royal I didn't think he was in

<v Speaker 1>the Royal Rumble. I could have sworn. I heard CM

<v Speaker 1>Punk on the pre show say that he wasn't in

<v Speaker 1>the Rumble, So honestly, that was kind of disappointing because

<v Speaker 1>I knew he wasn't winning. Now, if by chance he

<v Speaker 1>had lost to aj Styles, I would say, Okay, well

<v Speaker 1>then he's got a pretty good chance of winning. But

<v Speaker 1>I already knew, like one hundred percent he's not winning

<v Speaker 1>this match. So you've just you haven't exactly added to

<v Speaker 1>the element of surprise here. So Gunther comes down and

<v Speaker 1>he's limping too, because he's selling the effects of the

<v Speaker 1>calf crusher that aj Styles put on him earlier on

<v Speaker 1>in their match. So Orton went for an RKO on

<v Speaker 1>Javon Evans, but he countered out into a kick to

<v Speaker 1>Orton's face. Over forty minutes at this point for Javon

<v Speaker 1>Evans in the rumble, so we had nine men left

<v Speaker 1>in this match. Javon went for an og cutter. He

<v Speaker 1>comes flying off the top rope right into an RKO

<v Speaker 1>from Randy Orton on the way down. When are these

<v Speaker 1>guys going to learn not to jump at Randy Orton?

<v Speaker 1>You would think that they would already know this by now.

<v Speaker 1>Do not jump at Randy Orton. It's not going to

<v Speaker 1>end well for you. That's a lesson for young Javon Evans.

<v Speaker 1>I know he's only twenty one. He's got a lot

<v Speaker 1>left to learn. He learned a very valuable lesson here

<v Speaker 1>in the Royal Rumble. So Penta got dumped by Gunther,

<v Speaker 1>who then gets you dropped with an RKO. So now

<v Speaker 1>we have seven men left. Cody Rose holds Gunther for

<v Speaker 1>Randy Orton to lay in some kicks, and then Randy

<v Speaker 1>is holding gun through and Cody is going to go

<v Speaker 1>for a Cody Cutter. Cody springs off the ropes gun Thro.

<v Speaker 1>They'll moves out of the way and Cody inadvertently drops

<v Speaker 1>Randy Wi the cutter instead, so Cody got tossed over

<v Speaker 1>the top rope. He's skinning the cat, right, He's not

<v Speaker 1>done yet, when all of a sudden, from out of nowhere,

<v Speaker 1>Drew McIntyre comes flying in with a claim woar kick

<v Speaker 1>to the side of Cody's head as he's hanging by

<v Speaker 1>the ropes, and Cody lets go and he falls to

<v Speaker 1>the floor and Cody Rhodes is eliminated from the Royal Rumble. Yes, yes, good, good.

<v Speaker 1>It would have been fucking terrible for him to win

<v Speaker 1>this match. Very good. At least they made one good

<v Speaker 1>decision here in this match. Let him win the chamber.

<v Speaker 1>If anything, he does not need to be winning his

<v Speaker 1>third Royal Rumble. So McIntyre leaves at that point, guaranteeing

<v Speaker 1>us that this feud is going to continue. But Cody

<v Speaker 1>Roads is officially gone from the match, so Fatu now

<v Speaker 1>is glaring at McIntyre and Roman then tosses a distracted

<v Speaker 1>Jacob Fatu over the top rope and eliminates him. Jay

<v Speaker 1>Uso then snuck up behind Roman and tried to dump

<v Speaker 1>him out of the ring. Roman stopped it. Jay ducked

<v Speaker 1>a clothesline. He ended up spearing Roman. He tried to

<v Speaker 1>throw Roman out. Roman, though quickly reversed it, and he

<v Speaker 1>throws jay Uso out of the ring, and the yeapt

<v Speaker 1>Man is gone. The yeap Man cometh, the yeap Man

<v Speaker 1>leaveth goodbye. I'm surprised that he didn't run it back

<v Speaker 1>again for his exit, so he's gone. So now we're

<v Speaker 1>down to the final four, Roman Reigns, Gunther, Randy Orton,

<v Speaker 1>and Logan Paul. And this is not my favorite final

<v Speaker 1>four that we've ever had. I think the Royal Rumble

<v Speaker 1>is at its best when you have multiple people like

<v Speaker 1>the final three, four five, who all could conceivably win

<v Speaker 1>the Rumble. And at this point you already know it's

<v Speaker 1>either Randy Orton or Roman reigns, and to be perfectly

<v Speaker 1>honest with you, neither of those options are terribly exciting. Now.

<v Speaker 1>It would be maybe more so if Cody was still

<v Speaker 1>the champion, because then you get Cody and Randy, and

<v Speaker 1>that's a match they still haven't done for the title.

<v Speaker 2>Right.

<v Speaker 1>We had the one King of the Ring final and

<v Speaker 1>that was it, But it's still Roman reigns in Randy Orton, like,

<v Speaker 1>I can't help but just think to myself, why are

<v Speaker 1>we going back to this? Well? Why are we going

<v Speaker 1>back to this? And they're the only two possibilities that

<v Speaker 1>are left at this point. Logan Paul's not winning shit.

<v Speaker 1>Gunther is not winning the Royal Rumble. So in terms

<v Speaker 1>of like pass rumble finishes when we get down to

<v Speaker 1>the nitty gritty and that that final batch of like three,

<v Speaker 1>four or five guys not a fan of what they

<v Speaker 1>did here with this. They made it a little too predictable.

<v Speaker 1>Logan went for the buck shot. He majorly fucked it up.

<v Speaker 1>He stumbled when he's gonna I'm telling you, he's gonna

<v Speaker 1>blow a knee out or he gonna do something to

<v Speaker 1>himself one of these days. He's very unstable on his

<v Speaker 1>feet when he does the springboard the vault into the ring.

<v Speaker 1>But he goes over for the buck shot buckshot and

<v Speaker 1>kind of stumbles and nearly, uh I know, he nearly

<v Speaker 1>wiped himself out. But Roman ends up dumping him out

<v Speaker 1>of the ring. So Gunther throws Orton, who takes a

<v Speaker 1>very slow, very it's kind of like the way he

<v Speaker 1>wrestles his matches, a very methodical bump out to the floor.

<v Speaker 1>It's almost like he just sort of accepted his fate

<v Speaker 1>and just went with it, and so he falls to

<v Speaker 1>the floor. And now we're left with Roman Reigns, and

<v Speaker 1>now the rumble's over. If it came down to Roman

<v Speaker 1>Reigns and Randy Orton, it's like, okay, this is fifty

<v Speaker 1>to fifty. This could go either way. Once Orton was eliminated,

<v Speaker 1>the rumble was over. We already knew who was winning.

<v Speaker 1>So it's Roman Reigns and it's Gunther and Rain's back

<v Speaker 1>dropped him only out to the apron though Gunh gets

<v Speaker 1>the sleeper hole applied. Roman shakes him off, but he

<v Speaker 1>gets caught in the sleeper again. Roman gets out of it.

<v Speaker 1>He spears him down and then he tosses gun Through

<v Speaker 1>out of the ring. Just like that, It's over. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>we already knew it was over, but now it's officially

<v Speaker 1>over and Roman Reigns has won his second Royal Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>So they shoot off Pyro on the stage as he's

<v Speaker 1>celebrating in the ring. They should this. I have to

<v Speaker 1>tell you, in all the years that I have watched

<v Speaker 1>these WWE pay per views, plees, whatever you want to

<v Speaker 1>call them. The only time I've ever really seen Pyro

<v Speaker 1>like this is at a WrestleMania, and I can't even

<v Speaker 1>remember a WrestleMania where this Pyro display or Pyro celebration

<v Speaker 1>went off for this long, like you would think Roman

<v Speaker 1>Range just won the main event of WrestleMania. They are

<v Speaker 1>shooting Pyro off like outside the stadium, like they have

<v Speaker 1>drones that are creating the WrestleMania forty two logo, and

<v Speaker 1>there's like a WWE Idol belt logo that they're creating

<v Speaker 1>in the sky, and Pyro is shooting off around the

<v Speaker 1>city and the drones did the whole then now Forever

<v Speaker 1>slogan with just it comically absurd amount of Pyro that

<v Speaker 1>was being shot off, and they showed the ri odd

<v Speaker 1>season logo and they played the Aerosmith song which they're

<v Speaker 1>using for WrestleMania this year in the background. But this

<v Speaker 1>just went on and on and on and on and

<v Speaker 1>on and on and on and on and on. It

<v Speaker 1>was a very awkward kind of ending to the show,

<v Speaker 1>and then it just sort of went right into the

<v Speaker 1>post show, so that was a little strange. I've never

<v Speaker 1>seen a Royal Rumble celebration post batch celebration quite like

<v Speaker 1>that before. Where do we begin with this? This is

<v Speaker 1>a very mediocre Royal Rumble. I really did not like

<v Speaker 1>this Royal Rumble. First of all, there's going to be

<v Speaker 1>some people who were upset that Jericho wasn't there. A

<v Speaker 1>lot of people were expecting him to be the big surprise,

<v Speaker 1>and he would have been. If you would have returned,

<v Speaker 1>that would have been the big surprise on the show.

<v Speaker 1>I am not going to sit here and tell you

<v Speaker 1>that Jericho being there or not being there is going

<v Speaker 1>to affect my enjoyment of the show one way or

<v Speaker 1>the other. He will be in at some point. Whenever

<v Speaker 1>that is, it will be like that's it. I was

<v Speaker 1>not living and dying by whether or not we saw

<v Speaker 1>the return of Chris Jericho on the show, although it

<v Speaker 1>would have been a big surprise in that number thirty spot,

<v Speaker 1>for example, as opposed to just sending Gunther back out there.

<v Speaker 1>These surprises were La Knight, Royce, Keys, Mister Iguana, and

<v Speaker 1>La Parka from Triple A. Those are the big surprises

<v Speaker 1>in the Royal Rumble, so not a ton of them

<v Speaker 1>this year. Nobody in the crowd knew or cared about

<v Speaker 1>any of the Triple A guys, and again it's just

<v Speaker 1>weird that they were able to get spots in the

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble when there were other names like I know

<v Speaker 1>he's not a major name, but he's kind of gone

<v Speaker 1>viral recently and the fans are starting to get behind

<v Speaker 1>him and the music and everything, like unless there was

<v Speaker 1>a reason, like health wise why he couldn't be there,

<v Speaker 1>or he didn't have his his passport or something like,

<v Speaker 1>I have no idea why Kit Wilson was not there.

<v Speaker 1>How do you not have Kit Wilson come out and

<v Speaker 1>get an entrance in this Royal Rumble? But you have

<v Speaker 1>fucking La Park out there with that Michael Jackson knockoff

<v Speaker 1>who made that call. There were just some weird, bizarre

<v Speaker 1>decisions and spots and things here in this Rumble. Again,

<v Speaker 1>guys like Russev and Ray Phoenix, they were dumped instantly

<v Speaker 1>and treated like total geeks. You had Ilia Dragonov who's

<v Speaker 1>having his offense completely just no sold and basically mocked

<v Speaker 1>by the bigger star, you know, like you got you

<v Speaker 1>got a lot to learn, boy, and then out he goes.

<v Speaker 1>I didn't like that, and there were just eliminations in

<v Speaker 1>this match that I felt like should have meant more

<v Speaker 1>than they did. I just cannot get over how Lesnar

<v Speaker 1>was eliminated in the middle of a jay Uso yeat

<v Speaker 1>fest where it was almost like a complete afterthought, like

<v Speaker 1>his elimination could have meant something, whether it was Oba

<v Speaker 1>or somebody else, and it was completely wasted, totally wasted.

<v Speaker 1>A brock Alesnar elimination in this match, if he's going

<v Speaker 1>to be in there, at least use it for some good.

<v Speaker 1>At least use it for something. And they completely fucked

<v Speaker 1>that up. But I will tell you, like that entire sequence,

<v Speaker 1>really from the moment that Oba got dumped out right

<v Speaker 1>on through the jay Uso Forever entrance, everything that happened

<v Speaker 1>during that entire sequence, like I will tell you that

<v Speaker 1>is one of the worst stretches that I have ever

<v Speaker 1>seen in a Royal Rumble match ever, in all the

<v Speaker 1>Royal Rumble matches this company has ever done. It was

<v Speaker 1>absolute trash. But it had a few fun moments in

<v Speaker 1>the rumble. Overall, a few fun moments, you know, in

<v Speaker 1>an hour plus does not make this a good Royal Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>It was not. It was not a good Royal Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>I actually think it was pretty bad as Royal Rumble

<v Speaker 1>matches go. The women definitely get the thumbs up for

<v Speaker 1>me this year over the men's Rumble. And now we

<v Speaker 1>wait to see what they do with Roman Reigns as

<v Speaker 1>far as which champion he will choose, who will be

<v Speaker 1>the champion of that brand going into WrestleMania. If it's

<v Speaker 1>a choice between Roman and Punk or Roman and Drew,

<v Speaker 1>I would rather see Roman in Punk. But I do

<v Speaker 1>not want to see Roman Reigns winning any championships. Roman

<v Speaker 1>Reigns is part time, and if you believe that Roman

<v Speaker 1>Reigns has earned that, then that's fine. He does not

<v Speaker 1>have to win a championship. We do not need to

<v Speaker 1>have titles that are held hostage by people who are

<v Speaker 1>not going to be around week to week. And this

<v Speaker 1>is something that WWE has done time and time again

<v Speaker 1>with certain people. And look, if it's in their contracts

<v Speaker 1>or whatever. I'm not even blaming the talent for that.

<v Speaker 1>But what I'm saying is, if you are a triple H,

<v Speaker 1>if you are the company right and you have weekly

<v Speaker 1>television to book, you have to have the champions present

<v Speaker 1>on the shows. We cannot have this, you know, And

<v Speaker 1>this is one of the things I like about cm

<v Speaker 1>Punk's run as the World heavyweight Champion. I will say

<v Speaker 1>I was not a fan of that match he had

<v Speaker 1>with AJ Styles the other night, like some people were.

<v Speaker 1>I actually thought it was very underwhelming. But he had

<v Speaker 1>a really good match. I thought with Finn Balor. He

<v Speaker 1>had a really good match with bron Breaker. And whatever

<v Speaker 1>you think of the AJ match, he's a fighting champion.

<v Speaker 1>He's actually present every week on the shows. He'll miss

<v Speaker 1>a week here and there, and he's actually defending his

<v Speaker 1>title on the show, which helps elevate the show when

<v Speaker 1>you have the champion who is ever present and actually

<v Speaker 1>defends the belt there every now and then. So I

<v Speaker 1>like that, and I think we need more champions like that.

<v Speaker 1>We've already been through a period of time with Brock

<v Speaker 1>Lesner for many years where Brock they would put a

<v Speaker 1>belt on Brock because Vince McMahon had a fucking heart

<v Speaker 1>on for Brock Lesner, maybe literally, and so Brock would

<v Speaker 1>win a championship and he would disappear for three months

<v Speaker 1>at a time, and they would send Paul Heyman out

<v Speaker 1>there to be his advocates, right and really build him up.

<v Speaker 1>And then eventually when Brock was good and ready, to

<v Speaker 1>come back off the farm or wherever the fuck he dwells.

<v Speaker 1>He would come back and defend the belt, and Brock

<v Speaker 1>was a big attraction. But Brock did not need to

<v Speaker 1>be the champion. When Roman Reigns won the championship, like

<v Speaker 1>in the earlier days of the Bloodline, we got more

<v Speaker 1>of him on TV and as time went on, and

<v Speaker 1>then after he lost the belt, it's been very spotty.

<v Speaker 1>You know, was it last year, the year before last year?

<v Speaker 1>I think he made a total of maybe how many

<v Speaker 1>matches did he have? Six matches? I think the entire year.

<v Speaker 1>And again, if that's in his contract, great, good for him. Right,

<v Speaker 1>he's had health issues in the past, He's got like,

<v Speaker 1>you know, fifty or sixty kids, whatever it is, great,

<v Speaker 1>I get it right. You want to balance work in life.

<v Speaker 1>That doesn't mean he needs to be the champion or

<v Speaker 1>even necessarily fighting for a championship. So hopefully this will

<v Speaker 1>not end with him becoming the World Heavyweight Champion or

<v Speaker 1>becoming the WWE champion. That's the one thing I do

<v Speaker 1>not want to see. I am done with it. I

<v Speaker 1>am tired of it. I am tired of seeing these

<v Speaker 1>part time acts as they become part time that are

<v Speaker 1>put in these positions because they're a big name, right, Oh,

<v Speaker 1>they're a big star, so we have to put a

<v Speaker 1>belt on them, and then we don't see them for

<v Speaker 1>two months, for three months, because it just it kills

<v Speaker 1>the shows. When the champion is an, it kills the

<v Speaker 1>fucking show dead. And that's one of my biggest gripes.

<v Speaker 1>When we are now faced with a wrestle maybe a

<v Speaker 1>picture where you have somebody like that who is going

<v Speaker 1>to be challenging for a championship. We can't have that again.

<v Speaker 1>We can't. I get Roman's a big name, we cannot

<v Speaker 1>have that again. Those are my thoughts on the Royal Rebel.

<v Speaker 1>Take them as you will. Just take a look at

<v Speaker 1>the Twitter poll, what did you think of Saudi Rumble

<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six? Twenty three percent thumbs up? That is

<v Speaker 1>not good. That is a terrible s thirty four percent

<v Speaker 1>thumbs in the middle and forty two point six percent

<v Speaker 1>thumbs down with almost four thousand votes in and counting,

<v Speaker 1>that is not a good score for the Royal Rumble.

<v Speaker 1>The winner declared by Graphic. Yeah, well I mentioned that

<v Speaker 1>before too. I did mention that before Roman reigns declared Wow,

<v Speaker 1>oh boy, wow, you're welcome. Roman Reigns declared via grab. Yeah.

<v Speaker 1>I mean that's just that goes to the point I

<v Speaker 1>just made. We we don't need more of that shit.

<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry. Oh wow. You know he hasn't even returned

<v Speaker 1>yet to w W E and I'm already sick of

<v Speaker 1>seeing him. Go away, Jericho, go away, be gone. What

<v Speaker 1>did you guys think of this show? Let's find out.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you very much, by the way, to the nearly

<v Speaker 1>thirty one hundred that we had in here, bace bears.

<v Speaker 1>So I subbed to ESPN for thirty bucks and I

<v Speaker 1>still get ads. Oh yes, I heard. I was hearing

<v Speaker 1>that from people all night long. They were getting commercials.

<v Speaker 1>There was somebody and I don't know, I'll let you

<v Speaker 1>guys verify this because on my end, the way I

<v Speaker 1>was watching it, I didn't get any of the commercials.

<v Speaker 1>What I got was a graphic that said the Royal

<v Speaker 1>Rumble is on a commercial break and we'll be back soon,

<v Speaker 1>and then it stayed on that screen for like it

<v Speaker 1>felt like six to eight minutes. But for the people

<v Speaker 1>watching directly in the ESPN app, I guess it set

<v Speaker 1>like AD one of nine and it just went through

<v Speaker 1>like nine or ten edds straight. I'm like, yeah, that

<v Speaker 1>sounds about right on a great pay per view viewing experience. Huh,

<v Speaker 1>are you feeling premium enough with your premium live events?

<v Speaker 1>Halliday one ninety seven, Hey Solo says this year's Women's

<v Speaker 1>Rumble was blah up until the last couple of minutes.

<v Speaker 1>I can't believe Lash Legend eliminated Charlotte Eo and Jordan

<v Speaker 1>Grayson Raquel eliminated Rhea. What a mess. No, I wasn't

<v Speaker 1>bothered by any of those. I mean, there were a

<v Speaker 1>lot of things that bothered me, but I thought those

<v Speaker 1>eliminations were fine. I think they kept Lash looking strong.

<v Speaker 1>The Rea elimination was brutal, though, just the way she landed.

<v Speaker 1>Base Bears' AJ debuted at the Rumble in twenty sixteen.

<v Speaker 1>He retired at the Rumble in twenty six Yes he did.

<v Speaker 1>Halla says it's crazy to think that aj styles best

<v Speaker 1>match of WrestleMania in a stadium is arguably against Shane McMahon,

<v Speaker 1>not counting AJ against Taker during COVID. Yeah, I mean

<v Speaker 1>that's not a traditional match. I cooked a hamburger during

<v Speaker 1>that break, could have cooked an entire Thanksgiving feast. During

<v Speaker 1>that break, Dry Chicken says Aj Styles should create his

<v Speaker 1>own retirement tour. This cannot be the ending. I'm hoping

<v Speaker 1>it's not. It could be, but I'm hoping it's not.

<v Speaker 1>Bace Bears says eleven and oh wow, let's see what happens.

<v Speaker 1>And he said, I got a blackout. I want a refund. Uh. Oh,

<v Speaker 1>I got a blackout. Holiday says, predicting that we get

<v Speaker 1>gun Through against Randy a WrestleMania next year in Saudi

<v Speaker 1>Legend Killer against Legend Killer, enough time would have passed

<v Speaker 1>since they're King of the Ring finals. Maybe Randy puts

<v Speaker 1>his career on the line. I don't think Randy is

<v Speaker 1>done next year. I get I think Randy has said

<v Speaker 1>he signed a long contract, and I think he's he's

<v Speaker 1>got quite a bit of time left in the ring,

<v Speaker 1>So I don't think we're gonna see it. Paul, Is

<v Speaker 1>that true that the Rumble replay is not up yet?

<v Speaker 1>In the ESPN AT That can't be true. The show

<v Speaker 1>ended like four or five hours ago. They should have

<v Speaker 1>the replay up by now. That's that's ridiculous. Bas Beer says,

<v Speaker 1>Drew versus Sammy was like Brock against Holly. Wow Wow

<v Speaker 1>says Wait, can I get a WWE NFL Jaguars belt.

<v Speaker 1>I'll bet that's the one belt they don't make GMB

<v Speaker 1>with a four ninety nine. What's going on? Brother, says Bianca,

<v Speaker 1>please be healed before chamber. We cannot stomach to see

<v Speaker 1>Tiffany against Jade again for the thirty first time. That

<v Speaker 1>genuinely helps nobody involve. Yeah, yeah, I'm hoping that's not

<v Speaker 1>what it ends up being. Ace of Mass This is

<v Speaker 1>triple K short loves hooded figure. Yeah, it's too much.

<v Speaker 1>Bass bearus with the uh what is that that sperm? Oh?

<v Speaker 1>It is iguana's iguana sperm. I don't know what the

<v Speaker 1>fuck that that? Base Beers, thank you, h Ace of

<v Speaker 1>mast that don't mention. Don't mention journalists in Saudi Arabia.

<v Speaker 1>Cole and bass Beers says, the countdown buzzer is loud.

<v Speaker 1>It was loud. It was loud, uh, Bas Beers is

<v Speaker 1>La night is over in Saudier. He's over everywhere, dude,

<v Speaker 1>He's over everywhere. He always gets a reaction. Stone cold

<v Speaker 1>Et is back with the nineteen ninety nine since there

<v Speaker 1>was no Bianca at the Rumble. Do you think she

<v Speaker 1>returns for the Chamber and wins to challenge Jade at Mania? Also,

<v Speaker 1>does Tiffany not have a direction until post Mania? Don't

<v Speaker 1>see a program for her at the show. I look,

<v Speaker 1>I would love it if Bianca was back in time

<v Speaker 1>for the Chamber because liv won the Rumble and probably

<v Speaker 1>is going to end up getting a World Heavyweight Championship

<v Speaker 1>match on Raw. That would open up the SmackDown women's

<v Speaker 1>side for I guess a Chamber match. She could be

<v Speaker 1>one of the six women in the Chamber. I'd love

<v Speaker 1>to see it. She won the Chamber last year though,

<v Speaker 1>That's the thing, like, I don't see her coming back

<v Speaker 1>and winning back to back chambers. That's why I was

<v Speaker 1>thinking the Rumble, lest somebody else win the Chamber and

<v Speaker 1>like a different for a different match. Dried Chicken says

<v Speaker 1>Triple H fears Oba Femi Olba should have stayed longer

<v Speaker 1>in the match, So Paul says he he found he

<v Speaker 1>found it. He found the stream on the ESPN. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I would be surprised if it wasn't up

<v Speaker 1>by now. Is there a delay from what you guys

<v Speaker 1>have seen on the ESPN app. I'm curious to note

<v Speaker 1>when the show ends, how quickly does the full replay

<v Speaker 1>go up for viewing. Is it instant or do you

<v Speaker 1>have to wait a certain period of time? Was on

<v Speaker 1>Peacock used to piss me off with that because you

<v Speaker 1>would have to wait a certain period of time before

<v Speaker 1>the replay was up. So if I came into the

<v Speaker 1>show late for any reason, I was pretty much fucked.

<v Speaker 1>Base Beer says best final eight of all time. Final

<v Speaker 1>eight in what the Men's Rumble? Yeah, I don't know

<v Speaker 1>about that, says it should have been Randy. I don't

<v Speaker 1>think it should have been either one of them, you know.

<v Speaker 1>For Randy that would have been his third rumble Holiday

<v Speaker 1>one ninety seven. What a disappointing Men's Rumble. No Jareco

<v Speaker 1>return or any notable returns except night. It was blatantly

<v Speaker 1>obvious who was winning in the final four, and it's

<v Speaker 1>like they forgot they can set up WrestleMania angles and

<v Speaker 1>matches in the rumble. Yeah, I mean they didn't do

<v Speaker 1>enough of that. It was just there was a lot

<v Speaker 1>of wasted opportunities in these rumbles. Super Pony, I hate

<v Speaker 1>these people, I really do. Rumble was ruined for me

<v Speaker 1>when Brock eliminated Oba. I hate that they love Logan

<v Speaker 1>so much. Hope we see aj somewhere else. Yeah, Logan,

<v Speaker 1>this is not the first time Logan has ended up

<v Speaker 1>in that final group there. It's a good point, base

<v Speaker 1>Bearris awesome fireworks at the end. Yeah it was. It

<v Speaker 1>was a little over the top. I'm sure all paid

<v Speaker 1>for by them and not WWE, but it was. It

<v Speaker 1>was a little much. But think about this. If we

<v Speaker 1>got that at the end of the Royal Rumble, what

<v Speaker 1>do you think the pyro is going to look like

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania next year. That's gonna be insane. Alexander Roman

<v Speaker 1>hasn't been on the show in months. Couldn't bother to

<v Speaker 1>show up and declare for the Rumble and then wins.

<v Speaker 1>At least we got Hobbes and Oba. Try. Chicken says,

<v Speaker 1>I'll give this Royal Rumble a solid B grade, eh,

<v Speaker 1>Chris Babyface Moment of the night for me. Roman Upper

<v Speaker 1>cutting Jay after pretending to run it back. I'm just

<v Speaker 1>glad that they finally killed the music Stone Cold et

<v Speaker 1>A nine. Twenty twenty seven should be the year of

<v Speaker 1>NXT up and comers. The young talent is incredible and

<v Speaker 1>would freshen up the product and pl cards going forward. Well,

<v Speaker 1>they're finally calling up a whole bunch of names, So

<v Speaker 1>that's that's my hope. My hope is that you know,

<v Speaker 1>we're finally we're finally there. You know, we're finally at

<v Speaker 1>a point where you know, we will actually start to

<v Speaker 1>see that. It's my hope. Anyway, we're gonna put another

<v Speaker 1>goal up. By the way, this would be the first

<v Speaker 1>time we actually have three rounds of be the booker

<v Speaker 1>if we happen to uh, if we hit this goal.

<v Speaker 1>It might be asking a little much, but we'll see

<v Speaker 1>how that how that goes. JDFVA with a five says

<v Speaker 1>a meh, show Oba eliminated by Brock instead of reverse

<v Speaker 1>ridiculous Brock being eliminated by Night and Rhodes when no

<v Speaker 1>one was looking. Stupid. Yes, very stupid, very very stupid.

<v Speaker 1>I agree, Dried Chicken says, let me tell you how

<v Speaker 1>the New Day can regain their heat. The New Days

<v Speaker 1>steal all of Riha and EO's in ring gear and

<v Speaker 1>clothes while they are in the shower, only to satisfy

<v Speaker 1>the Kabuki warriors. Well, I'm very happy that you are

<v Speaker 1>not booking the show Dried Chicken. I enjoy you in

<v Speaker 1>the chat, but maybe stay out of the creative room.

<v Speaker 1>Alexander says, whoever was operating the Kirene in the truck

<v Speaker 1>over the course of yesterday and today needs to be fired.

<v Speaker 1>There were so many screw ups it was nuts. Well,

<v Speaker 1>I mean outside of the one from SMACKDN. What did

<v Speaker 1>I miss on that? What did they screw up on

<v Speaker 1>the lower third tonight? Johnny Bernie, do you think WBD

<v Speaker 1>will block aj Styles signing like Miguel No, I don't.

<v Speaker 1>I don't because I do believe that when you are

<v Speaker 1>a big star, you are a big name, you tend

<v Speaker 1>to get a little more leeway. It's like a dagger

<v Speaker 1>to the heart. But I love it. I love the

<v Speaker 1>support Alex. Alex loves that super Chap by the way,

<v Speaker 1>He's like in love with it. Ragnarock Oba eliminated by

<v Speaker 1>Brock who got tossed out in the most boring way,

<v Speaker 1>after by Cody and La Knight, but Logan Paul makes

<v Speaker 1>top four. Whoever produced this should be fired and publicly shamed.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe Shane McMahon is snuck back in and remember he

<v Speaker 1>got boy he got raked over the coals. A few

<v Speaker 1>years ago, he got fired by his own father. That's

<v Speaker 1>how bad he was coming in to help produce the

<v Speaker 1>Rumble a few years ago. Maybe he flew all the

<v Speaker 1>way to Saudi and he snuck in Holiday one ninety seven.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not optimistic at the moment about the direction of

<v Speaker 1>wrestlemin It's clear they're doing Punk against Roman and Drew

<v Speaker 1>against Cody, unless Jacob has to be added. If they're

<v Speaker 1>doing that match, Jacob being added, if not, Randy is

<v Speaker 1>a must, an absolute must. He says, not much build

<v Speaker 1>around other matches. Well, the WrestleMania build now begins in

<v Speaker 1>earnest now that the Rumble is over, So let's see

<v Speaker 1>what they do on television this week. They should give

<v Speaker 1>us some hint about what some of those directions are

<v Speaker 1>going to be, and we'll see if either Roman or

<v Speaker 1>Live make their decision or if they hold off for

<v Speaker 1>a little while. Olivia. I know it's very late where

<v Speaker 1>Olivia is, so I appreciate you joining here. It was

<v Speaker 1>nice to have a nine pm local time kickoff. Show

<v Speaker 1>was underwhelming, but had much fun watching with friends. Women's

<v Speaker 1>Rumble was better. Justice for Hobbes. Yeah, the Women's Rumble

<v Speaker 1>was the better of the two. Stone Cold et pretty loud,

<v Speaker 1>fuck triple h Chance. In the post show, his body

<v Speaker 1>language certainly has changed Night of Champions in twenty twenty three.

<v Speaker 1>You mean since Night of Champions well good, I mean

<v Speaker 1>you you want to put yourself out there. You gotta

<v Speaker 1>take the heat when you want to put yourself in

<v Speaker 1>every intro video and in the opening segment of all

<v Speaker 1>the big shows. And you want you, you know, you

<v Speaker 1>want your face to be in the WrestleMania commercials. You

<v Speaker 1>want your face on everything. You want to make it

<v Speaker 1>very well known that you are the face of the place.

<v Speaker 1>You take the criticism and you take the compliments. You

<v Speaker 1>can't take one without the Other's as simple as that.

<v Speaker 1>Everything goes through you. Jay Ray says, no Chris Jericho

<v Speaker 1>return He was never returning. Jericho is touring with Fozzy

<v Speaker 1>next month through late March. All hype for Yeah, but

<v Speaker 1>Jericho's touring with Fozzi. It doesn't interfere with any of

<v Speaker 1>the important dates, Like it doesn't interfere with Elimination Chamber,

<v Speaker 1>like him being on tour with Fozzi for some dates

<v Speaker 1>in February and again in I think it's May. By

<v Speaker 1>the way, could be March. I thought it was May.

<v Speaker 1>Has no bearing on whether or not he was going

<v Speaker 1>to be in the Royal Rumble or not. He could

<v Speaker 1>be on raw Monday night for all we know. Those dates, though,

<v Speaker 1>do not conflict with anything major. So like, if he

<v Speaker 1>was going to be in the chamber, he's free for

<v Speaker 1>the chamber. So I would not go by that Fozzi

<v Speaker 1>schedule because that's not going to tell you anything. Holliday says,

<v Speaker 1>if Sammy ever wins a world title, this should be

<v Speaker 1>from Kevin Owens. Drew would be a good first challenger

<v Speaker 1>to test Sammy to keep the title. Well, that would

<v Speaker 1>imply that Kevin Owens would have to first win a

<v Speaker 1>world championship, and that doesn't look like it's very likely

<v Speaker 1>to happen. But it's a nice thought. Holiday. I just

<v Speaker 1>I don't think you realize the uh, the flaw in

<v Speaker 1>your plan. Olivia says, why was Rusev coocked again? Keana

<v Speaker 1>James Women's MVP? No, I wouldn't say that. I would

<v Speaker 1>say women's MVP. I'd probably give it to soul Ruka.

<v Speaker 1>Why was Rusev cocked again? Because they think he's a cook?

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I mean they've given no indication that

<v Speaker 1>they plan on pushing him in any kind of serious way.

<v Speaker 1>The way they treated him and Ray Phoenix and the

<v Speaker 1>rumble tonight tells you everything you need to know about

<v Speaker 1>in their mind, what their status and position is on

<v Speaker 1>the roster. And it's not good. Not good, Chris O'Neil

<v Speaker 1>outside of Oh, but the Men's rumble was cheeks, Paul

<v Speaker 1>van summerns is So. Six weeks ago, Gunther chokes Sena

<v Speaker 1>and gets a three drop arm rais by the referee.

<v Speaker 1>Six weeks later, gun Through chokes aj and we get

<v Speaker 1>a one drop. It's the inconsistency. I just it's like

<v Speaker 1>what I talked about. It is the inconsistency. Drew mackincock

<v Speaker 1>Women's Rumble, great Oba, Jacob bron not in final four bad.

<v Speaker 1>I agree. Paul says I had Lived winning the Royal

<v Speaker 1>Rumble if Bianca didn't return Live deserved it. I figured

<v Speaker 1>either Rains or Breaker would win the Men's. They did

<v Speaker 1>Breaker dirty, and I think we get judgment day implosion

<v Speaker 1>at Mania, with Raquel winning the belt at elimination chamber,

<v Speaker 1>facing live impossibly finally Finn versus Dirty dom Well. I've

<v Speaker 1>been saying that for a while should Finn and Dom

<v Speaker 1>for the IC title. And I think we get the

<v Speaker 1>Demon Demon Balor because you know they're gonna want to

<v Speaker 1>market the shit out of that, so you know they're

<v Speaker 1>gonna bring him back at some point. Any chance that

<v Speaker 1>AJ gets a farewell address on Raw, or that we

<v Speaker 1>get a new masked wrestler named BK Fashions, he'd be

<v Speaker 1>like the Midnight Rider. Juan Sina hod he say AJ

<v Speaker 1>styles in Spanish. I think we could definitely hear from

<v Speaker 1>AJ on Raw. Yeah, I think we will. On your

<v Speaker 1>second idea, I'm gonna say no. Down Bad says my

<v Speaker 1>fiance has minimal wrestling knowledge. She only knows Stone Cold,

<v Speaker 1>the Rock and Undertaker. She could have booked a better

<v Speaker 1>Men's Rumbled than Triple h Oh. I don't doubt it.

<v Speaker 1>I don't doubt that for a second. Drew says Randy Orton,

<v Speaker 1>Legend Killer, Gunther, career Killer, Paul Triple Nose, Levek Buzzkiller,

<v Speaker 1>Thank you, Drew. Paul says La Night remains so over

<v Speaker 1>despite him never winning. Yes, it's pretty incredible actually, and

<v Speaker 1>Temjian zephyr'sys to the person who gifted a membership, thank you. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>that happened. I think that was last night during the

<v Speaker 1>SmackDown stream. You were one of the ones who randomly

<v Speaker 1>were selected for a gifted membership. Kevin says, love you, Solo,

<v Speaker 1>Thank you brother, thank you for the nineteen ninety nine

<v Speaker 1>toya ate nice. I'm just waiting on the bree rant. Oh.

<v Speaker 1>We talked about Brie. We talked about Brie. All right,

<v Speaker 1>we got sidhant Mittra. Is it mitra or Maitra? I

<v Speaker 1>want to make sure I pronounced that right, says Yo Solo,

<v Speaker 1>love from India.

<v Speaker 2>Bro.

<v Speaker 1>Not always able to catch you live. So here's a

<v Speaker 1>super chat for one of the rare times I have

<v Speaker 1>been able to. Also, I think I have fallen in

<v Speaker 1>love with soul Ruka. What do you think about her future?

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure there are a lot of people that fell

<v Speaker 1>in love with soul Ruka the first time they saw her.

<v Speaker 1>I think she's got a very bright future as long

<v Speaker 1>as she can stay healthy, because I do worry that

<v Speaker 1>with some of the like the moves that she'll do.

<v Speaker 1>I know she already tore her acl once. So if

<v Speaker 1>she can stay healthy, she's got like the I said,

<v Speaker 1>the best finisher, like it's a finish that if you

<v Speaker 1>really look at it, people have to like dive into it.

<v Speaker 1>It's a little over the top, but it always gets

<v Speaker 1>a reaction and it looks great. She's got a great finish.

<v Speaker 1>She's a super talented I think her future is very bright.

<v Speaker 1>I think Kendall Gray has a very bright future when

<v Speaker 1>she gets called up eventually. Carl Winslow, this pl was

<v Speaker 1>like Family Matters without me and Erkele Well, that would

<v Speaker 1>be a very boring show, wouldn't it, super Pony. Do

<v Speaker 1>you believe what Hunter is saying about Aj being done

<v Speaker 1>in the ring? I think AJ might have lied to

<v Speaker 1>his face. I hope he did fuck him. Yeah, I

<v Speaker 1>hope he lied to him. Also, I hope AJ is

<v Speaker 1>not done. Luis says the Royal Rumble felt like a

<v Speaker 1>B tier ple. You mean to tell me the show

<v Speaker 1>that was so badly promoted that I had multiple people

<v Speaker 1>who were telling me they had no idea it was

<v Speaker 1>even airing today felt like a B tier pl I

<v Speaker 1>don't believe you true story. I had multiple people who

<v Speaker 1>said I didn't even know the Royal Rumble was today.

<v Speaker 1>I think that says a lot. Elijah, Hello, Elijah, walk

<v Speaker 1>with Elijah Solo? What is your favorite rumble and why

<v Speaker 1>is it nineteen ninety two? Also, I'm sorry that Breeze

<v Speaker 1>return caused BRETSD. I liked that. I like that I

<v Speaker 1>have BRETSD. And yes, my favorite rumble is in fact

<v Speaker 1>nineteen ninety two. How did you guess Anti m Bishop

<v Speaker 1>been a while? Yeah, man, I haven't heard that name

<v Speaker 1>in a while. Didn't watch the Rumble, but from what

<v Speaker 1>I saw, didn't miss much. From what I heard, Hog

<v Speaker 1>in La was epic. Can't wait for the upload? Yeah, Unfortunately,

<v Speaker 1>there were just some streaming issues so we couldn't stream

<v Speaker 1>the show live like we had planned to. So I

<v Speaker 1>haven't even had the chance to actually see it yet

<v Speaker 1>because I wasn't there obviously, But from everything I heard,

<v Speaker 1>it was a hot crowd. It was a great show

<v Speaker 1>and hopefully that'll be going up this week Fire Panda.

<v Speaker 1>Speaking of names I haven't heard from lately, it's going

<v Speaker 1>on fire Panda. Thank you for the love. TNA on

<v Speaker 1>Spike is where I learned that aj Styles is the

<v Speaker 1>king of this shit. Thank you, aj Hail Gunhar. I

<v Speaker 1>love me some Gunhar Well now twenty one dollars. Super

<v Speaker 1>Check can't believe they went with Roman lol. With the

<v Speaker 1>build and the winner has to be a top five

<v Speaker 1>worst of all time rumble. I love you Solo. This

<v Speaker 1>was I don't know where it's gonna rank. There have

<v Speaker 1>been some bad rumbles before. I would not put this.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think this ends up in the bottom five necessarily.

<v Speaker 1>But it was not great. It was not great. The

<v Speaker 1>Mount Burning kid Christopher Bennett should have let Oba eliminate

<v Speaker 1>Brock and go all the way. That's how you build somebody.

<v Speaker 1>I was impressed, but he should have went all the

<v Speaker 1>way to the finale. Yeah, I don't I don't disagree.

<v Speaker 1>Super Pony Guy's backlash will be the start of a

<v Speaker 1>new era. Oh yeah, I'm sure it will. And then

<v Speaker 1>the month after that money in the bank will be

<v Speaker 1>the start of a new era.

<v Speaker 2>My curiosity is killing me, just like a camp would

<v Speaker 2>be killed by the curiosity. Yeah.

<v Speaker 1>Oh, it's how Veli. Yeah, how Veli doesn't pop up

<v Speaker 1>as often. I was starting to get worried about him.

<v Speaker 1>Alexander says, I'm not a fan, but my hope was

<v Speaker 1>Paige instead of breathe. You know, I page was not

<v Speaker 1>even a thought in my head. Well, it's not even

<v Speaker 1>a head. Super Pony Randy Orton feels like such an afterthought.

<v Speaker 1>He doesn't seem like a priority for them anymore. What's

<v Speaker 1>up with that? Well, because he shouldn't be a priority.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I think a story with Cody should be

<v Speaker 1>just because they haven't done it yet. But I'm not

<v Speaker 1>opposed to Randy Orton, who's been there for a million years,

<v Speaker 1>not being a priority anymore. That's part of the problem

<v Speaker 1>with WWE. I don't think that there are enough newer

<v Speaker 1>faces who are enough of a priority over people like

<v Speaker 1>a Roman Reigns or a Randy Orton. There comes a

<v Speaker 1>point where guys like that they don't need to be

<v Speaker 1>a priority anymore. The priority should be using guys like

<v Speaker 1>that to help elevate the newer faces so that they

<v Speaker 1>can be the next Randy Orton. And that's part of

<v Speaker 1>the problem. My hope now is with guys like Obafemi

<v Speaker 1>and Trick Williams being called up, we'll start to see

<v Speaker 1>some of that. Because these two guys have barely been

<v Speaker 1>on the main roster, they're already over they're already getting

<v Speaker 1>reactions from these crowds. Brandon Vasquez says, do you think

<v Speaker 1>having a Royal Rumble one year where the winner challenged

<v Speaker 1>the Undertaker to break the streak at WrestleMania would have worked. No, No,

<v Speaker 1>I think that would have been lame because that's putting

<v Speaker 1>the streak over the championship and the main event of WrestleMania,

<v Speaker 1>and that just shouldn't ever happen. I'm sorry, Nick Grosso

<v Speaker 1>still know Bianca this hand injury is maybe more serious

<v Speaker 1>than we Well, yeah you think. I think that's pretty

<v Speaker 1>apparent at this point. If Bianca is not back in

<v Speaker 1>time for the Elimination Chamber or WrestleMania, I say, Jade

<v Speaker 1>faces either Tiffany or Jordan, and Charlotte faces Alexa. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I'd be fine with Jade and Jordan. I can live

<v Speaker 1>with that. The Mount Vernon kid, Jay Usso is a

<v Speaker 1>dancing clown. Why what the fuck? At first I used

<v Speaker 1>to let the whole replay of the intro slide, and

<v Speaker 1>now it's just getting on my nerves. Yeah, I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I just I hated that whole sequence with the fire

<v Speaker 1>of a thousand suns, I fucking hated that. Holy shit wrestling.

<v Speaker 1>I like gunther Moore when he was in nineties all

<v Speaker 1>Japan Kings Road Tribute Act than sleeper hold abuse shout

<v Speaker 1>outs to the referee shouting ajaj ajaj at the end

<v Speaker 1>like he didn't want aj to pass. He was marking

<v Speaker 1>out Bro. He was marking out Alexander says, has there

<v Speaker 1>ever been a triple be the Booker in history? There

<v Speaker 1>might have been once, but I don't know. I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>The goal is only two out of ten, so right

<v Speaker 1>now we have too guaranteed. If we hit that third goal, though,

<v Speaker 1>we'll do three of them. We got Matt Matt Scales,

<v Speaker 1>Hey Solo. I thought the show was okay. I now

<v Speaker 1>regret getting up at three am to watch it. Good

<v Speaker 1>showings for Javon, Oba, Lash and Keana. I thought Oba

<v Speaker 1>and Hobb's eliminations were anti climactic. Thanks for all you do, brother,

<v Speaker 1>I agree with you. There were definitely some anti climactic

<v Speaker 1>eliminations in there. We got Chris, what location do you

<v Speaker 1>set your VPN to? I tried Toronto. After twenty minutes,

<v Speaker 1>it kicked me off and had switched me to Montreal.

<v Speaker 1>Oh man, you might say it was the Montreal screwjob

<v Speaker 1>for you tonight. I'm sorry. I think the server that

<v Speaker 1>I used tonight on my VPN, what did I use?

<v Speaker 1>I think it was Canada. I think, mm hmm, is

<v Speaker 1>it Canada? No? No, no, you know what it was.

<v Speaker 1>It was the Netherlands. I think it was the Netherlands.

<v Speaker 1>I go back and forth. Sometimes it's the Netherlands server,

<v Speaker 1>sometimes it's UK Docklands, and then sometimes it's just it's

<v Speaker 1>just Canada. It's not Toronto, it's not Montreal. It's just

<v Speaker 1>it's a Canadian server. I didn't have any issues SMG

<v Speaker 1>Kobe Solo, you ruined my night. I had number one

<v Speaker 1>in the Facebook pool. Oh I read this one before

<v Speaker 1>Obo was eliminated by Brock and in my shock, I

<v Speaker 1>then hear USO wait to kick him in when he's down.

<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, brother, the Mount Vernon kid. When Brie came out,

<v Speaker 1>I said to myself, sorry Solo. I think a lot

<v Speaker 1>of people said that. When they heard that, they felt

<v Speaker 1>immediate sympathy for me. What was the point of showing

<v Speaker 1>the Powerhouse Hobbs logo on the try? Honestly, dude, I

<v Speaker 1>have no idea why they did that. If you're not

<v Speaker 1>gonna let them keep the name, why even bother Prince

<v Speaker 1>Bageta says, I guess we can thank Bill Goldberg for

<v Speaker 1>whining and bitching about getting a retirement match for this

<v Speaker 1>new gunther gimmick. Well, that's just another thing that Brett

<v Speaker 1>Hard can blame Bill Goldberg for alexanders Is. My surprise

<v Speaker 1>was no Blake Monroe in the rumble? Yeah. I think

<v Speaker 1>the biggest surprise of this rumble was the names that

<v Speaker 1>we did not get in the rumble. Aj Lee, Kit Wilson,

<v Speaker 1>Joe Hendry, Blake Monroe is another one. Horatio says Triple

<v Speaker 1>H needed a home run but hit another foul ball

<v Speaker 1>the sheriff of Patty's what's the difference between light and hard.

<v Speaker 1>I can fall asleep with a light on boomerang. I

<v Speaker 1>wish I could have seen the look on your face

<v Speaker 1>when you heard Brima.

<v Speaker 2>It was.

<v Speaker 1>It was a look of shock and despair and defeat

<v Speaker 1>that cross Us says with Brie Bella back. I really

<v Speaker 1>hope the plan isn't for Eo and Ria to face

<v Speaker 1>the bell as a WrestleMania for the tag team titles.

<v Speaker 1>That would be terrible. That would be terrible. I expect

<v Speaker 1>the Bellis to be in the tag team title picture,

<v Speaker 1>but I would hope Ria and Eo would be involved

<v Speaker 1>in something else, maybe even if it was just a

<v Speaker 1>match with each other, nothing on the line, just like

<v Speaker 1>an Evolution rematch, and then Rhea can finally beat Oh

<v Speaker 1>because otherwise there's really no point in doing the match again.

<v Speaker 1>The Mount Vernon Kid overrated chant from the crowd was

<v Speaker 1>just bs. I've noticed that a certain demographic or women

<v Speaker 1>just get booed regardless of their alliance. Who did they

<v Speaker 1>chant overrated at? I missed that chant Beef Cheeto solo monster.

<v Speaker 1>What is your favorite finisher ever? My favorite finisher ever is?

<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's probably the stone Cold Stunner. I mean

<v Speaker 1>it was just electric, you know when he was white

<v Speaker 1>hot hitting that stunt. He could hit that stunner on

<v Speaker 1>anybody and it would get just this massive reactions. So

<v Speaker 1>that was probably the one that was the most fun

<v Speaker 1>to watch as far as like just the moves themselves.

<v Speaker 1>For me, it's Sharpshooter, the sharpshooter in the cross faced

<v Speaker 1>Chicken wing. They were chanting overrated and lash. I didn't

<v Speaker 1>even hear them. Devin from NJ, we haven't had a

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania in March since twenty fifteen. Why is this also

<v Speaker 1>buy or sell WrestleMania in March or WrestleMania in April

<v Speaker 1>I think they settled on April just because it's more

<v Speaker 1>time for them to really, you know, build out the

<v Speaker 1>road to Mania and promote the matches. Now it's even

<v Speaker 1>later because now it's in like the third week, third

<v Speaker 1>weekend of April. I'm more a fan of WrestleMania in

<v Speaker 1>that first week of April, but it just gives them

<v Speaker 1>more time. We have Ashotosh Mishra, hope you're doing well solo.

<v Speaker 1>Did you notice the screen say two minute intervals and

<v Speaker 1>Mark Nash saying ninety seconds? Okay, So that was one

<v Speaker 1>of the other botches that people were talking about. I

<v Speaker 1>did not see that. Saint Clair random trope. I hate

<v Speaker 1>for the rumble. I hate when they get hit with

<v Speaker 1>a finish, just the pop up so they can get

<v Speaker 1>thrown out.

<v Speaker 2>Well.

<v Speaker 1>I mean one of the best examples of that is

<v Speaker 1>actually the first rumble. I'm not the the second one.

<v Speaker 1>The second rumble that Austin won when he stunned the

<v Speaker 1>rock popped right up to his feet. He was all

<v Speaker 1>woozy and he got thrown out. SMG Kobe off topic.

<v Speaker 1>It won't happen, But I want two night plees to

<v Speaker 1>be in two different cities, one international and one US

<v Speaker 1>day one usually feels like a cash grab. Yeah, I

<v Speaker 1>mean they could try it. I don't think that practically

<v Speaker 1>it makes a lot of sense. That sounds like a

<v Speaker 1>logistical nightmare. Now you're dealing with time zone differences, You're

<v Speaker 1>dealing with all kinds of potential things going wrong. You've

<v Speaker 1>got to have you've got to build out. Now, two

<v Speaker 1>different stages and sets. I know they don't exactly put

<v Speaker 1>a lot of creativity into them now unless it's you know,

<v Speaker 1>again the Rumble or WrestleMania. But it just it would

<v Speaker 1>cost TKO more money, and I don't think it's money

<v Speaker 1>that they care to spend Richie. Plus, there's another aspect

<v Speaker 1>to this. They make these deals, these cities bid on

<v Speaker 1>these events. I don't think cities are going to necessarily

<v Speaker 1>want a bid on one night. I think they want

<v Speaker 1>the entire thing, So you gotta factor that into the decision. Also, Richie,

<v Speaker 1>with twenty five, no message, just showing some love. I

<v Speaker 1>love that, Richie, thank you very much. Prince Bgeta in

<v Speaker 1>Michael Cole's voice, of course, the legendary b Rebella, the

<v Speaker 1>creator of the Yes movement. I'm surprised he didn't say

<v Speaker 1>that grapple nomics, Styles and Champa for Hobbes and Jericho. Hilarious.

<v Speaker 1>It could work out that way. So far it was.

<v Speaker 1>It was an even swap so far for Hobbes and Champa.

<v Speaker 1>We'll see if the Jericho and Styles thing actually comes true.

<v Speaker 1>Matt Fisher with a pair of learning trees. No message,

<v Speaker 1>all love, Matt, thank you, it's Marshall. Brandon says, I

<v Speaker 1>didn't watch the Rumbles, so when I saw your tweet

<v Speaker 1>about Raymisterio, I genuinely thought he genuinely thought he won

<v Speaker 1>the that's great. Yeah, I posted a tweet during the rumble.

<v Speaker 1>I was like, oh God, what did I say. I

<v Speaker 1>just said it's been twenty years since Ray won the Rumble,

<v Speaker 1>and I said like, holy shit. But I didn't think

<v Speaker 1>somebody would read it that way. Can you imagine? Jeremy

<v Speaker 1>Rose says AJ is done. He went out his way.

<v Speaker 1>The only thing I see him doing in TNA is

<v Speaker 1>one more time winning the title maybe and then retiring.

<v Speaker 1>Aw ain't happening. However, my long shot is against Gunther

<v Speaker 1>one more time, but as a TNA talent, Yeah, that

<v Speaker 1>I don't see. Plus Ultra Adrian. Hopefully AJ doesn't get

<v Speaker 1>the Bill Belichick treatment of that and actually gets into

<v Speaker 1>the Hall of Fame first ballot. Abystle zones very happy

<v Speaker 1>for Live, very disappointed with Roman packs Basonica with the five.

<v Speaker 1>My prediction is we get a triple threat at the

<v Speaker 1>Elimination Chamber, Drew, Cody and Orton, with Orton winning the

<v Speaker 1>title rains against Orton at WrestleMania. Who you lost me

<v Speaker 1>on that part? You lost me there. I was actually

<v Speaker 1>okay with the first half, and then we can do Cody,

<v Speaker 1>We could do Cody and Orton. Roman reigns against Randy

<v Speaker 1>Orton does absolutely nothing for me, Like I feel nothing

<v Speaker 1>with that match. Jeremy says, when I saw Jay was

<v Speaker 1>doing the entrance from the crowd, I was thinking the

<v Speaker 1>buzzer was going off before. I was kind of hoping

<v Speaker 1>it would because then he would be eliminated because he

<v Speaker 1>never got into the ring. And it's like, oh, he

<v Speaker 1>eliminated himself because he was too busy yeating, and then

<v Speaker 1>I would have laughed. Jeremy's also says Men's mid car

<v Speaker 1>champions are missing the rumble, When, if ever has that happened?

<v Speaker 1>Dom injured? Oh yeah, Dom wasn't there. I thought he

<v Speaker 1>was supposed to be back by now, but Mello needed

<v Speaker 1>to be in there this creative team. So well, you

<v Speaker 1>know what, looking back at it, it's a good thing

<v Speaker 1>he wasn't because if Mello was in there, he would

<v Speaker 1>have been destroyed by brock Lesner and thrown out like

<v Speaker 1>a jabron, just like Dragonov was. So maybe it was

<v Speaker 1>for the better. AJ says this royal rumble was worse

<v Speaker 1>than the pandemic. Mind you, I lost family during that time.

<v Speaker 1>Oh my goodness, jeez. AJ really did not like this

<v Speaker 1>royal rumble. Holy shit, that's like that time I got

<v Speaker 1>a super chat from someone. This is back when RAW

<v Speaker 1>was still three hours and it was fucking awful, and

<v Speaker 1>I remember, I'll never forget he uh he sent in

<v Speaker 1>a superchat and he just said, uh, this Raw was

<v Speaker 1>the worst thing that happened to me all week, and

<v Speaker 1>I just buried my grandfather today. I was like, wow,

<v Speaker 1>Like that's pretty bad. John Laurenidas Is with us Oh Boy,

<v Speaker 1>says that audience needed a dose of people power. People power,

<v Speaker 1>people power. I'm a PERV people power sheltered love listening

<v Speaker 1>in for quite some time now. I just want to

<v Speaker 1>send greetings from Germany, always looking forward to your reviews,

<v Speaker 1>often better than the actual shows. Keep it up, stay safe,

<v Speaker 1>Thank you brother. All the way from Germany. It's how

<v Speaker 1>many hours away? Is that from New York? It's got

<v Speaker 1>to be at least eight hours, right? Yeah, you know, sometimes,

<v Speaker 1>especially with the weekly shows, these streams end up being

<v Speaker 1>a lot more fun. We always try to have fun here.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you. I'm glad you can join Francisco Flores. Do

<v Speaker 1>you think that there will ever be an NXT Royal

<v Speaker 1>Rumble winner? I think that. I think that, Yes, I

<v Speaker 1>think one day. I think one day we might just

<v Speaker 1>get that. Just has to be the right person. Andre

<v Speaker 1>Jefferson with a twenty. I guess Roman is going for

<v Speaker 1>the title he literally called the number two title. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>he's called the World Heavyweight Championship. It's like less than

<v Speaker 1>But again the comment was, if you want to increase

<v Speaker 1>the value of that title, you have me hold it.

<v Speaker 1>So if he goes after that title, then that that

<v Speaker 1>quote has to come back like that has to be

<v Speaker 1>brought up as part of the bill to a match

<v Speaker 1>with cmpunk, Joseph says, did you hear about Ashley Massarro's

<v Speaker 1>name on Epstein? Yes? I did. That was very sad

<v Speaker 1>to hear that. I mean I had to stop reading

<v Speaker 1>some of that stuff after a while because I'm just

<v Speaker 1>disgusted by the whole the whole thing. I think anybody,

<v Speaker 1>I think anybody and everybody who was named in that

<v Speaker 1>stuff should have their balls cut off. Every single one

<v Speaker 1>of them needed to be shamed and burned at the stake,

<v Speaker 1>every fucking one of them. But I mean with her,

<v Speaker 1>as if she didn't go through enough. You know, when

<v Speaker 1>I saw that, I was like, man, that's I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>Irenzo says, do you think Alex's right with his dance

<v Speaker 1>gimmick would have been over today? He was a pretty

<v Speaker 1>good tay you know what. Yes, he would be, Yes,

<v Speaker 1>he would be. He would absolutely be able to get

<v Speaker 1>that over. Jeremy Rose says, La Knight goes l A

<v Speaker 1>Knight goes, He'll win. Wait what goes Hill wins Chamber

<v Speaker 1>versus punkt WrestleMania. What do you say Roman picks Drew

<v Speaker 1>or does Cody weasel.

<v Speaker 2>His way in.

<v Speaker 1>Cold Douce Chill. It just came over me. So I

<v Speaker 1>think he says Night wins the chamber and then faces

<v Speaker 1>Punk at WrestleMania. It's possible. I'm not expecting it punk

<v Speaker 1>cast to wrestle though on that show. I mean, he's

<v Speaker 1>got It's Chicago. He's got to be doing something on

<v Speaker 1>that show. Well, actually, well, he'll be facing Finn Balor

<v Speaker 1>I guess yeah, he'll be defending against Ballor probably and

<v Speaker 1>Cody will be involved in the title picture. You can

<v Speaker 1>guarantee that we got Yankees fans for life or yeah, yeah, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>Well I'll allow it. Hey solo, Now that both their

<v Speaker 1>in ring careers are seemingly over, who in your opinion,

<v Speaker 1>was the better end ring performer. He didn't include any names.

<v Speaker 1>There's no names here. I assume AJ is one of them,

<v Speaker 1>but there's no names here. I don't know how to

<v Speaker 1>answer this. MGM Ballin Gunther beats AJ twice, yet can't

<v Speaker 1>beat CM Sloth and taps out to j Ousloth. I

<v Speaker 1>really hope this isn't the end for AJ. He is

<v Speaker 1>too good not to go the rest of the year.

<v Speaker 1>He is not embarrassing himself like he thinks he will.

<v Speaker 1>Well he might think he does. You know, he's he's

<v Speaker 1>very you know, hyper sensitive that he doesn't want to

<v Speaker 1>see himself as being less than oh a Jane. Well,

<v Speaker 1>look if he was talking about AJ and Sena and

<v Speaker 1>you're talking about in ring career. The answer is AJ

<v Speaker 1>styles h DJ fifty five. Melow was robbed for Laparca,

<v Speaker 1>Gecko Man and Miz. That is pretty bad. I will say,

<v Speaker 1>like again, I think Melo was spared probably some embarrassment

<v Speaker 1>by not being in the Rumble, But the fact that

<v Speaker 1>Miss was in the Royal Rumble and not Carmelo Hayes

<v Speaker 1>is actually that actually is very embarrassing. That doesn't really

<v Speaker 1>make a whole lot of sense. Miss, by the way,

<v Speaker 1>I should point out, I don't believe he has won

<v Speaker 1>a singles match in WWE in two years. He was

<v Speaker 1>in the Royal Rumble, but the United statesampion was not

<v Speaker 1>think about that. We got Barlow six six' six. Polecat

<v Speaker 1>what direction do you think they will go With Randy

<v Speaker 1>orton to wrestle many of forty TWO i could. SEE i, mean,

<v Speaker 1>look we Saw cody accidentally drop him with A Cody

<v Speaker 1>cutter in The, rumble SO i think he's gonna get

<v Speaker 1>roped into this whole world title. Scene you, KNOW i

<v Speaker 1>was talking about maybe a possible triple threat With, Drew

<v Speaker 1>cody And. Fatu it may be a fatal four way

<v Speaker 1>With orton in. THERE i think he's going to factor

<v Speaker 1>into this in some. Way jeremy, says mass Man pierce Or.

<v Speaker 1>Finn that's Interesting Finn balor as the Mass. Man, yeah

<v Speaker 1>but what does that lead to? THOUGH i, mean he's

<v Speaker 1>got his own shit going on with the judgment. Day

<v Speaker 1>And i'll tell you, what whoever was under that, hood

<v Speaker 1>it was Not Adam, Pierce Adam pearce. HASN'T i remember

<v Speaker 1>When Adam pierce was still, wrestling LIKE i remember him

<v Speaker 1>when he was still doing The Repo man gimmick where

<v Speaker 1>people kept calling Him Repo, man and SO i REMEMBER

<v Speaker 1>i was at The Manhattan. Center it was at A

<v Speaker 1>ring Of honor show and it was like a big

<v Speaker 1>six man or eight man tag and he was in

<v Speaker 1>there and he pulled out The Repo man like imask

<v Speaker 1>as like a, gag and everybody. Popped in all the

<v Speaker 1>Years i've Seen Adam piers, Wrestling i've never seen him that.

<v Speaker 1>Slim so it was Not Adam. Peers ross, says maybe

<v Speaker 1>we See Chris jericho come back to w W a

<v Speaker 1>after His fozzy tour In. February Maybe, AGAIN i. DON'T

<v Speaker 1>i don't think the tour is going to impact a

<v Speaker 1>return before. That but if he's gonna be At, WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>many is not until Mid. April you got a little

<v Speaker 1>more time than, usual so he could always come back In.

<v Speaker 1>March If adam was still moving like, that he'd be wrestling.

<v Speaker 1>Exactly he'd still be in the ring if he was

<v Speaker 1>moving like. That, uh he got the S. Js this

<v Speaker 1>is WHY i don't Trust lesnar with Gunther, OH i don't.

<v Speaker 1>TRY i don't trust it. Either, yeah and the people

<v Speaker 1>that want to see that, match it's, like be careful

<v Speaker 1>what you wish for because it may not go the

<v Speaker 1>way you think it's gonna. Go holliday, says what if

<v Speaker 1>The rock comes? Out, Oh, god not The. Rock what

<v Speaker 1>if The rock comes out during the main event of

<v Speaker 1>Wrestle mania forty two and Cost, cody leading To jacob

<v Speaker 1>winning the, title becoming The Rocks champion Or rock sides With.

<v Speaker 1>Drew this leads To cody Versus rock at Wrestle mania forty.

<v Speaker 1>Three saudi wants top, Stars but now you're building out

<v Speaker 1>a year long story for The rock that you can't.

<v Speaker 1>GUARANTEE i, mean, look the story is that the offer

<v Speaker 1>is being made or has been made To The rock

<v Speaker 1>to be At WrestleMania next, year and it's more money

<v Speaker 1>than any wrestler has ever been offered. Ever so if

<v Speaker 1>he was being offered that much, money Then i'm sure

<v Speaker 1>he could clear his. Schedule BUT i am not relying

<v Speaker 1>on The rock for. Anything, like if it, happens it.

<v Speaker 1>Happens but can you really plan out something that far

<v Speaker 1>in advance with The rock and trust that it's going to.

<v Speaker 1>Happen that's a huge. Risk alexander, says nobody. Cares BUT

<v Speaker 1>i Thought Zoe stark would. RETURN i don't know where

<v Speaker 1>she is in terms of her. Rehab again that every

<v Speaker 1>TIME i think about that, INJURY i just a. Cringe

<v Speaker 1>but when did she get? Hurt was It may of last?

<v Speaker 1>YEAR i don't know where in her rehab she. Is

<v Speaker 1>the problem is if she would have come out in that,

<v Speaker 1>rumble she would have gotten no. REACTION A nobe, says

<v Speaker 1>sorry for the bre mode Riad crumble was Read crumble

<v Speaker 1>was men live one so she could demand more fans

<v Speaker 1>to apologize to her. Faction bittersweet finish TO ajl though

<v Speaker 1>it was. Coming drew retains Yay roman, one so wwe

<v Speaker 1>kept his mouth? Shut two out of. Five the average.

<v Speaker 1>GRUNT i don't know what the obsession That TRIPLE h

<v Speaker 1>has with men in black. Hoodies that's he's quoting. Me, now,

<v Speaker 1>Well i'm sure he'd love to have some white hoods

<v Speaker 1>on his, shows BUT i doubt that would fly with

<v Speaker 1>sponsors and the pitchforks are out For TRIPLE. H Super,

<v Speaker 1>pony how stupid AM i for Thinking ko is going

<v Speaker 1>to be third in the? RUMBLE i miss him so.

<v Speaker 1>Much roman is absolutely Beating punk because that's what we.

<v Speaker 1>Do bald fraud, Voice that's what we. Do it's a new.

<v Speaker 1>Era roman's the. Champion, now it's a new. Era just

<v Speaker 1>be a, fan shut up and be a. Fan it's

<v Speaker 1>what we. Do Super pony, says how. Stupid OH i

<v Speaker 1>just read that. One thank, you Super. Pony. Uh we

<v Speaker 1>Got dagame fifty. Six Watching Paint dry was more exciting

<v Speaker 1>than this. Show Dried chicken, Says TRIPLE h is gonna

<v Speaker 1>have to pick and choose This option, one go back

<v Speaker 1>and do the press, conference or to continue the post

<v Speaker 1>show appearances with a rowdy, crowd or option, three they'll

<v Speaker 1>just cancel all of it and just Have Peter rosenberg

<v Speaker 1>And Jackie redmond and just a closed off room just

<v Speaker 1>talking about what they just. Saw wink The Cosmic. Grandma

<v Speaker 1>what happened to The house Of glory? Stream there were

<v Speaker 1>internet issues so we were not able to. Stream so

<v Speaker 1>once the show is fully, uploaded it will be online

<v Speaker 1>for people to. Watch King gariel. Seventeen who do you turn,

<v Speaker 1>Face raquel or? Live and who do you turn, Heel

<v Speaker 1>charlotte Or? Alexa raquel goes? Face who goes Heel charlotte Or?

<v Speaker 1>Alexa Bliss, Fan i'm going to leave that one to.

<v Speaker 1>You who do you think should go Heal charlotte Or? Alexa?

<v Speaker 1>TRY i trust Bliss fan with this one BECAUSE i

<v Speaker 1>know he's gotten opinion on. This, javeli what's? Up Solomn?

<v Speaker 1>Monster right here we? Go Blizz fan, Says alexa is

<v Speaker 1>the face in Any charlotte. Feud there you, go alexas the.

<v Speaker 1>Face aveli, says what's? Up Solo? Monster shout out From, Brisbane.

<v Speaker 1>Australia with all due, RESPECT i asked you owe me an.

<v Speaker 1>APOLOGY i asked you the possibility of aj leader return

<v Speaker 1>and team With punk to Face seth And. Becky what

<v Speaker 1>DID i? Say, NO i don't remember. THIS i have

<v Speaker 1>no memory of. This wressell MESS fa two wins the elimination.

<v Speaker 1>Chamber cody politics into the wrestle media. Match, well he

<v Speaker 1>is a. Politician he looks like, one he talks like,

<v Speaker 1>one he sounds like, one he acts like. One Barry,

<v Speaker 1>Wood thank, You. Barry bobby, Means, so since we have

<v Speaker 1>no idea where or When bianca is coming, BACK i

<v Speaker 1>honestly believe That Jordan grace could possibly win. It and

<v Speaker 1>we Get grace And, Cargill, well then what Does tiffany?

<v Speaker 1>Do she just came, back so you know she's gonna

<v Speaker 1>have some kind of some kind of. Role wink, SAYS

<v Speaker 1>i feel like a. Heel hasn't won the rumbles Since TRIPLE.

<v Speaker 1>H really thought this was the year for bron BUT

<v Speaker 1>i guess. Not has it been that? Long TRIPLE h

<v Speaker 1>one in twenty, Sixteen randy won in twenty, Seventeen shinske

<v Speaker 1>in twenty, Eighteen seth in twenty, Nineteen drew in twenty,

<v Speaker 1>Twenty edge in twenty twenty, one twenty twenty. Two who

<v Speaker 1>won in twenty twenty? Two? BROCK i think it Was

<v Speaker 1>brock twenty twenty? Three Was cody twenty twenty? Four Was

<v Speaker 1>cody twenty twenty. Five it Was.

<v Speaker 2>Jit.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah, wow it's a lot of. Babyfaces oh my, god

<v Speaker 1>we're nine out of ten on the on the bonus.

<v Speaker 1>GOAL i just noticed we might be doing three be

<v Speaker 1>the bookers if we get one. MORE i just noticed

<v Speaker 1>that we Have alex with the twenty five, dollars his brother.

<v Speaker 1>Solo i'm happy that you got happy when you Saw. Bree,

<v Speaker 1>also imagine Expecting jericho and we get Mister. IGUANA i

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't be surprised If jericho shows up This. MONDAY i

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't be surprised. Either that, way he gets the spotlight

<v Speaker 1>all to. Himself that's what happened the last time he

<v Speaker 1>came back AND o seven or. Whatever it was like

<v Speaker 1>everyone thought they knew when he was coming, back And

<v Speaker 1>jericho intentionally was, like why don't We why don't we

<v Speaker 1>wait a little bit, Longer so they put it off

<v Speaker 1>for a few weeks and then he showed. Up Chris,

<v Speaker 1>lloyd why DOES wwe refuse to create new? Stars they

<v Speaker 1>only push the stars they have, now and they won't

<v Speaker 1>do anything to build any new. Ones eventually these stars

<v Speaker 1>won't be. Around who takes their? Place, well hopefully THESE

<v Speaker 1>nxt call ups that we saw. Tonight the hope is

<v Speaker 1>that those will be the, people and that's not even

<v Speaker 1>all of. Them but we did have a lot of

<v Speaker 1>new faces on the, show so they're only now starting

<v Speaker 1>to really build them. Up they should have already been

<v Speaker 1>building some of these people up six months. Ago now

<v Speaker 1>they're building them all up at. ONCE kJ, Mitchell i've

<v Speaker 1>never Missed patterson more than tonight realizing they have no

<v Speaker 1>idea how to book. Eliminations you, know you are absolutely

<v Speaker 1>one hundred percent, Right and whatever you want to say

<v Speaker 1>About Pat patterson as far as his ability to book

<v Speaker 1>match finishes and eliminations and elimination sequences In Royal, rumbles

<v Speaker 1>he knew what he was. Doing and they don't have

<v Speaker 1>anybody like that. Now like these people are by and

<v Speaker 1>large when it comes to The Royal, rumbles and like you,

<v Speaker 1>said the eliminations and stuff like, that these people are

<v Speaker 1>just completely out to. Lunch they have no. Idea there's

<v Speaker 1>not like a creative thought in their head when it

<v Speaker 1>comes to this. STUFF i don't understand. IT i really.

<v Speaker 1>Don't Super Pony bruce Booked ilia And oba's, eliminations probably.

<v Speaker 1>Did it's All bruce's. FAULT. Rds Harry oba should have Eliminated.

<v Speaker 1>Brock it would have been a much bigger. Deal but besides,

<v Speaker 1>THAT i Thought oba looked good AND i pray THAT

<v Speaker 1>wwe doesn't fumble. Him it's. Possible it's. Possible phil, says

<v Speaker 1>your review is more entertaining than the women's royal. RUMBLE

<v Speaker 1>i tapped out and started doing my. Taxing.

<v Speaker 2>Goomfhar Jerry mohler loves goom thhar the Magnificent all, hell.

<v Speaker 1>Goomfar you know it's a good night when you get multiple.

<v Speaker 1>Gunhar that's our second. ONE i think tonight our second.

<v Speaker 1>Gunhar he has retired another one and so he must.

<v Speaker 1>Appear that's From Firepanda. Boy you know it's bad When

<v Speaker 1>phil says he started doing his taxes in the middle

<v Speaker 1>of the, Men Von tell, says your reaction if y

<v Speaker 1>Two jay reappeared on the Next, Dynamite, oh AND i

<v Speaker 1>had to hear the learning. Trade what would my reaction

<v Speaker 1>that thud you would hear would be me banging my

<v Speaker 1>head against the. Wall, hi, Guys i'm. BACK i really

<v Speaker 1>tried to send you The facebook, link but YouTube still

<v Speaker 1>won't let. Me so here it is eighty Eight rock

<v Speaker 1>And robin eighty Nine velvet McIntyre ninety ninety one ninety,

<v Speaker 1>Two Sherry. Martel what is this in reference to you?

<v Speaker 2>Though?

<v Speaker 1>YEAH i see in the second one, too you Mentioned

<v Speaker 1>lida And trisha And. Gail are these the women that

<v Speaker 1>you think would have won The Royal rumble for those

<v Speaker 1>years if they had a Women's? RUMBLE i don't disagree

<v Speaker 1>with a lot of. These moore, Says champa is your

<v Speaker 1>NEW tnt. Champion banger match. Good i'm happy about. THAT

<v Speaker 1>i said the other, night put the belt on. Him

<v Speaker 1>i'd put the belt on. Him why beat him in

<v Speaker 1>his first? Match So i'm Glad i'm gonna have. TO

<v Speaker 1>i don't know IF i HOPE i have time to

<v Speaker 1>watch it before the podcast, tomorrow BUT i may, not

<v Speaker 1>BUT i definitely want to go back and watch that. Match,

<v Speaker 1>No i'm happy for, me you. Know he even made

<v Speaker 1>the comment in an. Interview one of the reasons he

<v Speaker 1>LEFT wwe because he would hear comments from people talking

<v Speaker 1>about how he peeked out in twenty eighteen IN, nxt

<v Speaker 1>like that was Peak, champa and he said it made

<v Speaker 1>him absolutely sick because he knows that today he's ten

<v Speaker 1>times better than The champa from twenty eighteen in every,

<v Speaker 1>way he says in the ring on the, mic story,

<v Speaker 1>wise everything about him now is better than that. Version

<v Speaker 1>all he hears were people saying that that Was, Champa

<v Speaker 1>and you, know he realized that IN wwe he was

<v Speaker 1>never going to get the chance to be anything more

<v Speaker 1>than what you saw ON. Tv look at the last

<v Speaker 1>gimmick they were doing with him On. SmackDown everybody in

<v Speaker 1>the back was going around making fun of, him calling

<v Speaker 1>him a. Jackass you, know, like do you really think

<v Speaker 1>things were going to be any different for? Him so

<v Speaker 1>good for. Him he wants to leave and go prove people.

<v Speaker 1>Wrong let him go ahead and. Try it'll be fun

<v Speaker 1>to watch paper with a ten dollars super. Chat i'm

<v Speaker 1>a big fan Of, julia but her entire move set

<v Speaker 1>has been nerfed IN. Wwe says that she's struggling to get.

<v Speaker 1>Over i'm not sure what their plan is for, her

<v Speaker 1>if there even. Is, WELL i don't get the sense

<v Speaker 1>there is a. PLAN i don't know how things are

<v Speaker 1>gonna end with. HER i really. Don't toya says they're

<v Speaker 1>still yeating the NOISE i, hear Super, pony do you

<v Speaker 1>Think TRIPLE h is the biggest problem or is it

<v Speaker 1>the lackeyas under him Like Brian james And bruce not

<v Speaker 1>making excuses for. Him but those guys need to be gone.

<v Speaker 1>Again i'll say it. Again TRIPLE h is the chief Content.

<v Speaker 1>Officer TRIPLE h is the face OF. Wwe he puts

<v Speaker 1>his face literally on. Everything all roads lead To Triple.

<v Speaker 1>H the buck stops with, him just like With. Vince

<v Speaker 1>you're the guy in. Charge the buck stops with. You duff.

<v Speaker 1>Ds IS espn still grading the wwepl e s or

<v Speaker 1>DID wwe get them to stop After Wrestle. Palooza they

<v Speaker 1>didn't stop After Wrestle. Polosa they did it one more

<v Speaker 1>time and THEN i haven't heard anything. SINCE i guess

<v Speaker 1>we'll find out tomorrow Or. Sunday i'm, sorry tomorrow Is.

<v Speaker 1>Sunday we'll find Out. Monday Super Pony, solo will you

<v Speaker 1>open up the phone line For? WrestleMania probably not Because

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania typically is the busiest weekend of the, Year like

<v Speaker 1>just the super chats, alone like we'll be up for

<v Speaker 1>two and a half, hours just like going through chats

<v Speaker 1>answering questions like. That is that is the exact opposite

<v Speaker 1>best time to be doing phone calls it should be

<v Speaker 1>on a quieter. Night we'll figure out a better time

<v Speaker 1>to do, It phil Says Hi. Solo what are your

<v Speaker 1>thoughts About backlash not being In Puerto rico instead it

<v Speaker 1>is going to be In. Tampa. Yeah Post wrestling have

<v Speaker 1>the story In december because they had seen an internal

<v Speaker 1>memo like an internal calendar that had it listed For San.

<v Speaker 1>Juan so say something, changed either they were outbid or

<v Speaker 1>the deal fell. Through but that was a surprise to

<v Speaker 1>See backlash announced For. Tampa Kenny clifford with a twenty

<v Speaker 1>Says Yo. SOLO i Think TRIPLE h left his cerebral

<v Speaker 1>assassin thinking in the Ruthless aggression era because it's gone

<v Speaker 1>in this. One it Is where is the Cerebral TRIPLE

<v Speaker 1>h that we heard? Of Uh? Mega Mister Joker solo

<v Speaker 1>just want to say hi and show. Support hope all is.

<v Speaker 1>Well all is very, well AND i thank you for,

<v Speaker 1>that Mister joker. Boy she is very angry. Tonight she's

<v Speaker 1>pissed you Got. Leopoldo what if they just Called hobbes

<v Speaker 1>house keys because he loses them all the. Time, NOW

<v Speaker 1>i Think Royce, hobbes actually a combination of the two

<v Speaker 1>would have been. Perfect Jacob chelsea love that brought completely

<v Speaker 1>Jabronid ilya just to get eliminated by a double clothesline

<v Speaker 1>During yeat's. Entrance hilarious. Company it's just, dude it's it

<v Speaker 1>was so. Bad it was so fucking. Awful Matt fisher

<v Speaker 1>with a twenty five Dollar Brimo, Man matt's On, fire

<v Speaker 1>two learning trees and A. Brie, Oh joseph is, Back

<v Speaker 1>Jeremy dyer, says Does yotasuji AGAINST Aj styles for THE

<v Speaker 1>iwgp title interest to? You? YES i would love to

<v Speaker 1>SEE aj do a couple more New japan matches retro.

<v Speaker 1>Koh thank You solo for saying it out. Loud everyone

<v Speaker 1>in those files needs to be done away.

<v Speaker 2>With that is.

<v Speaker 1>Disgusting, yes every single one of, them, Rutally none of,

<v Speaker 1>Them i'm sure will be brought to any sort of real.

<v Speaker 1>Justice but if there was justice in this, world every

<v Speaker 1>single one of them would BE. Jdfva the snow here

<v Speaker 1>In North carolina is. Ridiculous, Well i'm sorry about. THAT i,

<v Speaker 1>mean we had a bad snowstorm last week and the

<v Speaker 1>mounds of ice are just not going. ANYWHERE i was

<v Speaker 1>out this, MORNING i had to go into The city

<v Speaker 1>for a, funeral and it was seven degrees. Outside this

<v Speaker 1>snow out there is it's never gonna go. Away it's

<v Speaker 1>gonna be six weeks before that goes. Away yankees fan for.

<v Speaker 1>Life my bad. SOLO i meant Between styles And Sean,

<v Speaker 1>michaels who was the better in ring wrestler and, performer

<v Speaker 1>in my, opinion it Is. AJ i, mean it's very

<v Speaker 1>subjective Because styles Was styles was flashier in terms of

<v Speaker 1>like the moves that he did and the, dive and

<v Speaker 1>Like Shawn michaels never did half the stuff That Aj styles,

<v Speaker 1>did But sewn just he was so smooth and just

<v Speaker 1>shore footed and he's just very good at what he,

<v Speaker 1>did you, know better than really anybody else in his

<v Speaker 1>era when it came to that. Stuff and Like, brett

<v Speaker 1>you can Compare brett And, sean But brett's style was also.

<v Speaker 1>Different it's not an apples To apple's. Thing Between shawn

<v Speaker 1>And aj the better in ring? PERFORMER i, MEAN i

<v Speaker 1>tend to lean Towards. Sean but again it's a subjective

<v Speaker 1>thing filled the. Truth as a third of a century old,

<v Speaker 1>MAN i have a twenty twenty six royal rumbled. JOKE

<v Speaker 1>i live To rain as World. Champion sorry for the cheesy.

<v Speaker 1>JOKE i hope it wasn't too brief for. You oh

<v Speaker 1>it's that's pretty. Cheesy retro says it's a bit foggy

<v Speaker 1>outside WHERE i. LIVE i tried to catch, it BUT i.

<v Speaker 1>Missed oh boyd never go Full, Sidrow never go Full.

<v Speaker 1>Sindrow daryl Thirteen canadians, Says, Hey, solo did you notice

<v Speaker 1>all of the women in The rumble match dressed like

<v Speaker 1>The Power? RANGERS i told you they all they all

<v Speaker 1>were going to look the same unless they changed the

<v Speaker 1>colors up a little. Bit, Warhawk, Rambo Rock Foemen leopoldo

<v Speaker 1>with the twenty eight had to Hear solo tone. Tonight

<v Speaker 1>never Seen. Unreal they ever cover major f, ups like

<v Speaker 1>would they ever Cover brock being eliminated During USO's entrance

<v Speaker 1>or who was stupid enough to book? It what could

<v Speaker 1>possibly be the reason for?

<v Speaker 2>It?

<v Speaker 1>Yeah they cover fuck. UPS i mean this past season,

<v Speaker 1>actually they covered a pretty big fuck up at the

<v Speaker 1>end of The Men's money in The bank. Match i'm

<v Speaker 1>gonna have a full, review by the, way for season

<v Speaker 1>two Of unreal on the podcast, tomorrow so we'll get

<v Speaker 1>into that's part of what we'll get into.

<v Speaker 2>Or.

<v Speaker 1>Whizzle we had our first Ever Power Rangers royal, Rumble

<v Speaker 1>yes we. Did Doves VID's four out of Ten Roman

<v Speaker 1>reigns a four out of ten royal. Rumble happy for,

<v Speaker 1>Live thank You. DUFFS i saw R. R i thought

<v Speaker 1>that Was Roman. Reigns Jeremy. Rose if you Had tiffy

<v Speaker 1>Versus Juliet WrestleMania And julia, wins does this erase the

<v Speaker 1>stain they did to? Her or does it ruin TIFF

<v Speaker 1>i actually think it would do more to Harm tiffany

<v Speaker 1>than it would to Help julia at this, point like

<v Speaker 1>that's how bad things have gotten and Retro koh didn't

<v Speaker 1>coach Say jericho was going to? Return at the? Rumble oh,

<v Speaker 1>boy you mean to tell me the coach called a

<v Speaker 1>bad play that the coach didn't know what he was talking.

<v Speaker 1>ABOUT i don't. Know i'm asking it is that's something

<v Speaker 1>he said was going to? Happen did he guarantee A jericho?

<v Speaker 1>Appearance Fire panda with that second gunhar. Bomb the longer she's,

<v Speaker 1>gone the MORE i start to believe That bianca has

<v Speaker 1>permanent damage to her. Hand if that's what takes her

<v Speaker 1>out of. Wrestling then that's. Horrible but, hey at least

<v Speaker 1>it's not a broken. Neck there are definitely worse injuries

<v Speaker 1>that one's career could end as a result. Of BUT

<v Speaker 1>i don't even want to think about that BECAUSE i

<v Speaker 1>think that would be. Horrible it's, LIKE i don't even

<v Speaker 1>know what her plans are as far as like having

<v Speaker 1>kids and starting a fan like. You just she just

<v Speaker 1>lost a year of her, career SO i don't. KNOW

<v Speaker 1>i don't know what her plans. ARE i don't know

<v Speaker 1>what she what she wants TO i don't. KNOW i don't.

<v Speaker 1>Know it just feels like a lot of wasted. Time

<v Speaker 1>Cameron spencer years, Ago tessa won the men's world title

<v Speaker 1>IN TNA wwe is too cowardly to do the, Same

<v Speaker 1>scared of the reaction they'll get from, fans cowardice to

<v Speaker 1>Have tessa specifically win one of their, titles their world,

<v Speaker 1>title or just have a woman Because Rhea ripley could

<v Speaker 1>beat up some of the guys on that, Roster Like

<v Speaker 1>i'm convinced of. This Camio johnson with a nine ninety. Nine, Hey,

<v Speaker 1>sola remember when liv used to Slap RAQUEL A raquel

<v Speaker 1>title run is long. Overdue she's been on fire. Lately

<v Speaker 1>do you think clean house is needed in WWE's booking

<v Speaker 1>everyone EXCEPT. HPK i think they definitely need some new

<v Speaker 1>voices in, there get some new. PERSPECTIVES i think you

<v Speaker 1>always want to be cycling out some new. Voices but,

<v Speaker 1>YES i don't disagree with. You, Hey, leopoldo Is vato? Sting?

<v Speaker 1>Seth what's going? On? Seth thank you very much for

<v Speaker 1>the twenty. SPOT i really appreciate you and your. Content

<v Speaker 1>you've gotten me through a great. DEAL i just started

<v Speaker 1>working and wanted to show you some. Love thanks Bro,

<v Speaker 1>well thank. YOU i love hearing that you got plenty

<v Speaker 1>of content to keep you busy and keep you. Company

<v Speaker 1>joseph is. Back, hello Solomonster i'm. Back we've gone so

<v Speaker 1>long That joseph actually came. Back he's got breaking. News

<v Speaker 1>Dominic mysterio is returning Next saturday at The TRIPLE A

<v Speaker 1>show In mexico to Confront El Grande. Americano, okay but which?

<v Speaker 1>One there's more than? One, now which Which americano is he?

<v Speaker 1>Confronting he, SAYS i missed dom at The Royal rumble. Tonight.

<v Speaker 1>YEAH i didn't even notice until AFTER i was expecting

<v Speaker 1>him to be in, there and he wasn't Any ajatna

<v Speaker 1>matches that you recommend a super. Pony, yeah there was

<v Speaker 1>A Kurt angle. MATCH i don't remember which pay per

<v Speaker 1>view it. Was there's The Unbreakable match from two thousand

<v Speaker 1>and five with him And Samoa joe And Christopher. DANIELS

<v Speaker 1>i think there's a really good one With. ABYSS i

<v Speaker 1>JUST i. DON'T i don't offhand remember these specific. EVENTS

<v Speaker 1>i know there was A bound For glory one in.

<v Speaker 1>There if you've never seen The Unbreakable, match, though start

<v Speaker 1>with that one from two thousand and. Five joseph, SAYS

<v Speaker 1>i Hope don returns This. Monday buy or Sell Battlefield

<v Speaker 1>earth Or Kazam. Ugh it's like asking me you want

<v Speaker 1>to be stabbed or? Shot i'll Go. Kazam i'm so

<v Speaker 1>Happy live won The Royal rumble tonight And Adam West

<v Speaker 1>Batman show was on tonight on ME. Tv, WELL i

<v Speaker 1>was a little bit, busy SO i didn't get to see.

<v Speaker 1>It thank, You joseph And Camio. JOHNSON wwe could use

<v Speaker 1>aw freedom and creativity with their stars to make them more.

<v Speaker 1>Interesting julia would have been much better off IN nxt

<v Speaker 1>OR aew y Two jay at the. Chamber he is

<v Speaker 1>free on that. Day he has no tour date on that.

<v Speaker 1>Day daga Me hobbs is combo of his son and

<v Speaker 1>his mom's. Names joseph, says have a good night and take.

<v Speaker 1>Care thank. You Joseph leopauldo, says WHEN i Hear, JULIA

<v Speaker 1>i always think Of. JULIA i always think Of julia

<v Speaker 1>with a j And orwizzle says in triple ah. Voice

<v Speaker 1>are you ready or two nights of The Royal? Rumble?

<v Speaker 1>OH i already guarantee you, guys that's the NEXT pli

<v Speaker 1>that goes to two, nights probably starting next. Year IF

<v Speaker 1>i had to, VENTURE i guess you'll have a women's

<v Speaker 1>rumble on one, night you'll have a men's rumble on the.

<v Speaker 1>Other you'll be able to have a couple of extra

<v Speaker 1>matches because they're breaking it up into. Two it's only

<v Speaker 1>a matter of, time. Guaranteed and we Got Jabe Shepherd

<v Speaker 1>Stone cold talking bad about creative jobbed out to a

<v Speaker 1>rookie brock lesnar On FREE. Tv Roman reign's talking bad

<v Speaker 1>about Creative Royal Rumblewin, WELL i think the comments were.

<v Speaker 1>MADE i think the comments were made in Character i'm

<v Speaker 1>not really sure what purpose it. SERVES i guess we'll

<v Speaker 1>see if somehow they incorporated into the into like an

<v Speaker 1>angle or a storyline ON. Tv but, YEAH i, mean

<v Speaker 1>a double standard in wrestling is not really a new.

<v Speaker 1>Concept it's definitely happened. Before hey zombified guitarist fifty months

<v Speaker 1>of channel. Membership Julia guglia would be a great creator.

<v Speaker 1>Wrestler name.

<v Speaker 2>What it?

<v Speaker 1>Though what it? Really thank, you, brother that's a long

<v Speaker 1>time to be a channel. MEMBER i appreciate. That, well

<v Speaker 1>we are closing in on thirteen hundred, likes which is

<v Speaker 1>which is quite the. Number and we actually did hit

<v Speaker 1>the third, goal which means THAT i have three rounds

<v Speaker 1>of be the Booker i've got to go. Through so

<v Speaker 1>you get your first three night. Spectacular we're talking about two.

<v Speaker 1>Nights they're getting three nights before at Super pony says

<v Speaker 1>the start of the new era ON. Raw are you? Ready? So,

<v Speaker 1>Oh i'm. Ready i'm ready for another new? Era Oh, Leopoldo,

<v Speaker 1>YEAH i forgot about. That the wedding. SINGER i haven't

<v Speaker 1>seen that movie in. Ages, yeah that went right over my. Head,

<v Speaker 1>anyway we got three rounds to. Do let's do. It

<v Speaker 1>this is. Exciting a, gentlemen it is now time to

<v Speaker 1>be the. Booker this is. Exciting can you imagine if

<v Speaker 1>we end up getting like the opposite of a clean

<v Speaker 1>sweep in all three WHERE i just have to like

<v Speaker 1>buzz through all of. Them. All, right here we. Go

<v Speaker 1>this is a little segment we do if you're new.

<v Speaker 1>Here it's my random generator That i've, created and we're

<v Speaker 1>gonna try to book our own matches, here a tag,

<v Speaker 1>match a women's, match and a men's. Match and we're

<v Speaker 1>gonna do this three. Times and our first team here

<v Speaker 1>Is cain And, mankind the tag team champions at one

<v Speaker 1>point against also the tag team champions at one point

<v Speaker 1>The Heart, Foundation Brett hart and The anvil Against cain And.

<v Speaker 1>Mankind that could be a main event. Anywhere that's a

<v Speaker 1>main event right, there we're opening the show with. It

<v Speaker 1>they're curtain jerking on the women's. Side, ah we have

<v Speaker 1>the Beautiful Mariah. May this is back in her stardom,

<v Speaker 1>days And Mariah may will be taking On Priscilla kelly

<v Speaker 1>FORMER Gg. Dolan i'll give that a. Bell and our

<v Speaker 1>first of three main. Events let's see we have everybody get,

<v Speaker 1>ready everybody all. Aboard The godfather is. Here who's? Ready

<v Speaker 1>who's ready to hop a? Board are you? Ready i'm.

<v Speaker 1>Ready i've been. Ready The godfather Against brett the Hit Man.

<v Speaker 1>Heart you, know we kind of got that once on

<v Speaker 1>A Saturday Nights made. Event we had the Hit man

<v Speaker 1>Against Papa. SHANGO i WAS i was leaning into different

<v Speaker 1>direction here Until brett popped up AND i, said you know,

<v Speaker 1>what anybody can make that. Work it's that, guy.

<v Speaker 2>All.

<v Speaker 1>Right so we have a clean sweep in the first.

<v Speaker 1>Round that's a very good. Sign so what we are

<v Speaker 1>going to do in these next two, Rounds we're gonna

<v Speaker 1>have stipulations for these, matches all. Right this is how this.

<v Speaker 1>Works and our, first oh my, god our first stipulation

<v Speaker 1>is A Mountain dew pitch black. Match it's going to

<v Speaker 1>be a tag team Mountain dew pitch black match in

<v Speaker 1>the dark glow in the dark it. Is i'm gonna

<v Speaker 1>go by THEIR wwe names. HERE i know they're In

<v Speaker 1>ring Of honor NOW, mxm But i'm gonna GO U

<v Speaker 1>masse and Man. Sis you already know where this is.

<v Speaker 1>HEADED i think you guys know exactly where this is.

<v Speaker 1>Headed it's already an.

<v Speaker 2>End of the.

<v Speaker 1>Suite oh, man, shit, well oh wait a, minute hold,

<v Speaker 1>on wait a. Minute choose two single stars to form

<v Speaker 1>a makeshift. Team a stipulation on top of a. Stipulation

<v Speaker 1>this could potentially be. Salvaged. Here it's still not looking.

<v Speaker 1>Good but let's. See let's see how, this how this works.

<v Speaker 1>Out we Have Bronz or we'll look at him in this,

<v Speaker 1>Photo my, God Bronze, breaker and There's Adam pearce in the.

<v Speaker 1>Background Adam pearce is always with Bron. Breakers he should

<v Speaker 1>be his, manager he should be his new. Manager he's

<v Speaker 1>always with. Him this photo was. Old why is he always?

<v Speaker 1>There Bronze breaker And Bam Bam. Bigelow, hey you know,

<v Speaker 1>what that's a hell of a. TEAM i hate to do,

<v Speaker 1>this BUT i don't. Know. Man Bron breaker And Bam

<v Speaker 1>Bam bigelow though as a team in a mountain dew

<v Speaker 1>pitch black. Match m uh, hmm.

<v Speaker 2>You know, What.

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna give that the. Bell i'm intrigued by this tag.

<v Speaker 1>TEAM i actually. SEE i told her you don't, count

<v Speaker 1>don't don't count it out, yet don't count it out.

<v Speaker 1>Yet all? Right now we have a dog collar, match

<v Speaker 1>a women's dog collar Match Wendy. Richter going back in time,

<v Speaker 1>here we need to land On Tony. Storm it would

<v Speaker 1>be so appropriate if it Was Tony, Storm Hikaru shidah

<v Speaker 1>And Wendy richter in a dog collar. Match where the

<v Speaker 1>hell Is? SHEIDA i can't even remember the last TIME

<v Speaker 1>i saw her ON? Tv where the hell has she?

<v Speaker 1>Been All, right, look, hey the the double sweep is

<v Speaker 1>still possible here we HAVE i can tell you. This

<v Speaker 1>we haven't never in the history of be The. BOOKER

<v Speaker 1>i don't even remember if we've done three. Rounds we've

<v Speaker 1>never had three sweeps in one. Night this would be

<v Speaker 1>a record if we pull this. Off so we have

<v Speaker 1>AN Apa, invitational which is basically just a giant cluster

<v Speaker 1>fuck of a barroom brawl on the back of the. Arena,

<v Speaker 1>Here so we have THE Apa invitational in our main.

<v Speaker 1>Event say his name and he, Appears Joe. Hendry, well

<v Speaker 1>he wasn't in The Royal rumble, tonight but at least

<v Speaker 1>he's on The Royal rumble. Recap Joe hendry in THE Apa. Invitational,

<v Speaker 1>oh how is this gonna go Against? Rush Oh Man

<v Speaker 1>rushe is gonna fuck him. Up he is gonna fuck

<v Speaker 1>his shit, up isn't He he's gonna do what he

<v Speaker 1>did To Jungle boy in that. Match it's just not

<v Speaker 1>gonna end well For Joe. Hendry All, right we get

<v Speaker 1>one more. Round we ain't done. Yet we just got. Back,

<v Speaker 1>yeah forgot, SHIT i almost. Forgot we got back to back.

<v Speaker 1>SWEEPS i think this might. HAPPEN i think this might really.

<v Speaker 1>Happen rooch is gonna beat the shit. Out, Yeah joe

<v Speaker 1>ain't gonna be smiling after. That all, right we got

<v Speaker 1>a good old fashioned hardcore. Match that's how we're kicking

<v Speaker 1>things off. Here we need one more sweep to make

<v Speaker 1>be the booker. History all, right so we got the

<v Speaker 1>good Brothers gallows And. Anderson that's a hardcore. Match remember.

<v Speaker 1>That i'm gonna do drum rolls for all three of these.

<v Speaker 1>Matches gallows And anderson. Again to The Heart foundation and

<v Speaker 1>our foundation's pulling double duty. HERE i Think Heart foundation

<v Speaker 1>just saved another. Match that's WHAT i. Think All, right

<v Speaker 1>we're still alive, Here we're still. Alive we have a strap.

<v Speaker 1>Match that is the stip for our women's match. Here

<v Speaker 1>it is a strap. Match they will be bound by

<v Speaker 1>the wrist by a long leather. Strap Jade cargill bound

<v Speaker 1>by a leather. Strap here in this, Match Jade cargill

<v Speaker 1>Against Alexa. Bliss bliss, fan that's for. YOU i give

<v Speaker 1>you The Bell bliss Fan bliss fans all over that

<v Speaker 1>he wants that championship back around this woman's. WAIST i know. That,

<v Speaker 1>okay it all comes down to. This we are on

<v Speaker 1>the verge of history. Here we have a, tables ladders and. Chairs. Man,

<v Speaker 1>now it's hard to fuck up A tlc, match but

<v Speaker 1>we have A tlc match on tap. Here, oh this is.

<v Speaker 1>Exciting this is exciting For. Alexa she's, well she is

<v Speaker 1>a tiny, woman all RIGHT. Tlc oh, no oh, no, oh,

<v Speaker 1>no oh, no it's It's, Gouldberg Bill goldberg in a,

<v Speaker 1>tables ladders and chairs. Match oh my, god against The.

<v Speaker 1>ROCK i gotta tell. You my finger was on the.

<v Speaker 1>BUZZER i was just waiting for. IT i was waiting for,

<v Speaker 1>it and then we landed on The. Rock and it's

<v Speaker 1>not just The. Rock it's usually see The SmackDown banner.

<v Speaker 1>There this is classic nineteen ninety nine SmackDown. Attitude Erra

<v Speaker 1>rock and The rock saved it because otherwise that would

<v Speaker 1>have been the end of the. Sweep we got three

<v Speaker 1>straight sweeps for the first time. EVER G Barry free

<v Speaker 1>says That Kit wilson would have gotten kidnapped By saudi

<v Speaker 1>officials if he showed. It, OH i, see, well he

<v Speaker 1>could have wore a full body, Suit. Marshall marshall, SAYS

<v Speaker 1>i can't BELIEVE i just witnessed. History my first ever

<v Speaker 1>three be the. BOOKER i, SHED i just shed a. Tear,

<v Speaker 1>hey you were a part of history. TONIGHT i hope

<v Speaker 1>we can keep that streak alive when we do it

<v Speaker 1>again On Monday, night hopefully on the raw, stream because

<v Speaker 1>that's the next Time i'm going to be live with.

<v Speaker 1>You it'll be From Monday Night raw the Post, show

<v Speaker 1>which is going to be a big raw by the,

<v Speaker 1>way it is the Post Rumble. Raw so now we

<v Speaker 1>are officially on the road To. WrestleMania the fallout from The,

<v Speaker 1>Rumble we're going to see where some of the pieces.

<v Speaker 1>Fall now there's A Women's World championship. Match i'm sure

<v Speaker 1>Bron breaker will be on the warpath after what happened

<v Speaker 1>in The, Rumble so join. Me then that'll be On

<v Speaker 1>Monday night. Tomorrow later in the, Day episode n of

<v Speaker 1>The sound Of i'll have more to say about the

<v Speaker 1>rumble and full recap thoughts on season two OF Wwe

<v Speaker 1>unreel Scum. Dog oh my, goodness look at. This five

<v Speaker 1>more gifted memberships from the other. Night oh look a

<v Speaker 1>look at this, Guy look at. This you ain't pushing me?

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<v Speaker 2>Me darren.

<v Speaker 1>Love that super chap Scum doug with five gifted. Memberships thank, you,

<v Speaker 1>BROTHER i appreciate. That And frod, says when will the solo?

<v Speaker 1>Be The Booker Triple lindy shirt be? OUT i gotta

<v Speaker 1>work up a design, first And alexander says truth Gave

<v Speaker 1>pierce his balls for. Nothing, well that's how life goes,

<v Speaker 1>sometimes but you learn a very valuable. LESSON i hope he. Did,

<v Speaker 1>Anyway thank you guys for hanging out with. Me did

<v Speaker 1>we really go over four hours? Tonight? Oh my, god

<v Speaker 1>four hours and eleven. Minutes we went longer than The

<v Speaker 1>Royal rumble. TONIGHT i actually had more fun here on

<v Speaker 1>the stream with you guys THAN i did watching The

<v Speaker 1>Royal rumble, tonight and that should never. Happen but that's

<v Speaker 1>exactly what. Happened all, Right i'm going to leave you be,

<v Speaker 1>well stay. Safe. Uh, Oh joseph is back. Again i'm back, Again,

<v Speaker 1>solomonster do you know why they didn't Bring dom back?

<v Speaker 1>TONIGHT i don't. KNOW i, mean you're the one who

<v Speaker 1>just broke the news before that said apparently he's going

<v Speaker 1>to be back on The TRIPLE A show next. Weekend

<v Speaker 1>so MAYBE i don't. Know maybe they didn't Want maybe

<v Speaker 1>he's not physically ready to come, back because you said

<v Speaker 1>he's going to be there to call Out Grande, americano

<v Speaker 1>SO i question whether or not he'll actually be doing anything,

<v Speaker 1>physical so he may not be medically. Clear jed that

<v Speaker 1>that would explain That Solo's Royal rumble twenty twenty six

<v Speaker 1>owns the Actual Royal rumble twenty twenty. Six, uh you

<v Speaker 1>ain't wrong about, that, Hey, joseph have yourself a great,

<v Speaker 1>night and everybody else be, well stay, safe AND i

<v Speaker 1>will see you back here live On monday. Night It's, february,

<v Speaker 1>Everybody i'll see you on The Royal Post Show monday.

<v Speaker 1>Night until, then take, care, guys