2024 Wrestling Preview Special | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #725 – 1/4/24

0:00 It's still leave living, all right, Let's complain to see the faith tells people lost the song back thanks to see he leaves Basbee young girl said that, n said, I tell Getty, Jill Jim. Welcome, everybody, Welcome to this week's edition A Story Around the Show. Episomber seven and twenty five for January fourth, from twenty twenty four. Welcome to the twenty twenty four wrestling preview edition of ass R Team You. I am one after the show, I am Jeff Pett joined every single week might tell us one only Doctor Trey Franklin, Doctor Trey, Happy New Year, my friend, Happy

1:32 New Year to you, my friend. And this year, this is the first time in a long time. I'm actually fully dressed for this edition of the show. Usually I got the baby New Year Year on, but uh, I'll be broke into my storage. You don't stole the baby New Year Year. So there's a weird person out there running around in a diaper at a twenty twenty four sash. So this year Jeff pants on for the podcast. We've been told before that we're very immature, and this is us growing as humans, as men, as individuals. So a history no more, folks. The baby edition of Doctor Trey is now a thing in the past, and I got to be honest, Doctor Tray. At times it was really creepy and kind of weird. But I'm kind of sad to see this new version of You See, everybody always wants to complain about stuff, and then it takes that you get taken away and you're like, oh, now I kind of miss it, so you don't know what you got till it's gone. Right, Yeah, that's I've also said that about my waistline and some other things too, so there you go. But yeah, yeah, the whole digress back into the podcast. I guess the age like, plus, it's cold outside, so there's also shrinkage involved. Sure, very very true. When you get old, you get old, and that's that stuff kind of happens. So here we are first show of the year twenty twenty four. This is our fourteenth year as a wrestling podcast, Doctor Trey, and this is how we always started off traditionally. Here it's the final show of the holiday programming schedule. If you have if you're a little bit behind, go out there and download the show from two weeks ago. When we listen back to our twenty twenty three Bowl predictions and wrestling many thirty nine car

3:04 predictions, and we recap twenty twenty three for weaw and professional wrestling as a whole. Download last week's up show episode with the SRTU Award Show, it's always really fun laid back stuff here that we have here for content and programming each and every year on SRTU, And this is a fun one as well because there's really no true direction. I mean we're just basically guessing doctor Trey, right. I mean, like in MLB or NBA, NFL, like with any other sport, you could look at the year before the season starts and goes, Okay, this is like the team I'm looking for, This is the performer. This is like the baseball player I expect to have a big year. Like we could kind of do that with professional wrestling, but with professional wrestling you're kind of just at the edge of the seat here and guessing by the seat of your pants on on how this year is actually going to work out for anything in professional wrestling. Yeah, I mean we talked about it on the Awards show last week. You know, see them Punk getting fired and hired by WW two months later. Nobody saw that coming.

4:08 You know, Ed's jumping to aw Nobody saw that coming. You know, there are things that you can kind of prognosticate a little bit, but you know, for the most part, it is wrestling. For as much that's out in the open, we don't know contract situations, we don't know the backstation and agains. For the most part, we don't know, you know, the inner working. He's like you and I don't have a hot line into Tony Kahan or or Triple H's office. Hell I have friends of mine who work for both companies, and I don't get insider tips or anything like that. So it is a little bit of just it's a little bit of prediction mixed with fancy booking, and we just kind of go from there. It's a lot different than you know, you being a Yankee and Packer fan, me being a cop at Fort R Fay. We can kind of see prospects coming up. We kind of know the direction of the club. We know if they're going into a rebuilding mode or or if they're going for the playoffs. You don't know that with wrestling, because as much as we love the athleticism of it, it's still a television show, and it'd be like kind of predict you know, which character of your favorite show is getting killed off this year? Yeah, very very true. I mean that is a great point. It's like, there's no podcast that previews the Law and Order season. So I'm sure there is. I'm sure there is two it is podcasting. I'm sure if I typed in right now in Apple podcasts like Law and Order podcast, I'm sure there is a preview of season seventy eight of Law and Order. But in the famous lines that we always have here, I digress. All right, let's get into a Doctor Trey WWE preview looking

5:41 at Ross Mackdown NXT. How do we view the year coming up here in twenty twenty four for World Wrestling Entertainment. So for me, this, in my opinion, could be the biggest year that ww's had in a very very long time. Like it kind of feels like the stars are aligning, that things are in a different place. I don't want to say it's it's not the first full it's you know, the first real full year under the new endeavor banner. Triple H has his fingerprints all over the show. And then when you look at like, you know, now you have a roster like I was trying to put the wrestlemanting card together, and I'm going you have guys like Drew McIntyre and aj Styles who are probably gonna be upper mid card this year just because of the depth of top when you got you know, the seth Rawlins, the Cody Rhodes, the Roman Reigns, the CM punks.

6:34 You know, where does Logan Paul fit into this mix? You still have you know, Sammy's a and Kevin Owens, the Judgment Day, you know the Damien Priest Cashion, if they would it happens, all these different things coming into it. Plus you know Becky Lynch coming back up, Brea rippling the top of the card. Like this might be the biggest year they've had in quite a long time. The programming has been solid for Night of twenty twenty three heading into twenty twenty four. Really the only thing that they may need to tweak is a little bit in NXT, which is still always going to be that way just because it's a developmental bringer. But you know, the good Lord Willing, there's no major backstage meltdowns with anybody. There's no major injuries. You got Randy Orton back in the picture, AJ Styles back in the picture. You still have you know, you're always throwing Brock Lezard, John Cena and maybe the rock at any point as well. Like this is arguably like the deck is stacked in W's favor for me to me heading into twenty twenty four anyway, and this could be the year that they become like a real household name again. Like everybody knows in the United States who the WWW is, but you know what WWW is, and you know who's on there, and you know what's taking place on television has only happened a couple times in my lifetime. Late nineties comes immediately to mind, and I think WWE could be really knocking on the door of culture again with a lot of their performers, whether it's the returning cmpunk legends like Randy Orton,

8:05 AJ Styles or up and coming stars like Damian Priest and Rhea Ripley, you know I mentioned on last week's edition of The Award Show. Then I think Ria Ripley's on the verge of becoming a household name across the United States, and I still feel that way. I think Roman Reigns is a household name. It really feels like we're on the precipice of something truly special, and twenty twenty four it can be that year where we takes another step forward, which is exciting for professional wrestling. I'm really stoked about them going to France for Backlash, Bashing Berlin in Germany. I believe in August. They're going to be in Perth, Australia in February. So this is going to be a really big global brand. And this is exciting year ahead for WWE Doctor Trey. It feels like if I could compare it to something and feel old at the same time, twenty twenty three was like nineteen ninety seven WA In twenty twenty four it could be nineteen ninety eight w W where they were in full swing with d X, Steve Haustin Rock, whoever else is on the top of the card and each and every show Monday Night Raw and then eventually SmackDown in ninety nine was Muscy Television. I think we're on the verge of that, and I'm really excited for the year ahead for World Wrestling Entertainment.

9:20 Yeah, my only worry is Roman ray situation. If he's you know, at some point, somebody's gonna have to beat Roman Rains and who is the person they picked you to do it? Is it gonna be somebody that we all go, yes, that's the right guy, or is it guy like brock Lezer beating the Undertakers or breaking Undertaker streak where we're all like, yeah, he didn't need that and it was the wrong time. So that's my only worry about that is because SmackDown was SmackDown going to USA, they may not need the star power that they had on Fox, and if they decide to pull the trigger and put the put the title on the wrong guy or gonna you know, have a little bit of backlash from that. But outside of that, like when you just look at this roster, from the young talents coming in from XT, the guys who were in their prime, and the established veterans there may they may have never had a better cross section of that than they have on hand right now. So there you go. There's a little bit of the w WEE preview right there for twenty twenty four.

10:22 I miss Roman Reigns Doctor Trey. I wish he was on television a lot more. I guess my only hope here on the first quarter of this year. Is we get a lot of Roman reigns from here on out? Yeah? Yeah, I mean they're really as much as he was prevalent a couple of years ago. Like, I don't think right now you can get too much Roman rays because he's transcended what nor Rusling is now. He's in that iconic status. He's in that John Cena, Steve Austin, you know, rock level of performer, where like when he's on TV, you have to see what he's gonna do. And this is gonna be a very telling year, like if they end up breaking up the Blood like completely, and Roman has to go away from television for a little while to pursue his acting career or his family life and then makes a trifle returns a baby face or something.

11:11 But this is one of those, to me, like one of those turning point years in his career as he's either a widding it down or be about to enter a new chapter. All right, the transition over here to All Elite Wrestling previewing it for twenty twenty four, Doctor Treya, I feel like this is a very big turning point year for All Elite Wrestling. It's year number five as a company. There are rumblings and concerns about the upcoming TV deal. It's possible by the time this podcast drops if they've announced something with Warner Brothers Discovery, or maybe Warner Brothers Discovery is now something with maybe WWE for all we know, and that puts AW in a really bad spot.

11:54 I've been saying this each and every week the last couple of weeks. For professional wrestling to be good, we need a strong number two in the United States, and we need an all elite wrestling. If you're a tribalist that is just PROWE and ANTIAAW, like, shame on you like watch both programming because it's really good for professional wrestling and professional wrestling fans. If you're pro AW and ANTIWE, do the same as well. Watch both, support both, get behind both, and just appreciate what we're seeing in professional wrestling right now because you may never see this again. This is someone that's speaking from experience that I wish I could bottle up nineteen ninety six of two thousand and one wrestling when w and WSW were around and just understand how important and fun and appreciative I am in that time period. Right now, and it's because both companies were pushing each other to be the very best, and you're seeing that now. WA may not look at aw's competition, they may not look at them as being on their level, but they now understand that they are also taking away potential audience from them and viewers and eyes each week as well. And if they put on a better product, WWE is going to suffer, and if WWE puts on a better product, AW is going to suffer. So we need both products to be performing very, very high because we both get really good products. AW They're creative has been hit or miss.

13:18 We've talked about that a lot lately. I really hope that they get that under control. There's the rumblings of there're going to be more new Japan based where it's just solely focused on in ring performances and not storylines. You need entertainment outside of the ring as well, and you need to give me a reason to watch this other than man. These are two really good athletes. We need everything front to back, good entertainment, great in ring work, and that makes a good professional. Rest in the year, I'm very optimistic about AAW. I really really think that it could move forward and take a step forward. But I'm concerned it the way that they performed like varying con in twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, late twenty twenty one, inconsistent, twenty twenty two, inconsistent twenty twenty three. There were parts where it was not that great, and then there were parts where it was really really good, and then it'd be bad again, and then it'd be really really good. I just want it to be really good all the time.

14:18 And I know you're not going to hit a grand same out of the park every single time, but just give me something that entertained me each and every week. They seem to do that with dynamite, rampage and collision can be hit or mess at times. But I'm very optimistic this year, doctor Trey. I want to hope that they take a step forward, but it's very well I wouldn't be shocked if they take a step back either. So that's how I see aw in twenty twenty four as we kick off this new year. Yeah, I see this year as kind of being one of their big forks in the room, like a very transformative year for the company, and basically because they need direction, they need direction in cohesion. I've kind of beat this drum for the last few years. Like the one thing we love, like we can't take away from them is they have great entering, talent and athleticism. The one knock they've always had has been their creative It's been all over the place. It's been starting stop, it's been hit and miss, it's been hey, this guy's been you know, we're gonna push this guy in the moon, and then they forget about him three weeks later, we don't see him on TV for a month and a half. With they just need direction. If you're gonna go to the new Japan route, go to the new Japan rout. If you're gonna go the storyline traditional wresting style, then go that way. It's really hard to get your audience to buy in if they don't know where you're going, and sometimes it feels like they don't know where they're going. They have plenty of television exposure right now to pull this off. Now. My worries are, hey, if you see

15:52 that the company's taken another loss financially, how long is Daddy con gonna let Tony have the perse shrinks for aaw If you lose the TV deal, do you go back to like what happened with TNA and Impact Wrestling, where you're just languishing in the forest of forgotten streaming partners, hoping to find a solid home at some point. So that's where my worry comes in. Is more like just finding a direction and running that race and not trying to run eight races at one time. Just run your race, stay in your lane, and do whatever you think you do best, do it better than everybody else, and do it better than your competition, because then your competition will elevate their game and then you got to elevate your game again to keep up.

16:40 So for twenty twenty four, it's it's basically it's kind of just, you know, fork in the road, figure out which path you're gonna take. For if you're AAW I just want to clarify that when he said Daddy Khan, he meant Daddy Kha and not Daddy con which is a completely different thing that I know. I'm sure it is, you know what, It has to exist somewhere in this strange, strange world that we live. So there is the All Elite Wrestling preview for twenty twenty four Doctor Trey. What about all of the wrestling, TNA, wrestling, indie wrestling. How do we look at the world of professional wrestling outside of the WA and AW bubble for twenty twenty four. Well, I'm gonna skip T and A just for a second and kind of focus on the MLWS, the GCWS, the rest of your volvers of the world, like your your double A you know, Triple A type organizations. For them, I think they can have a really good year. We talked about a couple of weeks ago. Right now, you're starting to see some of the the WW releases getting you know, TV or getting matches in these promotions, whether it's man Sore and Massey if they're going that way. Uh, They're getting bookings. You're starting to see the mustaf Alis get the book, Eggs, Nick Neemuth aka Dolph Ziggler, Like this is a chance when they have these big releases. If you can capitalize that, you can grow your audience. You know, you're seeing you know, Kushiitas re signed in TNA. So there's a lot of quality depth out there

18:11 for these promotions to to snatch up and build their programming. Uh, TNA is gonna be interesting because we're rebranding back to TNA this year, so seeing what they do is gonna be very very interesting because some of those people that they've had crossovers with, whether it's the will Osprey's, the Khuzishiko Okadas like those guys are probably gonna be under exclusive deals to whatever company. Well, we know Ospray's stunning is with AW. We don't know what Okata is doing yet, but there's gonna be some people that, uh you can bring in and sign to exclusive deals with TNA, uh that may not have normally been available to you, just because of how much depth there is out there.

18:52 So uh, it's it's a good year for a wrestling promotion if you're trying to build up a brand, even as in the same boat. So there's just depth. It's just fighting the quality pieces that figure programming to accentuate it and make it even better. It's tough to predict like where wrestling is going to go outside of the W and AW bubble. I think the one I am most optimistic and excited for is the relaunch of TNA Wrestling. I'm excited to see how they capitalize on nostalgia because that's only going to last time so long, I think they're gonna have a window where folks are going to be checking out TNA Wrestling because they went back to their name that fans new and love. But they're going to make sure they put out programming. They have a roster, they have matches, they have storylines, they have pay per views that bring people and keep people in that TNA wrestling world moving forward.

19:45 So that first quarter of the year, like maybe January when they relaunched mid January to March April timeframe is going to be very, very crucial and key for them. So I think they really need to maintain their audience and rowe that audience and capitalize on that audience that is coming to check out TENA Wrestling, because I'm someone that may tune into TENA Wrestling in the next couple of weeks just to see how they perform as the returning brand of TNA now no longer Impact Wrestling. For the rest of professional wrestling, I want to find an independent wrestling promotion that is like two thousand and two to two thousand and nine Ring of Honor esque. I want to get that buzz again. I want to see fans excited and clamoring for a match that you can see at Defy Wrestling, Wrestling, Revolver, GCW, what have you. I want to find a wrestling promotion on the independent scene that does some really really good wrestling, like the Ring of Honor days. I don't know if we'll see it anymore in twenty twenty four. We talked about this a couple of weeks ago. When it comes to independent wrestling, it just kind of feels like it's not what it used to be from ten years ago. And a lot of that has to do with AW coming up as a big time second promotion and rig and Vonnor being bought by them. They're signing up talent, and you don't could see talent perform on the INND scene for like two three four years, and you know people telling you, hey, have you checked out the Samoa Joe Matchia, have you checked out Nigel McGuinness, Brian Daniels and Kevin Stein. I missed those days of professional wrestling. There's few and far

21:19 between, and then once you kind of find those people, they end up in AAW or sometimes they get signed by WE. So I really hope in twenty twenty four this isn't really much of a preview for indie wrestling. It's more of a hope for indie wrestling in twenty twenty four as we find the rest of promotion that is underground and wrestling fans are checking out and their matches are phenomenal, and you know you're checking them out on YouTube, Twitter, what have you. So that is our wrestling preview for all other wrestling not named w W, WE and AAW now looking at some stories to watch Doctor Trey heading into this year. I've got about three stories that I'm keeping an eye on this year that I think could define twenty twenty four in a major way. The first being will twenty twenty four be the year of free agents?

22:08 Reportedly because it's Gokata, MJF, Seth Rollins, Drew mctarre, Becky Lynching, Kevin Owens or reportedly supposed to be all free agents. It's possible by this time this podcast drops that one or multiple of those wrestlers could be signed. As W is right now going on a little bit of a signing spree. Is they just resigned Dominic and Raymistereo to long term deals. I'm sure W and AW will continue to look to lock down their talents, and if one of those free agents makes it out in the open to WAW wherever, that the competition is going to look to snatch them up. I'm optimistic that we see a lot of people switching. I think there will probably be a big W name that goes to AW. I don't think there will be a big AW name that goes to WE, but who knows. Then again, you've got It's go Ocata's name just flowing around there. There's new TV deals on the horizon. Will w RAW go to Warner Brothers Discovery? Will they end up on Amazon Prime? Could they end up on Disney Plus or ESPN? For all we know? What does w RAW do? And then how is that effect AW with their television deals coming up with Warner Brothers Discovery reportedly in twenty twenty four and then along the same vein there of the RAW TV deal. Could w RAW no longer be on Mondays? How does this new TV deal in the fall twenty twenty four shape everything out? SmackDown's going to the USA network, Nxc's going to the CW network. Will NXT remain on Tuesdays? Will SmackDown remain on Fridays? If AW changes home. Will

23:41 they remain on Wednesdays, Friday nights and Saturday nights? What happens with them? And again like where's Raw? I mean Doctor Trey and I talked about it a couple weeks ago, like could they really take Monday night Raw off of Monday Nights. It's a very well big possibility. And I hope that news doesn't drip during the recordings of these podcasts over the next couple of weeks, where during the holiday of a programming schedules we pre record this all that spoils us all. But I'm really intrigued by those three things in twenty twenty four as stories. I'm gonna be watching Doctor Trey. The Year of the free Agents, new TV deals, and potential TV scheduling changes. Yeah, those are all big things that the Year the free Agent thing to me has got me kind of baffled in the says because a lot of these names you listen up, I just you can't see them switching programming. But at the same time, when you look at some of those guys, you're like, well, his best friend works for the other promotion, or you know there's significant others over the other promotion, or things like that like, in that's way somebody's choice. So that's gonna be big for me. Right now, I'm looking at what does see him punk means a WW in twenty twenty four, Like he's arguably the biggest sighting that they've had in quite some time, outside of maybe Cody Rhodes. But it's also the one that nobig expected.

25:00 Will this be a solid because it was a multi year contract? Is this something that you know, in six months we're sitting here going, Dear God, why they do this because he's imploding? Or is he a model citizen and towed the company line and you know, put out great matches and great promos and they're just reaping the benefits of it. So that's that's a big thing for me. Aw's financial state is a big story for me to watch. You know, the reports came out right before the end of the year that they had lost roughly about thirty two million dollars. If you're running a company and you're losing thirty million dollars a year, how long could you stay afloat and be viable before you have to start cutting, you know, cutting people. And if that, if that happens, how many those guys.

25:45 You know, we talk about the twenty twenty four contracts that are coming open that we know, but if AW hasn't cut ten guys, how many those guys jump back to WWE and bolster their roster even more? And then finally, for me, it's who's gonna break out this year? Like and that don't just mean like have a really great year, Like we talked about the War Show, Dominic mysterio, the swerve strict was not just that, but who's going to take that next step and go from being mainstream wrestling to being mainstream pop culture? I think that's the one thing wrestling's really lacked. Uh, you know since johns any kind of winded things down, But even before that, it was you know, Rock and Austin and then Hogan and Flair, Like, who's gonna be that guy? Because when you look at the depth across the state of wrestling, there has to be somebody that's gonna transcend the sport and just take pop culture by the ears and say, hey, look at me, look at me and drive those ratings those revenues up.

26:45 Uh. I don't know how much longer we can go in professional wrestling without having that one guy, that one voice that everybody knows, not just wrestling fans, like I want I want my grandma to know who some of these people are. I want her like, I've heard of this guy, heard of that guy? What's he about? I missed that? I think professional wrestling really really needs that, and I think that this might be the one year in quite a while that somebody really breaks out. So there you go. There are some stories that we'll be watching and looking out for as we enter and start kicking things off here. Slowly but surely. We're just a couple of days in in twenty twenty four, we'll see how this all progresses this upcoming year. It's a really really interesting start to twenty twenty four, and this is a very intriguing year because there's so much stuff riding on it, whether it be free agency, TV deals, consistency and programming. It's a really, really big big year. Does a company break out into pop culture? Does a professional wrestler break out in pop culture? Twenty twenty four has at least the prospect, Doctor Trey of being a really potentially big year for professional wrestling as a whole. Yeah, And honestly, it's some thing I always appreciated to my kids and the people that work with me. Like life is nothing but patterns and cycles, and when you can start to see it, it makes things easier. And every time we've had big booms and professional wrestling, it's usually because there's frustration with the economy and with culture as

28:17 a whole. You know, whether it was the early eighties, whether it was the late nineties, and you kind of feel that way now there's a lot of the same vibe and the same tension in the world that was going on in those times. This this that's when people turn to wrestling because we can't physically go out and punch people because we get arrested for that. But if we can watch other people do it and say the things that we always wanted to say and act the way that we always wanted to act, that's when people really really break out and kind of grab the country by the throats. I think that we're trending in that way now. That's why I really think that this is the year something could really break out and you know, kind of polarize the nation, so to speak. That's really interesting point that you made there, because this is like the way things are right now because you and I both lived it is very reminiscent of the social climate heading into that mid to late nineties of professional wrestling, and it just it's it's crazy how time can be a flat circle, because it does feel that way from a societal standpoint, and also as a professional wrestling fan of being like this is I feel like all around me there's something special going on. And then on the outside world, the world that we get away from in professional wrestling, it's very reminiscent of individualism and we're not going to take it type attitudes it can go on and stuff that we saw there in the mid to late nineties. So really that's a phenomenal point, doctor Treys, as we look

29:48 at professional wrestling in twenty twenty four, where things can go from here for society and wrestling fans as a whole. So there you go stories that we will be watching in twenty twenty four when it comes to the world of professional wrestling. Now, Doctor Trey, it is time to get ready for our five Bowl predictions for twenty twenty four and our wrestlm Any forty card predictions. Are you ready for this? Are you nervous? Are you scared? Are you excited? How do you feel before we get into it? So it was funny like a couple weeks ago, like Jeff brings us all the time that I hate this show because I have to listen back to it, and I really hate my voice and I have sinus congestion really bad, so I think my voice like I hear it echoing in my head, which makes this even worse. Plus, we have had almost zero success with Boll predictions for the last two years, so like we were literally counting quarter points at half points just to give ourselves some credits so we don't get zeros. So absolutely nervous and terrified, but it's going to be fun because I always love hearing what you come up with. I don't know if you think the same way about me, but this is actually one of my favorite things we do as far as just fantasy book creative, just weird crap that Jeff and I come up with for a Bold predictions. Oh yeah, I love doing this because it's is there stuff that like on the probability of actually happening as a prediction, is it really high, is it in the middle, is it really low? Like how crazy did we get how Okay, I could see that

31:18 happening, did we get It's a really fun thing that we do here. We recapped our bold predictions from the first show last year two weeks ago, and Doctor Trey, we gave the victory too in that one when it came to all encompassing bold predictions and WrestleMania thirty nine card predictions. We will have to see how this sounds when we replay this clip on December nineteenth of this year, the second last to last show of the year and recap our bold predictions and Wrestlminga have forty card predictions on that edition of the podcast. But right now, we're living in the moment, Doctor Trey. This clip is now playing during the first show of the year and the second to last show of the year, and it's time to get to it, my friend.

32:02 Shall we begin with each of us going through our bull predictions one through five? Are we gonna do you want to go back and forth or we're just gonna go straight through? I think what we've been going straight through the last couple of years, and I think, why don't we do it again? You want me to go first? Or do you want to go first? My first I'm good. I got all my stuff here, so I'll start first. My first Bull prediction is the one non entering storyline Bowl predictions, So my first one is that the newly minted TKO Endeavor operation buys TNA Wrestling and decides to operate as another traveling developmental brand, similar to what AW did with Ring of Honor. I can see Endeavor doing the same thing with TNA and just basically one upping the Tony Conn approach and leaving you know, Scott de Moore in charge of running the day to day operations, but another avenue for ww to kind of get some extra revenue coming in extra TV deal already in place, and heck, end Never just announced not too long ago, or it was announced that they're gonna start streaming TNA Wrestling through the Endever platform, so it kind of makes sense on that level as well. My number two Bowl prediction is everybody's favorite wrestler right now yours and mine included. Swerve Strickland wins the AW Heavyweight Championship and the Prince Not on Dance will take over social media. It is one of the most entertaining duos we've seen in quite a while. Swerve is on. It is approaching another level. I think

33:37 he keeps making that progression. And as much as I really don't want other managers to be successful out of just spite and biases, Prince not really is entertaining what that dance he does coming out. Uh. My number three bowl prediction is that Adam Copeland turns heel and reunites with Christian Cage to battle FTR for the newly minted US Anadian Maple Leaf Brown Sugar, throw in one other other title thing you want to tag team titles in AAW. I mean, we have a surplus of belts available in AW. But I do think Edge and Christian reunited at some point. In as much as I love cheering for them, I think Christian Cage has been phenomenal as a heel. Adam Copeland hasn't played the heeling quite some time, so I think those two guys getting back together, reuniting E n C under the C and C Moniker to take on FTR would be highly, highly enjoyable. My number four ball prediction is that the Guns signed with WWE and sided with Grayson Waller and Austin Theory to form Degeneration NXT or Degeneration next, however you want to phrase it, it'd be some kind of cool thing there. But the Guns are arguably one of the most entertaining duos on television right now, along with the other members of Bullet Club Gold. I think those guys are perfect caddes for ww just like we saw with Brian Pilman Junior recently. Just a young talent that they could bring in mold as shape and their charisma level is off the chart. So

35:08 I can see them being paired with Waller and Theory, who are kind of like a young Seawn Michaels and Triple H in their attitudes and basically reforming or forming some version of Degeneration next. And finally, my last bull prediction is kind of based on our award show so to speak, that Dominic Mysterial will win Money in the Bank and cash in on Damian Priest, who cashed in earlier on the show at Money in Bank to win the WWE Heavyweight Championship. So I at this point, now we're getting close to WrestleMania season, Damian Priest still has not cashed in. It doesn't look like he's gotten an opportunity to do so. I can see him cashing in literally almost at the one year mark, and then Dominic cashes in or wins money in the bank and then cashes in on Damian Priest the same night. So those are my five bold predictions. Oh, that's really good man. It's funny because at least two of them are very similar in a way, or at least there's a mention to mine. So beginning with my first Bowl prediction, I have Swerve Strickland dethroning MJF and becoming the AW World Champion. Hopefully that means MGF retained at world's end or this bold prediction is already shot by the time this show airs. So both Doctor Trey and I having Swerve Strickland becoming AW World Champion in twenty twenty four with our bold predictions. My number two is that Kazachka Okada signs with WU and takes on shins Key Knackamore at WrestleMania forty. My

36:43 number three is that CM Punk becomes the next Era or the next wave of Raw or SmackDown performer to go to NXT where he becomes the NXT champion, helps build up Elia Dragonoff to eventually dethroned cm Punk and become NXC champion again. My number four, similar to one of Doctor Trey's, is that Damian Priest turns baby face when the Judgment Day turns on him, eventually cashing in in his money in the bank briefcase and becoming the WA World. They have a weight champion. So Doctor Trey and I have at some point, somehow, some way, Damian Priest cashes in and becomes a WAE World. They have Awight Champion. And then my last bold predictions is that Mercedes Money signs with TNA Wrestling and feuds with Trinity. There's some reports out there right now that her stuff is with aw has quieted down and has no more to talk about Creative. Everybody's pointing Towe for her to make a return, maybe the Royal Rumble in a couple of weeks. I'm saying she signs with TNA.

37:43 Scott de Moore said that they have a major surprise signing for TNA Wrestling, and I think that's going to be Mercedes Mona. So Doctor Trey, there are five bold predictions, funny enough mentions to swerve of Strickland, mentions of Damian Priests, and at least both of ours. Yeah. By the way, if if Swerve does the thrown MJF, I want a video of Jeff Peck thing the Prince. Not a dance, I can say it. I can do it. It's not a hard it's not so much to back and forth. It's more the last so the last so part is what I want to see. Fair enough. I'm really good with the arms bobbing back and forth. I'm actually doing it right now. If you can hear me doing it, if you hear cracking, that's my shoulders. That's literally how I dance at most wrestling shows. Wait like I'm man like if somebody's somebody always has music playing. At one a Rocket City shows where I started dancing and then I realized, oh crap, I'm dancing and people can see me.

38:31 I immediately stop, So that does happen. I By the way, I love the Okada one because as I was doing my wrestle media card, I had a hard time finding Sammy for Shinsk to wrestle, so that works out perfectly. I really really like that as well. So, Uh, no, solid job on your prediction. We didn't go I don't think we went too crazy like nothing is completely out of the rebel possibility, but they are legitimly bold predictions because they are stretches of the imagination true. And there's also the part of those are the things that we want to see in twenty twenty four somehow, some way, all right, WRESTLEMANNI forty card predictions, Doctor Trey, you went first with bowl predictions. I will go first with WRESTLEMANI forty card predictions. My first match is the is that Roman Reigns defends the WA Universal Championship against Cody Rhodes, who earns that right by winning the elimination Chamber in Perth, Australia. My second match is Seth Freak and Ronalds defending the w World of aweight Championship against CM Punk, who wins the Royal Rumble.

39:37 My third match is gun Ther defending the Intercontinental Championship against Brock Lesner. My fourth match is Logan Paul defending the United States Championship against Kevin Owens. My fifth match is for the Women's World Heavyweight Championship as Reid Ripley defends against Becky Lynch, who wins an elimination chamber match to become the number one contender. My number six man is EO Sky versus Bailey, who wins the Royal Rumble for the WA Women's Championship. Seventh match is Finn Balor and Damien Priese defending the undisputed w W Tag Team Championship against The Street Profits and Austin Theory and Grayson Waller in a triple threat match. I have Jay Uso versus Jimmy Uso. I have Sammy Zain versus Drew McIntyre. I have Shinsky Knackamoor versus Kazuko o'cada. As I mentioned my bold predictions. My eleventh match is Bianca bel Air and Shatzi defending the WA Women's Tag Team Championship against Oscar and Kyrie Saint also known as the Kabuki Warriors. My twelfth match is Ray Mystereo, Dragon Lee and Bad Bunny taken on Santos Escobar, Dominic Mysterio and j D McDonough. I have Randy Orton taken on Solo Soakoa, Bobby Lashley taken on La Night, Alpha Academy versus Diy versus the Creed Brothers versus Imperium in a men's WrestleMania Showcase Fatal four way tag team match and in a Women's WrestleMania Showcase Fatal four way tag time team match. I have. So we started kin China Basler taking on Italian Teak and Knocked taking on Cancellrraine in the Hartwell taking on Katana Chance and Kyden Carter. I have sixteen matches. That is my

41:10 Wrestlmania forty card prediction, Doctor Trey Hell. So, I think we're about the same number of matches here. I just I was just making sure that we're we're kind of here. So, oh, there's quite a few on your card that are similar to mine, but then we also have quite a few differences as well. So, uh so my wrestle Media card I have. Yeah. So, so apparently Sammy was not happy with my wrestling. I think Sammy just saw my wrestle Media card and decided it was horrible. I can't believe you kept Nyah Jack's off the card. It's literally what it is right now. Yeah, yeah, it's right behind you, dude.

41:54 Okay, So my wrestle Media card, I have a Robot Ray's defending the just beated the championship against Cody Rhodes, who also I have basically somehow some way getting in through the elimination chamber. I have Seth Frick and Rawlins defending the ww Heavyweight Championship against them Punk, who wins the Rumble, just because I think that's a great storytelling concerning that that's when Punk left was after the Rumble ten years ago. He then returns and now wins it. For the United States Championship, I have Logan Paul defending against l A. Knight for the see. I also oh the women's tag team titles. I have Chelsea Green and Piper Nivin against the Kabukie Warriors versus Alba Fire and Eila Dawn versus Natalia and Teagan Knox. I have A j Styles versus Randy Orton. I have finn baller Damian Priest defending the tag team titles against d I Y for the well I don't know the Women's Championship on raw, I have ma Rea Ripley defending against Becky Lynch. On the SmackDown side, I have EO Sky defending against Bailey, who also wins the Rumble. I also have Jade Cargill make it entering debut at WrestleMania versus Bianca bel Air, Drew McIntyre versus Sammy Zain, Kevin Owens versus Bobby Lashley, John Cena makes his return to Battle Solo Socoa. I also have Gunther versus Brock Lezard for the Inner Condaial title, UH, Bobby Lashie versus Seamus hits Knock and mervs. The miz Uh.

43:21 I have a tag team gauntlet match which at the New Day UH pretty deadly the Viking, the Viking Raiders, the Creeds, alph Academy and Imperium. And then I have raymis Stereo and the rest of the l w O versus Antos Escobar, Hulberto Korea and Angel Garza. I like it. I like it, Doctor Trey My. The person I had the hardest to predict their match was actually l A and I I nearly forgot him on my card. Who was yours mine was finding an opponent for Gunther like I wanted to do Brock like I I just don't see that being for the Inner Connial title, So I kept try to figure out a way to put the belt on somebody else first, like brought causes somebody to beat Gunther. So that was what and then yeah, it was the La Knight Kevin Owens, like who goes with who? And I just think they're going to do Kevin Owens a Logan Paul at Rubble and then La Knight and Logan Paul at WrestleMania. So that's kind of my thought process anyway. Yeah, no, it makes sense.

44:22 It makes sense. So there you go. There is our five bold predictions and our wrestlemating forty card predictions. We will reopen the vault on December nineteenth, twenty twenty four, and we will see how Doctor Trey and I did. So hopefully when we go back in time and listen back to these predictions and these match predictions, doctor Trey and I look like geniuses. If not, we will continue to laugh at ourselves. So there is our twenty twenty four five bold predictions and our wrestuming forty card predictions here on the first show of twenty and twenty four. And now, Doctor Trey, I guess it's time to close up shop on this week's edition of SRT or the first show of twenty twenty four. So with that said, let's get a couple plugs and sponsors out of the way. You can down the show every Thursday or Friday at Real Guy Radio dot com, Russell chat neet on X and the still Route the show iTunes feed. Don't fig to rate, review and subscribe to help us cimb charts on iTunes. You could follows individual on X for myself at SRTU Jeff, and for Doctor Trey Franklin at The Doctor Trey and of course don't forget to follow a show on X at SRTU podcast.

45:31 With that being said, what is going on in the one for world of dot Trey Franklin this week? Well, first off, I'm disappointed in Jeff because I thought I would at least get a chuckle out of the aw United States Canadian brown sugar maple leaf to height team titles. I did. I loved it, to be honest with you, but we're such a we're rocking and rolling through there. I did love it, and I'm like, how the hell am I going to type this out later? Like do we do this as an acronym? I like the brown sugar thing that you added to that sugar? Yeah. So anyway, but like Jeff said, for all those jokes and funny, witty comments, you can follow me on X at the Doctor Trey. You can find me on Instagram and Facebook, where you can see pictures of me and Sammy Franklin, who had to chime in and tell me how horrible my bull predictions were this year and my Wrestle Media card because there was no Naya Jackson mentioned on my Wrestle Media card, so he's very upset about that. But when you're on Facebook, be sure to check out Rocket City Championship Wrestling and Spartan Championship Wrestling, the two shows I work with here in the state of Alabama. As we are just two days away from the Rocket City Rumble from when the show comes out. We'll have almost, if not over forty competitors in the Rocket City Rumble this year, which makes it the biggest rumble in the area. Usually we pack out the Billy around four hundred five hundred people the building for that show, So be sure check out Facebook dot com the Rocket Seat Championship Wrestling for all the pictures and videos for those shows, plus all the past shows are up there too, and you can hear my lovely commentary and all my witty jokes on there as well. There you go support all the great things at Support SRTU believe me, I was laughing. I'm my mic off because I want to keep the

47:02 audio pretty clean from when we go back and listen to it, and I'm like just thinking to myself again, like how am I going to type this out later? So that's why after every one of these, once Doc Tran and I do this podcast, we always sit down. I'm like, all right, so tell me your bold predictions again, so I type it all out. WRESTLEMANI forty and we'll have to add the new aw championship that Tony Kahn will certainly introduce a secondary tag team title, because why the fuck not at this point, I mean everything, you get a title, you get a title, you get a title again. Lots of fun Doctor Trey previewing the World of Professional Wrestling for twenty twenty four. The holiday programming schedule is in the books. This is my favorite stuff that we do all year outside of WrestleMania previews, Thanksgiving specials, what have you. Halfway point of the year when we look at our award show categories, I really like spending these last three weeks where Dot Train and I get to stick it like a step back, sit and relax recap twenty twenty three, look at the highs of professional wrestling in twenty twenty three, and then just throw stuff againt the wall for twenty twenty four and just kind of fantasy book a little bit and see where you know things may go for twenty twenty four. It's it's an exciting time professional wrestling. It has the opportunity to be another big year. I thought we had a very big year in twenty twenty three, so this is really exciting times. And I appreciate everybody for joining us these last couple of weeks here during the holiday programming schedule, and now we get back to it

48:32 to the regular programming schedule. On next week's edition of SRTU, Doctor Tray for January the eleventh, Doctor Trey and I get you ready for the Royal Rumble twenty twenty four. That will be about two weeks away. It's three weeks away from today, in about two weeks time, Doctor or three weeks time, Doctor Try and I will be preview and predicting it and getting you ready for the Royal Rumble. But it's Royal Rumble season and then before you know it, it will be Wrestle Mayia forty season, which is absolutely mind blowing. Again, thank you to everybody for downloading the show. I hope everybody had a great New Year. It's a great holiday, a great couple of weeks listening to holiday programming schedule. Once again, thank you all for all your support and everything that you do each and every week by downloading SRTU, it means the world to us. So until next week for Young Sammy Franklin who's upset and I Jacks won't be at Russell Mainty forty For doctor Trey Franklin. I'm Jeff Peck. This is the story, real good show.