Bron Breakker OUT of WrestleMania 42?! WWE Facing Internal Backlash | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #835 – 2/12/26

0:00 It's still real to be damaged! [Music] Wooo! Welcome everybody! Welcome to this week's This and This, this is the real-est show episode where 835 from Premier League's bulk, 2026. Welcome to this week's edition of SRTU. I am one half the show. I am Jeff Packley joined every single week with my coach along with Dr. Craig Franklin. Dr. Trey, you said it before the show we are 105 years old as a show in dog years. My friend.

0:42 Yeah, I'm pretty sure that qualifies us for podcast AARP. I mean in theory like you and I could just say screw we're retiring tomorrow because we got 105 years and we could leave our gloves in the ring, leave our boots in the ring and just walk away. We had 105 year run man. I mean in dog years which even in human years, 15 years, like I think we've said many times, we've outlasted like so many celebrity marriages. It's unreal. Yeah, no it actually it's funny enough. I mean next week will be the 60th anniversary of the still-real-est show. debuted February 20th 2010 and here we are February 12th, 2026 still going.

1:26 I mean still talk about professional wrestling and yeah, I probably wouldn't ever guest 60 almost 16 years ago Dr. Trey that I'd still be doing this podcast and B, there would be enough professional wrestling for nearly every single day of the week. Yeah, it's also like there is a little bit of like you and I by nature are both people, pleasers and I don't think either what I think we both have these internal conversations with ourselves are like how much longer we want to go but the flip side of that is you and I are such you know good friends that we also don't want to let the other person down so we just kind of keep doing it no matter what but yeah, I mean the fact that like you know almost 16 years ago we had professional wrestling two nights a week you know and that was it and now we're running six days a week and usually on the seventh day God does it even rest because we might get an AEW paper you the last six and a half hours.

2:21 Yeah, it's it's insane. It's insane. A lot has changed. We'll look back at 16 years of SRT you in next week's edition of the show as we celebrate. We did mention at the start of the show Dr. Trey we figure we're about 105 years old as a podcast in dog ears and we got some unfortunate news this week Dr. Trey as the dog face Gremlin's son, Braun Breaker could be missing WrestleMania 42 according to reports Braun Breaker was hurt during last Monday's Raw when he flipped the table over obviously on WWE Raw they said that it was during training nobody could actually pinpoint exactly he is getting surgery for a hernia and it's not like your normal hernia where it's like three months like this is a pretty severe surgery he received and I think like typical turnaround is about six months and there's currently no timetable for his return at the moment obviously with the way the WWE is going nowadays with unreal airing on Netflix I don't leave out the realm of possibility that in a month's time we could be sitting here and going well thank God Braun Breaker's back but as fans of Braun Breaker as people that have admired Braun Breaker's work since his career started on NXT 2.0 on television he is someone that you could easily earmark as one of the next big stars in WWE we you know moving forward for the next part of this decade and he was in line for a pretty prominent role at this year's

3:54 WrestleMania this is a major bummer Dr. Trey I feel bad for the kid I feel bad for the guy hopefully he is back sooner rather than later and they are able to get him into a WrestleMania spotlight but here we are Braun Breaker potentially missing WrestleMania 42 your thoughts on the dog face grandma and son I mean the the table strikes again I mean it's crazy that you know in the last I mean really I mean you go back to JD McDonough's injury and now this injury those new tables seem to be causing a few more injuries than the old announced tables did it just sucks for Braun Breaker because like you said it was featured for a prominent role great storyline with the vision you know and we also saw them kind of like I don't know if you say plant the seeds of maybe some dissents with the way that the other members of the vision we're looking at Braun when they were trying to control him a couple weeks ago that appears in the ring you know after the rumble like it was progressing smoothly and for really I and correct me if I'm wrong or Jeff this is kind of his first significant injury since he came to WWE so it's kind of weird that it came from busting up a table of all things it's not an in-ring accident it's not a training accident it was a table accident so it's just so just unfortunate that it happened at this time of

5:25 year in that situation and you're just like man like it's such because like you and I were talking about going back to January in December when we're doing our WrestleMania prediction cars like you and I were like man he could be in there with Roman he could be in there with Brock he could be in there with Seth he could be in there with punk like we you thought that he might be you know WWE World Champion walking into WrestleMania because you kind of thought he might beat punk on that first Netflix so just really unfortunate injury and timing for Braun Breaker but as we've all seen he's a freak athlete so I kind of expect him to bounce back sooner rather than later so there's a layer of this story that I myself have just pieced together and this is pure speculation there's nothing out there that is saying otherwise but late last week after we recorded the podcast I think it was Friday down on radio row at the Super Bowl there was obviously a viral clip going around of Seth Rollins and MJF talking to one another AW World Champion MJF big WWE guy Seth Rollins interacting with one other and there was a lot of pleasantries it appeared based off of how they were talking with one another that it was more than likely the first time they'd ever met I mean obviously these guys aren't like best friends they were very cordial nice complimentary one another and those those shots were captured by people in attendance and if you go back there's something where it looks like

6:55 Rollins and MJF are backstage of this radio row and they're not doing the if you saw the video they're not doing like the stare down where they've got the mean mug and the fist up all that stuff they're just kind of shooting the shit and they're talking about injuries and you can't hear it very well but Seth Rollins says something about there has been a hiccup and I at the time I'm like is this a like I'm trying to listen to it and I must be like the only fool that's trying to listen to it and I can't fully hear who he's talking about and I thought he was talking about himself like oh shit Rollins has some sort of hiccup but now I'm wondering after seeing the story Dr. Trey if Rollins was talking about Braun Breaker it feels like all roads are pointing towards Rollins and Braun Breaker for WrestleMania and make the most storyline sense especially with punk and Roman Reigns not being you know they're their dance partners being with one another that would be like the only other thing it makes me wonder now if Rollins was talking about Braun Breaker to MJF and again this is just my pure speculation but if you go back and you watch that clip he clearly says they're talking about injuries and he mentioned some sort of hiccup here so I wonder if the T-Leaves here Dr. Trey this is just like SRTU exclusive Jeff Peck speculation was in fact Seth Rollins talked about Braun Breaker's injury and the likelihood that they're matched now for WrestleMania could be in

8:26 being jeopardy yeah I mean it makes sense on that level the other thing you know I do a lot of traveling what I'm traveling I listen to a lot of podcasts and I've been listening to a lot of the WWE sponsored podcast whether it's the Stephanie McMahon one or Undertaker or Cody Rose and one thing that came out twice in a matter of a couple of episodes of listen to the podcast was WWE Unreal and you know people asking other guys like Cody asking Undertaker like hey so how do you feel about it how is it exposing the business and we're seeing a lot of this backstage stuff and something Cody said and he said it on three different episodes that he was on was there's a layer of working the work and we talked about it with you know nine months ago and Seth came back from his injury and how he worked the entire everybody because everybody thought he was gonna be out he made this big return it was all a work and you know they show that out of real and that's why sometimes I look at this and going huh are they going deeper than that maybe this is kind of a work and maybe this is not just a work but they're working the work and not everybody knows the actual time table or they actually said the injury and maybe this is a way of broad breaker and Paul Heyman setting up working the work where Seth faked an injury to get his opportunity maybe this is them working the work to present that broad will be

10:02 back in time and then boom now he is back so like they're like and that's one thing about wrestling that I love is like they always kind of keep you guessing like once you think they have you have you once you think you got figured out they kind of change the landscape and change the questions so maybe the hiccup is bronze injury maybe the hiccup was you know Seth maybe not making it and maybe the masked man is somebody else where they're working the work so to speak and then maybe this whole thing is just setting up people like us to buy in that hey we're not getting Seth and Braun and then boom we get Seth and Braun yeah I mean the worst thing in the world is predictability in professional wrestling I prefer unpredictability I don't want to sit here and look like an expert and clearly plan out WWE or AW or TNA whoever's creative because that just does not make watching at home fun unless you're like anticipating something that like you're really really excited about and then they're basically dropping each rakes to get you towards that excitement I prefer to get worked because it's just better for wrestling fans watching home where you're like oh crap man that that was cool but but then again Dr. Trab I think you and I were in the minority who actually loved Seth Ron's not being injured at summer's thing everybody else was like oh you broke our hearts like you broke our trust like they were dating definitely we created which was just bizarre but then again everybody is is different and maybe folks that are watching professional wrestling now for the last 21 22 23 25 years are more used to predictability rather the unpredictable nature professional wrestling that Dr. Trey and I grew up on back in the day where you actually thought it was quote real rather than them

11:34 exposing the business so yeah Braun Breaker potentially missing WrestleMania 42 was a major bummer I'm a fan of his work I enjoy watching him wrestle I enjoy his character I enjoy watching him continue to go upwards everybody is figuring myself included the 2026 is to be a big year for him and he definitely feels like he's on the ashel on upwards of being a top star in WWE very very very soon so for him to have these WrestleMania moments as important as to his career and hopefully we get some clarity on his injury here in the coming weeks and months prior to WrestleMania 42 we'll look at the WrestleMania 42 card roundup our regular weekly segment now up until WrestleMania here in just a little bit Dr. Trey but there is internal criticism right now of triple H Paul LeVec whoever you want to refer to him as now I always call him trawl triple H I find weird people like Paul or Paul LeVec there's internal criticism that triple H has been changing WrestleMania plans due to the attendance advance which kind of lends credence to the ticketing problem that we talked about over the summer we'll we'll get into that part here momentarily but Dave Meltzer reported quote there's been a lot of internal criticism Paul LeVec as far as keeping changing the WrestleMania plans like Vince but they have a plan that they change the plan but they have a plan that then they change the plan and everything's up in the air because of the feeling that the attendance advance is down I'm not getting the vibes as a viewer at home that the

13:07 WrestleMania path has been changing have you and your thoughts on the ticket advance issues for WrestleMania 42 being a factor in changing potential long-term WrestleMania plans right now so I will lean into the ticket advance I first because as somebody who deals with marketing and retail I will say that like even though that there are a lot of economic indicators that point to the economy approving I just go from a standpoint of like hey I deal in the home improvement industry and there aren't a lot of people who are coming out into stores going hey I need to drop four five ten fifteen grand on upgrading my house everybody's being very cautious with money right now so that in turn is also going to affect consumer consumer confidence in buying tickets to WrestleMania like if you feel like making that purchase is going to hurt you and your family knowing that there's going to be a WrestleMania next year and probably won the year after that and probably the one year for that the priority the urgency isn't there to jump on the situation plus it's a repeat venue you and I talked about this when they announced that WrestleMania is coming back to Vegas part of the allure of WrestleMania is going to new locations you've never been to so if I purchase tickets to WrestleMania last year in Vegas why would I need to go back to Vegas again this year to see

14:39 WrestleMania so that is something they're battling I as far as the the WrestleMania card I don't feel like there's been a lot of shifting and if it has it's been very very subtle I do think that maybe it's not as closed at this point as we maybe have seen in years past there have been years you and I have been saying here and been like we're a month out we only know two matches it feels like we're trending towards a few matches kind of being announced we kind of feel it going there there is though a lot of uncertainty in the middle but it hasn't felt like hey we're really leaning into this Carmelo feud with so and so oh crap knee jerk now Carmelo's going to fight Ilya like it hasn't been dramatic shifts I think it's it's very subtle and it's leaving a lot of open ended possibilities for the direction heading into WrestleMania let me look at the card first the only official match is CM Punk versus Roman Reigns and that to me is a wrestling dream match when I've been thinking a lot about over the last ten days since they announced that match it's like this is actually pretty exciting this is this is this has a WrestleMania main event feel to it and even the two guys were in the ring with one other the year prior this feels fresh and new and something that I've always wanted to see in the ring so that has me excited that has a WrestleMania feel to it the rest of the card is a little bit clouded right now because when you look at even live Morgan's direction and

16:12 I'm huge fan huge fans of live Morgan and the current women's champions of Jade Cargill and Stephanie Valkor the vibe that I have right now is that it's going to be Stephanie Valkor versus live Morgan and WrestleMania that in itself doesn't have me like totally excited yet I'm not like oh this is a dream match that would just be something where I'm like I'm really happy for both these women getting the opportunity to showcase in a world championship match at WrestleMania doesn't have that same Punk and Reigns feel to it so there is still room for the WrestleMania card to certainly improve but what is factual about both Dr. Tray and myself is that we are two people that are not going to be traveling to Las Vegas Nevada to go watch WrestleMania live we'll be sitting down on our couches with our families watching on ESPN in the comfort of our own homes we're not going to be dealing with it and going out there we mentioned over the summer when prices started to increase and we started seeing attendance dwindle for the TV shows that there is a ticket advance problem I think you hit the nail on the head Dr. Tray by saying go into the same place twice unless you're like this absolute die hard you maybe you know exhausted with going back to Las Vegas again you were looking forward to going to another location which was rumored to be New Orleans I mean that's what the rock announced and the unfortunate thing is that the year following I can't imagine many Americans or folks all in the UK Europe or ever are going to be

17:44 traveling to Saudi Arabia for this show obviously there will be the fair share that goes but I think it would be a fraction of what you normally would get would it be on us North American or even if they decided to bring over to European soil it's going to be filled with a lot of locals and folks in Saudi Arabia they're going to be enjoying WrestleMania so in essence if you're someone who likes going to WrestleMania and you're exhausted and you're tired and you don't want to go back to to Las Vegas again the next opportunity you have to see a WrestleMania in the United States or North America wherever is in 2028 which is a bummer but in the same sense the way that things are going with tickets and how much they cost maybe I'd rather save my money right now for for a location that would rather go to do I want to see pumpkin rains absolutely do I want to see them live kind of depends again and maybe I'm comfortable have a WrestleMania party at my house with friends and family and watch it that way so the attendance the ticketing pricing there is a major problem with it they are is super expensive I am a someone who is is a middle person in the United States I'm not upper class I'm not lower class I'm middle class and I look at those ticket prices and I cannot justify going to a show right now it's it's not something that I could take my family to that they're they're not putting on shows that will twist my arm even to go check them out I'm not even looking at pricing anymore doctor try and we talked about it

19:18 last year I mean I just kind of like took a look at the Las Vegas show from for WrestleMania 41 last year and what was funny is the tickets ticket price that I paid for for WrestleMania 29 in New Jersey would have not even gotten me into the last row of WrestleMania 41 last year and yeah I get it inflation economy changes what have you but that is so utterly disappointing if you told me that maybe it's the next level or even the the the highest level then I'd be able to be like okay you know I get it your normal ticket pricing and going up but the fact that it wasn't even on the radar for for something is just bizarre so yeah um to be as a ticket problem I don't know how it will be addressed maybe WrestleMania is the the the use case that the company will use but if people continue to go to these shows and they continue to sell out if we start seeing you know from a elimination chamber onwards when WWE is like this is our you know 12th straight television sell out heading to WrestleMania then yeah nothing's gonna change they're actually gonna keep going up and more people be priced out it's it's eventually going to become a problem for WWE again doctor try no matter how good or even bad their programming is it's just not justifiable so I'm not seeing anything yet on television of criticism that I could have for the WrestleMania card but obviously this is stuff that is affecting more behind the scenes than anything else yeah and I know we get into our

20:49 WrestleMania card there's a couple of questions I got for you know but for like you said like even like the Super Bowl like you and I can't afford to go to a Super Bowl like as much as we you and I both I mean if the packers are in the Niers and yeah you and I are gonna be searching every damn website there is to try to find just an entry level seat for us to get into but those are you know those are teams that we followed our entire lives as much as I love CM Punk and as much as I love you know the idea of him and Roman going at it for one if I could get a ticket it'd be just for me I couldn't bring the whole family and then also then trying to look my wife and the face me like hey I'm going to Vegas for WrestleMania by myself that itself is a really hard sell to pull off also yeah absolutely that is not a very easy sell for to the family whatsoever so there you got some internal criticisms going on we'll see if it kind of bleeds down on WWE television we're not really noticing it right now but but time will tell if it makes its way to the viewers eye with that said speaking of WrestleMania 42 Dr. Trey let's look at the WrestleMania 42 card roundup for this week February 12th still official obviously CM Punk versus Roman Reigns I talked about you know the segment from Monday's Raw we at 70 VaKor and live Morgan inch closer to what I believe that match will be not a lot of interaction on Friday Smackdown that made me think otherwise they had the the tag team match of Raquel and live taking on Jay to Cargill and Jordan Grace I still feel like

22:24 this is going to be VaKor versus live Morgan and WrestleMania Dr. Trey yeah I do too by the way we mentioned Punk and Reigns is official but technically not official because Punk and Valor are going at it on Raw good point yep good point in an elimination chamber Brothers here in a Valor wins that we get Valor and Roman is that can Roman then change his mind if Valor wins they haven't addressed that yet but it's still technically kind of up in the air but I know really what it was they just want to punk on the card in Chicago more than anything else with the live Stephanie match and you mentioned this earlier like yeah it's cool we love Stephanie VaKor we we unite love live Morgan doesn't doesn't have the star power to be the main event women's match or will it possibly be overshadowed by Becky and AJ and that's a weird question for me to ask that like is the tag team division and the Intercontinental division may be better stacked than the women's the the women's division on Raw when you have Reign EO on as tag champs and you got Becky and AJ for their title does the Raw Women's Championship become third in that list of title matches it's interesting right the women's the women's title or the women's matches are are a little bit in flux here so yeah should we let's let's get into this kind of bleed to the next thing right so there's

23:54 nothing that's expected at the moment but if we looked at some of the rumored slash what we are thinking right so we mentioned just ticket to women the women's side of things right now so Reign EO versus the Bella Twint is something that we were thinking on last week's show Becky Lynch versus AJ Lee even though it's happening elimination chamber reports are saying that that is still going they're still a plan for this to take place at WrestleMania as well you mentioned Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss out there we're seeing Nadi get some shine on Monday Night Raw which is awesome as well talking about the elimination chamber we just have Rio Ripley and Tiffany Stratton in that match right now we have four other positions is there any other as you kind of piece around Dr. Trey the women's side of things for WrestleMania is there anything that I'm missing or anything that you would say I think it may have changed over the last week yeah just I mean the Smackdown side is kind of up in the air because and we right now we're doing Jade and Jordan Grace but you know we got Tiffany back in the picture we don't know what's up with Bianca Belair because you and I both expected her back at the rumble does she show up in a elimination chamber to lead to Bianca and Jade there's rumors of the Charlotte Alexa split being at WrestleMania and just in theory if you do let's just say hypothetically you got Rio versus the Bellatwins that to me on papers probably more of a high profile match than Liv and Stephanie Becky and AJ probably more high profile match than Liv and Stephanie Charlotte

25:28 and Alexa one-on-one probably a little bit higher than Liv and Stephanie and then would Bianca and Jade Card you'll be higher priority than Liv and Stephanie as well I mean it kind of feels like your Royal Rumble winner is getting overshadowed by potentially four other matches on the card that just seems weird to me it is weird but I mean we've seen that in the past right I mean how many times I mean would you say last year with the men right J. U. So defeating Gunther I mean that was overshadowed by a lot right yeah it's just it's a weird way of kind of putting your WrestleMania card together because to me like it's always been like hey who are top four people in each division and we're gonna split them and then that's gonna be the matches that lead into WrestleMania like who are my top four guys great we got punk Roman Cody and Drew there's two matches you know if we want to throw somebody else in there to kind of boost them up that's great but that's to me always kind of been like the booking mechanism for WrestleMania and it kind of feels like the last two years at least with certain Royal Rumble winners like yeah he's overheat they won the Rumble but their match is not at the top of the card maybe like in years past with other Rumble winners I think the issue is and they've been doing this for a really long time probably since as long as we would do in the show for the most part I think it's been kind of there's been times where it's changed is the Rumble gets done and you and I grew up in an air where the Rumble was the most important thing heading to WrestleMania like

27:02 that was the ticket to WrestleMania in the main event match the main event match now there's two nights with the elimination for the month prior they have to act very quickly to be like all right here's the Rumble winner excitement they're gonna pick who it is either the night after or you know a couple weeks after like with Liv Morgan and then they go on to focus on elimination which kind of overshadows the Royal Rumble victory I think that there's a case to be made at times where if you want to shine back on the Rumble winner would you move the elimination chamber but I also think the opposite argument there is we now live in a generation where we've seen this for a pretty long time where the Rumble winner isn't the focal point as much as they used to be at WrestleMania and I think you could point to J.U. so you could point to potentially live Morgan for this upcoming year you know the year that Charlotte challenged Rio Ripley who is the NXT women's champion at the time is another one that I thought was it was from a booking standpoint like it got me excited because now as we see the trajectory of Rio Ripley like that was a huge deal for her but they've they've never mentioned that again they've never mentioned like you could challenge for an NXT Championship at WrestleMania was that one time 2020 WrestleMania it just feels like the Rumble is special with fans but creatively the Rumble is just as equal now to elimination chamber as it is to

28:35 money in the bank as it is to King of the Ring Rumble used to be the thing for the longest time and I think it's hard probably for long time fans like you and I not to see it that way anymore yeah by the way does live have to announce who she's challenging before the women's elimination chamber match no I mean they've never said anything I mean that would to me that makes sense right yeah there should be a deadline yeah you got to know who like if I win the chamber do I get the first pick if live has not made her first pick or am I just the the do I get the consolation prize whoever she doesn't pick that's who you get pal like it's just you know like used to be it was like yeah within the first week or so yeah they are announcing who it is and now we're kind of drawing it out a little bit it like who is live going to pick but if she draws it out too long it's kind of like you know if somebody wins money in the bank and they you know they haven't challenged yet we get to the Rumble is like what we saw that you know it gave me a priest a little bit but it's like it's just like you and I we still apply logic to wrestling and times it's kind of like yeah there's no logic in wrestling they're really it is kind of just we win it as we go no no no yeah they just win as they go so yeah the women's picture a little bit cloudy right now and maybe that's what people were saying internally from WWE had in a WrestleMania we'll see where really important people in the women's division because women's division is absolutely stacked in WWE and how this

30:07 all shakes out for WrestleMania I mean the way that they are booked and the way that they're performing and the way that people are engaged with them as fans like you could literally sit here and say that if WWE wanted to do a seven or eight match card filled with women for night one or two for WrestleMania I could be like that makes a ton of sense and basically do like WrestleMania evolution because the women's division is red hot their storylines are really good and everybody is bringing them right now it's like the most stacked women's division potentially ever in all of wrestling I mean top down it is just filled with legends rising stars current top stars and people who are on their way upwards in WWE and professional wrestling as a whole looking at the rest of the rumors slash what are we what we are thinking dr. Trey we mentioned on last week Brock Lesnar and Oba Femme there's no real news to that right now Bronn Breaker versus the mask man slash to the vision turn on him we talked about Bronn at the top of the show maybe the Bronn Breaker spot if he's unable to wrestle is given a Bronson Reed Bronson Reed kind of suddenly said basically that he's going to be handling Adam Peterson moving forward which makes you wonder if if he's going to be getting a Bronn Breaker spot Drew Cody Jacob for the unspeaked WWE championship will kind of pause on that because we'll talk about the elimination chamber match here in just a moment on SmackDown which is this is a huge deal I saw some seeds planted for Randy Orton and Alistair Black on SmackDown this past week I wonder if that was a direction that would make

31:40 a ton of sense for the Randy Orton match to help elevate Alistair Black and then some other matches that I'm starting to notice here dr. Trey Algrande Americana versus the original Elgrande Americana maybe a mass versus mass match there and then we saw this take place on Sundays Super Bowl Logan Paul was interviewing and asked about watching bad bunnies half time show if he was going to if he was excited for it and he said no and he kept walking and then there was like a report before after the Super Bowl that said like bad bunny will be making his return to WWE sooner rather than later and now you're starting to see some rumblings out there this week of potentially a bad bunny versus low compal match so I will add that to to the list here dr. Trey thoughts on any the matches that we have discussed here or anything we may have missed in the rumored slash what we are thinking right now for WrestleMania 42 I mean OG a grand americano versus you know new grande americana you could actually add him Bravo Reo and the Creed brothers into that as well especially if you want if you wanted to unmask the the new Bravo Reo and Grande and then make a new kind of European heel stable you know you could do that as well so you could always clamor in for League of Nations to come back I actually the the premise of it is not bad he played it once in WWE 2k then it came to life and here we are again oh no don't forget the Canadians we are that we had regal test in Christian the UnAmericans the UnAmericans yes and that was really good also it actually helped

33:13 elevate regal and Christian out of that group so like the premise even though people kind of crap on it with WWE being so international like I'm sure you saw in triple A El Grande americano aka Kaiser is cheered OG as boo they come to the states it flips it's like the heart foundation and it's like the heart foundation in Canada is beloved it was booed in the states you can do the same thing with Kaiser bait and done in Europe where they're cheered in the Americans are booed and then come the states and flip it so the premise works it's just the execution all League of Nations and that was a lot of infighting and ego more than anything else as to like who the top guy was but yes I did love League of Nations and it's always funny when you hear Shamus or somebody go like oh yeah Rusev was my brethren in the League of Nations you're like oh you still bring you bring that up also okay cool yeah but yeah like I in plus we just haven't seen the Creed Brothers in a while and they're one of my favorite tag teams to watch so I miss the creeds as well so there you go there's our WrestleMania 42 card roundups something we keep in on each and every week Dr. Tram mentioned we know we've been thinking drew versus Cody versus Jacob for WrestleMania 42 triple threat match however there's a elimination chamber qualifying match this Friday on Smackdown on the sci fi network because of the winter Olympics it'll be Cody Rhodes versus Jacob of two versus Sammy Zane this is like a PLE match Dr. Tray yeah who do you got in this one because part of me wants to pick

34:49 Sammy and Cody and Jacob like it screwed over again by Drew and then some sort of like shady stuff happens to get them in this match but I have this is the problem with the triple threats and we saw it play out last year with EO Rea and Bianco which I know you did not enjoy Dr. Tray is if we're doing a triple threat with elimination bra how the hell do we get there thoughts here I mean maybe we're not getting Cody or Jacob at a triple threat match with Drew at WrestleMania anymore not to try well maybe they listen to our show and you were clamoring for Sammy and Drew at WrestleMania was Sammy women winning the title maybe that's how we get there were Cody and Jacob take each other out Sammy ends up winning and then you get Cody and Jacob one-on-one at WrestleMania and Cody's not in a title match for the first time in a couple years so it's a way to elevate Sammy and Jacob in that manner if you go that route so maybe it is that like you know Sammy sneaks a win because Cody and Jake kind of take each other out and Sammy gets into chamber match I I've been trying to figure this out for a while like how do you get to if you're if your goal was Drew and Cody and Jacob in a triple threat match how do you get there this kind of throws it in mix where I'm like maybe this is kind of like we saw my early show maybe this is one of those changes to the WrestleMania card and instead of getting a triple threat match with Drew Jacob and Cody WWE and

36:21 Triple H have sold Cody on like hey just go one-on-one with Jacob and maybe this is the start of the Cody heel turn and we can do Sammy and Drew because that match got a great reaction you know at Rumble and maybe we just go back to it because you know Sammy's O and 12 O 13 now against Drew and so now he's overcoming a streak and obstacles and we get that big baby face win at WrestleMania yeah it's it's interesting this is an interesting way of how this may all work out so I'm really intrigued to see where this match is going I think this is a big match for WWE television I have PLE vibes for this and it's amazing that all three of these people are in a qualifying match because when you look at some of them right now that's just like mix it's it's not even and like even on the women's side the way they did Rhea Lyra and then who's the Ivey Nile and with all due respect to Lyra and Ivey Nile it just was like how are they like this is not on the same equivalent of Cody Jacob and Sammy's aim for the men's side so it's it's intriguing as to where things go on Friday Smackdown so I'm pumped to watch the show on Friday and see how that all plays out speaking elimination chamber match Dr. Trey on Smackdown Randy Orton and Tiffany Stratton did qualify for the elimination chamber and then Rhea Ripley and L.I.

37:48 Knight qualified on Raw for each of their respective elimination chamber matches thoughts on Orton and L.A. Knight getting into the men's match and Stratton and Rhea getting into the women's match. Stratton to me is the interesting one because you and I were thinking Bianca and Jade at WrestleMania but you know Tiffany got kind of for lack of a better term man handled and her matching as Jade so maybe WrestleMania is Tiffany's chance to kind of get over on that much like we saw with Biobechi and Bianca a couple years ago where Becky got the quick with it Summerslam and Bianca came back and got her later on. I think Rhea isn't just for star power more than anything else to kind of increase those Rhea fans to tune into chamber Randy's interesting in the sense of like if Cody's in the chamber match you know is that a possibility as well for WrestleMania and maybe who needs something else but you know in the LA night LA nice the perennial bridesmaid in professional wrestling right now he's kind of become the new Kevin Owens or Kevin hasn't won a title in forever maybe that's now LA night because he's never been World Champion and it's a way for him to get into the picture but you know if we get a Bronson Reed or somebody else in that match that might be where the direction for LA night goes for WrestleMania is maybe a Bronson Reed or you know maybe a Logan Paul again. Yeah there's the I don't envy WWE creative right now I mean there is so many directions WWE can go

39:21 and there are a lot of people that are can get lost in the shuffle for WrestleMania right now and you want to keep a lot of that momentum going and and Orton is somebody that deserves to always be on the WrestleMania card until Randy Orton hangs up his wrestling boots and LA night is something that deserves to be on the upswing of you know that generational momentum change it just always feels like he's on the verge of finally breaking out and then it doesn't happen for whatever reason because the card is so top heavy and I feel the same way for both even Jacob and Sammy Zane right now so yeah really really really intriguing times for WWE creative especially when it comes to the WrestleMania card as we move forward here. Lastly Dr. Trey in regards to WWE for we wrap up the show and talk a little about AEW there are some reports out there according to body slam net David Finley's name has been discussed creatively with WWE with WWE obviously the son of fit Finley the brother of Uriah Connors who is performing in NXT right now he just actually left chase you and is part of this stable with stacks Ariana Grace and Lexus King and it looks like they're gonna be called the birthright because I saw some sort of report that that was trademark recently. The source over body slam net stated that there's no indication that he's agreed to a deal or is signing but he has been discussed internally and other WWE's another source said WWE has intentionally planted the seeds on TV recently with Uriah Connors in the case that does make his way to the company. It

40:53 appeared at the most recent show I think it was new beginning for New Japan that David Finley was in fact saying goodbye to New Japan wrapping up there he left the bullet club war dogs stable he was like an unaffiliated stable for a little bit with like folks from from L.I.J. there's there's a lot of people and change over right now that that's going on with with New Japan right now Dr. Train some of them are actually coming to WWE so David Finley has been a prominent like upper mid card main event level talent in New Japan pro wrestling he's been wrestling for quite some time I'd be surprised if he lands in NXT but maybe that's the that's a good spot for him I'd love to see David Finley in WWE I'd love to see him in the United States period if he even came over to A.W. I think he's highly talented I've enjoyed the character change he's taken over in the last several years since coming over to the bullet club and then the war dogs your thoughts here on the reports of David Finley making his way potentially to world wrestling entertainment yeah tremendously talented guy like you mentioned like I remember he was just clean cut baby phase then watching the transformation when he joined the war dogs was really real I if you're the son of fit Finley man I mean God damn it your top is Helen you should know how to wrestle and we've seen that with your eye Connor so it makes a lot of sense if you're gonna go that rock is fit still associated with the company your brothers there why would you not go there why would you not just like throw him in a group with his brother get him comfortable get his feet

42:24 wet get him used to the system and then you know break it off I I'm really as somebody who knows Lexus King decently well and has spent some time with him like I'm really excited for the the potential of the birthright stable because I mean you and I I mean we're old we still love legacy like we kind of love those family oriented stables because when they win somebody turns it's so exciting so like I'm excited to see where he goes and where he falls in and just dear God I don't know who gave his brother the name your raya because that just sounds like they should be doing an omniskin I've always hated that they're not giving like the second generation stars their birthright names yeah like Bron breakers should be a Steiner at this point like why is Randy Orton really the only one that's able to do this they did this with with Joe Hennie I hated that they did it with Baudalis they did it with Bray Wyatt I don't understand why they're not embracing the the second third fourth generation stuff I mean Cody got his own name Cody didn't come in under a different name that's sure yeah he was he was always kind of Cody now they did for a while just drop the road's name and he was just Cody you know that was that was legal issues right is that we say post of it yeah yeah but stupid but yeah like Bron Bron breakers should be Bron Steiner or Bron since whatever you want to go with I mean Lex's King should be a pillman Connor should be a Finley Richie steamboat got to be Richie steamboat in

44:01 NXT though before anything else but yeah like Dempsey should be a regal yeah I mean it just it makes sense I mean hell I mean Dominic should be a Guerrero I mean Michael McGillicutty is still my favorite fake name for Brutal absolutely brutal and then when they tried to they were like they were gonna pay homage to yeah for him Michael McGillicutty what what was his Curtis Axel Curtis Axel because he got his dad's first name and his grandpa's name for a last his grandpa's nickname for a last name and I'm like but yeah Baudalis Bray Wyatt they do it yeah like we're not dumb like play you know like play into the nostalgia Charlotte Flair yeah didn't come in as Charlotte Johnson you know like she was a no but she was just Charlotte and they added Flair actually and that instance she was not promoted to Charlotte Flair she was just Charlotte that was when they were doing just like one name you know remember there was a period time they got rid of last names and it was just it was like share everybody was share basically well say what nattie nattie you know Natalia came in as nattie as Natalia night heart I don't think she's ever really been like what they everybody knows she's nattie night heart but she's never really been billed as Natalia night heart or nattie night heart it's nattie or just Natalia yeah but when they first when she

45:32 first came in as part of the new heart foundation I kind of thought they referenced her as Natalia night heart early on just to kind of get over that that it's heart and then they dropped it well what about like yeah what about um David boy son there he was what was he D.H. Smith at one point like it's David heart Smith yeah I don't understand why they don't it's weird it's weird and maybe it could be because they have licensing agreements with some of the families and other ones they don't stupid it's so stupid just they're worried about if they go to AW and they use their real name I mean that's what it comes down to and who gives a shit but then you get like AJ styles owns his name he licenses to WWE and then now he's got it back since he's leaving like it's not hard to license the name like you want a contract here you want to work in WWE we're gonna license your name so as long as you're here we own it and then when you leave you can have your name back yeah if AJ styles if AJ styles joined WWE in like early 2000 and he would have been AJ styles but with a Z at the end like they did with Taz or he just would have been like Alan Johnson yeah Alan Johnson yes styles with a Z AJ as they'd call him or something anyway there you go David Finley and there's some obviously there's also rumors out there Dr. Trey for those who are unaware but for IWGP junior everyweight champion Harumu Takahashi is the time bomb time bomb is is wrapping up with a new Japan as well and there was some reports that they're tying them

47:04 both to potential interest from WWE and AEW so I mean he is extremely talented that would be very interesting if he landed in WWE feels more like an AEW signing to me but we'll keep an eye out there is usually January February time frame is when the new Japan contracts wrap up they only sound like one year deals and then you start here in rumors about if they could be making it to the United States so now the latest is David Finley is the big one and then there's also Rumor Takahashi who is a little bit behind and and where he may land because I think there is also potential for him to land in Japan and other promotions as well so that Clark Conner's officially signed with AEW or is he still kind of doing both I yeah there's reports out there that he has signed with AEW I don't know if he got the graphic last night I know he wrestled alongside Daniel Garcia but he's also been performing in new Japan as well it feels like he's an AEW signing doctor strike which I mean that's that's that's somebody that you can see them you're you know pairing up with was a Gabe Gabe yeah they were yeah Gabe kid they were the mad dog in a part of that war dogs on group and in new and maybe and maybe that's their direction whereas some point you split up the the death writers and you get like the wolf pack the yeah death writers wolf pack you're death writers black and white and death writers ball I don't know yes exactly so these are just the bald members maybe maybe Wheeler you joins them and that is a it's it's it's Claudio Moxley Gabe in a bald Wheeler and

48:39 then you have Pock and everybody else that has air on the other side well there you go perfect segue because we have AEW Grand Slam Australia this Saturday we will talk about that in just a second some news and notes from Dynamite last last night light on Wednesday night doctor try Kyle Fletcher wins the TNT championship back from tomorrow champ which why put the title on champ of then I that confuses me and AEW has been really really good lately young bucks of the number one contenders for the tag team titles will be taking on FTR soon and Tecla is the new women's champ which to me felt like something that has been long overdue because as she is extremely entertaining fun to watch new TNT champ Dr. Trey Kyle Fletcher what the hell were they thinking with tomorrow champ of then young bucks number one tag team champ champ champ contender and new women's champ Tecla your thoughts there from last night to you know I miss I miss part of it who was the wild card tag team private party they're back okay okay so parties back yay like the bucks and FTR like we can never go wrong with that match like those guys just put on great matches and they're arguably with the Usos and new day two of the four greatest tag teams of our generation so that's great I'm excited to see what they do with Tecla because I mean hey do we let you know the their little group kind of take over the women's division were Tecla's on top and then you know Sky and Heart become the women's tag champs and do they kind of run stuff so but Tecla are arguably is maybe the most intriguing character we've had come on the AEW women's scene a little while she's just different and I think people kind of embrace that

50:14 and even though she's a heel I think people just really enjoy seeing what she does in the ring because it's just different really the the the knee jerk TNT thing just feels like they did because they're going to Australia I can't see any other logic why not and then Mark Briscoe comes out to be the challenger it's like well Mark why didn't you come out before Kyle Fletcher and get your rematch like why did you wait like and maybe we'll be by the time Grand Slam actually gets here it becomes a triple threat or a four way or something but it feels like they just did it for Kyle Fletcher to walk into Australia as a champion 100 percent which I get but then like why did we put the title on champa like wait he's new he's a shiny toy it was like this I was a get it I was excited for champa I mean it was and he may have the title back in two to three weeks basically too I was I was frustrated by that bucking because it was like oh you got to be kidding me they're just what they're just waiting on gargano and Candace to come in and then chop and gargano will be the tag like does champa not want to travel to Australia like with that should have been a match that I'm serious right like well I mean neck I mean the guy had major neck surgery and there is like if you have major neck surgery your doctors will warn you about long flights affecting it so maybe that's the case but that's the case why switch it at all and just wait until they come back from Australia yeah I mean I really hate bitching about AW because I'm gonna give them their flowers soon no show this is my show was fantastic I guess I missed the tag

51:48 match but everything else and yeah we I questioned the booking ugly but the show is great other than I will say one more thing we were talking about it not having Brody King on the show was dumb because you you got to capitalize on the the crazy just you know destruction he laid on MJF and you didn't really build off of that and I'm reading for the reports as to why they did it I think it's a stupid reason yeah yeah it doesn't make any sense to me so anyway I mean any other thoughts there from the big news from Dynamite this past week before we getting a grand slam doctor try oh no I mean I'm excited still for this callus callus family death writer storyline is this developing because there's a lot of layers to that you got continental champion international champion TNT champion all factored into this river it kind of feels like a little bit like I don't want to say DX and nation but it kind of feels like when you have two really strong stables going to ed ed it allows for a lot of mix and matching like you know we were we've already kind of seen mox and fletcher mox and okada mox and degesia but give me pocket okada like that would be a killer match pocket like something's match potentials are really really exciting and I'm really looking for the words goes I'm and I'm like surprise that you like this because this is like something you hate words it's he'll versus heel stables and deathwriters are being cheered and then in the later part of the show they're back to full blown heels when they're in the ring with orange Cassidy and and

53:23 Roderick strong yeah I don't like the consistency in it it you mean inconsistency yes I don't like yeah I don't like the inconsistency in it because I kind of feel like look if we're going this rod just make them all baby facing like at this point I kind of feel like the orange Cassidy Tony Storm match with the head their hair versus hair is kind of a blow off for the deathwriters to see the light and maybe become full fledg good guys I think this is just for Wheeler you didn't get a haircut I mean you're god I mean it looks like the uniformer so I mean I'm fine with it like I think he was on a show called the master wrestler and was revealed I'm like did he even really need a mask you could just put the hair in from his face and you would have never seen his eyes wait who Wheeler you to was yeah what what are you talking about what is that there's a show called the master wrestler where they kind of it's kind of like the mass magician where they kind of show some of the behind the scenes like how do you make stuff work type stuff and you to what's the guy on the master wrestler what channel I will find I will find it for you I will send it to you I'm so intrigued by this I did not hear this this is the thing from like the early 2000s no this is the thing from like it's Wheeler you to early 2000 Wheeler you was like six no no you do you remember that show there was like the someone who like let all wrestling secrets out yeah but that that was played off of like the magician shows with a magician secrets so but they still they still pop that up from time to time and I read about it was like oh yeah Wheeler you to the unmasked and he got in in character still kind of like you know did a

54:55 cave they type you know it or like promo on the guy who en masse them but yeah like I'll find it in synonym yeah please so all right so there you go there's this past week's edition of like perplexed by this whole mass wrestler thing I was taking a look for it we've AW Grand Slam Australia this Saturday it'll be airing obviously late here in the United States at eight o'clock at night it's normal normal time it will not be airing live because I think it would be like it three a.m. here in the United States this card is stacked up to try I mean this looks like a pay-per-view you've got orange Cassie and Tony Storm versus Wheeler Udom Reignership here and that mixed tornado tag team match with the loser of the fall most have their head shape bald you have Hagman and a page versus Andrade Alito I'll eat it all over the winner or receive an AW World Championship match of revolution John Moxley versus Kenos Ketekeship for the AW Continental Championship the Babes of Wrath Harley-Carly Cameron and Will O'Knighton guilt taken on megabad of Megan Payne and Penelope Ford for the AW Women's World Tite Team Championship Kyle Fletcher defends the TNT Championship in a ladder match against Mark Berskell and then you've MJF defend the AW World Championship against Brody King Dr. Trey I mean this this is stacked for a regular television card yeah I mean it's it's for lack of a very full loaded which I believe is also a pay-per-view name from WWE back of the day but yeah like it's I mean it's a killer card I mean there's not every match has me at least interested or just on paper like even if I'm not that interested I

56:27 know the work rates can be fantastic so it's like FT on the bucks like yeah there's a little bit of storyline but in reality it's more about just two of the greatest tag teams of all time going at it the hair versus hair match like wait wait wait wait the box and FT are oh no I'm sorry I my brain froze sorry like I'm I'm still excited about those two guys those two teams facing off but like the hair versus hair match we haven't had a hair versus hair match I think since edge in Kurt Angle like I can't think of one since or somebody got their head shake so like that's something that hasn't been done on a major brand in like 20 years so I'm excited to see where that goes like Brody King and MJF like how do you play this off Brody King looked unstoppable last week what does MJF do to counter this like I'm intrigued by the matches on the show moxley and ticaccia like that's no two of the best wrestlers in the world in their styles like you want some strong hard hitting style that's a match for you so like yeah I'm really excited for the show like I'm gonna make sure that I'm sitting down in front of my TV watching it on either HBO Max or on TNT like I'm I'm really excited to yeah TNT yeah I'm really excited for the show yeah and it's it's free so that's enough for me and it should be fun what which match are you looking forward to the most I was really looking forward to the hair versus hair match until you said the loser of the match that the word takes the pinfall gets their head I thought it was whichever team lost because I was really want to see one the women get

57:58 shaved ball but now I'm like okay yeah that kind of gives away it's gonna be you know they're they're just yeah this is just to give you will or you to head haircut I think mox and and mox like the Brody King MJF matches in tree I just don't think they're gonna pull the trigger on Brody King going over no but mox and to Keshda should be just a banger hard hitting just really really good match so that's probably the one I'm looking forward to the most on the show is just watching those two guys go at it and then just last I just want to say that I think AW is doing some of its best working a long time I've I've really enjoyed their show I know we trashed the TNT championship stuff and and rightfully so I mean that was just not well planned so that's that's really it I mean everything else is making a lot of lot of sense and oh that's where of osprey segments you mean omega omega yes we're sorry I got osprey the brain what's going on sit down sit down for a second young box and FTR how to remember I'm running two companies right now no no no don't let the other companies hear this I've got a sick toddler like oh no this is hard yeah no believe me I mean it's it's crazy right now but yeah like I just am worried about your diabetes no I was and no I got a I got the little thing to monitor it now okay okay on your phone yeah the little implant goes in your arm and you check with your phone like oh we should add this as a feature of earth the patreon page people could follow your your blood

59:30 sugar throughout the day my blood sugar levels yes and then and then get we get random messages to tell me to eat or not yes yes if you spend four bucks just lecture Dr. Treyow where he should have a lunch because it sugars too high somewhere some where Eric Darcy and EJ read just signed up thank you guys but yeah but no moxley excuse me the swerve omega stuff like I'm not a big fan of baby baby type stuff and because you said Darcy now I have boyfriend stuck in my head but yeah like it's like okay this this could be interesting because it's kind of similar to the Jacob Cody stuff and not that you know it's just baby face baby face one guy's kind of crazy and one guy's kind of the face of your company is kind of interesting they've gone this route but it's all about getting to MJF and I think that's I saw MJ have an air you said like the fact that they've got it now is where all these guys are fighting to get to him makes that AEW world title all the more as much of a goal as possible it puts on a higher plan so maybe then it's been in years past yeah yeah I would agree it's it's and it's with the right players I mean that's what's like most important and there was even with hangman hole in title coming out of all in after defeat moxley was like man what are they gonna do with him I don't even know who he's involved with a ton of injuries stuff like that but they've got a lot of the right players right now and I have enjoyed watching someone like Andrade Alito low get a little bit more shine so AW Grand Slam Austria this

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