Farewell to Sting and AEW Revolution Recap | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #734 – 3/7/24

0:00 It's still welcome. Everybody. Welcome to this week's edition is surreal to show as the number seven and thirty four from Park seven, twenty twenty four. This is your aw Revolution, recap and review edition of ass R Team You. I am one after the show, I am Jeff Beck joined every single week my gost the one only Doctor Trey Franklin. Doctor Trey. Was it bittersweet to say goodbye to sing my friend? Actually yeah, I'm not gonna lie. Kind of was like I was, actually, uh, you know, we talked about lasting's show, like he's really like the last link to my initial fandom. And then I remember we said Dustin Roads out there too, though, So I mean, uh yeah, I guess Dustin and Sting are like my final links to my childhood wrestling fandom. So yeah, it's it's it's it's a bit bittersweet, but uh, I think all in all, I think the performance kind of made up for it. Yeah, there's like a handful of guys left that wrestled when I was a kid, Billy Gunn, Jeff Jarrett, Dustin Rhodes, and I think that's about it.

1:26 Doctor Trey. There's really nobody else left at this point when was when would you say, if you were going to say, if you were a pinpoint of time, what year was your was your birth into wrestling fandom? It would be like ninety three, ninety four, ninety five era, So right around Hogan going to w CW, like the last Summer Slam, Hogan Yokozuna and then Hogan going to w CW time Yep, yep, that would be it. I wrestlemint Aten is the one that I always think about, but I mean a cross the board. Wwwwe I mean Jericho he kind of borderline.

2:06 Well, so with Jerich went to ECW and what nineteen ninety five, so He's I think probably like ninety four to ninety six would be like the safe zone of like this is when you were a kid growing up in impression wrestling, and Jericho's is just barely in that era. I guess the ones that are definitely there Jeff Jarrett, Billy Goahn, Dustin Rhodes. Yeah, I would say anybody about the age of fifty two and up that is still active would be in your MILLIONU Like so like me and John Cena are like the same age and like one month apart, and I know he broke in around ninety seven when he started wrestling in California and stuff for UPW. Yeah, so anybody that's around the age of fifty and up that they're so active.

2:54 So yeah, Jarrett, Jericho, Billy Gunn, Dustin and that's yeah, that's out the top of my head. That's about it. Yeah, because there's like no real true veterans on the w E side of that great length ever since Undertaker retired, I know, Rock being back of kind of yeah, kind of Paul, I mean, Paul Hayman would be in your list. Yeah, Hayman would be Haymen because you know early WCW, Like I just saw a picture of him with the head Shrinkers. I guess speaking, I guess RVD fits in there. Yeah for you, yeah, like ninety six ish. For me, it's basically Dustin because Dustin I think debuted in eighty nine. I remember one of the first when I talked about it last week's show, like how I found Sting. I think Bash at the Beach ninety four had the bunk house fuck match, like where they were on a tractor trailer. Oh the black top was that? Was that the black Well? There's the bunk House, there was the bunk House, the bunk House Brawl where they're actually in like a silo. Then there was the match with the black Top Bully, which was in the back of the truck as it's going down the highway. Let me look your bash at the beach ninety four real quick, Terry fucking bunk House buck defeated Dustin Roads and Arn Anderson.

4:16 That's the one where arn Anderson turns on Dustin. Yeah. The next pay per view was Fall Brawl because I remember that match. Was that on that card? That was a war Games match? Where's a Halloween havoc one ninety before Halloween Havoc I'm looking at here. Defeated to arn Anderson because I remember that bunk House buck match, bunk match, I think it was. It was a bunk house brawl, I think is what they called it. So was that what the one where they were in the back of the No, that was the black top match because it's basically the back of the truck going down the highway, fighting in the back of basically like a moving pig pin type match, which was a god awful match. But it's just they which have nobody I think. I don't think anybody's ever done that again, No, I don't remember that one. Yeah, it's like Blacktop Bully here?

5:15 Yeah, where am I I'm seeing this right now? Just fall Brawl or something. Yeah, like Google's are the Blacktop match? See why he comes? Yet I didn't realize that was very Darcel. Oh is the black Top Bully? Yeah, that's why I hercules Hernandez. It was the anniversary of his passing yesterday, I think it was. And I forgot that he was in w CW as the Super Invader. So oh, and something else I learned today, jeffl Oh, it was a King of the Road match. I'm sorry, doctor try in the uncensored nineteen ninety five. Okay, so King of the Road against the black Top Bully. Yes, it was very Darcher's name. I did learned today or two days ago that there was a tag team in a propession called ICW that vinsick Man paid three thousand dollars for him to secure the rights to their tag team name. The tag team name was the Undertakers, the Undertakers, and I never knew that. I never knew either. I will find the picture of it. I'll post it on our Facebook page. Put this physic man to secure the rights to the name the Undertaker had to pay a tag team three thousand dollars because that was their name and they had the rights to it. He paid them for supposedly paid them three thousand dollars and they didn't look like early Undertaker. They didn't have the big hat of the oversized giant tie, but they were dressed in black and had a little bit of face paint. It hadn't earn and he

6:47 supposed to paid them three thousand dollars to secure the name for a character that he came up with, which became the Undertaker. The Undertakers in ICW huh i WC iw so, so that was a that's nothing like Puerto Rico. No, that's it's either the because there's two iws. There's the Carlos one in Puerto Rico and there's also one in Pennsylvania called the i GU it's like the International Wrestling Cartel, which is a show that runs uh you know, Corey Graves worked that show a lot in his early days. Because there's two shows around Pittsburgh and IWC's one and PWX is the other one. There you got some wrestling history there I'm sure I didn't think it was going to take us down this rabbit hole of the King of the Road match, but here we are talking about it. Here on this week's edition of sr T You Speaking to Classics. Doctor Trey AW held the Revolution this past Sunday from the classic Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. There are two things I know of this arena, Doctor Trey. One obviously professional wrestling, and two I don't know if this falls into uh into your wheelhouse as well, but every ACC tournament basketball tournament was held at the Greensboro Coliseum and I remember that a lot as a kid in the nineties, and at one point was the home of the Charlotte Hornets for one season when they were constructing the Charlotte Coliseum that they that they turned around and played in. But yeah, Greensboro. It's

8:20 funny. Actually, one of the guys that I work with, that's one of the other managers, actually has the Greensboro area and I was like, he was on a coffee the other day, I'm like, oh, you're in Greensboro, like say you know this and you know this, and I'm like, hey, man, are you going to the AW show Saturday nine. He was like, man, I ain't been wrestling and blah blah blah. But he grew up in that area and he used to go to all the old WCWNWA shows back when he was a kid. And he mentioned the a SEC tournament, So yeah, those are kno gonna lie that. Like seeing sixteen thousand people in the coliseum kind of gave me vibes back to those you know, late eighties, early nineties ACC five or ACC tournament show Kate her show her games, and a little bit of the old nwaw CW feuds from my childhood. I assume you never saw a show there, doctor, try no, because I lived when I when I was a kid in North Carolina, I lived roughly about two two and a half hours away, and you know in the eighties, two hours away is like a million miles.

9:22 Yeah, three days away. Yeah, I mean I remember, like when I went to college with me and my high school sweart broke up because I was moving eighty five miles away, like the one Who's Gone away. Yeah, it's crazy to think how much it's different now with the advent of cell phones and facetimes and you know, all those things like that it's like, yeah, you can live like five six seven hours away from my girlfriend is not a big deal. But back in the day, man, that ninety miles was an eternity. So yeah, and then plus you know, we were we didn't have the money to go to pay per views and stuff like that, so we were a house show family. We didn't have pay per view money. Jeff, I hear you, I hear you. My first wrestling show was a w WF event in a local high school gym, so it was a long time for me to ever make it a match to Square Garden as well. Let's get into it. Pre show matches. You have the Bank Bank Scissor Gang defeating Private Party, Willie Mac, Jeff, Chair Jay Lethal and Satam Sing in a twelve person tag team match. We obviously did not predict this one. Simply doctor try. I thought this was a great twelve person tag team match. It was a fun match to kick off the entring porse of the show. And these matches, as I've said many at times, it can typically be cluster fs and this wasn't. This was a fun match. Yeah. I mean, and two the people you mentioned to start the show, two people of Jeff's you know, entry into professional wrestling. Jeff Jarrett and Billy gunns Bill going strong, still looking like they did back in nineteen ninety six. For the most part, they have not aged. Yeah, it was a really really fun match, especially for like adding private Party to the mix. And even though Bank Bank Sissor Gains been

10:56 around for a mother too, they really haven't worked together matches. So for all those moving parts to have a pretty solid, fun opening match is great sokrudos those guys are pulling it off. And hey, we almost forgot about Jay White for a while, so at least we got a little about Jay White payoff this past Wednesday as well. He does have a big match at the Big Business Show that will be on AW Dynamite this upcoming Wednesday. Now. Chris stat Landar and Will Not Nightingale defeated Julie Hart and sky Blue. We did not predict this match. Great tag team match, fun back and forth between both teams, and there was a storyline between both teams that made this pre show match make sense. This is what we like about AW when they have matches that make sense, which was a nearly huge portion of this entire card. That's Tray fun one here on the pre show again. Yeah, and I'm still trying to figure out and now once again I don't pay attention to the Willow Nightingale Chris stat Landers storylines with that stuff very often.

11:54 Still try to figure out the Stokely Hathaway part of it myself, like T forgre how that fits in. I just assume one of those, either Chris or Willow at some points when it's heard to heel on the other one just because Stokely's there. But yeah, like it's a storyline, it makes sense. The match was actually pretty solid for four relatively new women wrestlers. They don't have a ton of experience, and you know, just a good, solid women's tag team match that made a lot of sense for everybody. Main card opener here, Christian Cage defeats Daniel Garcia to retain the AWT and T Championship. Doctor Trent and both had Christian Cage getting the victory. Fun start with a great match to open up the main show. Garcia looked great in the match as Christian Cage built him up. The in ring psychology from Christian Cage in this match was really well executed. Christian Cage retained SoC to try should we start putting Christian Cage on the Randy Orton level of just like great veteran wrestlers that have the ability to make their opponents look good, make the match makes sense, make this psychology make sense. Like, I mean, I've been kind of singing some Christian Cah praise for a while now, but he's just on a different level the last year, Like it's like everything's come together, Like he's just phenomenal in this role. He may be the only free agent signing I would think that has elevated his position in AEW from the time he signed even though he was Impact World Champion, had the great match with Kenny Omega, but after that felt down quite a bit. To where

13:26 he's at now. I think he might be one of those few guys I think has just taken his game to the next level since going to be to Aw Swerve Strickland, doctor Trace, Swerve Strickland. Okay, so Swerve and Christian two out of like twenty. There's a lot of free agent signs by AW. I mean that's a hard thing, but definitely Christian Cage. You know, it's funny. A couple of weeks ago, I was really like kind of tired of the character. I think I mentioned on the pre show heading into this one when we previewed the program. This match is really good. You cannot take away what he is as an in ring competitor. I do feel like the character is kind of gotten a little bit stale, and they kind of have to op it up here a little bit. And you're starting to see them pull a couple pages out of Dowey's creative book lately, where they're building towards matches like two weeks down the line on television, which we'll see with Adam Copland taking on Christian Cage now in a couple of weeks in an equip match on Dynamite, which is the right way to do things.

14:20 Always have like that big Marquee matchup or two on your on your television programming because it works. Look what doa Doowey's doing? So maybe they'll turn it around a little bit. I just feel like it's kind of been a little bit stale with the patriarchy. Is that what it is? Well? Yeah, I think I think the issue we have is we got well he waited for the big Outam Copland payoff, which means this view has dragged on a little bit long. Yeah, that's a good point. I think with each time he gets into a new rivalry, it kind of does refreshen the character a bit. But like this whole builds the equip match now almost six months long, so it's kind of ran its course a little bit. But you know, they're trying to get They're trying to do a long burn.

15:05 Like we complain that they do knee jerk storylines, but this one's like the longest running storyline in the company right now, and it almost feels like it's taking too long. Yeah. I think probably part of it is as we've seen the Adam Copeland Christian Cage stuff play out, you know, twenty years ago, so it's not necessarily refreshed. But I think that they're doing this to lead to an eventual reunion that fans will probably eat up. But yeah, it's been been a weird run in AW so far for Adam Coplan, I got admit, and that has everything to do with Christian Cage. Next match here is Eddie Kinkson defeating Brian Danielson to retain the AW Continental Crown Championship. We've both at Eddie Kinkson getting the victory here. Awesome match felt like a strong style Japanese match, which is typical of Eddie Kinkson's performances. The run Kingston has been on the last three or four months with the Continental Cup and his feud Slash gaining respect from the Blackpool Combat Club members has been some some has been some of the best stuff in professional arrests right now. Kingson's on a climb man like he is an early leader in the clubhouse for Breakout Star of twenty twenty four. Great match heres he gets the victory over Brian Danielson. See, I thought this was an okay match. There there are points in there where their throat changing strikes and it just felt like their timing was really off, which made the punches look a little bit off. But that's just you know, me being I mean, the previous match was the previous you know three matches had been really really good, so I thought there was a couple of spots where their timing was just off. But overall, good song match once again, good storytelling in this Eddie Kingston trying to get the respect of Brian Danielson. You're finally getting the handshake postmatch, so the

16:38 storytime was on point. If the run Kings is on great. I just thought there was a couple of spots in that match that just didn't look good, but overall still a good performance. But the storytelling and getting the respect of Bran Dans I think was the big payoff for it. Next match, here is Wardlow defeating Chris Jericho, Powerhouse Hops, Lance Archer Hook, Brian Cage, Magnus, and Dante Martin in an all star scramble match to receive a future AW World Championship match that will take place at Big Business this coming Wednesday. I had Wardlow, Doctor Trey had Powerhouse Hobbs. There's a good, fast paced scramble match with a ton of action in it. There was never a loll and all and all eight guys at a great job keeping me engaged in this match. Wardlow now gets that AW World champions match that he's been looking for, and I wonder if his time is now to become World Champion or if this lead is leading to the return of MJF. I have a feeling that these poseddowns that Wardlow has been doing where he's looking at like the Titan Tron or the big screen just above the stage and during every show is going to lead towards probably some sort of result of MJF returning here soon Wardlow gets a big victory Doctor Trey. Yeah, it was a fun match, and I didn't have high expectations for it because when you call it an all star scramble match and one guy I really had never heard of, and one guy I thought, what was a tag team six man competitor. For the most part, my hope sport that high. But it was a really fun match, and I love the interactions with Jericho and Hook because you know

18:11 that ties into tag which then ties into our childhood as well. So like overall, that was a really fun match. Everybody looked good in the match, which I think what you want to come out of this, and keeping is so fast paced. Even though it was it was a pretty clean victory, still allows everybody to look good, So I think that's the point when you have a match like one of these. Next match is Roger Strong defeated Orange Cassidy to win the aw International CHAMPIONIP. We both had Roger Strong getting the victory solid match. It just felt like Orange Cassidy and he never really had a chance due to the injuries he was selling going into this one. I'm not sure the injury angle stuff with the Orange Cassidy resonates too much anymore, as it feels like it's been a little overdone at this point. Sidebar on this entire thing. It was great to see Kyle O'Reilly's return for the first time in nearly two years, as it did feel like his career over and a couple of reports out there led us to believe that his career may be over. Roger Strong is your new aw International Champion doctor. Try.

19:08 Yeah. When they do the injury angles and they oversell it and they talk about how much heart he's fighting with and the announcers kind of sell it that way, it almost does the reverse for me, like it's not it's not the ringing now, or it's not the commentator's job to tell me how much paint he is in. It's Orange Cassidy's jobs. You tell me that and make me feel that way. So it does kind of lend to like, I don't need you to tell me he's an underdog all the time because he's not very big. We get that. So I was just really happy for Roder Strong to actually get, you know, a really solid win, get a title under his belt. I have loved the roder Strong character since you know, he got involved with Tavid and Bennett and then leading into stuff with the NSBC Kingdom, so I'm really excited for him. Plus, it says Orange Up kind of like they do with somebody else later in the show, that either hey, he can keep fighting for this belt, or he could move on to something else and we can refreshing up this whole division for the international title, which has no international people really involved in in right now.

20:12 Next match year is Blackpool Combat Club defeating FTR with both at FDR again and the victory. This match felt like a throwback eighties tag team match, which is fitting since it took place in the Gransboro Call'll see Him. The result was pretty surprising for me because it has felt like the Blackpool Combat Club has been beating up FDR pretty good lately. I don't think we've ever seen FTR dominated like this. It felt like, at least to me, that FDR was out matched throughout this bout as well. And then Cizarrow maybe one of the greatest tag team wrestlers in history based on how many successful teams. He has been on with so many different tag team partners. The Blackpool Combat Club gets the victory over FDR Doctor Trey. Yeah. I didn't factor in the mock star power this match when I was making my predictions, and I guess Max has more star power than FDR in their eyes. But you guys are like, like Claudio has been the glue of the Blackpool Combat Club. We've seen him team with Moss, we see him tag with you know, with Brian Danson, and when you see him tag with like he's tagged with everybody and they've all been like, we are you that, Like they've all been good tag teams. So uh And then you're right, you go back to his time in WWE and the time and the Ring of Honor, like the dudes like just the perfect tag partner because he can do everything. He can change his style to fit his partner's style. But yeah, overall, like it was a really damn good tag team match. But you're right, like, to me, it's surprising, you know, with our predictions going, Hey, they're probably have a tag tournament starting up. Does that make Blackpool Combat Club the favorites going in this? Is they beat FTR creen is that the route we're headed towards. I think that was definitely the point of it for for real. I think that uh definitely lends true to the tag team

21:47 tournament they want to be doing right now and potentially a rematch in the finals. Next match year is tim withs Tony Storm defeating Deanna Parrazzo to retain the AW Women's World Championship with both in time, with Tony Storm getting victory. This was one of the better feuds in matches the AW Women's division in a while. Despite taking the loss, Deanna Pirozzo's future in AW looks bright. It will be interesting to see where Thymeless Tony Storm goes from here with some new additions coming to the women's division, hopefully some stars returning from injury. If I had a guess, it does feel like Serhen Deem could be the next contender for Timeless Tony Storm. She's definitely getting a decent push on Collision, but we expect a big name to be coming via Big Business soon. Nonetheless, Timeless Tony Storm defeats Diana Froze Doctor Trey. Yeah. Really good match. Shout out to Mariah May for pulling off an almost flawless. Tony Storm impression, by the way, that was really good. I am a little bit more concerned about Deanna's place in the division because there is a lot of star power, and I just hope she doesn't end up, you know, trying to date, you know, somebody from the former Jahn Society or anything like that. Like, there's a lot of people that come in hot and in that women's division and then once they have their push, they get kind of pushed down to the bob of the pile a little bit. So I'm hoping Dianna is not one of them. Continue is one of my favorite women's wrestlers to watch. He's fantastic in the ring. But Tony Storm may be the best character on television right now in professional wrestling. So they're gonna ride. They're gonna ride this train as far as they can. Hopefully they don't have her date somebody in JS, because I don't think Steve mclin will

23:18 be too happy about that. Doctor Trey Well, I mean, you know, Jake Hager's Mary, so you always just do that, and you know it's it's all television anyway, Yeah, true true. Next match is Will Osprey defeeding Kenoski to Cashio. We both had will Ospray gain the victory. Incredible match. I love the back and forth throughout this one and how evenly matched they both were. The weak arm kickouts from both men told a really great story between two warriors in the ring. I cannot wait to watch Ostbray and a aw Television each week going forward, and PROPSI Kitashka, who has been ascending upwards for quite some time. Osprey followed up with a great match on Wednesdays Downam against Kyle Fletcher as well. This was an incredible match Doctor Trey will Osprey defeeding Kenoski to Keshka. Fantasticatic match, really well done.

24:03 You know me being the manager, you know aficionado. Even the Don Kallis facials in this match where like he's even torn watching it as well, like you see him, you know, half cheer for half cheer and then half grown at the same time for certain moves. I thought was really well done. I don't like we talked about the show last week. I am surprised that we didn't get like a violent heel turn, like a violent turn against will Osprey. It was just kind of like I don't know, a mutual love of heels. Like it was almost like I don't know if I've ember seeing like two heels wrestler match and afterwards you're like they're kind of like embracing each other almost. You know. It was kind of weird, but it keeps him on that side of defense at least, and that position Zima for bigger matches against some of the baby faces in AW. Next match is samo Joe de Phoenix for Strickland and Hangman adam As in a three way match and retaining the AW World Championship. We both had Samojo again the victory here.

25:04 The match itself I thought was all right. It felt a little too slow paced for my liking. It looked like every pin breakup was nearly botched. I did like Swerve not using Prince Nana's crown to win the championship and the announcer's hyping up that Hangman may have tapped out to avoid Swurf of winning the AW World Championship. The fans are clearly really buying Swerb's squest to become AW World Champion, and it'll be interesting to see where this goes heading into the new AW pay per view Dynasty. A lot of people think, according to early reports, that Swerve will being a AW World Championship match again. So if it's against samo Joe, that means he's retained against Wardlow. Maybe MJF is back at Big Business as well. It was a it was an okay match, Doctor Trey samoj obtains, Yeah, I mean I liked the match, but I didn't love the match. But you know, once again, though, I'm I'm still not happy that they've kind of turned Swerve face.

25:57 You know, the crowds behind him. I kind of like the chakaner in the antics. It's kind of hard to go from from doing a home invasion and threatening a guy's family to kind of going straight babyface. And I know he's done really well in the promos to kind of play it off and explain his rationale. But I certain guys I like better as heels than I do his baby faces. Swerves one of them, but overall it's still kept Swerve good. I like how the announcers sold it that, you know, like, like you mentioned Page tapping out to avoids were becoming champ, but at the same time that kind of protects Adam Page from taking the loss, like his desire to want up swerve is more than his desire to win the World Championship. Like that's good storytelling in that sense and makes Adam Page still look like a viable contender whenever you circle back to him. Yeah, and I thought hangman, Adam Paige was going to come back as a heel because there's been all these reports that it's gonna be taking time off. Based on the promo the Young Bucks cut on Wednesday's Dynamite, it would appear he's coming back as a baby face again. Yeah, you don't get fired and come back.

27:03 Typically you don't get fired and come back as a heel. Well he's suspended, yeah, yeah, but I mean he was excommunicated from Yeah. Yeah, so that's still basically being fired by your bosses, from your from your group. So yeah, Typically when those things happen, the guy, you know, it's either you come back as the indentured servant a la Sean Michaels the JBL or something like that, or you come back just pissed off at your bosses. And people love those guys. So it might be a way of refreshing the Page character as well. But the storyline between him and Swerve is still not resolved, and if Swerve's a baby face, it's kind of hard to do to have competing babyfaces at the same time, you know, fighting each other, because at some point the crowd's going to turn on one of them. So it's gonna be interesting how they put all that together, if that's their their course of action, or does Page go off and do something else, And then we can always circle back to him and Swerve down the line and bring up their history. They put a big rocket ship on Swerve at on Wednesday's Dynamite when he, like single hand lead defeated the Roah Tag team champions Matt David and Mike Bennett along with samo Joe. He also had one of the best move sequences I've ever seen, where it just like floats so well and he just kept moving. I mean, Swerve's ascension this the past two years has been like a thing of beauty. It's amazing to watch him grow. He was a great character in an NXT towards the end there with hit Row. It obviously did not take place on the main

28:33 roster side with SmackDown because he wasn't given a long enough leash to be successful. Very very happy for him. He's always been touted as somebody on the independence prior to signing with w WEE is like a talent to watch and it's fun seeing it really pay off right now, and it's the momentum is shifting towards him probably become an AW World champion sooner rather than later, which is pretty exciting. Next match here is Stinging Darby Allen defeating the Young Bucks and a to NATO tag team match or retain the AW World Tag Team Championship. Doctor Trey and I had Singing Darby Allen one last time covering a Sting match. I just simply put as my notes, this was Sting's love letter to professional wrestling, and this was wrestling fans' way of thanking sing for all the memories. It was a beautiful send off for an amazing career, and thank you, Sting. I can't say anything more else more about this, Doctor Trey. No. I thought the introduction of having both the Sting's sons come out as you know, different versions of Sting, and then even that, like you know, just everything in this match was good for me because you know, when you have an older gentleman in a match you kind of it's all all the mcfoley Rick Flair stuff, Like, Hey, if you can add in some props and some stunts and some things that take away from him not being maybe the best ring technician in the world anymore, Hey, it's great. And also like this is one of those few matches where Sting had to be involved basically the entire time, which is rare for him running aw like, he had to be involved in the match all the way through,

30:03 where in the past we've seen Derby do most of the work ste he comes at the end, or we do the cinematic matches or something like that. This was Sting going all out for all the people that were in that coliseum watching live, you know, for all the fans he's ever had. This was his you know, swan song. And for a retirement match, this is right up there as one of the best final matches for somebody that I can ever recall. Yeah, I think maybe Undertaker A J. Styles I would put one that was, but we didn't know that at the time, and even that was cinematic. Would you have would you have yeah, would you have put Rick Flair Shawn Michaels in there if rick Flair didn't come back like two three times. Yeah, I mean, because that was a loss, but it was still like amazing it was, but that was this wasn't I mean to a degree the Bucks in Darby carried this match, but Sting still got there though. Man, yeah, I just disagreed there. I think Sting was in there. Man. Well, I'm not saying he wasn't like Sean carried the Rick Flair match. Oh well, yeah, It's definitely a different situation for sure. And then Undertaker and AJ was the cinematic match.

31:11 You know, this one, Sting was a Sting was in it the entire time. But for the most part, it was Darby the Bucks and taking them Like I mean, I know Sting took a couple of big bumps, but he took a glass bump. Man, I disagree with that saying that they like took all the bumps with sugar Glass. I didn't say all of them. I said they took most of the big bumps, you know. So you think that was sugar Glass And the one that Darby did was was not. I No, I think the one Derby did was legit class Yeah, yeah, No, I mean, no doubt I thought it was both actually the same pieces of glass. It might have been. I don't know. It's just like to me, like, all I'm saying is, really, when you stacked those other matches up there, this was a great This is arguably the greatest per formula because Sting was in the match and doing his part for the entirety of match, where Undertake and AJ was a great match, but you could say, well, they also had time to cut stuff out because it was cinematic flair and Sean that was Sean carrying Rick through that match. Sting did his part in this match, especially for a guy at his age. So for me, it's it's not it's Taker and Staying in their final matches is one A and one B because of their performances pay per view prediction record, I went eight and one. Doctor Trey win seven and two. I'm nineteen and four in the year Doctor Trey is seventeen and six. Match of the night and event rating. I gave aw Revolution a four point two out of five and the very short window of pay per views that we've watched so far this year. In the year twenty twenty four,

32:42 this has been my favorite, and my match of the night was will Osprinkinoski Takeshka, So I was in a four point zero. I think I had a couple of matches railed, but lower than you. My match that I was singing in Darb against the Bucks. I think just for the nostalgia, the emotions, this is kind of like you know, in a sense, I mean stone cold and Kevin Owens asked in a sense of like it's it's all over the place, it's chaotic, but dere got it. That's a great comparison. But it got me all back, It got me all back up in my fields and everything else. So and then still Darby playing off of the staking stuff a little bit on Wednesday night with the baseball bat to Jay White's throat, Like that's still like stuff like that. That's always like you be involved. So like it was just like it was just great.

33:25 It was a fun match, but they had also the nostalgia and the emotions coming to as well. Yeah, I love the comparison there to Steve Austin Kevin Owens from Wrestlman thirty eight. I think that spot on. And yeah, these guys, I mean, I still can't get over staying at the age of sixty four was doing that stuff. You know what's funny, Doctor Trey, is when back in the nineties when we were growing up, remember, there was that period of time where WWE was taking shots at WW and called it like the old Folks Home, and they were they had the Huckster and the Nacho Man, yeah, and billionaire ted vignettes and they were like talking about how old they were and like at the time, like they were like forty five years old, yeah, and uh yeah, I mean they made it seem like they were sixty four. So it's ironic you mentioned that because I was talking to Barry call Off, the owner Rocket City, yesterday, and we were somehow we got on the topic of WCW Dungeon of Doom, you know, which was right around that time where they were bringing in John Tentton and calling him the Shark or the Shark, and then you had I just watched The Dark Side of the Ring on him John, Yeah.

34:35 And then you got Brutus Beefcake as the Zodiac, but he was also the Butcher at one point or that time when you had all the old the man with no name, yeah, and then you had but you had all the old woman villains you know, coming through that time, and I was always like, yeah, it's just it's it's it's sad. You see all these old guys coming back in for one paycheck. But that was me at twenty two years old, twenty four years old, and now at forty six, I see these guys out I see the Billy Guns and the Jericho's and staying. You know, these guys up there, yeah, you know, and I'm like, I got to give those guys props. I mean, like it. It's also a different rule. Like those guys needed the money back then, those those old hulk Ogan villains coming through. These guys that we see still out there, they've done pretty well for themselves. They don't need the money. They do it because they love it, and my god, they're still damn good at it too, and they look like they have not missed a step. Sting does not look like he's sixty four. Billy Gunn and Jeff Jarrett don't look like they're in their fifties either. I mean, I mean, Edge is right around the fifty age as well, and Christian Cage isn't far behind them, and they're in their late forties early fifties, if I'm not mistaken on those two guys. And you know, Christian Cage still looks like Christian Cage when he first cut the mullet off back in like oh two. Like, I mean, it's crazy Jericho. Jericho's in his late fifties now to Yeah, these I think it's the Canadian guys don't age and Tennessee guys don't age. I think it has a lot to do with these guys take and a lot better care for them of themselves obviously as well.

36:02 I mean Billy Gunn looks like he could walk into the three anybody and just who the crap out of him? And he's fifty six years old. He looks like nineteen ninety eight Billy gun Yeah. But the way, I actually just came across a little video of homage to Billy Gunn as mister Ass and I was like, it's amazing that character didn't get over because he was basically just doing Sean Michaels. They tried, remember he was in a feud with the Rock for a little bit one King of the Ring, and it never panned out. Yeah, I just I don't think they once that few like once Rock kind of was the poison. The poison Ivy on the Ass was in that feud. Yes, I forgot about that. That was like a massuse, right, Yeah, and I think that kind of killed the mister Ass gimmick. Yeah, and I think he got injured as well shortly after that, and then he came back as like the one Billy Gun And yeah, that's all another story for another day. Nonetheless, AW Revolution in the books one of the better shows in my opinion of twenty twenty four thus far. I just don't like that AW does like that old WSW trick or Tony Shavanni trick where it's like, this is the biggest night in wrestling in history. It's like, I think it's Shavanni. I think when Shirvanni says it, it's a spoof on himself because he gets so black for the nitro dew. Dude. There was so many people saying it. I mean, Renee Piquette and RJ City were saying it throughout the whole entire pre show.

37:21 I don't think that was a rib. I think that was legit. I mean, I'm like, this is your biggest pay per view of all time, not double or nothing. In twenty nineteen, not all in twenty twenty three in Wembley. Is your biggest pay per view in Kenny of all time in Kenny? Omega's not on it. Yeah, yeah, I mean I would just say it's like, it's a great night for profession professional wrestling. Definitely one of their better shows. I have felt like in sometime docor Trey. I thought Wressell Dream Full Gear was really good. I did not like World's End, but I feel like at least three out of the last four pay per views have been very solid for AW. Yeah, I mean not the mention is it the biggest night when you guys did the Wimbley show. That's yeah, That's what I'm saying before I mean, this is but this is the type of shows I like about AAW. So, you know, I was thinking about this where there are times where I can do without almost dynamite collision. Certainly Rampage. Everybody knows my my my budding feud with Rampage lately. But every single match on this card made with the exception of the Scramble match, which kind of made sense because ward Low's chasing the world title and the result it had a creative storyline. I mean, there's a lot of this with like weird filler sometimes on collision and rampage. Especially Dynamite always seems to be action packed. This past Wednesday's edition of Dynamite was really well done. So it feels like creatively, aw's had a nice, good momentum right now, and I hope it really carries itself to their next pay per view in April titled Dynasty, which is the next one. So props AW

38:52 lately, as I mean, they've been putting together a hell of a roster. They've got well ospray. We believe that they have Mercedes mone coming this upcoming Wednesday, and officially added this past Wednesday night, Doctor Trey, and we've talked about it here, Kazuska Okada is all elite and then shockingly joins the elite Doctor Trey. I mean, AW, in five years has basically taken every top independent new Japan pro wrestling star. I mean, you've got Osprey, You've got Okada, You've got Jay White, these were guys that were basically running the show. You've got Codo Bushie, who I know is injured right now. You've got Kenny, You've got the Bucks you've got Hangman.

39:37 I mean they have drained New Japan Pro Wrestling. We are not shocked by the signing of Okadago and all elite. It was expected. We want We both talked about we wanted to see him go to WWE because it was different. What I will say about this debut, which was nice to see, is that him turning heel and siding with the elite of the young Bucks was nice and different, and I thought it was a really good introduction to him on the AW side as a full time roster. Remember, I wish it was a little bit bigger because I think worldwide, and all due respect, I think will Ospray eventually becomes a bigger star in the next two to three years in the United States and beyond, but worldwide, Kausiscocata is the biggest signing out of Osprey Monet whoever that they'll make in twenty twenty four.

40:23 This is like John Cena for Japan signing with AAW Yeah, and I'll get so it's a huge signing for them. It's a huge get. He's still one of the best professional rest of the world. He's gonna draw a lot of eyes internationally to AW. So that's gonna be good for the products as well. I think him aligning with the Bucks is a brilliant move because one of the issues he's going to have for a little bit is his trends as he learns the English language is going to be his promo skills in English. So aligning himself with the Bucks allows him time to build that up kind of. Let Nicholas and Matthew see what I did there, do the talking for him as they build him up more and more, and then he do on the eventual turn. Then he's a big breakout babyface. And then you know, when he cuts his first promo, the fans eat that stuff up.

41:15 So I think it makes a ton of sense. I'm with you. I still think Osprey in four in three years is a bigger US star than maybe Okada is. But I think from the jump as far as bringing eyes to the table, Ocatta is the biggest get they've got in quite some time. Yeah, I mean this is this is a massive get for them. Okada and I just read before we record it a fight full select is reporting is a three year deal worth four million dollars per year, and Okada will be moving to the United States permanently, so there's a feud in place from when Kenny hopefully returns soon from dive ticulitis. They moved forward with that storyline knowing that Kenny is is not due back anytime soon unless it's something kept very very quiet, which Tony Kahan spoke about on the media scrum that they don't expect Kenny back anytime soon. And I think they're being very truthful in that their talent roster and all Lead wrestling continues to grow, it continues to be some of the best, if not the best, in all professional wrestling. But with all due respect, they're still chasing we right now who is as an all encompassing sports entertainment, professional wrestling industry business show. Each and every week they're knocking it out of the park heading into WrestleMania season. It's really nice to see. I mean, this is starting to feel like nineteen ninety seven, ninety eight, ninety nine professional wrestling to me, Doctor Trey. Yeah.

42:46 And the one thing, and this is sometimes when you have a huge talent raw a huge roster of talent, you're trying to be fair to everybody in the booking, which is when you start getting a lot of fifty to fifty booking and you know, or guys get the start stop pushes. Is you need somebody to break out and just grab the audience by the throat and hold on to them. And and that's where I'm thinking that, Like, that's probably one of the thing they talked about, was like, who's that guy that we can kind of, you know, build the show around that people have to tune in to see. And that's really what helped WWE catch WCW during that time was w CB cop FI with the nWo and then WW got lucky. I don't say lucky, but it was I mean, it's talent, but DX and Stone Cold took off and then that's when you got the back and forth, back and the forth, and then one just stayed hotter than the other. And I think that's what they're looking for now.

43:43 Like ww's their shows are so solid every single week. It's kind of hard to chase down somebody when they're not making mistakes and they're not knee jerk and reacting to what you're doing. But as long as you keep building and building and you're solid and you're solid, and you start to equal out over time, but you just need that one guy to catch fire that everybody has to tune in and see where that the UH to use an old school reference that nobody uses anymore. You need that water cooler talk. You need that Oh my god, do you a'ta see what Swerve did on on Dynamite? Did y'all see that? Like? You need some kind of fun, crazy things that you know, grabs attention and gets people that word of mouth to start tuning into. So, you know, right now, like wrestling in a lot of ways feels like politics, where you're either one side or you're the other. In reality, like the best part of that rivalry of w cw WCWWWF back in the day was the flipping back and forth to see the counter programming going on. UH. And that's because they had two acts that were just on fire, and you had to see what the nWo is going to do. You had to see what Diamond Dawis Page was gonna do when he was, you know, getting diamond cutters everybody. But you also had to see what DX was gonna do, and you had to see what Austin was gonna do. So right now you have a little bit of that in WW with the Cody Seth, bloodline stuff, and AW. Like I said earlier, maybe the best character on their roster right now is Tony Storm and the hottest person they have is Swerve Strickling. Those two people aren't mainstream names right

45:15 now, so you just got to figure out how to get those names out there for people to grab onto and make sure they're turning into Dynamite and Collision every week. Yeah, if and he keeps going right now, I mean will Ospray, I mean just I think it's we're very lucky to be able to watch him each week on the United States television here, of of all elite wrestling, I think we're very very lucky to watch him because he is a phenomenal talent. Yeah, hold on, just want to say the least thing. The only issue with that is phenomenal talent all those guys, but you know, Swerve Osprey phenomenal wrestlers. Nobody can knock AW for their entering action. The only knock we have on them is character develpment, because sometimes it's the characters that grab your attention and make me tune in. And I don't know if we have great characters in AW yet. I think Swerve is a great character. I do. I think there's been a very natural growth and development to his character. But I do agree with you. If there's one thing that AW really needs to focus on, it's it's building that character development. They're actually doing really good job with that with Eddie Kingston right now as well. There's several others obviously, but those are ones that definitely come to mind. But you need something to grab the mainstream audience attention to if you want, excuse me, if you really want to start catching up to WWE, you need somebody to catch fire that makes everybody not just yours.

46:37 You need something to grab everybody's attention to turn it in. I'm with you, I think and I thought about this during Revolution, and you and I will be fans of AW because we're wrestling fans. I think the mainstream is probably going to be difficult to do that because and fans may not like to hear this, but I think AW is a very niche product. They are. Their base is hardcore wrestling fans that know who will lost Bray because it's gokata is. They're not looking for the casuals that pop on because Dwayne the Rock Johnson the movie stars in there and he's in the ring with Roman Rains, who's you know, kind of become a house It's basically a household name at this point. Roman Reigns for professional wrestling like AW doesn't have that, And I think in the eyes of people outside of the wrestling fandom bubble, this would be similar to like the NFL is the W and the UFL no disrespect, disrespect their Rock is AW. It's I think mainstream people would be like, what is this knockoff w show? Y WW was so successful when they were going to Totoe with W and the Mondy Night Wars is because they had Hogan and I just don't think AW will ever do that direction, Doctor Trey. I just can't see them creatively booking shows like W will with the growth that you're seeing right now from like Rock and Roman Reigns with Bloodline and the stuff with Cody Rhoades and seth Rolls, which we'll get to here momentarily.

48:08 But maybe aw's trying with the recent people that they've added, like Jennifer pepperd and Pepperman I think is your last name who just came up from W. Won'll be helping with the women's division, so maybe they're gonna go to the direction. I just think at the end of the day, I think AW is probably more of a niche product. Yeah, but I mean, you think about when WCO caught fire. It took Holland Nash showing up on Nitro, It took the Luger's surprise appearance. It took things like that to really get people talking like, oh my god. Like it took crazy things that were outside the norm of professional wrestling to get people to tune in. And then you know the nWo stuff just in general, the Hogan turning heel, Like you have to have kind of shocking moments to get people talking.

48:54 Did the same thing with the DX stuff and then the Tyson stuff, and then you know, Austin McMahon. These were things that weren't the norm in wrestling, and I think it always it's kind of like the same thing with movie business, where it's like, oh, all the original ideas are taken, and then if you do anything that even resembles something from WWE in nineteen ninety two, oh they did that way, they did that in ww already, Yeah, thirty years ago, forty years ago. You know, instead of let it go. But you got to kind of shock the system a little bit to get people talking about you and selling, not selling casual wrestling fans on how great the n ring action doesn't always work because if I want to and I don't think it will work because if I want to see what, if I want to see great fight, I can just watch UFC.

49:40 I mean how Netflix Housemars Netflix, and we just think got us today, Jake Pauling and is Mike Tyson. If you're launching a live sports division, that's gonna get eyeballs or your TV because it's outside the norm. We need something outside the norm and aw to get casual fans who start tuning in to TNT to watch the showing one thing. Yeah, and I don't think that happens anytime soon. Yeah. I don't think they'll they'll be that mainstream product product that WE is. And it's not because they're not doing anything good. I just don't think that there'll ever be the w WE formula. I think they want to be different and that's fine, but casual mainstream fans don't give a shit about a forty five minute match between like Will Ospring Kenoski takesha like we do. Yeah. Yeah, here's the thing. Think about this match.

50:28 You love the Osprey Takeshka match, right, like, in six months, will you remember all thirty twenty eight minutes thirty minutes of that match? No, you remember the finish, You'll marry a couple of spots, and you remember the end, and you remember the emotion. And that's one thing I teach you wrestlers, like is not the in ring product, is the emotion you put out there that gives people to come back. I think that was a highly emotional match, man. Yeah, I gotta disagree there. I know you're using that as like an example, but I think I will remember will Osbury Kenoski Takeashka and Stinging Darby Allen. I think sticking Darby Allen Young Bucks is a very we esque match which you compared very beautifully there to like Steve Austin and Kevin Owens. I think those will be memorable matches on that card. I don't. I don't mean it like no, here's here's my comparison. So Shawn Michaels Brett Hart wrestle Meane Iron, My match is my favorite match of all time. I love that match. I could not tell you every single move in that match. Oh, of course I can.

51:27 That's and that's my point. The n ring action can be great and it's the emotion that you're selling, but you don't always need you can have like Kevin Owens Stone Call was like fifteen to twenty minutes. I can't remember all the fight sequents that match, but I remember the emotion off that as well. And that's if I want to see great action, like great physical fighting action, I can tune into the UFC. Yeah, but that but that's a aw is going to garner emotion from great ng ring abilities like that's that's their product though, But you have to take that emotion and put it in other areas as well, because otherwise you're just a great wrestling product. Are you a great entertainment product? I think I think they're doing a better job with that though. I Dynamite was a really good show this past week, stemming off with a pay per view. I mean, there's a lot of good emotion there with Swerve and Samoa Joe in that opening segment leading to the tag team match, Like I thought, I thought, and I thought the match with Kyle Fletcher and Will Osprey was really well done, I think if but I know their history, I think if I was AW, I would have gone on with like a video package the history between those two guys, because not everybody knows that they were in United Empire together. Yeah, and that's and that's the thing there. There are times when I watch AW, that's the Storytelly has been much improved the last few months, which I'm really happy about. It's not a lot of short sty is though they at times kind of bank on you knowing being a hardcore fan. Agreed, and I don't know if they ever want to change. There's almost I don't like

53:00 it's like when you have when those people who own a Honda Prius, but they just anybody doesn't have a Prius or doesn't have a smart car, it doesn't have a hybrid there, but they're just dumb. It's almost like that this is this is getting political now This is I mean, this is like a lot of things in general nowadays. I mean, this is the social media. I mean, this is like the number one reason why wrestling fans bash, like the AW hardcorese Like there's those AW Neckbeard's Twitter accounts out there, and they're pretty funny because it's like like I think O'Hay Jackson, which is ice cube Son, Who's I guess he's like the prominent voice now professional wrestling fandom for some reason, like he and he hit it on the head. It's like, oh wow, who is this guy? Like this British guy is really good and the AW fans like this is Will Ospray. You don't know who this is? No, I don't, but I really like it. And their response is well, you're an idiot, like and you're not a wrestling fan. And it's like wait what, Yeah, it's they have almost like an elitist attitude about their right professional It's in the name.

54:00 Yeah. So it's like it's a niche product. I think it's a niche product. And I hate to say that because I enjoy it, but it's niche. It's owning the hybrid car, owning the smart car in comparison everybody else. Yeah. I again, I will say creatively, I think AW is building upwards towards of the mainstream aspects than what we've seen in like the last two years. I think they're doing a match much better job. But there are times where you've got to introduce the CML El Sars that I don't know. I mean I don't know every single one. Like Hennasario was like the first time I ever saw him, and he was phenomenal in the ring, really enjoyed it. What was his name? Is it Henner Sario?

54:42 Oh? I thought you said Hennessy. Does you know the guy who's like the magician? I thought he was really good. June Akayama out of d DT. I mean I haven't seen June Okayama matches many of them or wait a minute, no progressing? Noah, I think he is. I don't know. I had her name June Akiyama since w CW n W O Revenge. Is he in that game? Well? No? There? Who was the there was a guy uh from is here a New Japan and that he had to run in w CW. He's in that game. There's a few Japanese wrestlers. Yeah, it's Who's Blue Justice over in New Japan. He just was on there taking on Brian Danielson. Oh God, Eugene Nagata, Yes, Eugeniagatta. That's who I was like, that's that's like when last time I heard June Akayama was in the New Eugen Nagata days. Yeah, and that was like everybody was with Son and that's when w W w W was was feuding with New Japan. There was an entire star k that was based around WW versus New Japan, and that was in the days when they were they were a niche Southern product. Did Eric Bischoff do Forbidden Door before Forbidden Door? Oh? Yeah, do you remember that one? Stark?

55:57 Yeah, now that I think about it, like i'd only that out of my memory for a while, I think it was like Stark ninety five. Yeah, like that's yeah, that's in my wrestling history. It was the World Cup of Wrestling. Yeah, it was WW taking on New Japan. Oh my goodness, their memories they're making it flow back anyway. But yeah, like I to me, it's it's you know, look, you're right, it's a niche product that is trying to slowly make its way out. It's a little bit it's a little bit of E. C. Wish as well, in the sense of like when people were ECW fans and they're like, oh, you don't know who Nujack is, then you're stupid. It's like you're on like fifteen televisions channels. How would I know this like it's it's a little bit of that attitude as well, but just they just have better financing than Paul Hayman did back in the day. Let's switch gears speaking of Paul Hamon to WWE here real quick, Paul Hamon and Bowl Nakana where announced as the first inductees for the w Hall of Fame class of twenty twenty four. I mean, we could do an entire podcast here on Paul Hayman and his impact to professional wrestling. Bull Nakano, I got to be honest, I did not see many of her matches. I remember her feud in ninety four with a lunch of Blaze in ninety five becoming the w F at the time women's champion. But I mean two great first inductees here, certainly Paul Hayman in the home area of extreme in Philadelphia and bol Nakana, one of the most influential women's wrestlers in history. Yeah, Bo Nakano inspired so many women's the best phoenixes of the world. Awesome Kong. We'll tell you

57:29 that she's a huge bowld nccano fan. I was amazing. That's how A picture of Boll Nacanna recently she looks nothing like the boldon nccano I remember from that lunder Blaze view, but like she looks phenomenal. Agreed, I saw it too recently. I was like, damn, but yeah, like just two Like it's it's that big knockout star you need, which is the Paul Hayman going to Philadelphia to go in the Hall of Fame. And then you get the bowmacana, which gives you that like hardcore wrestling fan credibility for the Hall of Fame as well. It's gonna be interesting else, they added to Max, it's gonna be interesting who they have induct Paul Hayman. Like I'm waiting to see that is I saw something I can't reverer who was? But on Twitter they're like, just give Paul Hayman the microphone, Like keep all the other inductions be short, and then just give Paul Hayman the mike for forty five minutes and people will go home happy. So I would have best guest Brock Lesner before all this stuff went down. Yeah, but even then, I as much as I love Brock, I don't know if Brock would give a great induction speech. Brock's not known for being the best. He's good, but I'd thought to Dreamer do it. I wouldn't be surprised if it's Steve Austin or CM Punk. That's a good one too. I mean there's plenty of great people, I mean dangerous alliance. Anybody in E CW.

58:43 Tommy Dreamer would be fantastic. Cmpunk would be phenomenal as well. So I know they only do it for like some of the headliners now inductees, because remember Conyan did it for Ray. But yeah, we'll have to see what goes on here. So bul Nakana Paul Hayman first inductees into the WA Hall Film Class to twenty twenty four, and then quick here to wrap up our resume and he forty card round up. No match is confirmed this week, but rumored expected Doctor Trey Roman Reigns and the Rock versus Cody Roads and Seth Freaking Rollins has gained some traction momentum. I fully expect this podcast drops on Friday morning, that this match will become official on Friday Night's edition of SmackDown. Yeah, and I'm wondering why they're saving it for SmackDown, Like why didn't Cody and Seth just accept on Raw Monday Night. But yeah, yeah, anyway, like why do we gotta wait a whole week when those two guys technically technically still are Raw superstars, But yeah, I fully expect that to happen. I also like the you know, if we win, then bloodline rules. I'm like, do we know what bloodline rules are?

59:42 Because we're gonna make that up as it goes. But uh well he did explain it. I mean he said, like anything goes At this point, I say, anything goes. But I love that that is bloodline rules, not just hey, not just the traditional not Q anything goes match that we've been doing four one hundred years. And then you know, I think you want to add a little bit of spice of that though, right yeah yeah, and then if Cody and Saith when the Bloodline won't get involved at all? Though, but yeah, like I love This's gonna be fun and I love that the Rocks still like hyping it was the biggest tag team Magine history, and I'm like, I mean, I remember the Bag of Powers in Andre and DEBIOSSI. That was pretty big. I remember that one. So it's up there and what did you think about Rock acknowledging Roman reigns as his tribal chief. There seems to be like some growing concerns that Roman doesn't maybe believe him. Rock threw up the l again and then went back to the one, and Paul Hayman has a thing where he's staring at the Rock and has like a smug look on his face that's been captured on Twitter. What do you think about all that stuff that took place there, because it's definitely starting to set up the Rock and Roman storyline. Yeah, and I think this is where you see that crack of the foundation where if Roman loses, he blames the Rock for doing it, and then you know, then you get the solo and Jimmy and Roman beat down the Rock for the Rock to come back as the baby face, you know around summerslame time or if they stretched all way out to wrestle Media forty one. So I think this is, you know, perfect storytelling because you can't have those two. It was kind of It's similar when you know what the plan for Austin and Triple H

1:01:13 as a two man ego trip was for them to run rough shot of everybody until they based their egos, you know, overshoot each other. This is just traditional story. So I love that. Basically like Roman made Rock acknowledge him, almost like prove his loyalty in a sense. But then you know, you can't really trust the Rock. It's the Rock. I mean, he's turned on everybody. He's not he's not big show level, but he would baby face it. Heel quite a bit during his run, so but just yeah, I mean he is at the end of the day, the Rock is technically a high chief in the ny family and Rome was just a tribal chief. So very true. And then they didn't move make some movement here in the Intercomal Champion Doctor Trailer will be a gauntlet match on Monday's Raw.

1:02:00 Sammy's Ay and Ricochet, Chad Gable, Bronson, Reid chins Key, Knockimore or j D McDonald all be battling for the right to take on Gunther at WrestleMania forty. I don't know how this shakes out. I think there's two leading candidates here, Doctor Trey, Sammy Zin or Chad Gable that this is going to be interesting. I think this is a mut obviously a must watch match on Monday because it's not so cut and dry that like, yeah, I think it's gonna be Sammy z Ayin. Yeah, I think it's gonna be Chad Gable. I think those two are the lead horses in there. But yeah, this is I think this is a fun way of doing this for the Intercal Championship at WrestleMania. Not to mention you had a really solid mess means Sammy and Ivar on raw as well, So yes, Ivar is awesome. It's it's it's gonna be really interesting to see where they go with this because honestly, here's what's Gre's the crazy thing. I was kind of hoping for Goother and Dominic because I just want to see Goother's like chopped Dominic for fifteen minutes, and you know that whole Judgment Day Imperium face off is like, all right, well where we go with this? So it's it's interesting because with that little bit of a face off, does JD McDonagh jump up into the top three of picks, So that way you get a little bit of Judgment Day and Imperium and WrestleMania. So it's interesting. I think you and I mentioned it was for us. I think it was both like either Sammy or Chad Gable. It'll be interesting to see which which horse they run with here, because I think Sammy is maybe are the more popular

1:03:30 of the two, But I think Gable gives you the best story because that goes back to what they were doing over the you know, over the fall month with that whole Gable Gother stuff and Gable's daughter and everything else. So it's gonna be interesting which which way they pick coming out of Monday Night Wrong. There you go. So that's the latest WrestleMania forty card round up, Doctor Trey. We'll obviously have some clarity. I expect at least two matches to be confirmed by we by the time we meet again here. Obviously the two matches we just discussed, and who knows how much which more we will see heading into Wrestling forty. With that said, let's close up shop on this week's edition of SRTU. We'll get a couple plugs and spots out of the way. You could download the show every Thursday or Friday at Real Guy Radio dot Com, wrestle chatnet on x and the still Realtest show iTunes feed.

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