John Cena Turned Heel | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #786 – 03/06/25

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It's still real to me, damn it!

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What up, you!

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Ooh!

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Welcome everybody!

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Welcome to this week's Innocent Esto Real Dice Show,

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Episode of our 786 for March 6, 2025.

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This is your WWE elimination chamber,

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Recap and review edition of S-R-T-U.

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I am one after-shelf, I am Jeff Peck,

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joined every single week with my co-host, the only Dutch-Trayer Franklin,

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Dr. Trey,

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finally happened, my friend.

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Do you think that they listened to us ever since Vince retired?

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Because the two things we were not allowed to talk about

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have now happened in the last couple of years.

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So, somebody stealing ideas from us, Jeff.

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I don't know who it is, but,

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I mean, you literally, at one point in the last couple of weeks, told me,

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I could not talk about this because there's the rule that we cannot talk about it.

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But it happened, so I guess we have to lift that rule now as well.

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Yes, we will have to lift the rule.

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We will get to the rule, and it's funny that you said that,

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because I went back and I listened to Last Week Show,

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and I thought it was said during Last Week Show, and it wasn't.

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I could have sworn we talked about it during the recap,

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or, excuse me, the pre-review predictions part, and it wasn't.

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So, that must have been like two, three years ago that we talked about,

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two, three weeks ago that we talked about that.

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I wonder if it was right after the humble, because I knew we talked about it.

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That, or that might have been that little bit of conversation

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since we had off-air after the show ended.

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Okay, so maybe it happened off-air?

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Yeah.

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Okay, because I immediately dismissed it.

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Because I know I had mentioned it back with the whole,

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when Jay won the rumble, I had kind of mentioned it.

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And then I think Last Week Off-air, I had asked you,

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we have made our predictions if we switched Jay and Cena.

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So, I listened to this part.

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Yes, I listened to that part literally about 20 minutes before we sat down on record.

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And we only talked about Jay.

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We did not talk about the person we cannot talk about.

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I'm pretty sure we have.

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Even though you kind of talked about it.

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I know we did.

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But I think you're right.

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I think it may have been off-air now.

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Yeah, because I think, because I think we're trying to lay out the logistics

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of how it could happen.

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I think we got done recording last week's show and talked about it off-air.

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I don't think that this was a conversation that made it during the February shows.

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Which makes me so mad because every now and then we hit something dead on.

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And I'm like, "Oh, it's on the tape somewhere."

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But then we, yeah, we just, we were rambling.

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My plan was to pull that audio and play it on the show.

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And then I listened back.

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I was like, "Man, this would have been the part that we talked about it."

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And I don't think we talked about it anywhere else in that episode because we did the awards.

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Maybe it was in the roundup?

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Maybe?

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I'll have to go back and listen to it because now you got to meet curious.

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Because I know we, I'm pretty sure we mentioned it on air because I remember you saying

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we can't talk about this.

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I think it was during the roundup.

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Now that we say it.

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It might have been.

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Yeah, I'll have to go back and try to listen there.

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But anyway, what are we talking about?

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Stay tuned.

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WWE of the Nation Chamber recap and review this past Saturday from the Roger Center in Toronto, Ontario.

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Canada, the first match here was Bianca Belair defeating Liv Morgan, Lexibleis, Bailey Naomi,

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and Roxanne Perez in an elimination chamber match to win a women's world championship match

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at WrestleMania 41.

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You and I both had Bianca Belair on this one, Dr. Trey.

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It was a hot start to the show.

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The Jade Cargill Naomi stuff had the crowd in the palm of their hands.

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Really good in-ring stuff from all the competitors and an enjoyable match.

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Bianca again, the win was nice as it's time for her to get back into singles competition after battling in the tag division

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for what I felt was too long.

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Rhea Bianca at this point in time was perceived to be awesome.

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Maybe it still happens at Mania.

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We'll talk about what took place on Monday's Raw here momentarily.

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But the match itself, Dr. Trey, your thoughts.

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Did I call this one correctly though?

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As far as Jade attacking Naomi?

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Because I thought I called this one too.

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See, we're getting on.

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Maybe not.

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Back in the day, I would be like, yeah, we said that.

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I, older I get, the less sleep I get, thanks to kids.

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This is what's happening, brother.

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You warned me about this.

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Yeah, I literally was like, I thought I called this, but yeah, like this, the crazy of this match, like I enjoyed the match.

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I thought the Jade stuff was Jade coming back going after Naomi was fantastic.

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I thought the assault was great.

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Like, it was brutal.

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I've never seen somebody slam the sliding door into somebody's head before.

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And then the rest of the match was pretty good too.

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Like, I really enjoyed it.

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I was really excited for Bianca and Jade.

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The weird thing about me though is Bianca was so inconsolable in herself when the attack was going on.

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I was like, in reality, Jeff, if you're bet, this is not mind you.

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This is also a person who literally abandoned a match.

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Earlier in this year or last year to go check on Jade that she comes out of the pot and she goes right to the match.

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Like, I was like, okay, you're inconsolable while your partner is getting attacked.

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But now you can focus on the match and win the match.

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That was my only issue with it.

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But overall, take that part out of the equation.

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I enjoyed the elimination chamber for the women.

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Yeah, it was, it was a really fun one.

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What do you think?

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Should we talk about what happened on Rod now or do you want to say it for the roundup?

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Sure, let's go ahead and talk about now because I was like, what the hell?

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All right, so let's get into it here.

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So Monday's RAW, EO Sky, Rear Ripley.

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I totally felt, and this is going to be like the theme for the show, Dr. Tray, in regards to the creative at WWE right now.

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I was like, okay, Rear retains, defeats EO and we get reaverses.

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Bianca Belair at WrestleMania.

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When, that was my initial thought once the match was announced.

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When I watched the end of elimination chamber and the three of them,

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you had Rea and Bianca face to face and EO comes out and like, I wonder if they could do triple threat.

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What I didn't foresee is EO Sky defeating Rear Ripley to win the Women's World Championship.

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Thanks to like Bianca's semi-involvement cheering on EO Sky.

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Bianca playing a little bit of a heal, re-appre-completely blowing her WrestleMania chances.

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And I'm like, this is extremely intriguing now.

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We've got six weeks.

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This was not predictable, which is what we want.

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We don't want to always sit here and dislocate our shoulders and pat ourselves on the back like we're very harrow its.

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We want to be surprised and this surprised me.

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I still feel like right now my heart of hearts.

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This is going to be a triple threat match in Las Vegas.

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I don't know how we get there quite yet.

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But I think that opens up a door where I'm like, hmm, could they do a Becky Lynch return now with Rear Ripley?

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Because Becky hasn't been back to the WrestleMania season.

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All in all, right now EO Sky versus Bianca Belair.

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EO Sky, our new Women's World Champion will be taking place at WrestleMania.

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And Rear Ripley, one of the best in the business, is on the outside looking in at the biggest shows of the year.

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Yeah, I was completely blown away.

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Like you said, like on paper, I'm like, okay, yeah, Rear Bianca.

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EO is just kind of a filler to get to that match.

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But when they started hyping up, that Rear had never defeated EO Sky.

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I was like, well, it's weird they're bringing this up because one was the May Young Classic and that Rear was way different than the Rear we have now.

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And then the other one was NXT Rear is about to go the main roster.

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Let's move the belts off or make EO the big star.

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And EO is doing that weird, cool.

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And then the EO turned there, they look.

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But when they said, kept hyping it up, I was like, why are they foreshadowing this so much?

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Like, why are we playing it?

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It's like, I don't think anybody right now on paper puts EO on the same level as Rear.

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And that's why I guess I loved it because now you're kind of elevating somebody else into what should be our main event level caliber women.

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Like I think everybody on paper puts Bianca and Rear on the same level.

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And now you're putting EO in the mix.

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Now I saw some people frowning upon it, going back a few years when we wanted Becky and Rhonda and we got Becky and Charlotte instead.

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We all kind of want Rear and Bianca, but now we're getting Rear and Bianca and EO maybe in WrestleMania.

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But I love this, the other thing you thought of, this could be Becky Lynch coming back into Battle Rear.

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And then you still get EO and Bianca. By the way, I loved the last shot on a RAW is Rear on the floor calling herself stupid.

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I immediately got Randy Orton, COVID Kings and Flashbacks from that.

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Yeah, yeah, no, it's really good.

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There's some Becky Lynch layers you're all safe for the roundup.

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All right, let's get to the next match. Tiffany Stratton and Tristratus defeat Nye Jackson, Candace LaRae.

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We both had Tiffany Stratton in Trish in this one.

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Basically the purpose of this match was to set up Tiffany Stratton as the baby face heading into WrestleMania by getting the rub from the hometown hall of Famer and Tristratus.

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The match was fine and I thought it was a big deal and the right move that Tiffany got the pin on Nye and Toronto and not Trish.

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So I think this was like WWE's gift of giving Tristratus a platform Roger Center hometown girl performing front of your kids and help give the rub to Tiffany Stratton.

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The Trishy and Tiffany time stuff was very awkward and clunky.

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Like Trish was really helping her out there or like they would do the point, the Tristratus point and then she would like say now point to your wrist and they would both do it.

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I mean, if Tiffany Stratton is green a little bit in the baby face character standpoint, fine, she's an amazing heal.

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I don't really think she needs to change much if she does a baby face run there.

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But to me, that's what the purpose of this match was, Dr. Trayon.

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And I guess to close out the Nye Jackson canisterly race up because that did get a little bit clunky and awkward when she did cash in and Nye wasn't like Fuminer brains out that Tiffany did then and stabbed her in the back.

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Yeah, like I like the whole we're trying to separate the Tiffany and Charlotte characters a little bit like we try to make sure the baby face you guys don't want that.

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So she's got to be healed well that we can't do heal heal Trish and Tiffany that kind of gets Tiffany the rub.

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It is awkward though like I'm watching these two and I'm like it's kind of watching a mother daughter TikTok video.

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Like it's just it's like okay the mom's trying to be hip and cool and but not really there and the daughter still kind of it's a little weird.

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But you can kind of see like hey we got to set boundaries and delineate baby face and heal in these matches in WrestleMania which is something I harp upon on the show quite a bit.

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And I think they did a good job. I mean the crowd was you know was into it. They were enjoying it.

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It does kind of end the Nye run right now.

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It'll be your season what they do with her at WrestleMania season because she was a champion and she was queen of the ring.

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You can't just leave her off the show so it's gonna be kind of interesting to see where they fit her in.

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Do we see Candace and Nia break up you know what but yeah this kind of does close that chapter on that weird Bailey to Nia the Tiffany little storyline we add you know over the summer and fall.

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And I just want to say before we get to the next one here I was really happy for Candace the Ray.

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I think Candace the Ray is an phenomenal worker. She has worked her tail off in her entire career and I'm just happy to see her getting this opportunity that she did in Toronto because I think she deserves it.

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So major props to Candace the Ray for getting that shine at the elimination chamber.

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Next match here was Kevin and Owens defeating Sammy Zayn and an un sanctioned match. I had Sammy Zayn Dr. Trey I had KO Kevin Owens as you point out Dr. Trey.

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He really needed this win badly as it's been some time since he won a big marking match one of the more violently influenced WWE matches in some time the barbed wire chair that is something we have not seen it wouldn't what feels like 20 years.

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The rain New York returned made a lot of sense but why did he wait until after the match was over to help Sammy Zayn for receiving a potentially career career altering beat down.

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I loved the attention of detail in this un sanctioned match as well because the lights were low which was very easy to notice. No ref shirt which they pointed out but what I liked a lot if anybody goes back and notices this the turnbuckles are covered in black so you don't see the WWE logo.

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I really liked the attention of detail in this one.

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I really enjoyed this match the Randy Orton return did not make sense based on the amount of you know it was un sanctioned no DQ all that stuff.

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I was the reason why I chose Sammy Zayn and then maybe this is me being better on the prediction was like that's when Randy Orton return that Randy Orton have a come out RKO you know Kevin Owens or distract him right have the music play and Kevin Owens is distracted and that's when Sammy takes advantage and then KO can lay out Sammy Walts like Orton's makin's way out.

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That could have made sense but I think the reason why none of that took place at the end of the day Dr. Dre is they want KO going into Mania and rightfully so with a victory especially if he's going to be involved in some sort of match that has Randy Orton in it.

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Yeah I really enjoyed this match and we've talked about these are two of our favorite guys in the history of SRTU and these guys can fight or tag up and they can come out there and do karaoke and I would buy into it.

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It doesn't really matter what they do I just enjoy these guys so much so yeah super super enjoy the match violence you know that we hadn't really seen a long time.

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I was okay with the Randy stuff because I can look at and go look if you're the baby face you want to give the other baby face a chance to win the match on his own before you get involved but you get involved to protect him from what you with or so.

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I understood why they did it.

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Yeah like it's for but everything the little subtleties they did like the lights the the term buckles all that stuff was great.

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But yeah KO definitely needed a win like he I mean like what we were talking about like a summer slam again one of summer slam matches like oh when his last five.

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Like he had really one a big match since him and Sammy one the tag belt or WrestleMania two years ago so it was just made a lot of sense and it sets it up for WrestleMania with Randy in Kevin which I want to have.

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I'm happy about their hand though like I kind of wanted to see Kevin and Sammy go at it again at WrestleMania because I think they also deserve that spot like is.

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It's not very often that we see two guys win the tag belt or WrestleMania and then fight each other WrestleMania just the who so maybe that's about it so outside of that like once again one of the better matches I've seen a long time I just really love that match.

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And then finally John Cena defeat CM Punk drew Macatar Logan Paul Damien Priest and Seth freaking Rollins in elimination chamber match for an undisputed WWE championship match at WrestleMania 41.

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We both had John Cena in this one really good men's chamber match the storytelling of this one most likely confirmed that drew Macatar Damien Priest and Seth Rollins CM Punk Roman Reigns will happen somehow WrestleMania.

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Cena did not dominate the match and had the closing segment to elimination chamber not happen which we will talk about here in just a second more I would have felt like Cena looked weak heading into an event match at WrestleMania 41 as he needed Seth Rollins help to win so it's very funny when you just watch the elimination chamber match at the surface and if the show just ended right there I think we'd be sitting here going man Cena did not look strong he needed like a miracle to win that match.

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I guess in a way he did need a miracle to win that match but what took place afterwards is what we will finally lift the lifetime ban on in just a second.

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Dr. Tre your thoughts on this match.

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Yeah it was I don't know I liked it it wasn't my favorite elimination chamber match we've had recently but I liked it.

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I think it started setting the groundwork for WrestleMania which is kind of what this needs to do is still kind of leaves Logan Paul on the outside looking in which why he's by the way why is he writing messages to Drake on the chamber wall I get that I didn't get but also they did not mention that Drake was there which was odd.

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Well I mean they don't want to get sued I guess I don't know there's a lot of kids in the crowd crap now we're getting sued anyway I digress.

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Yeah yeah I actually liked the booking of the way Cena won this match even like before the other stuff happened because this is an older John Cena this is not prime Superman John Cena this is John Cena who hasn't won a match in singles match in 500 summer days 25 I forgot the number was it was crazy number but I liked it that it was flukeish in a lot of ways that he won this and was able to pull it out.

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But you're right like on paper with that match in it I went yeah Cena doesn't look strong and I don't know how they're going to pull this off with him and Cody and make it interesting between now and then but yeah like I said like this it was a fine chamber match but the chamber match is not what's going to be memorable 10 years from now.

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All right paper view prediction record from this one I went three in one doctor when a perfect 4 and 0 now in 2025 did you see an big a J boom.

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And I did it. Whoa.

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Oh okay cool.

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25 favorite prediction records or PLA whatever you want to call it 11 and 3 me doctor tray 10 and 4 match of the night and event rating.

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I gave my match the night to the men's chamber match doctor tray and I gave elimination chamber a 4.2 out of 5. What's a you my friend.

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Okay now did you give it to the chamber match because of what happened or the actual chamber match itself.

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I enjoy the men's chamber match. I know you were a big fan of Sammie's and Kevin Owens. I thought it went on a little too long honestly I was not I was not overly I've seen and I think this is where this comes in so I don't know if this is your match.

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I have seen so many Kevin Owens and Sammie's and matches that I don't think that one crosses like the top 5 which is speaking very high praise because they have like match of the year candidates I think there was one that they did in WWE battleground like 2017 that was amazing and obviously the stuff that I saw back in the day.

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This one was not like I've seen a non-stanked match 2010 final battle our weight between these two guys that was much much better than this one but obviously they were on a bigger stage so that's why I did not choose Kevin Owens and Sammie's because I've seen so many of their stuff that I did not feel like that one was was on that level yet.

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So I did go Sammie and Kevin from my match tonight in its biasness it's what everyone call it but I just those guys can do basically as early they can do anything and I'm going to enjoy it.

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I gave a let me shame or 4.5 and a lot of it is because the closes show and the fact that this will stick on our memories for the next 20 years.

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So 4.5 for me for EC. Alright so let's get into it folks let it officially if there was a way to verbally do this we are lifting I feel like this is like a like we have a fault or what is it like a storage facility here with a lot of things we put away and we are forcing that door open right now and it is slowly creaking up and lifting the band of something that has been lifetime on this show.

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Literally stuff that we talked about ad nauseam in when this first show started when the show first started back during WrestleMania 28 and in WrestleMania 29 the rumors of it happening during WrestleMania 29 that came out years later and at one point we just said we got to stop talking about it because WWE is never going to do this and then they did it.

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So the band is lifted because ladies and gentlemen John Cena turned heel Dr. Trey your thoughts.

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So I think it's been an almost 11 year band was it rock scene a two when we really enforce the band.

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I believe so I was what rest like WrestleMania 30 29 29 so 12 year band that's pretty incredible because I think the only time we actually kind of creaked the vault door open was after the scene of Bray Wyatt cinematic match slightly because we saw seen in the NWO shirt during that match so it did open it a little bit but

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yeah this is honestly I had this conversation with my mother-in-law who's now a die heart wrestling fan and she never thought she's seen this coming I was like I thought there was a possibility of this but I didn't know if they either that they had time to pull it off correctly and be if they had the balls to do it because seen a merchandise still sells there is I mean you look that when they show the crowd shots after thing there was you know the last time is now she's going to be the last time.

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And the last time is now sure everywhere like there was a bunch of scene a merchandise in that crowd and to have the guts and the gumption to pull the trigger on it now is incredible like I literally I thought it might happen but I didn't see it coming but man it's it's up there top I mean I've gone back and forth all week long is

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really a real bigger than seen but in a lot of ways is very similar low both guys when they turn were about 15 years past their peak baby face time so when these guys both pull this pull the trigger on this it's it's incredible so and then just seeing him there and then you know the low blow the the belt shot the punch with the watch you all those things and then standing on Cody's head

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I know the shot people see you with his arms on his thigh with rock and Travis Scott for some weird reason being there because last time I think I saw Travis Scott he was with Jayusa so it's a weird thing but the fact of seeing seen a standing on somebody's head that that kind of level of disrespect is something we've never seen just do even when he was evil in his early days he was a standing on people's heads like that is like a concrete

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a conquering warrior super villain tight move I thought it was well done he has the best like blank empty stare I think I've seen in in a very very long time like it almost looked like I don't know if he knows it it looked like almost like his eyes change color like they would

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show close ups and it was just like there was nothing there he looks like the angry old man from Jeff Dunham's puppets a Walter see in the back always I know that is because I think I'm Walter now

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well I mean John seen it is only one month older than me like almost to the day so yeah it's just an amazing amazing thing they pull off and I applaud them for having the courage the guts in the balls to kind of take this route

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because the crazy is Jeff we've but I wrestle mania gets here he only has eight months left he said he was done at the end of the year so from wrestle mania to December 31 is like eight months like how do you get a heena

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a scene a heel run and then a potential redemption arc crammed into eight months because John Cena is not leaving the WWE as a villain he's gonna have to turn back at some point so these next eight months are going to be jam packed and maybe shotgun to

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bit but I'm here for the I'm here for I'm I'm wanting to see where this goes so there's a lot of questions and I was as you were talking I was like I wonder these are more complaints than they are questions so they may they may get in there so couple of things here so my initial thoughts are this proves along with the EOS guy thing and I think it's

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on a much lower level putting the title on the EOS guy what they're doing right now this shows that this creative team for WWE has the balls to do it they don't care about hindsight or what we've been told or thought forever they're going to do things that we so we did not see coming this is

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something we did not see coming because of what you said dr. this is the retirement or you got a figure and this is what I feel like you and I talked about when this was

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potentially brought up on the show or not we can't remember because we're too old men now was that we just felt like no this is going to be a great

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a sit for they they're not going to let them go out as a heel and and that's what they're doing they've decided to do the

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complete heel turn in the explanation behind it makes a lot of sense scenic would would be feeling the heat that he wants the record

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he he had it won a singles match in 2000 some odd days and he didn't know if if if he had it anymore and hustle loyalty and respect had failed him so he needed to sell out so that makes a ton of sense

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and they've got the the the gumption in balls to do it the things that I did not like about the situation is what you pointed out Travis got

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in there that does nothing for me I know that he radiates to somebody you know and I like hip hop music I like rap I don't listen to a lot of Travis got stuff I know he's a big star but that

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did a resonate with me so why he's in there in that moment made little sense other than they want to be able to put this out there on like entertainment tonight and those you know news broadcast sport broadcast but they could have

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done that because they had the number one movie star in the ring already with with Wayne Johnson and John Cena is a recognizable name and it was everywhere the other thing is it was a great moment and if you're comparing moments here and this is obviously

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going to be compared about to Holkogan in the NWO versus John Cena turning and citing with with the rock to me it is still Hogan joining NWO no questions asked because he wasn't

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at the downside of his career at that point Holkogan it was a lot of people were calling for it never thought it would happen he was kind of towards the very end of the prime a little bit in the WCW era they executed it and

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rejuvenated this I think there's a little bit of trepidation on the John Cena part because they we don't know how long he's going to be around for is the retirement tour that he's been speaking about just you know way to get us off the trail and

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and Cena is going to be around for a little bit longer we don't know that yet and I thought that there was no follow up on Monday's raw was a missed opportunity I don't know if seen has been announced for Smackdown yet as we record this but I felt like those were missed opportunities and and seen a

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should have addressed on Monday's raw because I think that would have been a great ratings boost for Netflix and if I'm Netflix I'm mad about it the second thing the crowd reaction from

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the beach 96 versus elimination chamber 2025 you could feel the crowd in that small arena in Florida that night I mean I mean small arena I mean what did I have over 10,000 people Roger center had 38,000 people I had a tough time watching at home

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doctor try what the crowd reaction was because when you're in a rena's like that or step baseball stadiums you know you'll hear the rest of

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the reaction goes up and literally everybody that's in that ring in those big events will tell you that they'll be wrestling in the ring and they can't hear the crowd so they don't know what they're doing is right because it's going completely up in the air and not bouncing back

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down off of the roof like it wasn't a rena so even though there was a great crowd reaction I was like I don't get the vibe for this and I was looking for people throwing stuff in the ring

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and I was like if people throw stuff in the ring as I was watching it I was like this is going to be a great moment people do it maybe it was just more shock and I thought WWE missed out on opportunities and they've done an after the fact you got to show me kids crying you got to show me adults crying were in the scene where and we were not seeing that in real

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time which I thought was disappointing and then lastly and I realize this is going to be very complaining because I do love that they did this move because of the options that they now have is I was thinking this one you won the match

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and then the scene has become so cartoony that I was like what has happened to this guy because his facial reactions are so much in bellishing and he's over reacting to stuff so much you want to be like who is this fake ass douchebag basically

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and then he did the transformation and I'm sorry doctor I know you liked it I thought it came off hokey and then they showed the the graphic for the match on raw and they went with that face that he did towards the end where he's looking out and I'm like

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this is what are they doing here so I this is to say that I still really enjoy that they did this move but I thought that when you because a lot of people are doing it when you're

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comparing it to bass the beach 96 I think it's a different ball game because in 96 we did not expect that to happen in 2025 we did not expect it to happen but there was 10%

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of us that still felt like it was coming and as you watch that segment go on I'm like oh man they got to do this like I feel like they're going to do this but I could totally see the show closing out and then they went for it I'm like all I could think of was like yes this was

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executed very well and was well done but the number one thing to me doctor tray was this creative team has balls because you would hear seen a say that they were trying to push forward

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at WrestleMania 29 heading in that match with the rock and Vince was the one who denied it because Vince didn't want to lose the merchandise Vince didn't want to lose the make a wish foundation

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stuff they had a gear picked out for scene they had a new theme song reportedly picked out for scene of the whole nine yards and they went against it and to me that was like the bigger thing of this I was

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like this creative team has balls on it and that's what I felt like was my biggest takeaway from the entire thing yeah I I love your observations like the scene in the background when Cody is talking to rock

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and he is just so overly animated I'm like yeah that that's weirdly cornyish you know and then you know the blank stare

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so there are two reasons for me that the hogan turn is still bigger than this one number one is something you alluded to there's no follow up there's no there was no immediately right there tell me why this happened

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like with hogan at bash the beach jean oakland got in the ring there's hauling action hogan's on in the mic telling the fans the stick it the birth of the new world order

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of the new world order of wrestling as hogan put it and then the trash are flying it so you felt that emotion you felt like betrayed by this man

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you didn't get that was seen it like you just get them standing there once again Travis Scott for no apparent reason to stand there

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and there's no follow up in the ring right there there's no follow up on Monday like we're left kind of dangling as to why this is happening

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and jecturing and alluding and making assumptions as to why their rationale is going to be number two is when hogan joined the NWO

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it was the three of them sigh by sigh but I think you immediately felt that hogan was the guy hogan's still the leader of this

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hollownash are following his lead and with this situation scene is answering to rock like it's a turn but he's not the prime guy

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the prime guy is still the final boss calling the shots so it kind of puts scene a below rock in this pecking order visually of how this turn came about

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and he's just you know selling out for rock where hogan did it to just basically stick it to everybody and you know he was going to be the top guy

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so I think those are my two reasons why the hogan one is still above the scene has heard

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yeah the follow up was was disappointed because I did not watch the press conferences following but I know seen it came in which I liked it

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I like that he came in and did the mic drop and left but I would have liked to hear okay so on Mondays raw on Netflix

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this is why you should have a Netflix account now if you've been bought in yet john scene is going to explain what happened and why he did this

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I think when rock spoke in the press conference it was like out of character and I maybe completely off on this but the stuff that I saw was like yeah he talked like he was an executive and it's like oh my god like no like explain to me what happened

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did he so he did not address it at all you're saying no no he was basically corporate rock in the sense of he was doing Johnson board member of t.k.o holdings and by the way I don't know about you

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I don't know if I like the press conferences because I don't know who I'm getting like are we still in k-fade mode like seen it k-fade mode walked out mic drop leaves and then you get there's one part or they're asking triple H the creative process behind the decision and he's talking about the collaborative efforts and I'm like should we are we get like I don't know who

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mean while beyond the layer of the like you mean while beyond the layers like I haven't spoken in a home in jd.

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Yeah it's like like you were crying inconsolably inside the cell but when the character have spoken to Naomi or gone to go check on her or at least

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I said hey I tried to go check on my partner to find out what happened but she's too injured to talk like something but it says it's like now I haven't talked to Naomi or or jd yet but like the show is three hours ago you haven't gone to check on the person you were crying in the

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way that may have been the most hopeiest crying I've ever seen as well that was just over the top you thought Bianca in the in the elimination chamber I don't want to get down there so you didn't like that I thought you did a good job.

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I thought you did a good job too but then when she comes to the press conference she hadn't talked to them I was like you're saying that part okay.

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Yeah like the conjecture between what I'm seeing at the beginning of the show to what I'm hearing the press conference doesn't really match up because I'm like I got one person in K-Fave one person not in K-Fave I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing with myself and I'm watching this like is this a legitimate press conference is it still a storyline press conference is it some kind of weird amalgamy where I don't know which one I'm supposed to get I don't know.

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At least with the the the the the A. W. one's other than when Tony cons speaks is typically in character for the most part you know other than you know see a punk.

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Yeah well yeah that's different I'm just taking a look here I'm really wondering like looking at the calendar I wonder if.

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If they're saving scene to explain himself in Madison Square Garden just because of the location.

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Is that the is that the show on the 15th.

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No it's the next Monday the next was at the 11th I think I think I read when I talked about his next is book the appearances he's booked for that show.

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So see that's a thing it's like how do you not do an angle with both those guys that you film where maybe you know they're in a locker room post elimination chamber and Travis Scott is in the background smoke and weed or sage whatever he's doing and meanwhile punching legitimately punching Cody in the face given him a black guy in a and a bruise broken eardrum.

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Did you see that punch from Travis Scott to Cody.

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He lifted Cody's head up and just well it wasn't a punch it was an open hand slap but like his palm caught him the way he swung it the palm.

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Yeah around the eye and the hand was over the ear they won't do it because Cody's a nice guy and things have changed but back in the day that boy would be receiving a receipt for that one especially being an outsider back in the day the rock would have gave him the receipt backstage.

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So no and so they they they they glorified him as he came through the curtains and how much you loved it anyway.

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Yeah I mean no follow up from rock or seen on Mondays raw was a missed opportunity if they're saving for masses were gone because location fine give me something something where it's rock and seen a backstage and Kathy Kelly Jackie Redmond is trying to get a word with them and they're they just don't say a word and they walk off give me some sort of

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follow up give me something where they pull a Kevin Owens and and Cody Rhodes is filming himself on FaceTime or taking a selfie video on what took place and hyping up his his you know he'll discuss it on Friday Smackdown

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blah blah blah like nothing I mean I got more excited about punk and Rollins kicking off the show.

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Then I did anything else and that to me it's like I really hate doing this because it did everything that it should have done this has been something that we're banging on the drum for such a long time turns in a year turns in a heal but the more I think about it the more I discussed it I'm like I think this may be five to 10 years too late again it's a very

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very ballsy move and I think the likelihood of this is in six weeks when we get to WrestleMania I'm sitting here going I've really enjoyed the build remember how I felt coming out of elimination chamber that we were pissed off that they did not follow up on that first

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immediate raw and it's played out great I think it has that capability because we've seen how well they've done when they turn Roman Reigns heal and let that run for as long as it's done granted that was two different types of

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negative teams at that point but it was so well done and executed and I fully expected that to happen as well but on the onset it's just like and I don't think it's one of those cases where it's leaving me wanting more where I want to like tune into

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Ron Smackdown I'm a die hard I'm locked in for WrestleMania season more importantly if you were getting the casuals based on what they saw on Saturday and they get a Netflix account or if they have a Netflix account and they tune

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into raw and the updates that they got on an entire situation that everybody is talking about on Monday morning whether it be sports center or your local newscast is punk and Rollins kicking it off and re and EO closed in the show all a very good

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episode of raw but no insane follow up I'm like what the hell are they doing so the follow up is what lyrgis like a little bit of the picture package yeah and again I don't know if they're

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going to have in it for Smackdown on the USA network on Friday or recording this on Wednesday afternoon for the Thursday download or whatever so it's very well possible that's what happens but it's like

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missed opportunity give me something if rock and scene have already gone away to go film whenever they're filming to wrap up these next couple weeks that's the reason why scene has been around in February so be it I also think that was a missed opportunity in the scene he'll turn is that he's been gone he was he was

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at Netflix for the first show gone until the rumble then gone from the rumble until elimination chamber so we missed any of the stuff we're seeing it could really ride home how desperate he needed to get this victory under his belt how badly he needed it and I just felt like those would have been nice little Easter eggs to plant

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the seeds to build up to something big and instead you know Cena was in like hungry or something filming a peacemaker I'm no fucking clue but yeah this really doesn't sound like it I really think this plays out well I like that they did the scene he he'll turn I'm

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really intrigued how this plays out during the retirement or but it's like all the stuff that could have been leading up to it that made it even more impactful all the stuff that would have been just as impactful coming out of it

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it just feels like it's missed opportunities because this isn't what they would create of one and do they would want to play in the seeds but they're working around a movie star schedule and that what makes it so damn difficult which is kind of what you hear about when it comes to the rocks

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creative to begin with so I think this all plays out great again such balls on their part to do this because they are theoretically you would assume losing merchandise numbers for this

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retirement or I don't think John Cena is going to come out on Mondays Raw if he's going to be there at Madison Square Garden where you can't see me shirt and Nick scholars because they're in Madison Square Garden or Rangers colors I don't think that's got to happen it may possibly if he comes out in

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jordan is normal t shirt and hat I'm going to be like oh god this is what the figure they doing they got to go 180 with the scene characters so it's crazy by the way I was

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shooting on a doctor tray I hate that I'm doing this I really do it's like I was so excited to talk about it but as we talk about I'm like fuck they they this is perfect but maybe they dropped a bag a little bit

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I mean I think they missed out on the raw thing that's the big thing me they missed out on the raw stuff I was going to ask you as funny you mentioned that because I was like because in my head

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so like I'm like you know me like you know me for god 15 years basically almost 20 in a lot of ways I'm fantasy booking this thing like long term out already I'm like oh what version of Cena are we getting are we getting

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Hollywood Cena like a list celebrity Cena like kind of like we're getting with final boss are we getting like that version or are we getting

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John Cena at a press conference in China in a suit and tie speaking Mandarin are we getting corporate Cena are we getting Hollywood Cena if we get Hollywood Cena you know it would be a really great fit into this if this goes out a little bit longer and seen a need to

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stable he needs to have the Miz with him I think you're going to say bring in I thought you're going to bring in Hogan because Hogan's getting

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no no I say bring in Miz because then you have the three a list stars to get rock Cena Miz but then that ties in that whole member Miz still brings up him beating Cena at WrestleMania when the rock was like who took off Cody that somebody else may take it on Smackdown

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yeah it was me yeah so I mean I love like tying all that together by the way how did you see the video of when Cody confronted rock like 15 years ago in the ring would he have he wrote him off right rock

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yeah but when he walked out Cena was laying on the ramp and Cody completely blew off John Cena to get in the ring with the rock to look at the belt and all that stuff and I was like so he's like this is great long

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serenatory selling and I'm like no that one's not that just coincident more than the else but yeah I'm excited I do have a compliment because you're talking about video packages I thought the video

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I did run on raw where they had like old scene eclipse did I thought that was good yeah yeah and to me like I'm really happy about the turn I'm really excited about where this goes my my critique is more the miss opportunity of the follow-up you know on Monday because like you said everybody was tall I got people texting me

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that I don't think have watched wrestling in ten years 15 years like John Cena turned heel are you serious like I'm getting exactly there was no father the other thing I'm excited about is or I'm trepidations about is like I said earlier you can't have seen a retire in December as a heel

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he has to go back to being a baby face and how are you going to cram in a heel turn to a redemption arc in eight months unless he goes past that in December line which triple H has said repeatedly in multiple press conferences when John says he's done I fully expect him to say he's that that's it and John has said this is the last year

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how do you cram all this in eight months let me ask you doctor trade did you think in April of last year that by October Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns would be teaming with each other to take on the blood line if you would ask me prior to WrestleMania I would have said no if you would ask me a month after

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WrestleMania I would have said yes because you've been off TV for a while and solo had to send it up. Yeah like it's it's one of those things where it's like how do you cram like look there is pretend I mean this this is a story because here's the other thing we still have not seen like really rock in Roman since WrestleMania together

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we have not seen any of that stuff we remember the solo standing on the ramp when rock came out and did the three and that's all part of the plan like we have a no follow up on that like there are some things that we've kind of had to kind of jump around and make loose that typically we would knock AW4 that we haven't really done with WWE because they're having to work around the rocks schedule but where does where does Roman fit into this post WrestleMania like there's

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a lot of meat on this bone to chew on but we only have eight months to chew it on basically so how do you cram all this stuff in there to really get the best out of what they're doing right now and then a potential redemption arc that probably leads to senior rock three.

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Yeah actually think I was going to match that I think this is how this closes out I think rocks are excuse me see this retirement matches in a rock.

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Yeah that's kind of where I'm leading to but the here's the upside we're we kept saying we want to see it in Randy Orton well seen as a heel or is a baby face that's easier to get done now.

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Like I saw somebody post like hey see you go heel he could have some really good matches the next few months after us on mania with punk.

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Orton even a Damien priest leading to and then maybe even a Roman race leading to him turning on rock leading to eventually rock seen a three.

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So let me ask you this doctor try let's wrap this up before we get to our rest of 41 card round up.

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Which scene of direction would you have preferred scene of the baby face taken on Cody Rhodes or seen of the heel taken on Cody Rhodes.

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Uh scene of the heel taken on Cody Rhodes I like I think I've said like from a week's when this whole first idea of.

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And Cody Rhodes came up I hate baby face maybe face because your crowd gets split you're going to have the old fans cheering for for scene of the younger fans cheering for Cody.

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This separates those two this means you have to choose a side head against a wrestle made it and here's the crazy thing Jeff you might get a little bit of rock hogan here where you're going to get people that cheer for scene up just because he's john seen.

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Oh, 100. It's going to be there and I think that's why we got that crowd response we got in Toronto is there was a lot of 35 40 year old guys who were like F. Yeah it's about time he finally turned.

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And I don't think that's why it was as pronounced as once again.

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The sound in the building different also then what happened in a bash of the beach but there was a lot of people who were really excited to actually see this finally come to fruition.

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When we've been asking for for for 12 years at least.

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Okay so there you go there's a lot of talk about their john scene has turned heel I feel like we've gotten the last of our.

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What was the things that the Avengers were getting.

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Like their jewels or whatever all the infinity stones. Yeah I feel like we've got all all of our infinity so is there anything left now dr.

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Punk comes back. See it turns he was it was punk it was punk not it was punk returning we weren't allowed talk about scene.

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Turning heel we were allowed talk about I thought there was one more but I think that happened a long time ago there was originally there was three but one happened really quickly.

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Like after like we we did it and then like two years later that rule changed.

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It's bizarre but those were the two those were the two holy grails so to speak of what we weren't allowed talk about on the podcast so there you go john scene is a heel I'm sure this will be stuff that we would dominate in here in the coming weeks and should be fun the road to WrestleMania and I was crappin all over some of the stuff but it's because I wanted to be perfect and nothing will ever be perfect but it was.

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What was the compliment you said you had a compliment.

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The compliment is is they had the balls to do it.

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When I was talking you were like oh I got a compliment so okay yeah the balls yeah.

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I don't know remember what was it specifically was it to see a stuff.

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What was saying like when you mentioned the jerk like the New York Ranger stuff I'm like I wonder what john scene we're getting.

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I'm going to be like Hollywood scene or corporate and you're like oh I do have a compliment and by the way I have not told Sammy Franklin that john scene is a bad guy because that is the only wrestler.

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He can visually look at and identify like we rolled through a McDonald's the other morning to grab some breakfast.

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He saw john scene on the billboard thing there and with dad that's john scene.

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I haven't told him that john scene is a bad guy yet.

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He's not a video just shown the video in film it see what his reaction is he might be he might be happy about it because he has no idea who Cody Rhodes is.

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He might be okay with it.

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There you go natural heel he's a natural heel.

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All right last thing here.

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RESTO MANY 41 card round up.

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We have two new and confirmed matches Cody Rhodes taking on john scene for WWE championship.

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We just talked about that EO Sky versus Bianca Belair for the women's world championship.

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There is a belief potentially that maybe this becomes a triple threat with a really quickly getting back involved.

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I think we've talked about those two matches pretty much here throughout the entire show.

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Dr. Trey is there anything else you want to add about those two before we look into some rumored matches for WrestleMania?

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No I just I'm happy for EO I just don't know and I'm going to give him some time.

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I don't know if it's the right move yet because I think on paper Ria and Bianca is the bigger draw.

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But if they're trying to push you know this might be a gender mahal type move like we need to do that.

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We need some more viewers in Japan so let's put EO up there.

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I don't know like this I don't I got a weight to see how this plays out before.

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If it goes triple threat if they do two separate singles matches.

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I don't know where it's going yet like I'm happy for EO but I kind of like right now I feel like this that they shot themselves in the foot.

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Okay okay there you go so more on that in just a second.

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I'm going to go through some of the rumored matches I have down Dr. Trey say very quickly if it's got to happen or not happen or WrestleMania.

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Okay so let's see how you feel.

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Okay Drew McIntyre versus Damien Priest.

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Yes that will happen.

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So let's go versus Jacob Fato.

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I think it's going to happen but I'm not happy about it is that I guess that answers your question.

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So I'm going to give you okay that's fine does answer my question.

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I'm going to give you next match here and I'm going to give you two options and tell me which one is more likely.

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Roman Reigns versus Seth Freakin Rollins versus CM Punk or Seth Freakin Rollins and Becky Lynch versus CM Punk and AJ Lee.

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I'm going to say the triple threat match is more likely.

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I think Roman gets involved in this deal cage match some way somehow.

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And that's once again like do you want to have one thing we always have like the variety if you have if you do a triple threat in the women's match do you do a triple threat for this men's match then you have two triple threats.

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So I think the tag match is happening sooner rather than later mind you.

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I think it's.

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I could see that post WrestleMania.

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Who do you think we get is going to get a bigger pop AJ or Becky when they return AJ I think punk punk and AJ are going to be the baby faces in this one.

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Yeah they got bring Larry out of the ring side the bigger pop right there by the way I'll say by the way so I don't know there's a game on the mobile device that's called W.

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Super card basically like you collect cards and power them up Larry is now a card in that game.

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We have to download this now again two match options tell me which one you think is more likely to happen Kevin Owens versus Randy Orton or Kevin Owens versus Randy or versus Sammy Zane.

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More likely Kevin versus Randy but then Sammy gets involved.

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Okay.

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I have a live in Rock L defending against Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross although there was a soft going on there between Alexa and live in an elimination chamber match.

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Yeah I think it's likely but then you know I still think you also eventually.

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Excuse me this might be like a four way match or some kind of ladder match where.

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You get Alexa Nikki but then you also get the returning Oscar and Kyrie saying together again as well.

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I could see Nyan Candace being at it and in the background of one of the segments on raw was Natalia and Maxine to pre talking so it's like a wonder if there was something there.

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So Zoe and Shayna that do nothing right now because Sony got fired.

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I let go just basically not resigned.

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I go yeah unfortunately because Sony I thought Sony was great I love Sony.

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Rey Mysterio and Big E versus the new day.

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You brought this up last week and if that happens I'm fork is a.

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We love us some big E I use big men slapping meat quite a lot when I'm describing a big guys fighting a rocket city.

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We do have a tornado tag team match on Mondays Ron MSG between new day and.

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I love the graphic of the tornado spin up there doing that all those shuffle things I love it was pretty funny I gotta be honest.

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A brawn breaker defending the intercontinental championship in a multi man match I think it could have AJ Styles Logan Paul Finn Ballard Dominic Mysterio and even Penta in it.

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Yeah I think that's the best way if you ever want to get the belt off brawn I think that in without hurting his character I think this is the best move to make is just have a multi man match.

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Penta is the hottest star on the show right now so you got to get him involved Kaiser though that triple throw match on the rock always go with the win.

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My friend Kaiser they're shameless I mean there's a lot of guys you can throw into this match I mean it might be a ladder match a gauntlet match something but it's a way to get the belt off brawn.

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If you want to move brawn up to either Jay or Gunther post WrestleMania.

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Shinsuke Nakamura defending against LA night LA night is the number one contender do they save it for Mania now.

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I don't know if it be a Mania match or a Smackdown before Mania match but I do think that's on the cards but by the way how much fun would be if LA night and Miz joined Johnson in the rock.

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I think that'd be pretty cool you have a little bit of a stable local little wasn't a Roman rain Roman rains once called LA night the redneck version of his cousin.

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Yes he did DIY defending the WWE tag team champion against the Motorcyle machine guns three profits and pretty deadly.

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Yeah it's going to be some kind of combination there I think all these guys are the way their position in the end it's going to be some kind of multi man tag multi team tag team match.

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And then finally I think it's as easy Jade carcola versus Naomi.

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That's pretty easy which means like do you save Jayden Bianca for summer slam or do you save Jayden Bianca for next WrestleMania.

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Oh I think you're doing now. Oh Jayden Bianca for next mania. Yes.

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Yes yes I feel like that could be a summer slam.

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Yeah I think that's summer slam.

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I think that's a summer slam for sure.

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Is there any is there any that I'm missing from you doctor try.

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I think I'll tell my head I think we've kind of covered most of the top guys.

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Yeah right now it's about all I can think of on my head.

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Okay there you go so feel free to chime in on the WrestleMania 41 card round up I'm sure we'll have more matches confirmed here in the coming days and weeks.

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And hopefully we hear from John Cena in the rock soon because I feel like so many questions and not in a good way it's not like the anticipation is like I can't wait to hear them it's like.

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I want to hear them like what are we doing like follow up on this the way the entertainment is nowadays and people get their information it's more and more and now now now.

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And I really felt like they could have continued to capitalize on this so it's been a wild couple days it's a great way to kick off the road to WrestleMania 41 there are no WWE PLE's in the way now.

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Hey I loved that they did not believe that that should be something I'll say I thought that was great don't believe it saving for that no longer a kid show I am.

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Oh this you believe it is a wild time of professional wrestling Johnson as a heel I don't know what else is going to be banned on this podcast now because we've hit them all and again it is a very fun time to be a wrestling fan with everything in the sake of place.

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Recymbany 41 card build continues next week's edition of SRT you have a great weekend enjoy spread the word about the still real show and don't forget to rate review and subscribe so until next week for Dr. Tray Franklin I am Jeff Pack this has been the story of the show.