WrestleMania 40 Preview & Predictions | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #738 – 4/4/24

0:00 It's libited. Welcome everybody. Welcome to this week's edition The Snowreal Does Show, Episode number seven hundred and thirty eight for April fourth, twenty twenty four. Welcome to your WrestleMania forty pre show edition of s r T You I am one after the show, I am Jeff Peck. Joined every single week in my host The Lonely Doctor Tray Franklin Doctor Trey. For the fourteenth time in SRTU history, we preview WrestleMania. My friend, Uh, this is always kind of like my nostalgia show in a way because my first time really being the co host was on a WrestleMania show. So I'm like, I get excited because I get to kind of relive my previous twelve years now with the show. Can I pause you right there? Yeah? So, oddly enough, I had written down a note in my phone at one time and we must have been talking about like how long you've been with It must have been some sort of like big show for us, because I wrote down and I just found out my phone today. Oddly enough, Captain's first show as full time host March twenty ninth, twenty twelve, it was to preview Wrestle

1:30 Manti twenty eight, episode number one hundred and eleven. It is now episode number seven thirty eight, and it's April fourth, twenty twenty four, so officially twelve years now being the co host wrestled Maybia twenty eight, which is actually still one of my least favorite WrestleManias but for all but yeah, like that's why I get excited because it brings all that, all that back to me. I remember being parked on the side of a mountain discussing WrestleMania Team nine with you. At one point we were on this. We did like an hour and forty five minutes on that show. It's like, it's crazy, how far like six hundred episodes, six hundred twenty seven episodes now, Like it's amazing for me just to reflect on twelve years, like I said before, like you like not too long ago. Like I have a sixteen year old daughter who I saw the show she was four, you know, and now we have little Saty Franklin running around with Spider Man and Carnage, yelling at Kirby Ponder's attendance. Whitch. So all these things that have happened in twelve years, which doesn't seem like, you know, you've been doing fourteen years. I've been doing twelve. It doesn't seem like it's been twelve years. But dear God, I mean, at one point, Jeff Cole Cobannon see a punk, we're friends. We did this. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff that was going on. Aw wasn't around Tony Kahn's family didn't known Jacksonville Jaguars. Yeah, there was a bunch of stuff that was going on when we first started recording this podcast. This is my fifth teenth year covering WrestleMania in a podcast form. The first time I was on the

3:04 Wheelhouse, it was for Wrestlemaning twenty five. I remember being in New York City in a studio and we were on blog Talk Radio Live that evening, and I remember always remember that in the chat. I don't think you called it. I think it was in the chat that you had written that Ray Mysterio just defeated JBL to win the Intercontinental Championship in less than a minute and JBL immediately retired after the match. I always remember that. So it's like wild to think here we are fifteen years later and we're talking into microphones about this. Podcasting when we first started covering professional wrestling was very new at the time. Now everybody has a podcast, and podcasting has evolved so much.

3:47 Even the audio form of podcasting is almost outdated to it a point. It's a lot of people watching stuff on YouTube or Vimeo or TikTok, Instagram, what have you. Twitch people are now watching podcasts, which is kind of funny. We've we've gone from audio being the cool thing to now video is the cool thing. So I guess maybe video killed the podcast are maybe so fourteen years of covering WrestleManias here previewing WrestleMania is it's something else. So from wrestlming in twenty five when I was on a wheelhouse to Wrestlemanting twenty six being the first one we ever covered in the history of the still Real does show in Phoenix, Arizona, to today in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for WrestleMania forty.

4:33 It has been a wild ride. It has been a fun ride, and we all brace ourselves. This is like the first official kickoff for me, for Doctor Trey, for Everyboddy that's listening to this podcast, hopefully the same for you to WrestleMania Weekend. I joke around, especially the last couple of years when it's been two nights, that at the end of this all, we all should have a T shirt that they sell. Actually, I think they should give it away that says I survived wrestle Ay forty weekend because Friday night you've got SmackDown right after the Hall of Fame ceremony, Saturday Morning Stand and the Liver, Saturday Night Wrestling forty uh, Sunday Night Wrestling forty night too, Monday Night, the RYE after WrestleMania Tuesday Night, the NXT after Standing Liver Wednesday. I guess there's a break from we programming, but if you tune inn aw WHI just continues on and on. It is something to behold, Doctor Trey. When we first started, it was just one night.

5:30 There was no NXT, it was just one show. There was the Hall of Fame the night before, and now it's just NonStop. And I'm not even including the things that they've added to it. The kickoff show to the weekend on Friday afternoon, the Slammys on Sunday morning now is back. It's it's a wild ride, Doctor Tray. I feel like at times that maybe it's it's a bit much, but I guess the way to look at it is it is a celebration one weekend a year from the standpoint to just celebrate professional wrestling. Yeah, and and you know we talk about it, you know, fourteen years of this show covering it, and and even at twenty eight or at twenty six, it was a big event, and it's just gotten bigger and bigger and bigger. And you have all the other companies that now show up to piggyback off Wrestleman and that's been going on for probably about really hard for about seven eight years that we've had these you know, the gc w's, the czw's, all these our shows showing up around the area. So you got all that stuff going on. It's it's it's crazy.

6:36 The other thing was juggle with with with the wife about it the other day because I told her that, you know, hey, this, you know that this weekend's WrestleMania weekend. It's two nights, and all of a sudden going on, I'm like, you know, you and I have both gotten married and we've had to convince our significant others that who were not really wrestling fans when they met us that it's perfectly normal for us to consume twenty some hours of wrestling over three period and them be okay and not leave us strand on the side of the road somewhere. Yeah. I have this discussion with my wife. I have this discussion with my family. It's like, it's wrestlemaning a weekend and they all get it. It's like literally one weekend a year where all I dedicate is to just sit down on my couch and watch professional wrestling. It's a lot, and I think if you've removed the wrestling fandom outside of this entire thing, Doctor Trey, Like, it's crazy how much programming is on and wrestling fans can't get enough of it. It's like, I would love to enjoy my Friday or Saturday night and maybe just tune in a wrestlemaning on Sunday. But I also sat through like seven hours of wrestlemanting thirty five and that was wild. It's a grind. It's a fun grind, but it's a grind. And what's crazy to me, especially the last two years, is when you look back at our shows of the year, we always see to love wrestlemaning, especially these last two years Wrestumanting is Saturday, specifically for thirty eight and thirty nine were some of the most highest rated shows we've ever covered in the history of SRTU, and that is

8:09 sandwiched in between a SmackDown a Hall of Fame on a Friday, a stand in the liver on Saturday morning, and then knowing that another show is coming Sunday night, Like that's that's pretty amazing that by that point, middle of Saturday, middle of it all, that we're so entertained, this show still resonates where it's matched the event of the year quality that we're not completely exhausted, ready to tap out and go what the hell am I doing with my life? I do think there's also a little bit of thankfulness to that. Now, look, the last two wrestleme has been fantastic. I'm not going to question our judgment on it. But we also came out of the pandemic era and a little bit of the Vince Booking era. Because I don't really think that maybe thirty four and thirty five we're up to par where we would like them to be. Then you know, we kind of leaned into the pandemic era and then coming out of it and a little bit of you know, you don't know what you got un till it's gone have been the last two Wrestlemans. But the booking has been really solid, the performance have been really solid, and plus you have really strong competition kind of pushing the envelope as well. So I mean it's just been kind of a perfect storm of everything coming together. But yeah, like if you can go, you know, eight hours of WrestleMania, plus you started adding in all the other shows and like I said earlier, probably almost close twenty hours of ww programming over four days and still not be sick of it. That that kind of tells you that you're on part Now. I will say last year month, the

9:41 raw after WrestleMania was god awful. I think we all agree on that. The month after WrestleMania. Yeah, the raw after WrestleMania, the raw after WrestleMania, the one that Vince took over. Yeah, No, people were not a fan of that, but I ultimately think we all kind of like swallowed our pride on that because everybody was really upset about the Brock Cody stuff, and I thought that ended up being very good. Yeah, it's funny because I was listening to I've been listening a bunch of Chris Van Valley's interviews this week, and everybody's talking about Cody's story, Cody story, and you know, should he have won it last year? And da da dada. I'm like, people kind of forget how good that brought Cody feud was and that all started on that raw after WrestleMania, and that we all kind of universally hated. I think, you know, it's it's sometimes you know, we need jerk react to stuff, and it's like, well, this actually works out pretty well, sou but it all kind of led into this, so, yeah, you gotta look at it. Go. This is almost two years of booking and storyline leading into this WrestleMania. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of different ways to look at it, and I'm sure we'll we'll touch upon it here later in the show. But I get the Cody story stuff, but I also understand like how good Roman Reigns has been right now, Like I think, yeah, two, five, ten, fifteen, twenty years from now, we look back at the era of Roman Reigns dominating as a world champion or like, man that was a really good time for professional wrestling. Has it been a little bit down in the last six to twelve months, Yeah, it has been because he hasn't been on

11:11 television all that much. But you can make a strong case that one of the reasons why wrestling is so good right now is because of Roman Reigns and the bloodline, the creative behind them and what they're doing in the ring, and what they're doing with their matches, what they're doing with the vignettes and the backstage. And that doesn't just happen because of what some writers writing or the direction the Triple H is pulling, like Roman Reigns, Paul Hayman, Jimmy j Solo, Sammy, whoever's involved in that storyline has to pull the same, you know, make it compelling on television. They've done that as well. It's been a lot of fun. I'm really excited for wrestling. He forty weekend. It's got to be a grind. Say goodbye to your friends and family for this webcoming weekend and hopefully everybody has a fun time sitting down watching wrestling for I don't know, fifty eight hours whatever it ends up being. Let's start with Friday, right Doctor trey Wa Hall of Fame Class of twenty twenty four. Get our thoughts here. I mean, there's no way we're gonna like, oh, I predict you know, I guess there are predictions and spoilers in this, but just overall thoughts. You've got Paul Hayman to be inducted by Roman Reigns. Paul mccanno is reportedly going to be inducted by MENDUSA, Thunderball Patterson is going to be inducted by his friend Scott Spears, not to be confused by Sean Spears. Leamiavilla is going to be inducted by the Rock Uh, the US Express, Barry Wyndham, and micro Tunda. There at this point, there's no induction who's inducting them quite yet?

12:31 And the Muhammad Ali is going to be inducted by Lannie Ali. Don't tray your thoughts on the Hall of Fame Class of twenty twenty four. It's it's a good class, I think, I mean to me, it's it's a good quality class. It may not have that headliner guy that you know everybody knows, you know, it doesn't have you know, it doesn't have you know, the Hulk Cocans of the Rocks doesn't have that name brand guy that I mean. It's not the Undertaker from last for his last year, year before last, but I mean for wrestling fans, I mean Paul Haman Thunderbolt Patterson. Like, I'm really hoping a lot of the younger folks learn about him from this. Leah Mayavia, if you watch Young Rock, you learned a lot about her from that. Berry Windom and Microtunda are two of the greatest in ring performers of my generation, you know, growing up.

13:22 So I'm really excited for the class. I am surprised at, you know, Roman inducting Paul Hayman, but I guess storyline wise, it makes sense because dear God, how much fun would have been to have CM punk induct Paul Hayman into the Hall of Fame in Philadelphia, you know, but it makes sense. I'm and you know, I think if you listen to this show long ago, everybody knows I'm a huge Paul Hayman fan. He's Paul Hayman mark. So like I'm I'm really excited for Paul's speech on this. Yeah, Hayman had an interview where they talked about his Hall of Fame induction. I guess he turned it down a couple of times. He didn't want to do it while he was active, and it got to the point where he didn't want to disrespect Triple H. This is the first Hall of Fame induction class that Triple H has been behind. He did not want to disrespect Triple H as the quote unquote headliner. And he also mentioned that his children pushed him to participate in this as well and get his flowers. So I fully expect the speech to be wonderful and interresting for Paul Hayman's sake. I wonder if there's gonna be any type of silencing on brock Lessner mentions. I would imagine there isn't, So it's going to be a fun night. To me. The Hall of Fame is like the most sincere joyous ceremony of Wrestmania weekend, where it's like wrestling fans love love note to professional wrestling, and the wrestlers who are being honored love note back to professional wrestling and the wrestling fans. So I just feel like it's such a positive energy in the room and I'm really looking forward to watch in the Hall of Fame late on Friday

14:54 night after SmackDown, Let's go to Saturday Morning, Doctor Trey, NXT Stand and the Liver preview predictions this Saturday from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We've got one, two, three, four, five, six seven matches on the card. We'll start with the pre show here. You've got Sewn Spears taking on Joe Gasey. I'm gonna take Shawn Spears in this one, Doctor Troy, real quick? What time does this show start? Twelve pm Eastern? So I so technically it's it's morning for me, but it's actually noon for you. Okay. So I'm intrigued by this, and I know we've done a morning show like this before, but for like the performers to be I mean, that's an early morning TV call time and get out in the ring. It's aren't going So I'm gonna be interesting how the performances are for a show this early. But Shawn Spears Joe Gasey, I kind of want these guys to end up being together. I don't know about you, but I just the craziness of Joe Gayzy and the Shawn Spears character.

15:56 They're they're portraying right now. I kind of want them to end up together at some point, but I'm taking Sean Spears because I feel like Gays, He's just in this like lovable crazy person role where it doesn't matter if he wins or loses because his performances regardless are memorable. So I'll take Sean Spears getting the win over Joe Gason. Next match is THEA Hale fallon Henley Klane Jordan Taken On Jacy Jane, Keana James and is He Dame? Doctor Trey? Who do you like this one? It's it's a WrestleMania weekend, it's early in the show. I usually I take baby Faces a lot during Wrestlemany weekends, but I will take the Heels in this one, so I'll take je I can't for Jesse, Jace Jane, Jay C Jane. I kept want to think Josie and the Pussycats for some reason. Oh take Jase James team to get the winning this one. I'm gonna take Ja C Jane and Keana James is he Dame as well? I think you got to keep feeding the fire to make the baby Faces very compelling and a win by the Heels is the way that it should go at Stanton Liver. Next match, here's for the NXC Tag Team champion Ship Baron Corbin and Broun Breaker. The wolf Dogs will be defending against Nathan Fraser and Axiom. That really surprised me that Nathan Fraser and Axiom won. That They've been really fun to watch on NXC television, So I'm pleasantly happy and surprised. I thought this spot was gonna be taken by Gallas and Anderson. It was not. With that said, I'm gonna go with Baron, Corben and Brown Breaker to retain. I think if it was Gallows and Anderson in this match, I would take the Good Brothers, but it's not, so I think Baron and Braun retain,

17:27 even though Braun is on SmackDown right now. Yeah, I completely agree with you. I was totally expecting the Good Brothers to get to win. They didn't. I thought Nathan Fraser Axium are gonna break up like four months ago. It hasn't happened yet, so and I just don't see a clear spot right now for Braun to really. I know you've had a couple of matches on SmackDown, but once Russell Meini season kind of kicked off. We really haven't seen him on SmackDown that much. So I'm gonna take Braun and Baron getting the win as well and retaining stand and deliver. Next match, here is Opa Femi defending the NX North American Championship in a triple threat match against Die Jack and Josh Briggs. If there was a time for Opa Femi to lose the championship and not get pinned, you do it in a triple threat match. Will that be the case on Saturday morning? Not to try, I'm going with Oba fam I think he's the fastest rising guy in the cubby, and I don't think they're ready to move him up to challenge whoever the NXC champion is. So I will take Oba Fammi a little bit of an homage maybe to Roman Reignses wrestle Maybia matched where you know he stacked him and pinned him. I think you might see Oba Fenny take out both guys and stack them on top of each other get the pin. It's amazing to me how much he has almost like been a prodigy in a way, a professional wrestled Noma Femmi. I think his move set is still a little bit on the green side where it may be, you know, a little bit.

18:56 I don't know about the protection ends of things when it comes to other performers in the side of the ring, but he is a phenomenal character in a wrestler and I've really enjoyed his work thus far. I have him retaining the NXT North American Championship as well, so we both have Opa Femily walking out as NXT North American Champion. Next match here is for the NXT Women's Championship as Lyra Valkyria takes on Roxanne Perez. I have enjoyed this one. The Roxanne Perez slow character development is my way of building a character from a baby face to a heel. Allah say Drew McIntyre and how well he has been. This new edgier, meaner side of Roxanne Perez has been really good and a very welcomed edition to NXC television. And I think she leaves with the NXT Women's Championship again on Saturday, Doctor Trey. I almost feel like this would have been Coora Jade's spot if she hadn't gotten hurt, because I feel like the ro sand character is almost. I don't say carbon copy what they do with Kora j, but it's very similar. I don't know if they would have moved Roxanne this way if Cora hadn't gotten hurt, but I like it. It's weird because she's so small that you go, there's no way she can be this little badass. You know she's sneaky, but she's kind of a badass too. But I'm with you. I think this is the right time to put the belt back on her. We've seen this with multiple people in NXT, where you get a run of the baby face, they move you to heel, and then you get a run into the heel, So I think this is the kind of same formula using for Roxane here.

20:25 So I see her winning this title as well. Next match is Elia Dragonoff defending the NXC Championship against Tony DiAngelo. A couple of weeks ago, I was not on board with Tony D'Angelo being this match with a little bit more edge and development in his character. As of late, I am fully in. This has been a very good build for this match, and it's playing like second fiddle to a match that doesn't have a title involved. That's main eventing it. This is a tough one to call, Doctor Trey. Is it time for Elia to drop the title to the Dawn of NXT Tony D'Angelo. Yeah, this one got harder after I read an interview was sewn Michaels this week where he like they asked him, like, who's one of the guys that you think is the breakout guy? The guy he The first person he said was Tony DiAngelo and how he kind of got it was kind of a for lack of going to hurt a crappy gimmick. He just embraced it has ran with it because that made it harder to pick. But I still see Ilia pulling this one out, you know, like once again, he's still the baby face, even though Tony deeds to like a liked character, but he's not a full fledged baby face. So I'm taking Elia to get the win. I just think it makes sense that can keep the belt on him because he hasn't had it as long as a run as I think you want. So I'll take Elli dragon Off retaining. Yeah, I like you have Ilia dragon Off retained the NXC Championship as well. I feel like he has taken the brunt of this feud so far and has been kind of thrown around in a way that we haven't seen him on NXC television, where you know, he's kind of being bitched out by Tony Dan the rest of the

21:55 family so far, and it's weird to see him that way, and they're you know, playing mind games with him and intimidating him, and for whatever reason, he's following along, and I think that's kind of a strange way to be booking. But it's also helped elevate Tony DiAngelo as someone who is on the level of Elia dragon Off, which it was about three or four weeks ago was not the case in my eyes. So I'm looking forward to this one, and I again I like Doctor Tray. I have Elia Dragonoff retaining the NXT Championship at Stand and Deliver, and that takes us to the main event match Doctor Tray. This was announced earlier this week as the main event is the first time during WrestleMania Weekend that two African American males will be headlining a event during WrestleMania Weekend, which was pointing out on Tuesday's NXC television.

22:36 It's a very historic moment for both Trick Williams and Carmelo Hayes. It's Trick Williams versus Carmelo Hayes. And this is a tough one to call, which is NXT in general. NXT pay per views are very difficult to pick. And I was thinking and like, I could see Carmelo winning, I could see Trick winning. I ultimately see Trick Williams leaving Stand and Deliver as the winner. There's a lot of a background of this being one of his hometowns in front of his family, and I think they want to end Stand and Deliver on a good note. It is Russell Manny Weekend, So I have Trick Williams getting his revenge against Carmelo Hayes and defeating him this Saturday.

23:17 Yeah, you're right. This one's been back and forth in my head because, you know, a lot of times the old school booking, we'd always go with the hot hand, whoever the hot baby face was closed out the show on a high note. But the last couple of years we've seen it go the other way, whether it was Cody and Roman last year or some other things like that. It's got me going kind of back and forth with it. I think to me. The safe pick is going with Trick Williams, but I think I'll be contrayed. We got to disagree on something on this show, so I'm going to take Carmelo getting the wind pissing people off and making them tune into the following NXT show to see what the fallout is. So I'll take Carmelo with kind of the surprise picker, because I think everybody's picking Trick. So there you go. That is NXC. Sandys Liver will of course recap it next week when we recap everything from WRESTMANI a weekend and then it takes us to that evening Doctor Trey WRESTLMANI forty nine one pre for predictions. It's this Saturday from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

24:17 We have one, two, three, four, five, six seven matches on night one, officially announced by Triple H on social media. I believe on Monday, Monday afternoon, Monday night going into Raw. The first match I have here, which you kind of semi predicted you would put in the direction of Bianca Belair and Naomi Taken on Kabookie Warriors. I thought we were going to get Shade Jade card Gill taken on Bianca bell Air. I think we eventually get there, but this is now the beginning of that which I love. I think old school Vincikman booking would have been give him Jade and Bianca. Now I think with Triple H's booking, you give them Jade and Bianca working together now and maybe it pays off a year from now, maybe they save it for SummerSlam. Nonetheless, your choice, Doctor Trey, Jade, car Gill, Bianca, Balaia and Naomi take on Damage Control and see this is also the way of protecting your tag team champions if you go that route as well, because even if they lose, they don't lose the belts because it's a six person tag match. So with that, I'm taking Naomi, Bianca and Jade because that way Jay can get a win at WrestleMania and Damage Control does losing tag belts. So I think that's the smart pick.

25:25 So I'll go. I'll go Naomi, Bianca and Jade getting the win. Yeah, I think it would be a travesty in Jade card Gill's like debut non Royal Rumble match for w you know her actual like in an announced match for her to take the loss. I don't think they're putting Jade on the RUSSELLMANI car to take the l so I'm gonna take Jade, Bianca and Naomi. And Bianca continues her very quiet winning streak at wressele Mania. I think she would be five to zero after this presumed victory. On Saturday. Next match, here is Ray Massirio and Dragonly taking on Santos Escobar on Dominic Mysterio. I would have preferred to see Raymisterio taken on Santos Esco alread give him this opportunity, but I also realized that would probably leave Dominic Mysterio off the card, who deserves to be there as well. This is maybe my one creative bugaboo is like, we've seen the Dominic Raymisterio stuff at nauseum and we're seeing it again. It doesn't make sense. Uh. Dragon League getting in the spot was pretty interesting, especially when you have Carlito in the ring and on last Friday SmackDown fans were chanting for Carlito. So I guess maybe Carlito eventually turns on Raymisterio two, who just loves to get continued to be screwed.

26:34 Over by people he aligns with. Nonetheless, I'm gonna take Ray, Masterio and Dragon Led to win this one doctor try. I'm trying to think of who hasn't turned on Ray at some point in all these tag TEXACM Remember Batista turned on him at work, like Eddie Guerrero. Eddie's turned like Chavo turned on everybody's turned on him. He's He's like the big show with turns when it comes to people against him. Maybe Ray isn't aole. Maybe he is just a cheap skate and doesn't want to pay for meals when they go out together, like you know, like but poor guy, Like he's been wrestling for thirty some odd years, he's made a good bank. He keeps taking these young people on his wing and makes those guys pay for his meals. You know, it's crazy. I am kind of surprised at the way this came together. But then you look at also, you look at the whole this weird Dominic, Santos Andrade potential alliance, Like it's it's a weird thing to me, so but I'm here for I like it. So I'm going to take Dominic getting Dominic and Santos getting the win because Ray beat Dominic last year Wrestlebania, so this way, dominicets to beat his dad at WrestleMania.

27:40 So I'll take those two guys getting the win, all right, So you have Santos and Dominic in victory here. Yeah. Wow, that's a little bit of a surprise. Next match, keeping with family, Doctor Trey, it's Jimmy Usso versus Jay Usso. It's the third brother versus brother match in the history of WrestleMania. Every fifteen years since WRESTLEMANI ten, we have had a brother versus brother match, So the streak continues, Doctor Trey, Who do you like in this one? Oh? If only Solo was the guest referee for this one, you know, then you could have had a hall for the brothers right there together. This is hard because they're twins. It's hard to figure out which twin you want to pick the win. Because I can see it going either way. I think you just take the hot hand. I think you go with Jay getting to win, just over Jimmie because I think he's supposed to be the breakout star of the tag team team.

28:26 So I'll Jimmy's the good sidekick. Jay could be a star, So I'll take Jay getting to win. Yeah, I'm gonna take Jay Uso as well given his character, And I think the storyline is Jimmy losing to j at WrestleMania. Post Russemania, maybe we see a reunion of the Usos pretty soon next match. I am really looking forward to this one, and Doctor Tray semi may have predicted how this can turn out that and just more on that. In just a second, You've got Damien Priest and Finn Ballard defending the undisputed w Tag Team Championship in a six pack ladder match against the Awesome Truth, the New Day, New Catch Republic, and a Town down Under.

29:07 Now, it has been stressed on Monday's Raw by Michael Cole, the match will end when both titles have been retrieved. So if one team grabs the SmackDown Tag Team Championships, the match isn't over. If someone grabs the Raw Tag Team Championships, that's when the match is over. So Doctor Tray very very very well predicted that he saw that this title would be split at WrestleMania, and it certainly appears Doctor Tray by the looks and sounds of it, that that may be the direction. With that said, I'm going to take the Awesome Truth winning the Raw Tag Team titles and a town down Under winning the SmackDown Tag Team titles. This could all be for not and we just walk away with Damian Priest and Finn mall Or winning both championships. But very interesting what you had predicted may actually come to fruition here on Saturday after Saturday evening. See every now and then, my my fantasy booking pays off.

30:07 Like every now that I hit, I think I see something and I'm like, oh, this this very male. This very well may turn out the way I think it goes because it makes sense. There's there's so many tag teams now in WWE. I mean, hell, we had a tournament for teams to get into this match. It makes sense to now split the belts because you have depth on both sides of the tag rosters. So I'm with you. I'm taking miss in Truth to win the Raw Belts, the Raw Tag Team titles, the SmackDown when I'm interested because I there there's reports on there that they were looking to maybe replace Waller in theory at some point in this match. So but I'm gonna take a Town down Under as well, because I think there's more money in those guys' long term once they split apart if that's the route they go. So I'm agreeing with your picks on this one as well. Next match here is the every year we call this would be my wrestling fans match, Doctor Trey. There's always one on the card. Gun Through defends the inn account a little championship against Sammy Zay.

31:08 Who do you like in this one? I think the only match I would want to see on paper more than this and this is people think I'm crazy for maybe Gunther and Dolph Zigler because Dolph maybe the best seller we've seen it in wrestling in the last twenty years, and Sammy's close, you know, so like I'm looking forward because I think we're gonna get that. You know, Sammy just gets the crap beat out of him and it just looks like all is lost. And this one's hard for the actual winners, hard for me to pick. So I think I'm gonna take Gunther retaining just because Sammy won the tag belts last year. You can't keep giving Sammy belts at WrestleMania. Otherwise people think they're playing favorites, so I'll take Gunther retaining in this one. Yeah, I'm gonna take gun Through retaining as well. I did go back and forth in this one thought it could be Sammy's ay, but I think this story is him taking the l and continue working towards being the one to dethrone Gunther on the second go around and to win the Intercuntald Championship.

32:08 I do see Gunther dropping the title this year, and I think he drops it clean and then goes for the World Championship at some point. But I just I can't see Sammy winning it at wrestling. I hope I'm wrong, but I have Gunther retaining the Intercontinental Championship on Saturday as well. Next match is Rea Ripley defending the WA Women's World Championship against Becky Lynch. This is has gone. There's been a nice upward trend on this feud in this build as of late, and it's been better than it was three weeks ago, thankfully. And this is a dream match. This is the it girl from five years ago wrest May thirty five and Becky Lynch in the mainstay the barometer in the women's division taking on the it girl and maybe the it wrestler in all the professional wrestling right now. In my opinion, Rhea Ripley and I wrestle Mania match. This is an exciting one. We've only seen it played out once on NXC television back in December twenty nineteen. This is the grandiose stage that is WrestleMania, and I think these two women are going to bring in. This is another match I'm really looking forward to. This is like another wrestling fans dream match. I'm going to take Ria Ripley to retain the WA Women's World Championship, Doctor Trey. This one is another one I've gone back and forth on because you know, once again, baby faces usually come out on top of WrestleMania. But Ria's had the best year of maybe any woman's wrestler in the last thirty years. I mean, I don't know who can stack up a one year period like Ria can't. Becky Becky,

33:44 Yeah, but you even in that Becky run as the man. I don't think it was the entire year Bianca was closed. I mean, but really good point, very good point. Aria's gone to send it to another level. I mean that match last year against Charlotte was amazing. And she's gone the entire year and basically just wiped everybody. So I think I'm going to take Ria just almost as a reward for how far she's how far if the latter she's come in the last year, because I still think she's the hot hand in the women's division. So I'll take Ria getting to win over Becky at WrestleMania. And then finally the main event of Night one for WrestleMania for do you have Roman Reigns and the Rock taken on Cody Rhodes and Seth Freaking Ronalds and the Tay Team match. If Rhodes and Rollins win, then all members the Bloodline will be barred from ringside during Roads's match with Roman Reigns on Night two. If Rains and Rock win, then the championship match on Night two will be held under Bloodline rules. Doctor Trey, who do you like in this one? Does that include Paul Hayman? Yeah, I would say so, Yeah, Okay, I'll be curious to see if Paul's actually banned from ringside. I believe, I believe they've addressed that in their promos.

34:51 Yeah, I think you would be. Okay, that being said, it's the old booker is you know, whoever gets who takes the whipping on, you know, on one show leading into WrestleMania, the other team gets the advantage of at the big show. I'm gonna lean on that. I'm gonna take Steth and Cody getting the win over Rock and Roman on Night one. Wow, that's interesting. I've definitely gone back and forth on this one. I'm gonna pick Roman reigns in the Rock. And the reason why I'm doing that is, I think if I look back to the foreshadowing of the Rock beating the crap out of Cody Rhodes outside and them having the trailer and everybody's pointing towards John Cena and Steve Austin making an appearance somehow during this Cody road stuff at WrestleMania, I think that only happens under a bloodline rules match, where you know, all interference is out the window at that point. Anybody can interfere. It's not just the bloodline is the only one. It's it's no disqualification basically, and I think that they don't want that. The only quote bloodline rules match just has taken place on Raw this past Monday. So I'm gonna take Roman rains in the Rock to win this match, and it's it's gonna be a bloodline rules match for me. On night too, it's gonna be bloodline being barred for the Ring and Night two for Doctor Tree.

36:07 When it comes to coding Rhodes and Roman Rats, you got me. I think I almost wish my pick whoa the first time in twelve years, You've got me to switch my pick on air. Now I've done it WHOA. But I like that because I forgot about the Sena Austin stuff. And if it's bloodline, I mean, it's the partest part about this for Jeff is you got three guys who are wrestling in two nights, which means one of those people could potentially lose both their matches at WrestleMania. That's that's the hard part for me to fathom. So I will agree with you. I will take the Rock and Roman Reigns getting to win at wrestled on Night one because I forgot about the Sena Austin stuff. I do like that concept because there might be a little bit of a triple ation sting when alson you got d X and the nWo involved all at one time. And even though the match was it was bad, the nostalgia part made people happy. So I will if you have best the methodology, I will take the Rock and Roman Rains winning on Night one. So official, you are changing your pick to Rowan Rains in the Rock. Yes, that was official. Wow, there you go, folks. I just sold doctor Tran changing his pitch. Now.

37:16 If that now I'm wrong, we're gonna hear about it on next week's shows. I shouldn't have listened to Jeff. I should have stuck with my guns and all of a sudden, John CNN Steve Asso come out in Night one. Yeah, I did that earlier this year. You got me, you got me convinced off air. I think it was the rumble. I changed my pick because of you, and I was like, damn it, I should have kept my pick. So I had the Rock for that one. You thought the Rock was gonna win. No, I think it was the women's side. I think I switched my pick on the women's winner. I can't remember which was, but it was somebody else, Like there was something else, I would he because it was the show. Before he predict the show, you made a lot of valid points. I was like Damn, that's that makes sense. Let's do that. So okay, that's ay.

37:57 If I could sell you, I could sell you. Restum in forty nine to two pre eving predictions this Sunday from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Once again, Doctor Tray successfully, you know, predicted that this match would be on the card, and I'm happy. I'm very happy for all six guys to be on the card. It's the Final Testament taking on the Pride in a Philadelphia street fight. They have not referred to the Pride on WE television as the Pride, but Triple H tweeted it out as the Pride, So I'm going to go with them being that name. And at tip to Doctor Tray for correctly predicting this being on the wrest many card. I'm gonna take the Pride to get the victory in the Philadelphia street fight. Yeah see, I've gone back and forth because it's a street fight means anything goes and that's how you usually have the Heels win a match like this. I don't know if Bobby Lashley and the Profits need this win as bad as Cross and AOP need. I think I'm gonna take the final testament getting the win here just because I think they need to win more than lash Lee in the profits. Next match is what I would call another wrestling fans favorite match here is La Night takes on AJ Styles. This has been a very subtly under the radar good feud and build towards the wrestleminting fort you. It's been going on since basically AJ Styles return to w earlier this year. It's a tough one to call. AJ Styles has taken a lot of L's lately, and I think it would make sense to give the victory to l A Knight, being that he's like the uber popular star. I'm gonna go with AJ Styles.

39:23 He needs a victory here, Doctor Trey. I hate to see AJ styles shoulders always on the mat for some reason, So I'm gonna take AJ. Yeah. I've gone back and forth because I think both guys need to win. La Knight three months ago is the hottest act in WWE, and then you know he had the match with him and Sena tagging up, but then he lost to Roman Reigns and he's kind of fallen back a little bit. But then you're right, AJ is not tors like a great performer, but he takes a lot of l's because he could make airbells look good. So, but if you're picking Cody to win at the end of the night, he needs a challenger coming out of wrestle Media, and I think it makes sense for AJB that guy. So I'm gonna take aj getting the win over La Styles as well. La Styles, La Styles, Sorry, La Knights. That was a I believe that was a shoe brand back in the nineties. La Styles. That was a late night Cinemax show back in the nineties. But I know, hey, now that's a different podcast, different podcasts. Uh. This this next match here is for the United States Championship is Logan Paul defense against Randy Orton, Kevin Owens, Doctor Trey. Who do you like in this one? You know, if it was a singles match, I'd probably pick anybody but Logan Paul. But with being a triple threat, I could see Logan sneaking away the victory. So I think I'm gonna take Logan Paul retaining the US title here because I think the trepidacious Kevin Owens Randy Orton alliance, you know, leads them to kind of messing up in here and Paul can steal a win, so I'll take Logan Paul retaining.

40:52 I'm gonna take Logan Paul as well to retain. Triple threat matches are notoriously no disqualification. You always forget about it until the match actually takes place. I think this is where Jake Paul makes his WE debut and helps his brother defeat Randy Orton Kevin Owens in this match, so I'm going to take Logan Paul to retain. Jake Paul should be getting ready for Mike Tyson fifty eight year old Mike Tyson or however old he is. He gets okay my ass in a boxing match, But I'm going to take Logan Paul to retain the w United States Championship. So either Jake Paul interference and help to get the victory, or something crazy like Randy Orton gives an RKO to Ko or I don't think KO gives a stunner to Randy Orton to get on there, but RKO to Kevin Owens. Somebody knocks out Randy Orton pulls him out of the ring, and Logan Paul does the slimy heel thing and gets the pin.

41:42 So if this is what I want, I agree with you. I think Logan Paul loses the title. Quick question, Does that mean we get Mike Tyson and Kevin Owens against the Paul brothers at WrestleMania Backlash? Maybe? Maybe I don't think they're calling it WrestleMania Backlash anymore. But and I don't know if if Mike Tyson can do international travel with his like background in France, I don't think he could go there, but yeah, maybe maybe he's there by AI. When is a Tyson Paul fight? Like, I think it's in the summer or something. Do we get Mike Tyson in WWE if Jake Paul shows up to help Logan? Did we get Mike Tyson in WWE before their fight? Maybe? I think there's a likely chance he's in w now, then he would be in AW if he wants to talk about that fight, given the Paul's relationship. Next match is EO Sky defending the w Women's Championship against Bailey. This match, man, I don't know. This feud has been kind of okay, It's at its peaks and valleys. I wish they did a better job of making Bailey look like a sympathetic Babyface heading into this one because she was such a damn good heel the last four years.

42:45 Very much hate heable and slimy, and the fans love to hate her in a good kind of way. And I think doing the Babyface run here hasn't been all that great, unless maybe the Hugger returns on Sunday night. A lot of stuff with Paramore. She wanted Paramore to play her down to the ring. They gave the ok to do that. I don't know if that's the case and if WWE's come to agree with Paramore to play around on Sunday, but that would be cool. I think Bailey needs some good babyface love in this one, and maybe the Hugger Bailey does it. I'm going to take Bailey to win the w W Women's Championship, but Russell Mania out to try. Yeah. I was thinking about earlier. I was like, I don't know if I could have Becky and Bailey lose. I don't think I have both of them lose. And I was like, man, what if we get Paramore during a cover of the old school Bailey theme song and the wacky waving and flavor. I still say I don't know, if you remember this, I said this, like when she won the Rumble that you get the wacky waving and flavel two men up with like duct tape on them around their wounds, signifying the return for which he basically chopped them down years ago. But I'm taking Bailey as well. I just think it's as as good as EO's been. I still think having Bailey be the champ is just short term kind of finishes her story, so to speak. So there you go, both of us taken Bailey to win the Wins Championship for WrestleMania, and now that takes us to the ww World Heavyweight Championship match Doctor Treya Seth Freaking Rollins Defense against Drew McIntyre. Who do you like in this one?

44:21 So I've gone back and forth on this one as well, because you know, like I said earlier, I don't know if I want to pick somebody to lose both nights at WrestleMania between the three main event guys who are working double duty. But as I change my pick on one, I think I'm gonna stick to my original thought on this match, which is Drew McIntyre wins and then we get a Damien Prese cash in on Drew McIntyre. So I'm gonna say Drew getting the win and then Damien cashing in on them. So we are on the same page here. And it was basically confirmed to me that there's going to be some sort of title change on Sunday by News that they announced on Monday. Clash at the Castle is going to take place in Glasgow, Scotland. The Scottish Warrior is going to go home in June.

45:10 And I don't think he's going to enter that show as a champion. I don't think he enters that show as a heel, and I think he starts working towards a little bit of that tweener babyface, and I think he wins the championship at that show. We are due for a cash in from Damien Priests. It's only a year, right, and he won it back in July. I really wanted to do what you said and pic Drew McIntyre to win in the Damien cash in. I think Damian interferes in this match Allah WRESTLEMANI thirty one, makes it a triple threat and wins the championship that way.

45:52 I don't think Drew ever gets the title at all, and they don't do like a really shady, you know, transitional championship there. So I'm just gonna go Damian Priest to cash in and win this one. Enter it Wrestleman thirty one style. The Heights of the Century happens to Seth freaking Rollins nine years later. But it's funny that we're on the both the same wavelength, heor Doctor Trey, that we both believe Damian Priest leaves WRESTLEMANI as world champion. Yeah. My thought was you kind of get Drew his WrestleMania Championship win in front of a crowd and then snatched away by Damien Priest, and that's that's that was kind of my logic. The triple threat idea makes sense too, to have somebody do the Heights in the Century to Seth. But I kind of, you know, both both ideas make it sense. I still think at the end of the day, Bolomens still have Damian Priest walking at WrestleMania as the world champion. Yes, there you go, both of us have Damian Priest, who's not in the match, leaving WrestleMania as the world They've away champion. Which then leads to the whole relationship with the Judgment Day and Damian Priest excuse me a Judgment Day and Drew McIntyre post WrestleMania.

46:58 I think maybe Seth and Becky going to take a little bit of time off post WrestleMania and go lick their wounds and come back maybe in a month or so. But we both have Damian pre sleeving WrestleMania as the world have Away Champion. And then that takes us to the match, the main event match of WrestleMania forty weekend, Night two, the entire weekend, the match everybody is looking forward to, Doctor Trey. You and I both have it now in a bloodline rules match because we both are picking Roman Reigns on the Rock to win. On Night one, Roman Reigns defends the undisputed w W Universal Championship against Cody Rhodes for the second time at WrestleMania. This is last year's WrestleMania main event, taking place a year later. I have gone back and forth. There have been times where I thought Cody Rhoads was going to win, no doubt about it. There have been times as of this week that I thought Roman Reigns was going to win, and I was like, Okay, maybe somebody interferes in this, like Solosokoa did it Clash the Castle where maybe Talmatunga debuts and costs Cody Roads the match. The foreshadow he's been put in there that Sena and Steve Austin are going to be involved somehow, I would imagine seeing it comes out to take out Solo Soakoa, Steve Austin comes out to take out The Rock, and that place is going to lose their fucking minds when The Rock and Steve Austin are battling out at WrestleMania forty on Sunday night. I mean, that is just a moment ready to take over social media and the world and make all the nostalgia in the fields that are

48:29 just giving me goosebumps as I talk about that. Leaving it as a one on one match, maybe Tomatunga interferes, who's reportedly signed with w W and takes out Cody that way. At the end of the day, I don't see a way that WWE can end another WrestleMania Doctor Trey with Cody Rhoades not finishing his story and not being crowned the w Universal Champion. I said it on last week's show, WrestleMania one right, all the big ones with zero's at the end. I've had big moments. Restum Any one was the birth. Rest Many ten was Brett celebrating. Resumany twenty was Eddiean's Chris Benwass celebrating. Wrest Many thirty was Daniel Bryan celebrating in the super Dome. You're not going to end one of the wrestlemanis that end in zero? With Roman Reigns holding both holding the championship up in the air and again and fans losing their shit like, how the hell do they do this to us two years in a row? You know, boycott WWEE. Social media is a blaze.

49:27 People are not going to watch wrestling ever again. I can't wait to see how they react it ras after WrestleMania, we could all pump the brakes because I think the show closes, WRESTLEMANI forty closes and Cody Rhodes is given the torch to be the next guy. I've got Cody Rhodes leaving WRESTMANI forty Doctor Trey as the undisputed w Universal champion. I'm just let me ask you at the end of the show when they when Cody's announced the where do you see Sena in Austin both holding holding Cody's hands out for a moment as like the lineage torch passing between the generations. That would be a nice moment. But I think both those guys don't want to take away his moment. I'm serious. I thought I think they would be, like, I get it, but I don't think I would want to do that. I I understand your perspective as well. The only thing that would help that even more is if somehow Hogan got involved. If you go from Hogan to Austin to seen It or to Cody, you know, I mean, Hogan's got nothing going on this weekend. So no, I love that book. I can't argue with that. Like as as a law lifelong wrestling fan and going back two years to how much you and I loved seeing Austin back in the ring fighting Kevin Owens like it's our hero from the nineties, but you know, fighting the SRTU hero for you know that time twelve years like that, the nostalgia just made it great. And if you get that kind of match put together and that's kind of gets involved. I can't argue with that. I'm taking Cody to win. I love the Scena interaction with Solo Socoa, I love Austin

50:59 in the going at it. I love all that stuff. So even if we're dead wrong, in my head, that's what's going to happen. So I'm taking Cody to win the title as well. So they go. Both of us are taking Cody Rhoads to become the new undisputed w Universal Champion. And that is all of our preview and all of our predictions for Wrestlermini forty weekend. We will recap and review everything on next week's edition of SRTU. With that said, let's get a couple plugs and sponsors out of the way. You could download the show every Thursday or Friday at Realguy Radio dot com, Wressell chatnett on X, and the still Real to Us Show iTunes feed. Please rate, review and subscribe to help us com the charts on iTunes.

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