WrestleMania 40 Recap & Review | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #739 – 4/11/24

0:00 It's still welcome everybody. Welcome to this week's edition. This is a Real DOES Show episode number seven hundred and thirty nine from April eleven, twenty twenty four. This is your wit Wrestleming forty weekend recap and review edition of as R Team You. I am one after the show, I am Jack Peck joined every single week my past literally got try Franklin, Doctor Trey. We survived wrestling forty weekend. My friend, you say that, but there's still time I got. It's barely. I feel like I have a hangover, Like literally, like when you're introducing this show, I was like, oh, dear gut, how loud does he say that? So it does feel a little bit like back in my early twenties, coming in off an all weekend bender, trying to go to work on Monday. But hey, it was worth it. The ride was enjoyable, and yeah, I got the t shirt you sent me. It says I survived wrestlmingia a forty weekend.

1:14 Here's the thing, pomp and circumstance. It's like, it's a very enjoyable weekend. But I legitimately so you and I are recording this Wednesday night as aw Dynamite is airing. I legitimately got caught up on professional wrestling earlier this evening on Wednesday. It is not and you are not caught up yet, right, No, I actually had just started Monday Night Raw made it throughout the first two segments. It's tough. I mean, I did the math. It's I mean, what are we looking at here? So two hours of SmackDown, three hours of Hall of Fame, four hours of Standing the Liver. So we're at nine hours now, like six hours of WrestleMania, So what are we at? Fifteen at that point, then another six the next day. That's twenty one if you're counting. I mean I watched pre shows for every one of these shows Monday Night Raw three hours. That's twenty four hours smacked or annex after Standing Deliver, that's twenty six hours. And that's not even counting the one hour of Rampage twenty seven, two hours of Collision twenty nine that I also got under my belt. And oh, by the way, I watched one hour of the Slammy Awards on Peacock. That's thirty hours a professional wrestling I have watched since we last sat down and recorded last week's edition of SRTU. Obviously, some of that stuff is not part of Wrestling a Weekend A decent about ninety percent of it is. By the way, if you want to see awkwardness, go watch the Slamming Awards on Peacock. I highly recommend it. Very awkward. I mean, technology was

2:46 failing them and it was very very noticeable. Yeah, it's a lot of wrestling, Doctor Trey. I love wrestling, but shit, man, it's it's a lot. It's hard to be a wrestling fan this weekend. Yeah, it's hard, but it's hard physically. It's physically and and and maybe emotionally taxing. Uh. But this is this is like it's like Christmas on steroids for wrestling fans. It's like you get all the addresses. It's literally like the the adrenaline rush and then once the adrenaline that crash that comes afterwards. It's like you know, you twist your ankle in a in a rec league softball game, but you finish the game, but the next day you can barely walk and you're like, how about hell, why is this hurting so bad? Like Lugimi, I got a cramp. I have not slept that well, this weekend, I've got about twelve hours of sleep since Saturday nights and I got a cramp in my cap in the middle of the night.

3:44 This morning. I woke up could barely move and that's like my brain feels like that now, Like I consumed so much wrestling, and in the process of consuming it, it was great, but now my brain is just like, nope, we're done, tap out, throwing the towel. Let's just shut it down. So I've already made I already told the wife and the kids. I'm like, as soon as the podcast is over, i am going to bed. Yeah, I don't blame you. It's tough, you know, and I want to kind of get this out of the way now. I felt like with this past WrestleMania weekend, and I enjoyed all the shows, we'll get into it a little bit knee deeper than we are right now. I just have to say that I thought how exhausting everything was in the sense of like staying awake and watching it. I felt like it took away a little bit as from me being a viewer all weekend long and like having those emotional moments that you would have during a wrestling match or that connection that you have would have to a wrestling match, and it's I don't know. I felt like it kind of took away from it a little bit.

4:50 Did you did you watch everything live? Or are you like what? Like what did you watch live? And what are you binging? So? I watched SmackDown, Hall of Fame Live, Stand and Deliver live Night one live. I was a little bit behind on Night one because I actually had to leave at some point in the middle of it for about forty minutes. Night two, I watched live Slammys. I watched on Replay, Binge watch Raw. I watched on Binge watch NXC, Binge Watch Rampage Collision, Binge Wash, Slammys, Binge watch so like everything from about Friday to Sunday. I watched live during the weekend itself. Yes, I wonder, like for how we consume it if that's kind of it, like what it is.

5:38 I mean, I don't know who watched everything live and then, but I mean, how do you go from watching SmackDown and the Slammies live? I mean asking the Hall of Fame live because that didn't end until after midnight. It was uh, I think it was close to one am. Yeah, it was because I think the Rock said something. Yeah, because then one out Yeah, to turn around and jump up in the morning to watch Stand and Deliver, to then shut it back down for you know, shut your emotions back down for five hours, six hours they camped yourself back up for WrestleMania Night one. I mean that's that's taxing in itself. I mean that's a lot. I mean it's either that's why we kind of like we did three hour like we we we. I miss Night one because I had Rocket City, So I watched Night one Sunday night, came back. Couldn't watch Night two Monday night because the wife was at work and she told me I wasn't allowed to watch it until she got home. So we binge watched.

6:38 I watched Standing Deliver and uh something else I watched I think might have been No. I watched I watched The Hall of Fame and uh, Stand and Deliver Monday while I was at work, and then Tuesday last night, we finished up WrestleMania and then we were watching Raw. So it's I think it kind of depends on how you consume it. Because Jesse, if we try to do everything live, you have to kind of amp yourself up, ramp yourself back down, back and forth the entire time, since your emotions are constantly on this roller coaster, and then your sleep schedules on a roller coaster as well. So it's a lot of consumption. And I think now we're just like going forward if this is kind of how we're going to be in the quarter unquote triple h era, you kind of have to pace yourself and be smart on how you can see it, otherwise you get this like WrestleMania hangover. Well lost in all this outside of this of our personal work lives, Doctor Trey too. From a viewing standpoint, I am a huge Yukon men's basketball fan, and I'm sorry. They just had their Final four matchup and they just won the national championship on Monday night, so I watched those games as well. Yeah, we were watching the the Alabama Yukon game with Saturday night during WrestleMania while we were at Rocket City. Yeah. Sorry, sorry about that, Doctor Troy. Oh no, no, like I don't have. I'm not a diehard college basketball fan by any means. I used to be when I was younger. I think I know one player on Alabama's keep Okay, that's only because he's a local kid from like where I used

8:11 to live when I first bog to Alabama. Yeah, done of that. That's it. Yeah. The thing about WrestleMania Weekend too, is it's not this isn't going to stop. I mean, this is going to continue. I mean it's it's I mean they had over two hundred one thousand fans ticketed fans across everything from Friday to Monday that they were obviously trumpeting and as they should, and it's a huge money maker for them, the city that they're in, what have you, and it's this huge spectacle. But there are some things that definitely need to change. So let's get into it on Friday night. And we're not going to cover SmackDown obviously, but the Hall of Fame class of twenty twenty four, and I want to get this negative out of the way now, but we've already kind of talked about it, so it obviously took place after SmackDown went off the air. And I actually really enjoy the Hall of Fame coverage that they do because you just see the wrestlers and all the personalities that completely shed away their personas on television and just act as normal human beings, which is refreshing to see in professional wrestling. And I've always enjoyed that the countdown to the Hall of Fame is always kind of fun because it's like kind of controlled chaos, and the interviews are very funny if you go back and watch them, and it just seems like everybody's having a good time. But they need to do something about this. And we've been saying this for years. It used to be its own standalone on Saturday Night and it would take forever. Well, this past year's ceremony took forever again. And I don't want to knock this because this is like obviously lifetime

9:43 achievement awards for every one of these individuals, and I don't want to be disrespectful to them. But I saw this on Twitter Doctor Trey, and I thought it was a great idea. I think, just don't do SmackDown anymore. Do not What is the point of having a go home SmackDown the night before Night one of WrestleMania. Have Robbie your last wrestling show, have on andre to the Giant Memorial Battle Royal on there, finish your storyline tending into WrestleMania and on Friday night, starting at eight o'clock on Fox, you air the Hall of Fame Ceremony and it's a two hour show, and at ten pm Eastern or wherever you are in the United States your time zone, that is when the night is over. And then everybody from the crew, to the wrestlers, to the fans and attendance and watching at home can then get ready for stands and deliver the next day. That would be my plea to w WEE because I think something definitely needs to change, And that's the number one thing outside of the stuff the inductions themselves that came out of this one is I think everybody across the board felt like this is just not conducive to start watching a wrestling show at eight pm Eastern and then the last thing you see is the Rock saying good night nearly before one am Eastern. Now I did not watch back Down because of this, so I just read about it.

11:03 Now. One of my things that I've always said that they've when they've been doing this is like, if you're on SmackDown, you also want to be in the crowd for the for the Hall of Fame. So you got to wrestle. If you're wrestling on the show, you got to wrestle your match, get out of your gear, get showered, get dressed, and be ready to go, like already kind of out towards your seat by the time the Hall of Fame kicks off. That's a lot on somebody, you know. So I'm with you on your idea. I liked when the Hall of Fame with its own standalone show because I've always felt like the Hall of Fame is like the Galla Ball for WrestleMania weekend, because it's a lot of the wrestlers, you know, dressed to the to the nines. They got their significant others out there. I mean a lot of these, a lot of these, you know, the wives. The wrestlers don't really get to be on the road with the guys that much. The WrestleMania weekends the really the one time of year or maybe SummerSlam as well, but the one time they really get to go out and be with the family. But then this is their chance to really dress up, show out, you know, let the guys kind of showcase their significant others, or for the ladies showcase their significant others. To me, it's just like You're right, like, just you know, either pre tape SmackDown on Monday night and air that and then into the Hall of Fame or just kind of down. It's like a one hour SmackDown and then you know, a two hour Hall of Fame. The one thing about going to Netflix that'll be nice is they can structure this differently because it doesn't have to you know, they're not dependent upon a live broadcast

12:33 when it goes USA because USA is getting smacked down, Netflix is getting raw. The USA is kind of used to this stuff, so you could change up how you do things. You know, in twenty twenty five when all these contracts get moved around, Yeah, stuff has to change. It just does not work. It's a very nice ceremony, you know. And to that point, I know you said you didn't watch SmackDown. The final segment on SmackDown was with Jay Usso and then you know, fifteen minutes later you see him walking out with his son heading out to the Hall of Fame, which you know can't be great. So the negative stuff aside, let's just go through the Hall of Fame here. Obviously, to me, the big point of this all was Paul Hayman's speech. I mean, Paul Hayman's speech is going to go down as a top top three of all time, doctor Trey. I mean the stuff that he said that I won't repeat here in case children are listening is phenomenal. Go out of your way and watch for Randy Orton specific reaction to Paul Hayman mentioning something about if you think E.

13:35 CW died in a bankruptcy court, you can suck his blank. Go out of your way and check that out on YouTube. I mean, what an all time speech, Doctor Trey. And he said he did not write it down. I loved it. I thought it was great. Yeah, I've already used the cancel line when he said see him, Pun just looked at my son and say, well, your dad's got canceled again. And he said he said, the only thinking about getting canceled is you can't be canceled unless you let people cancel you. And I was like, I'm stealing that. So, by the way, wrestling has already gave me two great quotes from the week that I'm stealing, like CM Punk's line in his interview where he said, yeah, I'd rather choke on greatness than starve on mediocrity.

14:18 I already used that this week. And then that Paul Hayman line about canceling, I'm like, just great speech. And he bought props you got. I mean, anytime somebody brings props to their Hall of Fame speech, I gotta give hikudo. I love that. I didn't write any this down, but then he brought a box full of props, so there was some stuff that least planned, you know. And then of course I think the line about I think it's time for Stephanie to have men she married the wrong Paul was a great line as well. So yeah, just oft and often speech in the Philadelphia crowd super into it. I did wonder about the placement of him going first, because he was arguably the headliner, but then again, uh, he had a very big night the next night, so they'd probably need some rest. Clearly they didn't want the fans fall asleep during that one.

15:03 And I just want to add here, I'm not a big fan of storyline stuff taking place during the Hall of Fame ceremony. The Muhammad Ali induction, I got Lannie Ali giving the rock the People's Championship belt was very strange to me, And I also felt like, and this could have been rushed because Rock wanted to go home and get everybody home, or w Fishers wanted to get everybody home. But I felt like the Rock didn't get an opportunity to really talk about his grandmother going into the Hall of Fame and spent you know, like twenty five percent of it talk about his match the next night with Cody Rhoades. So I would prefer storyline stuff to stay out of the Hall of Fame. I think that's like the one time that fans wrestlers should all let their guard down and just enjoy what's taking place. Yeah, and then also the fact that, like when we saw the Hall of Fame inductees, they had the Rock's mom out there for his grandmother. Why not just let auta induct Leia. That would have been just I get it. You want the Rock on there, and I guess the Rock is to be the headliner for the closing person, but you know, you could have let the rocks mom give a speech and you have been just as fine. The other thing I really didn't like a lot. I don't some of these fans I don't like. I mean, people were talking during bold mccanno's speech. I'm like, I seriously just agree to be respectful. Like and that's the doubtside of having it in a big arena, you know, just maybe having a smaller venue and that way you can kind of pick and choose your audience so they can be respectful because uh look, trust me, the Bowld mcconom speech was kind of hard to get through if because she doesn't speak great English.

16:37 I get that, but just keep your mouth shut during the person talking. Completely agree, completely agree. It's like, guys, this is that's my thing is let's let's not have it be a restling event and just like let it be part of the celebration professional wrestling and just let the guard down for a little bit. We don't need what chance, we don't need talking durance speeches, we don't need you know, booze and all that crap. It's just like, let's just enjoyed the Hall of Fame ceremony for what it is. So there you go, doctor Trey, that's the Hall of Fame ceremony. Any other notes that you had from this one, I think, you know, from my standpoint, I think we hit everything I want to touch upon. I thought thunder bol Patterson had a really good speech as well, and then agreed the micro ton to Berry Window micro ton to. I mean just watching the emotion come through the whole rotunda, Wyndham family with with Brave's passing and the timing of all this stuff. I mean that that's it's gotta be a hard speech to. I mean, even though you're you're accepting the award for yourself, you know, there there was the talk that they had asked about having Braik jump in, you know, by putting Bray in this year and might kind of put it down, uh, but you know, the cute part was watching Mike and Barry try to figure out how to work their phones to give you the fireflys on it. That was kind of cute, but it was you know, but it's emotional. I mean, this was maybe the most the biggest class that people who had passed on in quite in that I can heard. Usually there's only like one maybe two at the most, but the you know, we're honoring Bray, but then Muhammad Ali had passed on, you know, and Leah Miava had passed on. It's

18:11 kind of like honoring three people in a lot of ways that have passed on so very very emotional night, but some great speeches in there as well. Yeah, I don't know when we'll get an opportunity to mention this, but I did love that every night of WRESTLMANI a weekend from Friday to Monday, that there was some sort of tribute to Bray Wyatt at the Hall of Fame, which you just spoke about, and then there were times during on Saturday and Sunday they did the fireflies played his music, and then they also did it on Monday. There's obviously some stuff where now it's looking like the return of Uncle Howdy Taylor, Rotunda Bo Dallas is coming back to w w WE soon. There's the beginning of those teases. So that's exciting. But the Hall of Fame ceremony was a fun night of celebrating the world Professional wrestling. And then that takes us to NXC stand and deliver recap review that came to us this past Saturday from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We're gonna run through the card here, We're gonna do something new. Now, I'm gonna go through the results and then we'll go through and get some thoughts about the entire event. So Joe Gacy defeated Sewan Spears in the pre show match. Doctor Tray and I both had Sewn Spears. Baron Carbon and Braun Breaker defeated Nathan Fraser and Axiom to retain the NXC Tag Team Championship. We both had the wolf Dogs getting the victory. Obafemi defeats Die Jack and Josh Briggs in a triple threat match to retain the NX North American Championship. We both had Obafemi thea Haal Vallen Henley and Klooney Jordan defeated Jac Jay and Keana James and Izzy Dame. We both had j C. Jame, Keana James, and Izzy Dame to win that one. Roxane Perez defeats a Libra Valkyrie to win the nc Women's Championship. We both had rox and Perez. Ilia

19:44 dragon Off defeats Tony Dangelo to retain the NFC Championship. We both at Elia dragon Off and then the main event, Trick Williams defeats Carmelo Hayes. I had Trick Williams. Doctor Trey had Carmelo Hayes. Pay per view prediction record from this one. I went five and two, Doctor Trey went four and three, And now we'll get to some of the matches and moments we want to discuss coming out of NX Standing Delivered from this past Saturday. I guess the first thing I want to bring up here, Doctor Trey is Trick and Carmelo was kind of a letdown for me. I thought it was surprisingly quick, and after that great build, I just felt like it didn't parlay into the match itself. Unfortunately. I thought it was really quick and that that that surprised me. I think that's probably my biggest takeaway from Stand Deliver.

20:33 It was an overall very solid card, but I thought the way that it ended in that match specifically kind of left me scratching my head a little bit. Yeah, it felt like they wanted to give the crowd a reason to go home happy earlier, but it almost like that match got cut short, like they were running out of time. So they will maybe something with maybe something with a little long and well, yeah, sometimes you can go with the baby face to go over strong over the dastardly eel. It kind of turns I don't say a squash match, but it kind of felt like and we'll talk about this on WrestleMania a little bit too. But it kind of felt like a Brock match, whereas like we're gonna just get hit the high points and go home, you know, so it wasn't on team. I was really surprised at how dominant the Roxane Perez victory over Lyra Bogery was Like, that was a little bit more. I thought it'd be Lyra would kind of dominate and Roxye would have to sneak out of wind. But that's not how that one came off. And the joke. I think we all love Joe Gacy, but I was kind of surprised that they had Gaycy get the win on the pre show. Yeah, that was surprising. The Ridge Hot Holland storyline thing was kind of strange. Hopefully we see that tie up a little bit. I know you don't. You have not watched NXC television from this past week, Doctor Trey, so I guess I have to unfortunately spoil some things. My apologies. Fine, the wolf Dog's losing on Tuesday coming out of Stand and Liver. I'm not the biggest fan of that type of booking. I gotta be honest, Like, why do you do it at the pl e and then you follow up on free television and and you do the title change. That is such an old school wrestling thing. It's not not my favorite. I think on that one, I'm gonna give the credits.

22:07 I'm gonna say that basically, they the drafts around the corner. I think you and I both agree Braun will be one of the feature people they get drafted. Well, he's on SmackDown. I mean yes, but they really haven't used him that much the last month. I think they figured the viewership for Stand and Deliver is gonna be higher than what NXT television is. So if you put the shine on Braun at the plee, some people will miss the XT things. So when you use him in the draft, they're like, oh, yeah, I saw him in standon Deliver. He's a badass, And that might be kind of why they did the booking like that as well. But yeah, I'm not a big fan, like, let you know, if you're gonna put the belts on new champions, let him have their moments to pl Yeah, I guess my things would be like let him get his farewell at Stand and Deliver like they did with Tomaso Champa a couple of years ago. I don't know if he preferred to say goodbye to the PC crowd instead, but it's like if if they lose, let them during the wrestl in a weekend, like get get their flowers and and say goodbye to NXT like they've done in the past. You know, maybe their thought is, you know, we're putting the belts on two new guys.

23:14 These are these guys. They're gonna be here a little bit longer. Bron's not gonna be here, so let them maybe let them ingratiate themselves even more to that PC audience, because that crowd, you know, when it's when that crowd's hot, it's hot, you know. So I mean those guys, I mean make or break people really really quickly. So maybe that it's just a weird booking thing when they do that. But I'm just gonna say that that they probably thought, either, hey, the viewerships would be higher for Staty deliverso Bronka looked good and then would come back to PC. You know, we put the belts on these guys, and you know, the crowd swallows them up and eats them up, and you know, we can see how they go from there, and then the Ridge Holland part from Tuesday's NXT. So he retires, he's out of the ring, he's not a competitor anymore. They've run a little angle backstage with Joaquin Wilde, and I always want to say his old name, but it's like Cruise del Santos delos Santos, is that? What is it? Cruz del Toro, Cruz del Toro, I always get. I always like mix up his old name too, like Robel Mendoza with that one. But Ridge Holland has taken on Joaquin wild But he didn't come out and say that he's no longer retired anymore.

24:23 And it's like they just announced it at the end of Anic Sea and I was kind of like, like, that's a weird thing for how well w WE like ties up loose ends. They're not saying like Ridge Holland's like, all right, I'm back, I'm wrestling in any type of segment. It's it is what it is. But his gimmee should be he retires at the end of every show that would be interrestling. It would just basically be Sean Michaels from ninety five, all right, anything else on this car dot sure before we get to match, Match of the night and event rating from Standing Delivery, I mean I think I think that, you know, we'll talk about I thought that that was basically like got by key points from it.

25:03 I gave Stand Deliver. My event rating was a three point five out of five. My match of the night was Opa femin die Jack and Josh Briggs. I really enjoyed that one. Yeah, I was three point seven and I actually had to say matches you Like, I really that that double slam he pulled off on Briggs and die Jack. I was like amazed by that. But then also just the fact that all three of those guys I could see being pretty decent stars, like, you know, upper mid card, lower main event guys on the main roster within a couple of years. Oh if Hemmy's a freak of nature, but you know, Briggs has a lot of jbl and die Jack's just the freak of nature it himself. So any one of those guys could could be a breakout star in w w E.

25:45 Yeah, those spots that they were doing. That match was absolutely wild. So there you go. Stand Delivers in the books. That takes us now to resuming forty nine to one. Resuming Saturday recap in review, I Can't do Us this past Saturday from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pencilvan Ria Ripley defeats Becky Lynster, retaining the WA Women's World Championship. We both had Rio Ripley, A Town Down Under win the SmackDown Tag Team Championship. In The Awesome Truth win the Raw Tag Team Championship by defeating Damian Priests and Finn Ballard di Y, the New Day and the New Catch Republic in a six pack ladder match for the e then undisputed w A Tag Team Championship. Both Doctor Trey and I had The Awesome Truth winning the Raw Tag titles, an A Town Down Under winning the SmackDown Tag Team Championship. The next match was Raymisterian Androde filling in for the injured Dragon Lee, defeating Santos Escobar and Dominic Mysterio.

26:33 I had RAYMISTERI and Androde Doctor trade Santos and Dominic. Jay Uso defeats Jimmy Uso. We both had jay Usso, Jade Cargill, Bianca bel Air and Now we defeated Damage Control. We both had Jade Bianca and Naomi Sammy Zayin defeats Gunther to win the WI CUNTINALD Championship and end the six hundred and sixty six day reign of Gunther, and then Roman Reigns in The Rock defeat Cody Rhodes and Seth Freaking Ronalds, making the championship match on Night two between Rains and Roads to be held under Bloodline rules. Doctor Trey and I both had Roman Reigns and The Rock winning that one matches in moments that we wanted to discuss coming out of Night one, Doctor Try. I guess it's easy to start with the main event here. I really enjoyed this tag team match, slow build, great storytelling, and it set up a ton of interest for Wrestumantia Sunday. What a great table setter match for the entire weekend.

27:22 I really enjoyed the tag team title match certainly, Yeah, and I like how they put the match together because it wasn't like very long into that match. They went out to the crowd. And when you have a guy like Rock, even though he's been training with Dallas and all these people and everything going, man, it's different being out there from an audience and in the ring that even in training, So it was nice to have him go out to the crowd brawl for a little bit, kind of get his feet under him to come back into the match. But yeah, it was. It was. It was a really really solid tag match, some good storytelling and things like that. So it was a really great on the pick Off night. I mean, to end one at least Lovedrea Ripleing and Becky Lynch.

28:06 That was a fun match. The six pack ladder match, I really enjoyed. That was a fun match. Again, hat tip to Doctor Trey for saying this is how they split the titles. Jay and Jimmy was kind of a letdown for me. I did not really enjoy that one as much as I was hoping Ray and Andrade was winning. That one was kind of the Sports Center match where Lane Johnson and Jason Kelsey came out. Jade, Bianca and Naomi winning was a good match as well. I thought it was a great way of protecting Jade and we mentioned on last week's show. If the plan is which I would imagine is the money in this all is to eventually do Jade and Bianca. I mean, I like the slow build that you're seeing like the change in creative patterns, because if I think if Vince was at the Helm, they would be I would have been doing Bianca versus Jade on night one instead of them tagging and let this build out a little bit.

28:59 Sammy defeating Conthor was a huge shock to me. Doctor Trey took me by surprise. Loved the last minute of it, and I saw Triple H mentioning this, and I actually wrote this down on my notes on Saturday night. I think Sammy Zain has become this current generation's mister WrestleMania. His connection with the fan base is amazing. And Triple H nearly said the same thing where he said Sammy Zain is is as a connection to the fan base like Sean Michaels did. So those are some of my feelings and moments from Wrestlemanty Night one as well. Yeah, so for me, Ria and Becky it was a good match, but it didn't It wasn't what Rhea and Charlotte was last year. Agreed. Yeah, so I was a little bit littlely down, but then again, I'm like they're they're selling it that Becky. Basically Becky had broad kaitas so Travis almost the same thing, so we almost go, Okay, you kind of have to give her a pass on the match, you know at times, but it's still you really solid match. The Santo's Dominic ray On Drawing match had its moments where it was really cool, but I really just I didn't like the Kelsey like Johnson getting involved because it just didn't make any sense to me at all. Like I was just like, well, this is a horrible way to end this match. But that double plancha with Andrada and Ray coming down on Santo's and and uh, Donic was cool. And then you got a little bit of the LWO and and uh, you know, Legato getting involved, and they did that really crazy springboard spot with walking into Wild where they launch him halfway up the ramp,

30:32 like that's pretty cool, and be featured on BL's cool. Uh, Jimmy and Jay was a letdown, And I think a lot of it was that moment in the middle of the match that like Jimmy or yeah, Jimmy started playing hurt and wanting like sympathy and Jake gave it to him. It just it took away from the entire match. After it, it was just like, dude, how dumb, are you? Like, the guy's been kicking your ass for six months and you're just gonna be like, oh, I'm sorry, yeah, it's cool. I'll then you got screwed on it. But Jay got the wind and you know, the crowd loves saying for some reason, it is what it is. But that Guther Sammy match was so good and so entertaining and you know, goother like playing the Sammy's wife during the match. I was like, this is it's weird, but it's the first time you've really seen Guther get cocky in a match, which is a little bit different from his character. Like his character is like, you know, he's a purist, like he just wants to get the victory and and win the match, and this one was kind of like, you know, trying to show up Sammy on the stage and it cost him the rain.

31:37 I was surprised that he lost the rain. Also on day six sixty six, so you know, on the same week, we were having a Stollberry clips in the World's Coming to an End and stuff like that. So and I suffered an earthquake. Yeah, there you go. I totally forgot about that. I was watching Yankees batting practice when the earthquake happened. Actually, yeah, I thought the subway was going underneath my my condo, but that there's no subway here, So there you go. Night one in the books pay per View Predictions, I went six and one. Doctor Trey went five and two. Event rating match the night I gave restumating a Saturday at four point three. In my match the night was Rains and Rock, Cody and Seth. I was a little bit lower than you. I was a four point one. And as much as I want to get Sammy and Guther, Sammy, I think I said nothing. You feel like I kind of wanted to pick Sammy, but I didn't think Samy could win all the time.

32:29 I guess, uh, you know, when you're a triple eh guy, you can win all the time. So I Samy and Guther was a great match. Plus, I mean, hell, Sammy wins the Your Kindo title while Sammy Frank was watching it be done, so I can't It's hardly pick against that. Yeah, it's very easy to dislocate our shoulders now and like pat ourselves on the back and say like, oh, I wish I picked Sammy. I mean I felt the same way that that is like the one match from Wrestumating week, and it's like, man even like going into it when the way that they were hyping up was like, why the hell didn't I pick Sammy to win? Like he's winning this match, There's no way with all this build up he loses. As soon as I saw Ko backstage, when you saw Sammy and his wife, then Sammy and Gable and then Sammy and Ko, I was like, Sammy's win in this match. Yeah, No, I thought the same thing. And I also want to just give a hat tip. I was so happy Archer with Guy at the wrestlining moment. What I thought I would he he's uh, he's bitter like he debuted WT Age of twenty seven, he's fifty three now and this is his first WrestleMania win, which also shows you that Vince is in the idiot at times when they come to certain characters. Yeah. I remember him as k Quick in the early two thousands, teaming with road Dog, So props to our truth get Rowdy. Yes, I actually have that album somewhere CD.

33:42 But then obviously spent some time in TENA. You were saying something to doctor Try. Yeah, was that your your street Cred CD. Was that your street cred song back in the day when you were going to high school? Like get round? I don't want to, I don't want to, like get too deep into this the first ever CD I ever own. This is factual, nineteen ninety five Coolio Gangs to Paradise album. You were such a rebel back there. I was, You're you. You were one one rough weekend from joining the main street posse. Second album I own, and this is legitimate as well. Uh Peter Paul Mary's Greatest Hits, So that is the vast difference. And then third Garth Brooks greated sits So we're We're and that is me in a nutshell you want to talk about. I have a wide ranging love of music, whether it be hip hop, country, R and B, what have you rock? I'm here for it. Folks Night two wrestumting a Sunday recap reviews obviously was this past Sunday from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Uh. Drew McIntyre defeats Seth Freakin Rowlands to win the WA Reliveweight Championship, and then Damian Priest defeats Drew McIntyre to win the WA Reliveweight Championship. Doctor Trey and I, funny enough both at Damian Priest Cash ins Uh. Doctor Trey did have Drew McIntyre winning that match, and then Damian Cash in the Pride defeats the Final Tes Simon in a Philadelphia street fight. I had the Pride doctory of the Final Testament LA and I defeats AJ Styles. We both at AJ Styles. Logan Pol defeats Randy Orton Kevin Owens to retain the w United States Championship. We both had Logan Pol Bailey

35:12 defeats Eo Sky to win the w Women's Championship. We both had Bailey and Cody Rhodes defeats Roman Reigns to win the undisputed ww Universal Championship in a Bloodline rules match. We both had Cody Rhoads winning that one. Matches in moments that we want to discuss, it's very easily to start with Cody Rhodes finishing the story Doctor Trey. For the very first time since August twenty twenty, we have a new WWE Universal Champion. I mean that match is going to be forever remembered. It was the Avengers for professional Wrestling. It is what wrestling is all about. Good storytelling in the ring, fun moments, nostalgia moments, nostalgia pops, entertainment, emotion. The story is finished. There's one drawback and the only reason why there's a drawback is because of Russell Votes and putting it out there and the moment where the Rock is beating up Cody Roads outside of the rain in Chicago and they have the trailer lit up with Johnsen and Stone Cold Steve Austin. The one thing that was missing was if Stone Cold Steve Auston came out. But you know what, go back and listen to that gong and the Undertaker comes out. That is a very loud pop. So would there have been a Stone Cold pop just as equal to that? Absolutely, But they made up for it as well. I mean, I think that's the easiest thing to start with here. Doctor Trey is Cody Rhoades finishing the story. I love that match. That was match was fun. Yeah, that match was fantasy. I think you and I talked

36:43 about it off the air after that week show and we said if Jay usso John Cena, No, we talked about that on air air, Yes, And that's how I convinced you to change your pick. Yeah, it's true. I think we I think we think if that would that be the greatest wrestling match of all time, And you said it'd be hard to top it. Well, we didn't get stone Cold, we got the Undertaker, so it's really really close. But I would say I would say that I still feel like Steve Austin Kevin Owens was more entertaining. That's just my personal preference. I would say that that's not where there's This is a two year long build up to get to this match. I hear you, I hear you right to add and then to added. I mean there's the the seth Rawlin stuff with Roman in that match, and then you got the scene of solo, you got the USO's, you got Undertaker choke slamming Rock all in this match. You even had that momentary staredown between Roman and Cody that was reminiscent of the R excuse me rock in Sina, which goes back to what twenty nine and thirty, but then also Hogan and Rock from WrestleMania. I mean, there was some good storytelling that match eye together. I mean fifteen year stuff, twenty years stuff, ten year stuff. I mean, there was a lot of threads being pulled on in that match, and they pulled it off pretty seamlessly. So I got to get those guys a lot of credit.

38:13 If it's not the great, it might be the greatest main event to close out a Wrestlemanian history. I mean, but I think if you went back in a time wrestlmingy thirty people would throw out there, right. People love Yesselmania, and I just for me I when I bring up to Steve Austin comparisons, So here's the difference. I always I got to the point where I thought Cody Roach is going to win on Sunday, and if he didn't, I think we would be looking at this entire like wrestling landscape, like what do they do from here? Like how the hell do they do what they did last year and do it again? I expected that. I never expected Steve Austin to wrestle again, And I'm just talking in short term memory, and even leading into that one, we weren't necessarily sure. And I mean, I'm kind of gotta spoil this. I don't want to spoil my feelings on Restraining forty quite yet. But I think if you're been a long time listening, you can kind of see where I'm heading with some stuff.

39:15 It was expected Cody doing the story, but it was just so damn entertaining. I mean, ultimately, it was like you're just sitting there and it's like, this is so much fun. We're exhausted. It's fun. But I just felt like the feeling of the moment I had was was a tad bit higher when Steve Austin was wrestling coming Kevin Owens, because I love those two guys so much as a wrestling fan. I think, I don't know, I don't know if you if you did this deep dive. But I saw a video today of a kid crying that Cody won, and I went on YouTube and started like just kind of searching out, like Cody wrote, like kids reactions to Cody winning, And it was kind of across the board, like these young kids, these eight, nine, ten, eleven year olds like just universally love Cody legitimately thought that he wasn't going to win because of that blood. So they were so emotion and you know, guys like us that are kind of and I'm using the air quotes, I think you guys can't the smart marks of the world, like we can see the writing on the wall. But for me, like in that moment, it was kind of like going back to when you're a kid and you kind of thought wrestling was real, but you didn't know for certain like it was still real to those kids. Yeah, so it's a little bit of to me, it was like the Daniel Brian WrestleMania thirties up there, Kevin Owens Stone call because of the nostalgia for us, because we never thought we'd see Stone call wrestle in our stone called wrestling in you know, Ben Waugh and Eddie closing out. Was it wrest twenty Yeah, So I mean maybe it's like every ten year things for us. You know, Sean Michaels beating Brett Hart,

40:49 that was wrestling at twelve. Yeah, So I mean those ones are up there, But I mean to get that moment where like remember I think I told you off here, I said, if you get that moment where you got you know, I was trying to say, if you had Austin, Cina and Cody in the ring at one at one time, you had Ko, Sammy Sina, Randy Orton all celebrating Johnson's win in Cody Rose win co Cody Rose his win at one time you you kind of got that, and then you have seth Rownin's on the outside, who could barely stand at that point. You know, like, dear god, that was that was a pretty It's coming one. Ones like Jeff, when you and I are sixty, you know we're gonna we're gonna talk about how WrestleMania forty closed out.

41:34 It's definitely a memorable one, don't get me wrong at all. And and I'm just saying this is just personal preference and maybe historically changes people's minds as well, including mine. But what I liked about the end finish is the very first wrestlemanting that I remember watching start to finish live was Wrestmating at ten when I was a little kid in nineteen ninety four. And they close out that show with Brett Hart doing the unthinkable despite losing early night against Owen Hart and the Opener, and he defeats Yokazuna in like five minutes and really not a great match if you go back and watch it. No disrespect everybody, but they close out that show and they bring out all the baby faces and they lift Brett Hard up and they did that moment thirty years later with Kevin Owens, excuse me, with Cody Rhoads with Kevin Owens and Sammy's a and the ring jay Uza lifting them up, and I thought that was really cool. And I don't know if they did that purposely as a hat tip to Wrestle A eighty ten, but it was very old school and I loved it. The part that got me, and you didn't really realize it to me, at least as I was watching until after the show. The Seth Rollins factor in this all is a very instrumental, potentially foreshadowing part in this him. The reason why Cody Rhoads won is because Rain's had an opportunity to take the chair and hit Cody Rhoads with it and end the match. But Seth is in the ring in the shield regalia, and Roman Reigns finally has his first misstep in nearly forty years as champion. Instead of going after Cody,

43:07 wants to get revenge for Plan B when Seth took him out ten years ago. Strikes Seth Rons with a chair and that's when Cody Rhods capitalizes. Hits the three Crossroads. The one two three and becomes new champion and then outside the ring, like you can make a strong case and maybe they'll do the storyline wise and maybe Seth turn zeal at some point. The reason why Cody Rhoads won that match is because of Seth rons like he lived up to his end of the barket by saying I can be your shield and to me, the way that it played out in the ring, the way that they set it up, the foreshadowing, the build, everything that went on with we want Cody back in early February coming out of Royal rumble Wwe executed it perfectly ultimately at the end of the day here Doctor Trey and everything that they did creatively, I absolutely loved and I mean massive, massive hat tip for them on the execution. And I don't know if you when when Cody reached the rubs of shakes Seth's hand, he said, he goes, I owe you one, and Seth goes, I'm on to halt you tube. Yeah it's coming up. It is. I don't know that there was a moment in the Shields music hit I was like, I know Seth's coming is mocks up there, same same same, I really I thought that like that went through my head where I was like, man, could you imagine if they got Moxley, that place would have lost their shit and AW would have benefited from that just as equally. And then I went back and play I was like, oh, maybe they got Kurt Angle to where the Shields hated God,

44:39 I hated that other stuff from this one. I really enjoyed talk about Seth. I really enjoyed the Drew Mcatar Seth Freak and Rollins match. I thought that was great. It was really good. It was fast paced. Uh, the celebration afterwards was really good. Rubbing in the face to see him punk then Punk taken out Drew and the Damien cash in was really well executed. Logan Paul Randy Or and Kevin Owens was really good. Clearly I have no idea who I show Speed is because he made an appearance. So for two years in a row, somebody revealed themselves in the prime thing and I no idea who it was. Do you know who that is? That's true When it happened once again two years in a row, for a moment I thought it was our truth. Well, I mean, Michael Cole thought it well Michael Cole thought it was KSI. Yeah, I don't know I And here's the thing I watch. Well, No, I've watched a couple episodes of Impulsive. You know, I don't know who these people are.

45:35 And then I think that guy's not even on their show. He's just another YouTuber. No, I looked at I had to look it up after the match. I mean, this is now how old I am? He is I believe a twitch streamers. It's sad that that's the thing. No, it's amazing. I stole shows. I show speed, I show speed all one word. Though I show speed. It's pronounced I show speed, but it's all one word. Write this down so you can tell your steps on later, like, hey, did you know I show I show stuff? Was that the WrestleMania. I'm gonna ask him after the after we got to show, after we got our show that I'm showing my age. That's gonna be my name. That's my Twitch name. I show eight. By the way, I'm gonna I am age. That's it. That's all it is.

46:21 But yeah, that's did no clue that was I. But I do love. Apparently that's gonna be a thing with the Prime mascot gets beat up every If we get Pete Rose in the prime thing for Cana choke Slam at moy Year, that would be good. Yeah, no, keep it going and in that match, clearly it would. I would believe a Randy Orton Kevin Owens tag team is coming because a Town down Under won the tag titles for SmackDown, which at one point, I think or leading into the Wrestling Weekend, there was rumors that they were gonna get pulled from that match. Yeah for pretty deadly. I don't know how that came about, but yeah. So those are some of the things that I took away from Night to Doctor Trey, your your thoughts on some things that you enjoyed from Night too. Number one was, yeah, apparently Seth is his body's just giving out because that match was very hard hitting. But I told my wife, I said, this is a Brock Lester match. And I say that because it was literally like finish finish. It was just like we're gonna hit our big, our big moves, over and over and over again. It was like one of those the old school Brock Roman matches where a Brock and Goldberg where it's just f fives and spars, you know, but uh, I did not know that was Drew's wife. I was like, who's that young chick in the front row. I thought it was his daughter or something. But the Damien Cash I thought was great and it's a good way to kind of you know Drew because the crowd booed see him punk when he was attacking Drew.

47:43 That was the crazy thing about that whole thing for me. So but that was that was pretty cool. I don't know. Bailey EO was was decent, but kind of a letdown. I think it's because I think I told you I wanted the wacky waving a flatable two men to come back and they didn't. But the Loan Logan Paul every time I watch him in a poly two years. It's only been two years since he debuted, and he just beat a thirteen time world champion and a three time world champion in a match at WrestleMania. I mean, the sky's the limit for the Logan Paul. As long as he wants to be a ww star, he could be the person if they take the US tun off him to have a magic cody where the fans go, Yeah, I don't know who's winning his match because on paper, By rates to me through the roof for that, because he'd have his fan base plus the wrestling fan base all buying in to watch that match. Yeah, you got to. You gotta respect what he's doing, Logan Paul. I mean, he's really become a good end ring performer and he's proven he can hang with some of the best, So you just have to give respect to that. I also want to mention as well. I forgot to mention this in my thoughts from rust many night too. I'm so happy for Damian Priest. I mean, that guy deserves it. I mean he took the pin in a really good match at Backlash last year against a musical performer, and then he got rewarded with money in the bank and they got rewarded with the Showcase at WrestleMania. So I'm very, very happy for Damian Priests. That deserves it. So not to mention a guy who trained at the Monster Factory right down the road got to win the World Championship in

49:15 Philadelphia. Just that was awesome. And then once again a little bit of you know, a little bit of storytelling, Tian. They're like only the second time somebody's cashed it at WrestleMania. Well, the guy who did it first was the guy in that match, so it all ties there. I learned tell my wife, I like, I was like, if wrestling was a real thing, like you know, blah blah blah, I would only like if I ever won by the bank. Of course, you cashed into wrestle Media. It's the biggest stage to cash in on. So why would it's weird that only two people have ever done it? Yeah, it is. It is very strange. So yo. So there's some of our thoughts from night too. WrestleMania prediction record from Night two. I went five on one. Doctor Trey went four and two. I'm at thirty five and eight.

49:55 Doctor Trey's at thirty and thirteen. Coming out of the very long Wrestling weekend pay per view event ratings and Match of the night. I gave WrestleMania Sunday a four point five out of five and my match of the night was Cody Roads and Roman Reign. Yeah. I actually had four point five also and my match was Cody and Roman because that was just just beautiful storytelling. So, like I mentioned earlier, Doctor Trey, you know, in my discussion about like I was enjoying Steve Austin the Austin Kevin Owens match from w Resumani thirty eight. Here's what I'll say. I feel like that there is a trilogy of great WrestleManias w Resumania seventeen, eighteen and nineteen. My my personal preference was really really good for a three year stretch. I think thirty eight, thirty nine and forty are going to be looked at back as equally as good as a trilogy for professional wrestling. With that said, I think, and I'm looking back at my notes here, I think I really enjoyed.

50:54 If I had to put in that order, I would say I enjoyed Wrestlemana thirty nine last year the most out of the last three, WrestleMania thirty eight as number two, and I would put WrestleMania of forty as number three out of those. And that's could be a little controversial, but I think when you compare the last three WrestleManias thirty eight, thirty nine, and forty, which to me historically may be looked upon as the same way that I look at seventeen, eighteen and nineteen. I don't know if you feel the same way Doctor Trey, I would say thirty nine was the best, then thirty eight, then forty from this past weekend. Uh who did Roman wrestle at thirty eight? He wrestled the Brock for the title unification. Ye okay, so that's that's the weird thing about so thirty eight. I really enjoyed thirty eight because I thought the Seth Cody match was good. That was also when we got Ko and Austin. You know so, but the main event match of Roman and Brock is kind of a leaddown. But then when you look at last your stuff, you know that show, I argue, I think it was one of the highest ratios we've ever huvered in the hill history of our show, and this show's right there with it. I'd probably go forty, thirty eight thirty nine in what order? Is that? One two three or three two one? I'd probably go forward like this one might and love is also the good guys getting the win, and we got the Rock and the match on night one. The baby Face gets to win on night two. Uh cause if you think about the last two years, the bad

52:25 guy has ended the show with the win. So you liked forty better? And the most you liked thirty eight two years ago. Second, and you liked thirty nine as the third in that one. Yeah, and I'm really surprising, And it might just depend on my mood for the day, I think right now, like after what And a lot of it also is like you know, when you have a little kid and you're trying to get your little kid involved in wrestling. It's like that when the good guy wins to end the show, and you know, you see all these I tell you, if you if you deep dive that and go down that rabbit hole seeing these kids and their reactions to Cody winning, it'll give you like almost like a little bit of like your own nostalgia from when you were a kid watching Brett Harpy. Interesting. Yeah, I mean I loved thirty nine because I thought, and I get your point with the feel good story of it all, But I love thirty nine because you had Rhea and Charlotte, you had gone through and Drew and Seamus, you had Sammy and Kevin and the USOS.

53:22 I mean those were some even rains and roads, which is often forgotten because the result was a really good match at thirty nine, Seth and logan Paul at thirty nine was really good. Yeah, it's I don't know. I guess I could understand that the plan on the emotions there. I think it kind of deppends like when you go back and look at some of your favorite trilogies and then your favorite times in wrestling. It also depends on where you're at your life. Like for us as older guys, we like watching the win or we like watching just good competitive, hard hitting matches, and sometimes like a show like this. I mean, there are so many storylines that were getting tied up and you know, someone just bringing something other. One of the things, you know, as we're talking about Cody getting the show and getting lifted on his shoulders and I think I told you off the air last week. The one of the things about Cody is he he has a lot of his favorite wrestlers combined in his persona. He's got his dad.

54:14 The hair looks like Rick Flair a little bit. The jacket is very reminiscent of Surfer Sting, which was who grew up idolizing as well. And when Sting first won the World Championship, they did the same thing as well. They lift him up on the shoulders while the good guys and I was like, I've sitting there watching this is yeah, like that was I forgot about Brett getting lifted up. I was thinking of Sting getting lifted up when he finally defeated Flair for the title. Mm hmm, No, that's a really good point. Yeah, I can see that. I guess. The last thing I want to mention since we're talking about Cody is everybody's loving him across the board one hundred per everybody is loving the story has been finished, all that stuff. When do the fans art turn in on Cody? Is that's what they do? How long did it take for Seena to get turned on? Well, what do we do? They loved him at twenty one when he first was crowned as champion, By like twenty two they hated them, so maybe like eight to twelve months. I think it depends like this.

55:12 This is where you're gonna see the difference between Triple H booking and Vince booking is how they book a babyface champion, Because do you shove him down everybody's throats and put him out everywhere or do you kind of space it out? And if he spaced it out, a little bit. It's less likely for fans to revolt against him. But if you shove him down Avery's throats and he's on every single show, which having the draft and having brand split can help that a little bit, because you remember those days of Seena, Like he was on SmackDown, he was on WRAW, he was on everything. He was everywhere at all times. You couldn't get away from it. He was in three segments a night, if you know, if we get that kind of booking, yeah, the fans will turn on Cody. And I still think to this day Cody is could be one of the best heels in the world because he dresses like Rick Flair, like he acts like Rick Flair. I've said before when he when we were some of the aw stuff and even comwe there are times he comes off to me kind of like a used car salesman. I've always said that, and I hate I have said that. I regret it I'd said that, but yes, I agree with you. There are moments like it's like used car salesman slash lawyer can come off that way, and that tells me he has the ability to play a great heel. So it kind of depends on what they do with Seth.

56:28 And you know when Seth, you know, I don't think Steth been back for like three or four months. It's gonna be a little while before Seth comes back. You gotta let him get healed up. They said he's out for four weeks right now. Is the earliest thing what post draft, But once again, it kind of depends on what the roster shake up is to. I think I think you run this all the way, at least a baby phase, run for at least a goods six to eight months. You know, Rock's a heavy gone for a while, but when he comes back, he wants Cody, so he might get Cody in the Rock. At some point, I think, yeah, so I think you got gage. I think you'll gauge the fans reaction to Kobe by SummerSlam, and then you can kind of see, hey, this is our this is our building block, this is our John Cena, this is our guy. Or is this another guy which can turn back and forth and create good storylines just flipping him yo baby face for a year or two, heel for a year or two, back and forth. Let's talk about the last thing I want to talk about here is Obviously this was a banner weekend for World rest and Entertainment.

57:24 There was a lot of talk about the Renaissance era and WWEE is certainly trying to push being the Paul Levec era of professional wrestling, which I don't think he's comfortable with saying. I don't think this is something that he is like, Hey, you know, I want this to be my era. But clearly WWWE and before we got on the podcast here and I have not fully digested it yet, but I did get an opportunity to watch the all in footage from AW, and I've not watched AW Dynamite tonight as we record this. That's the only thing I've seen, and we'll only talking about on next week's show. But to me, I feel like WI is really starting to pull away from all elite wrestling. Like severely is a wrestling fan, and the things that would keep me from from sticking and watching all elite wrestling are There's a ton of wrestlers that I love over there, still, Will Osprey, Fdr Young Bucks, Moxley, what have you. There's a ton of the guys and girls that I love watching there, but it's it's just like it's Thank God for the competition the aw provided because it pushed WA to get better. But this is something that I think you and I have been expecting would happened at some point, Doctor Trey, because of how much we enjoyed NXT in the mid twenty tens. When Triple H is running it. This should not be surprised to any fans of how good WWI is right now.

58:50 It is very entertaining. Maybe spread out wrestling a weekend for like a two week time period rather than like four really hard days, but it's just it's some of the best stuff I've seen in a long time, and I'm really really happy as a wrestling fan right now, a we fan watching it and I'm enjoying it. I don't know how people could say anything negative because the entering work, the creative, the logic, it makes you think it's entertaining. It's good entering performances, everything talked about them. The production has been so much better. It just feels like a whole brand new show. Almost. They took a victory lap, rightfully they should. They are reportedly getting away from the terminology of sports entertainment, going back to professional wrestling. I don't know it's just a really good time to be a wrestling fan right now again, doctor try And we've said that a lot over the years during the fourteen year history of SRTU, but this is the one time where I really feel like this is a sustainable period of time that can be really good because of who's leading the ship and clearly a roster and the people who've been behind the scenes really respect and love the leadership the Triple H is providing. Based on the things that Paul Hammond said during his speech and other people that you're seeing in media, how much fun is wrestling right now? No, it's I mean, dear god, we close out that show with Michael Cole yelling out I fucking love professional wrestling. That doesn't tell you what kind of era we're walking into right now, where it's like, man, it's just it's

1:00:22 so good across the board. And I know I get backed on for being you know, like I'm not an AAW guy, but I mean the entering action AW is fantastic. Our knock on it usually is okay, some of the storylines are lacking, or they do dumb stuff that they don't need to do, or what you know, soups, you know, just dumb stuff they don't need to do for shock value reasons or whatever. It's a little there are times it's a little russo, you know, w CW at two thousand at times. But in ring work, you and I said here one time, it said there, the AW roster has more depth than the WWE roster. There's more talent on the AW roster than the WWE one. But if you want great entering action, there's a show for you. If you want great old school I want to say old school in this. You know, Memphis Geo nwas but WW has great entering action, storytelling, commedy, they have this Smorgasport. They have a little bit of everything. If you want to dig down to the independence or some of the smaller shows, impact of really solid show or Tncupertna is really solid right now, the MLWS, the GCWS. There's just so much good quality content across the board that there is something out there for everybody, and it's you know, I remember you and I doing this show seven years ago and talking about us going into the Golden Age of wrestling, that there was more talent out there in pro wrestling than we had ever seen before, and it took a little while to come to fruition. It took some pushing, some prodding, It took competition to

1:01:55 really set that standard and put sit that way. But I think we're finally answering that age you and I were talking about years and years ago where you're just like, there's you're almost like to find nega stuff. You have to nitpick at times. You know, it's it's like, no, just you know, just across the board, there's something for everybody. And I don't think there's been a time in the history of this show in fourteen years where we could say that, yeah, it's a really really good time for professional wrestling. Just love everything that's going on. Absolute props to WWE for a very fun and exhausting weekend of professional wrestling. With that said, let's get a couple plugs and spots of the way and close up shop on this week's edition of SRTU. You can download show every Thursday or Friday at Real Guy Radio dot Com, Russell chatnett on x, and the Still Route the Show iTunes feed. Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe to help us comb the charts. On iTunes, you could FOLLO US individually on X for myself at SRTU Jeff and for Doctor Jay Franklin d Doctor Trey and of course don't forget to follow a show on X at SRTU podcast. With that being said, what's going on in the wonderful world of Doctor Trey Franklin this week.

1:03:00 Well, like Jeff said, you can follow me on X at the Doctor Trey. You can find me on Instagram and Facebook, Doctor Trey Franklin. When you're on Facebook, check out Rock and State Championship Wrestling. As we are on the road to Wrestling Con seven, coming out May eighteenth from Lovely Hazel Green, Alabama. As we were announced, Super Crazy and Chase Owens will both be on the show this year, both returning to Wrestling Con, so we're looking forward to that both. Go check out Spartan Championship Wrestling, the other show I work with here in Alabama, and most importantly, just like you I was saying you a second ago, go check out your offo independent shows. Go find those guys. Go find your a town down Hunders, Go find your Oba Femis, go find your you know, your Darby's, your your mjfs. Go find those guys. Now before they hit the big time, and they basically just priced themselves out of your range. Because thirty four million dollars to be made over wrestling in a weekend. Guess what that means. Tickets are expensive for those shows. Go find your local shows.

1:03:54 Gotta love inflation, folks, Gotta love inflation. Fun weekend of professional wrestling. Thank you for tuning in. Thank you for making it as part of your weekend, as part of your coverage that you are listening to. From regards to wrestling, eighty forty just kind of unplugged this weekend. Folks, as wrestling fans, tune into wrestling when you can, but like I, don't, go see your friends and family that you missed the past week and until next week. For doctor Franklin, I'm Jeff Pack. Thank you for downloading. This has been this Still Rotha Show.