WWE Draft Preview & AEW Dynasty Recap | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #741 – 4/25/24

0:00 It's still emited. We welcome everybody. Welcome to this week's edition The Star Realta Show. Episomber seven forty one for April twenty fifth, twenty twenty four. Welcome to your aw Dynasty recap and review edition of ass rt You. I am one alf of the show. I am Jeff Peck joined. Typically every single week my cost you want to lead, Doctor Troy Franklin, Doctor Trey is unfortunately not here this week. My friends, doctor Trey getting tied up with his nine to five or the thing that pays the bills. Unfortunately that is not SRTU. We all wish it was. If you'd like to help make that happen us know at sort to you podcast on Twitter. So this is one of the rare occurrences of the year where it's a solo show.

1:06 I always kind of make fun of this one because it's like what I grew up on in the Northeast WFAN sports radio, where Mike Francesa would just talk into the microphone by himself for four to five hours of the day after Matt dog Russo left him, shared his thoughts, took some calls. The only difference here is I'm not taking calls. Unfortunately, it's just strictly my thoughts, which is, you know, I'm gonna miss my man, doctor Trey Franklin. I wish he was here talking to me W Dynasty, talking to we draft. But we will move forward here without the very own doctor Trey Franklin here. So we will recap review AW Dynasty. We will take a look at W's draft that is beginning Friday night and carrying over to Monday.

1:53 What we would like to see or what I would like to see I should say coming up here with the twenty twenty four we draft and more, we'll try to make the best of it here. When it's the solo shows, they're not the easiest ones to do in the world, but for everybody that downloads this podcast each and every week, I will certainly do my best to make sure my voice isn't give out and at some point, uh, you know, I just keep it moving, I guess as best I can without like losing my voice here and wanting to take a breath while getting really excited talking about professional wrestling. So, beginning with AW Dynasty recap interview, we started when it was the restum A forty recap where kind of just ran through the card the results and just gave some thoughts about the entire card.

2:42 So I will start here with the pre show matches, that being Trent Bretta defeating Matt Siddell, Orange Casside defeating katzi Ori Shabata excuse me, Orange Casting, and catsi Ori Shabada defeating Shane Taylor and Lee Morio already a Bullet Club Gold defeating the Acclaim to win the AW Trios titles and retaining their ROH Trios six Man titles to unify the Trios Championships. Those all took place on the pre show. The main card, you Kaziko Okada defeating Pak to retain the AW Continental Championship. You had the House of Black defeating Adam Copeland, Eddie Kingson, and Mark Prisco in a trios match. Will A Knightingale defeats Julia Hart and a House Rules match to win the AWTBS Championship. Roger Strong defeats Kyle O'Reilly to retain an AW International Championship. Chris Jericho defeats Hook in an FTW rules match to win the FTW Championship. Timeless Tony Storm defeats Thunder Rosa retaining AW Women's World Championship, Will Osprey defeats Brian Danielson, The Young Bucks defeat FTR in a ladder match to win the vacant AW World Tag Team Championship, and Swerve Strickland defeats Samojo to win the A World Championship. Doctor Trey and I both went ten and zero at this pay per view, which, well, it was an easy, predictable pay per view, but still really

4:13 fun night. Overall, myvent rating in my match the night, I gave AW Dynasty a four point zero out of five and my match to night was Will Osprey and Brian Danielson. We have to get Doctor Trey's thoughts on AW Dynasty on next week's edition of SRTU. So some matches and moments that I wanted to discuss here. So I watched AW Dynasty the next day, and by the time I sat down and watched it, all the results had been spoiled. At that point. To me, I mean, you can't go on like social media now and not see the results. So one of the things that I saw was people absolutely shitting all over the hook Christierico match, and I was really intrigued to check this out. The build for the feud itself wasn't the best. The match, you know, the build for the match wasn't the best. The feud has been kind of okay. And I said on the last week's edition the podcast without t Trim, like, I think Jericho is doing this purposely, and we got confirmation obviously in this past week's edition done to that is the case. The Learning Tree edition of Chris Jericho is so corny and so bad that it may really be good playing out on our television. So I watched this match. Everybody's crapping on it, and I thought it was fine for what it was. It told a story and it helped elevate Hook na Loss. I was completely dumbfounded that people were

5:45 like losing their mind online that this match was awful, terrible, it was time for Jericho to retire. I think they were chanting that during the match. I was pleasantly surprised. People aren't gonna like to hear me say this, But it was like a WWE styled match taking place on the aw card, and the purpose of that was a little bit of character development involved with Hook and Chris Jericho and putting over a guy in a losing effort, and that's what they accomplished with Hook. I think hooks build and rise to superstardom in aw is very important and especially viable for his growth as a character as a wrestler as he moves forward. And I think this was really the first time that we saw that actually take place with Hook, So I was totally fine with what it was. If there was anything I would want to change with Hook, it's a presentation of that bat signal that takes place every single time he comes out of the ring, comes down to the ring. You got Tony Sivanni going it's Hook, you know it's It's like, that's really corny, and I don't think that's a joke. Chris Jericho during the Learning Tree. Stuff is corny purposely and it's damn good. Number two Will Ospray Brian Danielson. It was amazing, right, I mean that's what we all kind of expected. Dare I say two things that I wish were different here?

7:08 A right? Well, one of them is of all the match, and then the other one is is kind of like a bold take here probably not popular. I thought the match with Kenoski Tekeushka was from Revolution the month prior was better than the one with Brian Danielson. And that's like picking one A and one B between one another, because the Ospbury matches in AW since becoming a full fledged member of the roster have been phenomenal. I thought that Takesha one was really good and I thought it was a step below Danielson, and I think the reason for that is because I expected Well Lost Bray and Brian Danielson to put on a hell of a show on Sunday Night at AW Dynasty. So I don't know what else could exceed my expectations from that one.

7:54 While the match with Kenoski Takeushka I was excited for, but it didn't obviously have the same like excitement level that I had for Ospray and Danielson taking place, being that it was a dream match. In regards to the match itself, I loved everything about the match. I think it's a match that we all talk about in regards to match of the year conversations at the year end. But I did not like the injury angle at the end. I thought that negatively affected the match. I didn't think it was necessary. I get and I'm the guy that's always like character development, storyline development, blah blah blah blah. I wish there was a little bit more entertainment value with aw They focus so much on in rings blah blah blah blah blah. But I feel like in a match that we all expected would be an amazing performance, I don't think that they should have executed an injury angle to take place at the end of the match while the match was still ongoing. What I think would have been really good. And I hate to say this because I never truly like when wrestling does this, especially with the wrestlers that you're as a wrestling fan, actually concerned about their well being and health nearly every time they step in the ring, which is you know, Daniel Brian, Brian Danielson checks all those boxes right now. So what I would have done?

9:07 Hit the Tiger Driver ninety one, hit in blade, he's showing a little bit affects Brian Danielson one two, three, They celebrate Danielson, you know, goes to lift up oss Bray's hand and has that Sean Michaels owen Hart nineteen ninety five in Siguri moment where maybe he grabs his head, goes down to a knee a little bit, doesn't have to be a dramatic like Sean Michaels, does not necessarily need to be does not need to be taken out, not necessarily, not at all, does not need to be taken out on a structure like we've seen with Sean Michaels, and share the injury angle postmatch that way, I think when you put the injury angle in the midst of the match itself, especially for the finis, it does take away a little bit from it. Let's have the match front to back, be amazing and then afterwards execute your injury angle. So I felt like it negatively affected it, you know, like maybe five percent of the match, but enough where when I thought about it, compared with the Kenoski to Kashka one, I felt like the one with Kenoski was better from Revolution. And I don't think that is going to be opinion that a lot of people are going to say third thing from the show, and this is going to bleed into some of the stuff that we saw from Dynamite on Wednesday night. So Jack Perry is back in aw helps the Young Bucks win the tag team Championship, and I talked about this angle on a podcast, the Bragman Breakdown, that we'll put up on all of our social media channels. Earlier today with Jackson Bragman.

10:37 I've been on his show before, a great kid. Really enjoyed the interview and you know, all encompassing. Now, we talked about from the all out footage segment of the air on Dynamite two weeks ago, what took place on at Dynasty. Then obviously what took place on on Dynamite. I would have just ran an angle where Jack Perry makes a surprise appearance and costs FTR of the match and helps the Young Bucks leave a little bit of question marks in there. Don't don't tease the scapegoat, don't tease Jack Perry, any of this stuff leading into the pay per view, because we all expected that this was going to take place, that Jack Perry was going to show up cost them the match. The reports were out there that he was wrapping up with New Japan Pro Wrestling, and I wanted done it that way.

11:22 People love a good surprise angle. I think that would have been This was an angle we all expected, you know, that way, he interferes and then you tease on Dynamite like, is Jack Perry aligned with the elite? What is the elite tied up with Jack Perry? And maybe you start the show up with Nicholas and Matthew Jackson going into Tony Khan's office talking with Tony Kahan, telling them that they had nothing to do with this entire situation. Maybe Tony Khan says something where, well, I've got some correspondence from Jack He texted me and said he wants to meet in the ring tonight. Should I let him in the arena? Should I take this? And the young Bucks are like, yeah, you know, I think it's worth talking to him. I think there's some stuff that needs to be aired, some grievances, and we need to mend some fences and move forward. And I think that would have been a really creative way to execute the Angle on Dynamite.

12:13 The Angle on Dynamite this past Wednesday, where they take out Tony Kahan, I think was long overdue for AW. I think it's something that fans wanted to see happen. I know Tony Kahan did not want to be involved physically in any type of wrestling angles, because he's come out and said that in interviews. But I think this is what fans expected at some point, and I think it's really too short ordered right now to sit there and say, what's the longevity of this angle. I saw people saying that it was like the nWo angle for AW and this could, you know, recharge the brand and everything like that, and I want to get away from the nWo part. But what I will say on the second part of that is I do believe an angle like this can recharge the brand and get people excited and wanting to tune in each and every week. Because me as a fan, I want to tune into Collision. I want to tune into Rampage. I want to tune into next week's Ynamite when Kenny Omega returns. I want to see more about this angle. As an NFL fan, I want to see Tony Khan wearing the neck brace, and by the time this podcast has dropped, it probably he probably is wearing the neck brace on the NFL Draft Special.

13:13 People are going to be talking about that, and that's going to put new eyes and a buzz around the AW product. That probably showcase the angle either on ESPN or NFL Network on Thursday or Friday or Saturday during the NFL Draft when a lot of people are watching, people who aren't necessarily wresting fans, and they want to check out AW and see what this aw is all about. They've heard about the Jaguars ownership being involved, but like, what exactly is this all about? So that's how I kind of would have gone about things. I think the angle was executed very well. We saw it play out. I think a couple of negatives on the entire thing is why would the roster come out after the fact that Tony Khan got laid out and the elite you know, exited through the main entrance way that everybody you know, came out thirty seconds later of to check on Tony Khan? Like where everybody in the locker room when that was going on? Because I was like a good five minutes, you know, I would have had the roster come out as the injury the angle was taking place, and then let the elite run through the crowd and people are like flipping out or explaining a little bit more maybe on the commentary side, like the reason why the roster didn't come out right away is because they don't know what to do. Because the young bucks are just as equally their bosses, as Tony Kahan is as the owner and founder of All Lade Wrestling. So you can't knock AW, will you, everybody? You can't just knock AW for being boring or lacking creative, and then when they try something creative completely knock it. There's always going to be tweaks as a wrestling phantom, and how I would like to see it executed.

14:46 Overall, the angle from Dynasty that was then carried over to Dynamite I thought was well done, and more importantly, it's showing that AW was trying to be entertaining, get a little bit outside of their comfort zone, outside of their box, and have an angle that has people talking, because I think that is something we have desperately wanted to see out of AW for quite some time. In all honesty, again, how we get there is left up to the viewer and the beholder, because obviously I'm poking some holes into it, but I don't want to lose sight of the fact that I think what AW has executed over the last couple of days was the right course of action for some entertainment, get some eyeballs on the brand and make fans like me want to tune into Collision and Rampage and see how the rest of this plays out, or tune into Dynamite next week or this week when Kenny Omega returns to see how he responds to everything going on with the Elite. Also from aw Dynasty, I'm very happy and it's long overdue for Strickling. We crown the aw World Champion, doing so in dominating fashion over Samoa Joe.

15:46 I mean, go back and watch that match. I don't know if there was a time crunch. I always feel like at the end of their AWO pay per views that there is because the maiden Event matches typically unless they go out of their way like they did with the Revolution to make sure staying Darby and the Young Bucks out a lot of time feels at times to be a little bit rushed. Go back to World's End with samo Joe and MJF and I felt the same thing. And I thought this match was a little bit similar to that where the challenger who later became the Champion dominated the champion in a fashion that I did not see coming, where it was not as a competitive match as you would have thought. With that being said, we talked about on last week's show, Like if they didn't execute with Short Strickland becoming the world champion, when exactly would AW have done it? I mean, they really backed themselves into a corner. If they left Dynasty and Simojo was sold champion Strickland loss unless they ran some sort of angle, I think you're taking a lot of win out of the sales. This move should have happened months ago. I think you could have made a case that Swert Strickland should have been the champion following MJF even but at that point I think they were too far invested into the other stuff with Samojo and MGF to really do that sort. Strickland has been one of their hottest stars. I do think he has cooled off some, but this opportunity putting the championship on him can definitely help raise that meter a little bit more in the popularity of Swarp Strickland now as AW World Champion. With that said, I'm thinking, you know, short term here a little bit long term. I think all in Wembley this year, I always have felt like would be an opportunity for will Ospray to win the AW World Championship. Now that they've done the title switch with Swerve

17:18 Strickland. I don't know if that's gonna happen anymore. Saw a little bit more of what they're doing with will Ospray after Dynamite this past week where he won the Casino Battle World, which was a really fun and different match concept then we've seen play out in professional wrestling, and he will now vye for the AW International Championship against rogerck Strong at AW Double or Nothing. I would envision will Ospray winning that match and become the AW International Champion. Obviously a lot can change, but maybe that's the direction that they go right now, and that would be the safe bet to keep will Ospray away from the AW World title and not necessarily vie for it at AW All in Wembley this August and take on Swarp Strickland because I think the hometown crowd. To me, I feel like Osprey would win the championship that night, and then that would be a very short title reign for Swart Strickland, which then hurts his star as the world champion, and I don't want to see Swerve be a transitional champion like Somemojoe kind of was. More so Somemojo was a veryt is a very established professional wrestler. Swart Strickland is on the ascend upwards, and I don't think he should be, especially in his first world title reign as a transition champion, to just get the title of will Ospray in his home country at all. In so we'll see how that all plays out. I think the direction of swart Strickland right now and the direction of will Osprey are two things I am watching specifically coming out of AW Dynasty, and then the last thing from this is AW is proving that their TV can be a tough watch,

18:49 but their monthly pay per views always seemed to deliver. I mean, Revolution was a great show Dynasty. I gave it four point zero out of five. Very good, solid show. I think it's a step below AW Revolution, but a great product, great show front to back. How we get there? The build for these matches on Dynamite, Collision and Rampage still needs a lot of tweaking, still needs a lot of looking over, a lot of organization, a little bit more care on the creative side of things, and I think if they're able to improve that build and then go to the pay per view and execute as well as they have for the last two shows. With Revolution and now Dynasty, you will have a product that is going back upwards and not on a downtrend, which is kind of feeling they've been over the last couple of years. We know the attendance woes, the viewership woes, and the stop start the certainly the stuff that we all complain about when it comes to the creative. AW can right that ship. They can right that wrong by making sure Dynamite, Collision and Rampage always deliver.

19:59 And they have a purpose. They have a build, there's a vision, there's an organization, there's a structure, there's a foundation around it that gets the fans excited to then go and buy the pay per view and then watch the match itself take place, because we got to know why person A is wanting to fight person B and why person B wants to fight person A, whether there's a title involved or not. So very basic fundamentals professional wrestling. But we know that AW can deliver on these pay per views. It's just a matter of improving the television. And what we saw in this past week's edition of Dynamite, I thought it was a very strong edition of the show, and I think it has an opportunity to if they continue forward with that, have a really good build towards double or nothing, because aw really needs it right now. They're getting hitting the teeth a lot. W is running circles around them as a company, as a promotion, with the revenue, with viewership, with creative, I think the only thing where there's a level playing field for AWWE right now is the in ring product. And the ring with WWE means more because there is a better fundamental creative direction behind it rather than the stuff that you're seeing AW Whorich just like these are really good performers.

21:08 I got to put on a great match for you for the next ten to twenty minutes on a show that has you know, nine to ten matches on it, and we'll run for four hours. So interesting stuff here coming out of aw Dynasty. Once again. I gave it a four point zero as my event rating match of the night was will Ostpray and Brian Danielson. So I have to get some of that stuff there from Doctor Trey. The pay per view prediction, and we'll have to get that on next week's show. The pay perview prediction records coming out of this one. I'm sitting at forty five and eight. Doctor Trey is sitting at forty and thirteen, so that is still pretty tight between he and I. And that's everything with all Elite Wrestling aw Dynasty in the books here. Feel free to chime in on anything that I just discussed there in that recap over at Facebook dot com.

21:59 Slash is still Realth show or on Twitter at SRTU podcasts. The other big news here in the world professional wrestling is obviously starting on Friday night, is the w WEE Draft, the twenty twenty four edition of w Draft. We'll give some previeum predictions for that on the outset here. There are some rules already that were announced by WWE, and this is what I'm talking about when it comes to the stuff that I respect as a viewer, as a professional wrestling fan, that they have rules for the draft. There's a way to understand it before going into it, and sometimes they did that with a draft, and most of the times they did not during the vincik Man era of the creative process of worldwrest Entertainment. The rules are as follows. There are going to be four rounds sixteen total picks on this Friday's edition of SmackDown.

22:45 On Monday's Raw, there will be six rounds twenty four total picks. I love this part right here. Champions on each brand are protected. So it's not like Damian Praise and Cody Rhoads can switch, or the women's champions can switch. They are staying on SmackDown. They are staying on Raw. The women's tag team champions are eligible. SmackDown picks first on Friday, Raw picks first on Monday, and then I like this right, a roster's lock on Monday five six. So there are rules, there are guidelines. These are things that we as a fan already going into Friday's edition of SmackDown when the draft begins, can get our heads around and understand. Okay, so is a town down under eligible to go to Raw? Now? I mean, like, what are we doing here? Sidebar? All of this being that the champions are on each brand are protected, and I saw this recently play out, especially with the tag team titles being reintroduced, like one is the WA Tag Team Championship, the other is the World Tag Team Championship. I would love to see where they name Raw and SmackDown differently, right. I don't want the brands anymore. And I understand it's been like this for twenty two years since they did the brand axtension in twenty twenty two. I have always wanted to see them go and name one brand. Let's say WWA E Raw I was called the WF W E Raw and like WCW SmackDown, right, Like that's the old nostalgia fan of me. Bring back one of your

24:18 three letter promotions that you have in your under your hat or your your guys, is your umbrella of WW, and that way it's WW Champion and WCW Champion. I think that would be really cool. I would love to see that play out someday. But I think the farther and farther we get away from this during the Triple H creative reign, the more likely that never happens. And I think in w's mind that they look at as Raw as the brand and SmackDown as a brand, and I think I would just and it all is under the W umbrella. I just would like to see if they're going to do that, then you name the titles the Raw World Champion, the Raw Intercontinental Champion, like make it important, make it. If you're going to call it a brand, then make it the brand. Like WWEE and the World Championships. It's just it can be a little bit confusing sometimes as to why they named the championships like that, But I digress overall.

25:18 So with that said, who could use a change of scenery and a benefit from the draft? Well, looking back at this past weeks WW programming, dating back from SmackDown to Raw to NXT, I think there were some tea leaves that were showcased as to where the change of scenery or the benefiting from the draft will be taking place following Friday and Monday's edition of SmackDown and Raw, where the draft is completing. I think the first one being Ludwig Kaiser, So imperium is done, it's it's over. He took out gian Avanni Vinci on Monday's edition of Raw, gave a little bit of a to Gunther and they appear to move on from their friendship. Dare I say so?

26:11 Ludwig Kaiser could use a change of scenery to SmackDown, get him farther away from Giovanni Vinci, or if you're going to keep him on Raw, make sure he is showcased prominently, which I feel like WWE will now do moving forward. What do you do with Giovanni Vinci? I don't know. He's extremely talented. I think he's somebody that I could see going back to NXT and getting a run, and they like restart that run that they were trying with him when they brought him back to Imperium two years ago at Clash of the Castle. So Louwig Kaiser's definitely one. I'd like to see Chad Gable go to SmackDown. There's been some talk that he would be paired up with the Creed Brothers, but if you watch Raw this past week, you saw that Alpha Academy is still a thing, and I think if the eventual plan is for the Creed Brothers to align with him, I like this direction of him belittling in Alpha Academy and trying to be like more ruling with an iron fist and the positive reinforcements that he's been doing for the last year plus with the Alpha Academy angle. I'd also just like to see Santos Escobar and the Gado del Phantasma completely move from SmackDown to Raw. The entire group get them away from the LWO and that angle, because I just think it's played out as far as it could go, and let's see where the Santo stuff goes with the Judgment Day moving forward. I will say that I think Judgment Day needs to remain altogether by the way as well, keep them together. It's

27:41 not time to break them up, especially with the rear Ripley being injured. But I think they were kind of teasing that a little bit, where Damian Priest was kind of turning on the Judgment Day a little bit and telling Jad McDonald, Donal mcmasterio and Monday's Raw that they need him more than he needs them. So maybe the championship has changed. Damian Prason, you see a split take place later on. I would move Gunther to SmackDown and I would eventually lead to him feuding with Cody as the w champion on disputed WWEE Champion. I think the Gunther Cody feud is one that we see play out later this year. I would not be shocked if it takes place at SummerSlam. I think gets followed up at Bash of Berlin, where the Austrian is a little bit closer to the hometown area. That he grew up in damage control to Raw, similar to Santa Sisco on Lake outa del Fantasma. Let's move damage Control away from Bailey, move on from that feud, and let Bailey focus on some new stuff. We're seeing this already. I think the Final Testament carrying cross aop, all of them are going to be going from SmackDown to NXT and maybe they'll be the latest main roster group to take place there and we'll see where things go with the Final Testament going forward. I think that's a step back for them, but it does add a little bit of star power to NXC that I think is going to be completely depleted coming out of this draft, which, by the way, I love if you look at the graphics that Tibodywe's doing for the draft, it was the rule where

29:14 they had the rules and then they showed like which roster pool would be eligible each night, and then at the bottom, I think left corner it says like plus NXC stars are certain NXC stars are eligible for the draft, or something along those lines. So I've got a couple of people from NXC that I think are going to be going out there. I think Blair Davenport is on her way to the main roster. I think her taking the EL to soul Ruka in that Beach Brawl match at Spring Break in this past week was pointing to her being called up to the main roster. Same with Baron Corban. He took the ELF from the Lexis King. I think he's going back to Raw and SmackDown at some point at this draft. I think fight Full Select also reported that Elia dragonoff drops the NX Championship to Trick Williams. He is a main roster talent in NXC that should be on Raw or SmackDown.

29:57 Roxane Perez she retained. I think this is one of those cases where she gets drafted but holds onto the title and then drops into the next pl while kind of still being involved with NXC here and there, like bron Breaker just did with the tag team titles, and we've seen several times previously. Carmelo Hayes. Time for him to get up there. His feud with Trick Williams is buying him. He took the l in the cage match, took the elt that standon liver. It's time for him to be up by the main roster and then these two groups I'm very iffy on, but I think the way that it was played out, I could see them being called up, one being the DiAngelo family all four members, and then all four members of Metaphor from NXT. I just feel like both those groups, both those acts have run their course in NXT and it's time for them to be showcased on the main roster. So I could see Blair Davenport, Baron KORbin Ely, Dragon Off Rox, Dan Perez, Carmelo Hayes, the d'angela family, and Metaphor all being called up from NXT and going to the main roster following the draft on Friday and Monday. Some folks that could get you can be used a little bit better and go to NXC. How about Omas and MVP give me an Omas Obafemi match in NXC, or maybe Obama being managed by MVP.

31:15 Maybe Oba and Omas pair up with one another. But I'm probably one of the rare wrestling fans that actually likes Omas. We know what he is. He's not this like grandiose, all world in ring worker, but he's a great character. He's a throwback character. He's got the height, he's got the power, and it's just something that you tend to see in professional wrestling every now and again, whether it be Andre the Giant, the Big Show Great Colleague, or now the next incarnation of Omas So. I could see them being utilized better in NXT. I'd like to see Bronson Reid go to SmackDown, d I Y go to SmackDown, feud with a town Down Hunder. Jimmy Usso I had down as going to Raw, but I just read earlier on tonight that he is injured and will not be all for the show be eligible for the draft. I think if Naomi ends up on Raw, then obviously we will see Jimmy USO there go there and be eventually reunited what I would believe to be with Jay us. I think Jay should remain on Raw, keep the bloodline on SmackDown, keep those apart from one another for right now. So wherever Jimmy, wherever Naomi goes, is where Jimmy USA will end up being that that's her husband, aj Styles and La Knight to Raw. I'd like to see them go over there be showcased a little bit more on the three hour show than rather than the two hour show on SmackDown. I think that they are top level talent and can use that extra time that they get on Raw to continue forward their current character development that has taken place on SmackDown car that over to Raw. I think Ellae Knight needs

32:49 to get away from Cody as well, because Cody's a big babyface. If they want la and Night to be a big babyface, you gotta put him on the opposite brand. So I could see him going to Raw and then finally Pretty Deadly from SmackDown to Raw. I think they are great talent. I think there are a talent that would be probably tag team champions. Under Vince mcmann's reign of Creative, they've fallen behind a little bit, but I still think that Creative doesn't like them. They were involved in a couple of vignettes like where they previewed the rust Man forty tag team match, and then I saw some like internet exclusives where they were like talking about the matches that were taking place that evening on SmackDown, and I thought that was good and it made me think, Okay, so there's still something there that Creative sees that they enjoy from Pretty Deadly finds them entertaining, and I could see that being played out better on Raw and SmackDown because I think they've they've fallen through the cracks a little bit. And that's how I always look at these drafts, and that's all the changes I'd like to see change scenery and those who can benefit from the draft. I always feel like people send wrestlers from SmackDown to Raw to expand their character a little bit because of the time that Raw has versus then what's on SmackDown. And I think when you see people move from Raw to SmackDown, it's because they're a little bit more established and doesn't necessarily have to be featured each week. They don't need two or three segments.

34:14 They could get into a segment and go and they're over with the fan base already, and I think that's where you see why I want to shift some people around a little bit. I think that could be a little bit conducive to like my ideas of moving Bronson, Reid and DIY to SmackDown, because they could get lost in the shuffle. But I think there's big things ahead for those those three wrestlers, and I like to see that play out. I think with DIY, there was a little bit of a tease, maybe of a split with Demuscle CHAMPI walking out in the match after they lost. Awesome truth, I would not like to see that, but it would not shock me if under Triple H's creative rain that he feels its time for Tomuscle Champion Johnny Amganda to be more successful as single stars rather than showcased as a tag team right now. So it'll be a very interesting night. I'm really excited for its draft season in the world of the NFL, so perfect time by WWEE to capitalize on that and having their WEE Draft taking place during the NFL Draft weekend on Friday Night, starting on SmackDown and then carry itself over to Monday's Raw. People who I think should stay on the brands, I think Drewmacturrency and Punk should remain on Raw. It would not shock me if their few somehow ended up over on SmackDown. I think Seth Rollins and should remain un Raw, and I think Becky Lynch winning the championship basically cemented that. I think I was in the camp that I could see Seth Rollins

35:45 being called over to SmackDown, but as we know, they don't like to split up real life couples and rightfully so, so I could see that happening where Seth just stays now where originally it was looking like maybe he ends up on SmackDown, And that's where I kind of changed around a little bit with Ludwig Kaiser going to SmackDown. You know, reportedly or unreportedly, it's well known that he's dating Tiffany Stratton. Stratton, so major hat tip to him there, and they'd like to see them get back together as a couple. So it can't be easy where one's on Raw and ones on SmackDown and they're not seeing each other all that much. Putting together on the same brand could be that way that they do that. So you could see either Tiffany Stratton going to Raw if Ludwig Kaiser stays, or Little lug Kaiser being moved from Raw to SmackDown if Tiffany Stratton stays on SmackDown. I would typically say someone like Tiffany Stratton and Jade Cargo could also benefit a move to Raw, but I think it makes sense that they stay on SmackDown being that Nick Aldus just signed them in the last six months, and that's something that I always kind of like scratched my head a little bit, and we talked a little bit on last week's tition of the podcast. Is SmackDown just made like this big run of signing Nick bron Breaker, Jade car Gill, Tiffany Stratton rawed the big signing to see him punk. It's like, why are you doing these big signings with like three months later they could be drafted to the opposite brand, Like that doesn't make much sense to me. I'd like to see Kevin

37:15 Owens, Randy Orton stown SmackDown. I think you need that. And I think this is kind of one of the few times going into a W draft where I don't think that there needs to be as many tweaks as we've seen in the past. I don't think there's like this huge abundant point of the roster that needs to move around. Like I think it's kind of good where it is right now, especially even more so with a champion staying like keep Orton and Owens feuding with Logan Paul keep that going. Maybe that carries over to them feuding with Atown down under. They don't need to move so I would not be shocked if when we sit here for next week's dition to the podcast. If there's not as many moves in this year's W Draft, then there would be in years past. There'll be enough where the so the fans don't complain online. But again, I would not be shocked if there's not as many as we're accustomed to. I think my only other bugaboo about the W Draft is I would like to see NXC beyond equal footing with Ron SmackDown at the draft, and there were reports out there that that was the plan or the belief that that's the direction they were gonna be going, and unfortunately that did not play out as it stands right now prior to even watching the draft the way that it's at least being promoted with the W Draft, I think if they were promoting that would be Ross SmackDown and NXT all drafting.

38:36 Maybe it's a different story. I would like to see NXC get back to that twenty nineteen Survivor series run where it was a formable third brand and being viewed as a third brand, and make them on equal footing when it comes to Ron SmackDown. Funny enough, they did do to that at one time with Ross SmackDown and then wwwe's version of ECW, and I could see that, you know, I think they should go back to that. Make NXT look as the third brand and not the little brother or little sister that they tend to make it look like, or just the quote developmental brand in it all. I mean, that should be a goal and a focus in twenty twenty four they got a new contract with the CW coming up later this year.

39:22 Make them look like they're on equal footing as Ron's and SmackDown, and I think that would be a very exciting time for professional wrestling fans. Of course, that would also mean taking them out the WEPC, which is something I can't see them doing right now, but I do would not be surprised if they do take NXC on the road at some point in the near future here over the next three years and actually make it a touring brand, because I think that should be the goal for WE is is in fact making it a touring brand at some point. So with that said, the WE Draft starts Friday night, depending on when you're listening to this podcast. Hopefully it's before the WA Draft, if it's after one of the draft, hopefully the predictions I just share there are right, and I look like a genius if not the opposite side of that is I look like a damn fool and people are laughing at me and like, I can't believe he said that DIY would break up and go to or potentially break up and then go to SmackDown, Like what is he thinking? Like final Testament to NXC, Roxane Perez going to Raw or smack then, what's he thinking about here? Damnage Control should continue to feud with Raw? What's he thinking gun through the feud with Cody?

40:27 That's ludicrous. So we'll obviously cover everything from the w draft on next week's edition of SRTU, and of course we'll also be preview and predicting WWE backlash in France on next week's edition of The Story Real To Show. And of course, the very only, our one and only doctor Tref Franklin will be hopefully back on next week's edition of SRTU, barring any other work emergencies that will be taking place. So with that said, before I close up shop on this week's edition of srt a little bit shorter edition in the podcast, being than it's just a solo edition the show let's get a couple of plugs and sponsors out of the way. You can downly the show every Thursday or Friday at Real Guide Radio dot com, wrestle Chatnet on X and the still Rail the Show iTunes feed, don't forget to rate, review, subscribe does contarts on iTunes. You can follow us individually on X for myself at SRTU Jeff and for doctor Trey Franklin at The Doctor Trey and of course don't forget the follow show on X. At SRTU podcast. Once again, we will previeing predict we backlash in France on next week edition and of the show, we will recap and review everything from the WE draft and more importantly, our very fun and free friend, the one only Doctor Trey Franklin, will be back on next week's edition of SRTU. Thank you for hanging out with me this last forty minutes a show. Thank you for downloading, thank you for making it as part of your week. Thank you for supporting the still Reil the show, and until next week for the absent but amazing Doctor tre

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