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WWE WrestleMania 42 Preview: John Cena, Cody Rhodes, Roman Reigns, CM Punk, Seth Rollins, Randy Orton
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WWE WrestleMania 42 Preview ft. Sports Professor + Pro Wrestling Insiders:
Rec Room's AP on IG @TrainerAP @TheeRecRoomSportsHub
Audible Sports' Bobby G on YouTube @TheAudiblePodcast
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Transcript
Introduction and Guest Welcome
00:00:04
Speaker
on heavyweight float Championship belt wrapped around my waist yo I got that Ric Flair faking boat Slam you on the page then that's why they call me Street Pro Craig he don't be close Like Jordan after the second
00:00:28
Speaker
You came prepared now get ready for the show
00:00:44
Speaker
Yo, yo, yo, what up? What up? What up, friends? Back at it again. Another edition of Ball. What? You just saw me, what? Two minutes ago.
00:00:55
Speaker
no you didn't. That must have been a clone. that must You must have seen the alien me. Where was I at Yeah, I was talking NBA. Oh, you know, the sports professor. He's a pretty smart guy. He gets around. ah Yes, you just saw me on the NBA podcast with Bobby G, Cal Lee and Desmond Powell. Shout out to Cal Lee from Baseline NBA podcast. And shout out to D Powell from the Midpost podcast, both on Instagram at 19. Media Group. Thank you gentlemen, for joining us. That being said, this is a whole different
WrestleMania Talk Begins
00:01:25
Speaker
episode. We are going to get into WrestleMania. Yes, Las Vegas Allegiant Stadium. And two of us, three of us, excuse me, will be there. Well, one of us lives there, so he's already there. Two of us will be going, and another two bums will be staying in Oklahoma doing nothing but sitting at their house they went Without a further ado, let me bring on my all-star cast of characters.
00:01:48
Speaker
First of all, you will see him tomorrow night on Total Evisceration, Hot Take Jake versus the Sports Professor. If you have not seen this show yet, it is the hottest show on the interwebs. You must catch it tomorrow
Panelist Introductions
00:02:03
Speaker
night, 8 p.m. Eastern. Hot Take Jake. What's good, my brother?
00:02:08
Speaker
I'm ready to kick your ass before you go party it up in Vegas. That's what I'm ready for. That's too bad that that's not what's going to happen. It's going to be the opposite. I'm catching an ass whooping. I'm catching a body. And I'm going to go get some tattoo tears in Vegas, you dumb bastard. All right. I love you. We're moving on. You know i love you. All right.
00:02:26
Speaker
Moving it on, we bring it on to our next brother. He going to be joining me in Vegas at WrestleMania. We got tickets and an amazing sight line. We're going to be partying it up for my birthday weekend. My brother from IOW Sports Network. Wow.
00:02:45
Speaker
Car. ah What's up? for What up, what up, what up, what up, man? Hey. Hey, the quality of the show was doing good until you put Jake's ugly ass face on. I know, I know. um He always, always ruins everything.
00:02:58
Speaker
I mean, it was bad enough he was already a Broncos fan, but it's. Chill out, Mar, chill out. we say I know, I know. get let Let them know where they can find you, Mark.
00:03:09
Speaker
Hey, man, I know what it is, man. You can find your boy on that Twitter, Casey Wildcard, Mark. And of course, most importantly, man, top it up with me and the fellas at ILW Sports Network. Of course, all social social media platforms, ILW Sports Network, the YouTube channel. And hey, another guy that you'll see in a second, my other partner, podcast brother in crime, that is Audible Bobby G. We here every Thursday and Friday doing things. So y'all know what it is, man. Appreciate y'all.
00:03:38
Speaker
Yes, sir. Thank you for making the introduction easier on
Panelists' Shows and Projects
00:03:41
Speaker
me. As he said, from Audible Sports, his partner in crime, my brother, Bobby G. What's good, brother? Chillin' chillin', man. Hey, let's get this wrestling talk going, man. What's good? Go rasslin'.
00:03:54
Speaker
I know Wildcard Mar introduced the Audible channels. Would you like to introduce your other channels, my friend? Yeah, catch me Mondays and Wednesdays on a Game Time 216 with the homie Big Mike. Shout out for the man Cave. And ah also catch that on Network 216, man. Shout out to all my podcast brothers over there. And then, end of course, on Thursdays, if you want to hear my beautiful voice, check me out with the brothers from the Rec Room Sports Hub on ESPN 690 AM Jacksonville.
00:04:24
Speaker
I love it every time I hear it, bro. Every time I hear it, it gets me so fucking hyped that you're all on ESPN. That's crazy. I love it. That's awesome. So shout out to you and your other partner in crime from Rec Room Sports.
00:04:39
Speaker
Hey, saving the best for last, certainly not the least, that boy, a p What's good, brother? Hey, I'm just happy to be here. ah That's for last.
00:04:53
Speaker
A-button is good coming out of Oklahoma. I should have saved Bobby G for last. You see what I said, Bobby G? I was like, you're getting AP. AP brings great knowledge to the game, but he's not going to be very lively all the time. Just like the Mets, you squandered it. Congratulations, Omar. Let them know where they can find you, brother.
00:05:15
Speaker
Yeah, at April is 30 on X, TikTok, you know YouTube probably if I ever start putting stuff on there. um And then, the course, as Bobby mentioned, Rec Room Sports every Thursday afternoon ESPN 690 in Jacksonville.
Excitement for WrestleMania and Storylines
00:05:34
Speaker
And plus, we also do Lock It In, our betting sports show every Saturday with myself, Tanner Dawson. It's Scott Cope. Shout out to those two guys as well.
00:05:44
Speaker
Salute to Tanner, Scott, and the whole Let's Talk Sports crew. i've been rocking with them since I first started streaming. Salute to them. And salute to everybody watching. and Make sure you subscribe to Ball and Buds, B-A-L-L-A-N-D-B-U-D-S, and your QR code up there at the top. It'll take you to our link tree. You can find all of our social medias there. Subscribe on YouTube is the most important. You can also follow on Instagram.
00:06:06
Speaker
That being said, without a further ado, let us kick this bad boy off, shall we? WrestleMania season! WrestleMania! All right, no copyrights here, but that's okay. We were jamming on the old WrestleMania song. If you know, you know, like the kids say. But let's start it off. I want to know, let's start this off as we do with a a general topic. I want to know what is your best storyline leading up to WrestleMania season? Who is your... top wrestler, whatever it is you want to do. Just give us whatever is your favorite thing that has led up these past few months since Royal Rumble to WrestleMania.
Hot Take J's Predictions
00:06:44
Speaker
Hot Take J, kick us off, brother.
00:06:46
Speaker
Well, I think we know the the the game of the year is going to be Obafemi. And boy, I will be pissed if Triple H tries to mess this up. He better not the way he did LA Knight.
00:06:59
Speaker
I better not see him do it. But Obafemi is the face of WrestleMania right now. This is the biggest match in in the both nights. I think this will change history. He has a chance to be even better than the Beast Brock Lesnar.
00:07:14
Speaker
And Brock Lesnar is doing a service by giving him the win. They need to let him win. Just like Brock got that W that he should have never got at WrestleMania 30.
00:07:27
Speaker
It's the same thing. You need to give this win to Obafemi. Guys, we saw him cut a great promo last night on Raw. I was so proud of him. I always was worried. He did cut a good promo. I was worried about his promo skills, but was pretty good. was worried, but he did show up and he showed out.
00:07:46
Speaker
And he had Paul Heyman's face looking like a perturbed idiot. Scared as shit. But that's fine. That's completely fine. So, yes, Obafemi, Brock Lesnar will be the match of this WrestleMania, and I cannot wait.
00:08:02
Speaker
I have to agree. That's one of my two matches I'm looking forward to. I'm definitely looking forward to the ladder match as well because I told Marr I've never seen a ladder match in person, so I want to see that in person. But that Obafemi, Brock Lesnar is going to tear the roof off when the ruler comes.
00:08:20
Speaker
wow. Everybody is making that damn noise. Everybody's moving their freaking freaking arms every time. Yeah, yeah. No doubt about that. Have you all ever seen a guy come up so fast and get so over so quickly?
00:08:37
Speaker
Nah, man. When he won in NXT and won that championship so quickly, I was like, where did this dude come from? But you look at his stature, you look at the guys you know Vince McMahon in previous years likes, AAA likes, they like the very muscular, big dudes, right? The Brock Lesnar's, the Roman Reigns. So it's no surprise to me but that he came this fast and is already main eventing, or not main eventing, but starring in a WrestleMania when he was just in it. And it shout out to Trick Williams, too, and Carmelo Hayes, by the way, Should be there i hope somebody has that As their storyline Him getting screwed over But anyways Shout out Rock Chalk Appreciate you tuning in Everybody who loves true crime Go subscribe at Rock Chalk The best true crime podcast On YouTube Shout out my lady Hope you and your husband husband Are doing well in the family Thank you She always makes really cool songs All the intros and stuff to hear Makes them for me So super cool for her Hey Bobby G What's your storyline Or or a wrestler match What do you got leading up to Wrestlemania
00:09:36
Speaker
And my storyline is very
Favorite Storylines and WrestleMania Streaks
00:09:38
Speaker
simple. See, I'm a Midwestern guy. So, you know, you're in the Midwest, learn to talk that talk. And there's one individual in his on these cards that ah he talks that talk and he walks the walk. And he walks into the Lemon Pepper Stepper. So my storyline is the takeover of the nxt not just over but remember we got mr lemon pepper himself going for a championship and we got my boy bouncy also going for title the young guns from nxt have come over they're making a name for themselves yeah but it's all about look that that trick
00:10:16
Speaker
Yeah, I like it. um yo Watch Tricks step all over him. And I have a question for y'all since you already brought up Oprah and Brock.
00:10:28
Speaker
do you Do we think that I'm not going put it all on Triple H's shoulders. Do we think the WWE to whoever's making the decision has the cojones has the cojones to let this be the beginning of a new WrestleMania streak?
00:10:46
Speaker
Oh, an Oba Febby streak or a Trick Williams streak? No, Oba. To challenge the Taker streak? I think you should. I would. Why not?
00:10:56
Speaker
i wouldn need Could this be win one of? I like that. I like it. I like it. Something? I like it. I'll be disappointed by SummerSlam. He's not going after one of those world titles. I'd be very very disappointed.
00:11:12
Speaker
i agree. He should have a title at the end of this year, if not anything more than maybe the even the U.S. s title. He should be headlining WrestleMania next year. du good No doubt about it. yep Yep. Him, he should be headlining WrestleMania next year. You might even see Trick Williams, possibly, because I know one thing, Mar, and I told you this already. When we are in that stadium and Trick Williams comes out and that song comes on, dog, I am going to be cranking, son. I'm going just be like, argh.
00:11:45
Speaker
Here's the thing. Also, keep an eye out. Keep an eye out. We might have a double turn in that match too. Hey, save that for when we talk about the match. But give us your storyline now. What do you got?
00:11:56
Speaker
So for me, um I know this match hasn't really had much time to build. It's only had been up been building for two weeks. But I think it's going to be the match that steals the show, Seth Rollins and Gunther.
00:12:07
Speaker
I think both of those guys are really both of those guys are great in-ring technicians, great you ring generals, so to speak. It's going to be the match that steals the show for me.
00:12:19
Speaker
So I'm excited. i like guys yeah I mean, you're not wrong. They're two of the best wrestlers in the world for a reason, because they're good at their craft. The one thing that worries me about this is the clash of styles in that match, because I don't know how well they're going be able to work together with the different work rates and different work styles that they have.
00:12:36
Speaker
But I hope to be disappointed. I mean, if you see or more if you've seen Gunther in NXT, you know he could work with smaller guys like like a Pete Dunne and ah and to Tyler Bate. he's had, especially if you go back and watch his matches with Ilya Dragunov, my God, you want to talk about hard hitting?
00:12:55
Speaker
Fine, but do you think Seth Rollins is going to let Gunther get off some shit like that? i highly doubt that. He's going to be in the back like, look, you better you better lay up on them on them slaps that you give me tonight.
00:13:06
Speaker
You better lay the hell up. I'm the star of this damn organization. You ain't nothing, Gunther. You ain't Rollins yet. That's what I would tell him if I was backstage. You better go light for You're going to have a bloody chest after the night, after WrestleMania. Bro, if I ever had to wrestle Gunther and he bloodied my chest, I swear when I got to the back, I'm giving him an infiltration while he's in the shower. I'm going to hit him with like a fire extinguisher or something, just knock his ass out. I don't know why had to be the shower. That was kind of weird. Pause on that.
00:13:37
Speaker
Walk on, Marv. Help me out before I get my myself trouble. I don't know why that had to be in this hour, but it was. Oh, I don't know. where yeah you're cloak that But OK, but no could going into mania, man. Hey, man, I'm just going to say it as I told Otis last night. I think speed has the possibility to probably go to the best celebrity spot to ever do.
Celebrities in Wrestling
00:14:06
Speaker
it in the WWE ring. like I'm talking about he might surpass Logan Paul. He might surpass Bad Bunny. Just one crack at it. First time at it. I just think if you really look at his content, the athleticism that he possesses,
00:14:22
Speaker
It's top tier elite shit. It really is. So um and in order to really do this, you got to be going have some athleticism. And think his athleticism translates over to WWE probably a lot smoother than people really think.
00:14:40
Speaker
And I think he's actually probably just his performance alone in the match is going to be, I think it's going to be top tier celebrity. ah you know, performance, like topping Logan Paul and Bad Bunny.
00:14:53
Speaker
So does Logan Paul still count? Oh, he's a wrestler now. he Well, no, but he started as a celebrity. So you still got to give him the props that he came from not being a wrestler. Yeah, after'm I'm talking about when he just made his celebrity spots. and now Logan Paul, the wrestler, he's a wrestler now. i i' Sure.
00:15:12
Speaker
that's His first few moments when he got onto the scene, same with Bad Bunny, had a couple of matches. Jelly Roll, you know, all I'm saying is the bar is not too high for speed to really climb Especially not Jelly Roll.
00:15:27
Speaker
ah Yeah. yeah oh been That has been a nothing burger. yeah I just want Jelly Roll to do a dive off the top rope just once. No, I prefer that they keep Jelly Roll and Pat McAfee. Flying Jelly Roll? okay No, and to be honest, Pat McAfee, you can put him on the celebrity list. He's actually done pretty well himself. He didn't do too bad. Sure. they didnt yeah with Adam Cole, that was a pretty solid match.
00:15:54
Speaker
But no, im I think Speed got got a chance to steal the show, man. And as I said with Mar last night, I don't necessarily agree. I think Logan Paul was probably the best.
00:16:04
Speaker
He came in and did it really well that first match. But what I will say, and I did say this with Mar last night, is that I Show Speed has put more into it in terms of, I believe, like engulfing himself in the role, like everything with Dan Howzen and being cursed, like he plays into it so well. And I think that's because he's a true fan. I think that him being a real fan of wrestling has helped him to kind of, you know, play the actor role of what he needs to do to really get this and be and interjected into a match so quickly.
00:16:33
Speaker
Let's not, let's not, i know and a match that honestly, you look at the rest of those wrestlers in there. I mean, you got some, some heavy hitters in the wrestling game in that match that he's going to be in there with. So he's going to have to prove his, his worth.
00:16:46
Speaker
but Let's not forget, if you've seen his ah live streams, you've seen his YouTube channel, he actually got trained by Fit Finley and Randy Orton. Oh, I didn't know that. He's actually had some time in the ring being trained by two of the best. So yeah um he's he knows how to take a chair shot. He knows how to take, you know, obviously – I was going say, by Fit Finley, he knows how to take all them things. you can take him He knows how to take – you go back to the Royal Rumble a couple years ago, he knows how to take a spear.
00:17:14
Speaker
So – I agree with you, Mar. I think Speed's going to steal the show. I thought he was going to be dead. He was going to be dead after that. No, and that's funny that y'all say this because of me and Omar. I was like, oh, I got a feeling he's been just getting trained for a minute behind the scenes. Because it's something about like...
00:17:38
Speaker
Remember when we all first did our first podcast on somebody's live stream? And you're like, damn, man, that felt good. Like, e got you caught the bug. it almost It's similar to the same thing with any of your... That was my pops last night. You do something different that that you've been wanting to do, and it gets you out to your comfort zone, and you catch the bug, and then you're like, damn, it got me.
00:18:03
Speaker
So I'm pretty sure that she had that wrestling bug. There's a lot of rest to say it all the time. They are resting, but we'll get your ass Like any sad actual match. Yeah, he must. Yeah, he had a LFG match against uh, what's his name?
00:18:17
Speaker
What's my Roxanne Perez's boyfriend? Yeah, okay. Yeah, he did I remember i actually remember watching that he did pretty well He didn't win I don't think but he did pretty well in that match.
00:18:29
Speaker
Yeah, who who is the young lad that is so lucky? What's his name? I can't remember his name, but it doesn't matter. He will forever be known as Roxanne Perez's boyfriend until further notice. He got a little swag. He might make it to the roster in three, four years. Well, no, no.
00:18:50
Speaker
he'll He'll be in NXT soon because I think in we're starting to go through. a got They're about to start calling up so some more names. Like what we saw with tricking over. I don't. And I'm not saying like right after mania, but soon because I don't and keep like Monroe down in the NXT too much longer. Now you've got to bring her up. Yeah, she's ready. And especially since I don't know why they put her back with the and sorry to get off topic. I don't know why they put it back with the North American championship. I don't know why you put her in the main one, but all right, because I think she's the main event. So that's
00:19:26
Speaker
So yeah I'm a smoke not not Roxanne Perez boyfriend. It's a Maxine Dupree's boyfriend. Oh Yeah, yeah yeah and name Anthony Luke. Oh, yeah can luke Yeah um ro the do with you Real quick so with y'all saying speed shows out there's Austin theory take a back door back burner what he He's probably the worst wrestler in the past. I just think we're saying that I Show Speed is going to be the best of celebrities. I don't think that we're saying that the other wrestlers are going to do bad.
00:19:57
Speaker
but But hold on. Why why should why so much hate on on Theory? He's actually a solid wrestler, man. i'm ummar Come on, Come on, Mar. What are we doing here today, man? He's all right. What are we doing today? I like the music. I like the music.
00:20:11
Speaker
He's got no promo skills either. He's had opportunity after opportunity and has failed with it. Come on, man. That's true, though. That is true. They set him up to be the big thing, and he's nothing. Now, I know that might be – wouldn't say he had great – he had that great little feud, that great little IC title feud back – a couple years back, but – yeah once mcmmanon Once McMahon got tied up, that was it for him. Triple H was like that. What was it that Roman told him? Daddy's not here to save you now? Woo, show did.
00:20:41
Speaker
but That's my thing. Y'all know when Vince has a certain... person he wants to push. He doesn't care about the crowd's reaction. He's like, they're gonna come around. He stubbornly stubbornly. So that wasn't theories fault.
00:20:56
Speaker
He can't make the crowd like you like you either you do or you don't. Like, you got rock with you or I just don't, you got to give me something like. Like I told Omar last night, I i didn't like Roman Reigns. I thought he was a chump because Vince again was trying give me something didn't want.
00:21:16
Speaker
And, And it wasn't until he got with Paul and did the, you know, a tribal chief head of the table. I was like, oh, kind of dig that. He had swag. He had ah attitude.
00:21:28
Speaker
um And it kind of, I was like, I can relate to that. It was like, he was like, nah, man, i I'm doing this. And I'm like, okay, I feel that. What's holding theory back right now? and There's a lot of shit holding WWE back. Promo work. I mean, everything. Everything. How I see it, we could probably be the better creative team than what the hell are they got going on right remain especially Especially on SmackDown, my God. Yeah, what the hell you want to start? Their creative is trash these days, bro.
00:22:03
Speaker
They are writing storylines that they've been writing for four or five years now, bro. like Let's get some new work in here. ah I want to say something, but I'm going to get us canceled, so I'm probably not going to say it. i so It's a late night hour, my friend. You go ahead as long as it's not something crazy crazy. I mean, the head writer... I was going to say the head writer is female, so... Wowser! Holy shit! Hey, he...
00:22:30
Speaker
know I told you. i told you. You said go ahead. now mount naton see did This is how you end up in drought. No. No.
00:22:43
Speaker
You got to relax, man. that's great jacob i would like I would like to inform the audience that I was given permission by one Omar sports professor. f So please do not blame me for what. that that's only because I wanted you to get me out of trouble for my WNBA yeah argument the other week, that Jake. and i Where I said if I was LeBron James, kid I said if I was LeBron James, I'd take caton Clark and the WNBA players to get in the kitchen and make me a sandwich.
00:23:19
Speaker
Jesus Christ. You believe that You believe shit with the straightest face? See, but I was joking, and I said I was joking beforehand. You didn't. You meant it with all the fervor in your heart that a woman can't write wrestling. What's wrong with you, AP? That's sad, man. did not mean it, buddy.
00:23:35
Speaker
ah ah Rock Chalk, what do you think? You're a lady. Do you agree that women cannot be in the room? Let me stop. I will say, though, bunant Mondays haven't been bad. she's I think she's the lead writer only for Monday night, which, you know, Mondays haven't been bad. I don't know who's the lead writer on SmackDown, but whoever it is,
00:23:55
Speaker
He needs to come up with something. Like, come on now. i mean, honestly, you need the diverse voices because we've seen that room. And let's be honest, a lot of times it's just white males. and You know, and that's – Let Paul Heyman run it, for God's sake. That's what I want. Let Paul Heyman write everything, bro. Just let him put his hands on his mind. Make it again.
00:24:19
Speaker
Bro, whatever he does turns to gold. Just let him write the whole damn thing, bro. For real. Okay, so but at the same time, at the same time, in the same breath, you still also got look at the wrestlers. Because you still, like, for instance, like I think the writers should only give you like an outlier, like some structure. Some bullet points. Yeah, some outlines. You would say an outline.
00:24:46
Speaker
Get these talking points. with like you said like you gotta you're in the big leagues like you gotta at least you should you should come up yeah evolve your own story i agree like like like come on and like like we can't it's almost like um we can't always put it all on that on the coach you know you gotta you gotta show the hell up looking at you pat mcafee Which, by the way, I think all of us are pretty fed up that this build around Cody and Randy Orton has nothing to do with their actual history and more to do with ticket sales. Which makes no sense. They have a history.
00:25:29
Speaker
So they have a written in 15 year history and you're talking about ticket sales and bringing in Pat McAfee who's not needed the storyline? They could have brought in the legacy storyline. They could have gave us making us go on YouTube and look up how they were friends in legacy. I'm telling you they had a faction back then.
00:25:47
Speaker
You could have built off of it. You could have made an envious type. I'm telling you the writing is poor. Pat McAfee looks like a piece of trash. Jelly roll looks like he he just was a donut that just lost all the jelly out of it.
00:26:02
Speaker
Fuck out of here, man. I'm done with this shit. what By the way, quick aside, why does no Zempick make all these people look like damn, like they done lost their soul? and They got to work out as well.
00:26:15
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. What happens is you lose your muscle. Man, that's that's not a good look. I mean, Charles Barkley doesn't look good to me now. like I'm sorry. Put some of that weight back on, bro.
00:26:26
Speaker
All I know is y'all need to grab a pencil and y'all need to write down the date and the time. And this is the first time in my ever loving life that I have ever agreed with two things that hot Jake Jake and hot Jake Jake.
00:26:47
Speaker
hu Damn right. Come on, man. My man is two for damn two. He was right um over Femi situation. He was 100% right. All right.
00:26:59
Speaker
Brock Lesnar, you had your time as the beast. All right. It's time for the Rula. It's what kind of time, all right? Yeah, we getting real BT up in WWE right now. I don't give a damn. It's time, damn it.
00:27:15
Speaker
You got some money bigger, better than you, Brock Lesnar. He's been rag-dolling your big ass. And don't get me wrong, Brock Lesnar, I appreciate you because you know how to sell a big match. My dog, you know how to sell a big match. And you're doing your part.
00:27:30
Speaker
But what I'm saying is...
00:27:39
Speaker
So did I hear you say correctly that there is a little bit more diversity but we shall say in our in our wrestling come up now?
00:27:51
Speaker
Let me see what Uncle Lutters has to say about that. Here it is. My test results. Can you hear my heart beating? Oh, the white man's science is amazing, ain't it?
00:28:02
Speaker
Oh, no. This can't be. It says I'm 102% African with a 2% margin of error.
00:28:14
Speaker
Why, Lord? Why, Lord? Why?
00:28:20
Speaker
Anyways, I just like using that soundbite because it's hilarious. oh um we hey Jake been cooking tonight. He's absolutely right. McAfee and Telly Roe was absolutely no need for this deal. What the hell we doing? This is this is trash. like like like I'm kind of upset that this is the pain that we are going to.
00:28:46
Speaker
um what What is making up for it is one. It's all right. It is. year And two, I get to meet up with the bros. So other than that, that's the only good thing about this situation. Otherwise, some of this stuff is kind of piss poor. I agree.
00:29:03
Speaker
Jake was right. It's not the greatest card. that you and I think we can agree. Like literally the night one main event should either be live and Stephanie or open Brock.
00:29:14
Speaker
It should have open, Brock. What are we doing? You got if if you are having talks about a match and literally is getting talked about people who don't watch wrestling, that's called something that is getting the casuals involved.
00:29:30
Speaker
Hello, makes more viewership. and mean You're putting it on free ESPN TV. What are we doing? What are we doing, bro? win o what are we doing bro
00:29:46
Speaker
What are we doing, Mar? All right. Well, I agree completely with you. Let's take a little bit look at this then. Take a look at some of the main ah matches here on the card. Hold on, Mar. I'll unblock your face here in a second. My apologies.
00:30:00
Speaker
You find the banner. There it is. um Okay, so here we go. These are the the main matches. We can go through the other ones as well. We'll run through some just some pick-ems quickly. But this is really what the card, or at least in my opinion, are going to be the best matches um on this two-day event. So you have, first of all, up at the top, as we we just talked about,
00:30:21
Speaker
so Saturday night's main event of the evening, Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton. We just talked about Pat McAfee and what a horrible build. This has been not going in on their true storyline that they should have done. And we'll go through all of these matches individually. ah We also got...
00:30:38
Speaker
ah Tiffany Vakur and Liv Morgan there as well on Saturday night. As well, you've got Drew McIntyre and Jacob Fatu in what should be a good no-holds-barred match. They're going to beat the crap out of each other. and You also have the three-on-three match we talked about with I Show Speed, Austin Theory, Logan Paul versus the Usos in L.A. Night.
00:30:58
Speaker
ah You also have the Brock and Oba, which ah clearly was was mentioned as should have been the main event on Saturday instead of Sunday. But it is on there on Sunday along with that ladder match with the six participants, Penta, Bouncy Javon, Rey Mysterio, Kavala.
00:31:17
Speaker
JD McDonough, which makes no sense to me why the hell he's in this match. Just put Carmelo Hayes in there, please, for the love of God. um And Dragon Lee, ah which would be a perfect place for Carmelo. You can still put – you can put seven people in a ladder match. Ain't like we ain't done it. It's a damn shame Carmelo Hayes ain't on this card.
00:31:34
Speaker
And then finally you got CM Punk, Roman Reigns to close out the weekend there on Sunday. My apologies, A&P. I didn't realize that was – No, no, you're fine. In the bottom there. So, um again, this is the the the main matches we have. We'll go through each of these. But first I want to go through the the rest. I just wanted to give a quick look um right now. But I did want to ask, before we do get to the Pick'ems, we talked about this. We talked about the build and how how it's been bad. Does anyone else have thoughts on um on the the build to WrestleMania before we get into any of these matches?
00:32:10
Speaker
Jaden Rhea has been built awfully, too. Like, that that's another match where I that i should be more and i should be i should be more excited. I am not able to do that match at all.
00:32:23
Speaker
okay Again, it's on SmackDown. What do you expect? The writing on SmackDown has been terrible. i didn't I didn't understand. I've been whooping y'all two bitches' asses for months, and going to beat you into just joining me, and and let's beat up Rhea.
00:32:41
Speaker
um ah Look, give me logic. Make it make sense. That's all. Mm-hmm. Because I ain't never been wanting to be buddy buddies with anybody that's been walking my ass.
00:32:52
Speaker
No, I need to get my i get back. like It would have made more sense i it if it was Nia and Lash instead of... the other two, like it would have made more sense to me.
00:33:04
Speaker
Jade is on live on the Joe Budden podcast saying she was begging to bright her face. No, what whenever she she just was on an episode, it was about a week and a half ago.
00:33:15
Speaker
She was begging to to to fight Charlotte. My bad, Mark. She was begging to fight Charlotte Flair. You could tell in the interview that she was not even wanting to see Rhea.
00:33:26
Speaker
She wanted Charlotte. She didn't want Rhea. She wanted Charlotte Flair. and And you can tell by the build that she's just not motivated for this. no i'm got but Well, because her and Sean got some some kind of like real cool friendship that they got going on. They really respect each other.
00:33:44
Speaker
so Wait, are they true friends in real life? Oh, I thought that was true. They put their lives on all these social media. Jade was celebrating on her birthday is like this past couple weeks ago.
00:33:57
Speaker
And what the hell happened to kayfabe? Okay. I don't need Jay Cargill putting her face up to Charlotte's ass. Okay. I want to know that y'all are fighting. all right. I don't need to see y'all. She did. They were an Instagram photo and she's holding Charlotte's ass with her face like right here.
00:34:12
Speaker
No, y'all supposed to hate each other. Listen here, old timer. Listen here. I mean, I'm not mad at at the visual. I like the visual. Hey, old timer. All right. You get, this is 2026. All right. Kayfabe. Kayfabe.
00:34:25
Speaker
Kayfabe died the moment that social media started. I mean, that's true. Kayfabe died at the curtain call, if you want to be honest. To a a certain extent, but not to the extent that a you can still keep shit under wraps. and You still had the whole Attitude Era past kayfabe, so you still were able to keep shit under wraps.
00:34:49
Speaker
It's all this shit. Everybody got these phones. It's still real to me. It's still real to me. I was going to say, shout out. What's the show called again? Unreal.
00:35:02
Speaker
Yeah, they they do it themselves. so like know i know my name wrong They really are. That's bad. I don't like that show. Kayfabe never existed, man.
00:35:14
Speaker
I mean, at one point in time, you would never see. If you thought the other thing dead, you're moron. K-Fave never existed. That's fine. But you know what? You weren't going to see Ming and Hulk Hogan hanging out. I guarantee you that because they were told don't even ride separate separate planes and buses so you don't ah get near each other.
00:35:33
Speaker
even even Even bad guys have friends. like Cut it out. cut it out your' worse now Your worst enemy has a friend somewhere. Shout out to Dom and Liv for keeping K-Fave alive.
00:35:45
Speaker
yeah they they've never They've never actually really kissed. Cut it out. It was relationship for 17 years and have never actually, their tongues have never touched. well i say I saw lips touch plenty of times. That ain't no, come on, you do that with your freaking kid. yeah Have a good day. No, no.
00:36:04
Speaker
done I mean, he is married, so. Yeah, and it's a respect thing, which is cool. But so you don't keep Kenley Carmelo. Word on the street is going on the Sunday moon because he just got married recently. So that don't got it. You you're telling me that your name is Carmelo Hayes and you would rather schedule your wedding in the middle of WrestleMania instead of going to. No, you can move that shit a week or two. He didn't rather. He did. He did.
00:36:31
Speaker
He did. i would rather he did it I guarantee you, had he had a spot in WrestleMania, he'd have told her ass we're going to get married in two weeks. it'slon jones she Go look at his wife. he's married, Jones? Married.
00:36:46
Speaker
Marie. Okay. There you go. and Congratulations to you all and your beautiful nuptials. ah My buddy Chris Haines says Cody versus MJF was more entertaining than Cody versus Orton. You got an argument there, to be honest. um By the way, everybody, what did we think? Did anybody watch a Dynasty by chance? Nope. Anybody?
00:37:05
Speaker
nope No one. Oh, man, it was a really good paper. A.W. pay-per-views have been doing a lot better lately, I must say. But they did have Kenny Omega and MJF in ah the main event of the evening.
00:37:18
Speaker
Kenny o Omega was defeated by MJF. I didn't think that was the right call. I think they should have let the title change hands. I don't really think MJF ever needs a title.
00:37:29
Speaker
um he's He's good without it. His promo skills and his work in the ring are excellent enough to not need a title. But, you know, it is what it is. They really value MJF. Tony Khan does. So no one did see this, though. OK, all right. I thought more people would have saw it. There's a kayfabe right there. Like MJF never breaks character.
00:37:49
Speaker
That's true. He's very good at the K-Files. Yo, he's right on that. No, you know you're right. over there On that Chris Van Fleet podcast, he's acting like a damn character, bro. I was like, yo, you got to chill out a little, man. Hey, to your point, Bobby, he's a schmuck every time he gets on camera. yeah Pretty much. right Hey, I like it. Play into your character at all times. cape Keep K-Fail. That's probably one of the only things I actually give a damn about from AEW.
00:38:19
Speaker
ah But other than that, it Tony Storm is probably another one. um I don't know. AEW, they just be doing too much too much for me sometimes. Okay.
00:38:34
Speaker
and No, but their pay-per-views this year have been better, I must say. Yeah, ahead. It's a kayfabe or not. If you run up on Jacob Fightu, he's going smack shit out of you. That's for real. Yeah.
00:38:45
Speaker
and Oh, yes. Anybody from that family. Anybody from that family. Oh, yeah. I'm not fucking with any of them Samoans, bro. I mean, have you heard the horror stories of Meng and the barbarian? Like, they used to, like, break people's fingers and pull eyes out of people's heads in bar fights. Like, this shit was crazy, bro.
00:39:04
Speaker
Like, what? If you can stick your finger in another man's eye and pull it out the socket, there is something with you I am not fucking with. that ever i will run away but the other way but but You got it.
00:39:18
Speaker
All good, homie. We good here. Please. Please save me. Anyways. All right. Saturday night, what we're going to do here to make this a little fun is I want each of you to pick a match, ah the match that you want to talk about, and then we will go ahead and and talk about that match. So, Wildcard Mar, what match would you like to talk about?
00:39:39
Speaker
Hey, I really want to talk about how feisty Stephanie Bacure and Liv Morgan match is getting. Okay. All right. Let's do it. Let's talk about it. Start us off. What are your thoughts? it Did you not see how Smeagol face Liv got last night? Oh, bro.
00:39:58
Speaker
Yeah. oh yeah Oh, she hot. She's got a golf ball on her for her hair she gotba on the forehead. Oh, that's right, because they smacked heads together, right? Yeah, that's right. I remember that now. Also, she's also coming off a Coachella weekend, so it looks like she hasn't been getting sleep at all. Hey, she was looking good in that little cutoff, whatever she had on, half half naked, looking beautiful.
00:40:23
Speaker
Hey, didn't you see me dropped her little T-Moo Britney Spears music video? Mm-hmm. You know T-Moo Britney Spears? Britney Spears. Hey, hey, she's doing her thing, so she's c feeling real good right now at WrestleMania season.
00:40:41
Speaker
It's going to look a lot better if she mess around and get the title off her. Mm, tax. She's going to get the dub. So you think that she's going win or what? What do you got? Yeah, I'm going i'm going with Liv.
00:40:53
Speaker
um I think she gets the dub. And in no offense, because I love Stephanie Vincere. um But Liv, just the whole ah whole package, I think she's been one of the better female wrestlers over the last five years.
00:41:12
Speaker
Okay, yeah, no, I mean, look, Stephanie Vercourt came in with a a very, very strong start. Like, you want to talk about Obafemi and Trick Williams. Stephanie Vercourt came from ah the Indies into the WWF, bypassed pretty much NXT in no time. She was there for like one week.
00:41:32
Speaker
And then they put the title on her because of the massive crowd reaction, which Marr said earlier is how you're supposed to treat wrestling. If you're getting a good crowd reaction, follow that crowd reaction. And that's what they did with Stephanie Bacor to the point where you got kids yeah you got kids in the stands wanting some devil kiss because they want to see her booty popping.
00:41:53
Speaker
I'm like, wow, we got 10-year-old boys out here chanting for her booty popping. What do we got going on, WDW? But it works, so. Can we just get booker Booker T on commentary for just this one? Please, bring him up. to to I need Booker T at all times. Oh, yeah, man. Oh, yeah. most people got be they ain't no money i be like yo I love Booker, bro.
00:42:19
Speaker
He sells the content. and guys he helped He helped put Stephanie on with that. He helped put Trick on with it. Oh, yeah, man. That's Trick. Yeah.
00:42:33
Speaker
I would say he's doing that with Joe Hendry now. It's great. oh Yeah, he's doing Joe Hendry now. come on, bro. Hey, but scott stuff say hey come come on, bro. like Booker T on the mic.
00:42:47
Speaker
and so hey oh look at see you
00:42:54
Speaker
All right, cool. Well, let's go around the horn. Let's pick this match. I got Stephanie Bacora. I can't see them taking the belt off of her at this point in time. I'll take Jake. Yeah, as much as I want Liv to win, she's I think she's the best female wrestler right now.
00:43:10
Speaker
um I think they're going to let Steph keep it, but Liv will put on a show. and uh i'll get into mine later but there need there's there's one legacy match in this wrestlemania and i'll get to it later but liv will put on the show and show what she is It'll be a good match. I think that, you know, look, Liv Morgan is a much better performer than when she started out, obviously. And goes for everybody. Obviously, you get better as you go on. But she was she first started. Like I wouldn't even watch her talking and her getting her ass whooped. She sells herself very well. She's great at it. Bobby G, who you got in this match?
00:43:50
Speaker
I live man. She's do that right now. You can see I mean they got her in movies. They got her like you say to Timo Britney Spears. You got a a video on the song out like this is too. You can see both hands on her back man. The push is real.
00:44:03
Speaker
ah Look me and Marta on that back. I thought they I thought they push Stephanie like too fast in WWE like Oh, so you think it was too fast of a push? Yeah, she's incredible as with what they had going on. you bro You had Jade, you had Bianca, you had the caution. like It was too many women doing too many things for y'all. And I get it. like Injury kind of played a part in you know Stephanie getting her spot. Don't get me wrong. She's ski like she see the future.
00:44:32
Speaker
She's the future. But right now, Liv got it And think about this, man. I think ah since last WrestleMania, there has been a w WWE title on a Judgment Day member. Right now, there isn't one.
00:44:46
Speaker
Well, they need to get rid of that freaking faction. Again, another reason you can't because she's in charge now. Again, part of that, but the battery is in her back, man. She got to win. There's the writer room just dragging on those five-year storylines again. AP, what you got? I got Liv, too. I think Liv's going to end up winning.
00:45:06
Speaker
Mainly because of Judgment Day, and then I think you're going to get a Judgment Day story at SummerSlam. So um I'm kind of intrigued to see where this goes, to be honest. so All right, cool. There you go. Hot Take Jake, you said you wanted to pick a match from this card. Go right ahead. What's your match?
00:45:24
Speaker
The Legacy match, guys, and i want you especially to my wrestling heads, I know this card is on the back burner of WrestleMania. I think it's night two is what I was looking at. Yeah.
00:45:36
Speaker
Guys, Finn Balor versus Dominique is huge. I said choose one from Saturday. Choose the Sunday one when we get to Sunday, fool. What are you doing? What do you mean Sunday? i didn't say that.
00:45:48
Speaker
leave it Leave it to the Texas fans and not hear the rules. What a hater. God bless. I'll throw Saturdays. I'll throw Saturdays. Don't worry. Can we stick on one day? It's hard for me with these pictures. that's why you go now This has been dragged out so sadly.
00:46:07
Speaker
And I think they need to let her go into retirement after this. I think AJ Lee, Becky Lynch needs to with Becky winning. And I think I need to see. There's a reason why AJ's been gone for so long.
00:46:19
Speaker
She doesn't have anymore. I'm sorry. As I was saying, Becky should dismantle her and send her on her way back home, and she should be sitting there with her dogs and watching CM Punk the rest of his career at home.
00:46:32
Speaker
I don't expect her to be anywhere it past this. I think Becky deserves this win more than ever. So I'm going Becky wins this match. This is the match where I want to just see a dismantling. Y'all know the 30 second, maybe minute and a half matches.
00:46:48
Speaker
I want them like a squash match. You want a squash match? I want that match right there to be that because they've dragged this since what? When the hell did they fight? What? Wrestlepalooza when they had that little tag team shit?
00:47:01
Speaker
It's still been dragging on. Come on, man. Get this shit out of here. Becky Lynch dismantles her. I got Becky. Let's go. ah You know what? I completely agree with you. I do not like AJ Lee. Never have, never will. I've never liked her wrestling personality. I don't think she can wrestle that great. I don't know why they ever pushed her as much as they did. I get that she's CM Punk's girl, so I know that has a lot to do with it. But, yeah, she needs to go back into retirement because I'm not shocked like her. You used to skip that. I'm wanting to see it.
00:47:33
Speaker
I will fucking come through the screen and punch the shit out of you. Walker, Mark, who you got in this one?
00:47:42
Speaker
I'll take Jake's three for three tonight, baby. Oh my god, are you kidding me? What is happening right now? He's three for three. Becky, and i'm I'm not a Becky Lynch fan.
00:47:55
Speaker
but I'm not either. I'm not really i'm really big fan of her either. But she cooking. She's good. She can wrestle. She can wrestle her ass off. Her character work is top tier. Her wrestling is top tier to match it.
00:48:07
Speaker
Now, AJ Lee has always had the wrestling down to me. I just think the character is so forced. It's like she comes up with her zingers. i like It's like you're just trying to. so It's not natural. It's not natural. It's not natural to me. And it's kind of like you feel like ah a forced character to trying to look like you're cool. But like deep down, like you're just a nerd. You're you're an introvert. And that's okay. Yeah.
00:48:33
Speaker
but like I don't know. I just feel like you're reaching. i never You know what? that's That is spot on. I don't know why I ever knew that. That is spot on, bro. I'm like you. I've never been an AJ Lee fan. and right I understand her wrestling skills. I always appreciated that. I just never liked her character.
00:48:52
Speaker
and not know I think I was a little more critical on her skills than I should have been. she is and She's an okay wrestler. She's not Becky Lynch, though, by any means when it comes to wrestling skills. That she's not.
00:49:05
Speaker
AP, what you got on this one? So two things first. The fact that we got a chant for therapy, I will always give AJ credit for that. Yeah, you know what? She's a good advocate for mental health, so that's good. Yeah, so definitely wanted to shout her out for that. I don't think she needs to be on WrestleMania.
00:49:22
Speaker
Also, the fact that we don't have a t-shirt that says Crash Out Becks is kind of baffling to me because like that's what we've been seeing for Becky the last month or so is just crashing out randomly, so I love it. But, yeah, i got Becky winning.
00:49:36
Speaker
ah i think it'll be a good, solid match, though. You should pitch that design to They'll probably put that up there. Yeah. ah Yeah, I mean, it should it should be it should be a good women's match. um I know that that sounds bad, but I just i have a hard time with You know what? Before we get canceled, Bobby G, what do you have as much?
00:49:58
Speaker
Once again, I'm following the money, man. It's AJ Lee. You're crazy. Two things could be true. Everything you said about Becky Lynch should be true, but you know what else is true? Exactly what she said had the other day. Becky Lynch, your daughter's favorite wrestler is AJ Lee. like She's been the top top female merch salesman since she's been back. okay And TKO is going ride that train. She's going get the dub.
00:50:18
Speaker
Well, Becky Lynch would back to differ and say Sports Illustrated ranked the best wrestler ever. The best wrestler? I said merch sales. Okay, got it. ah ah Different game. yeah Different game. Where's the money? You did say you were following the money. All right, Bobby G, um go ahead. Give us your your match here on Saturday.
00:50:38
Speaker
oh You know what, man? Saturday, Saturday, Saturday.
00:50:47
Speaker
Man, Marl, he stole my thumbers. I'm going to go with the homie, man. I'm going go with Jacob Fatu. And McIntyre, just because that's just two guys that I like. They're both in in my top ten watchers, guys I like to watch.
00:51:01
Speaker
um I think they'll put on a good show. think they'll put on a good show to, I mean, Drew's obviously, mean, he's a heel. Jacob's kind of like the anti, mean, he's not really a heel to face, anti-hero.
00:51:14
Speaker
And I kind of just want to see him go at it, man. Two big boys going at it. Old school, nothing on the line but pride. Nah, they're going to be all over the damn arena, bro. Bro, I hope they come up to us. That would be so dope if they came up to where we were sitting. oh biden You might not want that problem, man. That's $700 worth of human being rolling around at you. Oh, oh no hey, Bobby, I know how to dodge, dog.
00:51:41
Speaker
AP. I'm going to take 5-2 for the dub, man. All right. AP, who you got? 5-2 for the dub. This should be a Hell in a Cell match, if I'm being honest. I love the fact that it's unsanctioned because you know these guys are just going to go after each other. oh yeah they're um But to me, this should be Hell in a Cell. But since it's not Hell in a Cell, I'm going to go with Jacob. I think Jacob's going to win. If it was Hell in a Cell, I would pick Drew, but it since it's not You know what? I love that you did that because that's so true. If it was in a cage, I think I would favor Drew McIntyre, but out in the out in the open, I think I would favor Fatou just because wrestling styles. That's a really good point. it' be very i like um I like Jacob to win. All right. Walker, Mark, what you got in this one? Hey, man.
00:52:31
Speaker
To be fair, I kind of like what Drew's been doing, man. Like, hey, his trophy is the best. He's a great promo. He's a great video packages. Hey, he said, welcome to the Drew So Penitentiary, bro.
00:52:47
Speaker
He tweeted that shit, bro. Hey, his. That's great. Hey. Hey, on some real, man, hey, give me Drew McIntyre, man. i Okay.
00:53:00
Speaker
Hey, he's been putting in so much great work over the last few years. And, like, and i suck it sucked that he his championship reign during that COVID was trapped. And like in that wasn't. That sucked for him. Yeah, that sucked. Yeah, that sucked for him. But, I mean, he's been a good soldier, dog. But I think. He has been. for To take the title in a time where there was no fans and still give it his all, I mean, you've got to commend him for that. he's been He has been the the epitome of a a soldier, of a loyal soldier ever since he came back to WWE. w And it it makes sense. you got cut. You lost your dream. You worked your way back to the Indies. And, you know, you've got to savor it when you get back to the top because you could lose it all again very, very quickly, as we know happens in sports all the time. Jake, are you going to make ah four for four with Wildcard tomorrow?
00:53:50
Speaker
Well, I would love for Drew to win because Drew's my favorite wrestler too right now currently. But we got to put facts on facts. In fact, he wouldn't have lost this damn his championship if he wasn't about to make a movie.
00:54:05
Speaker
So I think because of the movie thing that's about to happen. They're going to probably let Fatou win this one so he can go on the rise after WrestleMania. And I think they're going to let Drew lose and then have Drew come back after he's done with his filming.
00:54:20
Speaker
But right now, in general, guys, that's the WWE w champion. if he doesn't have to leave for a movie because he was pizzazzing himself and I think he's the rightful champion sorry Cody the Cody crybabies can go cry their asses off with that crap because I'm tired of his ass being the champion I'm tired Cody crybaby I agree it's Drew McIntyre I wish it was Drew would've won to win but I think they're gonna let Fatou win
00:54:55
Speaker
leaving na i didn't know I didn't know about the movie Breaking News. Thank you, Jake, for that insider information. I don't know what movie is it. Braveheart? Remix? It should be. a Wow. sure very Very stereotyping. I apologize to my Irish brethren out there that probably me now. ah you over mel gibson Not the Ron Simmons. Not the Dave.
00:55:20
Speaker
wow I've got Fatou in this one even before I knew there was a movie. I think that Fatou needs this push right now. He needs to be a world champion at some point too, just like Oba and Trick. He should have been champion already.
00:55:34
Speaker
I think they fumbled the ball a little bit there ah you know earlier in the year and into last year when they kind of let him fall to the wayside. That's why I'm so scared with Oba right now. That's why I'm so scared.
00:55:46
Speaker
Yeah, they missed a window with with Jacob. ah They had it too. It was right there. That sucks, man. And they did it with LA Knight, too. Like, come on, y'all. Y'all suck it. They did do it with LA Knight, but now, boy. LA Knight should have had the bill on him for at least a month. now Oh, no. It's tripping over anything. Not now. Not now. He's botching everything. Gosh.
00:56:07
Speaker
Absolutely not. I'm sorry. I've never seen it with LA Knight. I've never seen it. No? The promos are amazing. yeah The promos are amazing. I i see longtime U.S. champion, longtime intercontinental champion.
00:56:23
Speaker
I'm good with that. My my my all-time favorite is when he went after, well what's his name, AJ Francis now in TNA. ah like i didn't I knew Will Smith was in the game, but I didn't know Uncle Phil became a rapper.
00:56:37
Speaker
Oh, that's great. That's tremendous. He said, who hotter than Top Dollar? A lot, a lot of. Yeah. but That's good. That's good. thats Don't get me wrong. I think he's, he's damn good on the mic more times than not. Great on the mic. And my thing is, is like, I just look at him like on the same level as the Miz and no disrespect to the Miz because the Miz has a Hall of Fame career.
00:57:01
Speaker
ah But like, Nick Carter every now and then give him a championship run, have his little moment at mania, but ah not right now. I just don't see it. and I'm like, yeah.
00:57:19
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. All right. Hey, yeah. AP, what's your match? So i kind of little alluded to this earlier ah in the words of JBL, call the cops because these boys are going to steal the damn show. oh gunther and Gunther and Seth Rollins, I think, is going to be the match of the night, especially looking at this card top to bottom.
00:57:42
Speaker
These two are going to have the match of the night. I'm so looking forward to this match. I'm going to throw up with Gunther. I don't like him either. I don't like him either. I'm sorry. no personality whatsoever. Here's the thing.
00:57:55
Speaker
um'm i love Gunther. I love it. I love it. what he just yeah He just has no character. He's ah he's a German. he's like ah He's like a German guy that does it hard. He's a character.
00:58:07
Speaker
Gunther is the old school typical ring yeah character. That is the character. no His character is har Harley Race. Is that what I'm missing? he's character Pretty much, yeah. pretty much yeah yeah I do like Harley Race. You should absolutely be in love with Gunther.
00:58:25
Speaker
So my thing is, is like that's always been his character. I love Gunter. And then he's he's evolved the character because after he retired Styles and he came out to the theme song and did the... hede I want him to come out to John Cena's entrance music at WrestleMania. Hey, hey, hey, hey,
00:58:47
Speaker
ah did what he can ah get right around i'm the one at tired john cna and made him tap like a little yeah that was ah i hidden shot like it i loved it i loved it loved it like come on like eight people be no youre not both of these guys are go to be out to steal the show too so i think it's so do you have do you have guner two then marsh I have Gunther winning, but it's because we're going to get Braun Breaker coming back.
00:59:18
Speaker
Oh, a little spoiler. Okay, you think Braun Breaker's going ruin the match? there's no There you go. I like it. Yeah, but I got Gunther winning. Wow.
00:59:29
Speaker
All right, Mark, what you got? Do you know something? don't know, AP. Is he cleared? How cool? he literally He literally just got cleared two weeks ago. Oh, shit. There it is.
00:59:41
Speaker
So they still could even put that match on if they really wanted to. yeah they wanted They didn't want to save it. Apparently, they didn't want to save it for a two-week build. They wanted to save it for a much longer story, a much longer build. No, the build is already there.
00:59:58
Speaker
He turned on him. What are we talking about? We don't need no build. I hate you. You turned on me and you hate me. Let's get in the match. Boom.
01:00:08
Speaker
Damn, done deal. What we talking about?
01:00:13
Speaker
Let's not complicate this shit. That's true. That's very true. The moment Roman said, hey, punk, I want you. That.
01:00:26
Speaker
Chase Coles. What are we talking about a here? All right. are We already know what Sunday Night Main Event is. Let's go. We don't need no nothing to with McAfee for this shit, huh? Do we?
01:00:38
Speaker
No, not at all. so who you got? Who's your winner? Oh, no. Gunter, man.
01:00:45
Speaker
He got to. All right. I just love him. He's on such a momentum right now. Mm-hmm. So you think Rollins can take the L and nothing will happen to Rollins and it'll just... He's always been that guy.
01:00:58
Speaker
Rollins has always been sell the match. make make He's like MJF. He doesn't need a belt to to be over. He has the greatest money in the bank cash in of all time. So nothing's going to hurt him.
01:01:12
Speaker
I mean, and he just had the the the second greatest cash in when he dropped the cap. You better chill on that. ah ah The MJ, who you got?
01:01:24
Speaker
I got Gunther also, but I just think they're going to keep force feeding us that Gunther's all this and that. Not only that, we already know that he's already on a run to kill Brock Lesnar's career at SummerSlam, so they're going to let him fall down here.
01:01:40
Speaker
So I just have a feeling that they're going to force Gunther right back in my throat that I don't want to see pause. ah I was reckless. Holy shit. Wow.
01:01:56
Speaker
My God. No, where's my sound effect for that one? I can't let that go. i got to find a sound effect for that one. Hey, yo.
01:02:06
Speaker
Hey, yo, Tim! That's what I was saying. Gunther will win this easily. Gunther will get this. I think Seth will sell it. God. a macho man Macho Man has some words. Freakless abandon is what it used to be. gift Yeah, yeah.
01:02:23
Speaker
What the hell is wrong with you? You are reckless as shit, bro. All right, anyways, keep it moving. Wow. McIntyre and Fatou, we talked. God bless, don't even know where I am now. Gunther versus Rollins. Oh, that's right. That's what we're talking about. oh Yeah, I'll go with Gunther. I agree. I don't think Rollins has anything to lose here, and I don't think he really even needed to be...
01:02:42
Speaker
In this match, per se, I think that they could have put anybody against Gunther because I think Gunther was going to go over the whole entire time regardless because, like Marr said, he is on that run. I forgot to put that up. He is on that run where they are having him retire all the legends. So why are you going have him lose to Rollins here and lose that momentum?
01:03:00
Speaker
That don't make no sense. So Gunther here on this one as well. I agree. All right, cool. Let's move it into the other matches here that were not picked, but we're still going to give our winners. First of all, let's go get to this women's match, the four women's tag team match. You've got Nia and Lash Legend.
01:03:20
Speaker
You've got Charlotte and Alexa. You've got the Bellas. And then you've got ah val Lila Valkyria and Bayley in this four-on-four matchup. AP, start us off. Who you got?
01:03:34
Speaker
Charlotte and Alexa. Charlotte Alexa. Bobby G, who you got? As much as I hate it, Lyra and Bailey. Wow, yeah, i hate that pick. I do not like Lyra Vicaria. She got a push for for, in my eyes, is no real reason, but I guess she was super good on the Indies, and maybe that's why. Just to give you all an update, the Hornets 125-120 with seconds left.
01:03:59
Speaker
There you go. See, Bobby G, I was paying attention to it, too. Thank you for that update. Hot Take Jake, who you got in this match? As much as I would want the Bellas to win, I think i think he's right. knew you would.
01:04:14
Speaker
You do. i Well, i wanted the Bellas to win, but I don't think that Bree's going to be full-time and she'd have to become full-time. So I think they're going to give it to Charlotte. I think they're going give it Charlotte and... ah The Hells Red Dead 10 team partner. Alexa. Yeah, Alexa Bliss. Supposedly, this is the Bellas retirement match.
01:04:32
Speaker
I hope so. I hope so. dislike sh dislike the Bellas. To the high heavens, they stink. They stink, bro. They've never been good wrestlers.
01:04:44
Speaker
They've never been good promos. They've never been good characters. That's what that tells me. No, no. look i am a heterosexual male just like you all and i love some nice booty and some nice uh what happened what happened bobby g oh 125 123 eight seconds tyler hero just got five shooting a three Whoa!
01:05:10
Speaker
Don't put the man on the line that can hit those free throws easily. Wow, we'll get update there in a second. um Look, I do like ass, okay? Ass and titties. Ass and titties. Anyways, it doesn't matter, though. I do not like the Bellas. I think they stink. I think their wrestling career has been a harsh. Bro, the only the only reason they're even in the business is because of John Cena and Daniel Bryanson.
01:05:32
Speaker
Otherwise, they wouldn't even be wrestlers. So screw that. I am going, I know, I really am. I'm going with Charlotte and Alexa as well. I think that is their time for them to put the belts on them. They are two of the better wrestlers and probably the two best wrestlers in this match, actually. If I had to, maybe Bayley could put up a fight against Alexa, but Charlotte is definitely the best woman wrestler in the world, and she will always be the best. way i don't so I can't see anybody being better than than Charlotte just now.
01:06:01
Speaker
Does Charlotte need to evolve at some point because her moveset and her character got a little stale there, sure. But she's still the she's still a legend. She's still one of the best to ever do it. And if she can somehow evolve herself into a better character in the future, um you know she'll be the go down as the greatest of all time in terms of women. Bullshit. Don't do that.
01:06:23
Speaker
You can disagree. Walk on Mark. What you got? Maybe that'll be a show topic tomorrow. I ain't gonna lie. I I'm cool with keeping the belts with these irresistible forces, man. I like 9J and i like Last Legend.
01:06:38
Speaker
And they're both, ah you know, dominant ladies. Keep the belts on, let them dominate. right You know what? You know what? That's not a bad idea either. And because Last Legend needs to push. Well, not no, not that she just needs to push, but if you call yourself a tag team division, they're an actual tag team. They got a damn tag team name. Otherwise, you just got two singles characters that youre just putting together, say, hey, besides the Bellas, but we're not for them to be- i didn't i didn't know that was their name. Their name is the Irresistible Forces?
01:07:08
Speaker
Is that their name? Oh, I didn't know. That's pretty good. like yeah Yeah, it is. I mean, like- come on, man. like If we're going to have a tag team division, let's keep it felt's on tag team.
01:07:25
Speaker
i can dig that. Okay, cool.
Upcoming Matches and Recent Wins
01:07:27
Speaker
Let's move it into the next one. We got the three-on-three matchup. This is sure to be a banger, and I am so excited because I've never got to yeet in person, and I am going to yeet all over that stadium when the Uso J comes out.
01:07:42
Speaker
So, Usos and LA Knight versus Austin Theory, Logan Paul, and I show speed. We talked about this earlier. Bobby G, we haven't started off with you. You start us off on this one.
01:07:56
Speaker
o You got to go to Vision. Again, especially AP's writing, you got Bron Breaker coming back. You got to find a way to keep that story alive.
01:08:08
Speaker
You can't have him lose. Okay. AP? The reverse curse on I show Speed keeps going. speed in and and it Speed ends up pinning Jimmy Uso.
01:08:20
Speaker
Wow. Imagine Speed getting the pin in this. That's crazy. And Jay turns heel. Jay turns heel, too. Wait, Jay turns on his brother? Mm-hmm. In the match? Oh, my God. You got you can't bury the leads like that, Alan. That needs to be the first thing that comes out of your mouth. Stop burying the damn lead. No, after the match because Jimmy's the one that gets pinned by I Show Speed. Hey, interesting.
01:08:47
Speaker
Mar, what do you think about that? Wow. No, I think I'm i'm with no a division with it.
01:08:55
Speaker
Oh, wow. Wow. peter Flap and buzzer beater? wow Wow. Charlotte, 127-126. Hero missed a free throw.
01:09:07
Speaker
No, he he made all the free throws, put them up one. LaMelo made a layup with four seconds left. Miami didn't call the timeout. They tried to take it to the court. Got blocked. Fucking move the ball to half court, dog. Take a timeout. What are you doing?
01:09:22
Speaker
Oh, man. Miami will be playing the winner of... Who is it? Great. um I don't know. Let me see my bracket. I think I got it here somewhere.
01:09:35
Speaker
I got you. Let's bring the whole bracket up. Philly and Orlando. Philly and Orlando. And as well, we also have a play-in game Spurs and, I mean, Suns and Clippers tonight.
01:09:49
Speaker
They're in a mortgage matchup stadium. Probably started a little bit ago already. We probably got a score. What score on that, Bobby G? on that one. Let me check it real quick. And I'll get some comments here. Michael, thank you for tapping in. Appreciate it. Yes, we're going to get to Reigns and Punk in just a moment. Don't you worry. Stay tuned with us. We appreciate you tapping in. My brother Chris says, ah so Seth Rollins, is this a Shawn Michaels?
01:10:12
Speaker
He steals the show at Mania. Look, I agree. I think you that really is a good and apt comparison for Seth Rollins to Shawn Michaels. I like that comparison. um and no sha Also, notice that Sean doesn't have a winning record at WrestleMania, but he's still dubbed as with Mr. WrestleMania. so Because he puts on great performances because he's one of the best wrestlers of all time, hands down.
01:10:34
Speaker
i mean, he's top 10 in my eyes. probably but Yeah, Phoenix early 13-7. Phoenix early 13 seven. Let's get to the main event on Saturday evening. eveningning This is the one we were talking about. This is the one we said didn't have a good buildup. Obviously they based this around ticket sales instead of actually basing it around a perfectly good setup of their ah past together in the legacy.
01:11:00
Speaker
um Also, you know, ah any number of other stories. Apparently, you know, Cody Rhodes had saved Randy Orton from getting in trouble plenty of times on the road back in the day when Randy Orton was in his mischief mischievous phase, um so to say. So, again, just a horrible build here. I'm really not appreciative of how they did this.
01:11:19
Speaker
um It really blew the whole match for me. um And so, you know, i'm I'm not as hyped as I was. ah But I'll go ahead and start this one off. Needless to say, I don't, i I don't, I'm with the boys. I don't like Cody Rhodes being the champion anymore. All right. We had enough of Cody, man. It's been three, four years now. We got it. He came back from AEW. He completed the story. Now let him go be the intercontinental U.S. mid-card champion. He doesn't need to be the world champion anymore. I do think they want to give Randy Orton another win to keep him up there kind of catching up with Cena and Ric Flair. And, that titles race. i think I think they give Randy Orton a win here. I think McAfee somehow factors in here and causes Cody the victory.
01:12:08
Speaker
Hot take Jake.
01:12:11
Speaker
Yeah, i got Randy Whitten. This will be hot take here. Well, not really a hot take. ah Randy's last championship over winning the WWE right here. This is it right here. Okay. I can see that.
01:12:22
Speaker
I don't think they'll let him pass players. Yeah, they're not going let him pass Cena after they gave Cena that whole goat talk, all that bull crap. Yeah, Randy gets it. I will say this.
01:12:33
Speaker
It's time for Cody to turn heel after this. I'm tired of him playing face, bro. Stop playing face. It's time to be a heel, bro. I'm ready for it. I think the fans should turn on.
01:12:44
Speaker
In fact, before Pat McAfee's dumbass gets on the damn microphone, they were already cheering for Randy Orton to win the damn match. They were wanting Randy Orton. Everybody was cheering him.
01:12:55
Speaker
yeah You already have a storyline for them to go against you, Cody. They already are hating your ass. Stop kissing their ass now. Fuck them and show them up and drink that whiskey as you're leaving and say fuck the fans after it.
01:13:09
Speaker
That's what I want him to do. He deserves it. It's time to move on. Time to be the heel that he deserves to be. hey Show us Stardust. Bring back Stardust, baby. you Let's go.
01:13:24
Speaker
You was doing good until you said that. Wait, did he make it five for five, though, before that? Did he make five for five? I ain't giving him that because he messed around and said bring the Stardust. No, no.
01:13:38
Speaker
No, you can't you can't have a positive and negative in the same sentence. that as cuppiter No, I'm going Randy Orton. I think he just, I mean, i is it weird? But I kind of feel like Randy, is he in his retirement stage that we just don't know about?
01:14:01
Speaker
and just hear my theory. Hear my theory. Same time last year, wasn't it just John Cena, thinking up with a celebrity we didn't care for, beating up on Cody Rhodes for the championship again? There was. He went on his whole tour and then he was out the door like is Randy going on his tour? day So he did his 15th, he didn't go out on his tour.
01:14:24
Speaker
there'sling I don't know. you i We're connecting some dots here between you and Hot Take Jake's argument. Wait a second. Hot Take Jake said he wins his last title. You're saying he's possibly retiring. I think this all lines up.
01:14:38
Speaker
It's starting to line up that it could be maybe his last run. AP, what do you think?
01:14:44
Speaker
Honestly, i don' I want Cody to win just so I don't have to see Pat McAfee's goofy face anymore. um That's facts. I do think Randy is going to win, win number 15.
01:14:56
Speaker
I agree with everybody else. I think this is the start of of him winding down his career. And I really want to see really want to see Cody turn heel too, so I agree with Jake on that as well. yeah Not only that, real quick, real side note real quick. Do we see a jelly roll Pat McAfee punch to the face at one point in time during the match? hope Does something happen that way?
01:15:19
Speaker
I hope they both knock each other out with a punch so both stupid asses can get the hell out of us. I'm so sick and tired of Jelly Roll, bro. I live in Nashville, and all you hear is Jelly Roll this, Jelly Roll that. he was at i went today I went to the TNA event. He was front row at TNA, and they were announcing him, and the crowd was like, shut up. Nobody cares about fucking Jelly Roll.
01:15:37
Speaker
Anyways, that's just my personal hate. Bobby G, continue. I'm with you. Like, Orton's got to Wow, 5-5. The only thing I disagree with is...
01:15:50
Speaker
I disagree with the but the going back to the to me. The storyline is is just what said, Jake. like Everybody already hates Cody. You don't need go to the past. Fuck their progressive relationship. Everybody just hates Cody. But you would at least use it to help build that hate. You don't have to. You could.
01:16:06
Speaker
He's the champion. He's the face. And he's getting booed. Yeah. That's that's it. You don't need more hate. like Pretty much. A dude literally turned heel and they cheered for him to whoop your ass.
01:16:22
Speaker
How much more hated can you get? the But yeah, Orton wins it. The retirement thing angle is kind of interesting. um Only pushback I would give to that is like why why have him go the Viper route? You know i mean?
01:16:38
Speaker
You could have just kept ran regular Randy Orton for that. um Again, he's also to the stage where heel face doesn't matter. He's kind of... People just fuck with Randy Orton.
01:16:50
Speaker
He's my favorite of all time. so Cody. I mean, yeah, he's one of those he's one of those wrestlers. He's, again, he doesn't need a belt to be over, but it helps to treat them nicely, as Mar said. You know, throw a title to him every once in a while. just He's basically turned into Big Show. you know, he's got more turns than NASCAR.
01:17:07
Speaker
Wow. good Cody, just send Cody to, like, TNA or some shit, man. Wow. stupid Just completely the company? I just don i just don't like Cody Rose. Like,
01:17:21
Speaker
He serves no purpose. I can't see him in any kind of role. I can't see him as a tag team champion. like No, I'm not making him. I have too much young talent to make him the IC champ or USA champ.
01:17:33
Speaker
like Just send him somewhere. ah Just send him somewhere. okay yeah yeah i wonder how I wonder how long his contract goes because he could go back to AEW. i could see i could think Let him just keep running the podcast. That's it.
01:17:48
Speaker
word all right well let's move it into sunday yes indeed sunday evening here is the card we got punk and range is going to be the headliner there that night we also got dominic mysterio and finn balor and this is what i wanted to bring up because bobby g you just mentioned them bringing the viper out a lot of people have said why bring the demon out here in this first match because they think that they're going to have a another match at backlash and that's when you should bring the demon out but who am i i don't know Y'all can ponder on that. Rhea Ripley versus Jade Cargill for the Women's Championship.
Match Analysis and Predictions
01:18:21
Speaker
Sami Zayn versus the Lemon Pepper Stepper.
01:18:25
Speaker
Trick Williams. ah The six-man ladder match, which I am so looking forward to. Again, I've never seen a ladder match in person, so i'm super excited for that one. And as well, the big one, what should be, we said the main event on Saturday. I think everybody agreed with that.
01:18:41
Speaker
Brock Lesnar versus Oba the Ruler. Femi. So let's do it again. We're going to start off picking matches. Who was the one that picked last, last time? That was you, AP. So since you had to pick, no, it was Bobby G would have picked last, right?
01:18:57
Speaker
Or AP. I don't remember either. um It don't matter. AP, start us off. Pick a match, brother. I mean, might as well just go right to the main event, Punk and Reigns.
01:19:12
Speaker
Okay, we're going to save last, Bobby If I were do that, save always goes last. You know that.
01:19:23
Speaker
you know wrong go go on
01:19:39
Speaker
Oh, yeah, man. Oh, yeah, man. Them lemon pepper steppers, baby. That's the match. yeah and crazy w go b do the right thing.
01:19:54
Speaker
Reward the kid, man. He he needs a title. um ah love I love the way they finally hooked up Melo. you know hey he got his you know he got his lady gotta take care of that so he had to drop it now put it on the next next man up man make make sammy zane that that uh transitional champion that that he should be that should be his role put it on trick we can get rid of this uh fighting champion nonsense because trick is one of the best uh on the mic in the game so you know and build him up for
01:20:32
Speaker
a potential battle with Mellow. You know, they bring bring back the battles they had in NXT. So, ah yeah, you got to reward this dude, man. He's putting I mean, I... Yeah. There's just nothing else to say.
01:20:47
Speaker
Yeah. Even when he loses, he still looks good. Yeah, I mean, I completely agree. I mean, there are people that just look like a star and he has star dripping all over him. And Sami Zayn doesn't. I'm sorry. And it sucks that Sami is pigeonholed into this position, but he is a midcard wrestler and that's all he will ever be is a midcard wrestler. He should not even be sniffing.
01:21:13
Speaker
world title territory. And I hate to say it. I wish they would have let him be the world title in his hometown last year and then just give it away. So at least you give him that, that prize for being a loyal worker at least, but to be a a champion over trick Williams at the, at the rise and level that trick is that nah, man, nah, I agree with Bobby G transitional champion. Get that shit off of Sammy saying you don't need that.
01:21:36
Speaker
And it ah it only sucks that fricking they got yachty. Cause I would love nothing more. Oh my goodness. than uh terrence howard like bro you can tell me that the freaking pop if he came out with the real whoop that tricks on yeah with terrence howard dj that would be so dumb but no we get freaking little yadi Well, a little yachty Terrence Howard to me, it really doesn't matter. They're both of the same ilk, especially when Terrence Howard came out and tried to tell me that one times nothing was not just was not zero. And I'm a mathematician. I told him kiss my ass and I stopped listening to Terrence Howard after that. But anyways, moving it on.
01:22:22
Speaker
I'll take Jake. Who you got in this one?
01:22:25
Speaker
Yeah, I agree with Bobby G. Not only that, Sami Zayn, it's been a good ride, Bo, but it's time to just turn into, you know, the first match of Raw every week or something like that, bro. I'm sorry. It's not much. Be enhancement talent. be Be the Brooklyn Brawler and be the best you can be.
01:22:44
Speaker
That's all it can be now. Brooklyn Brawler. Oh, my God. There you go. He's going into the Hall of Fame for a reason. Because he was one of the best enhancement talents. You beat the shit out of me, going to put you over like you nobody's business. Yeah. That is true. You need that in wrestling. You need that. That is true. right. Go ahead, Mar, and then AP after this.
01:23:04
Speaker
Nah, there's no doubt it's whoop that trick getting that dub. First of all, Zayn is the lovable loser, and I don't know why people like him.
01:23:15
Speaker
Oh, that's right. Because losers like losers. That's why. Wow. So, yeah Trick Williams, it's easy. Hey, this is the one that you don't overcomplicate. Trick Williams is one of those. Yeah, yeah. boy yep Don't be stupid.
01:23:35
Speaker
Yep. Don't ruin it. I agree. Yep. A.P.? Double turn incoming. Trick goes baby face. Sammy goes heel. But Trick still wins the title regardless. So. A.P., you were coming with the fire tonight, bro. You got something for every match. I mean, Trick has gotten over so quick, kind of like what Opa's doing.
01:23:56
Speaker
it's It's like the fans love him. Everybody loves him. Why not make him a baby face? Why not just make it official at this point? Like Mar said, no news about the team. Just when Trick wins that title, you don't think that crowd's going to go nuts whenever he wins that title? Oh, my God. That place is going to be rocking. I can't wait. I can't wait. We're going to be whooping that Trick all the way to the back. So, yeah, Trick wins the U.S. s title. We get a double turn at WrestleMania.
01:24:24
Speaker
Wow. See, i need a I like AP on these on these on these shows. He brings the the turns and the heat on these things. I like that. That's good. um ah Wow. Yeah. No, I think ah we were five for five on that. Everybody agreed, right?
01:24:36
Speaker
Rick Williams, Sammy Zayn. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. No, i think that's a, as Mar said, don't complicate it. Some things in wrestling are handed to you on a silver platter. And this superstar by the name of Rick Williams is handed to you on a silver platter.
01:24:52
Speaker
Take it and run with it. All right, cool. Let's keep it moving into our other Saturday action. hot take Jake, go ahead. You said you wanted to pick one. What you got for us? I know what it is. Guys, this is a legacy match.
01:25:06
Speaker
and This is a legacy match. Dominique Mysterio versus Finn Ballard is a huge legacy match. Let me tell you why.
01:25:18
Speaker
wow I said this earlier on a different part and I'll say it here. Rey Mysterio never wins a championship without Eddie passing. Okay? Never wins the main championship.
01:25:28
Speaker
I don't agree with that at all, Come on.
Legacies and Character Critiques
01:25:32
Speaker
It's true as shit. it's No, no, no. Rey Mysterio, Rey Mysterio was one of, Rey Mysterio in his own right is just as good as Eddie Guerrero and had the same push in WCW that Eddie Guerrero had around the same time as Dean Malenko, Chris Benoit, and Chris Jericho. They all got the same push when the Luchadors came into WCW. Don't you believe? dare but that was wcw it was the then he was not gonna get the push until eddie passed and when eddie passed they gave him the grunt in 2006 to do it come on omar let's call it spade a spade that's fair that with that being said
01:26:13
Speaker
Dominique, this is a make or break moment. You got to steal the show here. This has a Kurt Angle, Shawn Michaels, WrestleMania 21 vibes to me. You have to show steal this match or you will be known as mid-card match.
01:26:30
Speaker
fighter the rest of your career. And I think Dominique steps up to the plate and this is the show. Now, I do believe Omba and Brock will be the best match, but I think Dominique will steal the show that night.
01:26:44
Speaker
And I think it's time. He has to. I think overall he'll be better. The only guy left his damn show. I still take over, baby. You're damn right. Not only that, you have to think about it.
01:26:59
Speaker
Dominique, in my opinion, will be better than Rey Mysterio by the end of his career. And it's because he will steal a show without, now nothing nothing against Eddie Pass, and I feel so bad for Eddie Pass, but he does not get that leverage.
01:27:16
Speaker
that Ray got 20 years ago exactly. And I think Dominique's run will start after this WrestleMania and he will rise to eventually a world title match and eventually crown himself a champion in this day and age. I got Dom. This is a legacy match, guys. It's a make break year.
01:27:36
Speaker
It's a make or break year for This is it right here. If you want to get technical, Dom's already a world champion just in a different company. But ah I mean, hey, I love AAA. I love AAA though. So I'm not mad at him being champion. he's He's proven over the course of the last few years that he can be that guy. He can carry carry ah a belt for a while. And you know he he held the IC title for a majority of last year. So and he did a great job with that.
01:28:06
Speaker
became AAA mega champion last year. He's done a great job with that. you know Go back and watch his match with the Kingo. I think it was... ah Back at Ray DeRaea's, it was a really great match. so um And he seems ah seems very – know that they did the whole custody storyline back in 05, but – do Dom has really incorporated a lot of Eddie's moveset into his own and has made it his own.
01:28:35
Speaker
He reminds me so much of Eddie Guerrero. Like when he becomes a baby face, he's going to be the classic Eddie Guerrero character once that happens. i And I can't wait for it.
01:28:46
Speaker
And, you know, and I agree with you, Jake. I think Dom dom is going to have a career-defining moment on Sunday. And I have him beating Finn Balor. Damn right. Let's go crazy.
01:29:00
Speaker
No, I don't think he wins. I could i could i could see you guys. I could see him having the moment and having a good showing. He can't beat the demon. that would That would literally be like, why bring him back?
01:29:13
Speaker
just Just to lose this. But I agree with you. like People want to like
01:29:20
Speaker
dominic mysterio for whatever reason i think he needs a makeover i think his look is flo terrible oh yeah youre hating alls dont do that ah bro come on who wrestles with the half t-shirt like bro what what are you trying to what what's all who's your stylist oh my god that shit looks ugly That shit is ugly, man. Come on. It's his character. like like It's ugly. I'm sorry. Dom Mysterio is is ah arrogant. His outfit is ugly. Hey, man. He wears cowhide stuff. You're born in San Diego, bro.
01:29:58
Speaker
I love Dom. It looks like a Mexican version of Magnum TA right now. yeah All right, bro. Just change the look and I'm cool, man.
01:30:12
Speaker
Uh... and keep the lift because live like to me they make each other better e so keep keep that thing going regardless of what happens with the judgment day just keep those two the thing and yeah i can see dom climbing up that and just go ahead and and give him the light cheat steel gimmick let him run with that because i think that's when people started line when when he started to do those types of things you know with when he started to throw the title fall down you know all the shit he used to do like she still stuff let him run with that that gimmick i think people yeah because people want to like them
01:30:51
Speaker
so That's wild, man. I think Dom, I've always think Dom was probably one of the better wrestlers, like, because he's been killing it character-wise. Yeah. And they've been booing the shit out of him right when he gets the mic to his damn mind. And they booed the shit out of him. And then...
01:31:11
Speaker
You saw last year, the same time last year, Mania started turning around when he started getting those actual cheers yeah for for winning the IC belt at Mania last year. So that's when he started seeing the shift. I was like, man, y ah'all y'all late to the crowd. Now y'all like your boy.
01:31:32
Speaker
you just needed a new stylist, that's all.
01:31:37
Speaker
That's crazy. Dirty Dom Mysterio, and you see I'm looking like his daddy right now, just stunting. ah No, where do hot takes eight go? Come back so I can rip his ass about this. You kind of look like a Transformer, really.
01:31:56
Speaker
was going to say he looks more like Psycho Clown or Pagano right now. No, you look like the fish from Hellboy. What's my man? What's my man?
01:32:06
Speaker
ah a to What was his name? The amphibian? That Rey Mysterio was not all that. Also, i think I think the ghost of Eddie Guerrero was what took my ah my my internet out.
01:32:21
Speaker
um But no, before Jake was so was so ignorant to say such a blasphemous statement as such, let's be honest. I think that Rey Mysterio is a legend in this game and was at the same level at Eddie Guerrero when Eddie Guerrero died. I don't think that Eddie Guerrero winning a championship in wwe WWE did anything more to help Rey.
01:32:41
Speaker
Does anybody agree with Jake on that? come dude I think there's an argument to be had. i mean no like You can't deny the coincidence of Eddie's passing.
01:32:54
Speaker
Ray kind of... I'm not saying like he used it, but he was mourning his brother. yeah he leveraged and And the crowd embracing that. like There's a definite connection. to it Because he was not on a championship push before Eddie passed.
01:33:10
Speaker
I mean, he was at... ah he was They came into WWE at the same level. Eddie Guerrero, yes, did get um did get a little bit ahead with the whole light sheet steel gimmick that got really over. But I don't think Rey Mysterio was that far behind.
01:33:27
Speaker
He wasn't on the push though. because It was not a let's make Ray change. It wasn't that he he was when he was one. He is more like David ah take down Goliath Bush or gimmicky type use him as a ah small little Mexican guy taking down the big wrestlers. He was where Penta is right now.
01:33:51
Speaker
e That's fair. That's fair. but He's a fan favorite, crowd favorite, but they they not it's not about to be, okay, Penta, you're about to go against Cody Rhodes next week. No.
01:34:03
Speaker
a Although it it should be. Why do we keep having these amazing debuts and then you don't do nothing with these people? Penta came in and he had the crowd rocking with that whole entrance. Like everybody was over.
01:34:17
Speaker
And now you've just let him waste as a mid-carder. it's not they See, that that right there, Omar, is the AEW way of thinking. That is the AEW way of thinking. a Because I get what you're trying to say. Pence is a world champion in other companies.
01:34:36
Speaker
But... They do things differently in wwe wwe You know this. But look what they did with Hobbs. They debut him at Royal Rumble and then he goes MIA for six months. And we'll see the dude.
01:34:47
Speaker
What was the point of bringing him in for that Royal Rumble pop then? I mean, the same they did the same thing with Jade two years before. Now she's world champion. So your argument is new.
01:34:59
Speaker
I mean, just because you learned late doesn't mean that you shouldn't have learned before. and yeah and the Rey Mysterio argument, I would ah i will um don't agree with Jake Dunn, only because Rey's won two world titles since.
01:35:14
Speaker
Yeah, but I mean, that like he's already climbed a mountain, so it's easy to say. I mean, at the time, yeah, sure. Ray only won that world title because Eddie passed away, but I wouldn't say he's not one of the greatest Lucha George of all time. No, it's not there I'm definitely not saying that. right that yes he's arguing He's one of the greatest wrestlers of all time.
01:35:33
Speaker
However, and if youre dar he made they only became a world champion at that time because Eddie passed. And then if you dig it if you really dig deep into it, Eddie wasn't even going to hold that world title for long because it seemed like you were they were going for a match with him and Shawn at that year's WrestleMania.
01:35:54
Speaker
Hey, Mar, if you want to um add your channels back, my bad, you can. I apologize. ah You don't have to. Go ahead. No, no, no. I...
01:36:06
Speaker
I can see people's ah you know case to have some validity of the timing of, but I mean, at the end, when it comes to this match, man, I i i am kind of, and i well, I guess when i you know you've been kind of kicked out your club and and it's probably like the last resort is to go to the demon inside of you to defeat them. like I guess this why you bring demon ballad.
01:36:38
Speaker
I mean, to me, I agree with you. I think that it is an important enough event as WrestleMania for you to bring it out. And he does have to bring it out every once in a while, right? Yeah, but come on. in The moments that he brought it out, it was to match forces with somebody of another deadly force. Like, literally, Dominic Mysterio, that scary? You got to bring the...
01:37:01
Speaker
I'm not fucking with dirty dog. He might he might slash my tires. absolutely yeah You know, his his little little little slight slight little a little beard in the drunk tank. Yeah. you so much like ah ah I'm just confused on why we wow why does that your opponent is so supposed to be the reason why you bring out the demon.
01:37:26
Speaker
Dominic Mysterio is just a ah guy that that and needs the rest the club. They help him lie in cheek to win. like that That doesn't warrant the demon to come out. like You were facing forces when you were going against Bray Wyatt.
01:37:40
Speaker
congress and so when he was going against bray white That made sense. Like, that made sense if you you're going against an untangler. Let me bring the demon out. Forces versus forces. That makes total sense. You know?
01:37:54
Speaker
I'm Mysterio. I need the demon for this. Huh? I dig that argument. I do. But I think it is because, you know, of how he got screwed over. And it's supposed to be like, oh, I'm so mad that I'm bringing, you know, the demon out sort of thing.
01:38:09
Speaker
Motherfucker, if you don't get your ass out there just what um that and ass. We talking about Finn Balor. Literally probably, if we really being talking for real, probably one of the best wrestlers walking God's Green Earth right now. you tell me, I need you to get in the demon to beat Dominic Mysterio.
01:38:31
Speaker
It's because of the outfit. Fair. skeleton It is. It's the entrance. You know how cool that entrance is going to be over there. You know that's going cool. going to be dope. And they better put a shade on the roof this time and keep the dark out.
01:38:45
Speaker
And keep the light out. And get a little bit dark in there so it don't look crazy in in the middle of that oh yeah that's true that's the other thing it's gonna be in the middle of the afternoon. the afternoon. It's like the demon has all the dark entrance. It's not even going to be dark.
01:38:59
Speaker
like no i mean It needs to be the second to last match on the card. No, no. Hopefully they figured that one out and be like, yeah, let's let's lets put a shade on this top room or something. Who you got? you got Ballard then or Mysterio?
01:39:15
Speaker
Now, Dallas got to win because he, I mean, don't bring out the demon to lose. they fuck Yeah, I agree. Yeah, you can't have the demon lose yet. No, I completely agree. And Dominic doesn't need it. Dominic is not over in a good way.
01:39:28
Speaker
But he's over, like you said, anytime he touches that mic, that heat that he generates is otherworldly. And when you have somebody like that, you got to leverage that. Go ahead, Babaji. No, do you think you guys think that this is kind of going to be an ongoing theme for the rest of the year where you got, okay, Finn Balor having to go to a dark place.
01:39:50
Speaker
You see Randy Orton having to go to a dark place. Cody happened to go to a dark place. ah Drew and Fatsoot, like everybody seems to have to go to a dark place. The old dark place in wrestling. Yeah. What you think is that, is that going to be the theme of the year? ah Lazy-ass writing. Yeah.
01:40:08
Speaker
Lazy writing. That's a wrestling trope from the I got to go deep into a dark place. Motherfucker, they've been doing that shit since the 1980s, bro. They got to go deep into a dark place. It just seems like everybody's doing it this particular time.
01:40:25
Speaker
No, you're right. That is a very keen observation, my friend. Who knew they and they had a darkness retreat in Vegas?
01:40:34
Speaker
but ah ah ah um Yeah, I got Valor in this one too. So no doubt about that. all right, cool. ah Mar, I believe you were had not picked your match yet, right?
01:40:47
Speaker
Let's go ahead and do that then. Go ahead and give us your Saturday evening matchup. Let me get it back on the screen. Sunday night. me one Sunday night. Thank you, AP. All right. And where is the image? There it is. Boom. All right. What you got?
01:41:02
Speaker
Man, I ain't even gonna lie to you, man. um Yeah, I love Jade and Rhea.
01:41:14
Speaker
I love them both, actually. ah I actually think this match, if they they leave the little goon squad out of this situation, I don't even know what the point of having...
01:41:27
Speaker
10 and be fab. If we can get just... So stupid. yeah You're telling me, like you said earlier, you're telling me this person beat the shit out of me and all of a sudden i' supposed to join forces with them? Like it's all happy-go-lucky? Yeah, I hear you're beating the hell out of me and she's running back like, oh, okay, I want to be your friend. Man, you beat the respect in me. I like you. To him? No. I think...
01:41:49
Speaker
ah hello ah hell ah didn't know ah i think Jade athletically can match her here. Matter of fact, she's the bigger woman in this situation.
01:42:05
Speaker
And if we talk about Trick is is is a star just oozing machismo, Jade has always been like the physical, ah just oozing star. Just look at her She looks like Mark.
01:42:19
Speaker
a And she's always had the look is, you know, and I will give her credit. She has improved her game in the ring. um You know, some people are a little bit impatient. They feel like she's not advanced enough for them. and That's their own problem. I think she's cool in my book.
01:42:35
Speaker
um You know, once she started relaxing a little bit more, not being so robotic. So I think she's finally starting to get the gist of just being herself comfortable.
01:42:47
Speaker
uh and the works there
01:42:53
Speaker
i love reading but i gotta be honest you know like why she got me in the title picture mine like stop hating why she got me in the like For real. that's I told you, that's their that's their their golden girl now.
01:43:12
Speaker
They said, forget Charlotte. We we like Rhea. I swear it's like they panicked. I'm like, oh, yeah, man. like Yeah, I know she's the champion, but are we sure we like her enough to be? How about weve just given find a way to give to Rhea? Why?
01:43:29
Speaker
And give me Jade in this one. Hey, man, I'm all Jade on this. month Come on, Jade.
01:43:36
Speaker
You know what? I agree. I agree because I think that Rhea Ripley has for as good as a wrestler she is and she's a damn good wrestler and a good character, too. um ah Jay Gargill is just like Trick Williams, just dripping superstardom. AEW fumbled that so badly. When they had her on that Bill Goldberg-like streak, they should have just kept running with that shit, and they didn't, and they let her get away to the competition.
01:44:02
Speaker
but Now it's hurting them. I'm going to honest. I'm going to tell you why they fumbled her. They had her on like a 50-win streak or some shit, whatever it was. Well, it's but win streak wasn't a problem it was just that they never really uh found a way to develop her i and that's most wre most of most of the wrestlers they have yeah that's what i'm saying name name me a up-and-comer actual aew that started at aew and has worked tonight and became a star in a they darby allen uh possibly
01:44:43
Speaker
MJF and Darby Allen are the only two I can think of. MJF is the only one to me. I don't even see Darby Allen being that big of a star. Well, is for them. He's one of their main four. For you. Him, Jungle Jack Perry. But Jack Perry ain't up there either, though.
01:45:00
Speaker
i So I can give you MJF as a legit star, as an AEF-er from the beginning. I can give you that. That's one. But other than that, did they not producing stars, man.
01:45:12
Speaker
They've been around for minute. It's 2026. They've at least been around for like six, seven years, eight years. Oh, yeah. Eight years now, probably, yeah. Or COVID, because remember they did the opening. The majority of the stars are established people that came from somewhere else.
01:45:28
Speaker
And that's what killed WCW. So, and ja and Jay was supposed to be one of their products that was supposed to be an up-and-comer. for facts And so, look at look at the batting average. If this was baseball, they'd be batting under 100, bro.
01:45:45
Speaker
and it It ain't good. So, I can't blame Jay why it just didn't work out in the AEW. WWE knows how to develop talent.
01:45:56
Speaker
And you don't necessarily have to go NXT to do it. People are mad. Oh, why did you debut at the Rumble and then we don't see you months later? Well, they're developing. They are cooking her.
01:46:07
Speaker
They are cooking Royce Keys. They are cooking Hobbs. Royce Keys? What a stupid name. What a stupid name. you of He had influence on it, so I mean, you know. It was his mother's name. It was his mother's last name. so Oh, my God. Okay, I didn't know that. That makes sense then. Okay, I'm cool with that then. all I thought they gave him the name.
01:46:29
Speaker
No. that they were like He then did that in honor of his mother. so well, then I apologize and I take it back, sir. and So, I mean, look, ja i think I like Jade in this matchup for sure, but I hope it is Jade.
01:46:44
Speaker
Okay. I agree. I agree. Hey, Pete, you were looked very consternated over there. Not constipated, consternated.
Booking Criticisms and Future Speculations
01:46:53
Speaker
For marks out there that don't know the dictionary, that just means he looked like he was struggling with- Sir, you need to take that thesaurus you have there, shine it up real nice, and stick straight up your ass. AP, who you got in this one?
01:47:07
Speaker
ah SmackDown, as we've said throughout both of these shows, um has been booked terribly, horribly, terribly. It has been bad. It has been awful.
01:47:20
Speaker
We're hitting the hard reset and mommy is going to be on top. She's a winning this title. We are going to hard reset SmackDown after WrestleMania.
01:47:33
Speaker
It needs a hard reset. I agree with you, Mar. I think Jade's going to be a ah star star in the making, a star of the future. But in their eye and in their eyes, if if the show's being booked poorly right now,
01:47:50
Speaker
They're going to throw the title back on Rhea. They're going to. So I've got Rhea winning. I mean, that's not far-fetched at all. She's the golden girl, so I can see it. Bobby G. Nope. He's going to Kermit sipping his tea real quick. He's about to go Stephen A on me. I have a feeling.
01:48:13
Speaker
if Jay Cargill fucking sucks. Let's stop playing. She's terrible. Oh my god She can't wrestle she sucks on the microphone like that's why you got bashing Yeah, she had That bitch you sound like little Kim in the 90s Stop but but it's to it's 2020 that bits you sound like little kim in the nineties yeah i love them so dot but buddh two is twenty twenty It don't fly. she She's not that bad and of a wrestler. She needs to get better, but she's not horrible. She botches something every single match.
01:48:50
Speaker
Every match. now aw development that's a w develop That's why you got your eyebrow busted. like stop hating on ria man they like they try to give these chicks a chance and they they can't carry the weight the only you're a real stand i am i'll admit it but let's let's keep it above we just talked about you know ray mysterio at jay karker wouldn't be champion if naomi didn't get pregnant I don't know.
01:49:22
Speaker
They would have gotten to keep way to put the belt no on her. at they Naomi knowmi was killing Naomi was killing it. I can't agree I can't agree with that i can't agree because jade is on a different brand See, that's a different championship. day No, no, it's not. It's the same one. No, that is not, Bobby. That is not the same championship.
01:49:48
Speaker
The championship that Naomi dropped is the one that is on Stephanie Mercurio's shoulder right now. So in all essence, Stephanie Mercurio is happy that na Naomi got pregnant. If we call in it a thing now. She is absolutely happy that Naomi got pregnant because Stephanie Rekir even how hot she came up you know and read about but Jay would be she would be irrelevant because they remember that was the storyline her versus Naomi so she wouldn't be a champion she would be chasing Naomi and Naomi would be kicking her ass all up and down raw they're on different brands bro
01:50:24
Speaker
it She would have followed her. That was the storyline. Her bashing, that's why she got bashed in the head and kick kicked from Mania. When was she got pushed onto the no to the windshield? when that That was Lazio. That's what I'm saying. And then she came back to interrupt the Elimination Chamber. Naomi got the championship.
01:50:47
Speaker
Jay was already on SmackDown. she's She's feuding with Tiffany Stratton and all this shit. a did Naomi was also on SmackDown at the time. She didn't flip until she cashed in the money in the bank.
01:51:01
Speaker
It's the same night as that No Holds Barred match. With Nate Cargill. Hold on. Okay, Bobby. Okay. i'm here cook it You're cooking. but Either way, Jade wouldn't be champ. She would be chasing them. No, but i guess I guess what I'm not understanding is are you saying Jade would have never been champ or just not right now?
01:51:21
Speaker
No, they got money invested, so they were made to happen. But what I'm saying is... ah she would got quickly pushed to the bottom. seen that she ain't it. Again, this is where injuries and kind of, I don't want to say boredom, but.
01:51:35
Speaker
You know, it's to be fair, Bobby. I can't agree with that. I just can't. I only think she would have started. Let me ask you this. Did you see Jay Carbill in AEW? No.
01:51:46
Speaker
Okay. But it doesn't matter. oh it does your're base love No, it does matter. It does matter. She got way better, bro. It completely does. because bo terrible That's like saying do you not you know like saying did you see that Sam Darnold in college. i like It don't matter. i i will make it one i will take one dog matter bob i'll take it one further, Bobby. The only reason Jade has a title is there was nobody else to give it to.
01:52:12
Speaker
Exactly. That's wild, bro. Come on. Bianca got hurt. Naomi got pregnant. Everybody else is in a tag team. They could have gave it to Charlotte.
01:52:24
Speaker
They gave have gave it to anyone. People complained about Charlotte. That's why they pushed her to the tag division. they put People complained about Charlotte coming back and getting the shot right away. and Y'all know it. yeah Everybody was pissed when she came back and got the media match. Yeah, you're right. No, you're right. They work. She's the only one left.
01:52:44
Speaker
i'm like she That's not true. It is. oh They is just took it off Rhea to give it to Io. She's the only one left. here's Here's the deal. screen if you in the tag team d have no business putting baile uh, Alexa, bliss ah na ah ah Nia Jax all former champi for what?
01:53:10
Speaker
and you want your If you you want to build your division for your women's division there it is No, we have to clear a path for this trash chick because being admire being her beating anybody else makes zero sense. Like, okay, just like just like now, why do you think she's facing Rhea Ripley? just don't like her, though. No, they're all small in stature. You don't believe freaking ah any of those chicks are going to beat Jay Cargill. That's why they moved off a Mighty Mouse chick. You don't believe she could really beat Jay Cargill. So they had to get somebody.
01:53:50
Speaker
Nia Jackson Lash hasn't built up enough. and Nia Jack so they got the tag they rolling right there Rhea's the only person with the stature you think oh she could she could beat shit out J-Carp and you had her mop the floor with freaking Tiffy so you nobody wants to see that again you literally made it so that the only matchup she can have is Rhea Ripley That I can agree with you on. Okay.
01:54:16
Speaker
okay I can accept that. i can like Everybody else is either hurt or again in the tag team oh but but it doesn't win a day But ultimately it doesn't matter because they were going to put the belt on her at some point.
01:54:27
Speaker
They brought her here for that reason. yeah agree ands on point At some point. But she has it now because they didn't have a choice. Yeah, but I think the writers kind of to count of wrote themselves into that corner and and to where Bobby's pointing at because I don't think if you're going to have the tag team division, I'm cool with that with like giving me actual tag teams as, hey man, we came up together. We've we've been like,
01:54:55
Speaker
Remember when they had the Iconics, the Inspirations, or whoever they're called now? They had them. They had a couple others. Hell, you had Caden Carter and Captain Zero was a tag team, whatever ah funky-ass name that they had. like They never really cared about the tag team division, and then they all said, oh, We care about it now, but so how do you get it to care about? Well, let's take a whole bunch of former champions and just throw them in the tag team. Yeah, but also remember she was in it, but they got her again. Her partners.
01:55:27
Speaker
got broke up yeah but my thing is is when you take that emphasis of trying to point and to push up the tag team the division you automatically handicap your singles champions because now you make the pool of your competition so small because you didn't do half of them into the tag teams in the tag team division well not on not only that but you also now have more female belts i know at the time you had the us you didn't have the ic yet but then they introduced that But Rhea Ripley wins.
01:55:56
Speaker
Bianca Belair is going to cost Jade Cargill the belt. She's going to come down there and smack up ah Jade's goons. Oh, Bobby G with the match twist here in this one. That's a good one. I like that. I do hope that happens. I do like that. They need to be having that feud. They should. yeah Look at look at it last year's women's division. After Naomi passes in and goes to Monday, who else other than Tiffany?
01:56:21
Speaker
was really a legit challenge. Because are you going to throw Chelsea in there? Are you going to throw Julia in there? yeah Well, hold on on. My thing is, i don't even know why Chelsea Green isn't in any type of conversation when it comes to ah world championship. Because we're talking about the ah all-around entertainer. yeah What box does he not check?
01:56:42
Speaker
Yeah. He checks all the Yeah, she didn't broke her nose 15 times. Y'all got to reward her. like that She got thrown in a damn garbage can. Her bladder bump was sick. Like, what are we doing? in in And to another point, too, that you just made, Bobby, i it when you take the pool and throw it into the tag team, not only did it kill your women's champions, but didn't you add more women's belts, the IC in the US. s Now it kind of almost throws them in the same situation with the women's championship where they're kind of lost in translation. Like, do you ah the especially the women's US championship. I'm like, i okay, Julia, now you what, two-time champion? a
01:57:26
Speaker
yeah You can't even sniff a a kickoff show on WrestleMania. Like, you know what I'm saying? like and this is just how badly SmackDown has been booked because Jade's only had like two defenses since she became champion. Julia's, they've been changing that belt just randomly for no reason.
01:57:45
Speaker
Meanwhile, you've got somewhat of a build with the p IC title because it's on Becky and AJ. And then, you know, the women's world title, I mean, yes, it's only been on Stephanie and Liv lately, but at least you can see that.
01:57:59
Speaker
y'all gonna hate me for this dog mom i love zelena vega and i like alice of black but it's so crazy that they just like they should have paired them together a long time ago knowing that they was married and i really just don't like the fact that they got rid of scarlet and canyon cross to give me Aleister Black and Zelina Vega, the Puerto Rican version of that shit. and I'm just like... Pretty much, yeah.
01:58:31
Speaker
I'm just like, he had that. and like and that ah Just for me, that character just does not fit Zelina Vega. I don't know what fits Zelina Vega because we don't know her personality. I know she's a gamer on online. i know she does that stuff. yeah Obviously, she does a lot of the gaming influence and her or her gear in in some of the big shows. But...
01:58:54
Speaker
It's just not fitting. I'm lost with the whole Zelina bit and I get she's willing to support her her husband and you know, but it just, I really let go of Karrion Carlson and Scarlett to just give us the Alistair Black in Puerto Rican version of that.
01:59:14
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I somewhat agree. I cannot fully agree because I am Puerto Rican myself. So in in in the love of my brethren, I'm happy that Selena is getting put on. But yeah, I mean, yeah you had Scarlett and Karrion Kross right there that was right available to you.
01:59:31
Speaker
Yeah, but did but then they put the U.S. championship on her and really just kind of let that shit go to water. like oh wait well Yeah, that's true. I mean, yeah, she's she's not a she's not a champion. She shouldn't be like a world champion or anything. But I do like them together as like a couples kind of – yeah, maybe they should have kept Scarlett and Karrion and then had them feud with each other. Maybe that would have been a good – But anyways, all right, we're not going keep everybody on too much later because I know y'all are getting tired. um i see y'all yawning a little bit. AP's eyes closed about five minutes ago for about 10 seconds.
02:00:01
Speaker
ah So I think he's falling asleep. Let's go ahead and get on to the rest of these matches here. So first of all, let's go ahead and hit this six-man ladder match. Like I said, I'm super excited about this match, just wanting to see.
02:00:13
Speaker
the match in general. So I really don't care about the winner, but I do think at this point you have to either give it to one of two competitors and that's either a, you give it to Penta who again, you should have been pushing majorly since he got there, or you give it to Javon Evans because you want him to get the push as the youngster.
02:00:34
Speaker
The rest of them don't make sense for any of them to win this match. um So i am I think they should have pushed Penta better when he got here. I think Javon Evans is going to be great, um and he still has time. He's still very young. I'm going to say they go with Penta here and in this matchup.
02:00:50
Speaker
AP, who you got? Give me Penta. Penta. Penta. El cero. Miedo. Bobby G.
02:01:02
Speaker
That boy shouldn't be in the match, man. if you go I know y'all been saying ah your boy should be out there.
02:01:15
Speaker
No, I mean, no but you've taken out J.D. McDonough. Nah, take out Ray, man. it I'm anti-old, man. Bella Twins take your asses home. Ray, take your ass home. You was the oldest one here. What are you talking about? chip Put Ray Phoenix in there. Put Ray Phoenix in there. Hey, yes so yeah. All you old guys is trying to advance. It's all over, baby. Take it like a man.
02:01:40
Speaker
Hey, bar Let's the next generation come up, man. Heard that. I'm all you got there. ah Man, I think you narrowed it down to the two people that that makes it. So I'm kind of torn. So I really don't know um between those two. I might make a decision by the time we get there. All right. Fantastic. Why is Rusev in it?
02:02:04
Speaker
I don't know. a But I will just say – Here's the thing. I'll tell you why. They were doing – Because they brought him back and they have not given him what the didn anything that he deserved. They have treated to him like a damn stepping stone. Donnie Brook match was great. Don't piss on that.
02:02:21
Speaker
That Donnie Brook match was great. No, I'm saying he deserves better. What the hell did you bring him back for? You should have left him in AEW. Also, in case you're wondering, they did number one contenders matches for these spots on main event. So – yeah well great i know was time we are that I'm glad it's somewhere the mainstream can watch. don't even know where to fuck to watch main event. YouTube. It's part of their plan to make you to watch their YouTube channel. like yeah Which is why they also have AAA on their YouTube channel for free every Saturday night. Now that I watch. I will watch the pay-per-views. Not their regular show. Well, hi and good well they are
02:03:01
Speaker
They also lost their NBC contract, and that's why Stand and Deliver was on YouTube. I was like, I was wondering. not god I was like, where's Stand and Deliver? I was looking at Peacock. I was looking at all the different streaming, and I saw it on YouTube. I was like, why the fuck is this pay-per-view on YouTube? Well, just do what Stephanie told you to do. Get a VPN and use Netflix.
02:03:23
Speaker
There you go. So you can cheat the system. Why not? ah Shout out, Tina. Not Predator versus Avatar. Just a little wrestling. WrestleMania talk. Appreciate you tapping in, though. Shout out Rock Chalk. Best true crime on YouTube. Y'all tap in at Rock Chalk true crime. What was that, AP? What are you talking about? Probably to the Dominic.
02:03:41
Speaker
Finn Balor pictured this Predator from the Alien Predator comment. Oh, is that what it was? Yeah, you know what? That's a really good point. I did not realize that. Yes, that's what she was talking about. Good call. All right, cool. Final two matches of this evening. um We'll save, obviously, the main event for last. Obafemi, Brock, Lesnar. Wow.
02:04:00
Speaker
This is going to be a – probably it could be – I'm not going to say will. Could be the best match of the weekend. ah Oba, I see you moving down there, AP. I see you. Oba.
02:04:14
Speaker
Oba. right, what you got, AP? Yeah, Oba in five minutes. Wow. Wow, a squash match over Lesnar? Remember what happened when Goldberg came back in 2017? Oh, I do.
02:04:28
Speaker
That's exactly what's going to happen here. Oba's going to squash him. Wow. All right. Bobby G, what you got? Yeah, I got over. if If it hasn't been obvious that Brock hasn't been putting him over the whole time with the whole, you know, step on my chest. and like So shout out to Brock for doing it, being a pro and doing that first off.
02:04:48
Speaker
um in here Yeah, again. to get the Brock rub, that's crazy. For Brock to put you over, he don't put nobody over. Yeah, I'm just, you know, again, this it's the, you know, hey, the NXT guys, they they got next.
02:05:02
Speaker
ah Go over, you know. Yeah, it's funny because I remember at the Royal Rumble ah when, ah who was it? Somebody tried to come in and get some some some licks in on Lesnar in the corner. I don't remember if it was McDonough or Finn Balor or somebody. He was just like...
02:05:20
Speaker
Who the fuck? He just like moved him out of the way. It was not it was not scripted. It was crazy. I was like, yeah. Yeah, that shows that Brock Lesnar, if he gets you his his word, if he's letting you treat him like a stepping stone, you've got big, big plans in this industry. Mark?
02:05:38
Speaker
Yeah. um I know he I was talking about is Randy Orton might be on his retirement tour. I think Brian might just kind of because this contract is going to expire in the next year or so. so I'm pretty sure he's not eager to re-sign up, re-up up, and then just kind of go off. And so I said, hey, nothing left for Brock to prove, really. Well, let's be completely honest, too. It was after the McMahon stuff where he had to go away for a little bit because of all the allegations.
02:06:11
Speaker
So they probably only agreed to do one run for the best mutual sides of both parties because keeping him in for too long, you start to unearth some of those things again. Well, hey, he still he still sails and moves some some needles.
02:06:28
Speaker
Squeeze what you can out of it. Oberfemi is also turning into and the next big needle mover, so it makes sense. My only caveat, I'm going with Oberfemi.
02:06:38
Speaker
I wish this is a no-holds-barred, like Falls County Anywhere match. um You got two behemoths like this, like let them tear up the whole damn place, bro. Mm-hmm.
02:06:49
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. I agree, and I hope it's not a squash match. Like AP said, I want to see a good match between these two, but I do agree that with these two big, heavy hitters, it's very hard to do a lot in a match.
02:07:02
Speaker
um You know, Brock personally only has suplexes as his main move, um and Obafemi, great wrestler, great presence, but still only has like three or four moveset, so it's a little they're a little restricted.
02:07:16
Speaker
in the amount of time they can go. So you are right about that. I think that would they could not go longer than 10 minutes anyways, even if they if they chose to. All right, cool. um Well, yeah, but Obafemi is the next big thing. By the way, Jake wanted to go through this on the show tomorrow, but I want to ask it now. Jake wants to know who if everybody thinks that Obafemi is the next Brock Lesnar.
02:07:38
Speaker
I know he brought that up at the beginning of the show. Do you all believe that he will be pushed into the future as the Brock Lesnar? I think it could be something bigger. Yeah. Wow. Okay.
02:07:50
Speaker
There you go. All right. Awesome. Let's move it into the main event. AP, you chose this match, so we will start with you. Roman Reigns, CM Punk, what you got?
02:08:01
Speaker
i love I love how this match has been built. I really do. And you look at it and you're you thinking, well, you know, some things probably shouldn't have been said. All this shouldn't have been.
02:08:12
Speaker
Last night was, to me, made all of the build worth it. Because you didn't see any anger. You didn't see any yelling. They were just calmly talking to each other, just telling each other oh how why they were so envious of each other. And it all made sense.
02:08:31
Speaker
Punk gets the reaction from the crowd that every wrestler, wishes they can get. Guy's been gone for 10 years. Guy's been out of wrestling for from eight to 10 years.
02:08:45
Speaker
They still chanted his name in every arena, every crowd, whether it was a house show, whether it was an indie show, w WWE, what have you, they still chanted for CM Punk. Mm-hmm.
02:08:59
Speaker
On the bright side, on the other side, Roman, again, basically being given everything. You pointed at this out earlier, I think, Omar, is where earlier on, Roman was shoved down our throats only because Vince was like, they'll get they'll get used to him. he they'll He'll get over eventually.
02:09:17
Speaker
It took the world ending, and Roman like, you know what? I got to be myself for him to finally win over the fans and become the tribal chief.
02:09:28
Speaker
So that little bit of storytelling, I think, was the icing on the cake. And I know a lot of people weren't really happy that it ended that way on ah on a go-home show. But it was the icing on the cake that this feud really needed to maybe go like, yes, this is the main event of the entire weekend, and I cannot wait for this match. Okay.
02:09:50
Speaker
okay Yeah, no, I mean, all good points. I think that... As you mentioned, CM Punk is lethal on the mic. Now, did he give another pipe bomb promo? No, I think people really overreacted on that. Was it a good promo? Sure.
02:10:05
Speaker
Did he say some stuff like the dog food thing with McMahon and stuff? Cool. Little digs here and there. But it wasn't a pipe bomb promo, so everybody please calm down on that. um One thing you did say, AP, which I completely agree with, Roman Reigns.
02:10:19
Speaker
Wow. I have never in my life seen a turnaround like that from someone being so hated to so loved. Like you said, they pushed him down their throats. Everybody hated Roman Reigns. No one wanted to see him. They wanted Dean Ambrose to come back from AEW. That's what they wanted. They didn't even want Roman Reigns. They wanted Seth Rollins. They didn't want Roman Reigns.
02:10:41
Speaker
But then all of a sudden, just... Come out some way by God's green earth. He done turned it around. And now everybody raises the ones and calls themselves the tribal chief, as we do with Bobby Chee, the tribal chief of podcasting, my friend. Go ahead.
02:10:57
Speaker
took um Yeah, which I got Reigns winning the match. But ah I agree with AP. Like, the the promo the other night was beautiful. You know mean? If you're a fan of.
02:11:10
Speaker
But it wasn't a pipe bomb promo. Yeah. But it didn't have to be, and that that's what made it beautiful. okay if i'm fan of ah ah yeah I'm a huge fan of gangster movies. one of the One of the greatest gangster movies of all time is is a movie called... New Jack City.
02:11:24
Speaker
No, Heat. Yes, yeah, Al Pacino. And one of the best scenes in that movie was on Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. ah are at a diner having a cup of coffee.
02:11:35
Speaker
They're enemies in this movie. One's a cop, one's a criminal. And they're sitting down having a cup of coffee, talking like gentlemen. And at the end of the conversation, it's like, you know even though we're here having this conversation, if it comes to the point where I got to take you down, I won't hesitate.
02:11:53
Speaker
And then vice versa, Pacino says the exact same thing. And that's like that's what that promo was to me. It was like two guys, like we done been through the fifth cup, but look, I hate you because of this. I hate you because of that.
02:12:06
Speaker
And you know Sunday, we're going to get it in and see what's what. That's all you need. That was great way to bring it home.
02:12:15
Speaker
I don't know what just happened there. My bad, yeah. There we go. um So you got Roman Reigns then? Yeah. that thing yeah um ah a Aside from the fact that i just hate CM Punk, man. You always tell to take your ass off. But yeah, I got Roman Reigns.
02:12:32
Speaker
I mean, you're not going to get any disagreement with me. And I told Mar this yesterday on his program. I'm not a CM Punk fan. Never have been, never was. I went to the military like Bobby G did at that time when CM Punk was really coming into his height of popularity. So I missed pretty much all of that.
02:12:49
Speaker
um And I just never became a fan after that. I thought, sure, pipe bomb promo was good, but give me MJF over CM Punk any day of the week, to be completely honest. So, um, walk on more, what you got for us, brother?
02:13:03
Speaker
Hey, this is to me, this is, this is easy. All right. This is easy. right. Oh, man. Phil, sit your head down.
02:13:16
Speaker
oh Oh, and they acknowledge your mother tribal chief. It's easy. Hey, you can end the show now. Easy, you can end the show. I mean, you're right. remember i remember when i Remember when I said Jay was turning heel at the beginning of night one?
02:13:35
Speaker
I'm picking CM Punk. You're picking CM Punk? I'm picking CM Punk because of Jay. Jay is going to screw over Roman. So Jimmy's going to screw over Jay, then Jay's going to screw over Jay's going to screw over the entire family and try to become the new tribal chief.
02:13:54
Speaker
Oh, i like that. I like that. But wait, why wouldn't they have done that a long time ago? That's been a storyline forever that they could have done, and they never did that storyline. Yeah, we all thought it would be a game. We thought that was going to happen already, and it never happened, yeah.
02:14:10
Speaker
I don't know that that's the right time to it now. What bigger way to do it than in the main event of WrestleMania? I mean, I guess. I just think the time has passed. I think w WWE just keeps letting the time pass on these things. But I got winning.
02:14:24
Speaker
but You got Punk winning? I acknowledge my tribal chief. Oh! Roman Reigns does not like that. I'm the tribal chief around here. Yeah, you see me? The tribal chief. That's right.
02:14:39
Speaker
That's right. The tribal chief. You see me and you see the victor. Roman mother fucking range. of Look, CM Punk doesn't need to win this match. There's no reason for him to win this match. CM Punk is already over, like you said, Alan, without winning this match.
02:14:56
Speaker
Roman Reigns is there the fan's newfound glory. As we said, he went from ultimate heel to ultimate babyface somehow. And I can't see them stopping that momentum. When you're right, they do have family issues to solve.
02:15:11
Speaker
You could start a whole new bloodline ah storyline. So I think Roman Reigns wins that for this reason and because CM Punk doesn't need the win, to be honest. And maybe this is a third.
02:15:24
Speaker
We talked about, or no, this would be the, did we? Yeah, maybe this will be a third after Randy Orton and after Brock Lesnar. Could we be seeing a CM Punk retirement in the next couple of years?
02:15:37
Speaker
I mean, his dog died, so he is pretty sad. Oh my God. That's real. People get attached to that. It is. I have a question for y'all though. Well, we'll go ahead mourn and drop the belt to the tribal chief and get the hell on. Right. And get the hell on. Question for you guys.
02:15:55
Speaker
I don't know if you guys noticed, but I noticed in in a lot of Romans pro promos up to the this point, there's been a lot of we. If you listen to him speak, he's been we. Don't like what you're doing. We, we, we, we, we.
02:16:10
Speaker
Could we have a rock sighting?
02:16:15
Speaker
His angle in trash talking punk has kind of been corporate. Like, you're not like we didn't choose you. You know, like you it's been business and shit. Kind of like last year, you know, where the rock was like, you're going to have to make a choice. you got the out out like So could we have a rock sighting?
02:16:32
Speaker
Oh, so wait a second. We were supposed to see Rock and Roman Reigns at one point in time before Cody screwed that all up. yeah Could we possibly be lining up for a Rock Reigns WrestleMania next year? Or yeah or reunion.
02:16:47
Speaker
Or like kind of... i want I'd rather see him fight. but yeah Roman becoming that corporate dude, you know what I mean? yeah Or maybe for a little bit and then Rock is like, no, screw you. Roman may be the tribal chief, but Rock is the high chief.
02:17:01
Speaker
And who has the higher rate? The high chief is technically Peter Maivia. You shut your mouth. um i mean i mean if you want I mean, modern day, because he's on the board of TKO. He's got – he basically runs the family now. he's definitely He's definitely the leader of the bloodline, if there was a bloodline actually there. I mean, I'm sure there is. But when the WOC comes to the party, Roman Reigns submits, I guarantee you. I guarantee you.
02:17:28
Speaker
To the family barbecue, I guarantee you Roman Reigns is, okay, my cousin, I accept. ah Anyways, no, look, Roman Reigns, hey, turn around he did, good for him. I can't believe that it happened, but, you know, it did. And, again, CM Punk, your time is done, bro. I agree with Bobby G. Get your old ass out of here. We do not need your ass anymore. Take you and AJ Lee, pack up your shit, and go to go to sleep. That's right, and take your ass home. And for that, ah we are going to go to sleep and take our asses home because my knee is killing me from sitting here for four hours straight.
02:17:58
Speaker
So I got to get up and walk around and go to sleep. But I was so happy to be on here with my brothers. Thank you so much. I appreciate you all blessing the stream, as always, and taking time out of your day quick to help us here at Ball and Buds. What's up, Bobby G?
02:18:13
Speaker
Not going mention, why why why is John Cena the host? Oh, that's right. I forgot he was the host. ah forgot i completely forgot I completely forgot.
Host Confusion and Dan Housen Discussion
02:18:22
Speaker
Go ahead. Talk to us.
02:18:23
Speaker
No, I'm saying, why why is he the host? is it Yeah, now they just say turn I don't know. Yep, that's exactly what it is. yup Now, like wait a second. Maybe we can get the Cena one more face time in there. Get a little Cena housing thing going. Cena Housen.
02:18:42
Speaker
Oh, God, Cena Housen. Jesus. By the way, though, we're such a horrible – because we were on Wildcard Mars show, the live stream, when Dan Housen debuted in that freaking horrible, horrible debut. Like, if you go back and watch the video, the crowd is so silent. You hear people going, what the fuck is this shit? It's like – but to He turned it around.
02:19:08
Speaker
He turned it around. In all the vignettes and everything he's done, he has made everybody a fan of him. True. Yeah, but he literally, this is AEW Dan Housen. This is the same shit.
02:19:19
Speaker
It really does. No, you're right. I don't know how it works better at w WWE because it's entertainment. ah And also Tony Khan, again, just brings people in just to pay them money and not let them do anything. He brought them in and then sat them on the bench forever. he was like, why are you wasting your money? Kind of like Ted Turner. Kind of like Ted Turner.
02:19:38
Speaker
Yeah, well, Tony Khan and them Jaguars and them London football team got a way longer budget than Ted Turner ever did.
Jacksonville Jaguars and Game Updates
02:19:47
Speaker
You mean the Orlando Jaguars coming soon? Oh, is all wow. Another prediction from AP. Will we see the Jacks? I mean, Jack, they're moving next year because ah they're doing renovations. Wait, are moving?
02:20:00
Speaker
Oh, okay. Yeah, they're doing renovations to the stadium next year. So next year they're going in Orlando. Okay. Well, there you go. There's the news for you there. I didn't even know that. yeah ESPN giving us an update real quick before we get you out of here. Trailblazers and Suns 68 to 62. Trailblazers lead with nine minutes and 48 seconds in the third quarter. That being said, let's go ahead and let them know where they can find you. Wildcard Mar, let them know.
02:20:28
Speaker
Hey, man, I them sports network. Awesome. me the platforms. Casey Lockhart on the Twitter, man. I know where to find you, boy. Appreciate y'all, man. Have me with you. Talking wrestling.
02:20:39
Speaker
Hey, man, can't wait. Hey, there's going some shenanigans going this week. who oh Yes,
Vegas Trip and Social Media Info
02:20:46
Speaker
Vegas, baby. That's right. If you're still watching, Mar and I are going to Vegas to meet Bobby G, baby. Let's go.
02:20:53
Speaker
Ayo, dollar sign, 816-KC-Boy. That's the cash out. So yeah we can go ahead and get the ah get the ah bail money for Omar because I ain't getting locked up.
02:21:05
Speaker
i Yes, ah ah I am going to be on my best behavior, and I'll be sticking to Wild Card March. That way I don't get myself in trouble. But up Bobby G, let them know where they can find you. no man Game time to us. Or, yeah, at Game Time, underscore Bobby G. YouTube also at Audible Sports Podcast. Don't tire fucking up his promos. I'm saying, man. Yep.
02:21:30
Speaker
And across both socials, IG, who's that? TikTok, X, Twitter, whatever. Facebook at Audible underscore. by all black ca but there as well All that. when you After you've been podcasting for four hours, that's the that's that's all you can get for that promo. Be glad.
02:21:49
Speaker
Y'all know, look it up. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Edit, browse, 30 on X, Twitter, whatever you want to call it. TikTok as well. Maybe YouTube at some point. I don't know. um But also find me on record sports.
02:22:04
Speaker
Check this out. You know, ESPN 690 every Thursday. Lock it in every Saturday. All that good stuff. All that good stuff. Yep, and so thank you again to everybody that tuned in. We got a couple more comments here. Ronald, Ronish, Dongal, Seth and Gunther cooked. So he's saying Seth and Gunther is going to cook. Hey, Hattig Jake, um or not Hattig Jake, AP, below me, was the one that called that to be the match of the weekend. So if you're right, then AP is right as well, and we will see what happens, and we will be back.
02:22:38
Speaker
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02:23:04
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Conclusion and Farewell
02:23:16
Speaker
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02:23:23
Speaker
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02:23:34
Speaker
We'll see you, I don't know, now I'm fucking up. See you tomorrow. bye all of you Bye. It's that world heavyweight float. Championship belt wrapped around my waist, yo. I got that ripped flair, fake it, bro.
02:23:50
Speaker
Slam you on the basement, that's why they call me street pro. Create heat on the beat float. Like Jordan after the second time he three-feated four. It's awesome.
02:24:06
Speaker
Now get ready for the show.