Mailbag #229: Listeners React to WrestleMania 41, Rock's Massive Backlash, John Cena's 17th Title Victory

<v Speaker 1>This is WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre and you're listening to
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<v Speaker 3>Time for the mailbag everybody. On this twenty fifth day
<v Speaker 3>of April twenty twenty five, we're going to go through
<v Speaker 3>your emails. As WrestleMania week comes to a close. We
<v Speaker 3>are now into Postmania. As I mentioned, we can start
<v Speaker 3>talking about WrestleMania forty two. We can start looking at SummerSlam,
<v Speaker 3>which is the next big, big destination I believe. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>it's a tune in event this year, isn't it. So yeah,
<v Speaker 3>we got another tune eight event coming. A lot to
<v Speaker 3>talk about. Obviously, we have the Rock debacle that continues
<v Speaker 3>to just get worse and worse with every time the
<v Speaker 3>Rocks speaks. He just continues to bury himself with this
<v Speaker 3>creative of not including himself in the WRESTLEMANI we'll get
<v Speaker 3>a lot into that, I'm sure. Again on the mail
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<v Speaker 3>what it is because I don't even know it myself.
<v Speaker 3>You think I know it by heart. I don't. So
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<v Speaker 3>many as we can. We got obviously with WrestleMania week
<v Speaker 3>we have quite a few, and we'll get to as
<v Speaker 3>many as we can. I know that I always can't
<v Speaker 3>get to everybody, and I apologize, but sometimes volume too much,
<v Speaker 3>and that's not a bad thing. I appreciate everybody taking
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<v Speaker 3>continue into the emails as WrestleMania Week and the debacle
<v Speaker 3>that is the main event absolutely panned by most people,
<v Speaker 3>in one of the worst main events in WrestleMania history,
<v Speaker 3>and that's really saying something. But let's get into it
<v Speaker 3>as we have Patreon, the patrons. Let me get right
<v Speaker 3>into those of you who messaged me. Let's talk to Miller.
<v Speaker 3>He says, he's or Muller. I'm sorry, Muller is from
<v Speaker 3>beautiful South Africa. He says, I'm really happy regardless of
<v Speaker 3>John Cena being Healer Face, but finally have a soul
<v Speaker 3>quote most Championship wins Wrestler seventeen time, but my thought,
<v Speaker 3>it's still six months till his final match. Maybe he
<v Speaker 3>loses the title close to the end, giving us a
<v Speaker 3>few months of a heel sena, but then he loses
<v Speaker 3>and gets a reality check in a back to Babyface
<v Speaker 3>and Seena always putting over the stars. Maybe carrying Cross
<v Speaker 3>is trying to pull everyone to the dark side, never works,
<v Speaker 3>but he also ends up changing and pulls Seen It
<v Speaker 3>to the good side, and Seen It wins the title
<v Speaker 3>on his last match, becoming an eighteen time champ, vacating
<v Speaker 3>it on the night of his retirement and hopefully then
<v Speaker 3>Cross is established and wins Karen Cross being world championis
<v Speaker 3>I mean, that's a we're still miles from that. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>we'll see if WWE really decides to capitalize on the
<v Speaker 3>promo while the interview he did on that podcast, But
<v Speaker 3>I don't know, really, Sam Roberts, I believe I don't
<v Speaker 3>know if they're going to capitalize, if they're just gonna
<v Speaker 3>let it be and goh, well, there's nowhere plans here,
<v Speaker 3>so you know, it doesn't seem to be WWE. When
<v Speaker 3>something goes viral, they like to capitalize on it, and
<v Speaker 3>that's smart, that's business. But I don't know if they're
<v Speaker 3>going to here. I don't know if there's any plans
<v Speaker 3>for carrying Cross, much less him winning the world championship
<v Speaker 3>from John Cena and then eventually, you know, bringing John
<v Speaker 3>back to the good side. I don't know. I think
<v Speaker 3>that they should see how far they can go with
<v Speaker 3>carrying Cross. I think that's a smart thing. You have
<v Speaker 3>a guy that suddenly has become viral, you got to
<v Speaker 3>hit it while it's hot. Things on the Internet don't
<v Speaker 3>last long. Everybody's got the memory of a goldfish, like
<v Speaker 3>three and a half seconds, So I don't know about that,
<v Speaker 3>but I do believe that John Cena will turn babyface
<v Speaker 3>for a couple of months before he leaves back to
<v Speaker 3>the regular John Cena, back to the John Scena. Then
<v Speaker 3>he spent ninety nine percent of his career being and
<v Speaker 3>then walk off into the sunset. That's what I think
<v Speaker 3>is going to happen. And I believe you're right.
<v Speaker 1>Now.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, we have a seventeen time champion and it's hek
<v Speaker 3>you know, the soul the most championships ever, there's there's
<v Speaker 3>nobody that's tied with him. I don't know if anybody
<v Speaker 3>will ever beat him. I don't think they'll get Randy
<v Speaker 3>Orton to that position. He's a fourteen time champ, but
<v Speaker 3>that means you got to have him do it three
<v Speaker 3>or four more times. This is not gonna happen for
<v Speaker 3>Randy Orton, and he's the closest I believe. So I
<v Speaker 3>think John Cena will stand alone, maybe through the rest
<v Speaker 3>of my lifetime. I don't know if anybody will ever,
<v Speaker 3>you know, surpass John Cena. Now, everybody, I shouldn't say everybody,
<v Speaker 3>especially Michael Cole, looks at this as there's no more
<v Speaker 3>dispute he's the greatest of all time because he's won
<v Speaker 3>it seventeen times, but you know he also lost it
<v Speaker 3>sixteen other times. He's the most he's the most losing
<v Speaker 3>champion of all time. When it comes to losing championships.
<v Speaker 3>He has lost the championship right more times than anyone.
<v Speaker 3>So there's that, if you want to turn it on
<v Speaker 3>its head. I don't think winning the number of championships
<v Speaker 3>is the sole factor in deciding who's the greatest of
<v Speaker 3>all time. That's not the end all be all, although
<v Speaker 3>Michael cole is, it's not. To me and a lot
<v Speaker 3>of others. Greatness and the best of all time is
<v Speaker 3>more than just a number of championships that you've won.
<v Speaker 3>And I've gone over this several times too, But thank
<v Speaker 3>you Miller or Mueller Miller Muller, I don't know, so
<v Speaker 3>I thought it was pronounced Miller, but I don't know,
<v Speaker 3>all right, So let's uh, let's go to our next
<v Speaker 3>patron sorry DJ. He says three quick bullet points for
<v Speaker 3>WrestleMania number one. Joe Hendry is the most over guy
<v Speaker 3>and professional wrestling outside of w w E. If you
<v Speaker 3>haven't been a fan of his and are curious to
<v Speaker 3>know more about Joe Henry. I invite you to join
<v Speaker 3>the growing fan base of the We Believe movement as
<v Speaker 3>Joe Hendry's career continues to take off like a rocket.
<v Speaker 3>More on this in I Extended Joe Henry Report and
<v Speaker 3>Number two. The real main event of WrestleMania forty one
<v Speaker 3>was the triple threat of Roman, Seth and Punk from
<v Speaker 3>Night one Night two main event match. In the words
<v Speaker 3>of mister Kanye, Trudy Twitty is trash and through third EO,
<v Speaker 3>sky T and Tiffany retaining their championships was a bit surprising,
<v Speaker 3>but it will be interesting to know who their next
<v Speaker 3>opponents will be. And a bonus honorable mention mister carrying
<v Speaker 3>Cross after watching the clip of him along with his
<v Speaker 3>wife on Sam robertson Megan's podcast, a case needs to
<v Speaker 3>be made for a major push for Carrion after witnessing
<v Speaker 3>such a dynamic promo to what he is currently feeling
<v Speaker 3>about his placement in the company. It's been far too
<v Speaker 3>long that he has been pushed aside and his current
<v Speaker 3>contract is almost up. Creative ship position Cross to me
<v Speaker 3>in the main event spots with Punk or even a
<v Speaker 3>possible opponent from main event, jay Uso Cross, was featured
<v Speaker 3>in the Andre the Giant Battle Royal and he was
<v Speaker 3>getting lots of crowd support. Meanwhile, Dragonly got heavily booed
<v Speaker 3>when he was eliminated when he eliminated Carrying Cross during
<v Speaker 3>the Battle Royal, and Carrying Cross goes on x to
<v Speaker 3>post to the fans that that he heard them quote.
<v Speaker 3>Then on Sunday he got a big popa WrestleMania during
<v Speaker 3>the aj Logan match. The time to execute a major
<v Speaker 3>push needs to start now and all the tools to
<v Speaker 3>be a top guy, and he has all the tools
<v Speaker 3>to be a top guy. Well, we'll find out. Again.
<v Speaker 3>I don't have a ton of excitement that WWE is
<v Speaker 3>gonna go crazy with him. They again, may just decide, eh,
<v Speaker 3>you know, I don't know. We'll see, they may not
<v Speaker 3>do anything. They may not do a thing with him.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know. But I will say I think that
<v Speaker 3>if everyone believes that he needs to be pushed to
<v Speaker 3>the moon, I don't think that's going to happen. And
<v Speaker 3>that's because they simply don't have the plans for it now.
<v Speaker 3>They have a certain I think strategy for the next
<v Speaker 3>few months, and I don't think Harry and Cross is
<v Speaker 3>in that strategy that he's in the plans. So we'll
<v Speaker 3>see what happens, because you got to capitalize quick, you
<v Speaker 3>got to hit it while it's hot. And if they're
<v Speaker 3>looking at this, it's probably a flash in the pan.
<v Speaker 3>The fans will quiet down, and that happens, then this
<v Speaker 3>is all for nothing. But if WWE decides to move
<v Speaker 3>forward with it, and then they're gonna find out. But
<v Speaker 3>I don't think it lands him in the main event.
<v Speaker 3>I really don't. I don't think it does that yet.
<v Speaker 3>I know that all of us are starting to jump
<v Speaker 3>on the carrying a Cross bandwagon because we saw what
<v Speaker 3>he's capable of, But I don't know if again WWWE
<v Speaker 3>is foregoing that for their own plans, thinking this is
<v Speaker 3>just a flash in the pan. But to your other points,
<v Speaker 3>DJ Joe Hendry's yeah, he's over right now. He's also
<v Speaker 3>kind of a guy that is starting to get a
<v Speaker 3>lot of mainstream attention. Fans I didn't know who he
<v Speaker 3>was are starting to now see who he is and going,
<v Speaker 3>WHOA why is everyone reacting like this and maybe understanding
<v Speaker 3>that yeah, it's a lot of his music, his entrance.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think a lot of it. I don't think
<v Speaker 3>that a lot of the support for Joe Henry has
<v Speaker 3>to do with the n Ring stuff, though, you know,
<v Speaker 3>I mean some guys get over by bi their in
<v Speaker 3>ring work. Others get over by their music, or at
<v Speaker 3>least that's how you that's how the whole push starts,
<v Speaker 3>the whole movement starts. A lot the times was by
<v Speaker 3>either a respect for n Ring that you know, you
<v Speaker 3>feel that person should be in a higher position because
<v Speaker 3>of their work rate, or it's because they're you know,
<v Speaker 3>they have that it factor. They've got a great entrance,
<v Speaker 3>they've got catching music, and I think a lot of
<v Speaker 3>that's Joe Henry. You take away Joe Hendry's music and entrance,
<v Speaker 3>I don't think you're getting a lot of this attention
<v Speaker 3>for him. And that's not to say it's a superficial,
<v Speaker 3>superficial support, but I mean you can make the same
<v Speaker 3>case for Cody Rhoades. Would he be in the same
<v Speaker 3>position if he didn't have that music he did his
<v Speaker 3>entrance the way he did. Tough to say, we don't
<v Speaker 3>have we only have one universe to live in. We
<v Speaker 3>don't have multiple, so we can't see the other results.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, I hope Joe Henry continues and we'll hear
<v Speaker 3>from your report in a little bit. The early main event, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>we all know the real main event. That was an
<v Speaker 3>incredible Night one main event, despite the fact that it
<v Speaker 3>still is kind of ridiculous of what was on the line.
<v Speaker 3>And yeah, three gown men, as I mentioned, who are
<v Speaker 3>just all butt hurt over you know who's who the
<v Speaker 3>the geriatric manager is gonna choose is silly. But the
<v Speaker 3>execution was incredible and that's all you could ask for
<v Speaker 3>the night too. As we've gone over and you've heard
<v Speaker 3>on every podcast that I'm sure everybody else listens to,
<v Speaker 3>it was a I wouldn't say the match itself actually
<v Speaker 3>was the It wasn't the worst match I've ever seen,
<v Speaker 3>not by a long shot. But in terms of positioning
<v Speaker 3>it as the main event of Night two, that's where
<v Speaker 3>all your eggs go. That's whatever you're thinking it's going
<v Speaker 3>to be. All the the efforts of months of work
<v Speaker 3>of John and Cody behind the scenes talking about the
<v Speaker 3>different spots they want to work and how they want
<v Speaker 3>this match to go psychologically and pacing wise. Even execution
<v Speaker 3>was not great. Again, the match itself if you took
<v Speaker 3>the whole Rock problem out of it, it was okay.
<v Speaker 3>I didn't I didn't hate the match. I think a
<v Speaker 3>lot of the in ring work is being skewed because
<v Speaker 3>of how much we're just off put by the fact
<v Speaker 3>the Rock didn't show up, and then doubles down on
<v Speaker 3>the fact that while you know it, didn't want it
<v Speaker 3>to be about me, even though it was about me,
<v Speaker 3>and I'm asking people to sell their soul, but somehow
<v Speaker 3>it's not about me. And we still don't know why
<v Speaker 3>John Cena sold the souldo of Rock, which is just
<v Speaker 3>an excusable and he essentially is, you know, crapping now
<v Speaker 3>on the fans. And I put a video out on
<v Speaker 3>this because it's absolutely just asinine that The Rock was
<v Speaker 3>not there. I put a video out about a response
<v Speaker 3>that The Rock had to Dave Logreca on the Busted
<v Speaker 3>Open podcast, and The Rock said to Dave the greca
<v Speaker 3>on on Twitter on x Hi, Dave, the business is
<v Speaker 3>a complete work, always has been, always will be every
<v Speaker 3>aspect of it, every match, every interview. Please join me,
<v Speaker 3>Cody Sena, Brian and the rest of our creative discussions
<v Speaker 3>so you can expand your perspective until then stop ranting
<v Speaker 3>it's not healthy, my friend enjoy the show again. So
<v Speaker 3>again we're we're not allowed to per the rock per
<v Speaker 3>Triple H, who also hammered the fans a week before
<v Speaker 3>that in the WrestleMania build up that were not He
<v Speaker 3>basically told the fans, f off, we have the rock
<v Speaker 3>saying that you know, stop granting it's not healthy. You
<v Speaker 3>know it's not healthy. Though, for the business is not
<v Speaker 3>being able to tell the good story, or you know,
<v Speaker 3>tell any kind of a story. If you don't have
<v Speaker 3>the main players in the story. You can't introduce a
<v Speaker 3>major character and then have that person who instigated the
<v Speaker 3>whole story that people loved step back and claim that
<v Speaker 3>it's not about them, that they wanted the spotlight to
<v Speaker 3>be on the people other people in the story, when
<v Speaker 3>the person who is started the whole thing, who's the
<v Speaker 3>biggest star in the world, by the way, is absolutely
<v Speaker 3>integral to being able to tell the story and get
<v Speaker 3>answers as to why things are happening. It's just ridiculous.
<v Speaker 3>What the hell is going on? What is happening? I
<v Speaker 3>don't care if it's a creative difference. We've heard the
<v Speaker 3>story go oh, maybe this is something, but Triple H
<v Speaker 3>and the R and they have creative different creative issues,
<v Speaker 3>and they're they're butting heads. I don't give it. I
<v Speaker 3>don't care. I don't care. That's not my problem. But
<v Speaker 3>as a fan who's pouring my time of money into this,
<v Speaker 3>and like you, we deserve better. We deserve to understand
<v Speaker 3>just basic storytelling. And we have these guys who have
<v Speaker 3>actually been in the business for decades, who are ye
<v Speaker 3>I mean, they're new in terms of they're relatively new
<v Speaker 3>in terms of being able to put a story together
<v Speaker 3>with pro wrestling, because Vince was running the show for
<v Speaker 3>forty years, so they're still relatively new, and they're gonna
<v Speaker 3>have screw ups. But instead of you know, apologizing to
<v Speaker 3>fans and saying, yeah, you know, look, we probably could
<v Speaker 3>have done this a little differently in hindsight, and you know,
<v Speaker 3>moving forward, we all we were learned, you know, we
<v Speaker 3>understand how to tell stories and this was simply just
<v Speaker 3>a hiccup. And you know, things good things are coming
<v Speaker 3>down the line. There's a good way to say that,
<v Speaker 3>you know, they look, we have and we were sorry,
<v Speaker 3>and you know things things are gonna get better. There's
<v Speaker 3>a way to say that. Instead, they're telling us we're
<v Speaker 3>not allowed to have opinions and stop ranting, and oh
<v Speaker 3>you're getting yourself all worked up over our work. No,
<v Speaker 3>because we all we love this business. And when you
<v Speaker 3>guys tell us you have a massive screw up on
<v Speaker 3>the biggest match, on the biggest pl of the year,
<v Speaker 3>you deserve to get roasted for it. You deserve it
<v Speaker 3>because we are putting money into the company that you
<v Speaker 3>are trying to run. We have a say like any
<v Speaker 3>other effing company in the world. We have a right
<v Speaker 3>to say what we want to say and to have
<v Speaker 3>an opinion. If we want to rant, we can rant.
<v Speaker 3>In fact, I would say ranting is healthy. Not about everything,
<v Speaker 3>but if you're passionate about something, actually ranting about it
<v Speaker 3>is a way to get your energy. It's a way
<v Speaker 3>to harness your energy. It's a way to to be
<v Speaker 3>construs deductive with it. I mean, it's not rant to rant,
<v Speaker 3>to cuss and oh no, But if you have ideas
<v Speaker 3>and you have issues, ranting is great. It's a great
<v Speaker 3>thing to have, it's a great tool to have. It's
<v Speaker 3>it's a good way to let your emotions out. So no,
<v Speaker 3>we're passionate, we rant because we're passionate, and then they
<v Speaker 3>try to label ranting as bad, especially when it has
<v Speaker 3>to do with something that is that they screwed up
<v Speaker 3>and they don't have the I guess the They can't
<v Speaker 3>just be humble and taken on the chin and it
<v Speaker 3>would go away in a couple of days and be like, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>that main event sucked. They acknowledged that it wasn't the greatest.
<v Speaker 3>They could have done this some of that better, and
<v Speaker 3>instead they're doubling and tripling down on their horrible decision
<v Speaker 3>and just they're gaslighting fans and telling us that, well,
<v Speaker 3>you know, it's about them and not about me. You
<v Speaker 3>guys should have known that that was going to stop it. No,
<v Speaker 3>we are more than allowed to have an opinion. We're
<v Speaker 3>always told that the fans. They're listening to the fans
<v Speaker 3>and supposed to give us what we want. We're the
<v Speaker 3>folks this group every night, and then when we give
<v Speaker 3>them them feedback, well, we don't want to hear that.
<v Speaker 3>You guys, you don't understand creative, you know, okay, Well
<v Speaker 3>you can't have it both ways. And by the way,
<v Speaker 3>telling us that we can't have an opinion, essentially is
<v Speaker 3>what they're saying that we can't have a preapproved If
<v Speaker 3>we don't have a preapproved opinion, we can't voice it.
<v Speaker 3>We're not allowed to rent like we're doing right now.
<v Speaker 3>We don't know what we don't know. Well, yeah, we're
<v Speaker 3>not in the production meetings, duh. But clearly you guys
<v Speaker 3>don't know either, because what you produced on it WrestleMania
<v Speaker 3>main event was embarrassing. You bring out Travis Scott to
<v Speaker 3>the main event as if that's some kind of consolation
<v Speaker 3>of the rock Nod being there. The hell is he
<v Speaker 3>have to do with anything anyway? So absolutely inexcusable. On
<v Speaker 3>top of the fact that have they considered them being
<v Speaker 3>w WE, specifically Dwayne and Paul Evec, have they considered
<v Speaker 3>the fact that when they tell the fans they are
<v Speaker 3>not allowed to do something and they shouldn't do something,
<v Speaker 3>guess what they're gonna do that that's what we do.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, that's how people work. So this is just
<v Speaker 3>going to continue to snowball, and not in a good way.
<v Speaker 3>Not in a good way that's good any kind of
<v Speaker 3>good pr for w W at all. All right, eosky
<v Speaker 3>tifany retaining as you said, Yes, definitely, I mean I
<v Speaker 3>think that was the right decision. Who their next opponents are.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know that's I mean, we could see rematches
<v Speaker 3>in terms of EO facing either Rhea or Bianca separately,
<v Speaker 3>although Bianca wasn't she on SmackDown, so maybe she goes
<v Speaker 3>back to SmackDown. Maybe Tiffany and Bianca. If Bianca's back
<v Speaker 3>to SmackDown, that I think that could be a place
<v Speaker 3>that a place let they go. Okay, let's go to
<v Speaker 3>another patron. Anthony from California says not sure if this
<v Speaker 3>will make the week Well it did and Rawftermania made
<v Speaker 3>up for the lackluster Saturday and some appearance in turns
<v Speaker 3>that we're missing from the weekend. One hundred percent agree
<v Speaker 3>with you, Rare, I know, yes, it is that they
<v Speaker 3>are making Cody the weakest babyface we've ever seen. I
<v Speaker 3>could deal with to do your homework, eat your vitamins,
<v Speaker 3>but this nonsense of trying to be the good guy
<v Speaker 3>no matter what is silly. If you can hit Sena,
<v Speaker 3>hit him and having Travis Scott decide the outcome was terrible.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if he or who has the clout
<v Speaker 3>who he has it with that WWE, but it's stupid
<v Speaker 3>to have him determine the main event. I also agree
<v Speaker 3>they're pulling back the curtain too often. The show about
<v Speaker 3>the writer's room doesn't bother me as much. The viewer
<v Speaker 3>can choose whether to watch or not. However, when Biggie's
<v Speaker 3>pregame is talking about how Stephanie helped him with the
<v Speaker 3>storyline and she has it was telling him to do
<v Speaker 3>or what to say, it's too much. I don't want
<v Speaker 3>to hear that. I want the illusion. Lastly, I will
<v Speaker 3>never agree on the outfits for the ladies. One question, though,
<v Speaker 3>which female wrestler is telling us not the look Ria Maxine? Who?
<v Speaker 3>If they did, then I'm right there with you with
<v Speaker 3>the hypocrisy. Don't generalize women in general. Say it, say
<v Speaker 3>it's we say it. I think you missed type there.
<v Speaker 3>But specifically, when did a female wrestler tell the male
<v Speaker 3>audience not to look? I don't think you'll find one
<v Speaker 3>they want the looks. Keep up the good work and
<v Speaker 3>we'll see what happens at WrestleMania backlash. YEA, well, we
<v Speaker 3>don't say that here, so I don't know that strike too, Anthony. Well, Anthony,
<v Speaker 3>so a couple of things responding to your email, I
<v Speaker 3>mean Travis Scott. I've said it enough. I think we've
<v Speaker 3>all heard it from every podcast about the terrible, just
<v Speaker 3>terrible decision to have Travis Scott involved at all. Actually
<v Speaker 3>I wanted him involved, but to get an actual receipt
<v Speaker 3>would have been nice, not a you know, not a
<v Speaker 3>wrestling move that's one of the safest and least rough
<v Speaker 3>to take of all time in the Crossroads. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>Cody should have actually just punched him straight in the
<v Speaker 3>face like a shoot, and he didn't, and then yeah,
<v Speaker 3>he ends up just being this soft guy's going, I
<v Speaker 3>can't hurt my hero Jones, you know, even though it's
<v Speaker 3>the main event of wrestle Mania and my titles on
<v Speaker 3>the line. Oh gosh, golly, I can't be the bad
<v Speaker 3>guy here. Yeah, that say an excusable it hurt Cody.
<v Speaker 3>That's not talked about enough, and the writer's room thinking
<v Speaker 3>it bothers me probably more than most. Sure, you can
<v Speaker 3>choose whether to watch it or not. WWE is not
<v Speaker 3>forcing anybody to watch it, right, They're not you know,
<v Speaker 3>keeping your eyes open, holding someone holding you down and
<v Speaker 3>forcing you to watch it. But it's just the principle
<v Speaker 3>of it, and it's just a over it's an overall
<v Speaker 3>larger problem of the curtain's been pulled back forever now,
<v Speaker 3>like the current, the cave has been dead for a
<v Speaker 3>long time. But at least for a while, they weren't
<v Speaker 3>forcing it down your throat and reminding you all the
<v Speaker 3>time of what you're watching isn't real. Now they're creating
<v Speaker 3>documentaries about it. Uh, they're putting it and putting the
<v Speaker 3>babyface heel language into promo videos, into promos into like
<v Speaker 3>I don't need that. Yeah, I just I don't. I
<v Speaker 3>don't need any of that crap. And the thing is
<v Speaker 3>too Yeah, they're not forcing you to watch it, but
<v Speaker 3>the previews for the Writer's Room during the middle of
<v Speaker 3>Roll On SmackDown telling you that, hey, what you're watching
<v Speaker 3>is a work. Go see how we make this work. Right,
<v Speaker 3>So it's happening in the show, you're kind of forced
<v Speaker 3>to watch it if you're watching Raw or SmackDown, just casually.
<v Speaker 3>So there's that even if you don't watch the show,
<v Speaker 3>you're now being You see the premise of it and
<v Speaker 3>you're going, wow, they just have no shame. There's no
<v Speaker 3>shame here. And as far as the women's steal, so
<v Speaker 3>no one's telling you so when I say that, they're
<v Speaker 3>saying that with the women that are specifically, you know,
<v Speaker 3>being overtly sexual, there's just if you're not if you
<v Speaker 3>don't admit that the things that they wear and post
<v Speaker 3>on Instagram or Facebook, not everything, but a lot of
<v Speaker 3>the stuff they post it's just overtly sexual, then you're
<v Speaker 3>just you're lying, right, really, I mean just I it's
<v Speaker 3>just you're not being honest with yourself. It is. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>you're not gonna tell me otherwise because I can look
<v Speaker 3>at my own eyes and no, I'm not saying they're
<v Speaker 3>telling verbatim out loud. Don't look in fact there they
<v Speaker 3>want us to. But my point is when they do
<v Speaker 3>that stuff, if we notice that what they're doing is
<v Speaker 3>has like like what their purpose of doing that They're
<v Speaker 3>they're putting it out there expecting us to only say
<v Speaker 3>positive things, and if we call out their ulterior motive,
<v Speaker 3>which is really just hey, look at my body. I
<v Speaker 3>want to I'm looking for some uh, some attention that
<v Speaker 3>has nothing to do with my wrestling career. That's not
<v Speaker 3>going to further me in the ring. That's just more
<v Speaker 3>of attention grabs by using my body to do it.
<v Speaker 3>That's what we're not supposed to notice. I'm not saying
<v Speaker 3>they're actually saying the words you're not allowed to. Look,
<v Speaker 3>it's the sin of noticing what they're actually trying to do.
<v Speaker 3>That's what's happening, and it's the sin of noticing. So
<v Speaker 3>that's what it is. And hey, they're going to get
<v Speaker 3>the attention they want. But then if anybody has any
<v Speaker 3>negative things to say, well, apparently they're not preapproved opinions
<v Speaker 3>and you're not allowed to say. But I guess I will.
<v Speaker 3>I'll be the one guy that's fine. You know, like
<v Speaker 3>women fought so hard in wrestling especially to not be
<v Speaker 3>just sexual objects. And then you know, in today's social
<v Speaker 3>media world, what they're putting online is a lot of
<v Speaker 3>times worse than what was happening during the attitude era.
<v Speaker 3>And so I mean, it's just what's happening. I'm just
<v Speaker 3>observing reality, and I'm getting called out for it or
<v Speaker 3>getting scolded for it, but I could care less because
<v Speaker 3>I'm just gonna call it like it is. So all right, Well,
<v Speaker 3>thank you, Anthony, I'm sure sure we'll have some discussion later.
<v Speaker 3>All right, last email Tom Tom says while WWE Creative,
<v Speaker 3>particularly The Rock has absolutely dropped the ball on the
<v Speaker 3>Cody Store seen a story. I think they're doing a
<v Speaker 3>great job with where they're going with the Seth Roman story.
<v Speaker 3>It's becoming clear that they're trying to make Seth into
<v Speaker 3>what Roman was in twenty twenty. Roman had his bloodline faction.
<v Speaker 3>Set's going to have Braun and perhaps Drew or maybe
<v Speaker 3>a carrying cross, a killer team made up of badass
<v Speaker 3>heels as far as Roman, I don't think the punk
<v Speaker 3>alliance will last long, probably just for backlash. They also
<v Speaker 3>think that while Roman isn't going to change much, I
<v Speaker 3>could see them making him a look a little bit
<v Speaker 3>more babyface in this to create the anti Seth. Perhaps
<v Speaker 3>counter Seth's team with a monster one of his own.
<v Speaker 3>I would let Jimmy and Jay do their own thing
<v Speaker 3>and recruit Jacob, Fattu and Bronson. Read as where they're
<v Speaker 3>going and where I think it goes from there. I
<v Speaker 3>think Seth beats Jay at SummerSlam to get the belt.
<v Speaker 3>I think Roman and Seth rivalry builds it for some time,
<v Speaker 3>even with a War Games match. Maybe have Seth beat
<v Speaker 3>Roman at the Random PLI to continue their narrative of
<v Speaker 3>Seth always getting the best of Roman and having the
<v Speaker 3>edge on him. He's done so at three WrestleManias now,
<v Speaker 3>but I think WrestleMania forty two, in the main event,
<v Speaker 3>Roman finally conquers Seth and wins the belt for the
<v Speaker 3>final time, and that would help elevate world title. Boy,
<v Speaker 3>you've really thought this out, Tom, Good for you, really,
<v Speaker 3>I mean that for really, that's you've thought about this
<v Speaker 3>all the way. A year out. I would think WWE
<v Speaker 3>has done the same as they always say, especially with
<v Speaker 3>major storylines. They're thinking from WrestleMania to WrestleMania. And I
<v Speaker 3>like this idea of Roman's faction versus you know, Seth's faction.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, like I also totally concur with your idea
<v Speaker 3>that Jay and Jimmy should just remain out of it.
<v Speaker 3>They don't need to reunite with Roman. We saw that
<v Speaker 3>it was fun war games. It's good. Yeah, there needs
<v Speaker 3>to be new blood into a Roman Reigns alliance, and
<v Speaker 3>it's not going to be another blood line. It would
<v Speaker 3>just be I don't know what right whatever they call
<v Speaker 3>it at that point. But it's about building new guys.
<v Speaker 3>That's how this business works, building new stars, and this
<v Speaker 3>is a star building process. That Seth is contributing to now,
<v Speaker 3>because let's be honest, Seth is more than halfway through
<v Speaker 3>his career. In all likelihood, I don't think Seth has
<v Speaker 3>a ton of years left in him. He said so
<v Speaker 3>several times too. And he's starting to slow down or
<v Speaker 3>at least schedule wise, and he's had several injuries I
<v Speaker 3>think where his body's saying, hey, you know, knock knock,
<v Speaker 3>times ticking. So Seth is starting to give back to
<v Speaker 3>the business. Now. Seth has done nearly everything there is
<v Speaker 3>to do. A lot of people are pointing this to
<v Speaker 3>evolution two point zero. They won't call it that, but
<v Speaker 3>I see some similarities there. But factions are always always
<v Speaker 3>created for two reasons, one to build new stars, two
<v Speaker 3>for it to eventually break down. And you have built
<v Speaker 3>in different variations of rivalries within that faction with two
<v Speaker 3>people turning or one person turning, and you know, there's
<v Speaker 3>a lot you can do a lot of different combinations
<v Speaker 3>of things when it finally disintegrates, a lot of storylines
<v Speaker 3>that could come out of it, and you got made
<v Speaker 3>event matches right there. So factions are good if you
<v Speaker 3>have the right guys or gals and you understand what
<v Speaker 3>you're doing with these people and what the goal is.
<v Speaker 3>And I think Braun and Seth is awesome. I have
<v Speaker 3>no objections to that. It is a I guess if
<v Speaker 3>you're looking for a you know, a dark cloud in this,
<v Speaker 3>I'm always going to be that dark cloud for you.
<v Speaker 3>Bron Breaker was on fire as a baby face and
<v Speaker 3>people were really taking to them, so they kind of
<v Speaker 3>cut that short and said no, no, no, no, no, no,
<v Speaker 3>no stop. We got plans for him with Seth. And
<v Speaker 3>I'm not crapping on WW for that. Like I mean,
<v Speaker 3>it's not like he was the face of the company
<v Speaker 3>yet and he was selling merch left and right, but
<v Speaker 3>the fans were starting to organically get behind him, and
<v Speaker 3>usually when that happens, the WW goes, Okay, you do
<v Speaker 3>your thing, You're on your way of making money, making
<v Speaker 3>us money. But they have bigger plans for him and
<v Speaker 3>they feel that this is the best path and I'm
<v Speaker 3>willing to take the ride. The question is who does
<v Speaker 3>Seth and who joins Seth and who joins Broun. Lots
<v Speaker 3>of options, lots of options out there. You would imagine
<v Speaker 3>it's a bron Breaker type of guy. I don't know
<v Speaker 3>if they'll bring in another veteran, because Seth already fills
<v Speaker 3>that role. He's the leader by de facto because of
<v Speaker 3>his tenure and everything he's accomplished. And so yeah, I
<v Speaker 3>don't think your story here is far fetched. I don't
<v Speaker 3>think it's far fetched at all. The question is do
<v Speaker 3>they want to make Roman a champion again? I think
<v Speaker 3>wrestle Manya forty two wouldn't be a bad time to
<v Speaker 3>do it, But having him as an absentee champion again,
<v Speaker 3>I think would remind fans, oh yeah, here we go again.
<v Speaker 3>And what partly turned Roman baby face instantly was him
<v Speaker 3>dropping the belt instantly. Remember about two weeks later, people
<v Speaker 3>were already chanting we want Roman, and he didn't do
<v Speaker 3>anything right after he lost to Cody a WrestleMania forty
<v Speaker 3>just by simply dropping the belt. So I think if
<v Speaker 3>he regained the belt there might be some backlash with that.
<v Speaker 3>So thank you, Tom. Let's get to those voicemails now.
<v Speaker 3>This first voicemail is a little bit longer than usual,
<v Speaker 3>all right, uh, and just for everybody wondering that yet,
<v Speaker 3>it is a few minutes longer than usual than I allow.
<v Speaker 3>But given the circumstances given that I did not play
<v Speaker 3>his voicemail last week, and given the fact that his
<v Speaker 3>his uh, his guy Joe Hendry appeared at WrestleMania, I'm
<v Speaker 3>going to let this voicemail play in its entirety. So
<v Speaker 3>there you go. Okay, everybody complaining how come how come
<v Speaker 3>he gets you more time than anybody else, It's well,
<v Speaker 3>sometimes loyal listeners get rewarded, all right. Number one, I
<v Speaker 3>really like DJ he's been listening for He's one of
<v Speaker 3>the OG listeners. I really appreciate him, and he does
<v Speaker 3>some great work keeping Joe Henry in the forefront of
<v Speaker 3>our minds. So let's get to him, all right and
<v Speaker 3>see what he's got to say.
<v Speaker 4>This is DJ coolsmel back at it again on your
<v Speaker 4>mailback show records.
<v Speaker 5>You live on a Wednesday board, and you know what
<v Speaker 5>time it is. It's time to.
<v Speaker 2>See his name, man, heppears. I believe in Joe Hendry.
<v Speaker 2>I believe in Joe Hendry. Des right, folks, Joe Hendry
<v Speaker 2>is his name.
<v Speaker 4>As I take it to my forty first episode of
<v Speaker 4>the Judge Report, l like always come into your life
<v Speaker 4>from an undisclosed location. We got a jam pack episode
<v Speaker 4>for you today, folks, including Joe Hendry making an appearance
<v Speaker 4>at russell Mania forty one.
<v Speaker 2>Are you kidding me?
<v Speaker 4>But before we get there, I must bettion what happened
<v Speaker 4>last week on a live televise event from tn par
<v Speaker 4>Wrestling called Tenna Unbreakable, in which Joe Hendri and the
<v Speaker 4>Knockouts Champion Masa Snamovich was in a mixed tag t
<v Speaker 4>match against the self proclaimed gig of TNA mister Frankie
<v Speaker 4>Kazerian and Tessa Blanchart. This match lasted forteen minutes and
<v Speaker 4>nine seconds. As we fast forward do the course of
<v Speaker 4>this match, we get a miscommunication with Tessa Blanchart and
<v Speaker 4>Frankie Gazerian as Tessa Blanchet accidentally knocked out Frankie Gazerian
<v Speaker 4>with a clothes line, and then all of a sudden,
<v Speaker 4>here comes Joe Hendry to go for this that Nigga
<v Speaker 4>voice in choke slam and one two three Joe Hendry
<v Speaker 4>and Marssell Slamovich gets the victory. As the road to
<v Speaker 4>teenee Rebellion continues as Joe Hendri will be in this
<v Speaker 4>triple threat match against Ether the Page and of course
<v Speaker 4>Fakie Gazarin.
<v Speaker 6>This coming Sunday, April twenty seven live from Los Angeles, California.
<v Speaker 6>Now we take it to what took place over the weekend.
<v Speaker 6>Of course in Las Vegas, as it is wrest Media
<v Speaker 6>forty one.
<v Speaker 4>Joe Hendry was at both WWE World and Las Vegas
<v Speaker 4>Russell Khan. Like I mentioned last.
<v Speaker 6>Week, there were a lot of rumblings as to the
<v Speaker 6>possibility that Joe Hendry might show up at wrest Media
<v Speaker 6>forty one, and I was thinking maybe minutes of fifty
<v Speaker 6>to fifty chance that he might appear if he just
<v Speaker 6>continue to say his name. But anyway, before we get
<v Speaker 6>to what happened at Russell Maydy forty one, I must
<v Speaker 6>give a shout out to everybody in the discord chat.
<v Speaker 4>I was not there on Saturday. I was very tired
<v Speaker 4>the word I must mentioned that on Sunday. Shout out
<v Speaker 4>to everybody that was in the discord chat. We had
<v Speaker 4>a great type on Sunday night, and of course, as
<v Speaker 4>always Jeff t shout out to you you know from
<v Speaker 4>Scotland by guy what's going on. I appreciate everybody that
<v Speaker 4>was in the discord chat. We even saw Matt ww podcast. Matt.
<v Speaker 2>He was in the discord chat and we.
<v Speaker 4>Got to witness a lot of matches, a lot of
<v Speaker 4>really good matches outside of the crap that was the
<v Speaker 4>main event, which I don't know what that was all about.
<v Speaker 2>Let's get to Randy.
<v Speaker 4>Or In's mystery opponent, and who could it be? At
<v Speaker 4>first I thought it was rusive. A lot of people
<v Speaker 4>thought it was gonna be rusive. Some people may say
<v Speaker 4>it might have been the general manager of.
<v Speaker 2>SmackDown, mister Nick Ortis, but we didn't get that. We
<v Speaker 2>did not get any of these guys.
<v Speaker 4>To be Randy or in mystery opponent, as this was
<v Speaker 4>Randy or.
<v Speaker 2>In's twentieth WrestleMania, So who could it be?
<v Speaker 1>Now?
<v Speaker 4>I must say this, doing the course of where we're
<v Speaker 4>trying to find out who is this mystery opponent?
<v Speaker 2>My internet got shut down again.
<v Speaker 4>I don't know what's going on, but we got this
<v Speaker 4>kind of weird internet signal where I'm living at and
<v Speaker 4>my internet connection just went on. And as my internet
<v Speaker 4>connection came back on, I guess you could say two
<v Speaker 4>three minutes later, I heard the song.
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't believe it myself.
<v Speaker 6>And sixty one thousand wrestling fans and casual wrestling.
<v Speaker 5>Fans or whoever that was there at Las.
<v Speaker 4>Vegasavadas to witness this, got to see none of the Dead.
<v Speaker 6>Shoe Henry, the TNA World Champion naked an appearance as
<v Speaker 6>the mystery opponent for Radney Ord.
<v Speaker 2>And it sounded something like this.
<v Speaker 7>Canada says, day, Well, I don't believe.
<v Speaker 2>That's Joe Hendre.
<v Speaker 1>It he appears.
<v Speaker 8>I'll tell you what.
<v Speaker 2>The people say. They believe it Joe Hendras.
<v Speaker 3>Joe Hendre is gonna have to believe that Joe Hendre.
<v Speaker 5>More than he's ever done.
<v Speaker 2>And that's right, ladies and gentlemen, you heard the call.
<v Speaker 6>Joe Hendry made an appearance at WrestleMania forty one, the
<v Speaker 6>first time a TNA World champion making an appearance at
<v Speaker 6>a WrestleMania. This is breaking news for t NA, a
<v Speaker 6>huge lift for Joe Hendry for over the years and
<v Speaker 6>wrestling different types of indie promotions and now on a
<v Speaker 6>stage like this, to see Joe Hendry, it brought a
<v Speaker 6>tear to my eye and I was so happy because
<v Speaker 6>I never thought that Joe Hendry was going to make
<v Speaker 6>an appearance.
<v Speaker 2>You know, it was shocking to me.
<v Speaker 4>It was surprising to me, and it was so excited
<v Speaker 4>to see Joe Hendry in front of a crowd of
<v Speaker 4>sixty one thousand people.
<v Speaker 6>Yes, he did make an appearance at the roy Rubbo
<v Speaker 6>and that was in front of a crowd of seventy
<v Speaker 6>thousand people, but a crowd of sixty one thousand people
<v Speaker 6>that sang along to his music.
<v Speaker 2>Obviously they know who Joe Hendry is and his music
<v Speaker 2>is so catchy.
<v Speaker 4>Randyoran as he was observing Joe Henry as he was
<v Speaker 4>coming to the ring, he was like, man, I like
<v Speaker 4>this guy.
<v Speaker 2>You know, he has this kind of charisma.
<v Speaker 6>Everybody loves him and everybody is singing along to Joe
<v Speaker 6>Hendry's music as everybody. It was in a discord comment
<v Speaker 6>and about this and I saw mats comment I was
<v Speaker 6>telling about this moment right here I would cherish for
<v Speaker 6>the rest of my life. But before we get to
<v Speaker 6>what happened, I.
<v Speaker 4>Must also mention that Dino from Scotland had an idea
<v Speaker 4>of possibly, just possibly.
<v Speaker 2>That Joe Hendry might be.
<v Speaker 4>In a match against Raddy Oran at Backlash on May tenth.
<v Speaker 2>But I like the idea by Dino.
<v Speaker 4>Shout out to Dino from Scotland. I appreciate the comment
<v Speaker 4>and maybe we might get another matchup between him and
<v Speaker 4>Randy Oran, or maybe a triple threat of John Cena
<v Speaker 4>Joe Hendry at Raddy or at Backlash. But now let's
<v Speaker 4>get to the match and so which lasted three minutes
<v Speaker 4>and ten seconds.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, it only lasted but that short.
<v Speaker 4>Amount of time, but that's all that was needed to
<v Speaker 4>get Joe Heady exposure in front of sixty one thousand people.
<v Speaker 4>And I gotta say afterward, Joe Hendry went for the
<v Speaker 4>fallaway slam and then of course.
<v Speaker 6>The most important kip up. He always loves to do
<v Speaker 6>the kip up and he wants to do the spin.
<v Speaker 2>We get the RKO, Randy Ord hits the.
<v Speaker 6>RKO out of nowhere and one two three, Randy Or
<v Speaker 6>gets the victory.
<v Speaker 2>As Joe Hendry is lying.
<v Speaker 4>On the mat postmatch, we see Randy Orton trying to
<v Speaker 4>consult none of that dian Joe Hendry to say good job. Kid,
<v Speaker 4>points to the crowd and he says, you did this,
<v Speaker 4>Joe Hendry, you did this. You are over by the fans,
<v Speaker 4>by the people that are singing your song, by the people.
<v Speaker 2>That believe in you.
<v Speaker 4>And then as he continues again, he gives Joe Hendry
<v Speaker 4>another RKO as he lays him out on the mat
<v Speaker 4>and says, all right, kid, that's enough, and he hits
<v Speaker 4>his music. And I love the fact that Randy Or
<v Speaker 4>did the Joe Hendry little spin that he does, and
<v Speaker 4>of course he does his little hands stretched out to
<v Speaker 4>kind of top off this twentieth WrestleMania for Randy Ort,
<v Speaker 4>he has a match against Joe Hendry. In the press
<v Speaker 4>conference itself, Triple H mentions that this was kind of
<v Speaker 4>like a strange idea of where to place this person,
<v Speaker 4>this mystery opponed to face Radiord. You know, after the
<v Speaker 4>seriousness of diffub between him and Kevin Owens, who was
<v Speaker 4>going to be this person and how would they want
<v Speaker 4>to put this person to face Randy Or because of
<v Speaker 4>the few that he have with Kevin Oles. This was
<v Speaker 4>a great showing for Joe Hendry for TNA. Triple Ah
<v Speaker 4>didn't say that he's going to be doing many more
<v Speaker 4>wrestle Manias to come. Now, this could be a lot
<v Speaker 4>of possibilities for Joe Hendry, especially where his contract is
<v Speaker 4>about to come to an end towards the tail end
<v Speaker 4>of the summer. Now, with that being said and a
<v Speaker 4>whole lot of excitement, Triple Ah believes in Joe Hendriy
<v Speaker 4>randiord believes in Joe Hendry. I know you believe in
<v Speaker 4>Joe Hendry. I believe in Joe Hendry. The whole wrestling
<v Speaker 4>world believes in Joe Hendry. Always remember to believe.
<v Speaker 2>Say his name. Always remember the words that Joe Hendry says.
<v Speaker 4>Every time, any place, at any show, and most and poorly,
<v Speaker 4>as we witness this unbelievable appearance, always remember to do
<v Speaker 4>this strong say since we to Hendry, just one more thing,
<v Speaker 4>just one more thing I want to mention here. Joe
<v Speaker 4>Hendry was on NXT this past Tuesday night, and it
<v Speaker 4>seems like there might be a matchup against him and
<v Speaker 4>the NXT champion Oba Fami somewhere in the near future.
<v Speaker 4>Jay is gonna mention this on his NXT review show,
<v Speaker 4>So stay tuned.
<v Speaker 5>For that and let's get to the outro. See you later.
<v Speaker 5>Once again, this is your guy, DJ Couzmo. Have a
<v Speaker 5>blessed week. Be kai to one of those stays in
<v Speaker 5>my friends. Believe and peace.
<v Speaker 3>All right, DJ, well, you deserve that. It is a
<v Speaker 3>long and voicemail. Yes, but it was a moment that
<v Speaker 3>it was the biggest moment of Joe Hendry's career and
<v Speaker 3>again you follow and keep us updated on him. And
<v Speaker 3>you've been doing a great job or the last many months,
<v Speaker 3>you know, before he even really came onto the main roster.
<v Speaker 3>You've been keeping an eye on him, and I appreciate it.
<v Speaker 3>And uh, what I wish I could have seen was
<v Speaker 3>you and and the lit like a live cam on
<v Speaker 3>you as Joe Hendry appeared. Because I don't know who
<v Speaker 3>said his name. We still don't know the culprit. Somebody
<v Speaker 3>uttered his name. We're gonna get to the bottom of it.
<v Speaker 3>So whoever that is, uh, it's definitely uh you know,
<v Speaker 3>credit to them, So we will find you whoever mentioned
<v Speaker 3>Joe Hendry's name. Well he appeared, so we will hunt
<v Speaker 3>you down, whoever whoever did that. Uh, So, thank you
<v Speaker 3>so much, DJ, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Again, I
<v Speaker 3>wish I could have seen your face and action with
<v Speaker 3>Joe Hendry's music Hit to Face Randy Orton so and
<v Speaker 3>as a record this just so you know, I haven't
<v Speaker 3>seen raw. I always let you know that or rather SmackDown.
<v Speaker 3>I'm sorry that's coming to you tomorrow. But we do
<v Speaker 3>have Johnson and Randy Orton face to face, and that's
<v Speaker 3>an interesting dynamic for the first time. From what I understand,
<v Speaker 3>Randy Orton and John Cena are going to be in
<v Speaker 3>their final match. It's going to be their final match
<v Speaker 3>at Backlash ever, and I'm all for it. Well, you
<v Speaker 3>talk about a nostalgic match that can still somewhat live
<v Speaker 3>up to the hype at least Randy and Ken. He
<v Speaker 3>just is ageless. John Cena is a step slower, and hey,
<v Speaker 3>I don't know, he's been out of the ring, not
<v Speaker 3>there full time by any means, and he's but forty
<v Speaker 3>five years old, so I mean, hey, they're forty five
<v Speaker 3>forty eight. I'll have to check. But anyway, I'm gonna
<v Speaker 3>look forward to it. And people can complain about Randy
<v Speaker 3>Orton and Johnson all day. It's yes, it was a
<v Speaker 3>pro that was incredibly overdone and almost you got sick
<v Speaker 3>of it, but they work so well together and this
<v Speaker 3>is the last time we'll ever see them, at least
<v Speaker 3>as opponents. So thanks DJ, and let's get to the
<v Speaker 3>next one.
<v Speaker 9>Asks French guy here, you're current European champion. All right, guys,
<v Speaker 9>I am convinced that the Rock had to show up
<v Speaker 9>at WrestleMania instead of Travis Scott, or with Travis Scott
<v Speaker 9>for the last spot and distract Cody Rhods and have
<v Speaker 9>him lose.
<v Speaker 10>The title against John Cena.
<v Speaker 9>But because I don't know any reason, money reason, contract reason,
<v Speaker 9>commitment reason, the Rock didn't show up.
<v Speaker 10>And we had Travis Scott instead.
<v Speaker 9>I am one hundred percent, one hundred percent convinced of
<v Speaker 9>this because it doesn't make any sense storyline wise, equity wise.
<v Speaker 9>Having The Rock show up does make a little more
<v Speaker 9>a publicity for WWE, and I am convinced that that
<v Speaker 9>was the initial plan and for any other reason, for
<v Speaker 9>I don't know any reason, it didn't have to show,
<v Speaker 9>it didn't.
<v Speaker 10>Show up, and that's disappointing.
<v Speaker 9>One of the other reasons I am convinced of that
<v Speaker 9>is I saw a video of someone in the Superstar
<v Speaker 9>WrestleMania superstore showing a T shirt written on it the
<v Speaker 9>Rock has finally come back to Las Vegas. That's why
<v Speaker 9>I am one hundred percent convinced, and that proves it
<v Speaker 9>that The Rock had to show up at WrestleMania.
<v Speaker 10>It didn't.
<v Speaker 9>I don't know why exactly, We won't know why exactly,
<v Speaker 9>but that's a that's a pity. That's a pity, guys.
<v Speaker 9>I don't know what I say. I'm disappointed about the
<v Speaker 9>Rock and Wayne. I wanted to have, you know, just
<v Speaker 9>a marquing matchup, just to face off the Rock versus
<v Speaker 9>Roman reigns last year. This year, then you have the
<v Speaker 9>final Boss deazing over with another storyline. Fine is fine,
<v Speaker 9>but then you have you know, Dwayne Johnson not committing
<v Speaker 9>one hundred percent, not one hundred percent, not even committing
<v Speaker 9>for ten minutes to wrestle Mania or ten percent or
<v Speaker 9>five percent of his time to you know, deliver on
<v Speaker 9>you know, a company that he has equity in, a
<v Speaker 9>company that built the start that he is and uh,
<v Speaker 9>you know, to to us fan in a general way
<v Speaker 9>and to having you know, having some advertisement for us on.
<v Speaker 10>The general way on his name as well.
<v Speaker 9>Disappointed, disappointed, But for now I'm not expecting nothing from
<v Speaker 9>the Rock and you can hear it in my voice
<v Speaker 9>as much as I am the Rock fan.
<v Speaker 3>Bye, guys, good to hear from me, Alex good good,
<v Speaker 3>good as always, and seeing that shirt definite would would
<v Speaker 3>convince you. But I mean to me though that that
<v Speaker 3>would be a somewhat it'd be somewhat of a strong
<v Speaker 3>piece of evidence that the Rock would be there. But also,
<v Speaker 3>I mean sometimes there's miscommunications between you know, in the
<v Speaker 3>business where they assume the Rock was going to be
<v Speaker 3>there and no one then told, you know, the merchandising team, hey,
<v Speaker 3>Rocks like going to be there, stop making the shirt.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I don't know, I'm not sure. But there's
<v Speaker 3>also times you can I mean, you can go to
<v Speaker 3>any show and still see like Dallas three sixteen, or
<v Speaker 3>any show, any city you go to, it's Chicago three sixteen.
<v Speaker 3>They still sell you know, Austin three sixteen T shirts
<v Speaker 3>with three six just the name of the city. But
<v Speaker 3>three sixteen. You know, that's not a lot of people
<v Speaker 3>aren't thinking, oh my god, Austin's going to be here
<v Speaker 3>because they're selling an Austin T shirt. But that that's
<v Speaker 3>a little more convincing. It's saying, you know, like, hey,
<v Speaker 3>the Rock is going to be here. So I do
<v Speaker 3>think that that is a bit of a tell as well,
<v Speaker 3>that the Rock was supposed to and then things changed.
<v Speaker 3>It's also doesn't make sense from just a business perspective,
<v Speaker 3>while the Rock was in there, he can talk all
<v Speaker 3>the way all the all day. He wants about Oh,
<v Speaker 3>it was about seeing his seventeenth and that should be
<v Speaker 3>the focus. Yeah, okay, it could have been. But he's
<v Speaker 3>very He's a smart guy. Dwayne is smart. He wouldn't
<v Speaker 3>get to the place he's at and have the success
<v Speaker 3>that he's had if his IQ was room temperature. The
<v Speaker 3>guy is smart. He knows how to speak around things.
<v Speaker 3>He's adapted very well to the corporate speak, the Hollywood speak,
<v Speaker 3>the political speak. He knows how to say things without
<v Speaker 3>saying things. As I mentioned this, he can't say anything directly.
<v Speaker 3>Everything has to be explained circled it like circles the drain.
<v Speaker 3>He knows how to do that and add words that
<v Speaker 3>don't need to be there, like he's trying to hit
<v Speaker 3>a word count instead of just speaking directly. He doesn't
<v Speaker 3>speak directly about anything. Everything now is especially when again
<v Speaker 3>you get him off camera or you get him in
<v Speaker 3>just an interview where he's just Dwayne, and my god,
<v Speaker 3>it's hard. You can't. You have to sift through ninety
<v Speaker 3>percent of what he says to get a real sense
<v Speaker 3>of the essence of his an sir. But my point is,
<v Speaker 3>given he's a smart guy. How could he not think
<v Speaker 3>that it would be better for business if he was
<v Speaker 3>there for WrestleMania. He's talking about ticket sales and all
<v Speaker 3>that for eliminated Chamber. Well, WrestleMania did not sell out.
<v Speaker 3>They was having issues, and you don't think that advertising
<v Speaker 3>the Rock to be there would have been a good thing. No,
<v Speaker 3>it would have been, and it probably would have drove
<v Speaker 3>ticket prices up even higher. So I don't want to
<v Speaker 3>hear even from just a money perspective, if that's all
<v Speaker 3>they were motivated by. You know, hey, having the biggest
<v Speaker 3>star in the world, one of the biggest stars in
<v Speaker 3>wrestling ever there, you don't think that would have helped
<v Speaker 3>at the same time helping get over John Cena's seventeenth
<v Speaker 3>title win. And again it's also if he's like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>I wanted to be the focus on John Well, John's
<v Speaker 3>not an up and coming star, He's not a young buck.
<v Speaker 3>You don't need to make it about John Cena. You
<v Speaker 3>could have it be a side show with yourself, but
<v Speaker 3>since you're the core of the story, you not being
<v Speaker 3>there is just it's it's one of the biggest flubs
<v Speaker 3>in pro wrestling that I've ever seen ever because of
<v Speaker 3>the stage, especially that this was on the build of
<v Speaker 3>this match. No one mentions Rock all the way up
<v Speaker 3>to WrestleMania, except like once in Passing. But the Rock
<v Speaker 3>couldn't even be bothered to be there, to stand on
<v Speaker 3>stage and stare or hold up the hand of Johnson afterwards.
<v Speaker 3>Like people would still be a little annoyed, but they
<v Speaker 3>could have, I think, dealt with it at least. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>he showed up. You know, it's just it's it's really
<v Speaker 3>an unimaginable decision. What is the reason is? I mean,
<v Speaker 3>I'd like to take all the corporate speak away and
<v Speaker 3>just shove truth, steer him down Dwayne's throat, so he
<v Speaker 3>couldn't say a bunch of fluff. And I'd be like, hey,
<v Speaker 3>why didn't you show up? And I think he'd probably say,
<v Speaker 3>I've got a lot of creative differences with Paul devec
<v Speaker 3>We didn't see eye to eye on this, uh, and
<v Speaker 3>we decided as best I just don't come. And I
<v Speaker 3>think that's probably what he'd say, and he, you know,
<v Speaker 3>you'd say, obviously the decision was a bad one. Again,
<v Speaker 3>this is if he had true serum. The fans were
<v Speaker 3>rightly frustrated, and you know, we'll do better next time.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, that's what he should say. Just be honest.
<v Speaker 3>He's making it worse by speaking around the issue, not
<v Speaker 3>directly to it, and then telling the fans just like
<v Speaker 3>Triple H did that basically f off you guys, you
<v Speaker 3>know you'd never been in a ring or whatever you
<v Speaker 3>you uh, you know, just enjoy the product, which is
<v Speaker 3>such a just such a lame, disrespectful thing to say, honestly. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I mean, name another product, service, or entertainment venue or
<v Speaker 3>medium that says no, just take what we give you
<v Speaker 3>and like it. Give us your money too, by the way,
<v Speaker 3>And if you're gonna speak about it, only speak about
<v Speaker 3>it in positive uh you know, positive words. Don't don't
<v Speaker 3>don't criticize us. Are these people that soft? Are their
<v Speaker 3>egos that big that they can't handle fans when they,
<v Speaker 3>especially in Unison, decided that that something sucks, wouldn't they
<v Speaker 3>want to know? It's not fun to hear it, but
<v Speaker 3>at least they'll go, hey, yeah, we kind of screw
<v Speaker 3>up here. No for next time, all right, thank you, Alex. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and let's continue.
<v Speaker 11>Hey, Matt Bradon Flarda just got finished watching the main
<v Speaker 11>event of WrestleMania, and you know, I just wanted to say,
<v Speaker 11>you know, for all these fans who think it's so
<v Speaker 11>cool that you know Sina one, and you know they're
<v Speaker 11>giving Cody the finger and booing Cody out of the building. Listen,
<v Speaker 11>I'm not a gigantic Cody Roads fan, but i will
<v Speaker 11>tell you this, that was not worthy of a main event.
<v Speaker 11>John Cena cannot carry a main event, but he can
<v Speaker 11>barely carry a match. I'll tell you Cody Rhodes versus
<v Speaker 11>Goldberg would have been a better match. Cody Roads versus
<v Speaker 11>Tazawa would have been a way better match.
<v Speaker 12>There is no excuse.
<v Speaker 11>I'm I'm happy that those chants, those fans who were
<v Speaker 11>booing Cody and giving him the finger and booing him
<v Speaker 11>out of the building every time he tried to, you know,
<v Speaker 11>get the crowd a little bit going or whatever.
<v Speaker 12>You want to boo him, you want to give him
<v Speaker 12>the finger.
<v Speaker 11>You've got the exact diarrhea of garbage shit main event
<v Speaker 11>that you that you deserved. And I'm glad you got
<v Speaker 11>that main event because I'm glad you paid eight seven, six,
<v Speaker 11>ten thousand dollars whatever you paid to see that and
<v Speaker 11>to watch that as your main event, because it was
<v Speaker 11>the worst main event in the history of WrestleMania, and
<v Speaker 11>I feel bad for Cody Rhodes that he even had
<v Speaker 11>to be associated with that garbage because Sena can't do anything. Yes,
<v Speaker 11>Sina can't do anything. It was garbage he wanted by cheating.
<v Speaker 11>I understand this is all part of you know, the game.
<v Speaker 11>You know, this is all an act whatever. I understand.
<v Speaker 11>But at the end of the day, people say, oh, Roman,
<v Speaker 11>he's cheats to win. Yeah, when he cheated to win here, Hey,
<v Speaker 11>I hope you're happy now. WWE Corporate can trot out Sina.
<v Speaker 11>I'm Today's Show and This and People and Entertainment Weekly
<v Speaker 11>and everyone can say, oh, Jensena is the champion. That's
<v Speaker 11>real cool. Guys, you know you think Cody Rhodse is
<v Speaker 11>so uncool. I'll tell you who's real young, cool, old, balding, pale, ugly,
<v Speaker 11>big nosed, weird John Cena, Corporate Illuminati, Hollywood John Cena.
<v Speaker 11>What an absolute joke. Anyone cheering for this guy at
<v Speaker 11>this point an absolute disgrace.
<v Speaker 3>Bye, Brad. I love the directly after the moment voicemails,
<v Speaker 3>which is what we're getting here, because you haven't even
<v Speaker 3>had time to digest it. You just you called right
<v Speaker 3>after the main event is I love it. I love it.
<v Speaker 3>I would imagine that you still generally feel the same
<v Speaker 3>about this. I'm sure that you haven't really changed your
<v Speaker 3>opinion on the finish, especially given with the Rock said,
<v Speaker 3>and not just to Pat McAfee, not just not showing up,
<v Speaker 3>but then his response to Dave Legreca about criticizing him
<v Speaker 3>and all this. Yeah, but as far as taking even
<v Speaker 3>the Rock out of the situation, as you said that
<v Speaker 3>the main event minus the absence of the Rock was
<v Speaker 3>just not good. I actually didn't think. I'm not as
<v Speaker 3>low on the match quality as you were. I thought
<v Speaker 3>it was okay. But the problem is, I guess if
<v Speaker 3>you put it through the lens of what a WrestleMania
<v Speaker 3>main event should be, then yeah, it was really bad.
<v Speaker 3>If it was just a standard Monday night raw match,
<v Speaker 3>I think you would agree, it'd be like, okay. So
<v Speaker 3>maybe I need to lower my standard or lower my
<v Speaker 3>grading of that because the standards are higher when it's WrestleMania,
<v Speaker 3>much less the main event of WrestleMania. So yeah, the
<v Speaker 3>match was not particularly special and John Cena winning and
<v Speaker 3>it sounds obviously like you are not in the camp
<v Speaker 3>of John Cen. I'm gonna just take a stab in
<v Speaker 3>the dark that you are not a John Cena fan
<v Speaker 3>and supporter. Yeah, Cody Roads does deserve better in terms
<v Speaker 3>of match quality. Yeah, sure, John Sceene has been out
<v Speaker 3>of the game for a while, but I think we
<v Speaker 3>all would have forgiven a little bit if the again,
<v Speaker 3>if the Rock was there, I think, if you know,
<v Speaker 3>if Austin had shown up, and if they had both
<v Speaker 3>gotten involved and there was a stunnard of the Rock,
<v Speaker 3>which I know wouldn't have totally fixed everything, but it
<v Speaker 3>would have subverted our attention in a big way to
<v Speaker 3>this matchup. And it's just terrible storytelling and having John
<v Speaker 3>Cena win, I actually don't I don't hate it. I
<v Speaker 3>understand why they did it. I actually, despite the fact
<v Speaker 3>that you hate him, I agree that John Cena should
<v Speaker 3>have won the seventeen because you are really making the
<v Speaker 3>most of his final year. I mean, this is it
<v Speaker 3>and if that's it, this is this is what you're doing.
<v Speaker 3>And I agree with the decision. It's just how they
<v Speaker 3>got there that was just god awful. And but Cody
<v Speaker 3>deserves better. He would never say that though you would
<v Speaker 3>never ever, ever, ever catch Cody ever saying right now
<v Speaker 3>that yeah, look this, I'm sure what he's really thinking
<v Speaker 3>if you were able to magnify his inner thoughts is man,
<v Speaker 3>that sucked. You know, I liked on but god, dang,
<v Speaker 3>like this is a This is a b. This is
<v Speaker 3>awful for WrestleMania and WrestleMania Maine event. This is embarrassing.
<v Speaker 3>I deserve better than this. I can be better than this.
<v Speaker 3>And you know, I'm working with a guy that's ultralimited
<v Speaker 3>in the ring and he's he's He's totally right. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>Cody Roads is. I can be the first one to
<v Speaker 3>admit while I don't appreciate and don't like his babyface character,
<v Speaker 3>and it was especially on display of how he was.
<v Speaker 3>He essentially he's too nice of a guy, and it
<v Speaker 3>actually cost him the match, which is what people aren't
<v Speaker 3>talking about enough, you know that. But putting that aside,
<v Speaker 3>you know, Cody Roads does deserve better despite the fact
<v Speaker 3>that I don't particularly like his character. His his character
<v Speaker 3>did deserve better. And yeah, it was. It will forever
<v Speaker 3>be lauded as one of the worst main events of
<v Speaker 3>all time, and w W we can pretend it's not.
<v Speaker 3>They're nobody in nobody publicly is going to say right
<v Speaker 3>now how terrible that was. Maybe down the line in
<v Speaker 3>five six years, when there's documentaries about it, things will
<v Speaker 3>change and you'll hear people, yeah, we know it wasn't
<v Speaker 3>the best thing. It'll come out. But they can't do
<v Speaker 3>that right now. Right now. It is damage control right now,
<v Speaker 3>and damage control, and it's just move on, divert their
<v Speaker 3>attention to something else. So thanks Brad, Let's go to
<v Speaker 3>our next one.
<v Speaker 13>Oh hey man, it's seven year from Australia. Mate, hope
<v Speaker 13>you been well with the Yeah, WrestleMania. I even before
<v Speaker 13>Night one was on Mania Saturday, I was like, this
<v Speaker 13>doesn't have any form of interest to me. Set for
<v Speaker 13>the final the final main event of it, so which
<v Speaker 13>was great. But other than that, I so Not one
<v Speaker 13>was a bit of a bust. But I watched it
<v Speaker 13>two days later because we were camping so was away
<v Speaker 13>from all things electronic, which was great. So I'll watched
<v Speaker 13>WrestleMania Not one probably in about half an hour, just
<v Speaker 13>blossed over and just watched them the final match, which
<v Speaker 13>is good. Yeah, not too was sensational. I loved it
<v Speaker 13>that self, Like WrestleMania. The other one just felt like a.
<v Speaker 13>It's like a bloody SmackDown, to be honest, or I
<v Speaker 13>just don't tell you this. I watched the Row after
<v Speaker 13>WrestleMania last night, and I'm not sure if you would
<v Speaker 13>have watched the whole show or not if you're just
<v Speaker 13>looking at the highlights, but there was a sign near
<v Speaker 13>the front that said, hey, Dwayne, get back to work.
<v Speaker 13>I thought that was really classic. So it was obviously
<v Speaker 13>referring to the Rock just basically being absence and elimination chamber,
<v Speaker 13>and it just sucks. I mean, I don't get it.
<v Speaker 13>But anyway, I heard your rant on that too, so
<v Speaker 13>I don't get it. And I don't know what that
<v Speaker 13>spear dag of t Scott's doing there, so he just
<v Speaker 13>has smacked me written all over. It's just in real life,
<v Speaker 13>to be honest. But anyway, I just wanted to point
<v Speaker 13>out that sign because I think it disappeared after about
<v Speaker 13>the first ten minutes. Obviously security or whatever came around
<v Speaker 13>and got them to remove it. So yeah, but I
<v Speaker 13>thought that was very hilarious and very apt. Anyway, I
<v Speaker 13>hope you will. How do you enjoyed your Whstlemania week?
<v Speaker 13>Another one done?
<v Speaker 4>Hey?
<v Speaker 3>Or Evan?
<v Speaker 1>Well?
<v Speaker 3>I hope camping was good for you. That's that sounds
<v Speaker 3>like a cleansing. Uh, you know, a cleansing experience with
<v Speaker 3>your family. I mean, you just know electronics because when
<v Speaker 3>you think about it, once smartphones, once the iPhone came out,
<v Speaker 3>and you know, everyone had the world in their pocket.
<v Speaker 3>Since that time where they became mainstream, that's when we
<v Speaker 3>carried around with us all the time. It's an extension
<v Speaker 3>of ourselves like it's it's almost an extra appendage of
<v Speaker 3>our bodies that were all just glued to these glowing
<v Speaker 3>boxes all the time, and we forget that that actually
<v Speaker 3>takes us out of the moment. We forget that it
<v Speaker 3>actually doesn't allow us to be present. It's always like
<v Speaker 3>we're somewhere else, our brains somewhere else. And for it
<v Speaker 3>to be removed from electronics, I think we all should do.
<v Speaker 3>It's easier said than done. I'm not saying I'm just
<v Speaker 3>gonna I'm gonna get up and you know, go live
<v Speaker 3>in the woods for the next week. But it's got
<v Speaker 3>to be a very I'm not trying to get too
<v Speaker 3>deeper psychoanalyze the whole thing, but a very introspective type
<v Speaker 3>of experience where you're just like, Wow, this is life
<v Speaker 3>without this is what it was like before I my
<v Speaker 3>life was taken over by a phone right that said
<v Speaker 3>onto the wrestling stuff. I did see that sign. I
<v Speaker 3>just didn't mention it because you're smarter than me, and
<v Speaker 3>you mentioned it for me because I forgot I saw it.
<v Speaker 3>And here's what I would encourage. I would encourage anyone
<v Speaker 3>go into a show to put the sign up. Anything
<v Speaker 3>that says something to that effect, Dwayne get back to work.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, be creative with it, or just wears rock
<v Speaker 3>you know something. I mean, somebody can come up with
<v Speaker 3>something funnier, nothing that is offensive or could actually get
<v Speaker 3>you booted out of the arena, of course, but I'd
<v Speaker 3>be very interested. And anybody that gets it on screen,
<v Speaker 3>I'll have you. I'll have you come on the show
<v Speaker 3>and if you want to talk, we can talk. I
<v Speaker 3>will put a bounty, a good bounty, not one that's
<v Speaker 3>you know, harmful, on anybody who wants to get on camera,
<v Speaker 3>on the camera side and have that sign appear multiple
<v Speaker 3>times during the show where it's very prominent. I'll get
<v Speaker 3>you on the show. We can talk about Moneynet, Raw
<v Speaker 3>or smack Down, whichever show you went to, we'll have
<v Speaker 3>you on all right, because I I I need that
<v Speaker 3>on the show. I'm sure WWE, even though it's not offensive,
<v Speaker 3>do probably confiscate those signs. But I so if you
<v Speaker 3>do this, you'll get it, you'll be able to come
<v Speaker 3>on the show. But also you're going in knowing your
<v Speaker 3>sign is probably gonna get confiscated with that on there,
<v Speaker 3>and I'll be interested to hear what they say, what
<v Speaker 3>security says, like why why are you taking this? Why
<v Speaker 3>can't I show this again?
<v Speaker 13>Uh?
<v Speaker 3>If that's the case, that is, if that if that
<v Speaker 3>sign got confiscated, or if people try and they continue
<v Speaker 3>to get confiscated, if that's happening, that is a sad
<v Speaker 3>state of affairs in we that you are that worried
<v Speaker 3>about what people say about the product that you put
<v Speaker 3>out that you don't want people to even make signs
<v Speaker 3>about it because they're not allowed to. I just I'd
<v Speaker 3>love to, you know what I mean, Like, it's they're
<v Speaker 3>so soft now, their egos are so fragile that how
<v Speaker 3>dare any fan say that? I mean, if it's overtly offensive,
<v Speaker 3>it's a racial slur, if it's you know, a bad word, fine, sure,
<v Speaker 3>yeah you can't bring that sign. You know, we understand that.
<v Speaker 3>But if it's just WWE's in effectiveness to tell the
<v Speaker 3>story and capitalizing on a viral event of people just
<v Speaker 3>hammering the rock and triple h for this awful main event,
<v Speaker 3>which is kind of also a shame too, because it's
<v Speaker 3>overshadowing a lot of the good work that was done
<v Speaker 3>at WrestleMania, like the Night one main event, like most
<v Speaker 3>of Night two, like l A. Knight and Fatu. It's
<v Speaker 3>a shame because I'm sure everybody's like, god, dang, Like
<v Speaker 3>you know, everyone's sitting there bitching and moaning about the
<v Speaker 3>main event at Night two, and you know what about me.
<v Speaker 3>Everyone's just too focused on on the garbage main event
<v Speaker 3>and you're not. They're not. You know, that's taking a
<v Speaker 3>focus away from my match, which I'd be feeling the
<v Speaker 3>same way. So there is that, But uh, thank you Bevan.
<v Speaker 3>Let's do one or two more. We'll see.
<v Speaker 12>Hey, it's the Wise. It's been a minute, actually it's
<v Speaker 12>been several months. Anyways, I'm calling to talk about WrestleMania
<v Speaker 12>and this past we all Wressemania, just the corning have
<v Speaker 12>some great highlights, but not very many the triple threat
<v Speaker 12>match the first night was great Dom winning. I see
<v Speaker 12>title was great. Outside of that, everything else and back attire. Please,
<v Speaker 12>it's a good match, but like I said, everything else
<v Speaker 12>is gonna. Hey, I'm good with EO keeping the title.
<v Speaker 12>I know you said you really liked what Charlie Player did,
<v Speaker 12>but I thought that match was terrible. She looks terrible
<v Speaker 12>and I don't need it the like dog on her.
<v Speaker 12>I just feel like she's done something to herself and
<v Speaker 12>make herself, say too skinnier. Her outfit, costume, whatever ring
<v Speaker 12>attire she wears, feels like it's a loose on her.
<v Speaker 12>She's a beard. Anyways, I didn't think she looked that
<v Speaker 12>good in the ring. I didn't think that match was
<v Speaker 12>very good, and I ain't glad that Depity won. But no,
<v Speaker 12>Monday Night fantastic. Honestly, I don't think you really pushed
<v Speaker 12>it big enough on your podcast. Uh, because Monday Night
<v Speaker 12>Raw is amazing. Monday Night Raw, Where's us coming back?
<v Speaker 12>Orton giving the r KO Castina fantastic and then hopefully
<v Speaker 12>faction with Seth, Rowlins and Breaker and Hayman amazing. The
<v Speaker 12>worst part about your your review on Raw is that
<v Speaker 12>you just I don't disagree with all the complaints you have.
<v Speaker 12>It's just that you do it too much. You complain
<v Speaker 12>about the same thing too much. You complaining about the
<v Speaker 12>same thing on you were reviews for Lesslemania as you
<v Speaker 12>did on Raw. And it's just like, dude, I've already
<v Speaker 12>heard you say all this. I don't need to hear
<v Speaker 12>you say it again. I agree with you. I don't
<v Speaker 12>want to spend half my time and listening to your
<v Speaker 12>review that's supposed to be on Raw about all your
<v Speaker 12>problems with everything, but you already said all of it.
<v Speaker 12>Let it go, move on, Let's say just a little
<v Speaker 12>bit more time. And the law was really really good anyway,
<v Speaker 12>y'all take care. This is the laws out.
<v Speaker 3>Oh it's good to hear you, Wis. I appreciate all
<v Speaker 3>of those kind words and compliments about my show, but
<v Speaker 3>if you don't anything about me. Here here's the mistake
<v Speaker 3>people make. Man, here's the mistake. When people have issues
<v Speaker 3>with things I do, I tend to want to do
<v Speaker 3>them more. So you're gonna be very disappointed when you
<v Speaker 3>hear that. I'm probably gonna continue to complain about the
<v Speaker 3>things that still exist because the problems are still there. Uh,
<v Speaker 3>so there's that. I mean, for better or worse. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>that's just kind of what I do. And that's why
<v Speaker 3>my brand is not for everybody. Tons of other shows,
<v Speaker 3>tons of other podcasts out there that hopefully don't upset
<v Speaker 3>you that they repeat things, and there there's a lot
<v Speaker 3>of mouth that I'm not not being a jerk about it,
<v Speaker 3>just being honest. Like, you know, there's the skip button.
<v Speaker 3>You can also fast forward. You know you're not sitting
<v Speaker 3>there being forced to listen to everything I say. You
<v Speaker 3>can go, oh god, here it goes on this thing
<v Speaker 3>that'll probably be another ten minutes and skip ahead pretty easy.
<v Speaker 3>There's your solution. There's your solution. Man. You just kind
<v Speaker 3>of skip then you'll be good, or just don't listen.
<v Speaker 3>And I mean that genuinely. If you if people don't
<v Speaker 3>like my show, and if I don't like stuff, I
<v Speaker 3>just don't listen to it, or if I do, I
<v Speaker 3>don't want to critique it, then I do. I do
<v Speaker 3>that too, as you were doing. But honestly, though, if
<v Speaker 3>if anybody just doesn't like my brand of stuff, and yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I repeat myself, I do. Yeah, I admit that that's
<v Speaker 3>something I do that at times. I wish I didn't
<v Speaker 3>do so much, but it's just kind of my thing.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I'm not going to pretend to do something
<v Speaker 3>that I'm I don't know. I'm all about just kind
<v Speaker 3>of being me and that's the the way it is.
<v Speaker 3>But said was outside of that, and I genuinely mean that,
<v Speaker 3>I'm not trying to be a jerk if you really,
<v Speaker 3>you know, I appreciate I do, actually underneath all that,
<v Speaker 3>appreciate the the criticism about it, like, hey, I've heard
<v Speaker 3>you say this enough move on, because I've heard that
<v Speaker 3>from several people. I mean, I genuinely do. I'm fine
<v Speaker 3>with constructive criticism. I also, at the same time feel like, okay, well,
<v Speaker 3>you know, there's tons of other shows out there. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>I listened to all the good ones. I do listen
<v Speaker 3>to Busted Open occasionally. I used to listen to The
<v Speaker 3>Torch religiously, Jason Powell Pro Wrestling. That is great. He's
<v Speaker 3>got a great analysis. I used to listen to what
<v Speaker 3>was the other one, Ring Rust Radio, but then they
<v Speaker 3>kind of fell off for me. They were I am
<v Speaker 3>not a big fan of their podcast and haven't been
<v Speaker 3>for a while. Then, you know, there's many others, so
<v Speaker 3>there's there's lots of options out there, man, and this
<v Speaker 3>doesn't go for just you was which I appreciate you listening,
<v Speaker 3>and I appreciate you taking the time to actually call in,
<v Speaker 3>because you know, everyone's time is valuable. I genuinely appreciate that.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, there's a plethora of other shows too that
<v Speaker 3>if you're like, oh God, at least this show doesn't
<v Speaker 3>repeat itself, go there, you know, all right, and people think, oh,
<v Speaker 3>it's bad business here. No, it's just I'm not gonna
<v Speaker 3>you know, I don't want people to listen if they
<v Speaker 3>don't like what they have to hear and they're just
<v Speaker 3>sick of me, you know. But yeah, Night one, or
<v Speaker 3>rather you were not big on wrestle anybody you're saying
<v Speaker 3>I didn't really upsell Raw as bunch as I should have.
<v Speaker 3>I mean I do remember again, yeah, I complained a
<v Speaker 3>lot about Raw. But here's the thing, beyond the fact
<v Speaker 3>that I've repeated myself, which I know you have issues
<v Speaker 3>with as many other people do. The deal with that though,
<v Speaker 3>is I mean, this is a pretty big deal. Like
<v Speaker 3>the things I complained about it, this is also their
<v Speaker 3>biggest show. So I'm not gonna just and if social
<v Speaker 3>media continues to talk about this big thing or big
<v Speaker 3>things that are happening, and it continues to evolve, I'm
<v Speaker 3>going to continue to also talk about it. I really do,
<v Speaker 3>genuinely believe or not try not to consciously say word
<v Speaker 3>for word everything I said the night before. I really
<v Speaker 3>try to. But if it's a big deal and it's
<v Speaker 3>a current story, you're gonna hear kind of the same
<v Speaker 3>flavor of things in an overlap of shows, including this show,
<v Speaker 3>where you're probably like, oh my god, I've heard him
<v Speaker 3>say this already, but you know, sometimes a lot of
<v Speaker 3>new listeners come in they've heard it for the first time,
<v Speaker 3>you know, maybe they didn't hear the previous show. So
<v Speaker 3>things that are really big that are going on, you're
<v Speaker 3>gonna hear a lot of repetition from show to show
<v Speaker 3>because I can't just cut it off after well, I've
<v Speaker 3>already talked about that in the previous show. I'm done.
<v Speaker 3>I can't say anything anymore because I don't want to
<v Speaker 3>risk repeating anything I've ever said ever. You know, But
<v Speaker 3>that's also the reason, because this is kind of a
<v Speaker 3>big effing deal with what's going on. I mean, can
<v Speaker 3>you remember this, I guess this is opposing to you.
<v Speaker 3>Is really anybody if there's ever been a main event
<v Speaker 3>of WrestleMania in your lifetime, that there's been this much
<v Speaker 3>negative backlash for ever? I don't think there has. And yes,
<v Speaker 3>the advent of social media is making it worse because
<v Speaker 3>everyone has a platform, everyone has a voice, which amplifies
<v Speaker 3>the noise, which then amplifies that noise, and it just
<v Speaker 3>feeds on itself and becomes its own living organism. That
<v Speaker 3>that's what happens, for better or worse, on social media.
<v Speaker 3>But the good thing is for WWE is that the
<v Speaker 3>people of today in twenty twenty five have very short
<v Speaker 3>attention spans. We can't focus on anything for more than
<v Speaker 3>four and a half seconds, even really big things. They
<v Speaker 3>don't last long, you know, I mean, think about this,
<v Speaker 3>how many school shootings we see last week? I mean
<v Speaker 3>there was a couple, and oh, well there's another one,
<v Speaker 3>and you move on to school shootings. I mean, you
<v Speaker 3>know what I mean. Like, people can't focus on anything,
<v Speaker 3>no matter the magnitude of the story, for more than
<v Speaker 3>a couple of days. So if WWE is worried about
<v Speaker 3>this in the long haul, the fans are just you
<v Speaker 3>have to just all you to worry about is just
<v Speaker 3>all that's the culture today. Get through the heat. It's
<v Speaker 3>not the last forever, and you move on and you learn.
<v Speaker 3>But thank you was, and I don't mean that in
<v Speaker 3>a way that's, you know, nasty. I do genuinely appreciate
<v Speaker 3>the other feedback, and I hope all as well. All right,
<v Speaker 3>I got one more in me, so let's let's go
<v Speaker 3>to I think this is Kyle from Baltimore.
<v Speaker 8>Let's see, he's Ken from Baltimore. So only to talk about,
<v Speaker 8>you know, thank you's for turning. I thought that was good.
<v Speaker 8>I thought it was really weird for than the window
<v Speaker 8>titles and elizebro off the gate, I thought, which she
<v Speaker 8>put in a litt bit differently where Becky came back earlier
<v Speaker 8>to hype up the match between Lyra and Becky for
<v Speaker 8>us in mini, I think it would mean that little
<v Speaker 8>more sense. But ultimately I'm the slash. She's back, she
<v Speaker 8>turned heels, She's good to probably go out here proba'ly
<v Speaker 8>say the title off with Lyra at backlash. Well you
<v Speaker 8>think of her potentially joining up with Death and Hayman
<v Speaker 8>at some point, I don't know, I know not inn
<v Speaker 8>work twenty ninety for some people. I personally liked them
<v Speaker 8>together when they work together year personally, and a lot
<v Speaker 8>of people didn't, but I did so. But I mean,
<v Speaker 8>but now that is there both heels, is that a
<v Speaker 8>possibility they've been that's gonna be the big act on
<v Speaker 8>Raw moving forward. In the Madi bet scene, for patri
<v Speaker 8>Ja used sos like he's a champion, but he's going
<v Speaker 8>to be It's gonna be outshide by step Rowlins and
<v Speaker 8>Pecky Lynchart now in my mind. So anyway, it's uh
<v Speaker 8>believe they managed with that work or I could do
<v Speaker 8>her own thing with Lyra and and so forth in
<v Speaker 8>the mid carve situation that I do think it'll be
<v Speaker 8>an interesting scenario mostly what happens there. But yeah, roall
<v Speaker 8>glad she's to heel the glass show. Glad that Lyral
<v Speaker 8>will be doing something interesting as far as with her
<v Speaker 8>time and run and in a credible few because Lyra
<v Speaker 8>definitely needed eight big tough feuds for that championship. So
<v Speaker 8>uh yeah, that's the day a call buy.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, So Becky Lynch's turning heeling and again to the
<v Speaker 3>Watses point in yours, I mean, Raw was in a
<v Speaker 3>lot of ways is much much better than WrestleMania as
<v Speaker 3>a whole, especially Night one that was just more of
<v Speaker 3>a case for Wressel Medium remaining one night than two.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, if it was ever a case to be
<v Speaker 3>made that WrestleMania should be one night, Night one of
<v Speaker 3>WrestleMania certainly was like a case closed type of show
<v Speaker 3>outside of the main event and other match or two.
<v Speaker 3>And I know I enjoyed the Charlotte match more than most.
<v Speaker 3>I know Wazi didn't like it, and Becky lunch t
<v Speaker 3>and I know that you Kyle enjoyed the run with
<v Speaker 3>Seth and Becky more than most, and I would agree that. Yeah. Well,
<v Speaker 3>as far as the masses go, I did not like
<v Speaker 3>them together. I did not think that they're on air
<v Speaker 3>chemistry was good. It did not translate. They may have
<v Speaker 3>incredible chemistry off camera, but personally I didn't feel it
<v Speaker 3>when they were together five or six years ago on camera.
<v Speaker 3>I thought it was bad generally. And that was when
<v Speaker 3>it was who are they feuding with? Was it Baron
<v Speaker 3>Corbin and Lacy Evans? Did I get that right? My god?
<v Speaker 3>I think I did. But this time around, I mean,
<v Speaker 3>it is interesting that both are now heel and both
<v Speaker 3>turned heel within twenty four hours of each other, So
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if they're just trying to keep the
<v Speaker 3>household peace or if there is something planned down the line.
<v Speaker 3>Having males and females together in a faction. It's I mean,
<v Speaker 3>it's obviously been done. We've seen it with the Wyatt
<v Speaker 3>family and Alexa Bliss and the Wyat Six when they
<v Speaker 3>returned reportedly you're going to be together, and they should,
<v Speaker 3>and they were off WrestleMania. Crazily when you look at that,
<v Speaker 3>Sammy's Ames off WrestleMania and Nia Jacks was off WrestleMania.
<v Speaker 3>The list of people off WrestleMania is kind of staggering.
<v Speaker 3>But another subject, as far as Becky Lynch's turned, Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I have no issue with it. I think what's gonna
<v Speaker 3>happen is she's going to be in the Intercontinental title
<v Speaker 3>hunt and she'll become Intercontinental champion. I don't think it's
<v Speaker 3>gonna happen right away because Lyra still is on a
<v Speaker 3>decent run and it could happen as soon as backlash
<v Speaker 3>to really cement Becky's heel turn. But here's my concern
<v Speaker 3>with Becky's turn. While I don't disagree with it. Her
<v Speaker 3>as a heel. They did that, and it didn't work
<v Speaker 3>well because people didn't accept it. They had attached themselves
<v Speaker 3>to the man character so much and had so much
<v Speaker 3>just organic love for Becky that it never really seemed
<v Speaker 3>to fit well. So I don't know what her what
<v Speaker 3>tricks up her sleeve that she has this time around
<v Speaker 3>that are going to get the fans to truly dislike her,
<v Speaker 3>But it was difficult for fans to accept her as
<v Speaker 3>a heel. It did not work as a whole. It
<v Speaker 3>wasn't the worst heel turn of all time, but it
<v Speaker 3>just never felt right. It's like Charlotte's a baby face
<v Speaker 3>doesn't feel right. It's like Austin trying to turn heel
<v Speaker 3>at WrestleMania seventeen doesn't feel right. And it just I
<v Speaker 3>don't know. So perhaps she has something better, and I'm
<v Speaker 3>willing to see what she's got. I'm not crapping on
<v Speaker 3>it right from the start, but again, we've seen this
<v Speaker 3>movie and I hope it's not the same ending for Becky.
<v Speaker 3>But all right, thank you Kyle and everybody. Thank you
<v Speaker 3>to uh Waz and DJ and Brad, everybody, Thank you
<v Speaker 3>so much for your time and for your critiques. I
<v Speaker 3>really I do welcome them. I don't. I mean if
<v Speaker 3>you put them on air, I don't. I don't care
<v Speaker 3>if you you know you it could be the most
<v Speaker 3>like someone wants to roast me, like, go ahead, I'll
<v Speaker 3>put it on air, right, it doesn't bother me. But
<v Speaker 3>if you're guys want to actually send me like, hey,
<v Speaker 3>you know this would be better in your show or
<v Speaker 3>that can be better, I'm really all open for it.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I can't sit here and say that people
<v Speaker 3>can criticize WWE and w W can't. They shouldn't. W
<v Speaker 3>W is telling us we're not allowed to say these things. Well,
<v Speaker 3>at the same time, I'm also in critiquing WWE, but
<v Speaker 3>I'm telling my listeners you can't critique me like that.
<v Speaker 3>People don't like constructive criticism. Most people don't because it
<v Speaker 3>hurts their ego. They won't only want to hear the
<v Speaker 3>good stuff. I really, I understand my flaws, I understand
<v Speaker 3>what I'm good and not good at. But if you
<v Speaker 3>have ideas of the show, I'm always willing to help
<v Speaker 3>them make it better. I really am. So that really
<v Speaker 3>goes for anybody out there that just I know a
<v Speaker 3>lot of people that really don't like me, and that's fine.
<v Speaker 3>It just is what it is. But yeah, thank you everybody.
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<v Speaker 3>to be it. I'll be back on Sunday with your
<v Speaker 3>week in review as we roll towards Backlash in just
<v Speaker 3>a couple of weeks. So thanks everybody. I appreciate all
<v Speaker 3>of your comments and your your feedback and your input.
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