Official 2023 Crown Jewel Preview & Predictions

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It's time for the Crown Jewel Preview and Prediction Show here on Friday, November
third, twenty twenty three, as we are going to be going through the
match card and giving thoughts and predictions. We were going to have Sharon from
Israel here and we had to reschedule. There's a lot of safety concerns over
there, as you'd imagine in Israel right now, so he'll be on within
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than talking about previewing predictions for a WPL. But of course, stay safe,
Sharon. I hope you are, you know, obviously doing what's needed
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and I know a lot of you and the Discord server over there on
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the event and giving your thoughts and predictions and all the reactions. I think
it's going to be a massive show. You know, before I get into
the details of the matches, it looks like it's going to be a show
that is reminiscent of the Triple H era, where we go in there's some
matches on the card that you're not particularly excited about, you know, maybe
the build or the story has been underwhelming, and then you come out of
the event going wow, that was awesome. That's been very much a trademark
of the Triple H era, even when Vince was kind of back but not
really, but he was running things but not really and it was messy.
The trademark was not the best build, but way better coming out of it
where you were just your expectations were blown away. I don't know if that's
by design where they bring they don't exactly build the best that they can,
knowing that if they come out you come out of the event thinking it's better
than going in, then you'll come back for more. I don't know if
that's their strategy. I doubt it, but that's been a trademark nonetheless,
and I expect the same here for Crown Jewel, and we have a lot
of good matches on the card, some that I'm very interested in the outcome
of reports coming out that Triple A or Triple H Roman Reigns is going to
be taking more time off until the Royal Rumble, meaning after Crown Jewel we
won't see him until the Royal rum Now, I won't talk about my prediction
yet for that match with l A. Knight, other than to say I
think that if this is true, it could play either way into the result.
You could make a case either way. Not that I want him to
disappear. I've been an advocate of him staying for every pl e through WrestleMania
at this point because there's just too many opponents for him to go through and
great matchups he could have. But if it's true, taking it at face
value, that he is just going to take his typical you know, do
a match and take four months off a gig, then we could really make
an argument either way as to whether or not Elle Knight is going to win
at Crown Jewel. And I have a prediction I think that may actually surprise
some of you and we'll get to that at the end of the show.
Now starting off with our card here, let's let's do that. Oh,
the first match up here is Sammy Zain versus j D McDonough in the kickoff
match. This is you know, I will say that it's a bit surprising
Sammy z Ain's in the kickoff match. Think about where he was back in
February of this year, main eventing, potentially winning, and I still believe
him, will not stop believing that he should have beaten Roman at the Chamber
in Montreal. But this is just crazy that he's now on the pre show.
He's also super over, not to the level he was in February,
but still Now for j D McDonough is this is a big match because he's
on in a singles match, albeit the kickoff on Crown Jewel, so huge
for him. Downgrade for Sammy, But this matchup I think is going to
be a lot of fun, not a lot of consequences in this match.
It's a match that they put on the card knowing that they're going to get
a great wrestling match out of it because both are ultra townoented. JD has
shown how good he is in the ring over the last several weeks and months.
Really, I've enjoyed his character. He's got this just this face that
you want to punch even though he's this undersized guy. And Sammy's Ain never
puts on a bad match, so these two are going to work very well
together. I expect to go twelve thirteen minutes and probably having Sammy's Ain win
to get the crowd going. I don't see JD winning, but it'll be
another, you know, win in a lost type of strategy for JD where
he continues to lose, but losing in a losing effort where he you know,
does everything he can to win and comes close and at least puts his
name out there. So Sammy's Ain wins to get the show going. Now,
moving on the ww Women's Champion Eo Sky versus Bianca bell Air. This
one, to me is it seems so easy to pick beyond because she's returning.
She has a bit more of an edge that I've been looking for.
Now, is this the start of a heel turn? Is it the hints
of a heel turn? Where last week she said that this is something she
can't get out of her mind. All she's been thinking about is retribution and
revenge, and that's not a Bianca trait where she's just as she said,
she smiles through things and moves on. And I've really despised that about her
character, and now we're getting an edge. Maybe it's just a more edgy
baby face, which to me is more relatable, but maybe it is the
signs of a heel turn. We will see if they're going to have an
edgy Bianca. I'm cool with keeping her baby face. I just could do
without the hair twirling and skipping like she's a thirteen year old girl on a
playground, or rather, I don't know if thirteen year old do that anymore,
maybe like ten year old right nine ten? She just, I think,
really just takes her character down a notch or two with that part of
her her you know, her character of skipping and twirling. It's just it's
it's it's the worst. But she's good on the mic, she can be
really good on the mic, and she's of course at the top of her
game in the ring. So I expect this match to be a lot of
fun. I expect this match to have Bailey involved, maybe Dakota Kai,
who's been nothing short of invisible over the last several months, really since she
joined the Damage Control Group in Summer Slam of twenty two. So I don't
know if Dakoda will have much to say about this other than just being the
essential house plant really invisible, which is not good for Dakota Kai. But
this is not as easy as I think it is for some people to pick
Bianca. Bianca was my initial reaction because EO Sky has been ultra boring as
a champion, and I still believe that it is going to be Bianca bell
Air because EO Sky here, as I said, has been extremely underwhelming as
a champion. She doesn't feel like a champion, and not just not because
of her credentials in the ring or how good she is on the ring,
but because number one, they haven't given her a voice, and number two,
they haven't paid much attention to her. It's been about Charlotte and Bailey
and Bailey and Bianca. EO Sky is kind of there and she's the damn
champion. So without focus on her and worrying about building a character for her,
it seems like they're ready to kind of move on from the EO Ski
experiment, even though they didn't really put a whole lot of effort into it,
and move on to Bianca bell Air as champion, which also Bianca bell
Are going into the almost WrestleMania seasons as champion is more fun than EO Sky.
Let's be honest, right, So I think Bianca does win here,
and I think it is finally because Bailey accidentally or purposefully screws over EO Sky,
turning Sky babyface going into a Bailey versus Eosky finally after all this time
that we've been predicting, predicting this for the last one, but since she
she cashed in really even before that. So I think that that's where they're
finally going to go, where Bailey accidentally quote unquote costs EO Sky the championship
and we finally get this damn group dissolved. I'll predict it, and I'm
sure I will retain right, all right? Moving on, John Cena versus
Solo Socoa. Also, this one's not easy because while John Cena has said
that he needs to win, or basically he says he shouldn't be here,
which is ridiculous. As I've mentioned, the stats that he's touting are,
while true, very misleading that he hasn't won a match singles match in twenty
eighteen, given he hasn't had singles matches in a couple of those years since
twenty eighteen, barely has been around, and I think he's had a total
of what like three singles since twenty eighteen, So they're very widely, widely
misleading and so but the narrative is that if he doesn't win, he feels
like he doesn't have it anymore and he needs this victory. That kind of
tells you that if he loses, then he'll show up back at WrestleMania,
which I think is what's going to happen here. So my prediction is Solo
Soakoa wins. He beats John Cena, Sam Owen, Spike, and plus
John Cena, as we all know, was only scheduled to be on SmackDown
through October twenty seventh, which means now it's crown Jewel. He goes away
after this. It's possible he signed more dates. Maybe he did, but
I haven't been privy to that. And I think Solo Johnson is in the
part of his career where he's in the give backstage, helping make new guys
he doesn't need any victories. He could lose every match the rest of his
career or however long that is, and it wouldn't touch what he's done or
taint his legacy in anyway. The guy is ironclad in his Hall of Fame
bid and how people view hims. There's nothing that can happen to John Cena
at this point that would tarnish his career at all. Nothing. The only
thing I wish they did was have at least a small chance to see what
a John Scena heal character looks like. That's the one thing that I wish
they were able to do or got the guts to pull the trigger on.
But in this match, I expect a good match. You know, John
Cena hasn't ever been known for his technical abilities, but I expect him to
put on a very respectable ten minute, maybe ten to twelve minutes of Solo
and John Cena, a much slower paced match, and one that has of
course an AA kickout or two as is required by law, and maybe maybe
even a Samoan spike kickout, but I doubt it. And having John Cena
lose here and having Solo co stand tall, because think about it, if
John Cena wins and go away, how does that help Solo Sokoa? He
has to be there the next week. Johnsen is gone until likely WrestleMania season
or at the Rumble or in the Rumble, So it doesn't make sense for
John Cena to win and go away. Who does that help nobody? So
I think this is gonna be a fun, slower paced match, which I'm
cool with, and Solo needs the victory more than John, even though John
Cena has said that you know he needs his victory or he's gonna be depressed
and feel like, you know, make it. It'll make his tummy hurt
and he won't be able to he feel like he won't be able to go
any longer. So I'm looking forward to it though, because let's all be
let's all be real with each other. Even if you're not a fan of
John Cena at this point in his career, you have to respect what he's
doing. He's doing things he doesn't need to do. He doesn't need to
be here, he doesn't need to be taking bumps at this stage of his
life. He doesn't need to be helping new talent, but he is,
and sure he's getting paid to do it. So what John Cena is still
doing something he doesn't have to do, and I respect that, and he
is still giving back. He's giving back. He's not the face of the
company anymore, so I respect that and I recommend him for that. So
this is about us solo so CoA and building new stars. It's building the
next generation. It's giving back to the business. That is what John cen
is for. It's not to say he can't have a victory or two.
I don't want him coming back and jobbing to everybody, but this isn't a
time for especially a star like Soula so CoA, who has been showcased over
the last couple of years, to lose. All Right, Cody Rhodes,
Damian Priest, this is gonna be a fun match. You know, this
is a it's a singles match with really not much at stake other than pride,
and I think it's going to be a Cody Roads victory. I think
Cody Rhods gets the victory, not because he really needs it, but because
it's I think going to you know, well, it'll keep the momentum going
for Cody because he says he's quote unquote back on his road to his story
or whatever which goes through Damien Priest, and Damian Priest is really not at
the level of Cody Rhods in terms of star power. So I think that
Cody Rhodes losing here would not make a lot of sense, given that he's
back on the road to maybe another championship match against Roman at WrestleMania. As
much as I don't want to see it, that could be what he's talking
about, or it could be seth Rollins is what he's talking about. We'll
see. So I think Cody Rhodes does beat Damien and it's a hard faud
victory. I think we're gonna see interference from the judgment day as we normally
do. Now, Damien could win, but it would again I don't unless
he uses the briefcase, hits Cody in the head or something, or there's
dominic mysterio in interfering or rea interfering. I see Cody Rhods winning. It's
almost as if it's it has to happen. Now. Again, if Damien
wins in a way that doesn't hurt Cody Rhodes, and he cheats to win
and like I said, uses the briefcase, then sure, that does make
sense, but outright having Damien clean have a clean victory over Cody is not
in the cards and should not happen. That said, when you look at
Damian Priest over the last year, I mean, think about how much he's
been elevated. Oh my god, that's a good I mean, I'm not
complaining at all. Think about where he was before he joined the Judgment day
and the whole Edge debacle, which I still have mixed feelings on that they
did it way too soon and turned on edge way too soon. We never
got to see a full edge heel run and what that looked like. But
that said, the benefits of this have been Damian Priest being elevated to a
level that I didn't think was possible for that For where he was, Remember
he was doing like the he was doing. He was like mister archery in
the ring, you know, shooting this imaginary arrow, all that crap.
He's been elevated very nicely. He's mister money in the bank. He's possibly
a future world champion if he doesn't fail to cash in. He's in a
great place and a lost to Cody Roads here won't hurt him. Now what
I think could happen. If Cody Rhodes does beat Damien, he could do
it clean, but given how they like to elevate or they have elevated Damien
and then maybe they want to protect him if he's a future world champion.
Is JD McDonough tries to come out, he helps, tries to help Damien,
but he ends up accidentally screwing over Damien, and Cody Roads takes advantage
and hits the Crossroads, which is the worst, one of the worst finishes
of all time, and wins. And that's possible because JD and Damien have
had a lot of tension, so that could add to that tension. So
I think Cody Rhods comes away victorious either way, but I think they try
to protect Damien in some way. I don't know if it's totally clean victory
for Cody, so but yeah, again, you guys can't tell me the
Crossroads looks good. There's only been like one or two people that have ever
taken it very well. Ever, I mean j D McDonough has taking it
well. They have to be a small guy that's extremely athletic, that can
twist their body in that way that makes it look halfway decent without Cody actually
taking the bump. I mean, it's it's a horrendous looking move. Most
of the time. It looks bad in you know, in real time.
Imagine if you did it in slow mo, how awful the Crossroads would look.
It's it's it's I mean, it's not big ending bad, but it's
bad. It's it's it's bad. And this isn't because I just disliked the
babyface Cody Roads character. The I don't even know if I like the BFT
from La Knight. I have mixed feelings on that too, But this is
a just a horrendous finished maneuver that it just I understand. It's supposed to
look cool and it's twisty and turny, and but you look at it and
you're like, he didn't even hit that. Well, you look, if
you come away from a finish and go, who's the one that's supposed to
be hurt here? Like, who am I supposed to believe took the brunt
of that force? That's not a question you should be asking for a finished
move. Okay, bad, but it's not going to change. By the
way, big ee, where's he? Good question? I haven't heard much
about his recovery. I keep hearing up and down reports. I keep hearing
now that oh he's on his way back. He's not same with Randy Orton.
Blah blah blah. Right, but I wouldn't be surprised if we have
a big ee return at this event. Now where would he interject himself?
I don't know. There's no new Day match on the cards, so probably
nowhere. If he returns, maybe it's a monny net raw if he does.
I haven't heard anything. I'm just saying it's been like, how long
now since we had Ridge Holland break his neck? I don't know, Okay,
US Champion Raymisterio versus Logan Paul. This is going to be a lot
of fun, a lot of fun because Raymisterio is somehow still at the top
of his game. I have no idea how he may have lost a quarter
of a step since he was at his peak in like the mid two thousands.
But if you didn't know that he was, you know, fifteen years
older, you probably wouldn't know to look for his his decline in performance,
which is minuscule, and I you know, ram Asiro is just it's unbelievable
how long he's been able to survive the business at Logan Paul. May not
like him personally, I can't. I can't deny how good he is in
the ring and how he just has taken like a fish to water with a
pro wrestling he has and he's feeling more comfortable on the microphone. He's just
being himself. He's inherently unlikable, but he's athletic as hell. He's a
legitimate badass. Whether we all want to admit it or not, he is
uh and he can perform. And I expect this to be a lot of
fun with Logan Paul winning the United States Championship. That's what I think is
going to happen. And I think he's gonna go on a several month run.
Maybe he is gonna commit for a little bit longer. I don't need
him to be there every week, but if he's gonna be the United States
Champion, we don't need another absentee champion. We've already got, you know,
enough of that going on in WWE. So all right, but yeah,
anyway, the match is gonna be a lot of fun. This is
gonna be a lot of high flying Logan Paul continues to deliver. He beats
himself into a bloody pulp every match. He doesn't pull any punches. He's
not you know, he's not wrestling scared, that's for sure. He's been
injured already. He's recovered from that since you know, I think he tore
his knee or something a few months back. But he has done such a
good job. And I think Logan Paul is US Champion is more fun than
Raymisterio, because let's be real, Ray Asteria is US Champion. It's nostalgic,
but that's it. It hasn't been exactly a you know, a memorable
US champ being ship run for Ray. It's been also kind of like EO
Sky kind of boring. So Logan Paul winning would kind of freshen up the
US title and he'd be able to brag every week and work with you know,
maybe a ricochet again. All Right, Women's World Champion Ria Ripley versus
Naya Jacks versus Shanna Basler versus Always Stark versus Raquel Rodriguez in a fatal five
way, not elimination. This is a one fall to a finish, which
I'm a fan of elimination whenever they have multiperson matches, but this is I
believe a one fall to a finish. This is going to be a train
wreck. And I don't mean that in a bad way necessarily, but there's
so many women in this match that it's hard to focus on just one of
them. But I can tell you who is not going to win off the
bat. Zoe Stark has no chance, Shanna Basler has no chance, and
Rakel Rodriguez has no chance. So it really comes down to Ni Jackson,
Rear Ripley, and Nia jacks No. I think it's Ray Ripley. This
one is probably, out of every match on the card, the easiest to
predict because there is just no reason outside of shock value and fans going what
the hell to do any other decision. Ria Ripley has to win, and
she's gonna win by hooker crook, meaning even though there's no DQ, which
also doesn't make any sense that every time there's a fatal five way, fatal
four way or triple threat, because you add more people, it just automatically
defaults to no DQ. No one will ever be able to coherently tell me
why that makes sense. But there is no DQ, so sure, there
is no such thing as doing something illegal, because everything's legal. But what's
gonna happen is Ria Ripley's going to take advantage of someone else's finish where she's
going to be the one to crawl over and cover after say, you know,
Naya Jacks does her tsunami or her bondzyebomb, you know, goes all
yokazuna on like Zoe Stark or something, and Ree Ripley crawls over and you
know, just barely escapes with the championship as all the women are seething in
the ring, and you know, Ree Ripley will escape this match as champion,
She'll take advantage of someone else's finish and win. That's what's going to
happen here. And it just there's just no other way to go. Rie
Ripley is at the top of her game right now. It's not like she
feels like she's overstated or welcome. She's only over the last several months started
to defend her belt. I mean there was a gap of like four months
where she just didn't do anything. It was all about Judgment Day and was
no one, no women were even talking about the world title, so or
allowed to even but so lately she's actually been defending it, and I think
we are going to continue with Ree Ripley as champion. This one is a
lock it up, throw away the key decision. If you are and I'm
not not advising you do, but I know some of you do bet on
wrestling matches, which you can, this would be one where I would put
my money because none of the other decisions makes sense. Okay, again,
your decision. But if I was gonna do it, this would be the
match i'd put my car my money on. Maybe my car too, I
don't know. All right. Two more matches, Guys World Heavyweight Champion Seth
Rollins versus Drew McIntyre. This one, as I just said, put your
money on, this is one I would not Out of every match on the
card, this is the one that would scare me the most because Seth Rollins
and Drew both make very good cases to win. Now, Damian Priest is
floating out there. Does Damian Priest come out of this as champion? It's
possible, it's possible. I still don't think Damian Priest cashes in, or
if he does, it's a failed cash in or a failed attempt at a
cash in. Meaning he tries to cash in, but the bell never rang.
We've seen that a million times. Maybe Randy Yorton comes out of nowhere.
This is maybe where Randy Orton shows himself. It's possible to Randy Orton
comes out of nowhere, rko on Damian Priest. Maybe they ignore the fact
that Randy Orton was beat up by the Bloodline to be put on the shelf
in the first place. They totally just hope the fans forget that. So
that's possible. But I think that this match is scary. This match scares
the hell out of me if I had any money on it, because I
honestly could make a case strongly for both because okay, take Damian Priest out
of it and Randy Orton out of it. Who I think if Damien shows
up, by the way, I think Randy Orton shows up to Damien Priest,
and you know, then we're talking about Randy Orton for a while,
which would be fun. But take Damien out of it. If it's only
Seth and Drew, and those are the only two options that could win.
This is difficult because Drew McIntyre has been talking about turning heel or rather teasing
turning heel for a long time, and he over the last couple of weeks
has pulled back from that a little bit and just told us the fans that,
hey, you know, I'm bitter about having to defend or win my
championship in front of nobody. This match means everything to me. It means
more to me than does to Seth, you know. And also the Judgment
Day is trying to recruit both of them, So there's that of Drew maybe
joining Judgment Day. And remember Drew was talking to Ria backstage a few weeks
ago that was caught on camera. So Drew turning heel here and doing anything
to win, maybe maybe we have the Judgment Day come out and it is
that Drew joins. I don't want Drew in a group, but if you're
going to turn him heel, that's one way to do it. Or Drew
could low blow Seth do something malicious low blow uh, you know, Seth
rollins and get the victory, use brass nuts. I mean, I don't
know. So Drew winning would be a nice change for the World Heavyweight Championship.
It would freshen things up. Seth had a nice run. I don't
think any fans would be angry that he lost the belt. You know,
he's had a decent run in compared to most championship runs outside of Roman reigns,
so I think that's very possible. Also, Seth Rollins is still on
a role. Fans are still behind him. They're not turning on him like
they have in past championship runs with him because he's found a gimmick that works.
It feels more authentic. He's got an entrance song that is at this
point just a you know, choir practice for most people. And it wouldn't
be the worst decision in the world to have Seth moving forward as a champion,
so, you know, because Seth can have a great match with anybody.
I just I don't know. This is tough as hell. I've been
advocating for Drew to win because I want to see a heel Drew. So
that's what I'm gonna go with. Okay, this while my head is telling
me Seth's going to retain because they probably want to keep it going a little
bit longer. I think Drew wins now, whether it's a low blow,
whether it's interference from the judgment day, I think they will have something to
say about this That is also very possible one of the two, or Drew
could just outright beat Seth. But I think we finally see a new world
heavyweight champion. It's time and I'm interested to see what a heal Drew looks
like. Now Drew could just be a babyface. That's possible too. There's
just there's too many damn options. But I think at the end of the
day, it's like fifty point one percent for me that Drew wins and forty
nine point nine percent that Seth Rolins wins. It is a really a flip
of the coin, very difficult to predict. Stay the hell away from this
match if you have money on it, don't just don't. I think Drew
wins, But boy, I could easily be wrong, and I wouldn't be
surprised if I am. This one scares me to death in terms of a
prediction and having any kind of stakes on it other than just oh pride,
I was wrong. So Drew wins here, that's my prediction. Now this
next match, of course, Roman reigns in lle Knight. Now, I
told you earlier in the show that the reports are coming out from Credible sources.
We all know who the big names are that Roman Rerains is taking time
off again, putting my personal feelings aside about that of how ridiculous this is
getting. It's just it's preposterous. Now, you could argue that, well,
Roman Rains is gonna beat Ellie Knight and he's gonna go back into hiding
and no one's gonna talk about the championship. Maybe they'll be talking about Randy
Orton. And that's been the idea for several months now, as Randy Orton
is going to be the one that's gonna soothe the blow of Roman again not
being there, and they're hoping that we'll be distracted about, oh my god,
Randy's back. Roman's not here, But that's okay, we have Randy
now, don't be fooled by that, guys. It's nothing more than the
deodorizing the fact that Roman again is not here. So we have that argument.
You also have the argument of could win shock the world, make his
career. The internet would blow up, the crowd would lose their minds,
and we would have a Roman reigns disappear for two months, which would also
make sense after a massive title loss. Roman Reigns disappears, That's happened before,
and it's very plausible. And then it's like, well, what is
Roman going to say when he returns? And you wouldn't also be angry that
we again have an absentee champion for several months on end, racking up artificial
days to his run because he's not here defending it. I don't want him
to defend it every week, by the way, but going like chunks of
like quarter years taking it off like that's that is to me really detrimental to
his whole quote unquote thousand day run. Okay, but that's the other argument.
Ellien and I could win. Roman Reigns goes away. We don't care
Roman goes away and get angry because we now have a champion that's going to
be here. So there's that This is difficult. My initial thought was Roman
Reigns retains and he moves on. But if Roman's going away and La Knight's
there, it's very possible that La Knight is champion while Roman Reigns is on
his fortieth hiatus. So this to me is very hard. I'm still gonna
go with La Knight losing, but I have been bolstered in my confidence lately,
where to me it was before like a ninety five to five percent chance
that La Knight wins. To me, this is like sixty forty now,
where Roman Reigns is still the sixty. La Knight is the forty. But
the logic is there that it might be the right time to pull the trigger.
And again, if I had, if we all knew what the plans
were for Roman Reigns at WrestleMania forty, this would be easy to figure out
who's gonna win and lose. We don't know if the rocks around, assuming
he's not, it could be Cody and Roman again, and Cody versus Roman
two for the championship again makes sense so well for a lot of people,
not for me, but Roman Reigns here keeping the United States or keeping the
undisputed championship, I think makes more sense if you want to have more championship
matches with Roman and Randy Orton, or Roman and Cody, or Roman and
AJ Styles, who, by the way, is apparently returning on the next
SmackDown. Remember the Bloodline injured him, So AJ Styles versus Roman Reigns is
still on the table. So there's a lot of matches that haven't happened yet
with Roman and ex Wrestler for the championship. Now, the championship doesn't need
to be involved with those people, but I'm sure they want it to be
to make the match feel more important. The idea. Here's the whole thing.
Roman still has a maybe five or less opponents that he really needs to
face, and they would like it to be for the championship. And if
it's not involved, the ww feels it wouldn't be the biggest match. And
you have La Night also, So who do they have confidence in him to
be the guy at forty one years of age to carry the company as underspeted
champion. We don't know. I still think it's too early for Ellen Knight
and ellieen Knight is the first guy in line since Roman's return, which tells
you he's not gonna win because he still has his other opponents seth rollins.
I'd love aj Styles, I'd love Randy Orton, I'd love I mean go
down the line of course, the Rock Cody. You know, he's got
like these these guys that still need to happen. But maybe they pull the
trigger, maybe they finally do. But I don't think they do, because
how many times have we sat here over the years, years plural and said,
ah, it's time. It makes sense though, you know, well,
you know they can't keep this going. I've seen no evidence to the
contrary. They just keep plugging along. They're using the World Heavyweight Championship as
another deodorizer of well, we still have another world champion. That's her every
week in all that continual nonsense, which does help a little bit, but
it still does not erase the fact that Romans never here. So you take
all that and you mix it up into a blender, and I still think
when you pour that out, it's Roman Reigns retaining in a very fun match.
Do I see any returns? Again? Randy Orton could also interject himself
into this and r KO Roman, or he could turn heel and r KO
Knight. I doubt it, but you know, there's a lot of possibilities.
Of course, Solo could get involved here. You could have Jimmy USO
get involved here. I very much expect both of them to and maybe that's
where Randy Orton comes out. R ko's Solo, r ko's Jimmy, and
that way, Randy Orton's on SmackDown, filling the absentee Roman Reigns, where
you know, La Knight maybe is or isn't champion, but we have at
least Randy Orton on SmackDown to help fill the hole for two months while Roman
is on you know, sitting at home or I mean, I don't even
know what he does on vacation. But that's that's my that's my pick,
guys. So to summarize, Roman Reigns retains, Drew McIntyre wins the World
Heavyweight Championship, where Ripley retains Logan Paul wins the US Championship, Cody Rhodes
beats Damien Solo, Soca beats John Cena, Bianca Bellar wins the w W
Wins Championship, and Sammy's Ain beats JD McDonough in the kickoff match. So
we'll see. I have very low confidence in some of my picks, but
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