WWE WrestleMania 37 Roundtable - 04/09/21

The Wrestling Roundtable, consisting of Jon Jansen, Jason Fanelli, Vaughn Johnson, and Nick Piccone, partake in the very first Gambler Wrestling Roundtable on The Line Change - a preview of WrestleMania 37!

Episode Transcript

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It's it's not a crazy it ISSLMedia Weekend, Fox Sports together but protected

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by Cure Autowood shorts. It isa special edition here of the line Change,
an hour long Wressel Media preview,the best show of the year,
the showcase of the Immortals, andI'm Nick anything else? Can you help
me out here? What are thenames? What do we call WrestleMania?
It used to be the Granddaddy ofthem all? Daddy of them all sounds

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too old, there's I know thatdoes sound kind of old, so I
understand that. But we're gonna dothe same thing we did for Royal Rumble
Weekend. I got the crew together, I got the stable together, and
we're gonna rock this WrestleMania show.There's the DraftKings Pool for it. Heck,
we have a DraftKings pool for NXT. I literally will be watching about

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two or three wrestling shows from Thursdayall the way up and now Wednesday.
With NXT takeover on a Wednesday,I'll be watching shows from Wednesday till Sunday.
I love WrestleMania Weekend, and I'llstart with you, Nick. Jason
Finelli also joining me Von Johnson aswell, but Nick Pacone Phillyinfluencer dot com.

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I want to go to you first. A favorite part of Mania Weekend?
Is it the amount of matches?Is it just the WrestleMania show itself?
What is it about media that justis so appealing? Because I'd probably
like the Royal Rumbles show better,but I love Media Weekend more than anything
else. Yeah, I think it'sjust the lead up for me. The

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last few years, it becomes likea season for me, and I feel
like I've watched some of my favoritemanias of all time on the WW network
are now peacock, So it's morelike I'm looking forward to all memories of
how I grew up rather than thehero and now like I do get excited,
like for Sasha Banks balcobell Ara,I can't wait for that match Roman

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Edge and Daniel Brian like that's coolwhatever, Like Okay, There's rarely any
matches nowadays that I really get huggedfor like I did years ago. I
think the last segan No, Ithink that Daniel Bryan Wrestle Media WrestleMania thirty
was the last time I was likelegitimately hyped and excited versus maybe thirty two

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because the build up was really goodfor that or thirty three. But yeah,
I mean, like recent years,it's more so the name WrestleMania than
you know, the actual superstars,all right, So I was expecting more
of a high bandser, Jason,let's get us more excited for this,
But Nick's absolutely right. It's it'skind of I get more excited around the

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WrestleMania name itself and the hoopla aroundit than I do. I guess the
actual show now because there have beenthe last one. So whatever, WrestleMania
is where we've been booing the mainevent the entire we have least heard booze
rained down, whether you're a RomanReigns fan or not. But it's it's
just it hasn't been as appealing interms of the matches, But it's just

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the weekend itself that I find great. Jason, your your favorite part of
Mania? Is there anything that justyou can't wait to see this weekend?
Yeah, it's like a celebration ofwrestling. It's like our super Bowl week,
you know what I'm saying. Andeven more so now that there are
WWE produced television shows every day betweennow and next Tuesday, which is a

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lot of wrestling, not including everythingelse that's happening around the weekend, but
just the name WrestleMania, just likethe World Series, just like the Super
Bowl, the Finals, the StanleyCup, it's wrestling fans playoffs, It's
wrestling fans Championship weekend. And thenMonday starts the brand new season the day
after WrestleMania. I didn't realize justhow many WrestleMania matches there have been three

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hundred and eighty three total in thirtyseven shows. And I know this because
a YouTube channel, culta Hollock,very good wrestling YouTube channel, just did
a five hour, eighteen minute video. I think it was God Bless ranking
them all three eighty three to one. It was an interesting watch. I

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didn't watch it in five straight hours. I broke it up throughout yesterday and
today. Matches was the worst oneon the list. Three eighty three was
Yokozu Ni versus Hull Cochin at WrestleManianine. That quote unquote match. What
worse than that? That was theno no no, But think about it,
it was it was nepotism. Youknow. He just goes mister Fuji,

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grabs the mic and says, Iwill challenge. We want to challenge
you to a match. Hogan says, Okay, Salt boot drop over.
It's just stupid. It's stupid atleast Uncle Elmer and Adriana Janics at WrestleMania
too fought for three minutes that I'lltake Sable versus Tori at WrestleMania fifteen as
the worst. But that's just me. That was in the bottom ten.

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I believe it was definitely in thebottom ten, and it gained a couple
of points because of quote Tory's coolairbrushed catsuit. What that's Look, the
dude recorded it over a year likea couple entries every day. He could
do whatever he wants. I agreewith his number one, which I won't
spoil nless you want me to.His top five is interesting. His top

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twenty five is even more interesting.But the fact that they even did it
is phenomenal. Highly recommend that.Well, yeah, that's why I met
God. Bless it like that.That's a lot of work to be doing
that and to held it out onethrough three hundred and eighty three, and
Vun already did not like three hundredeighty three, which is great. Vun,

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I want to go to you though, Man, what is it about
WrestleMania weekend? Do you like WrestleManiaweekend as much as some others? To
me, this is where I don'tlike the show. I like the weekend
of it leading up to it.But what about you that WrestleMania is just
such a big deal. Well,it's multi faceted. It's like a from
a community wrestling community standpoint, it'sthe only time of the year where there's

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like one hundred thousand wrestling fans descendingupon one city, celebrating the one thing
we all love, which is prowrestling. I know, sometimes throughout the
year we can all get a littlejaded, we all get getting get a
little negative towards wrestling, But atthe end of the day, we all
and we all get together. Wejust celebrate our fandom more than anything else,
more than an actual show itself.We just celebrate. Hey, we're
wrestling fans, and I don't getto see this many wrestling fans all in

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one place at once, So let'sjust be happy and have a good time.
And you know, and there's allthese other events around WrestleMania now where
you got independent shows, oh likea while a Mania or something like that.
So it's just a week long celebrationof just being a mark being a
wrestling fan pretty much, isn't itAlso the it's the one or a few
times where it becomes mainstream, Likewrestling is getting there. I think people

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are capitalizing and companies capitalizing like Peacockon the fact that wrestling is just this
niche kind of genre and people flockto it. But this is usually the
show and the only time of yearwhere you know, everything is covering it,
like their celebrities are going to bethere, like it's one of the
biggest shows not only of the yearand wrestling, it's just one of the
biggest shows ever and you know throughoutthe calendar year of entertainment. Yeah,

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yeah, it definitely gets definitely getsall the mainstream attention, more mainstream attention
than the other shows get. Becauseagain, like we said earlier, it's
the super Bowl of wrestling. It'sthe biggest show of the year. If
one football game gets covered all year, it's the Super Bowl. If if
there's one series that gets covered inbasketball, it's the NBA Finals. You
know, I'm saying, like it'sthe biggest of anything is gonna get covered
more than anything else. But so, but to me, it's just about
that community aspect and meeting people.Some people only see each other once a

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year of WrestleMania. So for alot of people, last year was you
know, suck because they didn't getto see a lot of their friends.
Do not say they don't have anyfriends in their normal lives, but you're
wrestling friends. Yeah, throughout theyear, and that one time of year
when we all go to WrestleMania andthey haven't seen you since last year,
Hey, let's hang out and havefun again. But for me, I
always like the aesthetics of WrestleMania becauseit looks such a different looking show than

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all the other shows, at leastww producers and pretty much any other show
that any wrestling promotion produces. Imean, there are other stadium shows out
there, but none of them quitelook like WrestleMania. It's always appreciate the
aesthetics. And again, it's likeyou said, it's our day. It's
our day to fan up and belike all right, everybody else you have
to show them. You're to talkabout how wrestling is fake and all this
other stuff that y'all think and don'tknow about. But let us have our

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dad in WrestleMania or now. Iguess it's not two days. I was
about to say our days now,our that just one day. It's our
days now. And so I'll startwith you and I'll go with Nick and
Jason. Favorite WrestleMania moment match?What is it for you? Von?
Is there a moment that you alwaysgo back to? A favorite match would
be Undertaker versus Shawn michaels A WrestleManiatwenty five. That's still to this day

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one of my favorite matches period,not just a WrestleMania match, but just
you know, any type of event. And as far as a WrestleMania moment,
I mean, oh, I don'tknow, that's tough. Just as
far as a moment, I mean, there's been so many good ones and
a lot of bad ones, butplenty of plenty, plenty of bad.

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But like I said, that matchis definitely one of the one of the
best ones. I'll go as faras moments, uh, Daniel Brian winning
the title and one ones WrestleMania thirtyAnd I know that I am of the
opinion that district should have never ended, but having been there from when it
happened, that was still a surrealmoment that I'm not sure it could ever
be replicated. That was just amoment in time that, especially being in

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the building, it was like,Okay, this is I've never seen anything
with this before in my life,and we'll probably never say anything like it
moving forward. And this one probablybecause it's on the brain for me because
I've seen they're doing something an untoldstory of this. But Edge and mcfoley
I WrestleMania when they did that,just brutal match and Edge spearing mcfoley through
burning table. That's great. I'mgonna take this moment because I know either

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Jason or Nick are gonna say it, but I'm gonna say first, Matt
Hardy and Jeff Hardy coming back inWrestleMania a few years ago is one of
the best WrestleMania moments ever. Itwas just all right, come on,
man, it was more than allright. That building Literally I thought that
building was gonna the entire arena wasjust gonna collapse. I mean, it
was just they went bonkers for theHardy Boys coming back. So I'll start

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with you, Nick, now thatyou wanted to chime in and let me
know that it wasn't that great ofa moment, your match moment? When
do you think of Mania? Whatdo you think of No, that's a
good moment. That was, youknow, low key one of my favorites,
but not near the top of thelist. I actually have my favorite
WrestleMania match, and my favorite worldtitle match happened out of WrestleMania, So

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I'll go my favorite title match wasRandy Savage and Rick Flair WrestleMania eight.
I absolutely loved everything about it,the drama, the Savage winning, like
the story leading up to it.You know, I was still a kid
and I was like hook line andsinker into it. So that was my
favorite championship match. But my favoritematch of all time happened out of WrestleMania.

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Randy Savage lo and be Old probablymy favorite wrestler of all time.
There's the theme here, yeah yeah, and his career threatening match against Saltimore
Warrior the year prior WrestleMania seven oneof my favorite, actually my favorite match
of all time. I had agreat moment too it Liz in Savage reuniting
after the match, like the story. It was my first WrestleMania watching live

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because I had become a fan inlike nineteen ninety so this is the first
one I saw live on pay perview and just thinking, like, man,
like wrestling is awesome. Even thoughyou know, I was like six
years old, I still understood,like, oh, these two love each
other, Like that's so cool.She might she must be like an old
girlfriend or something. I don't know, So like my line of thinking,

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you know, is that of ainnocent six year old. But I still
loved everything about it and it stillholds up today, which is kind of
like unheard of and professional wrestling forthings from nineteen ninety one to still hold
up thirty years later, And that'sone of them. That's actually my favorite
moment of all time too. Youknow, I have others, but that's
at the top of the list,and I don't think any anything has been

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close to replicating that for me personally. So WrestleMania seven Rady Savage and the
Ultimate Warrior, it was like thefirst time I saw finishers being kicked out
of and I was like whoa,Like this is crazy, this match is
crazy, and then Sherry turning onSavage and Liz coming in and that Gorilla
Mons sooner Bobby he been explaining becauseI didn't know who Liz was. I
started watching after you know, shekind of left TV for a little bit,

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So them explaining, you know,she used to love Savage and she
still does, and I was like, oh, like it must be an
old girlfriend. So that was definitelythe top of my list. Yeah,
and that's the thing you may nothave. And some do have their favorite
matches as WrestleMania matches, but WrestleManiamoments are always going to be our favorite
moments just because it's such, it'son it such a big stage, and

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it's it's the one that's always builtup the best, and so those moments
always are in WrestleMania are likely alwaysgoing to be our top moments. So
Jason, what is that for you? I don't know if I stole one
of yours with the Hardy Boys orif that's even close, But what about
you you think of Mania match andmoment that comes to mind? Well,
I have to say both of myfellow guests have stolen ooh ooh. The

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first one was my match was takingMichaels one from WrestleMania twenty five. But
I can add the caveat that Iwas there buddy of mine. What flew
a buddy of mine and I flewdown to Houston for Wrestlemena twenty five.
Yes, we were in the buildingfor that match. It was superb.
I have never been in a wrestlingcrowd like that, and I don't think

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I ever will again. It waslike I had given myself a migraine.
I went through such a emotional rollercoasterwatching that match live. Just absolutely awesome.
And the two matches that followed ithad no chance of being anywhere close
as far as crowd noise to thatone. Just an absolute dynamite match to

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be in the building for. Andthen one of my moments was Savage Warrior
at WrestleMania seven. I'm sad tohear that Nick did not cry like that.
Rick moranis looking kid. They keepshowing every time they play that clip.
But I actually have an underrated matchthat I feel like doesn't get enough
attention, or it does. Itgets a good amount of attention from the

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wrestling crowd, but not so muchfrom the outside crowd. And that's Brett
versus oh And at ten. Thatmatch is superb. From pillar to post,
you got your brother versus Brother Kaneversus able stuff more so I think
than the Undertaker Cane match at Wrestlingat fourteen. The Undertaker is my favorite
wrestler of all time. It wasa technical masterpiece with a very surprising finish

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that actually harkened back to a movethat Brett had used to win a match
earlier on Just an Absolute barn Burner. And I want everyone to watch that
before this weekend on Peacock Brett versusO and Wrestlingia ten. You have to
do it and then if you wantto it. Yeah, it's in season
ten of WrestleMania. The one episodeof season ten of Wrestling It is.

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It is. Yeah. I don'tknow why that it can just keep their
like have WWE just have it beits own app but powered by p Cocker?
Right? Why did it have tobe so removed from the app?
Why couldn't you just brought in theinterface. People are making a lot of
hullabaloo about how they're censoring some things. I get why they're doing it.
WWE was doing it too, butin no way to a fan who to

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a person who's not a fan ofWWE and may explore old WrestleManias, what
did you think was gonna happen whenthey found Roddy Piper versus who was it?
Uh? Oh Brown, Bad NewsBrown, Thank you, that's what
I thought. It was, RoddyPiper versus Brand News Brown. What did
you think they were gonna do?Some casual unknowing fans seeing Roddy Piper with

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half of his face painted black.Come on, people stupid like, oh
no, you get in bed withthe big time conglomerate on the NBC Universal
who don't want any type of controversiescoming in its way and mean want w
reads catalog full of controversies, includingYeah, Katie vic, I hope they
strike that from the tape forever.Yeah that the Kadievik stuff luckily was already

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struck from the network. But Isaw that excellent tweet real quick. I
saw an excellent tweet. Woe beto the man to the NBC intern who
has to find May Young giving birthto a hand good luck. Yeah,
you got necrophilia, you got ababy being punted, you got yeah,
all this stuff that WW has doneover the years. People think that NBC

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Universe is gonna be like, well, that's all right, just quality entertainment.
You're like, hell, look atthis stuff off rock stuff. This
is what so speaking about receipt speakingof the network though, and going back
and watching shows real quick, justquick answers from Michia. We'll start with
Nick, then we'll go Jason vaudUh. The amount of shows you will
end up watching this weekend, whetherit's past present, I will likely be

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in the range of about eight toten shows through indie wrestling, through NXC
Takeover and now with the two WrestleManiashows. I buy at least five indie
shows. I know spring I thinkthey're doing Spring Break this year. I
haven't even checked yet, but thereare so many pay per views I end
up buying even indie shows. Butthat's about my range. Nick. How

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how much wrestling will you be watching? I'll probably stick to my main like
five with you know, the twoNXT Takeover shows, the two WrestleManias,
and then aw I should watch moreindie wrestling. That's something that you definitely
should autely want to do moving forward, Like I even go on the Fight
TV app I try and watch.I'm really I'm really digging the NWA power

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out of their backs, like I'vealways liked that before. Covid Struck I
was. It was one of myfavorite shows, so I'll continue watching that.
But yeah, the indies, Idon't, you know, spend too
much money on. But uh,you know, something grabs my eye.
I'll definitely check it out. Jason, there are a couple of indie matches
I'm going to check out. First. I'm gonna go back and watch the

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cord Andesis NJPW from this weekend becausethe championship matches, I understand it did
not go the way I thought itwould, so I want to I want
to look at that, and Iwant to look at the post match presser
because apparently the winner of the matchcalled out two people in particular that have
people's gears turning. So there's somethingto look to do there. As far
as other indie shows, I knowthat there's a Ali kat is running a

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show called It's like Hot Wrestling girlS or something like that or Hot girl
S. I don't know the nameof the show is. But Alison ka
is taking on Jordan Grace and theyare two very good indie female wrestlers,
so I want to check that oneout. Sue Young is going into some
sort of deathmatch against a German graver. I think his name is a

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German deathmatch specialist. That's an intergenderdeath match that could be fun. And
then GCW blood Sport is finally doingJosh Barnett versus John Moxley. That one
was postponed due to COVID finally happeningI think on Wednesday or Thursday. That
is one I am definitely interested in. But as far as how many shows

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I'll watch, I'll I'll do whatI do every Monday night, and that's
have Raw on one screen of mydesktop through the Hulu Live app and then
do the other things that I doas I sort of pay attention. That'll
be RAW. I will watch bothnights of NXT, WrestleMania, the special
WrestleMania SmackDown. I'm not going tomake it a point to watch, but

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if I can tune in, Iwill. I'm hosting Night one of WrestleMania
with some buddies. I'm going toa friend's house for night too, so
I'll definitely watch those, and thenRAW and NXT next Monday and Tuesday.
So what's that. That's all.It's a lot. That's a lot.
It's a lot. It's a lotof wrestling. Happening, and I hope
my wife is okay with Yeah,I hope my sleep schedule's okay with mine.

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Von. How about you? Howmuch will you be watching going back
and digging or new stuff over theweekend. I've watched, man, I
feel like we watched a ton ofwrest on on our podcast, The Straight
Shooters as it is, so uh, I'm taking you have to kill me
on this one. I'm not watchingthat much wrestling this week. I'm sorry.
I can't. Yeah, I gotstuff to do. I will watch,
I will catch NXT, I willcatch WrestleMania both nights. But I

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want to support the independent stuff.I think in a normal circumstance I would,
but I'm busy, Yo, Ican't. There's way too much wrestling
available these days. Man, it'stoo much. I got to sleep at
some point. Ya, y'all don'twant to sleep. That means you're not
gonna buy the one hundred and fortydollars bundle for WrestleMania indie shows. You're
not gonna do that. No,and look, support the independence. I've

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gone to plenty of independent shows overthe years. So don't don't blame,
don't don't get at me too bad. I've paid money for independent shows over
the years, but uh, Idid to sleep. I'm sorry, I
gotta I gotta sleep at some point. I got I got stuff to do
in the morning. So but ifyou're out there listening, support those independence
shows if you do have time,because there's some good wrestlers out there,
some good wrestling out there, andthese promotions because of the pandemic, need

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your money because of what happened lastyear, unable to run shows. So
it's fortunate for them that they areable to run shows, as I would
encourage everyone else, if you havetime, go support them. But me,
I don't have time, so Icannot. It's just feasibly not possible
for me at this juncture in mylife. They trying to kill me out
here. I'm sorry. I know. Well, I'm one that'll like Thursday

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and Friday. I'll pick and choosemy spots based on work schedule. But
Saturday morning I will likely start ateleven am with Fi's Big Gay Brunch,
and I will be watching that,and I'll be watching every other show after
that. A heart Planet Death,I see, I see unsanctioned. There's
a ton of it, So Iwill be watching from Saturday morning all the
way up until Sunday. Even Fridaynight they have shows. Friday night is

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spring break. I mean, there'sa ton of stuff. So probably from
Friday night into Sunday night, Iwill be watching wrestling and then even Monday
night Raw after. This is oneof my favorite days of the year,
one of my favorite weekends of theyear, so I'll be watching it like
crazy. So now I want toget in to the show itself. We'll
make our picks because DraftKings is runninga WWE pool, so we're going to

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make our picks for the upcoming matchesfor both nights of WrestleMania. But I
want to start with just the excitementlevel. Let's start with Jason, your
excitement level for Mania? What hasyou interested the most? What in terms
of the two nights are you reallylooking forward to. Both women's title matches
are at the top of the uylist. Both of them are barn burners.

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I have a feeling that by theend of the weekend we will be
talking about Bianca Sasha more than oscarRea. But I think that both of
those matches will be awesome. Ihave also a big fiend Mark. I'd
lap all this supernatural stuff up.So I am curious how they're going to
top a the Firefight Funhouse match fromlast year, which is one of the

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best dissections and like insider knowledge atacts on the WWE system that's ever been
produced by them, one of thebiggest critiques on what they do, and
they made it just to just blowsyour mind. Every time you watch it,
you find something new. And sothose are my three top matches.

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But one I think that might beunderrated is Biggie Apollo Cruise. Now.
I don't know what this Nigerian drumthing is that he mentioned that Apollo mentioned
on Friday, a Nigerian drum match, whatever that means, I don't know.
But if it's a cinematic match,like out in a field somewhere and
they go they beat the crap outof each other, I'd be cool with

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that. That might be pretty fun. I don't know if they're gonna do
a lot of cinematic stuff being backin a stadium, but other otherwise,
I don't know how they could worka Nigerian drum match whatever that is,
uh into the into the live ring. So a lot of good stuff to
watch, a lot of good stuffto look out for. Braunze Druman versus

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Shan McMahon is not one of them. No, Nope, I'm not gonna
do it. Nope. Uh atthat. But yeah, I mean there's
a every every match I look atwith the exception of that, what I'm
like, Oh hey, this couldbe good. Also, get Shamous out
of WrestleMania, please, if that'sgonna be if that's gonna be his gimmick,
get the hell out of here.He looks like he looks like a
newspaper boy that's on steroids in thenineteen fifties or something. Looks it looks

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like a peaky blinder. Yeah,he looks terrible. He looks horrible,
Vaughan, I'll go with you.Then, next, what are you looking
forward to the most? What?What's your excitement level? What's what?
What kind of are you looking forwardto all four of those title matches,
Like you said, the two women'schampionship matches, and I'm looking forward to
the men's ones too. To triplethreat match. I know some people have
been making fun of the fact thatDaniel Bryan has been inserted into another triple

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threat match once again, but andit didn't I don't think anybody really clamoring
for it, but I don't dislikeit, and I think it could be
a good person for Roman Ringings thepen if he was to win the match,
so you know, keep edge outof a pen scenario. But I'm
looking forward to the to the wW Championship match too, especially because I
think, you know, it's agood chance to showcase Bobby Lashley to the

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masses. And I hope Drew doesn'tbeat him, but you know here,
you know it doesn't neither hear Norththere. So all four of those matches,
I agree with Jason in that theApollo Cruise Big E match I'm looking
forward to. I'm not quite surewhat w W is gonna do with this
Nigerian drum thing, because you can'treally give WW the benefit of the down
bound comes to Africans over the courseof years. I think they're doing good

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with Apollo so far, but youknow, Saba Simba was still a thing
that wasn't that long ago. Solet's let's see what happens there. Let's
see what happens there. But Iam I'm I'm happy for that they get
a one on one match at atWrestleMania. You know what I'm saying.
If they get the time, they'regoing to put up a phenomenal match.
Too much good. It's a greatspot for Apollo Cruise obviously, a great

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spot for Big Ee. Two guyshave been working their tails off for years.
Obviously Apollo has and he found agimmick that's been working for him and
he's got this spot that's dope,obviously, Sasha and I'd say Bianca earlier,
that's the main event night one.If it doesn't, that's a crime.
Yeah, and I'm looking forward tojust having you know, there's gonna
be fans there, uh, youknow, distancing and not as many as

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normal, but there's gonna be somefans there. W W. I'm sure
it's gonna be the do the bigsetup which we haven't really seen in what
over well over a year, wehaven't really seen a new stage and a
big setup and the long ramp.That'll be a refreshing site to see people
there again. And even though,like I said, twenty five thousand each
night, I think it is,but hopefully. What's the thing I've learned
though, is even through the PhilliesGames, just eight thousand sounds like just

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because we haven't heard it in solong. Even eight thousands sounds loud.
Twenty five thousand is gonna sound great. It takes me twenty two. Yeah,
that sounds it's gonna sound phenomenal.I can't wait to hear right,
and they're gonna be you know,hopefully all the proper safety protocols are gonna
be taken, you know, intoaccount and all that stuff. So that's
that's pretty cool because you know,there's some light at the end of the

(27:55):
tunnel, this pandemic thing, andit's good to see. Just like I
said, refreshing the phillies open inthe day, it's much better fans and
stands and then would otherwise have beenwithout them. So so that's that's what
I'm looking forward to with this year'sWrestleMania. Yeah, you can't wait for
it. Nick last one before wego here, you're listening to a WrestleMania
preview special on the line Change gettingyou ready for both nights of WrestleMania.

(28:15):
Draft Kings pool that we are goingto be making our picks in the next
segment, which is phenomenal that ww A and DraftKings have partnered up together
and now we get to talk aboutit here and Sean Brace is okay with
it? Nick, what do youyour excitement level, what you're looking for?
How excited are you and what's thematch that you're looking forward to?

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Sasha and Bianca is my that's gottabe the one is and uh it you
know, I would like to likeMain Event Night two to be like the
Pinnacle, but at the same time, as long as the main events Night
one, I think it gives themthe showcase and it ends Night one like
in a great way regardless. Sothat's what I'm looking forward to the most.

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I'm really looking forward to a singlesmatch with Bad Bunny to see how
that's going to play out. Ithink that's really I think Miz is kind
of like a perfect guy to pairwith him because I think the Miz is
going to do great in the ringwith him. I have a lot of
respect for Miz. I've come aroundon him. I think when me and
started the Straight Shooters in twenty fifteen, I hated the Miz. Once he

(29:19):
won the Interconniental title and had thatpromo on Talking Smack, I did a
complete one eighty and I've been afan of his ever since. So I
think this is a huge sign thatWW trusts him to pair him with Bad
Bunny even Damian Priest how about that. You know he'll be in his corner.
You have John Morrison there, soI'm really looking forward to that.

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That's also on night one. SoSaturday night is going to be a big
night for me because you got evenLash and McIntyre. I think that's kind
of That might not be like oneof the best matches, but as long
as you have Lastly, you know, win and continue looking dominant, that's
what he's there for. And ifyou have McIntyre one again, like I

(30:00):
don't, I don't understand what thatdoes. So those are the three matches
I want. The New Day andAJ and almost that'll be cool, something
different, you know, seeing that, and uh, just something different with
the tag teams. You know,it's tag team scene has been stale forever.
In w Shoe profits came up andlooked great, but you know,

(30:22):
since Sin's really a whole bunch ofnothing, and then Night two really nothing
stands out to be Like oscar RiaRipley should be good, the Triple Threat
main events should be good, butother than that, Kevin O and Sammy's
Am, Like, I'm looking forwardto those two always work well and uh
yeah, just night one is likemy wrestle bandia though if I had to

(30:45):
choose one of the knights, yeah, yeah, And we'll definitely get into
both nights and make the picks andeverything you say, like, I'm actually
I love both nights. I loveall the championship matches, women's and men's
both both really excited. But I'llgo with two that weren't mentioned much and
you just mentioned one of them.But I'm excited for Cesarro and Seth Rollins.
I mean they made two roh matcheseach night. I mean one for

(31:08):
each night. Cizarro Seth Rollins.I would love. I would love for
that to open the show. Lethim go thirty minutes and let him just
beat the absolute hell out of eachother, and it would be so much
fun. But then also in daynumber two, go and get Kevin Owens
and Sammy's Ain with Logan Paul inthe match as well. But this is
We've seen a lot of Sammy's Ainand Kevin Owens throughout their entire careers,

(31:32):
but I think there's one of thefew times at first times we've seen Kevin
Owens as the face and Sammy's Ainas a heel, and I feel like
they're both hitting strides with their charactersnow too. Sammy's Ain is just I
love to hate him now. He'she's such an ass, okay, and
he's dancing all the time and Idon't like it. And I theme song
I really like, and for himto make his theme song, I like,

(31:52):
such a heal move thing now isphenomenal. But Kevin Owens is a
great face, like Kevin Owens broughtback the Stunner, and he's had phenomenal
matches as a face. So Ithink those two matches I look forward to.
But again, that means we wentthrough pretty much the entire card except
none of us mentioned Riddle of Seamusthe Fiend, Randy Orton, Bronze Strowman,

(32:13):
Seae McMahon. But that's okay thosematches think, But for the most
part, I think we all agreethis is ending up. It could be.
The potential is this is a prettygood WrestleMania card and they're not doing
anything too fancy in terms of tryingto bring back Hall of famers, trying
to bring back you know, guyslike Steve Austin or Sean Michaels. They're
doing it pretty straight up with theirentire roster, and I think it's gonna

(32:36):
end up being a great show ifthey stick to that and really pull this
off. Well, I can't waitfor that, but we gotta go to
a break segment number two. Finally, our picks. The DraftKings Poll is
this weekend for WWE, and we'regoing to make our picks to maybe help
you out, or you can goagainst us, do the contrarian place.
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Welcome back to the WrestleMania Special onthe Line, Change Fox Sports the
Game. We're presented by Curre AutoInsurance. Nick Picone, Jason Bonelli,
Vonn Johnson are my guests. Onthe show today and we went through all
of our Wrestlingia stuff moments we like, things we like about Mania, the
show itself, the upcoming one,what we're excited about. But now the

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moment you've all probably been waiting for, DraftKings Pool. We have matches,
set picks to be made, andso we're going to do that right now.
And I won't even hesitate. I'lljust start, not going to to
try and pad this up. We'regonna start right now. We're gonna start
out with a great match, Czarroagainst seth Rollins. I have a hard

(34:10):
time. I would love to seeCzar winning. Maybe this is the media
moment, like they they had ZachRyder win the Intercontinental title and you know,
nobody really thought or would have caredtoo much about it, but when
he did, it was a greatmoment. Maybe Cizarrow ends up getting to
win and seth Rollins is fine andmoves on from this. But I have
a feeling seth Rowlins wins this one. Uh, Nick, who do you
think Czarro seth Rowins? It wasfunny A few weeks ago I thought I

(34:35):
looked up seth Rawlins WrestleMania record andhe's six and two, so he's got
a pretty good wrest record. I'mabout to say, break look at you
bringing up the stats. That isgreat. So this is like before I
think our WrestleMania thirty three podcast adeep dive on the straight Shooters. So
I wouldn't be surprised if Seth Rowinswins here, just so his WrestleMania record

(34:55):
it gets a little bit better.But uh, I think Czorro could use
a win here. I don't thinkSeth exactly needs it, and I would
like to see Cesorrow be pushed alittle bit further this time around, So
I'm hoping that this is the startof that and a big WrestleMania win for
Cesarrow. Jason, who do youget Cizarrow wins this match because it's his
first ever WrestleMania singles match, isit really? He has a three and

(35:22):
five record at WrestleMania, but it'shis first ever singles match on the main
card of WrestleMania. And I feellike Seth Ronalds is the kind of guy
who wants to get somebody over,like Czarro is very underappreciated in the eyes
of the wrestling faithful, and Ifeel like Seth Ronalds would be the kind
of guy to recognized that because hespends so much time on Twitter, and

(35:44):
maybe try to get Cesorrow over andgive him a nice little spotlight. I
think what we need to do here, the real bet here is the over
under on swings. How many timesCzarrow? Oh yeah? Or yeah?
How long? Like how many secondsCzarro swing? He said, I think
he goes for a hundred Wow,you do one hundred? Yeah? Good

(36:04):
lord. I think he goes he'sdone it before. He has swung a
man one hundred times before. Idon't remember what it was, but he
has done it before. And whatbetter time to try it again than in
front of twenty two thousand people ata live WrestleMania. I would get bored
with that, so I don't Ifeel like I would see that's that's one
that needs a crowd, though wejust mentioned like this crowd is there.
That's one. The crowd would gethyped up as the longer he's going.

(36:25):
If it's just there and you're justseeing a bunch of screens reacting to it,
that's not fun. Yeah, alive crowd would eat that up.
With a crowd, it's a perfecttime to attempt it. It's not something
you do in with thunderdoing. Butto answer your question, I think,
all right, Vaughan, who doyou got? I got Cizarrow. Hopefully
you know this is the start ofsomething better for Czarro, Unlike when he
wanted to Andre the Giant Memorial BattleRoyal and nothing came of it. They

(36:47):
tried, but it didn't really work, even though the Battle Royal. Now
it's not even a WrestleMania match anymore. It's a SmackDown match, so go
figure. But uh yeah, I'mgoing to sorrow. He needs to win
and seth Roland. It's gonna befine. Even with his ridiculous outfits every
week, He's gonna be fine.So all right, next one, Bronz
Stroman, Seae McMahon and a steelcage match. I honestly don't care.

(37:09):
I don't want to watch, don'tcare, but I like it should be
Stroman. But my gut is tellingme Seane McMann is gonna win this,
So I'm gonna go Shane. TheReturn of the Mean Street Posse. I
want to see God, Joey Absand just Rodney. Yeah, make it

(37:30):
happen. That needs to happen.Uh So yeah, go with Uh,
you're going with Shane McMahon, then, uh, Vaughn, we'll we'll go
with you next, Shaneman gotta gobron Stroman. And the only thing that
can salvage this match as remotely watchableor anything is if broun Stroman throws Shane
McMahon off the Pirate ship and RaymondJames stateum, that's it. If that

(37:52):
doesn't happen, to count me out. Is that why they're forcing it a
Shane match? Is that why they'redoing this? So they forore his last
name is McMahon. That's why theyforced a Shane match. So even though
trip Blace has known a card thisyear, so you know, but yeah,
he's got them off the pirate ship. Otherwise, what are we doing

(38:12):
here? Or watch off of Kevinnow as he might have Kevin O and
Sammy's a might do that Jason Braunor Shane or just not entirely. You're
just gonna skip it. You're noteven gonna pick it on the pool.
I have to pick everything. Yeah, I mean you have to do it.
Braun. Strowman I think wins thisone, and I think he does
it by just throwing Shane all throughoutthat steel cage just completely like they throw

(38:37):
him through it. Or what Iwould like is a return to the lashly
Umaga spot where from E c W, where Shane gets outside the ring somehow,
or it's after the match, maybeBraun like escapes and then goes back
in, but then Shane duck athim and Braun just jumps into the cage

(38:59):
and smashes it on top of Shane. Would be a really cool spot.
But yeah, if Braun Stroman doesn'twin this match, he is done.
This is it for Braun. Theyhave now tried different ways to have his
character and they have neutered every singleone. So if they neuter him again

(39:20):
by having him lose to Shane McMahon, that will be it, and his
legacy will be a move where heruns around the outside of a ring that
was so boring they had to addsound effects to it. No offense to
Braun, but they did. Theyadded a train noise to it for whatever
reason because they thought somebody must havebeen having some fun at the soundboard.
I don't know, but I thinkBraun needs this win. He needs to

(39:45):
win or else his character is forevershow. And that's exactly why Evince won't
let him New Day against Aj Salasand Almost. This could end up being
a really good match. I'm justgonna stick with the champs. I think
the New Day kind of rolls alonghere, and I know maybe it can
go the other way. I like, I have a feeling that it will,
but I want to stick with theNoon Day. I want to I

(40:06):
want to keep seeing them, andI think they continue their run. I
always found it weird when it's somebody'sfirst match it's out of WrestleMania, Like
they think that with Big E andlike Fandango something like that. Could you
imagine that like first thing of anything, Like, uh, you know,
your first game, you're starting everin the NFL and it's in the super
Bowl, Like have fun, goodgood luck with you. Go out there
and have some fun. Uh it'ssome fun. But yeah, who do

(40:29):
you got this? I just haveto I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go
Aj and almost. Uh you know, this is almost his first match.
You gotta showcase them somehow. Idon't think that it would be a great
showcase if you lost in this firstmatch, even though he might have.
This could be maybe the end ofa j Stoyles and omos like this could
be you know, you know,possibly he doesn't want to deal with AJ
styles anymore kind of thing. Possibly, possibly, But I'm gonna go with

(40:52):
AJ and almost nice Jason. Iam also going to go with A j
and just because I think they're goingto give a new tag team the Belts.
Now. Whether or not they actuallydo anything with that after the fact
is another story entirely. But yes, I think the New Day drop to
a new team here at Wow,everybody's going against me? Nick, Are

(41:16):
you gonna you on my side?I'm not. You're on the island by
yourself, Buddy's I just get That'sall it's gonna be. I think the
possible stories coming out of this matchare much better if AJ and A Most
wins, So I think the NewDay doesn't need the titles. I think
it's cool that they won them again. They can always win them again because
I think they're that type of teamwhere if they lose them, they can

(41:38):
win it back next month or intwo months, and it'll be like cool,
just adding to their legacy, whichI'm a fan of because they're so
unique and dynamic and as characters whereit doesn't feel old to me. When
they win the titles again for likethe fourteenth time or whatever. So AJ
and omos there could be some coolstories going on, the cool match endings

(42:01):
that could happen that they retained thetitles, and there's stuff different things,
unique things that they can do.I can't. You know, hopefully Bruce
Pittcher doesn't let me down, butI'm going agent styles. I know most
yeah, never lets you down.So that match I was the only one
that was different. So you knowwhat, I'll do it this way for
the next one. It's Bad Bunnyand the Miss Bad Bunny's going to win

(42:22):
this. Is there anybody on thispanel that on the wrestling special line Change,
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what I figured. Nick, No, Jason, No, It's gonna be

(42:43):
Bad Bunny, all right. Thatwas the I figured that was going to
be the easiest one on the card. So we'll skip through that. We
all think Bad Bunny is going towin that Damian Pries somehow gets involved and
gets the win for him. BobbyLashley Drew McIntyre. I'm gonna go with
Lashly. I think this is anopportunity. I think Nick mentioned it.
This is the opportun make Lastly looklike just a dominant star and then if
you want to have him drop atSummerSlam or later on, you know,

(43:06):
have him make a big run.But I think Bobby Lashley is going to
have the title for a while andbecome this dominant figure like he should be.
Nick, I'll let you kind ofelaborate on that, because that that's
kind of what it sounded like youwere going with. Yeah, I think
this is the moment, you know, you finally put the title on him
with no strings attached. MVP ishis mouthpiece. He's probably on one of
the best runs of his career.And Drew McIntyre like we saw that,

(43:30):
Yeah, like it was a goodrun. He did what he could last
year during COVID. I just don'tthink it's the time to just kind of
like recrown him, even though it'sin front of fans. I love,
love what they were doing with thatLastly. I really would love to see
down the road, maybe even atSummerSlam. Brock come back and you finally

(43:50):
have Lesnar versus lash League, andthat, to me, that's like the
next stream match, and hopefully ithappens within the next year at some point,
because you know, Lesner is goingto be a monster forever and Lashly
is a monster right now. Sothat's that's the like dream match that I'm
hoping for sooner or later. Jason, I think that they have booked this

(44:17):
match in order to get Drew McIntyreor a title in front of a live
crowd. I really do, becausethis year, and I agree to give
him that this year, I'm torn. I love both of these guys,
I really do. I am happyeither way whoever wins, as long as

(44:40):
it's a classic match. But Ithink that this has been booked to give
Drew his WrestleMania moment in front ofa crowd that was taken from him last
year. That's interesting, and itseems like Vaughan, You're you're kind of
the same way here. You're thinkI don't want to pick Lastly to win
because Nick, I want to seeBrock rest Bobby Lashley, and that's one

(45:00):
of those rock matches. I thinkthat the title could help it, but
I can definitely see WW as likea makeup for you know, last year
Drew winning his crowning moment happening atthe Performance Center. It's like, oh,
you know, now you can havethat moment in front of fans,
we shoot off fireworks or whatnot.It's not necessarily entitled to it, but

(45:21):
you know, it's like, hey, you know, thanks for carrying us,
you know, helping us through thepandemic. But and getting COVID himself.
He got COVID earlier this year.But I still think Lastly should win.
I mean, just put the belton him McIntyre. He can get
the belt again at some point.But to me, like they said,
the money match is Lastly versus Lesnerat some point in twenty twenty one,

(45:44):
So I need it if you ifyou want that match, and then make
it feel as big as its possible, as big as possible, you got
to have last to go over.We've already seen McIntire versus Lesner and it
was all right. But I thinkLesnar versus Lastly could be some money and
I think it could be that stylematch. I know Blashley and macintag can
go longer. They're two really goodand talented wrestlers, but it's gonna be

(46:07):
booked that way right, almost likea brock Lesner Goldberg type. You know,
five minutes two big dudes just beatingthe absolute hell out of each other.
Kind of think obviously a little bitlonger than five, but that's that's
kind of what I see, becausethen that does truly set up the Brocklesner
match. So I think it's gonnaI just want to add I could see

(46:29):
them actually doing both. You giveDrew that moment, and then maybe you
just have a rematch next month youhave lash Lee went it back and then
have if you're gonna use SummerSlam aslike the setting, you have plenty of
time to build to that if Lesliewinds up coming back. So I think
maybe you could do both and notexactly taint lash Lee's rain. Right now,

(46:49):
you give Drew that moment and youjust book it in a way that
Lashly comes right back and beats himagain down like even next month or two
months from now. So there's away that could have and that's why they
get paid the big bucks to decidehow that happens. But I could see
it. So now we're onto thewhat is likely and I think should be
and I hope it is in onehundred percent needs to be the main event

(47:14):
of the show, and that SashaBangs taking on Bianca Blair for the SmackDown
Women's Championship. You know what,is this another one of it's got to
be Bianca? Like, is thereanybody I'll give whoever wants to object to
that, let me know, Butit's all Bianca, right, Yeah,
I will say WW has booked thisfeud up until WrestleMania kind of poorly in

(47:34):
my opinion. They team up canCo Exists and they literally copy and pasting
that with real Ripley in Oscar rightnow on Raw two. Can Co exists
in all this nonsense, But thishas the main event Night one. This
is a This is like a bigdeal, not just for women's wrestling before
I think black people too. It'slike two black women in a in a
main event of WrestleMania is such abig stage for black women's wrestlers and and

(48:00):
black women who don't who I thinkare grossly underserved as an audience when it
comes to pro wrestling seeing two womenthat look like them in a major spot
like this. So regardless of whowins, I still think it's a big
deal because of its significance for youknow, everyone involved. But with that
said, Bianca has to go over. She has to. Yeah, I

(48:22):
think so, Jason, Yeah,Bianca, Nick Bianca. If Beyon bel
Air is not holding a Blue Championshipbelt above her head at the end of
Night one, there will be amassive injustice and I will be very upset
about it. Yeah, I thinkwe all would be. You're listening right
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(48:43):
tuned into the Line Change night numbertwo Now for WrestleMania. That's still a
weird whoa, that's a weird thingto say. Uh, this one rapid
fire, real quick. It gonnabe Nick, Jason Vaughn. I'm gonna
do it rapid fire because I don'tknow if anybody it should be. Okay,
we'll shame miss Nick. Will startwith you. I'll say the champion

(49:04):
retains. I'll say Riddle wins.Yeah, I think so, Jason.
I'm with you on that. Riddlegets his first WrestleMania win. Uh,
Von same. But I really don'tcare about this match. Yeah, I
don't either. I really don't nowThis next one I think should be a
lot of fun. Logan Paul's involvednow and again these two. The last
time they face, you know,it was the other way around in terms
of who was the heal and babyface, but now it's it's this should

(49:28):
be fun. I think both arehitting their stride and really cool characters at
the moment. Kevin Owens, Sammy'sAin, Nick, I'll start with you.
I'll go, oh man, I'llgo with Kevin Owens. I think
he's got a power bomb Logan Paulthrough somebody or something. But I'll go
Owens here. Yeah. I thinkmaybe he'll focus attention on Logan Paul a
little too much so Sammy's Ain getsto win, and I would love to

(49:51):
see how his character reacts to that. And I think they can get more
mileage out of that as supposed ifhe loses, so you know that conspiracy
type thing. See how they gowith that. I'll go Samy's Ain.
Nice Jason, I am going Sammyz Ain as well. I think this
feud is just there to give Sammy'sAin a little bit of a bump,

(50:13):
kind of like how Seth Rollins andCesara is going to give Cesarro a bump,
and Kevin Owens maybe had volunteer tobe like, yeah, I'll loose
to him. He's my friend.Why not vun I concur Samy's ain needs
to win great, it'd be greatfor him, so he should win.
Go Sammy. I feel like aloser right now. Well, I mean
this could go the opposite way andI'd be winning over all of you right

(50:36):
now. But this is the secondtime this has happened. Why am I
the only one on an island?Big Eie, Apollo Cruz, Biggie's going
to win this one, right,guys. The match should be great,
by the way, and I knowthere's a stipulation on it now that should
be fun, but I think ifthey do it right, it should be
a great match. But I thinkbig Ee. I know the new character
for Apollo Cruz is something they're workingon, but I don't think they're going

(50:59):
to give up on this soon.I think they're gonna really try and push
him as hard as they can.I saw him going Biggie Vaughan. I'm
going with Apollo Cruz because he's gotthis new character. I think the new
character will benefit of him being intercontinentalchampion, and he can't lose his match
first right out the gate. Hecan't. He's not Jerry. You can't
lose that Jillian Jum match. Comeon now. So Apollo's gotta win,

(51:21):
right, It's well, we've seenit before, like bray Wyatt did that
thing with Randy Orton. It's likehe lost his own match, and they
better not do that again with Apollo. I think you're right. I think
Biggie, if he loses, hecould still maybe start challenging for the Universal
title, you know soon. ButApolo's got I think would be good to
win for him here, Jason.Of course Apollo Cruise wins. Of course

(51:42):
he does. What is with youin the big e? I get where
I mean, I get where you'recoming from sort of. But no,
this is brand new character needs thebig win. Give him the rub,
give him the Icy title for awhile. He can lose it back to
Biggie if he wants. Where youmove Biggie up the card to challenge Roman
Reigns and the and the uh spoilerfirst later on in the year. But
no, Pollo Cruise has to comeout of this looking fresh. Is this

(52:06):
gonna happen again? Big? Theysplit up Biggie from the news just for
him to just to Apollo Cruise.Don't worry. I'm with you this time,
Johnn, thank you, Thank you. Apollo Cruise is lost to be
what like ten times in a row, and all of a sudden, I
don't see him just winning this oneand then ending whatever the storyline they have
with each other. I think whatevercharacter they're using Apollo Cruise for that can

(52:31):
kind of manifest itself without the title. But I do understand like the title
probably helps it, but he's lostso much to Biggy in title matches that
I don't see this just being adifferent outcome that means it's time for him
to win. I agree. Iknow that's like wrestling, uh what's the
word, right, wrestling psychology.But I also don't think that if you

(52:59):
have been he lose the title nowdoes he flounder a little bit? But
because Summer, like Summer Slam,I think we agree is like the second
WrestleMania for w W. How whatdo they do with him in the meantime
before, Like if they put himin a title match a SummerSlam, I
just I think you kind of loseit closer to that time. Maybe in
June and then maybe push him ina feud with Roman Reigns spoiler too chasing.

(53:23):
But I just don't see what ApolloCruise has right now. He's lost
like so much that to me,like him winning the ind of title will
make me look at him be like, oh job, I'll tell you what
he has. So I'll tell youwhat he has. He's got a Nigerian
accent. Now maybe that's all that'sall he needs in a Nigerian drum match.

(53:46):
Let's go, let's go quick question. Do you think this man knows
that it's not a real accent?He doesn't care, So so I did
mention before that. You know,Randy Orton and bray Wyatt had this match

(54:06):
and it was all set up andit looked like bray White was going to
win, and then Randy Orton won. The like set this whole thing up,
the feud, the match itself.They were doing these images on the
mat that that was all set upfor bray White to win and he lost.
This is all set up for thefiend to win. Does he actually
beat Orton this time? Nick,I'll start with you. I'll say yeah,
just because like I don't understand whyhe would come back all burnt to

(54:30):
a crisp and then not win.Why does Orton have to burn everything too?
It's looking like a so yeah,like I will have more of that
voodoo coming out of his mouth andor trickedum from pee wee herman. I
don't know. Gosh uh, Vonthe Fiend has to win. He has

(54:52):
a win. He's got a win. But this is so trash. I
plan on. The only way forme to enjoy this is I had to
be like four beers in. Yeah, I say, is this one either
grabbed the other beer or grabbed thesecond plate of like wings or pizza or
whatever. Is that? No,I'm I'm gonna be like four or five
in already. Probably I'm going toenjoy this here. That's the only way.

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If he only had two before themass comes on your pound two real
quick right shot shotgun him real quick? You know me get ready for the
match real quick. It sounds about. And the thing that sucks is I
love both of these guys, butthey've just botched this so hard. Jason
the Fiend, Randy Orton, whoyou got? I seem to be in
the minority that I love this supernaturalnonsense don't. Yeah, on an Island

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doesn't doesn't feel good, does it? Jason? No, it doesn't,
just because just because I've been anUndertaker fan my entire life, so I
guess some condition to it. AndI also think that Bray Wyatt, when
given the chance, is a brilliantuh is able to right himself brilliantly.
I think there's a lot of wW influence in this now which has kind
of set his character off. Course, I don't even I don't think his

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character is where he wants it rightnow. I think when he brought in
Alexa Bliss he had different ideas thento be turned into a marshmallow. But
as far as how this match goes, if the if the theme doesn't win,
what's the point? Yeah, exactly. If the theme does, it's
the same thing as brown strumming.If the theme doesn't win, he's done.
He's He's completely irreparable, and Iwill be very disappointed and also looking

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forward to Windham Rotunda and a Wall right it. Yeah, but yeah,
Jason Benelli went that far. He'sin his last year and if w
W is gonna keep hampering him creatively, why wouldn't he go with Matt Hardy
at an a W, like likeMatt Hardy did an a W and maybe

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have a little more freedom to dohis spooky nonsense. Man, you went
very far with that, and Ilike it. That's what That's what it's
fun about wrestling, taking ideas andgoing like Chris Jericho's on the Stone Cold
podcast, Does that mean we're goingto see a W somewhere in WWE?
Like, Oh, it's fun.I like all that stupid So I can
just picture it now, hay ManPage take a shot of whiskey and all
of a sudden, black suffs wasspewing out of his mouth. I can

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see it. Yes, I wantit to happen. Now. You know
what I want it to happen,Oscar Ray Ripley. So we all thought
Bianca Blair and this seems like anotherspot like Oscar is great as champion and
she's a great wrestler, but RayRipley had her shot last year, didn't
win. Now she's getting another shotfor a women's title, and I think
this time she has to do it. And wouldn't it be great Bianca Blair

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and the cross feud I think youcan get of if Bianca Blair a SmackDown
Champion Ray Ripley raw. I wouldlove them to talk trash about each other
during each show, like these twoare now going to be the new face
and we've been looking for this.It was always Becky Bailey, Sasha and
Charlie, and now Bianca and Ripleyare right there to be the next kind
of the new women to take thespotlight. And I think she wins this

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one. Vaughan, Are we goingRay Ripley here? Yes? We are.
Ria Ripley for the win. Yeah, I agree Jason one thousand percent
right much has and nothing against Osca, but I feel like this is the
ray of Ripley's crowning moment. Sheneeds to win more after last year,

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and she needs to come out lookingas strong as possible, and the only
way to do that is to bringthe champage of him. Nick one hundred
percent, Raya Ripley. You havelook Jason said earlier about Barron Strowman.
If he loses, he's done.I feel that same way about Raya Ripley.
If last year didn't happen, Iwould feel different. But she needs

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this win more than anybody on theentire roster right now because she is in
a spot where a loss to Osca, as great as Oscar is could actually
like ruin her main roster stay thisquickly. I truly believe that, because
I don't trust to make those suspectsto bring her back up to where she
should be. They've done it withOscar in a way because she her main

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roster debut run wasn't that great.But Rha Ripley needs this win more than
anybody on both nights. Yeah,I agree. All right, Now we're
getting to the final match of thenight end of WrestleMania year. Tune into
the WrestleMania Special here on the Gamblerthe line Change in Fox Sports Agamble presented

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by Cure Auto Insurance. So nowwe're getting to a triple threat match.
And first of all, I lovetriple threat matches and the fact that Edge
is in it. I've loved youknow triple threat matches back in the mid
two thousands with you know, Edgeand Triple H and Jeff Hardy. I
love it. So now we haveRoman Reigns, Edge and Daniel Brian.
Nobody thought Edge was going to winthe Rumble except for me, and I

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picked him. I'm actually going togo Edge here I think the whole switch
to the RATEDAR Superstar thing was intentional, not just you know, we need
to save the match and Edge isn'tworking as a babyface. I think this
was eventually always planning to work towardsgetting Edge back to the Ultimate Opportunists,
the RATEDAR superstar, and I thinkhe kind of rides that into a championship

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run and then you can get eitherDaniel Brian or Roman to get it back
at some point. But I thinkthis is you get Edge is the RATEDAR
superstar back to what he was andwhere that gimmick is gonna be. And
it's not like Roman Rains needs thetitle or Daniel Bryan even needs the title
for one last run. I thinkthis should really be great for Edge,
and then you can have, youknow, an up and comer or maybe

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a Big E versus Edge. Iknow Edge would love to work with Big
E, but I think you getmore opportunities with Edge the Ultimate Opportunists to
win the title. Jason will startwith you, who do you have for
the WWE Universal Championship. I haveRoman Reigns retaining and pinning Daniel. Oh.
I can't do this again. Ican't do this again. Jason,

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I can't have Roman reigns keep winning. I can't do it. Well.
No, you need to understand thatthe Roman reigns that's coming out on Sunday
is completely I know. But inmy brain Roman reignsvs. Wins and Booze,
it's just it, just what Iknow. It won't happen this,
but it's a WrestleMania tradition, andI just want it. I don't want

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Roman Rains to win. He wins. He wins too much. It's happening,
and he's pinion. He's pinning DanielBryant. So that Roman reigns and
Edge. I would be like,subconsciously just angry about that, because I've
been angry about it. Now forthe subconsciously you already are angry about it.
Please tell me it's not going tobe Roman. Please, it's going

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to be Roman. No worry,It's okay, it's okay, it's okay,
it's okay. Roman's going he's aheadof the table. He's the man
the first time in his life.He's going to get cheered at WrestleMania.
Outside of the Shield. Good forRoman is his song? Sorry, Nick,
I'm not one hundred percent positive anymore. Literally, like twenty minutes ago,

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I said, spoiler, I agreewith Jason Roman's going to be the
be the winner. But the moreI think about it, I could see,
you know, Eds or Daniel Bryantwalk it away. Roman continuing his
character arc by being like so angrythat he needs to win the title back
and kind of like changing a littlebit. I'm not sure it's the right

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move. I'd love to see himas champion. I love this character.
I don't get tired of it.I know some people have already grown tired
of it, but I haven't.But I could definitely see them no given
it to Edge or even giving itto daniel'brien and then having Roman completely annihilate
them. But you know, mygut just says they'll keep it on.
Roman reigns. The whole triple threatthing is red herring, and that's kind

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of what I'm I'm going for.I think Roman will walk away. Hey,
maybe I've been calling this for likefive months. Maybe Jimmy USO returns
and helps them, then they finallyhave him. Do you know if that's
what the DraftKings pool. I'm notsure yet if it is, but if
it's on the DraftKings Pool, doesJimmy use return? Is that a yes?
It is for me, so I'llgo welcome backs a fire. I

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can't believe I'm on an island forthe last match to go over, but
that's all right, I guess NickPacombe though, Jason and Ellie von Johnson.
I want to thank you guys forcoming off the show. We have
to wrap it up real quickly herebecause we went very long with picking the
matches for a good thing, butthank you guys, always appreciate it.
We'll get all of you up onsocials and we'll get all of our picks

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up. Check it out at FOXPHLGambler FOXPHL Gambler dot com our picks for
the DraftKings Wwe Pool for the matchesthis weekend. Enjoy WrestleMania everybody, the
granddaddy of them all, the showcaseof the Immortals, and you know,
just a heck in good time andplenty of beers and wings and pizza to

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we had thanks again to my guests. Line Change will be back on Monday
eight to eleven. But enjoy WrestleMania