April 15, 2025 • 32 mins
Join Joe Pisapia, Terrell Furman Jr., and Salvatore Stefanile as they reveal their best bets and predictions for WWE Wrestlemania!
Will heel John Cena (-210) steal the Undisputed WWE Championship belt from Cody Rhodes (+160)? Can current WWE Women's Champion Tiffany Stratton (-110) defend her title against Charlotte Flair (-130)? Plus, who will challenge Randy Orton after Kevin Owens' withdrawal?
The Pros pick their winners for the biggest professional wrestling weekend of the year!
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Intro - 0:00:00
BettingPros Discord - 0:01:50
WrestleMania Main Event Picks- 0:02:26
Women’s WrestleMania Picks - 0:12:09
Singles Matches & Other Championships - 0:18:57
Who Will Randy Orton Face? - 0:26:54
Outro - 0:31:24
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome in everybody to betting pros. It's time to place
your bets. It is be Joey P joe P Zapia,
and it's time to look ahead to wrestle Mania forty one.
That's right, WrestleMania on a holiday weekend. Okay, sure whatever,
We'll buy it because you know, we just want to
watch wrestling here and to help us make the picks
for this week. Torell Ferman Junior and Salvator Stefan Ali,
(00:23):
we're gonna be giving you our insights into WrestleMania Night one,
Night two, and it's been a wild ride. I feel
like sal is really tough to live up to last
year fortieth Anniversary WrestleMania, the Cody storyline that was running
for a couple of years. It felt like anything would
be a letdown. I'm excited about Mania, but it is
(00:44):
true it doesn't quite have the same juice compared to
last year. Would you agree?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I agree, But at the same time, we do have
heal John Cena and a trible threat with Roman Seth
and Sam Punk. So not as great as Wrestlingia forty
with Cody finishing the story. But I think, like I said,
I'm still excited for it.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Sobodyenites, let's go toroal, we haven't seen the Rock in
quite some time, so this he'll see a turn happens,
then the rock disappears. Do we get the rock showing
up here at Mania for more? I can only assume
the answers yes, right, I mean you can possibly, But like,
is that it No? I think that actually kind of
steals away from the moment, like this is yes, it's
(01:21):
the Rock and Senas teeming and we have a whole
year to tell that storyline. But right now, this is
Sena last WrestleMania, and he's taken the hard road of
doing something that he hasn't done his whole career and
turning heel and trying to make that go over at WrestleMania.
And so I think that, hey, go tell the story
whip Sena with Gody. If you've been committed to it
at this point that it's going to be your main event,
(01:43):
stay committed to it, and we'll talk about the Rock
in Sena and that relationship over the next twenty twenty
five and see how it goes all. Right, before we
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discord at bettingpros dot com slash Chat. Let's start with
(02:25):
the main events. Let's just jump right into it. Night two,
John Cena is the favorite minus two ten. That makes
sense to me. Why are we gonna turn John Cena
heel if we're not going to see it through a
little bit. It seems like a crazy thing to have
Cody go over. He is plus one sixty to win
this one. On the Championship on Night two and then
Night one, the main event. CM Punk is the favorite
(02:47):
at minus one ninety to win his first WrestleMania main event.
The Paul Hyman favor is cashed in seth rowlinds a
plus one seventy five and Roman reigns at plus two fifty.
So here's the interesting part here, boys, because for me,
with these two matches, you know, especially this trios match here,
I'm looking at the triple threat and saying to myself,
(03:07):
seem Punk has been on record saying that he wants
to be on his back, he wants to be the
guy that puts other guys over at this point, but
it kind of feels like the best business is for
him to get a victory and maybe a feel good moment,
because if Sena's gonna win Night two does not exactly
a feel good moment, see him, Punk winning is kind
of the feel good moment. And then you've got another
championship match here too, jay Usso the heavy favorite minus
(03:30):
six hundred to the Thrown Gun to at plus three fifty,
which I'm still not buying. So here are my picks here.
I'm going with Sena the Chalk at minus two ten,
Punk at minus one ninety, both heavily favorites. But the
Sina one Again, why do we turn them heel if
we're not going to pull the trigger here on the
championship run as heel John Cena, but then I'm gonna
go a gun through a plus three fifty. I know
we've had a lot of emotions here with the USO
(03:53):
brothers and all this stuff going on there, but I
think this is more about making gun through the Uber
Heel than it is about giving jay Us a chance
to be champion. So I think we can make a
lot of money on this gun. They're one at plus
three fifty, and Triple H does like the long title reigns.
So Terrell, give us your picks here for these three
big matches leading into WrestleMania weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
All right, well, I completely disagree with you. I don't
think they pulled the trigger with Sena, And I mean
you gotta think Sena said he's taking that championship. He's
blowing his kiss and he's walking out the crowd. He's
not going out the door with the championship Like that's
not happening. And as we've seen in the beginning part
of this run, Sena can't be trusted to be with
(04:37):
WW over the course of this entire year. I mean, now, Granted,
he did say we're gonna do about forty to fifty
shows or whatever, and that's when he was still babyface
John Cena. But heal John Cena. Heal John Cena works
whenever he wants, doesn't matter if that's somebody that you
want to have a title, like you were saying, all
of that, and that's why you don't want Roman to
have the title, because Cody's the workhoaset Cordy is gonna
(04:58):
be there all the time, Cody's doing all their appearances
all that. You're gonna strip that and give it to
Seena and Sena's gonna do the exact same thing. I
don't think so. I think this is a Cody gets
his defining moment defending the title at WrestleMania. He has
not defended the title at WrestleMania yet every major champion
has gotten that defining moment of walking in and out
of WrestleMania with the title. I think this is Cody
(05:19):
here and he as John Cena. It's his repertoire of
amazing superstars that he's been able to beat.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
All right, so you are taking Cody and then in
the triple threat match, you're taking Roman reign. So let's
hear the thought process behind this one.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah, I think this just this building building more heat
between Seth Rollins and see I'm Punk here. I understand
the Paul Hayman thing, and I could make a case
for Seth Rollins and maybe Seth Rollins Cash is in
his favor. I don't know how I stopped myself from
doing something terrible to you and you owe me a favor, like,
I don't know how that works, but yeah, give me Roman.
(05:52):
I'm sticking with my guy, and this is my guy.
As much as I like Punk, I think Punk gets
his WrestleMania moment winning a title, not winning a threat match.
So that's the reason I ended up going Roman and
then I close out. Yeah, the heat against Gunther is cool,
but they want to play that theme song and they
want to play it. And he told us in the
beginning of the year on Instagram he's winning the World
Hide to win Swain twenty five j U so does it?
(06:14):
He wins it at Menia.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I don't know, man, I think once that match got
bumped down the card, I don't know where it's gonna be,
but it's gonna be on last It's gonna be first. Yes,
you know what, I think you shock everybody right out
of the gate, and you give him a nice big
gunther Strong win and then that's great because if Punk wins,
then you have both those guys on raw and that's
ready made for Summer Slam. And I think that would
(06:36):
put a lot of rear ends in the seats because
now you got two nights of Summer Slam, hot WrestleMania,
as my friend likes to call it. So Sal, let's
get your take here, because Torell's on a whole different
page than I am. We agree on nothing so far.
So where are you at with these? This makes it
a fun show here. Where are you at with these
three big time matches?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I think I might veer off the path to both
of you guys a little bit. I'm going with Sina.
I want to see heal Sina win. I want to
see he'll seen a sprinter belt come back. There's a
couple of size storyline though. He would win this seventeenth belt,
breaking in Rick Flair's record that he's tied with. He'd
also become second place in sole possession of the most
Russell Media wings, which I didn't know until researching this.
(07:16):
Right now, he's tied with Triple h to ten apiece.
We had no undertakers twenty five, so Cina wins, he
get eleven, we get a decent Sena. He'll turn with
the championship belt, which I think eventually he will return
to babyface mode at some point before he's gone. So
just getting the chance to see a hell Sena version
would be kind of cool. But Sina winning I think
ties into cim Punk winning. I think that Punk and
(07:39):
Sina it's going to be the Summer of Punk and
those two are actually going to fight his Summer Slam.
They had a great feedback in twenty thirteen. You know
the last time they had one on one singles match,
I believe Raw twenty thirteen, which was for the number
one Contendership belt, which Sena won, and then he eventually
faced the Rock at WrestleMania winning belt. Then the one
thing that I'm most intrigued about with this triple threat
(08:01):
matches who's Paul Hayman going to leave with, because there's
been some chatter that he might leave with seth rawlins
at the end of the night for themself. Punk wins.
Maybe that leads rings and Seth to be a one
to one feed over basically the ownership of Paul Hayman.
I'm not sure, but that could be a way. The
custody of Paul Hayman on a pole match, a simple
(08:24):
transition to continue that feud one on one outside of
the main events scene. And then as for jay Usso
and Gunter, I was kind of finding Jausi's run since
winning Roll Rumble a little bit lackluster. I know there
was some botches, wasn't great life work, but we know
that the crowd is behind him. He has the yeat.
(08:44):
But that promo last week on Raw where he's like
I'm not afraid of you anymore and standing up to
Gunther the that is what brought me back to the side. Okay,
I think, yeah, like, I'm not going to bet it
because the odds are just juice.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
How you brought that up minus seven hundred.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Now, I don't think Gunther loses it WrestleMania two years
in a row. I don't think Triple H is booking
him that way. Triple H loves Gunther and he should
because he is arguably that future heel champion that you
were going to build as a marquee guy, and you're
not giving to the marque this year. He didn't give
it to him last year. He had him job out
to Sammy's A, which was fine, it was fun, it
was a feel good moment. I don't think you get
(09:24):
it two years in a row. And on top of that,
I think it's time for Cody to chase a little
bit too. So it just makes sense to me to
have Sena go over. Let's see what happens. Let's see
it's an opportunity for Sena to have some of these
other matches. Like I said, with CM Punk, with some
other guys on this roster, you want to do the
Randy Orton thing one more time on the opposite end
of the spectrum now with Randy Orton as the good guy. Okay,
(09:46):
I'm here for it. Maybe we could do that. But
to me, at this stage in the game, I think
it's Sena. I think it's Gunther for sure. Punk. That
one is the one where it could go a lot
of different ways, which is going to make that a
really fun match, and that, my friends, is good booking.
We don't know where it's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I think the Sena angle, there's only one reason that
you could you could sell me on Sena getting is done.
It is if he just blatantly straight up sheets and
screws Cody Roading.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Well, I think that's.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Exactly what Because you got to think about this last thing.
Sena hasn't won a singles match since twenty eighteen, right,
and I'm surprised they haven't brought that up in the feud.
And that's why I pushed this match further down my
card of what I'm interested to see, because it's like
Sina not being there full time. There was a whole
lot more that I feel like they could have did
with it. And for one, Cody's talking about he can't wrestle,
(10:32):
he doesn't want to match a singles match. That's twenty eighteen.
That should have been one of the top things that
came out of your mouth.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I was looking on it interesting that Rains went from
the odds on favorite when the line's open, to being
the long shot in this match. Now.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Well, because I think Roman doesn't need this w and
you have two optiontunity. You either swerve everybody with problems
or you give people the quote unquote feel good moment.
And if you're not gonna give it what j as
in the beginning, which I don't think you're going to again.
I just can't see Gunter Key continuously being the guy
that loses every WrestleMania. What are we doing with.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
This, guys, it's twice, it's only twice.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
That would be in a row too much. Nope, Nope,
it hurts. It hurts the guy that's a guy who
can make money on in the future. I don't care
make T shirts and sunglasses. Jay us So sells he's
not a main event guy. I don't care if you
call yourself main event. And I like jay us So,
I'm a fan. I'm rooting for him, but I'm rooting
for Gunter in this match. I'm rooting for jay us
as a career.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
This is where this goes. This is going to gun
through Cody down the road for the w W Championship,
and Gunther's chase is gonna be when he switches brands
and goes for w W Championship because Cody is the
guy that embarrassed him.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I'll take it a step further. I think that Royal
Rumble is going to be for the championship in Saudi Arabia.
That's what I think and I think that's where you
might get either Cody winning it back or Gunter winning
it or something like that. So you know, I could
even see how pimp would it be if John Cena
retires as a heel champion right in December, just walks
off and gives up the belt and then it's up
(11:59):
for grabs. You know, this audio Arabian audience, they want
these big moments there, and they're getting royal rumble. We
haven't had a Royal Rumble four the championship in a
lot of years now, so just putting that out there.
The other thing is good for business is reality and
we've got a little bit of that with Charlotte Flair
and Tiffany Stratton lately. So Tiffy gets buried a couple
weeks ago into promo by Charlotte Flair, clearly out of
(12:20):
her depth there, Charlotte clearly taking advantage of her with
more experience on live TV. Tiffy Fire's back very entertaining.
I like it now all of a sudden. A few
that didn't have a lot of juice now I'm into it.
I was into it on paper. In practice it sucked
last two weeks. I'm here for it now Tiffany Stratton
and minus won ten. Currently right now, Charlotte Flair is
(12:41):
the favorite at minus one thirty. Then you have Bianca
bel Air in a triple threat match here with Eosky
and Rhea Ripley. Ripley plus two hundred, EO plus one twenty,
but Bianca the favorite at minus one oh five. Some
people still feel this is a little forced triple threat match,
but I don't care. Three spectacular athletes. I want to
see it. And then Jade Cargill and the other big
(13:01):
women's match, the heavy favorite against Naomi at plus three
point fifty for Naomi to win minus six hundred on
Jade Cargill. So let's run down Terrell's picks here, because
I think you and I might see a little bit
more eye to eye at least on one of these things.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Tarrell.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Yeah, and that's Bianca bell Air is going to be
able to walk out saying that she's still undefeated at
WrestleMania and that she wins the title. And we sparked
this year long feud. We talked about it in the
Royal Rumble show that we did. We don't want them
to fast track. A Ria Ripley and Bianca bell Air feud.
(13:38):
That's why I was kind of pushing for, Hey, maybe
we pushed this down the line, but no making it
a triple threat match where you could potentially have neither
one of them taking the pin, or it could be
Ria and that could be Ria's all right, I'm going
off of the cliff moments. So I'm really really interested
in the feud that is going to be fuming between
these two superstars because it's shown the promos that hey,
(14:01):
this isn't gonna end at MANI this is gonna be
a long term thing. So I think they need to
protect the Bianca Bellair WrestleMania streak here. I like Bianca
bell Air to be able to take it home. Give
me Tiffany Stratton also to be able to get it
done here. I'm tired of Charlotte Flair. That's me. I'm
tired of Charlotte Flair. I have really it's been a
long time since I've been interested in Charlotte Flair. I
think it's because when you talk about the four Horsemen
(14:23):
and what they're all doing right now, they've all had
different character arcs, and then Charlotte Flair is the same
person every single time, which I gotta respect you never
switched up, true, but it's just not the thing for me.
I think Tiffany is the new young talent here they
want to push. Tiffany gets a big WrestleMania moment and
begins another little lengthy championship rain here and then finally
(14:47):
closing things out. I like Jade Cargill unfortunately, as much
as I would love Naomi to finally get her WrestleMania moment,
and I think this would be some really really good
heat towards Naomi to get a dub here and propel
her sooner. It doesn't have work that fast, Like I
think Naomi can still get a championship opportunity later down
the line and lose this match. I think this is
the moment that you bring in Jade from AW and
(15:07):
give her her WrestleMania moment on the big stage as
a singles competitor. So I like Jay Cargill to get
it done.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, it makes a lot of sense to me that
that Jade win so much sense that I'm wondering, is
there a way out of it? You know, that's going
to be interesting from a story to projective forward. Sal
I agree with Derrell I think Bianca is the way
to go here at minus one oh five some markets,
you're getting minus one fifteen on her. So where are
you at with the women's match for the championship, the
(15:35):
triple threat and then give me your take on Charlotte
Flair or Tivity Stratton and then the Jade Cargill Naomi match.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah, I think we can make a three for three
sweep with Bianca. It's a weird calling Yoskaya transitional chat,
but it seems like they did that on purpose, so
Ria didn't have to drop the belt the Bianca WrestleMania
hopefully setting up a long term feud between Bianca and Rhea,
and in the interim, I think Bianca will have a
feud with either the winner of Jade Cargo Naomi whoever
comes victorious from that, before Bianca settles on a real
(16:04):
long term And then plus there's the big stat Bianca's
three to oh and singles Mania title match with beating
Sasha Banks, being Becky beating Oscar, So I think she's
gonna make it four o there for Tiffany Stratton Charlotte Fair,
I'm going with Tiffany. This has been such a train
wreck of a build up for any match I can
remember in recent memory for Mania, but Charlotte Flair attacking
(16:28):
her in the parking lot last week on SmackDown really
brought home that no soap opera angle of wrestling. But again,
there's no need for Charlotte to win this match. She
doesn't need the belt again other than the fact that
she's Charlotte for that's the only reason she would win.
Tiffany Stratton win that WrestleMania would make her bonafide main
event champion and give her a great WrestleMania moments. I'm
going with Tiffany for that one. For the Jade Cargo
(16:49):
and Omi matchup, even though the odds you would more
money betting on Naomi, I think this is the Jade
Cargo moment. She's gonna win. She's gonna show that she's
just a badass. You could take any buddy out in
the division. It's her time. And like I said, Bianca
and Jay would make like a good short term feud.
How they get there, I don't know yet, because technically
there's still friends, I believe, but no, it's wrestling. They
(17:11):
can find a way to make that work. So that's
how I'm going with those three women's matches.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Well, we all agree on Bianca.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I'm gonna just bet Naomi blind. I just, you know,
can do the old tell Firman Junior, just close my
eyes and bet it, because there's no value on Jay Cargill.
And maybe there's just a bigger storyline where maybe she
technically wins the match but gets her ass kicked anyway,
so everybody comes out smelling like roses. So there's a
way out of this where one gets the w here
and the other gets the rub and I think that
(17:40):
you might be able to still pull that off. We'll
see if they can figure it out. I'm sticking with
Charlotte Flair here minus one thirty, and my reason is,
I don't know if this win makes Tiffany the bigger
star yet. I think what we want to do is
we're finally interested in something now with these two and
Charlotte Flair winning and then Tiffy having to chase, I
(18:00):
think that really puts people even more in the Tiffany
Stratton inside, not that they're not already compared to Charlotte Flair.
She's got incredible heat right now. She almost has that
go home heat. That's how much heat she's got. I
feel like you could stretch this out a little longer.
You could do three matches here with them all the
way into SummerSlam and blow it off this feud at SummerSlam.
And I think that would actually elevate Tiffany Stratt more.
(18:21):
That would make her a bigger deal in the universe,
have her chase. She's been kind of weird as a babyface,
as the good guy. But if Charlotte Flair wins, that
is really easy for everybody to get behind her, even
if you are on the fence with Tiffany Stratton. And
I'd like to see that, and I think she could
learn a lot from working with her. I think physically
that match could be really great too. And if they
can put whatever personal stuff aside, even if they can't,
(18:45):
you know who cares. You've got that background behind just
out of Brett Hart. I remember quite a few Brett
Hart Shawn Michael's matches that were pretty spectacular, and those
guys couldn't even be in the same room together more
often than not in the mid nineties. All right, let's
get to some other matches here on the WrestleMania car.
We got raymis stereo the favorite minus one fifty against
some lucienor I don't know who. It is, a Grande Americano, Chad.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Gable, not Chad Gable. We saw him at Chad Gable.
First of all, sorry to cut you off, Joe, because
I just have to say this for a second, like
I understand this guy really really looks like Chad Gable.
I get it. But we legit saw Chad Gable and
him in the same spot at the same time. And
I'm not letting that go, Like you have to explain
(19:26):
that to me. Who was there somebody else that was
in Who was that? Who was that guy?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I don't know, but I'm here for it and I
want to see. And that's why I'm taking a Grande
Americano at plus one ten because I want to see it.
Raymons Teriro doesn't need a victory. He needs to, you know,
do the honors here. Drew McIntyre heavy favorite. There's no
value here. He is minus fifteen hundred against Damian Priest.
I don't see any area where we don't get Drew
McIntyre over here. He deserves it. He has had a
(19:54):
great twenty twenty four. This is not the best way
to start him in twenty twenty five. My pinion going
back to the pre situation, but it is what it is.
We're pass it. Then you have a fun one where
Dominic Mysterio is actually the favorite in this fatal four
way for the Internet Continental Championship. Here you have him
at winus won seventy five, bron Breaker plus three fifty,
Finn Balor plus six hundred, and then Penta kind of
(20:14):
in the middle at plus one fifty. Now it'll be
fun to make a new star with Penta, But at
the same time, I kind of want to see Live
and Raquel hold these tag team championships and then Dominic
have a belt. I think that's a fun little run
for all of them to have some hardware. And it's
easy to do because bron Breaker doesn't have to take
the pin in this match. You can pin Finn Balor
in this match if you want, and that's an easy scenario.
(20:37):
And then that makes a lot of heat between him
and Finn Balor. That to me is the booking there.
And lastly, one more, Jacob fought two another heavy favorite
here minus seven hundred against La Knight. So just to
run down my picks here, I've got Grande Americano at
plus one ten. I'm passing because Drew McIntyre's winning, so
just holding my money. And then Dominic Masterira at minus
one seventy five. Yeah, I actually think that is correct,
(20:58):
and fat two is a pass two because I do
think it's time to put the belt on him. So
let's let you go first on this one too. Let's
start with El Grande Americano and work our way down
here your picks for these less value here, less intrigue,
but opportunities nonetheless to wager.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, I'm going with Americano Grande because he's got the
plus money odds just gonna make more beny on him
and it extends that feud of Americana Grande and the
rest of Raymisterio's crew. Maybe Dragon Lee is next. The
one interesting thing about this is if Mysteria were to
win and give him ten Mania wins all of all time,
So there is that in the back of my mind
that'd be kind of cool to see.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Damian Priest and Drew Magnetire again.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I'm just going with the guy with the longer odds
plus six hundred as a long shot bet. Either person
can win. I think It's kind of a toss.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Up in my mind.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I'm not as into the idea that this is a
Drew Magntyre runaway as you two might be, but Priest
is also a top guy. Would make him look like
a million bucks coming out of a street fight win
in Vegas. Again, the end plus six hundred ods is
just too entice to pass up. I'm going with another
long shot in that four way match, which I think
could be the match of the weekend. Honestly, it's really
cool to see you three really young guys in Mysterio
(22:06):
and Penta and Braun going up against the veteran Finn Dollar.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I think the.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Reason why I'm going with Finn, I think this is
like a thank you to Finn for winning the inaugural
w W Universal title way back when and then having
to relinquish it less than twenty four hours, like he
was going to be the face of your raw for
a bit there, and I mean, you can't go wrong
with a veteran in that role and all the young
guys chasing him. Then it elevates Breaker maybe to go
(22:32):
into the main event scene, and a feud with Dominic
and Finn over the summer would be kind of fun
to see those two going back and forth. And now
the odds actually went from plus five to fifty to
plus eight hundreds, so Valor is an even bigger long shot.
Now I'm again I'm with you with Jacob Fattu. There's
no value in betting on him. His odds actually dropped
from five to fifty to four hundred. But this is
like the initial step in the essential of Jacob fatsu
(22:53):
is just like a beast in the main event scene.
There's no way Ellen Knight is winning this match.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yeah, I agree, all right, thrill, Let's get your takes
on these matches. Let's start with Raymisterio and some American
Lucia Door, whoever it might be.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yeah, I no, really, I have no idea who that
guy is because it can't be Chad Gable because again
I saw Chad Gable on screen, and I saw El
Grande Americano on screen, So part of me wants to
say that that's gonna be how this ends, because we
still don't know who that extra person is, and that
is like legitly an extra person there. But I do really,
really think that Grande Americano has had lwo's number leading
(23:31):
up all the way up until this point, ever since
he came back. And if I know anything about wrestling,
you normally don't get to dominate a feud from start
to finish, like there's always some give and take there,
and there hasn't been any gift from our Grande Americano.
So I think Raymonsterio is gonna win this one. Actually, somehow,
some way, Raymonds Stereo win have his little moment and
they'll unmask on Grande Americano to show us somebody. Who
(23:55):
it is. I don't know, but they'll show us somebody,
and that's how this ends. With the unmasking of Grande America,
we figure out who that person really is. So Drew
McIntire's getting the win here because Drew McIntire does deserve it,
and they've also get protected Damien Priese long enough, so
that is meaningful when Drew mckintire pins him. Damien Priese
has been pinned one time six October, and that was
(24:16):
in the elimination chamber after Drew mckintire kicked his head
off his shoulders, so they've been very good protecting him
and saying that hey, we are pushing Damian Priest into
the upper echelon of the main roster, and Drew McIntire
getting a win on him is really really significant. And
then we go into the Bounty Hunter Drew mckintire phase
that we're all ready for, where he starts attacking the
(24:37):
bloodline again and it probably starts building some heat for
the ventual Roman and Drew part, whatever it is at
this point, so I think that we are leading towards
that next After that, I am going to take Dominic
mysterio to get the dub here, because yeah, let's go.
It's time for the Finn Balor face turn. And there's
no better face turn than Dom turning on Finn, which
(25:02):
forces him to turn face because everybody hates dom and
that would be amazing for me. I think Fenn Balor
is ready to move on for the Judgment Day, get
back into the main event picture and finally get that championship.
And if you look at every single WrestleMania leading up
to this point, we've had a change and a shift
in the Judgment Day. Last year, it was Damian Priest
(25:23):
winning the WrestleMania and that begun the heat between him
and Finn and ultimately breaking up the group there over
the course of that year. The year before was when
Finn the Demon got the Battle against Edge, and Edge
probably should have lost that match, but he didn't, and
it ended up sending Judgment Day down a whole different trajectory.
I think Dom winning the title off of Finn doing
(25:44):
something dashurally winning off of Finn sends Finn out, the
group brings in a new member. Has Dom been talking
about for weeks weeks weeks, weeks weeks, So I'm not
gonna forget about that, and we'll see what it looks like.
But I think Dom actually does win out as champion.
He's garnered enough heat to be able to have a belt,
and then of course, come on clean sweep on Jacob Fatsu.
Is time, It's time, And this is pretty much going
(26:06):
how I predicted because we didn't need Jacob Fatsu versus
Solo as everybody was trying to make a scene for
the WrestleMania. Let's build that storyline out longer, longer, longer, longer.
Let's watch the two, especially what the title does to
the tu because Solo kind of thinks he's in charge,
but you're not in charge if you don't have the belt.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah, I like it I'm here for Fatu. I'm definitely
here for the Thomas tiro one too. I think it
just makes a ton of sense.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
You know, he's been.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
A reliable source here of crowd engagement for quite some time.
Putting a belt on him is only going to increase that.
And then with him and Live and raquels this little trio.
I agree, let's break up the judgment day. Let's move
on good stuff there. I'm excited to see what Drew
McIntyre has in store next, So let's give him a
big summer Slam push, please, I know, all right. Lastly,
(26:54):
here the unfortunate news that broke a couple of weeks ago,
ban to Kevin Owens was not going to be healthy
enough to perform at wrestling. Very disappointing. It also leaves
Randy Orton without a partner to dance with. So Nick
Aldis is at minus one ten, you had Alistair Black
at two to one, Solo at four to one. Ludwig Kaiser,
who deserved better. I mean he should be. I mean
he's been so great, Ludwig Kaiser, MVP Loki just want
(27:17):
to say twenty twenty five for me Goldberg ten to one.
That's not happening. Ruce f ten to one. I understand
the Alistair black one like, okay, a big moment bringing
him back, but I don't know if that's the mode
we're in. I like to see all this, So I'm
just gonna say, this is what I want to see.
Because the guy was NWA champion. You brought him in,
he's just been this GM character to give him a
(27:37):
WrestleMania moment to kind of crown his career. Especially, they
treated his wife like crap, who's been so good for
that company for so many years, and between putting her
stuff in a trash bag when they fired her one
of these times, and then bringing her back for the
LFG show only to replace her with the Undertaker's wife
next year. Come on, bro, can we give the Aldis
(27:58):
family a w here? That's what I want?
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Terrell?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Who is going to be Randy Orton's opponent? Again, we
don't know as a recording this. We'll see if we
get definitive knowledge on that later tonight. We're recording on Monday.
Who will Randy Orton face at Mania?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Solo? I said it, it should be Solo. Solo deserves
a WrestleMania moment Solo had a great year. He carried
SmackDown while everything was going off Alpha Mania and nobody
was really interested, and everybody was like, all SmackDown officially,
the B show not interesting enough, Cody's not doing it enough.
But Solo provided some very real heat, and you have
to respect the worker that he is all the house shows,
(28:34):
taking the pen all of like, he's doing all the
grunt and dirty work that you're supposed to do as
a superstar. And so now there's actually a story to
be told. I told this Tosal before. There's a story
to be told here. There's actually real heat here. And
it's not like they're faking some few to try to
get a match going, or it's gonna be like seth Rollins,
don't keep me Waitingang doal cap me waiting? Guys like, No,
(28:58):
this is an actual, real few that they can build upon. Now.
Some people don't like Solo so and they think that
Randy is so much better than Solo to have a moment,
But Solo is being pushed through the company and he's
gonna be big one day. This is a very very good,
defining moment for Solo's career.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I think it's even a loss is still defining moment,
and a loss to Orton, okay, but I.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Don't is he guaranteed a loss. He's not guaranteed the loss.
Randy hasn't won a singles match in a pay per
view in a long time, and it's because of the fact,
well pole, and it's because of the fact that he's
so fine taking the pin, he's so fine putting other
people over. And I feel like, when you give Randy
that big win it was supposed to be Kevin Owens,
giving Randy finally his win over Kevin Owens, and in
(29:39):
a big win at a pol, I think, hey, all right,
really good. But Solo, you might be like, we could
wait for Randy another cycle, give him some more time,
give us something more meaningful, and we could just push
Solo by giving him a really, really good win against
Randy Orton. So I think Solo is gonna be the match,
all right, sal, what's the match?
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Orton's only eight and eleven at rest Mania, so he
doesn't even have a winning record in his career there,
so he's taken the many, many losses. For me, there's
only two choices, Nick all this and Soul's code. They
are the only two that have had any real interactions
on screen with Randy Orton. Randy bringing in Mickey James
name on screen make it a little bit personal. That'd
be kind of cool to see Nick all the stand
(30:18):
up for his Nose family and you know, take on
the great Randy Orton and WrestleMania. But I'm going with
Solo because of the plus money odds at plus one
twenty five and the fact like Solo has been he
had a really great end of twenty twenty four. He's
really improved, especially on the MIC. He's like actually fun
to watch he has, he's entertaining. So I think that's
the match right there at Solo and Randy Orton. I
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will say I was surprised. There's one name that wasn't
on the list of potential opponents, and that was Sammy's Ay,
and I thought maybe he could come back.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
And it's kind of weird because him and Kevin have such.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Like best friends, best enemies dynamic that he wasn't even
on the odds list, So he could be a dark shot.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
I bet Online decised updates odds.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
At some point, it feels like we're gonna see him, right,
I think he has.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
To appar at least I hope so.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
But I mean he clearly was going to in the
Kevin Owens and Randy or Mags, but now it's like
what happens to Sammy Well?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
See, I mean, look, I'm not mad if it's Alista
Black or Russ either. I mean, we're participating both of
those guys showing up and probably the raw and the
SmackDown after Mania.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
But who knows.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
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or two. But we'd love to hear your predictions. To
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Welcome in everybody to betting pros. It's time to place
your bets. It is be Joey P joe P Zapia,
and it's time to look ahead to wrestle Mania forty one.
That's right, WrestleMania on a holiday weekend. Okay, sure whatever,
We'll buy it because you know, we just want to
watch wrestling here and to help us make the picks
for this week. Torell Ferman Junior and Salvator Stefan Ali,
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we're gonna be giving you our insights into WrestleMania Night one,
Night two, and it's been a wild ride. I feel
like sal is really tough to live up to last
year fortieth Anniversary WrestleMania, the Cody storyline that was running
for a couple of years. It felt like anything would
be a letdown. I'm excited about Mania, but it is
(00:44):
true it doesn't quite have the same juice compared to
last year. Would you agree?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I agree, But at the same time, we do have
heal John Cena and a trible threat with Roman Seth
and Sam Punk. So not as great as Wrestlingia forty
with Cody finishing the story. But I think, like I said,
I'm still excited for it.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Sobodyenites, let's go toroal, we haven't seen the Rock in
quite some time, so this he'll see a turn happens,
then the rock disappears. Do we get the rock showing
up here at Mania for more? I can only assume
the answers yes, right, I mean you can possibly, But like,
is that it No? I think that actually kind of
steals away from the moment, like this is yes, it's
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the Rock and Senas teeming and we have a whole
year to tell that storyline. But right now, this is
Sena last WrestleMania, and he's taken the hard road of
doing something that he hasn't done his whole career and
turning heel and trying to make that go over at WrestleMania.
And so I think that, hey, go tell the story
whip Sena with Gody. If you've been committed to it
at this point that it's going to be your main event,
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stay committed to it, and we'll talk about the Rock
in Sena and that relationship over the next twenty twenty
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the main events. Let's just jump right into it. Night two,
John Cena is the favorite minus two ten. That makes
sense to me. Why are we gonna turn John Cena
heel if we're not going to see it through a
little bit. It seems like a crazy thing to have
Cody go over. He is plus one sixty to win
this one. On the Championship on Night two and then
Night one, the main event. CM Punk is the favorite
(02:47):
at minus one ninety to win his first WrestleMania main event.
The Paul Hyman favor is cashed in seth rowlinds a
plus one seventy five and Roman reigns at plus two fifty.
So here's the interesting part here, boys, because for me,
with these two matches, you know, especially this trios match here,
I'm looking at the triple threat and saying to myself,
(03:07):
seem Punk has been on record saying that he wants
to be on his back, he wants to be the
guy that puts other guys over at this point, but
it kind of feels like the best business is for
him to get a victory and maybe a feel good moment,
because if Sena's gonna win Night two does not exactly
a feel good moment, see him, Punk winning is kind
of the feel good moment. And then you've got another
championship match here too, jay Usso the heavy favorite minus
(03:30):
six hundred to the Thrown Gun to at plus three fifty,
which I'm still not buying. So here are my picks here.
I'm going with Sena the Chalk at minus two ten,
Punk at minus one ninety, both heavily favorites. But the
Sina one Again, why do we turn them heel if
we're not going to pull the trigger here on the
championship run as heel John Cena, but then I'm gonna
go a gun through a plus three fifty. I know
we've had a lot of emotions here with the USO
(03:53):
brothers and all this stuff going on there, but I
think this is more about making gun through the Uber
Heel than it is about giving jay Us a chance
to be champion. So I think we can make a
lot of money on this gun. They're one at plus
three fifty, and Triple H does like the long title reigns.
So Terrell, give us your picks here for these three
big matches leading into WrestleMania weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
All right, well, I completely disagree with you. I don't
think they pulled the trigger with Sena, And I mean
you gotta think Sena said he's taking that championship. He's
blowing his kiss and he's walking out the crowd. He's
not going out the door with the championship Like that's
not happening. And as we've seen in the beginning part
of this run, Sena can't be trusted to be with
(04:37):
WW over the course of this entire year. I mean, now, Granted,
he did say we're gonna do about forty to fifty
shows or whatever, and that's when he was still babyface
John Cena. But heal John Cena. Heal John Cena works
whenever he wants, doesn't matter if that's somebody that you
want to have a title, like you were saying, all
of that, and that's why you don't want Roman to
have the title, because Cody's the workhoaset Cordy is gonna
(04:58):
be there all the time, Cody's doing all their appearances
all that. You're gonna strip that and give it to
Seena and Sena's gonna do the exact same thing. I
don't think so. I think this is a Cody gets
his defining moment defending the title at WrestleMania. He has
not defended the title at WrestleMania yet every major champion
has gotten that defining moment of walking in and out
of WrestleMania with the title. I think this is Cody
(05:19):
here and he as John Cena. It's his repertoire of
amazing superstars that he's been able to beat.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
All right, so you are taking Cody and then in
the triple threat match, you're taking Roman reign. So let's
hear the thought process behind this one.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah, I think this just this building building more heat
between Seth Rollins and see I'm Punk here. I understand
the Paul Hayman thing, and I could make a case
for Seth Rollins and maybe Seth Rollins Cash is in
his favor. I don't know how I stopped myself from
doing something terrible to you and you owe me a favor, like,
I don't know how that works, but yeah, give me Roman.
(05:52):
I'm sticking with my guy, and this is my guy.
As much as I like Punk, I think Punk gets
his WrestleMania moment winning a title, not winning a threat match.
So that's the reason I ended up going Roman and
then I close out. Yeah, the heat against Gunther is cool,
but they want to play that theme song and they
want to play it. And he told us in the
beginning of the year on Instagram he's winning the World
Hide to win Swain twenty five j U so does it?
(06:14):
He wins it at Menia.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I don't know, man, I think once that match got
bumped down the card, I don't know where it's gonna be,
but it's gonna be on last It's gonna be first. Yes,
you know what, I think you shock everybody right out
of the gate, and you give him a nice big
gunther Strong win and then that's great because if Punk wins,
then you have both those guys on raw and that's
ready made for Summer Slam. And I think that would
(06:36):
put a lot of rear ends in the seats because
now you got two nights of Summer Slam, hot WrestleMania,
as my friend likes to call it. So Sal, let's
get your take here, because Torell's on a whole different
page than I am. We agree on nothing so far.
So where are you at with these? This makes it
a fun show here. Where are you at with these
three big time matches?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I think I might veer off the path to both
of you guys a little bit. I'm going with Sina.
I want to see heal Sina win. I want to
see he'll seen a sprinter belt come back. There's a
couple of size storyline though. He would win this seventeenth belt,
breaking in Rick Flair's record that he's tied with. He'd
also become second place in sole possession of the most
Russell Media wings, which I didn't know until researching this.
(07:16):
Right now, he's tied with Triple h to ten apiece.
We had no undertakers twenty five, so Cina wins, he
get eleven, we get a decent Sena. He'll turn with
the championship belt, which I think eventually he will return
to babyface mode at some point before he's gone. So
just getting the chance to see a hell Sena version
would be kind of cool. But Sina winning I think
ties into cim Punk winning. I think that Punk and
(07:39):
Sina it's going to be the Summer of Punk and
those two are actually going to fight his Summer Slam.
They had a great feedback in twenty thirteen. You know
the last time they had one on one singles match,
I believe Raw twenty thirteen, which was for the number
one Contendership belt, which Sena won, and then he eventually
faced the Rock at WrestleMania winning belt. Then the one
thing that I'm most intrigued about with this triple threat
(08:01):
matches who's Paul Hayman going to leave with, because there's
been some chatter that he might leave with seth rawlins
at the end of the night for themself. Punk wins.
Maybe that leads rings and Seth to be a one
to one feed over basically the ownership of Paul Hayman.
I'm not sure, but that could be a way. The
custody of Paul Hayman on a pole match, a simple
(08:24):
transition to continue that feud one on one outside of
the main events scene. And then as for jay Usso
and Gunter, I was kind of finding Jausi's run since
winning Roll Rumble a little bit lackluster. I know there
was some botches, wasn't great life work, but we know
that the crowd is behind him. He has the yeat.
(08:44):
But that promo last week on Raw where he's like
I'm not afraid of you anymore and standing up to
Gunther the that is what brought me back to the side. Okay,
I think, yeah, like, I'm not going to bet it
because the odds are just juice.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
How you brought that up minus seven hundred.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Now, I don't think Gunther loses it WrestleMania two years
in a row. I don't think Triple H is booking
him that way. Triple H loves Gunther and he should
because he is arguably that future heel champion that you
were going to build as a marquee guy, and you're
not giving to the marque this year. He didn't give
it to him last year. He had him job out
to Sammy's A, which was fine, it was fun, it
was a feel good moment. I don't think you get
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it two years in a row. And on top of that,
I think it's time for Cody to chase a little
bit too. So it just makes sense to me to
have Sena go over. Let's see what happens. Let's see
it's an opportunity for Sena to have some of these
other matches. Like I said, with CM Punk, with some
other guys on this roster, you want to do the
Randy Orton thing one more time on the opposite end
of the spectrum now with Randy Orton as the good guy. Okay,
(09:46):
I'm here for it. Maybe we could do that. But
to me, at this stage in the game, I think
it's Sena. I think it's Gunther for sure. Punk. That
one is the one where it could go a lot
of different ways, which is going to make that a
really fun match, and that, my friends, is good booking.
We don't know where it's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I think the Sena angle, there's only one reason that
you could you could sell me on Sena getting is done.
It is if he just blatantly straight up sheets and
screws Cody Roading.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Well, I think that's.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Exactly what Because you got to think about this last thing.
Sena hasn't won a singles match since twenty eighteen, right,
and I'm surprised they haven't brought that up in the feud.
And that's why I pushed this match further down my
card of what I'm interested to see, because it's like
Sina not being there full time. There was a whole
lot more that I feel like they could have did
with it. And for one, Cody's talking about he can't wrestle,
(10:32):
he doesn't want to match a singles match. That's twenty eighteen.
That should have been one of the top things that
came out of your mouth.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I was looking on it interesting that Rains went from
the odds on favorite when the line's open, to being
the long shot in this match. Now.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Well, because I think Roman doesn't need this w and
you have two optiontunity. You either swerve everybody with problems
or you give people the quote unquote feel good moment.
And if you're not gonna give it what j as
in the beginning, which I don't think you're going to again.
I just can't see Gunter Key continuously being the guy
that loses every WrestleMania. What are we doing with.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
This, guys, it's twice, it's only twice.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
That would be in a row too much. Nope, Nope,
it hurts. It hurts the guy that's a guy who
can make money on in the future. I don't care
make T shirts and sunglasses. Jay us So sells he's
not a main event guy. I don't care if you
call yourself main event. And I like jay us So,
I'm a fan. I'm rooting for him, but I'm rooting
for Gunter in this match. I'm rooting for jay us
as a career.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
This is where this goes. This is going to gun
through Cody down the road for the w W Championship,
and Gunther's chase is gonna be when he switches brands
and goes for w W Championship because Cody is the
guy that embarrassed him.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I'll take it a step further. I think that Royal
Rumble is going to be for the championship in Saudi Arabia.
That's what I think and I think that's where you
might get either Cody winning it back or Gunter winning
it or something like that. So you know, I could
even see how pimp would it be if John Cena
retires as a heel champion right in December, just walks
off and gives up the belt and then it's up
(11:59):
for grabs. You know, this audio Arabian audience, they want
these big moments there, and they're getting royal rumble. We
haven't had a Royal Rumble four the championship in a
lot of years now, so just putting that out there.
The other thing is good for business is reality and
we've got a little bit of that with Charlotte Flair
and Tiffany Stratton lately. So Tiffy gets buried a couple
weeks ago into promo by Charlotte Flair, clearly out of
(12:20):
her depth there, Charlotte clearly taking advantage of her with
more experience on live TV. Tiffy Fire's back very entertaining.
I like it now all of a sudden. A few
that didn't have a lot of juice now I'm into it.
I was into it on paper. In practice it sucked
last two weeks. I'm here for it now Tiffany Stratton
and minus won ten. Currently right now, Charlotte Flair is
(12:41):
the favorite at minus one thirty. Then you have Bianca
bel Air in a triple threat match here with Eosky
and Rhea Ripley. Ripley plus two hundred, EO plus one twenty,
but Bianca the favorite at minus one oh five. Some
people still feel this is a little forced triple threat match,
but I don't care. Three spectacular athletes. I want to
see it. And then Jade Cargill and the other big
(13:01):
women's match, the heavy favorite against Naomi at plus three
point fifty for Naomi to win minus six hundred on
Jade Cargill. So let's run down Terrell's picks here, because
I think you and I might see a little bit
more eye to eye at least on one of these things.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Tarrell.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Yeah, and that's Bianca bell Air is going to be
able to walk out saying that she's still undefeated at
WrestleMania and that she wins the title. And we sparked
this year long feud. We talked about it in the
Royal Rumble show that we did. We don't want them
to fast track. A Ria Ripley and Bianca bell Air feud.
(13:38):
That's why I was kind of pushing for, Hey, maybe
we pushed this down the line, but no making it
a triple threat match where you could potentially have neither
one of them taking the pin, or it could be
Ria and that could be Ria's all right, I'm going
off of the cliff moments. So I'm really really interested
in the feud that is going to be fuming between
these two superstars because it's shown the promos that hey,
(14:01):
this isn't gonna end at MANI this is gonna be
a long term thing. So I think they need to
protect the Bianca Bellair WrestleMania streak here. I like Bianca
bell Air to be able to take it home. Give
me Tiffany Stratton also to be able to get it
done here. I'm tired of Charlotte Flair. That's me. I'm
tired of Charlotte Flair. I have really it's been a
long time since I've been interested in Charlotte Flair. I
think it's because when you talk about the four Horsemen
(14:23):
and what they're all doing right now, they've all had
different character arcs, and then Charlotte Flair is the same
person every single time, which I gotta respect you never
switched up, true, but it's just not the thing for me.
I think Tiffany is the new young talent here they
want to push. Tiffany gets a big WrestleMania moment and
begins another little lengthy championship rain here and then finally
(14:47):
closing things out. I like Jade Cargill unfortunately, as much
as I would love Naomi to finally get her WrestleMania moment,
and I think this would be some really really good
heat towards Naomi to get a dub here and propel
her sooner. It doesn't have work that fast, Like I
think Naomi can still get a championship opportunity later down
the line and lose this match. I think this is
the moment that you bring in Jade from AW and
(15:07):
give her her WrestleMania moment on the big stage as
a singles competitor. So I like Jay Cargill to get
it done.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, it makes a lot of sense to me that
that Jade win so much sense that I'm wondering, is
there a way out of it? You know, that's going
to be interesting from a story to projective forward. Sal
I agree with Derrell I think Bianca is the way
to go here at minus one oh five some markets,
you're getting minus one fifteen on her. So where are
you at with the women's match for the championship, the
(15:35):
triple threat and then give me your take on Charlotte
Flair or Tivity Stratton and then the Jade Cargill Naomi match.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah, I think we can make a three for three
sweep with Bianca. It's a weird calling Yoskaya transitional chat,
but it seems like they did that on purpose, so
Ria didn't have to drop the belt the Bianca WrestleMania
hopefully setting up a long term feud between Bianca and Rhea,
and in the interim, I think Bianca will have a
feud with either the winner of Jade Cargo Naomi whoever
comes victorious from that, before Bianca settles on a real
(16:04):
long term And then plus there's the big stat Bianca's
three to oh and singles Mania title match with beating
Sasha Banks, being Becky beating Oscar, So I think she's
gonna make it four o there for Tiffany Stratton Charlotte Fair,
I'm going with Tiffany. This has been such a train
wreck of a build up for any match I can
remember in recent memory for Mania, but Charlotte Flair attacking
(16:28):
her in the parking lot last week on SmackDown really
brought home that no soap opera angle of wrestling. But again,
there's no need for Charlotte to win this match. She
doesn't need the belt again other than the fact that
she's Charlotte for that's the only reason she would win.
Tiffany Stratton win that WrestleMania would make her bonafide main
event champion and give her a great WrestleMania moments. I'm
going with Tiffany for that one. For the Jade Cargo
(16:49):
and Omi matchup, even though the odds you would more
money betting on Naomi, I think this is the Jade
Cargo moment. She's gonna win. She's gonna show that she's
just a badass. You could take any buddy out in
the division. It's her time. And like I said, Bianca
and Jay would make like a good short term feud.
How they get there, I don't know yet, because technically
there's still friends, I believe, but no, it's wrestling. They
(17:11):
can find a way to make that work. So that's
how I'm going with those three women's matches.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Well, we all agree on Bianca.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I'm gonna just bet Naomi blind. I just, you know,
can do the old tell Firman Junior, just close my
eyes and bet it, because there's no value on Jay Cargill.
And maybe there's just a bigger storyline where maybe she
technically wins the match but gets her ass kicked anyway,
so everybody comes out smelling like roses. So there's a
way out of this where one gets the w here
and the other gets the rub and I think that
(17:40):
you might be able to still pull that off. We'll
see if they can figure it out. I'm sticking with
Charlotte Flair here minus one thirty, and my reason is,
I don't know if this win makes Tiffany the bigger
star yet. I think what we want to do is
we're finally interested in something now with these two and
Charlotte Flair winning and then Tiffy having to chase, I
(18:00):
think that really puts people even more in the Tiffany
Stratton inside, not that they're not already compared to Charlotte Flair.
She's got incredible heat right now. She almost has that
go home heat. That's how much heat she's got. I
feel like you could stretch this out a little longer.
You could do three matches here with them all the
way into SummerSlam and blow it off this feud at SummerSlam.
And I think that would actually elevate Tiffany Stratt more.
(18:21):
That would make her a bigger deal in the universe,
have her chase. She's been kind of weird as a babyface,
as the good guy. But if Charlotte Flair wins, that
is really easy for everybody to get behind her, even
if you are on the fence with Tiffany Stratton. And
I'd like to see that, and I think she could
learn a lot from working with her. I think physically
that match could be really great too. And if they
can put whatever personal stuff aside, even if they can't,
(18:45):
you know who cares. You've got that background behind just
out of Brett Hart. I remember quite a few Brett
Hart Shawn Michael's matches that were pretty spectacular, and those
guys couldn't even be in the same room together more
often than not in the mid nineties. All right, let's
get to some other matches here on the WrestleMania car.
We got raymis stereo the favorite minus one fifty against
some lucienor I don't know who. It is, a Grande Americano, Chad.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Gable, not Chad Gable. We saw him at Chad Gable.
First of all, sorry to cut you off, Joe, because
I just have to say this for a second, like
I understand this guy really really looks like Chad Gable.
I get it. But we legit saw Chad Gable and
him in the same spot at the same time. And
I'm not letting that go, Like you have to explain
(19:26):
that to me. Who was there somebody else that was
in Who was that? Who was that guy?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I don't know, but I'm here for it and I
want to see. And that's why I'm taking a Grande
Americano at plus one ten because I want to see it.
Raymons Teriro doesn't need a victory. He needs to, you know,
do the honors here. Drew McIntyre heavy favorite. There's no
value here. He is minus fifteen hundred against Damian Priest.
I don't see any area where we don't get Drew
McIntyre over here. He deserves it. He has had a
(19:54):
great twenty twenty four. This is not the best way
to start him in twenty twenty five. My pinion going
back to the pre situation, but it is what it is.
We're pass it. Then you have a fun one where
Dominic Mysterio is actually the favorite in this fatal four
way for the Internet Continental Championship. Here you have him
at winus won seventy five, bron Breaker plus three fifty,
Finn Balor plus six hundred, and then Penta kind of
(20:14):
in the middle at plus one fifty. Now it'll be
fun to make a new star with Penta, But at
the same time, I kind of want to see Live
and Raquel hold these tag team championships and then Dominic
have a belt. I think that's a fun little run
for all of them to have some hardware. And it's
easy to do because bron Breaker doesn't have to take
the pin in this match. You can pin Finn Balor
in this match if you want, and that's an easy scenario.
(20:37):
And then that makes a lot of heat between him
and Finn Balor. That to me is the booking there.
And lastly, one more, Jacob fought two another heavy favorite
here minus seven hundred against La Knight. So just to
run down my picks here, I've got Grande Americano at
plus one ten. I'm passing because Drew McIntyre's winning, so
just holding my money. And then Dominic Masterira at minus
one seventy five. Yeah, I actually think that is correct,
(20:58):
and fat two is a pass two because I do
think it's time to put the belt on him. So
let's let you go first on this one too. Let's
start with El Grande Americano and work our way down
here your picks for these less value here, less intrigue,
but opportunities nonetheless to wager.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, I'm going with Americano Grande because he's got the
plus money odds just gonna make more beny on him
and it extends that feud of Americana Grande and the
rest of Raymisterio's crew. Maybe Dragon Lee is next. The
one interesting thing about this is if Mysteria were to
win and give him ten Mania wins all of all time,
So there is that in the back of my mind
that'd be kind of cool to see.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Damian Priest and Drew Magnetire again.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I'm just going with the guy with the longer odds
plus six hundred as a long shot bet. Either person
can win. I think It's kind of a toss.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Up in my mind.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I'm not as into the idea that this is a
Drew Magntyre runaway as you two might be, but Priest
is also a top guy. Would make him look like
a million bucks coming out of a street fight win
in Vegas. Again, the end plus six hundred ods is
just too entice to pass up. I'm going with another
long shot in that four way match, which I think
could be the match of the weekend. Honestly, it's really
cool to see you three really young guys in Mysterio
(22:06):
and Penta and Braun going up against the veteran Finn Dollar.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I think the.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Reason why I'm going with Finn, I think this is
like a thank you to Finn for winning the inaugural
w W Universal title way back when and then having
to relinquish it less than twenty four hours, like he
was going to be the face of your raw for
a bit there, and I mean, you can't go wrong
with a veteran in that role and all the young
guys chasing him. Then it elevates Breaker maybe to go
(22:32):
into the main event scene, and a feud with Dominic
and Finn over the summer would be kind of fun
to see those two going back and forth. And now
the odds actually went from plus five to fifty to
plus eight hundreds, so Valor is an even bigger long shot.
Now I'm again I'm with you with Jacob Fattu. There's
no value in betting on him. His odds actually dropped
from five to fifty to four hundred. But this is
like the initial step in the essential of Jacob fatsu
(22:53):
is just like a beast in the main event scene.
There's no way Ellen Knight is winning this match.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yeah, I agree, all right, thrill, Let's get your takes
on these matches. Let's start with Raymisterio and some American
Lucia Door, whoever it might be.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yeah, I no, really, I have no idea who that
guy is because it can't be Chad Gable because again
I saw Chad Gable on screen, and I saw El
Grande Americano on screen, So part of me wants to
say that that's gonna be how this ends, because we
still don't know who that extra person is, and that
is like legitly an extra person there. But I do really,
really think that Grande Americano has had lwo's number leading
(23:31):
up all the way up until this point, ever since
he came back. And if I know anything about wrestling,
you normally don't get to dominate a feud from start
to finish, like there's always some give and take there,
and there hasn't been any gift from our Grande Americano.
So I think Raymonsterio is gonna win this one. Actually, somehow,
some way, Raymonds Stereo win have his little moment and
they'll unmask on Grande Americano to show us somebody. Who
(23:55):
it is. I don't know, but they'll show us somebody,
and that's how this ends. With the unmasking of Grande America,
we figure out who that person really is. So Drew
McIntire's getting the win here because Drew McIntire does deserve it,
and they've also get protected Damien Priese long enough, so
that is meaningful when Drew mckintire pins him. Damien Priese
has been pinned one time six October, and that was
(24:16):
in the elimination chamber after Drew mckintire kicked his head
off his shoulders, so they've been very good protecting him
and saying that hey, we are pushing Damian Priest into
the upper echelon of the main roster, and Drew McIntire
getting a win on him is really really significant. And
then we go into the Bounty Hunter Drew mckintire phase
that we're all ready for, where he starts attacking the
(24:37):
bloodline again and it probably starts building some heat for
the ventual Roman and Drew part, whatever it is at
this point, so I think that we are leading towards
that next After that, I am going to take Dominic
mysterio to get the dub here, because yeah, let's go.
It's time for the Finn Balor face turn. And there's
no better face turn than Dom turning on Finn, which
(25:02):
forces him to turn face because everybody hates dom and
that would be amazing for me. I think Fenn Balor
is ready to move on for the Judgment Day, get
back into the main event picture and finally get that championship.
And if you look at every single WrestleMania leading up
to this point, we've had a change and a shift
in the Judgment Day. Last year, it was Damian Priest
(25:23):
winning the WrestleMania and that begun the heat between him
and Finn and ultimately breaking up the group there over
the course of that year. The year before was when
Finn the Demon got the Battle against Edge, and Edge
probably should have lost that match, but he didn't, and
it ended up sending Judgment Day down a whole different trajectory.
I think Dom winning the title off of Finn doing
(25:44):
something dashurally winning off of Finn sends Finn out, the
group brings in a new member. Has Dom been talking
about for weeks weeks weeks, weeks weeks, So I'm not
gonna forget about that, and we'll see what it looks like.
But I think Dom actually does win out as champion.
He's garnered enough heat to be able to have a belt,
and then of course, come on clean sweep on Jacob Fatsu.
Is time, It's time, And this is pretty much going
(26:06):
how I predicted because we didn't need Jacob Fatsu versus
Solo as everybody was trying to make a scene for
the WrestleMania. Let's build that storyline out longer, longer, longer, longer.
Let's watch the two, especially what the title does to
the tu because Solo kind of thinks he's in charge,
but you're not in charge if you don't have the belt.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah, I like it I'm here for Fatu. I'm definitely
here for the Thomas tiro one too. I think it
just makes a ton of sense.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
You know, he's been.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
A reliable source here of crowd engagement for quite some time.
Putting a belt on him is only going to increase that.
And then with him and Live and raquels this little trio.
I agree, let's break up the judgment day. Let's move
on good stuff there. I'm excited to see what Drew
McIntyre has in store next, So let's give him a
big summer Slam push, please, I know, all right. Lastly,
(26:54):
here the unfortunate news that broke a couple of weeks ago,
ban to Kevin Owens was not going to be healthy
enough to perform at wrestling. Very disappointing. It also leaves
Randy Orton without a partner to dance with. So Nick
Aldis is at minus one ten, you had Alistair Black
at two to one, Solo at four to one. Ludwig Kaiser,
who deserved better. I mean he should be. I mean
he's been so great, Ludwig Kaiser, MVP Loki just want
(27:17):
to say twenty twenty five for me Goldberg ten to one.
That's not happening. Ruce f ten to one. I understand
the Alistair black one like, okay, a big moment bringing
him back, but I don't know if that's the mode
we're in. I like to see all this, So I'm
just gonna say, this is what I want to see.
Because the guy was NWA champion. You brought him in,
he's just been this GM character to give him a
(27:37):
WrestleMania moment to kind of crown his career. Especially, they
treated his wife like crap, who's been so good for
that company for so many years, and between putting her
stuff in a trash bag when they fired her one
of these times, and then bringing her back for the
LFG show only to replace her with the Undertaker's wife
next year. Come on, bro, can we give the Aldis
(27:58):
family a w here? That's what I want?
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Terrell?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Who is going to be Randy Orton's opponent? Again, we
don't know as a recording this. We'll see if we
get definitive knowledge on that later tonight. We're recording on Monday.
Who will Randy Orton face at Mania?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Solo? I said it, it should be Solo. Solo deserves
a WrestleMania moment Solo had a great year. He carried
SmackDown while everything was going off Alpha Mania and nobody
was really interested, and everybody was like, all SmackDown officially,
the B show not interesting enough, Cody's not doing it enough.
But Solo provided some very real heat, and you have
to respect the worker that he is all the house shows,
(28:34):
taking the pen all of like, he's doing all the
grunt and dirty work that you're supposed to do as
a superstar. And so now there's actually a story to
be told. I told this Tosal before. There's a story
to be told here. There's actually real heat here. And
it's not like they're faking some few to try to
get a match going, or it's gonna be like seth Rollins,
don't keep me Waitingang doal cap me waiting? Guys like, No,
(28:58):
this is an actual, real few that they can build upon. Now.
Some people don't like Solo so and they think that
Randy is so much better than Solo to have a moment,
But Solo is being pushed through the company and he's
gonna be big one day. This is a very very good,
defining moment for Solo's career.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I think it's even a loss is still defining moment,
and a loss to Orton, okay, but I.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Don't is he guaranteed a loss. He's not guaranteed the loss.
Randy hasn't won a singles match in a pay per
view in a long time, and it's because of the fact,
well pole, and it's because of the fact that he's
so fine taking the pin, he's so fine putting other
people over. And I feel like, when you give Randy
that big win it was supposed to be Kevin Owens,
giving Randy finally his win over Kevin Owens, and in
(29:39):
a big win at a pol, I think, hey, all right,
really good. But Solo, you might be like, we could
wait for Randy another cycle, give him some more time,
give us something more meaningful, and we could just push
Solo by giving him a really, really good win against
Randy Orton. So I think Solo is gonna be the match,
all right, sal, what's the match?
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Orton's only eight and eleven at rest Mania, so he
doesn't even have a winning record in his career there,
so he's taken the many, many losses. For me, there's
only two choices, Nick all this and Soul's code. They
are the only two that have had any real interactions
on screen with Randy Orton. Randy bringing in Mickey James
name on screen make it a little bit personal. That'd
be kind of cool to see Nick all the stand
(30:18):
up for his Nose family and you know, take on
the great Randy Orton and WrestleMania. But I'm going with
Solo because of the plus money odds at plus one
twenty five and the fact like Solo has been he
had a really great end of twenty twenty four. He's
really improved, especially on the MIC. He's like actually fun
to watch he has, he's entertaining. So I think that's
the match right there at Solo and Randy Orton. I
(30:40):
will say I was surprised. There's one name that wasn't
on the list of potential opponents, and that was Sammy's Ay,
and I thought maybe he could come back.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
And it's kind of weird because him and Kevin have such.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Like best friends, best enemies dynamic that he wasn't even
on the odds list, So he could be a dark shot.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
I bet Online decised updates odds.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
At some point, it feels like we're gonna see him, right,
I think he has.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
To appar at least I hope so.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
But I mean he clearly was going to in the
Kevin Owens and Randy or Mags, but now it's like
what happens to Sammy Well?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
See, I mean, look, I'm not mad if it's Alista
Black or Russ either. I mean, we're participating both of
those guys showing up and probably the raw and the
SmackDown after Mania.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
But who knows.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
One thing is for sure there will be a swerve
or two. But we'd love to hear your predictions. To
drop your comments below, give us your picks. Who are
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Speaker 4 (31:52):
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Speaker 1 (31:52):
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