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Oh yeah, welcome back everybody to a...
Just when we thought we were done with wrestling, we decided to come right back again.
Well we'll see, we'll see if we'll follow up with this because there are potential implications
that we might have to watch Wrestlemania for at least...
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We said that last year, like this was going to be the end.
Yeah, I mean we did.
See, and this is why we're fucking marks, because wrestling keeps doing this to us and we still...
Guess what?
We said we're going to quit wrestling 19 times in the last fucking 10 years.
And yet we're still here in 2025 watching.
But this one pissed me off.
This shit pissed me off because people are sucking off the WWE creative for the monumental moment.
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Oh wow, you did the one thing everybody completely expected to happen at some point.
Yeah.
And I will say this, the John Cena thing, he was already a heel.
Everybody's saying all this shit about, oh he's never...
They're kind of playing this weird narrative.
He did some interview with that fucking idiot that we were just talking about.
Chris Van Vliet.
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Yeah, and he was saying about how, oh yeah, I think there's...
He just recorded this interview in the beginning of February with him and he's like, oh yeah,
I've never been a heel in my career, blah, blah, blah.
And they're pushing this narrative that he's never been a heel.
And I'm like...
So what was the doctor's synonymous?
Yeah, he started off as a fucking heel.
That was the whole gimmick was he was an asshole and then he got over and then people loved him
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and then you started sending him to make a wish and then you never wanted him to be a
bad guy again because you would lose out on the make a wish money.
So I get it, but we can't be pulling this now that, oh, all of a sudden John Cena's
just some fucking bad guy all of a sudden.
Listen, in reality and in real life, John Cena's been a bad guy for many fucking years.
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He blew us all off to go fucking pursue Hollywood, stopped wrestling, came around.
He became that part-timer fucking asshole.
That he complains so much about with The Rock.
Yes, exactly.
And then it is that phrase, you the die the hero, you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
The Rock has done it.
Everyone's done it.
The only one that really kind of hasn't done is Stone Cold like Steve.
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Stone Cold has fucked off from wrestling and has fucked off.
When he fucked off, that was it.
He's come back for the 30-year anniversary of Raw.
He's come back for the 10-year swings for WrestleMania.
That weird match between him and Kevin Owens.
Yeah, but other than that, he's basically just fucked off.
And I appreciate that, all right, which in my mind, he's the goat, all right, for that.
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He just he fucked off and he's like, I'm good.
Yeah, dude, I think at this point, at this juncture, Stone Cold is officially the goat.
For The Rock to self-insert himself three months before WrestleMania when nobody asked.
We had our plays, right? Everybody was kind of they were setting up the pieces for what the WrestleMania matches are going to be.
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And then, you know, The Rock comes in like the WWE documentaries about WCW falling apart and himself, himself inserting himself.
So I told the WWE creative, I need to put I need to be in this documentary because I need to somehow make this about me.
Yeah, I need to make this documentary about this company I was never involved in somehow about me.
Right. And they were like, you know what? We got you, fam. Put you don't worry.
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We got you. And the worst part is, man, there was a portion within, I think, elimination chamber itself where they glazed fucking The Rock,
where they talked about the movies that he's been in, the the numbers that they've done, the millions of dollars he's he's made.
I what is that? Who gives a shit? I didn't ask for this. We're talking about wrestling, wrestling.
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It's that thing that you always like to say. Cool. No one asked.
Thanks for telling me. But we don't go fuck.
Just to go over the pay per view itself, because I don't remember the fucking the exact fucking matches.
But we had the women's elimination chamber match, which, you know, I have to say it wasn't like completely fucking terrible.
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Bianca Belair wins that.
We also had Tiffany Stratton and you, of course, it's fucking in Toronto. So, you know, Trish Stratus is going to fucking be involved.
So at what point was she because we kind of fell off. But at what point was she shoehorned into a tag match?
I have no idea. I don't even remember because I still kind of like see the results every week for Smackdown and Raw.
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I just kind of see. I also want to watch the Jacob Fattu promos and stuff. Yeah.
And just see kind of shit here and there. And I don't remember this.
I remember them advertising like saying this was going to be a thing.
I mean, we knew when she she it was expected she was going to be in the women's Royal Rumble because of their they were in Canada and that she was she came out and she was like a I don't know, fucking entrant in that.
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But. Then go to Toronto, you knew that's where she's from. Like, of course, she's going to be there somehow.
I thought she would have been like the host or something, but they put her in a match, you know, whatever.
I didn't. I kind of fast forwarded through it.
I don't give a shit. The unsanctioned match between Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn. That was cool.
I didn't have a problem with it. Pretty decent moments. Yeah, there was some decent moments.
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Sami Zayn doing a blue thunder bomb on two chairs that had barbed wire around it. Yeah, that was pretty cool.
And I mean, after Kevin Owens basically just getting. Repeat loss to fucking Cody Rhodes for the title.
Oh, OK. But now he's better than Sami Zayn, though. So you'll get to get that down. But this has been done before.
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I agree. They've done this many times. This this whole storyline between the two of them, it's played out.
It is. It's it's it's it's what can it say that you can't say about Afghanistan? It's bombed out and depleted.
All right. It's terrible. I mean, NXT, it started that way. Yeah. He he fucking we didn't buckle bombing,
but he threw him against the side of the ring. The ring and that put Kevin Owens.
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Well, I mean, or it puts Sami Zayn, I think out and then Kevin Owens became champion, all that shit.
And then he makes the jump to run all that shit. So in the rest of history.
But this has just been an ongoing thing. Two or three years ago, it was the exact same thing with Sami Zayn being part of the bloodline.
And now it's just between them that they're fighting again. But whatever. Yeah. Not really.
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God, man. Drew McIntyre has really he just get like he's getting screwed.
But like, man, he does not give a fuck. I mean, this is a bad angle picture of him.
But God damn, man. He's just like, yeah, I don't care. I'm going to be fat fucking. I'm going to be fat.
He looks a lot better than a lot of other guys. Yeah. I'll give him that.
And even even not in his prime physical condition, he still looks better than fucking 90 percent of these in there.
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But with all due respect, man, I can't believe how much of a fucking raw deal Drew McIntyre has gotten.
Oh, yeah. Being the jobber to the bloodline for like ever, like two years at least, losing his fucking title at WrestleMania in 30 seconds.
He wins it. And then he loses to the fucking money in the bank cash in.
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I mean, the money has to be pretty fucking good for him to be motivated or even care about literally anything,
because I don't really know what direction he's fucking going in as a as I don't even know what the hell he is at this point.
If he's heel or or face, I don't I don't fucking know.
But in any case, I feel like he's gotten a fucking raw deal these last because he was he basically carried 2024 by himself with the number of really bitching promos that he had.
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And this is how they treat him. He's not even at the top of the bill.
No, yeah, I was I was also kind of hoping for there to be this like.
Rollins, punk and like Drew McIntyre fucking stable that got started, they were kind of leaning towards that a little bit.
Yeah, I mean, and then it just it has now apparently just completely fucked off.
And that's not even in the card. Oh, man. See, that would have been sweet, though, because and I don't know how it would have played out like, yeah, Seth Rollins didn't seem like he was interested in Kevin Owens.
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Whatever. But it would have been interesting to at least see like Seth Rollins like, oh, you know what?
Drew McIntyre is right. I was able to create the shield in the past or I was able to create a stable in the past.
We could do it again. We could be the most dominant force within WWE.
And let's see if we can do something about getting championships around our waist.
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And that could be the starting point is like we've been done dirty for two or three years with the bloodline and everything else that's going on.
We might as well start a stable and be like a United Force or whatever.
Yeah, and take out and have an even shot of like getting over on these fuckers that we can't seem to beat or whatever.
And then. Yeah, but in the match, it was it was all right.
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I mean, it was whatever it was a match, but it was an elimination chamber match.
It was an elimination chamber match. Those it's a gimmick match. So like obviously those are going to be decent, which I thought it was all right.
I mean, I kind of fast forwarded some of it, but I mean, the shit that the highlight portions of it, those those were fine.
I don't I don't know if I remember a whole lot, to be honest.
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I remember the last four people, which is funny because there's six. Yeah, I'm saying I'm saying I'm saying I remember Drew McIntyre got eliminated first.
Yeah, that was so fucked up, man. Yeah. You can't even let him be in the bottom half of the thing.
You got to get him first. Yeah. Not even have Logan Paul lasted longer.
Yeah, that's what's sad. That's the sad part is that he wasn't even in Logan Paul's place to finish third in the elimination chamber.
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But so as far as the ending of the elimination chamber goes, the power that was that my phone.
Oh, no, we're going to get sued by Disney. Oh, fuck. Good.
So we have the finish with a Logan Paul being eliminated and then Seth Rollins lingering around.
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And for for CM Punk to eventually get stomped his head in and for John Cena to make the cover.
And I think a lot of people are saying that that was a heel that probably should have been the tail for the heel turn.
Because, you know, somebody somebody that's face wouldn't take advantage of somebody that just got their fucking brain stomped in.
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Yeah. By Seth Rollins. Yeah. So.
At the end of the whole deal, you know, we get the of course the fucking rock comes out and he wants fucking Cody Rhodes.
He tells him he tells him all that shit lasts a couple of weeks or whatever about wanting to buy his soul or wants to sell or some bullshit.
I don't know, dude, I don't know what homoerotic fantasy the rock is like.
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Do you remember the promo for last week? Yeah, I remember it was the weirdest thing.
It was like he was trying to fucking bring him into the cult, the fucking gay sex cult or something like, I don't know.
And there's nothing wrong with homosexuality. Nothing.
Because it's whatever, you know, we're heteronormies, whatever. We're we're we're biologically does that's programmed in our shit.
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So whatever. Yeah. So getting back to fucking the rock, dude.
I just I don't know if he doesn't if dementia is sinking in and he doesn't know his lines anymore because he's like he's like, here, hear me out.
Here, listen to me, fellas. And I think he's trying to piece together what he's trying to say. And that's probably why he was kind of like fumbling over his like promo or whatever.
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And a lot of people are like, what the fuck is this guy yapping about, dude?
Like, what is OK boomer? You like Jesus Christ, because it took it literally took fucking Seth Rollins on Monday Night Raw to kind of parse out what the rock was saying.
And then it kind of came together. Yes, it it eventually came together in this promo.
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Well, this whole segment that comes together with the rock eventually asking like, what is your choice, Cody Rhodes? Yeah.
And they have this whole fucking exchange. And yeah, dude, Travis Scott, I don't know what the fuck that motherfucker has to do with anything.
I don't get that. He's just standing there like, what the fuck is this guy? He's got nothing to do with wrestling. I get it. He's a rapper, but whatever.
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I guess he's in the Rock's fucking entourage. I don't know. Do they want to have like a Dennis Rodman moment with like the NWO or fucking like Mike Tyson with D-Generation X?
I don't know. But I think the dude doesn't understand that this is real because he actually threw punches at fucking Cody Rhodes.
And he was like he was pulling up and then like John Cena was trying to like push him up. He's like, no, I think he was trying to signal to him like, hey, we're not really like trying to hurt the motherfucker.
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But he kept doing it. And he has this hardcore championship. Yeah. Like he didn't learn. Like, yeah, fuck that guy.
And then, yeah. And then, OK, I will say it was it was very shocking to see that they let Cody Rhodes drop an F-bomb, which was very shocking. But, you know, he told the Rock to go fuck himself.
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And then the Rock does this fucking like fucking hand signal the fucking John Cena and fucking Manchurian candidates him in the fucking.
Dude, I'm surprised you didn't fucking like do some phallic thing like sticking his fingers in his mouth.
He did the thing like to cut his head off. And then he did the chef's kiss. Yeah. And then I thought he was going to take his fingers.
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And John Cena would have been like, oh, you're turning the signal.
Dude, I don't know how I personally feel about it because.
Also, why do we kick him in the dick like what do you think he did like John Cena just kicked him in the dick. That was his move.
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I don't know. Like, well, what would be the better option like you or whatever?
Like, or if I was called was the attitude, no attitude. Just me. Yeah. But that FUFU is the that's the proper day. Yeah. The proper name.
Yeah, I don't know. I feel like that would have been the move.
I just don't see how this amounts to what people are calling this like the leg drop to 2.0.
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It just doesn't hit the same way. The buildup was very strange.
The surprise really wasn't all that much of a surprise because going into WrestleMania with having.
John Cena and Cody Rhodes being both face somebody was going to turn.
And Cody Rhodes has been faced for basically a year now or well, since he's arrived. Right. Yeah.
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I mean, it's in long term. It this is a bad move. It was.
It's a much better move unless this is like the beginning. But again, this is not there's no buildup to this.
John Cena turns heel elimination chamber.
WrestleMania is the next fucking thing. Right. Yes.
So if you're going to pull a double swerve and Cody really sold his soul to the rock and they double swerve John Cena,
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there where there's no buildup to that. It's just like all there it is.
It's like, what a waste. What a waste of a storyline. Yeah.
Three months to build a friendship with the rock between Cody Rhodes and yeah, he said no.
But still, it's just like a very strange interaction that he would even entertain the idea of being friends with the rock or being his brother.
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And then John Cena, I mean, maybe this plays into him being the.
Taking advantage of being a star and everything, he's like, because we were promised like 36 dates within the year. Right.
And he's got to catch up at some point. He's got to do these 36 days. Right.
Him being like a entitled champion, like, oh, I've done everything for the business.
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Maybe it kind of makes sense because maybe maybe that was also a tell us like those appearances.
Appearances haven't been happening. And now that we see this this turn to heel, it kind of it's it's the characteristics of a heel.
We all know the worst part is I think this has been in the works since last year. You think so?
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Because remember that Survivor series at the end, the rock comes out and he does that fucking thing where he does that.
He just comes out and says nothing and he just goes one, two, and he does the three.
But it's the John Cena like like when he does that, he does that symbol for like no fucking reason.
And then he does the and they does the cutthroat move.
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He does it backwards, though. It was like three, two, one. It was backwards.
You're talking about that thing happening. Yeah.
The first one was three. The next one was two. The next one was one. Yeah.
I don't know what that is. But he does that. He does that.
Why would you do that? Like, that's just like, why would you why would you just do the normal three?
Like, why would you do it the John Cena way and then and then do that same?
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But I feel like that this has been planned from the beginning. Maybe. Yeah.
And that that this this is all fucking terrible. And the worst part is, is every you said everybody's jerking them off online.
Everybody online is saying that this is all this. Then it was Hogan in WCW. Now in 2025, it's Cena.
And I'm like, it's not the same. It's not even close to the same.
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It's nowhere near the level of fucking impact that that was.
If they didn't build it up this way, if John Cena hadn't been in the ring and he attacked them from nowhere or
there was no indications that this was going to happen, then maybe we can consider that being a moment comparable to to Hogan being the third member of the NWO.
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But I don't know. There's just something off about this that it doesn't come across the same way or it doesn't have the same level of impact.
I can't pinpoint exactly what it is, but it just it rhymes. It rhymes and it feels like a play a play on 30 years ago.
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Yeah, exactly. It's it's it's repeating the same shit.
This is also kind of a rehashing of the WrestleMania X7 storyline where corporate rock and corporate the corporation, Vince and them and all that.
They fucking turn their they're going to beat Stone Cold at WrestleMania and then at WrestleMania 17, Stone Cold turns turns heel and he was in bed with McMahon the whole time.
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And that's when you get this this big heel turn, right?
It's the same fucking storyline is rehashed into this weird nonsense.
I do think that this is this is the way for them to get the belt on Cena again, because I just I think that they know that Cody Rhodes is fucking pretty much done right now as a face champion.
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Oh, you mean like he's not always boring. I think they're starting to realize that.
Yeah, sure. The kids are fucking up his asshole and stuff, but the marks are starting to like, eh, I don't know about this guy.
That there isn't a road to go down to explore.
Yeah, where do you go? I mean, we just we just had a WWE Universal Champion for fucking what three and a half years.
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It was Roman Reigns prior to Cody Rhodes. Now he's had it going on a year now.
And let's be real. Ten months yet. Well, ten going on a year because WrestleMania 12.
Right. So like, let's just it's going on a year now.
And that's going to be his next defense is as so I've had it for a year.
And realistically, he's fought like four dudes the entire fucking time.
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AJ Styles. Kevin Owens for a three p. Yeah.
He fought AJ Styles three times. Wait, was that it? That's it.
And then he defeated no. Wait, yeah, he did wrestle against Guthur.
Yeah, that was at the Clash of Champions or whatever the fuck it's called the Cup or what?
The Crown Jewel Cup or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. So OK.
So that was that but that wasn't for the belt. But anyways, that's three guys that he's really, really wrestled.
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And I think that's fucking just damn near about it.
Wait, what else did he wrestle? And I can't think of anybody.
He didn't wrestle Seth Rollins, I don't think. No, he didn't wrestle fucking Drew McIntyre.
No, he didn't wrestle fucking.
Oh, he wrestled Solos of Coa for. Oh, OK.
So there's they did a three p with that, I think. Yeah.
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So there's four guys that he's wrestled over the past 12 months.
And let's be honest, the only really good matches that he had AJ Styles were AJ Styles.
That's because AJ Styles. And that's because AJ fucking Styles.
Not to not to knock Kevin Owens, but like Kevin Owens can't carry fucking another dude like that.
He can carry himself, but he can't carry he can do his participation in the match, but he can't carry it like that.
AJ Styles is a generational talent that can carry a fucking match, regardless of the shitty asshole that he's fucking wrestling.
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Yes. And, you know, I don't know, man.
I that's nothing. That's hot garbage. Where are they going with that?
You can't you're giving us the same bullshit that people were mad about with Roman Reigns.
Right. And now it's turned into a year long debacle, in my opinion.
And I think it's time to go. And I'll be honest.
I welcome change in this instance. I will welcome anything.
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But fucking Cody Rhodes walking out.
And I'm telling you right now, if that fucking motherfucker, Cody Rhodes, leaves WrestleMania with a goddamn bell.
I'm telling you right now, Adam, because I think there might be a possibility that it does.
If he leaves with the belt, we'd never watch wrestling again for real.
No, no, no. There's just no way.
You don't build to hit John Cena becoming heel.
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For a month and then immediately.
Well, I don't know if he turns back or whatever, but you don't waste that for a month or two or three.
You have to savor this. So they have to put the strap on him.
Yeah. In order for this to work. And then it'll go and then it's got to go to like SummerSlam.
No, no, it's going all the way. It's going all the way to the end of the year.
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They got to make the most of this.
And this this basically is a signal that the next person is being built.
I don't know if they have the next person ready for I think they do, because I don't know what the they can't waste an opportunity like this to to waste on.
They got to build somebody up. Yeah.
And we were led to believe Austin Theory was that guy when Austin Theory beat John Cena at WrestleMania, I think, two years ago.
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Yep. But now he's an attack team with Grace of Walr.
Nobody cares. And then they're not even like they're on fucking WWE speed or whatever.
What a fucking stupid show. That's not even one of those. I have no idea.
It's just like, oh, fuck, man. Like, OK, well, that's not happening. So who's next?
Bron Breaker, maybe. But he's not ready. It's too soon.
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I hope they don't fucking throw him in that that that limelight real quick, because it's it might not end well.
So I don't fucking know. I don't know. I don't know what they do with this.
But for sure, they put the strap on him. He gets number 17, takes it all the way to whatever pay per view is in December.
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Yeah. I'm curious to see what he's going to say on Raw tonight or tomorrow night, technically, like because you know he's going to come out.
It seems exactly. And I will say this.
It would be and they never fucking do anything that I say, because I guess what the fuck do I know?
But it would be bitching as hell because I did say I wanted to see a John Cena heel run.
Now, I think this was the stupidest fucking way they could have done it.
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But I'm interested to see how this goes.
And it would be bitching as hell if he comes out to that brand and that doctor of the word life.
Like, if he comes out to that fucking song. Yeah, that I'm sure he will.
Because notice how he used the notice how he used the wristwatch as like the bear or the what do they call it?
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Iron Knuckles. Yeah. Yeah. Brass Knuckles.
He did the shuffle and everything and fucking hit him on the head.
I think that's a cue for him either turning back to thuganomics or giving a bastardized version or evil version.
But also, you know what else sucks? What is seeing a fucking almost 50 fucking going back to you know what?
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You're right. It's going to be it's going to be stupid shit.
That's like Mark Wahlberg. Yeah. Marky Mark again. Yeah.
Like 20 years. I don't know if it's going to work.
Maybe he needs to come out like different. Maybe he's wearing a suit.
I don't know. Maybe he needs to get rid of the shorts.
Yeah. I don't know if the Jorts are going to work with this.
Yeah, I don't I don't know if it does, man.
What if he goes back to being the prototype like, oh, my God, you read Spanish.
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He's got the haircut for it. Yeah.
Like now. Also, man, it is crazy to see John Cena fucking going bald as fuck at this point.
At this point to sell the idea that he's brainwashed by the rock or that he's drinking the Kool-Aid shave his fucking head.
Have them both be bald. Oh, shit, man.
Because that would that would look I think that would sell the heel. Yeah. Turn that would that would.
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And then just have him come out to that slow rock music, too.
Like, yeah, yeah, we need something new, I guess. All right. My proposed idea for what's going to happen is that we will have some type of potentially.
I don't know if it's going to happen or not, but a potentially large stable.
They start they start pitching the people. Hey, why don't you join the rock?
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John Cena and whatever reason Travis Scott for whatever reason, this asshole.
They sell you can have you can have the world if you just align yourself with the corporation.
Oh, dude, that's what. And then it just turns into a civil war.
Yeah, because that's that's what's going to have to happen in order to get because then we will get that punk Rollins and fucking McIntyre stable going because they're because someone's because John Cena is retiring at the end of the year.
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So they're they're going to be in a stable and then he's going to be gone, though. So like they'll have a tag team.
They'll have an Intercontinental Championship type guy.
They'll maybe even have a U.S. title guy like they'll cross this this stable should cross all boundaries between shows.
It shouldn't matter. Yeah, it should show you're on. You're in the stable or whatever.
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And obviously, the rock has a big enough ego and he wants to be on SmackDown and Raw and everything.
So he'll be he'll make it happen. Yeah. And then for Romans to turn face or if he is face or if he's a tweener right now, yeah, I'm to turn face.
It's like, oh, man, I got betrayed by my own family. What the fuck?
Now, I guess we got to stand up against tyranny. Essentially, he has to unite forces with Cody Rhodes.
CM Punk won't stand for what's happening is like, dude, I did not come to I didn't come back to this fucking company for the exact same shit to happen with Vince McMahon to happen with the rock.
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I'm not standing for the shit. So then you obviously aligns with Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes. Yeah.
But inside their differences and then it just kind of like snowballs into their own alliance, I guess you could say.
Yeah, I don't know. Yes. And then somehow they're going to they're going to snipe somebody from a W like a name like a big time fucking person from from a W and they're going to be featured in that stable
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because it's going to be someone who is an opposing force to fucking Cody Rhodes. So I don't know exactly who it's going to be, but I feel like something like that's going to transpire.
Because they W is also walking this weird line right now where, yeah, the wrestling's OK. It's decent.
I mean, the storylines are sometimes a little shady, just like a W.W.E. with the Moxley and the Death Riders. Yeah.
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Yeah. A little fishy. But OK, whatever. I guess we'll take it. It's something different ish.
I mean, it is kind of just aces and eights all over again, it seems like. I don't know if they call Bischoff and they're like, hey, what what do you got for like other biker gang ideas?
Like, you know, but but not really a biker gang. Like, but we don't really want it to be evolution either.
Like, well, what do you got? You're just like, I just call the Death Riders.
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That sounds that sounds imposing. Put that idiot Moxley in front of them and see what happens.
Make make the you know, those blackpool combat fools.
Yeah, just turn them into this Death Riders thing.
Give them the new gimmick rebranded. Put a lady in there, too, and we'll fucking see what happens.
You know, Wheeler, dude, Travis Scott is you the weird dude.
He is there. He's going to get his ass beat, except that's what's funny is Travis Scott thinks it's real.
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He's focused. Oh, man.
But anyways, we are going to have to do one more episode of this Pride of WrestleMania once the full card match card is out.
So we can give our predictions and then, you know, I think we may have to do a WrestleMania fucking extravaganza again.
As our final goodbye.
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I don't know.
In great scheme, two days of fucking it's a waste of two days in grand scheme.
I mean, it's not really because we already know what the date the more the more important day is.
It's date. Yeah, it's day two. Yeah.
I don't hate that this happened.
I think I just hate the way that it was executed. Yeah.
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And to play to to give the slightest bit of respect.
It didn't happen at the big four. It happened at elimination chamber, which is which is definitely not one.
I'm glad that it happens some somewhere else.
As far as PLEs go that we weren't.
It wasn't expected. It meant something.
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This elimination chamber actually meant something. Yeah.
You for sure. Like you got your money's worth if you went to that thing. Oh, yeah.
I don't know if it should have happened on Canadian soil, but yeah, I don't think they deserve it.
I mean, whatever. I guess.
I don't know. I don't know what this overall means for WrestleMania, but.
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At least at least they got me hooked for another.
See, they fucking got us for another month and they just got us to continue our Netflix subscription.
Basically, like that's that's all it is.
It's all about just get it's it's conning us into just paying another nine ninety nine or whatever.
Like just one more month and then then I'll call it.
It's addiction, man. We're addicts, dude. We need to fucking.
Oh, man, we just wean off. Yeah. My name is Josh.
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I'm a wrestling addict. It's been three days since I've watched wrestling.
Yeah. Hopefully it's just the end of it. Is there a slow media?
I know it's a lie because we're going to be watching.
Oh, man. We're the worst fucking quitters.
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Already back on the wagon. Yeah. Anyways.
All right. Well, like I said, stay tuned for next episode probably in a couple of weeks.
It's the beginning of March right now.
So, I mean, the WrestleMania card will probably be out because when is WrestleMania actually this year?
Is it in April? It's in April, right? I think it's like April 3rd or 4th.
WrestleMania 2025 dates. They should just start naming it WrestleMania 2025.
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Just by the year. Oh, it's fuck. It's in the middle of April. Oh, shit.
I thought it was six weeks from six, seven weeks.
All right. So we may do two fucking episodes between now and then of wrestling, depending on what happens.
Maybe more. I don't know. But we'll definitely do one free.
It'll probably be I would imagine at the beginning of April, first or second week of April is going to be when I'm sure the card is going to be finalized.
Sure. So we'll do an episode, then a pre WrestleMania preview of what our picks are, what our thoughts are.
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And then I'm sure we'll end up doing another episode between now and then just talking about something else.
And I'm sure other shit's going to happen. We'll have to talk about.
I was not expecting. I thought it was usually the first week of April or the last week of.
Yeah, it usually is. But I mean, I don't know. I don't know. Very weird.
But anyways. All right. That'll do it. That's the end.
You got anything else said? All right. That'll be it. Go fuck yourselves. See you on the next one.
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Oh yeah, welcome back everybody to a...
Just when we thought we were done with wrestling, we decided to come right back again.
Well we'll see, we'll see if we'll follow up with this because there are potential implications
that we might have to watch Wrestlemania for at least...
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We said that last year, like this was going to be the end.
Yeah, I mean we did.
See, and this is why we're fucking marks, because wrestling keeps doing this to us and we still...
Guess what?
We said we're going to quit wrestling 19 times in the last fucking 10 years.
And yet we're still here in 2025 watching.
But this one pissed me off.
This shit pissed me off because people are sucking off the WWE creative for the monumental moment.
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Oh wow, you did the one thing everybody completely expected to happen at some point.
Yeah.
And I will say this, the John Cena thing, he was already a heel.
Everybody's saying all this shit about, oh he's never...
They're kind of playing this weird narrative.
He did some interview with that fucking idiot that we were just talking about.
Chris Van Vliet.
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Yeah, and he was saying about how, oh yeah, I think there's...
He just recorded this interview in the beginning of February with him and he's like, oh yeah,
I've never been a heel in my career, blah, blah, blah.
And they're pushing this narrative that he's never been a heel.
And I'm like...
So what was the doctor's synonymous?
Yeah, he started off as a fucking heel.
That was the whole gimmick was he was an asshole and then he got over and then people loved him
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and then you started sending him to make a wish and then you never wanted him to be a
bad guy again because you would lose out on the make a wish money.
So I get it, but we can't be pulling this now that, oh, all of a sudden John Cena's
just some fucking bad guy all of a sudden.
Listen, in reality and in real life, John Cena's been a bad guy for many fucking years.
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He blew us all off to go fucking pursue Hollywood, stopped wrestling, came around.
He became that part-timer fucking asshole.
That he complains so much about with The Rock.
Yes, exactly.
And then it is that phrase, you the die the hero, you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
The Rock has done it.
Everyone's done it.
The only one that really kind of hasn't done is Stone Cold like Steve.
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Stone Cold has fucked off from wrestling and has fucked off.
When he fucked off, that was it.
He's come back for the 30-year anniversary of Raw.
He's come back for the 10-year swings for WrestleMania.
That weird match between him and Kevin Owens.
Yeah, but other than that, he's basically just fucked off.
And I appreciate that, all right, which in my mind, he's the goat, all right, for that.
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He just he fucked off and he's like, I'm good.
Yeah, dude, I think at this point, at this juncture, Stone Cold is officially the goat.
For The Rock to self-insert himself three months before WrestleMania when nobody asked.
We had our plays, right? Everybody was kind of they were setting up the pieces for what the WrestleMania matches are going to be.
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And then, you know, The Rock comes in like the WWE documentaries about WCW falling apart and himself, himself inserting himself.
So I told the WWE creative, I need to put I need to be in this documentary because I need to somehow make this about me.
Yeah, I need to make this documentary about this company I was never involved in somehow about me.
Right. And they were like, you know what? We got you, fam. Put you don't worry.
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We got you. And the worst part is, man, there was a portion within, I think, elimination chamber itself where they glazed fucking The Rock,
where they talked about the movies that he's been in, the the numbers that they've done, the millions of dollars he's he's made.
I what is that? Who gives a shit? I didn't ask for this. We're talking about wrestling, wrestling.
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It's that thing that you always like to say. Cool. No one asked.
Thanks for telling me. But we don't go fuck.
Just to go over the pay per view itself, because I don't remember the fucking the exact fucking matches.
But we had the women's elimination chamber match, which, you know, I have to say it wasn't like completely fucking terrible.
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Bianca Belair wins that.
We also had Tiffany Stratton and you, of course, it's fucking in Toronto. So, you know, Trish Stratus is going to fucking be involved.
So at what point was she because we kind of fell off. But at what point was she shoehorned into a tag match?
I have no idea. I don't even remember because I still kind of like see the results every week for Smackdown and Raw.
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I just kind of see. I also want to watch the Jacob Fattu promos and stuff. Yeah.
And just see kind of shit here and there. And I don't remember this.
I remember them advertising like saying this was going to be a thing.
I mean, we knew when she she it was expected she was going to be in the women's Royal Rumble because of their they were in Canada and that she was she came out and she was like a I don't know, fucking entrant in that.
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But. Then go to Toronto, you knew that's where she's from. Like, of course, she's going to be there somehow.
I thought she would have been like the host or something, but they put her in a match, you know, whatever.
I didn't. I kind of fast forwarded through it.
I don't give a shit. The unsanctioned match between Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn. That was cool.
I didn't have a problem with it. Pretty decent moments. Yeah, there was some decent moments.
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Sami Zayn doing a blue thunder bomb on two chairs that had barbed wire around it. Yeah, that was pretty cool.
And I mean, after Kevin Owens basically just getting. Repeat loss to fucking Cody Rhodes for the title.
Oh, OK. But now he's better than Sami Zayn, though. So you'll get to get that down. But this has been done before.
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I agree. They've done this many times. This this whole storyline between the two of them, it's played out.
It is. It's it's it's it's what can it say that you can't say about Afghanistan? It's bombed out and depleted.
All right. It's terrible. I mean, NXT, it started that way. Yeah. He he fucking we didn't buckle bombing,
but he threw him against the side of the ring. The ring and that put Kevin Owens.
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Well, I mean, or it puts Sami Zayn, I think out and then Kevin Owens became champion, all that shit.
And then he makes the jump to run all that shit. So in the rest of history.
But this has just been an ongoing thing. Two or three years ago, it was the exact same thing with Sami Zayn being part of the bloodline.
And now it's just between them that they're fighting again. But whatever. Yeah. Not really.
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God, man. Drew McIntyre has really he just get like he's getting screwed.
But like, man, he does not give a fuck. I mean, this is a bad angle picture of him.
But God damn, man. He's just like, yeah, I don't care. I'm going to be fat fucking. I'm going to be fat.
He looks a lot better than a lot of other guys. Yeah. I'll give him that.
And even even not in his prime physical condition, he still looks better than fucking 90 percent of these in there.
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But with all due respect, man, I can't believe how much of a fucking raw deal Drew McIntyre has gotten.
Oh, yeah. Being the jobber to the bloodline for like ever, like two years at least, losing his fucking title at WrestleMania in 30 seconds.
He wins it. And then he loses to the fucking money in the bank cash in.
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I mean, the money has to be pretty fucking good for him to be motivated or even care about literally anything,
because I don't really know what direction he's fucking going in as a as I don't even know what the hell he is at this point.
If he's heel or or face, I don't I don't fucking know.
But in any case, I feel like he's gotten a fucking raw deal these last because he was he basically carried 2024 by himself with the number of really bitching promos that he had.
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And this is how they treat him. He's not even at the top of the bill.
No, yeah, I was I was also kind of hoping for there to be this like.
Rollins, punk and like Drew McIntyre fucking stable that got started, they were kind of leaning towards that a little bit.
Yeah, I mean, and then it just it has now apparently just completely fucked off.
And that's not even in the card. Oh, man. See, that would have been sweet, though, because and I don't know how it would have played out like, yeah, Seth Rollins didn't seem like he was interested in Kevin Owens.
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Whatever. But it would have been interesting to at least see like Seth Rollins like, oh, you know what?
Drew McIntyre is right. I was able to create the shield in the past or I was able to create a stable in the past.
We could do it again. We could be the most dominant force within WWE.
And let's see if we can do something about getting championships around our waist.
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And that could be the starting point is like we've been done dirty for two or three years with the bloodline and everything else that's going on.
We might as well start a stable and be like a United Force or whatever.
Yeah, and take out and have an even shot of like getting over on these fuckers that we can't seem to beat or whatever.
And then. Yeah, but in the match, it was it was all right.
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I mean, it was whatever it was a match, but it was an elimination chamber match.
It was an elimination chamber match. Those it's a gimmick match. So like obviously those are going to be decent, which I thought it was all right.
I mean, I kind of fast forwarded some of it, but I mean, the shit that the highlight portions of it, those those were fine.
I don't I don't know if I remember a whole lot, to be honest.
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I remember the last four people, which is funny because there's six. Yeah, I'm saying I'm saying I'm saying I remember Drew McIntyre got eliminated first.
Yeah, that was so fucked up, man. Yeah. You can't even let him be in the bottom half of the thing.
You got to get him first. Yeah. Not even have Logan Paul lasted longer.
Yeah, that's what's sad. That's the sad part is that he wasn't even in Logan Paul's place to finish third in the elimination chamber.
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But so as far as the ending of the elimination chamber goes, the power that was that my phone.
Oh, no, we're going to get sued by Disney. Oh, fuck. Good.
So we have the finish with a Logan Paul being eliminated and then Seth Rollins lingering around.
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And for for CM Punk to eventually get stomped his head in and for John Cena to make the cover.
And I think a lot of people are saying that that was a heel that probably should have been the tail for the heel turn.
Because, you know, somebody somebody that's face wouldn't take advantage of somebody that just got their fucking brain stomped in.
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Yeah. By Seth Rollins. Yeah. So.
At the end of the whole deal, you know, we get the of course the fucking rock comes out and he wants fucking Cody Rhodes.
He tells him he tells him all that shit lasts a couple of weeks or whatever about wanting to buy his soul or wants to sell or some bullshit.
I don't know, dude, I don't know what homoerotic fantasy the rock is like.
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Do you remember the promo for last week? Yeah, I remember it was the weirdest thing.
It was like he was trying to fucking bring him into the cult, the fucking gay sex cult or something like, I don't know.
And there's nothing wrong with homosexuality. Nothing.
Because it's whatever, you know, we're heteronormies, whatever. We're we're we're biologically does that's programmed in our shit.
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So whatever. Yeah. So getting back to fucking the rock, dude.
I just I don't know if he doesn't if dementia is sinking in and he doesn't know his lines anymore because he's like he's like, here, hear me out.
Here, listen to me, fellas. And I think he's trying to piece together what he's trying to say. And that's probably why he was kind of like fumbling over his like promo or whatever.
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And a lot of people are like, what the fuck is this guy yapping about, dude?
Like, what is OK boomer? You like Jesus Christ, because it took it literally took fucking Seth Rollins on Monday Night Raw to kind of parse out what the rock was saying.
And then it kind of came together. Yes, it it eventually came together in this promo.
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Well, this whole segment that comes together with the rock eventually asking like, what is your choice, Cody Rhodes? Yeah.
And they have this whole fucking exchange. And yeah, dude, Travis Scott, I don't know what the fuck that motherfucker has to do with anything.
I don't get that. He's just standing there like, what the fuck is this guy? He's got nothing to do with wrestling. I get it. He's a rapper, but whatever.
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I guess he's in the Rock's fucking entourage. I don't know. Do they want to have like a Dennis Rodman moment with like the NWO or fucking like Mike Tyson with D-Generation X?
I don't know. But I think the dude doesn't understand that this is real because he actually threw punches at fucking Cody Rhodes.
And he was like he was pulling up and then like John Cena was trying to like push him up. He's like, no, I think he was trying to signal to him like, hey, we're not really like trying to hurt the motherfucker.
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But he kept doing it. And he has this hardcore championship. Yeah. Like he didn't learn. Like, yeah, fuck that guy.
And then, yeah. And then, OK, I will say it was it was very shocking to see that they let Cody Rhodes drop an F-bomb, which was very shocking. But, you know, he told the Rock to go fuck himself.
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And then the Rock does this fucking like fucking hand signal the fucking John Cena and fucking Manchurian candidates him in the fucking.
Dude, I'm surprised you didn't fucking like do some phallic thing like sticking his fingers in his mouth.
He did the thing like to cut his head off. And then he did the chef's kiss. Yeah. And then I thought he was going to take his fingers.
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And John Cena would have been like, oh, you're turning the signal.
Dude, I don't know how I personally feel about it because.
Also, why do we kick him in the dick like what do you think he did like John Cena just kicked him in the dick. That was his move.
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I don't know. Like, well, what would be the better option like you or whatever?
Like, or if I was called was the attitude, no attitude. Just me. Yeah. But that FUFU is the that's the proper day. Yeah. The proper name.
Yeah, I don't know. I feel like that would have been the move.
I just don't see how this amounts to what people are calling this like the leg drop to 2.0.
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It just doesn't hit the same way. The buildup was very strange.
The surprise really wasn't all that much of a surprise because going into WrestleMania with having.
John Cena and Cody Rhodes being both face somebody was going to turn.
And Cody Rhodes has been faced for basically a year now or well, since he's arrived. Right. Yeah.
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I mean, it's in long term. It this is a bad move. It was.
It's a much better move unless this is like the beginning. But again, this is not there's no buildup to this.
John Cena turns heel elimination chamber.
WrestleMania is the next fucking thing. Right. Yes.
So if you're going to pull a double swerve and Cody really sold his soul to the rock and they double swerve John Cena,
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there where there's no buildup to that. It's just like all there it is.
It's like, what a waste. What a waste of a storyline. Yeah.
Three months to build a friendship with the rock between Cody Rhodes and yeah, he said no.
But still, it's just like a very strange interaction that he would even entertain the idea of being friends with the rock or being his brother.
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And then John Cena, I mean, maybe this plays into him being the.
Taking advantage of being a star and everything, he's like, because we were promised like 36 dates within the year. Right.
And he's got to catch up at some point. He's got to do these 36 days. Right.
Him being like a entitled champion, like, oh, I've done everything for the business.
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Maybe it kind of makes sense because maybe maybe that was also a tell us like those appearances.
Appearances haven't been happening. And now that we see this this turn to heel, it kind of it's it's the characteristics of a heel.
We all know the worst part is I think this has been in the works since last year. You think so?
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Because remember that Survivor series at the end, the rock comes out and he does that fucking thing where he does that.
He just comes out and says nothing and he just goes one, two, and he does the three.
But it's the John Cena like like when he does that, he does that symbol for like no fucking reason.
And then he does the and they does the cutthroat move.
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He does it backwards, though. It was like three, two, one. It was backwards.
You're talking about that thing happening. Yeah.
The first one was three. The next one was two. The next one was one. Yeah.
I don't know what that is. But he does that. He does that.
Why would you do that? Like, that's just like, why would you why would you just do the normal three?
Like, why would you do it the John Cena way and then and then do that same?
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But I feel like that this has been planned from the beginning. Maybe. Yeah.
And that that this this is all fucking terrible. And the worst part is, is every you said everybody's jerking them off online.
Everybody online is saying that this is all this. Then it was Hogan in WCW. Now in 2025, it's Cena.
And I'm like, it's not the same. It's not even close to the same.
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It's nowhere near the level of fucking impact that that was.
If they didn't build it up this way, if John Cena hadn't been in the ring and he attacked them from nowhere or
there was no indications that this was going to happen, then maybe we can consider that being a moment comparable to to Hogan being the third member of the NWO.
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But I don't know. There's just something off about this that it doesn't come across the same way or it doesn't have the same level of impact.
I can't pinpoint exactly what it is, but it just it rhymes. It rhymes and it feels like a play a play on 30 years ago.
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Yeah, exactly. It's it's it's repeating the same shit.
This is also kind of a rehashing of the WrestleMania X7 storyline where corporate rock and corporate the corporation, Vince and them and all that.
They fucking turn their they're going to beat Stone Cold at WrestleMania and then at WrestleMania 17, Stone Cold turns turns heel and he was in bed with McMahon the whole time.
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And that's when you get this this big heel turn, right?
It's the same fucking storyline is rehashed into this weird nonsense.
I do think that this is this is the way for them to get the belt on Cena again, because I just I think that they know that Cody Rhodes is fucking pretty much done right now as a face champion.
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Oh, you mean like he's not always boring. I think they're starting to realize that.
Yeah, sure. The kids are fucking up his asshole and stuff, but the marks are starting to like, eh, I don't know about this guy.
That there isn't a road to go down to explore.
Yeah, where do you go? I mean, we just we just had a WWE Universal Champion for fucking what three and a half years.
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It was Roman Reigns prior to Cody Rhodes. Now he's had it going on a year now.
And let's be real. Ten months yet. Well, ten going on a year because WrestleMania 12.
Right. So like, let's just it's going on a year now.
And that's going to be his next defense is as so I've had it for a year.
And realistically, he's fought like four dudes the entire fucking time.
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AJ Styles. Kevin Owens for a three p. Yeah.
He fought AJ Styles three times. Wait, was that it? That's it.
And then he defeated no. Wait, yeah, he did wrestle against Guthur.
Yeah, that was at the Clash of Champions or whatever the fuck it's called the Cup or what?
The Crown Jewel Cup or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. So OK.
So that was that but that wasn't for the belt. But anyways, that's three guys that he's really, really wrestled.
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And I think that's fucking just damn near about it.
Wait, what else did he wrestle? And I can't think of anybody.
He didn't wrestle Seth Rollins, I don't think. No, he didn't wrestle fucking Drew McIntyre.
No, he didn't wrestle fucking.
Oh, he wrestled Solos of Coa for. Oh, OK.
So there's they did a three p with that, I think. Yeah.
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So there's four guys that he's wrestled over the past 12 months.
And let's be honest, the only really good matches that he had AJ Styles were AJ Styles.
That's because AJ Styles. And that's because AJ fucking Styles.
Not to not to knock Kevin Owens, but like Kevin Owens can't carry fucking another dude like that.
He can carry himself, but he can't carry he can do his participation in the match, but he can't carry it like that.
AJ Styles is a generational talent that can carry a fucking match, regardless of the shitty asshole that he's fucking wrestling.
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Yes. And, you know, I don't know, man.
I that's nothing. That's hot garbage. Where are they going with that?
You can't you're giving us the same bullshit that people were mad about with Roman Reigns.
Right. And now it's turned into a year long debacle, in my opinion.
And I think it's time to go. And I'll be honest.
I welcome change in this instance. I will welcome anything.
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But fucking Cody Rhodes walking out.
And I'm telling you right now, if that fucking motherfucker, Cody Rhodes, leaves WrestleMania with a goddamn bell.
I'm telling you right now, Adam, because I think there might be a possibility that it does.
If he leaves with the belt, we'd never watch wrestling again for real.
No, no, no. There's just no way.
You don't build to hit John Cena becoming heel.
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For a month and then immediately.
Well, I don't know if he turns back or whatever, but you don't waste that for a month or two or three.
You have to savor this. So they have to put the strap on him.
Yeah. In order for this to work. And then it'll go and then it's got to go to like SummerSlam.
No, no, it's going all the way. It's going all the way to the end of the year.
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They got to make the most of this.
And this this basically is a signal that the next person is being built.
I don't know if they have the next person ready for I think they do, because I don't know what the they can't waste an opportunity like this to to waste on.
They got to build somebody up. Yeah.
And we were led to believe Austin Theory was that guy when Austin Theory beat John Cena at WrestleMania, I think, two years ago.
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Yep. But now he's an attack team with Grace of Walr.
Nobody cares. And then they're not even like they're on fucking WWE speed or whatever.
What a fucking stupid show. That's not even one of those. I have no idea.
It's just like, oh, fuck, man. Like, OK, well, that's not happening. So who's next?
Bron Breaker, maybe. But he's not ready. It's too soon.
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I hope they don't fucking throw him in that that that limelight real quick, because it's it might not end well.
So I don't fucking know. I don't know. I don't know what they do with this.
But for sure, they put the strap on him. He gets number 17, takes it all the way to whatever pay per view is in December.
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Yeah. I'm curious to see what he's going to say on Raw tonight or tomorrow night, technically, like because you know he's going to come out.
It seems exactly. And I will say this.
It would be and they never fucking do anything that I say, because I guess what the fuck do I know?
But it would be bitching as hell because I did say I wanted to see a John Cena heel run.
Now, I think this was the stupidest fucking way they could have done it.
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But I'm interested to see how this goes.
And it would be bitching as hell if he comes out to that brand and that doctor of the word life.
Like, if he comes out to that fucking song. Yeah, that I'm sure he will.
Because notice how he used the notice how he used the wristwatch as like the bear or the what do they call it?
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Iron Knuckles. Yeah. Yeah. Brass Knuckles.
He did the shuffle and everything and fucking hit him on the head.
I think that's a cue for him either turning back to thuganomics or giving a bastardized version or evil version.
But also, you know what else sucks? What is seeing a fucking almost 50 fucking going back to you know what?
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You're right. It's going to be it's going to be stupid shit.
That's like Mark Wahlberg. Yeah. Marky Mark again. Yeah.
Like 20 years. I don't know if it's going to work.
Maybe he needs to come out like different. Maybe he's wearing a suit.
I don't know. Maybe he needs to get rid of the shorts.
Yeah. I don't know if the Jorts are going to work with this.
Yeah, I don't I don't know if it does, man.
What if he goes back to being the prototype like, oh, my God, you read Spanish.
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He's got the haircut for it. Yeah.
Like now. Also, man, it is crazy to see John Cena fucking going bald as fuck at this point.
At this point to sell the idea that he's brainwashed by the rock or that he's drinking the Kool-Aid shave his fucking head.
Have them both be bald. Oh, shit, man.
Because that would that would look I think that would sell the heel. Yeah. Turn that would that would.
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And then just have him come out to that slow rock music, too.
Like, yeah, yeah, we need something new, I guess. All right. My proposed idea for what's going to happen is that we will have some type of potentially.
I don't know if it's going to happen or not, but a potentially large stable.
They start they start pitching the people. Hey, why don't you join the rock?
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John Cena and whatever reason Travis Scott for whatever reason, this asshole.
They sell you can have you can have the world if you just align yourself with the corporation.
Oh, dude, that's what. And then it just turns into a civil war.
Yeah, because that's that's what's going to have to happen in order to get because then we will get that punk Rollins and fucking McIntyre stable going because they're because someone's because John Cena is retiring at the end of the year.
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So they're they're going to be in a stable and then he's going to be gone, though. So like they'll have a tag team.
They'll have an Intercontinental Championship type guy.
They'll maybe even have a U.S. title guy like they'll cross this this stable should cross all boundaries between shows.
It shouldn't matter. Yeah, it should show you're on. You're in the stable or whatever.
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And obviously, the rock has a big enough ego and he wants to be on SmackDown and Raw and everything.
So he'll be he'll make it happen. Yeah. And then for Romans to turn face or if he is face or if he's a tweener right now, yeah, I'm to turn face.
It's like, oh, man, I got betrayed by my own family. What the fuck?
Now, I guess we got to stand up against tyranny. Essentially, he has to unite forces with Cody Rhodes.
CM Punk won't stand for what's happening is like, dude, I did not come to I didn't come back to this fucking company for the exact same shit to happen with Vince McMahon to happen with the rock.
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I'm not standing for the shit. So then you obviously aligns with Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes. Yeah.
But inside their differences and then it just kind of like snowballs into their own alliance, I guess you could say.
Yeah, I don't know. Yes. And then somehow they're going to they're going to snipe somebody from a W like a name like a big time fucking person from from a W and they're going to be featured in that stable
(28:06):
because it's going to be someone who is an opposing force to fucking Cody Rhodes. So I don't know exactly who it's going to be, but I feel like something like that's going to transpire.
Because they W is also walking this weird line right now where, yeah, the wrestling's OK. It's decent.
I mean, the storylines are sometimes a little shady, just like a W.W.E. with the Moxley and the Death Riders. Yeah.
(28:32):
Yeah. A little fishy. But OK, whatever. I guess we'll take it. It's something different ish.
I mean, it is kind of just aces and eights all over again, it seems like. I don't know if they call Bischoff and they're like, hey, what what do you got for like other biker gang ideas?
Like, you know, but but not really a biker gang. Like, but we don't really want it to be evolution either.
Like, well, what do you got? You're just like, I just call the Death Riders.
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That sounds that sounds imposing. Put that idiot Moxley in front of them and see what happens.
Make make the you know, those blackpool combat fools.
Yeah, just turn them into this Death Riders thing.
Give them the new gimmick rebranded. Put a lady in there, too, and we'll fucking see what happens.
You know, Wheeler, dude, Travis Scott is you the weird dude.
He is there. He's going to get his ass beat, except that's what's funny is Travis Scott thinks it's real.
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He's focused. Oh, man.
But anyways, we are going to have to do one more episode of this Pride of WrestleMania once the full card match card is out.
So we can give our predictions and then, you know, I think we may have to do a WrestleMania fucking extravaganza again.
As our final goodbye.
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I don't know.
In great scheme, two days of fucking it's a waste of two days in grand scheme.
I mean, it's not really because we already know what the date the more the more important day is.
It's date. Yeah, it's day two. Yeah.
I don't hate that this happened.
I think I just hate the way that it was executed. Yeah.
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And to play to to give the slightest bit of respect.
It didn't happen at the big four. It happened at elimination chamber, which is which is definitely not one.
I'm glad that it happens some somewhere else.
As far as PLEs go that we weren't.
It wasn't expected. It meant something.
(30:26):
This elimination chamber actually meant something. Yeah.
You for sure. Like you got your money's worth if you went to that thing. Oh, yeah.
I don't know if it should have happened on Canadian soil, but yeah, I don't think they deserve it.
I mean, whatever. I guess.
I don't know. I don't know what this overall means for WrestleMania, but.
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At least at least they got me hooked for another.
See, they fucking got us for another month and they just got us to continue our Netflix subscription.
Basically, like that's that's all it is.
It's all about just get it's it's conning us into just paying another nine ninety nine or whatever.
Like just one more month and then then I'll call it.
It's addiction, man. We're addicts, dude. We need to fucking.
Oh, man, we just wean off. Yeah. My name is Josh.
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I'm a wrestling addict. It's been three days since I've watched wrestling.
Yeah. Hopefully it's just the end of it. Is there a slow media?
I know it's a lie because we're going to be watching.
Oh, man. We're the worst fucking quitters.
(31:32):
Already back on the wagon. Yeah. Anyways.
All right. Well, like I said, stay tuned for next episode probably in a couple of weeks.
It's the beginning of March right now.
So, I mean, the WrestleMania card will probably be out because when is WrestleMania actually this year?
Is it in April? It's in April, right? I think it's like April 3rd or 4th.
WrestleMania 2025 dates. They should just start naming it WrestleMania 2025.
(31:53):
Just by the year. Oh, it's fuck. It's in the middle of April. Oh, shit.
I thought it was six weeks from six, seven weeks.
All right. So we may do two fucking episodes between now and then of wrestling, depending on what happens.
Maybe more. I don't know. But we'll definitely do one free.
It'll probably be I would imagine at the beginning of April, first or second week of April is going to be when I'm sure the card is going to be finalized.
Sure. So we'll do an episode, then a pre WrestleMania preview of what our picks are, what our thoughts are.
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And then I'm sure we'll end up doing another episode between now and then just talking about something else.
And I'm sure other shit's going to happen. We'll have to talk about.
I was not expecting. I thought it was usually the first week of April or the last week of.
Yeah, it usually is. But I mean, I don't know. I don't know. Very weird.
But anyways. All right. That'll do it. That's the end.
You got anything else said? All right. That'll be it. Go fuck yourselves. See you on the next one.
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