Episode 1144: Elimination Chamber Preview & Pick Ems! R.I.P Roberta Flack! The RCWR Show 2/25/25

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awaits here. We are the RCWR Show with Leasonders. Yes,
it is the return. What is going on? My pretty baby?
Is Lee Sanders back with you guys for an all
new The RCWR Show. We're doing this on a Tuesday night,

(03:23):
February twenty fifth, twenty twenty five. Great to be back
with you guys. I missed you all so much. Man.
I was bummed that we did not do the show
live Monday, but I was having a headache of technical difficulties,
a lot of it out of my control, because when

(03:45):
it all came down to it, it was all about
the internet connection. And here's the thing. I was able
to connect all my favorite devices to my Internet without
any issues. But for some weird reason, when I was
opening up stream Yard to syndicate the streams and everything
go live, it was having a hiccup. So it was like,

(04:06):
what the hell? And then I ended up discovering that
there was a little feature that I could access to
see what's going on with stream Yard as far as
any connectivity issues and all that. So I was looking
at that bad boy all throughout the night to night
up until NXT went off. The air and I saw, oh,
oh we won't point. We good to go, So yes, yes, yes,

(04:32):
let me know speaking about NXT, what you guys had
thought about two nights NXT. I gotta tell you. I
said this on social media and I still stand behind it.
One of the most strongest additions of NXT that I've
experienced in recent months. I thought, from top to bottom
tonight show was on point. And just thinking about some

(04:56):
of the matches that has been announced for NXT, the Roadblock,
faulm I no bull. I am excited more about NXT
Roadblock than I am about this weekend's elimination Chamber po Lee.
That's the gods to honest truth. That is the gods
to honest truth. So yeah, we don't talk about all

(05:20):
of that loveliness, all of that good stuff coming up.
By the way, for those of you that had reached
out to me privately or you shot me an email
or even shot me a text message wishing me you
know the very best and everything, it really meant the lot.
I appreciate for those of you that are not aware.
By father in law, he you know, and I respect

(05:43):
the guy. I love the guy tremendously. He had a
very scary incident that went down almost two weeks ago,
where basically he fell. He was just I think he
was coming away from using the bathroom and he slipped
and fell and he landed on his hip. And he's

(06:04):
already a bony guy as it is, he's seventy seven
years old. He broke his hip and he basically was
on his back for a couple of days. It was
a very, very scary situation. I don't want to dive
too much into the weed of things, but there was
just this big old ball of miscommunication in regards to

(06:27):
his landlord, who's also his roommate, who didn't have the
common sense to at least have a close friend, next
door neighbor or even called my wife TAM's you know, hey, Leo,
this is what's going on. Like he's saying one thing,
but I think maybe we need to just do a
welfare check on him. I can't really reach him because,

(06:48):
you know, my health problems. This is really really weird
what went down. But I'm glad we got to him
when we did, because he was laying on his back
two going on three days, nothing to drink, nothing to eat,
so obviously he was suffering from mad mad mad dehydration
and everything. Just he's okay now though he's he's he's

(07:11):
he's good. He got surgery done on his hip. What
was it, It was Sunday this past Sunday. He got
surgery done on his hip, and then Monday he went
to the place where he's going to be staying after
the next couple of weeks for his physical therapy and
from there, you know, we're still trying to figure out

(07:33):
where he goes from there. He wants to go back home,
but we've already told him. Look, if you're going to
be doing this, there is some caveats, like if he
wants to go back to where he was staying before
and everything like, there's some caveats that. One of them,
of course, is you need to look into getting some
type of a personal aid that can stop by a
couple of times a week. Make sure you're on point.

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You've got everything you need. If there's any appointments you
need to go to, Boom, you're taking to those appointments.
If you want to go grocery shopping, you got to
get some medicine like Boom boom, all those will be
taken care of for you and he seems very very
receptive to the idea as opposed to a couple of
years prior, because not for nothing, but we even kind

(08:16):
of toying around this idea to him off and on
for I would say about three years now. But now
it seems like he's more and more okay, I'm listening,
and most pointly, he's listening to his body. So he's
in really, really good spirit. So that's that's the important thing.
More on the Sanders household later during the show, because

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there's a whole bunch of other craziness that's going down,
but a little bit of positivity in there as well.
I'll share that with you guys later on. So, yeah,
you guys now know because we took a as a
result of everything that was going on, I pretty much said,
you'd look, no shows for last week. So this is
my first time back. I pretty much was not in

(09:01):
a wrestling mode as a result of everything that was
going on last week. So to come back a bit
refreshed and everything, you know, usually I like getting in
a little bit of time before WrestleMania hits. I did
not plan on it happening this soon. I usually like
to do it, you know, like a day or two
here or there, But man, a lot of the stuff

(09:22):
that we've been getting so far on the road to
WrestleMania season, it has been on point. It's been firing
on all cylinders. Tonight's NXT, we saw Julia, our current
NXT Women's Champion, crosspaths with the NXT North American Champion

(09:44):
and Stephanie the Kiir and the challenge was basically laid
out by Julia. Hey, you know I'm the women's champion,
and you know you say that you're the best. Well,
I'm holding this championship right here, and I definitely consider
myself best. So pretty much it's like, what's up, what's up? Well,
let's have this battle, you mean, let's do this champion

(10:07):
versus champion, title versus title And it was made official
later on during the broadcast. So NXT Roadblock at Madison
Square Garden. I would imagine that's going to be, if
not the main event, for sure, it's going to be
one of two main events. Stephanie Vakier defending that NXT

(10:27):
North American Championship against Julia and Julia's NXT Women's Championship
winner takes all. Winner walks out with both championships. Very
excited for that matchup. Look, they've been teasing this for
quite a while since both women were initially acquired by
WWE at just about the same time, right, So, I

(10:52):
mean you just figured it'd be a no brainer that, Yeah,
on the road to WrestleMania, we're likely going to see
these girls it up. And you know what, the fact
that we're finally gonna see these two get it on,
I am all in on it, baby, sign me up.
I'm locked and reloaded. I'm ready to go. All of

(11:13):
this came fresh off of Stephanie Vikier successfully defending for
the very first time that North American Championship as she
defended it against Carmen Petrovic. And I gotta say Carmen
did pretty damn well for herself in this matchup against

(11:35):
Stephanie Vikier. The girls went about twelve maybe thirteen minutes long,
little bit of sloppiness here and there, but overall very
solid match. I felt that Carmen, particularly, she rose to
the occasion in making it look rather not that easy

(11:58):
of a title defense for Stephanie. The keir, I don't
think And when I say that, I definitely want to
I definitely want to preface it by saying, look, when
you're watching this match, you're not feeling at any point
in time that Stephanie the Kierr was gonna lose this title.
But the fact that you saw so much effort in

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the way the match was laid out, in everything, the
fact that you saw so much of a story being
told in the ring and Carmen coming up being you know,
quite believable that well maybe she just might have the
champion's number here. She just might. It was rather believable
to certain aspects. So I'm most curious though, going forward

(12:44):
to see what they do with Carmen after this, because
you can definitely build off of what you did here
with Carmen against Stephanie Vikir. You can easily have Carmen
say yo, I was so close. I tasted it. It
was within my grasp. I almost had it. Yeah, I

(13:05):
promise you this much. If I get another opportunity, I'm
definitely gonna hit gold the second time around. Bank on that.
I would like to see her, you know, tell that
type of story. I mean, obviously it's a case now, okay,
moving on, but I would like to see her kind
of Yeah, you ain't seen the last of me in

(13:26):
the title picture just yet. I thought for this great
outing against Stephanie Backeer, she did fantastic. I mean, it
wasn't a perfect stepping up to the home plate and boom,
you know, swing and oh man, look at that beauty.
That is definitely a home run, you know, Lo Loul

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A little sloppy in some areas there, especially down the
final stretch, but overall, very very solid. I personally felt
from there the hits just kept on coming. We got
to see the TNA X Division champion himself, Moose Moose Moose.

(14:08):
I love that dude. Man, I love that dude. So
let me see if I got this straightse I got
a pushback on you all just a little bit here.
So we got some folks in the wrestling community that
are saying, apparently Moose versus Oba Femi is a dream match.
Am I hearing this right? Ah? Look, I'm very familiar

(14:31):
with Oba Femi. I've watched him off and on for
many months now, many months now. I am not going
to say dream matchup. I'm not gonna say that. I'm
being honest, right, keeping it honest, insightful, Interactive since twenty eleven, yeah, no,

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that does not. And look that's not me doing a
whole poop poo on the platter there. Okay, that's not
me crap in on. I'm just being honest. I'm being
realistic with myself. Now, if you were to sit me
down and say, you know, a couple of months prior
Lee this TNA wrestling, WWE NXT relationship and everything, as

(15:17):
far as crossover matches, big matches, what you got going down?
For sure, I would go, okay, give me Moose versus Obafity,
but in no shape of form what I say dream match.
But look, this is how apparently there are actually, believe

(15:37):
it or not, some fans that feel this way. It's
a dream match for them apparently. Okay, well, well whatever,
not my dream match. It's a nice match though. It
is definitely a good match. I'm down with that. But
I just wish we would be very, very careful with
what we dub as a dream match, because I kind

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of feel as though we are taking things out of
context when we when we do it that way. Now,
if you were to say to me, you know, as
far as okay, so what what truly is a dream match? Right?
What is a what is a dream match. Well, I know,
for the longest time we as fans and we're probably

(16:22):
never going to see it, but Stone Coast Steve Austen
versus CM Punk. And when you go back in the
way back machine you look up vintage stuff wrestling wise
on YouTube from back in the day, you'll see some
of the stuff that US fans were reminiscing about, and

(16:44):
just how out of our minds we were at the
idea that we could potentially way back when that potentially
we could have gotten a CM Punk Stone Coast Steve
Austin match, and yet it did not happen, and we
still dream about that to this very day. One of

(17:05):
my personal dream matches never came to fruition. Don't ever
see it happening. But I used to toy with the idea
of the Monster Abyss getting into a feud with Cactus

(17:26):
Jack slash Mankind slash Mick Foley. That used to be
a dream match of mine. There also used to be
a dream match of mine where I love the idea
of Undertaker or Kine taking on Abyss. I always wanted
to see aj Styles versus Sean Michaels dreammatch. Okay, so

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you know I don't think I need to give you
guys any more examples. So when somebody says to me,
moves versus oba femei dreamt, I go, I don't know
if that's a I don't. I don't, you know, teach, don't.
I don't see a bunch of wrestling fans around my age,

(18:10):
a little bit younger, maybe older fans going dream match.
Yeah that's but to say no, that's actually that would
have actually be a good match, right, Just something to
think about. We gotta be careful how we're throwing these
terminologies around, That's all I'm saying. Fam But TNA X
Division champion Moose in the house going up against the

(18:33):
Heritage Cup winner Lexus King. You know, I'm glad that
they did not make this a squash match, because I
thought for sure that was maybe where we were going,
but didn't go that way. I'm so happy for Moose.
I gotta say I've been a big fan of his
work for many, many, many years, and those that used

(18:57):
to check out my TNA Impact Showdown reviews from back
in the day know deeply how much of a big
fan I am with Moose. Just the overall magnificent specimen
of if you were to just go out tomorrow and
decide you wanted to start your own wrestling promotion, and
you can have any pick in the world as far

(19:18):
as who you want to be one of the faces
of your company, as far as champions. You're definitely looking
at Moose and you're going he's got the entrance theme,
he's got the look, he's got the charisma, he's smoothing
everything you would want. He's checking every single damn thing
off the box. You feel me, you definitely are going

(19:41):
to go with the big guy Moose. Nine minutes of
a match here against Lexus King. Rather decent match with
two of these guys. Lexus King, I tell you, hopefully,
he's growing on a lot of you guys by now,
and you're starting to see what many of us were

(20:02):
seeing of this man when he was in ae W.
He is getting better and better with every single opportunity
that is coming his way. If I have one big
takeaway from this match against Moose tonight, it's the fact
that Lexis King got in much more offense in this

(20:26):
match than I thought he was gonna have, because honestly,
I thought this was just gonna be a one man
ass kicking contests and it was gonna be a glorified
squash match, but it wasn't the case whatsoever. So two
things can be said that's true here in regards to

(20:46):
this match, which is, Moose came away looking like a
bona fide stude and Lexis did a really good job
and selling that offense from Moose King, making Moose not
look bad at all. As far as I was concerned,

(21:08):
Moose would not have enough time to celebrate his win
his first w in NXT Slash WWE as the new
still new, relatively new NXT World champion in Olba Femy
came on out pretty much you me, the fans wanted

(21:31):
talking about this dream match. Let's make it happen. Let's
do it. You and me title for title at NXT Roadblock.
Later on in the night, we got the official word.
It's going to be at Roadblock. Obafemi versus Moose, title
versus title and again that's going to be going down

(21:53):
in two weeks. So excited, so exciting. Look, man, I
don't know, I don't know. Found like I might try
to see if I can get some to the tickets
to NXT Roadblock. I might just try to drive one
down there just for the show and then drive on.
I'm gonna have to get with the wife and see

(22:14):
what she thinks, cuz I'm almost tempted to try it,
But then it would be kind of one of those
who would we get to watch the girls for those
handful of hours there. That's the only thing I can't
quite I can't quite picture right now, But more on
that later. I'll keep you guys posted. That can happen

(22:35):
in two weeks from there. Sean spears talking about how
NXT is the land of the talented, but there are
a few that are misguided and everything, and he talks
about how he's guided Brooks Jensen, Nico Vans, is he

(22:56):
dame and now that the the family is complete, he
says that Don Tony never saw it coming, you know,
Don Tony Tony DiAngelo Tony d that he never saw
it coming. And the only thing to do now is
next week take Tony's title. So that's what's going on

(23:20):
from there. Jordan Grace appeared on tonight's show. She had
a face off there against Rock sand Perez. That was
a nice little back and forth between the two. I'm

(23:41):
just thinking about what all had happened during that each
one of the girls took cheap shots at one another
for the fact that they are no longer the women's
champion for the respected brand and all that. Perez sarcastically
saying to Jordan Grace, hey, it's about time you pretty
much came on over here where the big boys play,

(24:02):
you know, pretty much kind of going in that direction
and everything. Jordan Grace being called a big fish in
a small pond because it's Rock Sand Perez's division. Jordan
Grace doesn't get to call all the shots. Jordan pretty
much coming right back, Okay, you say this is your division,

(24:22):
but like, where's your title? Rox and Perez pretty much
saying literally the same damn thing back at her and everything.
She says there's a gap between them, but that she's
going to be going into the elimination chamber and she'll win,
going to WrestleMania and maybe she'll win the NXT Women's

(24:42):
Championship for a third time to become Roxy two Belts.
Grace counters right back, saying everyone has a plan until
and she knocked rox Sane Perez on her ass. Roxanne
escaping but clearly pissed off, all right, So we got
to start here basically of a nice little, nice little

(25:03):
eventual match between these two. Right, we get officially got
the start of a program. I'm down with that. These
two seem to match up quite well, so look forward
to seeing when these girls lock it up. I Meanwhile,
Trick Williams backstage, pretty pissed off that a lot of
people were mocking him over losing to Eddie thorn or Thorpe.

(25:27):
Javon walks up and says he gets what Trick is
going through. Trick says that there aren't on the same,
they aren't the same, and tells Devon to pretty much
mind his business stay over in his corner. Jivan says
he's crashing down and says he'll take care of him too.

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Ricky walks up and offers a hand to Trick. But Trick,
you know, still feeling a bit hot headed, standoffish, and
all of that stuff. Mystery four. You know, we've been
teased around with the mystery for by now. We pretty
much got an idea of who they are and everything
they apparently were all throughout the night, being seen at

(26:09):
different points, not the face full face, just back of
their heads. Recording some footage laughing in the background, things
of that nature. Their presence was definitely felt. Shortly after
the match between the Hardys against Teyvon Hies and males

(26:30):
Born and Vic Joseph with the line of the night
when the Hardys came out, because they got such a
huge freaking reaction. It was so huge that Vic Joseph says, man,
this reaction. Listen to this. It's so loud. It's so
loud that even males Born can hear it. And you're
just going, God, damn that with savage. But you get

(26:54):
the point that Vic Joseph was trying to make and everything.
But fifty year old Matt Hardy and forty seven year
old Jeff Hardy making their NXT debut, and this one
looked pretty damn good. They kept up with the young
boys extremely well. No pun intended on the extreme, but seriously,

(27:17):
they kept up with the boys very well. This easily
was for me, looking back on it in hindsight, this
was easily for me the match of the night, the
match of the night, pretty damn good match results being
that the Hardy boys won definitely. You know, that's a

(27:38):
no brainer right there. You know, it's interesting because when
you look at this match and you go back to
lexus King versus Moves. You know you're going, Okay, here's
another case here where you're thinking, this is probably going
to be maybe another squash match. But on the contrary,

(28:00):
here you have another match of some older folks from
the TNA roster but are definitely over in TNA, and
they're working with these young up and coming stars, and
these young up and coming stars on the NXT roster,
they're getting in so much more offense than anticipated I

(28:21):
think by some. It really created fun dynamics and made
good chemistry when it was all said and done. I
love the reaction that the heart he's got. It felt
like a really cool, magical homecoming moment for sure, and everything.
Fraxium came out afterwards, congratulating the Hardys on their win

(28:46):
and appearing in NXT for the very first time. They
pretty much got right to the heart of the matter. Yo,
let's do this. Champs versus Champs. Santino Morella came out.
Crowd popped really hard for Santino because he got the
classic WWE theme that he was pushing years back when

(29:10):
he came out, so fans were definitely into that and
it's official NXT roadblock. We're gonna see the Hardy's defend
the TNA tag team titles against Phraxium. I want to
make sure we stress that because for those of you all,
another title versus type no no no no, no, no,
no no no, not on this one. For this one,

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it's gonna be just the TNA titles that's gonna be
up for grabs from there. Squash match Lola Wece Arianna Grace.
Grace had no chance in hell. She had no chance
in hell. Next week on NXT, we got the North

(29:52):
American title match as Tony DiAngelo takes on Sewn Spears,
Kalanie Jordan and Ada Parker. They'll be locking up also
Piper Nevin and Chelsea Green. They'll team up to take
on Soul Ruka and Zaria. Your main event match for tonight,
Ricky Saints, the man formerly known as Ricky Starks, teaming

(30:15):
up with Javon Evans to take on Ethan Page, Mister Killim,
will A Smile and Wes Lee. Ricky Saints and Javon
Evans going over in that main event, which went almost
fifteen minutes long. Pretty good first match for Ricky Starks.
Everyone did their part, very well solid main event gave

(30:41):
Saints his most anticipated entering debut slash victory. So he
is off to a very good start. You know, I
gotta tell you since he made his debut last week
because I didn't get a chance to comment, good for him.
Good for him that. And you know, when you think

(31:01):
back in hindsight, he just knew it was going to
be inevitable that he was going to be going to
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RCWR Show with Lee Sanders. He sees what's been happening
with Lexus King, he sees what's been happening with Ethan Page.
He sees what's been happening with Sean Spears, he sees

(36:38):
what's been happening with Jay Cargill. He sees what's been
happening with Jordan Grace. Filling the blank, he sees, he sees,
he sees, he sees, he sees. I mean, look, it
ain't no different than if you're behind was standing in
line for about thirty minutes, you're waiting to eat, and

(36:58):
you know, seeing these other people, they don't came from
this other place that's across the street where they're able
to get their food bing bing boom ban pump, you know,
just like that, and the shit smells good and it
looks good and it's more affordable. What you think is
gonna happen, yo As is eventually gonna get out that
line at long ass line and go where the other

(37:20):
people are going, right, I mean, it's just a no brainer.
So I am looking forward to seeing how he does
in the WWE realm. I'm looking to see how WWE
is able to mold him, how they're gonna really be
able to make him stand out and be a better

(37:42):
version of what we've been getting so far and everything, because,
if truth be told, the Ricky Starks that we saw
in ae W was essentially a continuation of the Ricky
Starks that have been on the Independence that I was seeing,
you know, running around in various promotions. Definitely, nwa. If

(38:06):
I'm not mistaken, I'm not mistaken there. So I'm curious
to see where things are going to go, you know ahead,
but I personally expect nothing but big things to be
on the horizon for the young man plays his cars right,
does everything right. I tell you what, Probably by summer

(38:28):
we may be looking at Ricky Starks as the NXT
World Heavyweight Champion. Not too far fetched, I don't think.
But this edition of NXT one of the most fast
paced two hour shows that came and went loaded from
top to bottom, big announcements, big matches made, the matches

(38:55):
that's been set for Roadblock, particularly good stuff and everything.
It seemed like each segment that we got tonight there
was great substance behind it. There was great meaning. It
wasn't a case where we're just doing this with the
exception of Arian and Grace and Lolavice, which if you

(39:18):
want to be a technical you could have said, I
really could have done without that. But putting that to
the side, it felt as though there was no wasted motion,
There was no waste of space. You feel where I'm
coming from. So definitely and and major very excited to
go ahead and see what's happening with TNA Wrestling. On

(39:40):
that note, I know TNA Wrestling has been trying to
do a better job and having their shows be live,
trying to ride that momentum that's been happening with their
partnership in WW and everything. But yeah, definitely pretty solid show.
Let's go to the poll, ask you guys, what did
you think about tonight's n XT. We got to poll
up on YouTube dot com, forward Slash the RCWR Show,

(40:06):
and we got to poll up on X formerly known
as Twitter at the RCWR show. Let's first go over
the YouTube and see what you guys are saying over there.
Shout out to you all that's checking out the stream.
By the way, however, y'all are doing it much love
right now on YouTube. One hundred percent of the votes
that's coming in you all are saying tonight's n XT

(40:27):
was a awesome show. And meanwhile, going over to X,
seeing what you all are saying over there X at
the RCWR show, thirteen percent of you felt it was
an average edition of NXT. Meanwhile, eighty eight percent of
you all are saying it was a awesome show. Keep

(40:47):
the votes coming in there, and keep it rock and
keep it coming and all that good stuff. By the way,
you know, let's hide that. There we go. We got

(41:11):
NXT in the books there solid edition of Monday Night Raw.
I was looking forward to talking a little bit about
Monday Night Raw. I think by now everybody knows pretty
much the full results, so I'll just give blanket thoughts
on this week's Monday Night Raw, as it was the
final raw before this weekend's elimination Chamber. You know, it's

(41:34):
interesting because I thought, with regards to CM, Punk, Logan,
Paul seth Rawlins, I was inunder the impression that all
three of them were actually gonna have a talking head
segment with one another, and it's interesting how everything ended up,
and I think in the most positive way. Yeah, I

(41:55):
think in the most positive way, and ended up playing
out pretty well there, as you had Punk and Logan
Paul pretty much following up on the events that transpired
at the Role Rumble where Paul threw out Punk, and
you know, you got Punk pretty much going, Look, I

(42:15):
don't know what's going on with you, kid. You know,
you're making things personal, and I'm not sure why, because
I've got nothing against you. I'm not even thinking about
you like that on a personal level. For me, it
is all about business and everything, and I'd like how
Punk just pretty much owned this guy and saying, you know, yeah,

(42:38):
you're right, I am a legend. I am there in
my own right with the rocks, the stone codes, and
pretty much letting Logan Paul know that that is something
that he Logan Paul will never be able to obtain.
He's just basically a flash in the pan, right, Nobody's
going to be thinking about him because he's he's just

(42:59):
an afterthought or whatever. I thought their chemistry together nice
back and forth really really was. It just had me
looking at that whole the whole dynamic, just the idea
of those two in a long term program with one
another going man if wwe really wanted to you know,

(43:21):
they've stumbled upon something pretty badass, I personally feel, and
depending on how low below the belt they want to
go with this, you know, that could be one of
the hottest programs that they could ride going into SummerSlam
between Punk versus Paul if they do this right. So

(43:42):
I know, for now, you know, this is all about
selling elimination Chamber and all that, but I'm just looking
at it beyond that. WW definitely has you know, funny
thing on the way to heaven. They've stumbled upon something
here with these two that I definitely think they should
give strong, deep consideration for after WrestleMania season is over

(44:06):
and all of that Rollins in the meantime showing up there,
Cody Rhoads talking with him. Now, see, it's interesting because
you would have thought that Raw would have been over
after that Cody Rhoads seth Rawlins segment, but that was
not the case at all because we had the main

(44:26):
event match there and congrats to Live Morgan and Raquel
Rodriguez if I remember right now, Live Morgan is now
a three time women's tag champion there, so that is Look,
this has been playing out the way we thought it
was gonna play out, because we've been talking about it
right here on the show in regards to look those

(44:48):
tag titles they gotta somehow come off of Naomi and Bianca.
Jay car Gill re enters the picture Payback is a dog. Okay,
Now we're gonna finally find out here, Okay, what really
what really went down here? And as we finally heard
liv Morgan say, you know, well, contrary to the belief,

(45:09):
you know, as much as we'd like to take credit
for what happened there with Jay Cargill, that wasn't us.
We had nothing to do with that, right, So now
the plot thickens and we're starting to bring it on
home and everything. It's on course. It's on course because
we've pretty much been saying this should culminate WrestleMania, right

(45:31):
j car Gill and all that. So, but for Rawlins
to get in the face of Cody Rhoads and basically
saying to him, Yo, you're actually entertaining this idea. Why
didn't you, bitch slap the Rock right there on the
spot as he stood there. Don't make me regret, you know,

(45:52):
being your shield at last year's russell Mania and helping
you become the world heavyweight champion. You know, don't make
me regret that decision. You know, loved it, loved it.
I love Rawlins also saying to Cody, look, if you're
starting to feel the pressure, if you're starting to think maybe,
you know, being the champion it's becoming too much, I'll

(46:14):
take that burden off your hands, and also letting him know, look,
I'm going to elimination Chamber. I plan on winning it,
you know, And unlike the Rock, I'm not tell you
right now, I'm not coming for your soul, but I
am coming for that championship. You know, I love seth
Rawlins really setting the tone here. And you know, it's

(46:35):
interesting because you could almost make an argument that this
was really good damage control if you want to call
it that. It's funny I say damage control and I'm
not even thinking about the girls stable there, but you
could almost say that WW was almost kind of doing
a little bit of damage control from what had happened
with last week's SmackDown and everything, because I mean, he look,

(46:58):
by now, everybody named Mother has seen that Cody Rhoades
rock segment. Look, we can all be in agreement. It
was a awkward segment. I don't know if you really
want to say it was awkward in a good way.
I know when I was watching it in real time,
you know, you know, literally, it's what I was saying

(47:21):
to my wife. I said, Man, you know, these rock skits,
these rock segments, you're able to start predicting these bad
boys because the rock comes out. Oh yeah, you got
the rock feeling good? Oh yeah, yeah, Rock's very happy
to be here tonight. I tell you what, God Mother,
you know that you know the rock just okay, So yeah,

(47:43):
you're gonna cuss up a storm. All right, can you
get back to what you were talking about before here,
like what's bringing you out here? And then you'll get
the main meat and potatoes of the bullet point for
why Rock is out there, and then it's just getting
back into more cuss mode and then that's pretty much
it with the Rock. You know, this was one of

(48:03):
those segments where I was intrigued, but at the same
time I'm going like, man, this is just so you know,
I didn't think it was bad, you know, you know,
I've seen much worse. I know some of my friends
and Coyle Lee's in the podcasting where they were like,

(48:24):
this is the worst segment of all time, Like, there's
other segments that I would deem worthy of. No, no, no,
these are the worst segments of all time. A rushed
segment from a writing standpoint, probably a perplexing not in

(48:45):
a good way, perplexed eater segment. Yeah, so much so
that like ask yourselves this question. If the segment was
that good, then why would WWE immediately do a press
conference afterwards and before anybody goes yeah, but you know
this was about you know, it was about promoting Wressell

(49:08):
Maania and you know, Rock sharing that news in regards
to Russell may look as far as the Rock and
the whole WrestleMania forty two news, which is great for
New Orleans. I'm'm happy for them. I'm happy for them, happy,
really sincerely, I'm happy for them and everything. But that
all because I watched the Rock press conference, and like

(49:29):
I always saying to some people, I say, man, that
was ten times better than this shit that we got
from the SmackDown segment. It really was. And for those
of you that never did watch the Rock WrestleMania press conference,
go or SmackDown press conference, go watch it. When you

(49:50):
get an opportunity, go watch it, because you're going, Wow,
this was more entertaining. And he was drinking vodka's left
and right, drinking his little drinking drink left and right.
That was more entertaining than what we got with him
and Cody in that ring. But that's besides the point.
That's besides the point if you want to just say, oh,
he was out there just talking wrestle No, no, no.

(50:11):
The WrestleMania question was maybe, from what I remember, one,
maybe two questions at most. I know one of the
questions that was asked of him was is there going
to be WWE television programming to compliment WrestleMania Weekend? And
Rock pretty much was like, yes, Like they don't have

(50:33):
everything hammered out just yet. As far as the official
dates for the shows and all that understandable, you know,
it is basically a year plus out understandable. But yes,
they are going to have shows that's going to be
centered around, right, So that's great. But then the other thing,
as far as what took up the most of that

(50:53):
press conference was Rock just reminiscing about his Nation of
Domination days being the Final Boss character and giving us
a whole psychology thing, you know, break down into the
Final Boss character. And it was a very cohesive press

(51:15):
conference of stuff that's been regurgitated over and over again.
So if you like hearing classic stories that was for you,
that was for you, look my two cents from a
distance on it. I would be shocked to hear that

(51:36):
the whole Rock SmackDown press conference thing that was to
do damage control. I would really be shocked to hear that.
But if you're asking me straight up, Lee, as the
spectator in you, was that needed after what happened there
with Cody and the Rock I would say, no, it

(51:57):
wasn't needed. If anything, you just move on to the
next show, plain and simple, let the fans marinate, let
them think what they want to think, and all this
other stuff, and just pretty much go from there. You know.
But it's really interesting because to go from that SmackDown
segment and then we go to Cody making an appearance

(52:20):
on Raw, you know, kind of trying to dive into
that whole deal, but we can't really go there because
seth Rawlins has to come in there and hey, what's
going on? You know, it's like, okay, all right, So
basically we don't have Cody's answer. We won't get his
answer until the elimination chamber. And how things is being

(52:44):
dubbed up in everything. I don't know if this is
a case where we're about to meet the Rock and
his Ministry of Darkness or his his corporate ministries, the
corporation empire, you know, stay wild. I don't know what's
going on. We'll talk more about that later on in
the show, though, but interesting developments that we had going

(53:07):
on from those standpoints. Far as the matches from this
week's Raw, I'll give it up to Dakota Kai and
what's her face? It was Dakota Kai and Lyra Valkyria
for the Women's Intercontinental Championship. I thought that was a
pretty solid match up. Dakota Kai really coming along. There

(53:31):
some good stuff right there. Michael Cole and the Gang
had revealed that Raymond Stereo is out indefinitely after that
beatdown he took at the hands of New Day LWO members.
I can't even think of their names right now. Was
Zaikwan Wild and I don't know the other guy. I

(53:53):
don't care. I just know New Day one. That's all
that mattered to me. But Raymondstereo, we're not going to
be seeing him for the foreseeable future as he is
out indefinitely apparently so honestly, and before anybody wants to
jump on that, oh you know, he couldn't work out

(54:14):
a new deal with WWE or are these the end
of days for Raymond Stereo like he's done. I think
it's just that time where Raymond Stereo rests up for
a little bit. I got ray ray coming back in
time for WrestleMania. Let's not forget Raymond Stereo very excited.
In some recent interviews he gave where he talked about Hey,
I love the fact that we've got Dragon Lee. I

(54:37):
love the fact that we've we've got Pent and you know,
I see him sticking around just long enough so he can,
you know, lock it up with some of these other
cats and pretty much go from there. Ludwick Kaiser speaking
about some more matches here Ludwig Kaiser Pete Dunn Pent

(55:00):
triple threat match, Kaiser picking up the win there, nice
little fun match, way too short for my personal taste though.
Cruzdale Toro and Joaquin Wilde is who I was taking
of earlier there from the LWO Gunther squash match there
against Akira to Zoa. It's kind of fun how that
match had came about to pretty much an instant acme feud,

(55:25):
Gunther mining his own business, just walking around sees Otis
Akira Maxine dancing doing some type of health is thrusts
and decides, oh, yeah, yeah, I need to beat somebody's ass.
What the hell am I looking at here? That was
kind of funny on that one. What else Dominic Mysterio

(55:51):
versus Brahm Breaker so interesting? What creative is doing right here?
So on the one hand, you're looking at this and
you're going, so are we officially trying to put bron
Breaker on that babyface path here, Like, what are we
doing because we've put basically Finn Balor in the IC

(56:13):
title picture by doing what we did here with bron Breaker, Right,
so we've basically got Finn Balor in the title picture.
We've essentially put AJ Styles in the title picture as well.
And look, if the main event for WrestleMania for the
Icy title is going to be AJ versus Breaker, Like,

(56:36):
I'm totally down for that and everything, but you know,
I can't help but also think beyond that because there's
strengthen numbers and right now we've got Carlito ballor Dominique Mysterio.
I still believe we're on track from what I was
talking about several weeks ago, where eventually we're going to

(56:57):
see AJ Styles dragging off Breaker. There's gonna be some
type of maybe an alliance there against the Judgment day
wait and see how that all plays out. But you know,
for most of the action that we got from roll
this week, I thought the ring action was pretty so

(57:20):
I could have done though without without the squash matches.
Though I could have done without those. We could have
maybe got a little bit more substance in there that
would have been fine for me. To the polls we
go one more time. X Overall on Twitter asks you guys,
what did you all think about this Monday's edition of
WWU all for February twenty fourth, twenty twenty five. Eleven

(57:43):
percent of you saw Eleven percent of you all said
it was a low average show, twenty two percent of
you all said it was an awesome show. Thirty three
percent of you all said it was an average show
and top dog right now. Thirty four percent of you
said you didn't enjoy honestly mean. While over on YouTube

(58:04):
YouTube dot com ford Slash the RCWR show, fourteen percent
of you all said it was a below average show.
I am seeing a triple tie at twenty nine percent
for awesome show, average show, didn't enjoy honestly Appreciate all
of you all that cast your votes on that one.

(58:25):
Shout out to Connor in the chat who says, what's up? Lee?
Used to watch you back in twenty thirteen after every
episode of Raw when I was just a young teen.
Awesome to see you still doing this, Keep smashing it,
Glad your channel has grown so big. Deserved appreciate that yeah,

(58:49):
for those of you. I mean, I know there's probably
those of you that can't like see the numbers right now,
but we're like just shy of fifteen thousand subscribers. I
lost track of how many any views this channel has gotten.
I think we are. I think we're like over ten
million views or something like that. And then when you
just add up our social media channels total, like followers

(59:14):
and all of that, I think we've got like a
little bit over thirty thousand. And it's funny because I
don't think nothing much of it, Like I'm not settled
at like I want to keep seeing it grow. But
I have some of my classmates and even my professors,
they're like, this is actually good, Like you were able
to do this on your own as a small mom

(59:36):
and pop you know, show like you're able to do this,
just like you should be proud. It's like, well, you
know what I am. It's like, but I want more,
and it's like, well, no, no, that's good, but no,
like you should really be proud of It's like it's
not that I'm disappointed or anything like that. It's just
I can do better than that, right cause I know,
if I really really put my mind to it, and

(59:57):
I really really work it. Like I know the number
could be even, but that's the thing, like I'm always
so focused on my health and then my personal life,
happy life, married life, like happy wife, like make sure
all that's on point and everything, and yeah, but I'm
just now kind of getting to that point now where

(01:00:18):
it's like I can finally start to Okay, let's work one,
building up the brand even more, Let's do some fun
things for the brand even more. Let's do some you know,
but Connor, it amy always makes me happy to hear
from longtime listeners such as yourself, because you know, literally,

(01:00:40):
and I say this all the times, like I've got
people that were either in junior or high or high
school that began listening to me, and it's so awesome
to hear from folks that, you know, dude, I now
got a family, I have a kid, and you know,
I've been married for a couple of years. Or it's
always nice hearing from the longtime listeners and everything. So

(01:01:03):
I'm glad you're doing well. Connor. Sincerely, I'm glad you're
doing well. Let's see where do we go from here.
We got some more wrestling news that we can definitely
get into some entertainment news as well. I just want
to look at the show notes get a really good
flow because I know there's some serious topics I want
to get into, but I don't want to get into

(01:01:31):
those just yet. If it's yeah, I'm looking at our
synopsis so I have a better idea where we were. Yeah,
so we're good. We're good so far. You know we
were talking about WrestleMania forty two. Yeah, it's going to
be happening at the Caesars super Dome next year. It's

(01:01:54):
going to be a two night event April eleven through
to twelve, New Orleans, Louisiana. Very excited for that. That's
that's gonna be such a such an awesome event, Like I,
I can't wait. I can't wait. Well, I try to
go to uh next year's WrestleMania. I'm gonna try to

(01:02:15):
make an attempt. I'll tell you that. I'll tell you
that much right now. I'm gonna try to make an attempt.
But worst case scenario, I will definitely try to see
if I can take advantage of WrestleMania weekend. For sure.
It's so interesting how WWE with TKO now and congratulations
are in order for TKO particularly Ari Emmanuel, isn't it?

(01:02:37):
Because now Ari Emmanuel is a billionaire. He is now
a billionaire, so that is uh, you know, I gotta
go back and see, like, okay, so where does that
put him on the list? Does he come in last
on the list or did he move up a couple
of notches there? Like what exactly is going on there?

(01:03:01):
Have you guys seen Aila? Don you know? We talked
about her release from WWE and everything, but have you
all seen the newest video that she put up in
regards to her release. I want to load it up
for you guys. Only watched like a couple of seconds
and I was like, oh damn, this is this is

(01:03:22):
nice and I wanted to try to enjoy more of
it with you guys so we could all watch it
in real time and comment from there and everything. It
looks like as far as her Twitter account, because remember
we talked about the fact about a couple of months
ago she appeared to deactivate her Twitter account and everything,

(01:03:46):
and it would seem that she has brought back a
new account apparently by the looks of it, as she's
now on ISLA, WWE and right now, she has about
over eight thousand followers. She's only following like thirteen people.
But I do want to play this newest video that

(01:04:11):
she put out. I'm gonna share screen. I'm gonna share
screen with you guys, So bear with me a second here.
I want to share screen. I want to present and
share a screen. And we'll start share screen. And yes,
that's what we want. We want to share that. And

(01:04:35):
I think we're good to go. Now, let me go ahead,
and I want to maximize. All right, So here's what
I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take I'm gonna take myself
out of the equation here for just a hot minute.
Let me look at my media assets. Let's hide that.

(01:04:56):
There we go. There we go, guys. That's a lot better.
Here we go and enjoy.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
One.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
Hang on, guys, I want to make sure that you
all are able to hear this because I have the
audio coming from out of the MacBook speakers. So I
hang on the second here, let's go to audio and
let's go to roadcaster or pro. Let's test that perfect.
All right, okay, I think we're good to go. Now,
let's try that again.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
One of everyone a little too late Oh my god,

(01:06:03):
I'm going to miss her. Oh my god. She was
a champion, she was a star. She did not deserve this,
did no, But I didn't need it. I was bleeding

(01:06:24):
out and this, this was the pressure, and I was crashing.
This is the thing that revived me. My heart stopped
on the table. But someone down there sent me back up,
knowing that it was the White Witch has gone. They
had Holy Enchantress buried in the grave two days thirteen.

(01:06:54):
Wouldn't grieve for me.

Speaker 1 (01:06:59):
I was very nice, very nice. I thought that was
relatively good. Yeah, I mean I didn't have a problem
with that. I thought that was pretty good. Basically, Isila

(01:07:20):
don saying, Yo, you ain't seen nothing yet. Yeah, that's
basically what she's saying in a nutshell, right, So I
like that. Some of you guys may feel that was
pretty sexy because she's just got all that nice thigh,
you know, she's just chilling on that sofa, laid out,
and she got all of that nice, good, juicy thick

(01:07:41):
fat just all out there. And I'm just picturing some
of you guys drooling over that and everything. No, I
thought that was pretty good. What I'm most curious about
is since she was let go. Is that a ninety
day thing? I think it is, because didn't she say
see you in ninety I remember being here on this
show saying something about a post that she put up

(01:08:04):
saying something else, see you in ninety. Yes, so she
got a ninety day clause that's up and about right now.
So I can't wait to see what she's going to
be able to do out there on the free agency market.
I hope she essentially pulls a Maria Kanellis. In case
you guys don't understand that one. You know that one
maybe kind of went over your head. Maria Kanellis, she

(01:08:26):
basically had said in a recent stream with her husband
that she's not going to be so quick to jump
the gun going over to another promotion. It's kind of
one of those look, you know, I keep I'm kind
of summarizing here, but basically it's like, look, you know,
I've committed to one promotion. I do a couple of

(01:08:47):
years here, a couple of years here, a couple of
years there, like this go around. I just want to,
you know, pump the brakes, really, and that would be
my message to anybody, regardless of what promotion may bee
you were just let go from or you weren't able
to work out new terms for a new contract, and
you're now finding yourself out there as a free agent.

(01:09:08):
Don't be so quick to inca deal. And if you
can help it, right, if you can help it, Like
not everybody is going to have a situation, for example,
like Doc Gallows. I don't know if you guys had
heard about that, but Doc Gallows and his wife who's
a chiropractic therapist and all a chiropractice doctor, they're getting

(01:09:33):
ready to open up a practice in early March. And
you would just like to believe that with all the
great money that Doc Gallows has been able to bring
in thanks to his wrestling and then his wife being
in her respected field and all of that, just you
would like to believe that, you know, definitely from dark

(01:09:55):
side of things, none of that would all been made
possible and now able to go and really live out
their dream. Not everybody is financially smart like that with
their money. Not everybody's in that position where they're being
a bit frugal with their spending and you know, making

(01:10:15):
wise smart choices decisions, Like not everybody's gonna write some
people unfortunately. Okay, in order to keep this lifestyle up,
you know, I'm essentially a check away or I am
a I gotta stay on top of things here. I
want to continue to give myself as much cushion as
humanly possible. So for those that are in that position

(01:10:39):
where you can take your time making your next move
and all that please, I employ you do so. Learn
from some of these people that have kept bouncing around
and can out new deals after new deals and coming
out yeah, that wasn't so good. If you're able to
take your time and really weigh in your options, then

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I would definitely say do that. Like, look at what's
going on with Carmela right now, it would appear as though,
at least by a lot of the reports that's out
there by our good friends over at PW Insider and
Fightful in everybody, that Carmela and WWE, it seems at
least for now they have been able to ink a

(01:11:22):
new deal. Now. I don't believe for a second that
we have seen the very last of Carmela in WWE.
I don't believe that whatsoever. I am looking at this
and I am asking myself, will a new deal be
inked between her and WWE, I think so, I honestly

(01:11:50):
believe so. I'm just looking at the whole Corey Grave
situation and there's a big part of me that would
like to believe if there was ever a voice of reason,
Carmela may have sat Corey down and really, look, this
is what's up. You know, it's not as bad as

(01:12:11):
you're making it out to be. You know, hey, look
the more money that we're able to bring in, the better.
But not for nothing. I haven't quite figured out exactly
what my next endeavor is going to be. So until
I'm able to really figure that out all out and everything,
you've got a great thing going with WWE definitely continue

(01:12:33):
to pursue it, so, you know. And it was interesting
hearing what Michael Cole had to say in that recent
interview that he did with Logan Paul, which was fantastic.
I definitely highly recommend you guys go out of your
way check it out because he kind of shed just
a tiny little bit of light on that whole situation.

(01:12:53):
But even Michael Cole was very perplexed at what was
going on there with Corey Graves and all that. So
I'm glad that Corey Graves. WW. They were able to
smooth that all out and everything. But you know, the
best thing that one can do right now is you know, look,
you know, not for nothing, but long as the money

(01:13:17):
is continuing to come in, money is still right. It
shouldn't matter if you're calling the A show to B
show or to C show. You know, a job's a job.
The money is right. Keep doing your thing, and god
damn it, if you're not feeling it, then just mind
your time and quietly just start making some moves that way.

(01:13:41):
When it's time for you to do what you need
to do, you are able to do that, bad boy.
But for those of you that's kind of looking at
this Carmelo situation and going, is this a sign that
potentially Corey Graves could be rolling out of the WWE
when his contract is over and done with. Not so fast?
Not so fast? No, No, I don't see that being

(01:14:04):
the case whatsoever. I think it'll be a matter of
time a lot sooner. Rather than look look at it
this way, Remember how all the reports were out there
about Alexa Bliss and now so many people were trying
to you could tell they were guessing what was going
on there with Alexa Bliss. All right, you could tell

(01:14:26):
have we not learned? That's my whole message, have we
not learned? So at this point it's just kind of
one of those let's just see how this plays out. Seriously,
Let's see how this plays out. And we were talking
about TNA earlier, you know, one of the main events
for their Sacrifice pay per view event, Masha Slamovich is
going to be defending the TNA Knockouts title against Cora Jade.

(01:14:52):
Oh if you guys had heard that, I am definitely
looking forward to checking that out now. I'll be going
down on Mark fourteenth. By the way, TNA Sacrifice in
El Paso, Texas at the El Paso Coliseum, And the
way that card is looking right now, check this out.

(01:15:14):
We've got Moose defending his ex Division championship against Jeff Hardy.
Ladder match we just told you about Marshall, Slamovich and
Cora Jade. Meanwhile, the Rascals we'll be taken on Ace Austin,
wes Lee, Tyson DuPont, and Tyreek Igwy six man tag

(01:15:38):
team matchup. Mains Warner faces Sammy Callahan in a one
on one match, and we got a ten man tag
match between Joe Hendry, Matt Hardy, Elijah also known as
Elias was like he's officially with TNA. Good for him,
Leon Slater and a mystery tag partner. They'll be facing

(01:16:05):
the Systems, Eddie Edwards, Brian Myers, JDC, the Colognes Eddie Cologne,
and Orlando Cologne. I wonder who that mystery tag partner
is going to be, but that is how that card
is shaping up for TNA Sacrifice. I would imagine there's
probably going to be some more WWE crossover little surprise

(01:16:27):
appearances as well elsewhere. Bill Goldberg said in a recent
interview that his retirement match will be going down he
believes summer of this year, and as far as where
exactly it's going to be going down, he feels it'll

(01:16:48):
all be taking place at SummerSlam. So if all I
remember one of the last times we saw Bill Goldberg
there pretty much was in a segment with Gunther and
almost teased their way. It wasn't almost, it blatantly was
teased that maybe Guther and Goldberg that was maybe going
to be the next matchup for Goldberg, that was probably

(01:17:10):
going to be his farewell matchup in everything so it
does pose the question who is going to be Bill
Goldberg's final opponent. You know, if they wanted to go
with Gunther, you could definitely go in that direction if
you maybe wanted to go with and I really hope
they go in this direction instead, but if you wanted

(01:17:31):
to go with braun Breaker, I mean, very similar career paths.
You really talk about essentially passing on the torch. I
think the way that Triple h WW and crew has
been handling bron Breakers so far, it's been very reminiscent

(01:17:51):
of a Bill Goldberg and I just feel that they
can really really take this to New Heights and everything thing.
And you know what's really cool about I was telling
this to a buddy of mine the other day. I said,
you know, it's really cool about bron Breaker all things considered.
You know, you think about the Cowboys and I want

(01:18:14):
to use this reference as an example. I want to
use this reference as an example. But you look at
all those times that Jimmy Johnson was able to win
the Super Bowl there with the Cowboys, and it's like, ah,
you know, you know this is great what happened with
Jimmy Johnson. And then you look at the next coach

(01:18:35):
that came in afterwards, and you go, yeah, that's all
nice and everything, but you were able to do some
of those things because you had some of Jimmy Johnson's guys.
You know, you had some leftovers. Let's see what happens
when it's just totally a clean slate, you know, has
nothing to do with Jimmy Johnson and you know all

(01:18:55):
this other stuff. But I look at the bron Breaker
situation and I go, you know, it's interesting because you
can kind of tell way back when that for Triple
Age Brown Breaker was his guy to carry WWE into tomorrow.
And I don't necessarily know if Vince McMahon kind of

(01:19:16):
felt that same way, and if he did, he had
a funny, weird way of showing it. But you know,
you're just thinking about the fact that, Okay, sooner or later,
you know, in the next you know, just think about this.
Just close your eyes and think about this for a second. Like,
within the next five years, give or take, won't be

(01:19:37):
no Roman reigns, won't be probably a seth Rawlins, probably
won't be a Drew McIntyre, probably won't be our Truth.
You know, there probably won't be insert insert insert and
you're just looking out. Okay, so who's going to be
the guys that's going to be carrying the company into tomorrow?

(01:19:59):
And you're looking at a guy I like bron Breaker.
You're looking at Gunther, you're looking at Logan, Paul, you're
looking at insert insert the guys that your eyeballing, and
bron Breaker is definitely that guy without a doubt, without
a doubt. So I don't know, asking me personally, look

(01:20:19):
either way, you can go no wrong if it's going
to be between Gunter and bron Breaker, but flip of
a coin, really, But for me personally, I hope they
go with bron Breaker. I think that'd be the perfect
opponent there for Goldberg. Let's do this. Let's go into

(01:20:40):
some Elimination Chamber predictions for this Saturday. Let's put that
up for you guys right now again, Elimination Chamber is
going to be happening this Saturday, March first. Everything begins
if I'm not mistaken, at seven pm Eastern, six pm
CIFIC time. So Elimination Chamber Toronto, final stop before Russell Mania.

(01:21:08):
This is how your elimination card is looking right now.
Your Elimination Chamber card as it stands right now, on
this night, we've got four matches. We've got Sammy Zay
facing Kevin Owens. It is a unsanctioned match. Why can't
we just say this is you know, it's a fight,

(01:21:31):
and they just know. They keep saying when they do
these interviews, they keep saying, this match, this match, No, no, no,
this's gonna be a fight. Let's call it for what
it is. This is going to be a fight. I
am going to go with, oh man, this is a
tough win, fam this is a tough one. But I

(01:21:51):
am going to go with Sammy Zay somehow picking up
the win. But it's going to cost him. It's going
to cost him. I can see something going down where
for like a fuck finish just out of nowhere. I
could see Sammy Zay just small packets roll up and

(01:22:12):
just he gets to win that way. But I could
see Kevin Owens essentially pulling a triple H sledge hammer
to the back of the neck of Sammy Zy like
they've already planted the seeds there. With some of the
interviews that Sammy Zain has given that his neck is
not one hundred percent, but he doesn't give a damn.

(01:22:34):
He knows he shouldn't be doing this match. But I
can literally see Kevin Owens, you know, you gotta go
beyond the pal Driver. You gotta go beyond that. You
gotta do something that's gonna be so goddamn devastating that
Kevin Owens is gonna be vilified. He is going to

(01:22:55):
be booed out of that damn arena. Okay, this is
definitely that right type of crowd to be doing it
in front of. So although Sammy may win, it's gonna
cost him. I can see something very diabolical happening though,
especially with Kevin Owens coming out the next night, next
edition of SmackDown saying something along the lines of you

(01:23:18):
all did this, you all calls this. This is you
all's fault. You know you all are to blame for this.
I can just see this all going exactly like that.
And this is how Randy Orton essentially returns Randy Orton
Kevin Owens WrestleMania. That's how I'm seeing this essentially play out.

(01:23:46):
You know, I know some people are like, wait a minute,
what about Sammy's ain Owens at WrestleMania. I don't see
the two getting to that point. I don't see the
two getting to that point. I don't know why. I'm
kind of trusting my gut instincts here, and look, my
gut instincts could be wrong. But there's this this weird

(01:24:06):
thing I have that's saying, no, we're not going to
see this these two guys again on the WrestleMania card. No,
Owens will be there for sure, but Sammy's no. No.
So I see something very diabolical happening. Now. Some of
you may be also going, wait a minute, what about
maybe a Randy Orton returning right here in this unsanctioned match,

(01:24:27):
and then you know, Owens kind of shifts his attention
to Nah. Nah, I'm not saying that. I'm not seeing that. Meanwhile,
Tiffany Stratton and Tris Stratus team up to go up
against NYA Jacks and Candice lay Ah. You know, unless

(01:24:51):
we're gonna throw an interesting curveball in here, I see
no reason why Tiffany Stratton and Tris Stratus wouldn't pick
up the win here. What I'm more curious about is
will Charlotte Flair make her presence felt. That's what I'm
more curious about, you know, just to kind of rub
it in there on Tiffany Stratton, Will she do a

(01:25:14):
little something something? If she does, I don't even think
that's gonna matter, though, I really don't know. This should
be Tiffany Stratton in and Tristratus. Meanwhile, Live Morgan versus
Bianca Belle Lair versus Alexa Bliss versus Bailey versus Naomi

(01:25:35):
versus Roxanne Perez elimination chamber match for a Women's World
Championship match at WrestleMania forty one. Will Live just became
the tag champions? We can take that out. We got
Bianca and Naomi in there. I still feel that there

(01:25:56):
Villers ever a time where we see a Cargill make
her return and okay, that next chapter begins like when
Bianca Belle Lair returns. I'm sorry, when Jade Cargill returns
for us. From a fans perspective, we're gonna be going. Okay,

(01:26:16):
So who is she coming after? Because somebody in that
ring she owes an ass whooping too. Is it Live Morgan?
Is it in fact Live Morgan contrary to what Live
Morgan is saying. Or is it gonna be Biyanca or
is it gonna be Naomi. I think we're gonna get
that story finally revealed in that Chambers match. Make no

(01:26:39):
mistake about that. I'd be shocked if we didn't. Quite honestly, so, Bianca,
I'm not seeing her Bailey. Correction, Bianca, Naomi, eliminate them.
So so far we've eliminated live Bianca Naomi. That leaves
us with Bailey, Roxanne Perez, and Alexa Bliss. Ah, I

(01:27:08):
am going to say, because this is pretty much whoever
wins this they take on Riha Ripley. Right, Yeah, I
am going to say, eliminate Bailey. I'm not seeing Bailey.
I think this is gonna come down to Alexa Bliss
and Roxanne Perez. That's who it's gonna come down to.

(01:27:33):
A tricky one here, this is a tricky one. Do
you go with the returning Alexa Bliss, Alexa Bliss, Rihea
Ripley at Elimination Chamber? Do you go in that one
where basically you got some superficial supernatural stuff that's gonna

(01:27:54):
be playing out behind the scenes there, or do you
go with the Ah I'm gonna go with We're gonna
go with Rocks and Perez. I probably shouldn't my mind

(01:28:16):
is screaming Bliss, but my gut is saying Perez. I'm
gonna go with Perez on this one. That's final. Meanwhile,
for the men's Elimination Chamber, winner of this gets a
shot at the Undisputed Championship at WrestleMania forty one. We
got John Cena versus CM Punk versus Drew McIntyre versus Logan,

(01:28:39):
Paul versus Damien Priz versus Seth Frickin' Rawlins. God damn,
this is ah Man. Okay, So basically winner of this
takes on Cody Rhoads, and then we don't forget we
also got Cody Rhodes and what's his decision for the

(01:29:03):
rock there? You know he caughugh of his soul. Oh,
this is a I really liked the idea of CM
Punk and Cody Rhoads for the championship. I really love that,
especially if you wanted to do the story in such

(01:29:23):
a way where it circles back to unresolved issues between
the Rock and seem Punk, and like just imagine, like
Cody does sell his soul Punk, doesn't you know, doesn't
anticipate this whatever, right? Yeah, he might have teased it,

(01:29:46):
you know, but maybe he maybe he overestimated Cody Roads.
When it's all said and done, right, and it's kind
of one of those type of deals. I'm not seeing
Seth Brolins though, let's eliminate him off the break, contrary
to like, I don't see Seth Rowlands winning this. We
can take him out. I don't see Damian Priest winning this.

(01:30:06):
I don't see Drew McIntyre. So really, when it's all
said and done, we're homing in on Logan Paul John
Cena CM punk boy. I'll tell you what, if you
really wanted to make some hads turned and you really
wanted to sell the hell out of WrestleMania, the smart

(01:30:26):
money is Logan Paul Cody Rhodes. I know I can
just hear a lot of people just screaming, Holy what
the hell is wrong with you? Dude? No, I can uh,
I can see a lot of people, Well, dude, we're
going over it right now. We've got all American Wrestling saying,
what's what's your pick? We're going over it right now, man, damnations. Shit,

(01:30:53):
let's see here that you know see, I'm a businessman
when it's all when it's all set and I'm a
businessman and I like following what makes that money. So
I like the idea of Logan Paul and Cody Rhodes
is your thinking. I'm thinking about that social media influence.

(01:31:15):
I'm thinking about the media appearances, just the whole nine
yards that that is what I'm really thinking about. I
don't think WWE is going to go in that direction.
That's just my personal preference. So no Logan Paul. So
it comes down to CM Punk, John Cena, CM Punk

(01:31:41):
and John Cena. M I don't know, fam, I don't
know John Cena's gonna get this. I don't want, I

(01:32:02):
don't want it to happen. But I feel like John
Cena is actually going to win this and he's gonna
go up against Cody at WrestleMania. That's what I'm feeling
right now. I think when it's all said it done,
and you circle back to CM punk, there's gonna be
some type of shenanikin or two or three that's gonna

(01:32:25):
go down because think about this, think about this. It's
the main thing that I think a lot of people
are gonna miss on this one, the fact that seem
punk Drew McIntyre, Seth Rawlins are in there, and just
the history between all three of those men, they're gonna
be so fixated on one another, right, rivalies renewed, whatever

(01:32:51):
you want to call it, right, issues unresolved between these
three men, They're gonna be so caught up in their
feelings with one another against each other in here that
it's gonna give someone like maybe a Logan Paul A
John Cena an opportunity to come that freaking close Logan

(01:33:15):
Paul very very close. But I think John Cena is
gonna be the one to win this. And then as
far as like you're WrestleMania main event, I hear a
lot of you guys are going, hmm, something could happen
there with Punk Rollins, maybe Roman Reigns. It could, It

(01:33:37):
could happen. It could. I don't think my mind's gonna change.
I think Sena's gonna get this, and Sena Cody Rhoads,
I mean, come on, two of the biggest babyfaces, Sena
being the past biggest babyface going up against Cody Rhoads
the current babyface. And now now here's the thing. Now

(01:34:00):
here's the thing we got to think about Cody and
the Rock and that whole decision thing. What if? What if?
What if Cody shoots the Rock down? Rock decides Okay,
sorry you feel that way. Just know that things are

(01:34:21):
going to be much more difficult for you going forward
as champion, especially on your journey to WrestleMania. YadA YadA, YadA,
yakaty smackety right, but just keep this in the back
of your mind. We get the WrestleMania John Cena versus
Cody Rhodes. What if It's at that moment Cody reveals
that he did, in fact sell his soul to the Rock.

(01:34:46):
Rock comes out. Seen is a little bit confused. He's
not sure what's going on. WrestleMania. Moment we find out
Cody didn't in fact sell his soul to the Rock
Shock John Cena Right, Oh well, well, John Cena lost
because Cody sold his soul to the Rock. It's the
biggest main story coming out of WrestleMania. It's a marinate

(01:35:11):
on that. Think about that I might be on the
something though it might be on the something. All right,
let's recap here unsanctioned match going with Kevin Owens. Kind
of no, I'm going with Sammy zan for to win.
But Kevin Owens is gonna have the ultimate laugh. Rewind.
If you're joining us live in real time, you'll be
able to hear why I'm going in that direction. Tiffany Stratton,

(01:35:34):
Trish Stratus. Damn that rhymes, don't it. Tiffany Stratton and
Trish Stratus kind of rhymed a little bit there to me.
Got them over Nia Jack's Candice Larray Women's Elimination Chamber
match pretty close here, but I'm gonna go with Roxanne
Perez honorable mention though that don't be too surprised if

(01:35:55):
Bliss maybe gets it. But I'm gonna go with Roxanne Perez.
And for your main event match, I am homing in
on see I'm punkin John Cena. Very close to call,
but I'm gonna go with John Sena for that one.
That's how I'm looking at Elimination Chamber. Yeah, I will
be live when it goes off the air. I am

(01:36:18):
looking forward to being here on the post show with
you guys, so make sure you tune in for that one. Also,
as we get ready to wind down with the show
here the Lee Sanders Wrestling Awards. I got some news
about that one. So because of all the stuff that's

(01:36:39):
been going on with my father in law's health, and
for those of you that's just tuning in, you might
have missed it. Father in law is doing fantastic now
thanks to a lot of you guys that had privately
reached out asking me what was going on and everything.
But he's doing better. We're gonna push back the Wrestling Awards.
We were actually supposed to go over the winners Monday night.

(01:37:01):
Because of everything that was going on, I'm gonna add
a little bit more time. Not to mention, I really
wasn't promoting it like that because I was so sidetracked
with a lot of personal stuff going on. So we're
going to extend it, basically by a whole month. So Monday,
March twenty fourth, will be revealing the winners for the
twenty twenty four Wrestling Awards. So again, March twenty fourth,

(01:37:25):
that's a Monday night, So after all goes off the
air Hop one, we'll be going over the winners on
that one. So but yeah, father in law is doing fantastic.
I'm doing a lot better. I had feil a total
of three times. I won't go over the whole thing again,
but I had failed like three times, literally at the

(01:37:48):
same spot where after I got done parking my car
and I got to walk across the street go to
this little heel. It was just to get to my
home and everything, and I fell down three times in
pretty much the exact same spot. And the third time
was the worst because I messed my left knee up
pretty bad. So I was wearing a knee brace. Oh

(01:38:11):
you know, one of those ones you could buy online,
really nice, good patty joint and all that. I was
pushing that in the cane for a little bit. Happy
to say, pretty much a week later, I'm now out
of the brace, not using the cane anymore, although once
in a while I feel a little bit of slight stiffness,
but I'm good otherwise. So there's that true story. I

(01:38:36):
had got my beautiful two thousand and three Honda Accord.
I got it fixed back in late October early November.
I mean, it had a lot of issues that was
going on, and I thought for sure, for the amount
of money that I paid, I got her tuned up.

(01:38:57):
And it turns out over the week can as far
as the health issues go, uh TAM's had a health scare.
She was on her way home uh, and she just
started feeling very light headed. Uh. She also was feeling dizzy,
Don't ask me how, but she basically was able to

(01:39:17):
get herself to Kaiser to get checked out and all that.
And long story short, Uh, they figured out they're doing
blood test, X rays, all that stuff. They were able
to figure out MRIs On. They were able to figure
out that she was dehydrated. Also, she had a UTI,

(01:39:42):
so you know, they hooked her up with some stuff
and you know, she's feeling a lot better now, so
that's good. But that same night, I'm having car issues
with my Honda, like to the point my car battery
comes on like for no damn read and I'm going,
what the fuck is And literally, I don't know if

(01:40:04):
this has ever happened to you guys, but literally I'm
driving and my whole car it shuts off for like
three seconds and then the battery comes right back on.
I'm going, oh shit. So I'm a text to speech,
you know, I'm saying, you know, a Siri, and he
send a text message to and like it's literally listening

(01:40:26):
right now, don't never mind shut up right and I'm
telling it TABS what's going on. And she's like, Okay,
where are you right now? I'm going, Ah, I'm about
maybe twenty eight minutes from home. She's like, okay, well
stop whatever you're doing, get that motherfucker home. I'm like, yes, Bett.
So luckily, don't ask me how, but somehow I was

(01:40:48):
able to get the damn car home, and we actually
took it to one of our favorite mechanics down the street.
We really should have been going to him all along,
but we ended up not going there anymore because he left.
But the new people that they got there, they're actually

(01:41:09):
pretty damn good. More on them in a little bit.
But you know, we were able to get the Honda back,
and we're thinking, well, maybe if we just changed the battery.
Maybe if we changed the battery, that was the issue.
Battery was still coming on even after the battery swap.
So long story short, we got the car over to

(01:41:32):
our mechanic, and our mechanic is like, okay, your alternator,
you're having issues with that, And here's why you're having
issues with your alternator. It looks like a whole bunch
of oil. Basically, something about whoever was working on the
car last they didn't seal it right in the respected places.
That it should have been sealed. So as a result

(01:41:53):
of that, oil and other stuff was able to get
not just on the alternator but on other parts as well.
It's like aye, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like how
And I immediately thought about the last people that worked
on the car and it was like motherfuckers. So that
that pretty much all that craziness on top of healthy issues.

(01:42:14):
That all is what was going on last week. So
a little bit of a positive note applied to a
couple of more colleges. I was thinking about it a
little bit more and I said, you know, let me
just holler at you know, and that's going good. I
told you guys last I was very concerned about my

(01:42:37):
elemental statistics class, my mathematics class, because that is like
some in regards to math. I did pretty good for
my first tests. I got a eighty five point five
and then there was another homework assignment slash test. I
scored one hundred one that so we're off to a

(01:42:59):
pretty good started. You know, still a little bit long
ways to go, may to be exact, but all that
going pretty good. So some positive stuff that's happening. Not
to end things on a Debbie downer, of a note,
but I just want to make sure I show this woman.
I want to give her her flowers right now, because

(01:43:23):
she definitely is deserving of her flowers. So I'll tell
you what. We'll talk about this, but we'll definitely end
it on a little bit of a much lighter note
as I will talk gaming. I'll talk a little WWE
two K twenty five for just a little bit here.
But I want to take this time out and I

(01:43:45):
want to wish the friends, family, colleagues of the solstress ROBERTA. Flak,
who passed away this week at the age of eighty eight.
I want to offer my d his condolence is here.
You know, she's from right here in Washington, d C.

(01:44:06):
She might have not been born out here, but she
spent such a long time. She spent about a third
of her life out here in the Washington region, lived
in Richmond, Virginia, then came up through Arlington, And something

(01:44:27):
that a lot of the news reports out here have
missed tremendously in covering her passing is the fact that
she was I don't know if anybody has surpassed that age,
like if somebody younger maybe had came in after her
but at the time when she enrolled at Howard University,

(01:44:48):
she was fifteen years old. You heard me right, she
was fifteen when she enrolled at Howard University. I mean
that has to be a record for like youngest ever,
if not second youngest or third youngest, that has to
be a record in itself, I would imagine. And she
went to Howard to study major in piano and vocals,

(01:45:14):
and when she got a little older, she spent several
years as a teacher at various schools, one of them
being Banniker. Shout out to my Bannker alumnised there. I'm
not a Bannker alumni, but I firstly found that I
always get along with Bannerker alumnized that. Actually I was

(01:45:34):
supposed to go to that school, but I decide, nah,
I don't want to go there. I want to go
you know, elsewhere and everything. But when she got a
little bit older, she was giving piano lessons and vocal
lessons from her home that was just up on Euclid Street,

(01:45:55):
and on weekends she would go to jazz clubs whoever
would have her where she would go and she would perform.
And back in the day she was coming up, she
was mainly focusing on folk, folk, blues blues, and of
course she was the first ever to win a Grammy

(01:46:17):
Award for Record of the Year for two consecutive years.
That was a feature that would not be crushed for
almost three decades. You know, It's something else that a
lot of them had missed out. One too, is her relationship,
her friendship there with the late great Donnie Hathaway. You know,

(01:46:38):
it's funny the way their careers had overlapped because she
was there at Howard, you know, for some years prior
to when Donnie came in there, and when she met Donnie,
Donnie was a cook, if I'm not mistaken, and they
had so many things in common that musically, you know,

(01:47:01):
they they found spirited kinship with one another. That when ROBERTA.
Flack had put out her first couple of albums, Donnie
Hathaway actually performed background vocals and musical instrumental arrangements on

(01:47:21):
a couple of songs for a few of her albums,
and he obviously returned the same favor. Then you got
to a point there where they both ended up being
under Atlantic Records at the same time, and the executives felt, well, wait,
a minute. Since these two have so much history with

(01:47:42):
one another, why don't we get them in the studio
together and let's have them, you know, make an album.
And at this point it wasn't so much Roberta, but
she was on a little bit of a decline and
Donnie was starting to catch lightning in the bottle. So
it was kind of like, well, let's knock out two

(01:48:04):
birds with one stone. And of course, many of you
all that know your classic music and everything, you know
Donnie Hathaway, ROBERTA Flack, you know that album that came out.
What a beautiful collaboration. Seriously, what a beautiful collaboration. One

(01:48:25):
of my favorite songs off of that seventies album, I
like the last track titled Mood, and it's ROBERTA. Flack
that's playing the lead piano, but Donnie Hathaway is playing
the electric piano. It is seven plus minutes of very
emotional rollercoaster. Really puts a nice capsule on a masterpiece

(01:48:51):
album that you're listening to. And then let's not also forget.
I think it was like around nineteen seventy eight, nineteen
seventy nine, pretty much when Donnie passed away. Roberta had
it out ROBERTA Flack featuring Donnie Hathaway, and I was
a postmonius joint. Obviously for Donnie wasn't quite the same.
Although ROBERTA Flack was interviewed many times and she said

(01:49:16):
of that album, from that album, I think the name
of the track is disguised, she said, she was really
really fond of that. But first time I ever saw
your face. We spent several weeks on the Billboard Top
one hundreds, making it the Billboards top song of the

(01:49:37):
Year back in nineteen seventy three. Was also featured as
one of the key essential tracks for Clint Eastwood's play
Misty for Me, where Clint Eastwood plays a radio disc
jockey that deals with this obsessive stalker ish fan and

(01:50:00):
it's one of my favorite psycho thrillers of all time.
Nineteen seventy four, ROBERTA. Flack follows up that hit single
with killing Me Softly with his words, of course, everybody
remembers Lauren Hill, the Fuji's version, and rightfully so that

(01:50:20):
was a great rendition. Me being the music buff that
I am, I've always been a firm believer in when
it comes doing renditions of songs you're gonna do a
rendition of a classic song, do your best to go
out there and make that shit your own. And Fujis
did just that. The Fujis did just that back in
the day in the nineties and all that. And you know,

(01:50:44):
for Howard, long after her musical career was over, she
still found herself to be doing stuff. She was always
staying active. Even during the pandemic, found herself staying active
as she was trying to bring awareness and funds for

(01:51:04):
feed the children. She also had participated in the Roberta
Fleck of Music at the High Leadership Charter School out
in the Bronx Turned South. They were offering a free,
innovative music educational program for underprivileged students. So she was
always being active in her communities, always trying to pay

(01:51:28):
it forward and everything. Definitely wanted to take this time
out and give her her respected flowers. So hopefully that'll
entice some of you guys that appreciate music of the past.
If you've never dipped into roberta Flex catalog, Hopefully after
hearing all this, you'll go back and you'll listen to
some stuff and hopefully you'll say, hey, Leah, you know
I ended up listening to good recommendation and all that.

(01:51:51):
So if you have not checked it out yet, apparently
on the YouTube channel, there is a IGN twenty minute
exclusive with the lead designer and senior designer for w
W two K twenty five. They're showcasing my career mode

(01:52:13):
for this upcoming WW two K twenty five. And don't forget,
we got that game coming out in like about two
weeks just about, and graphics looks very on point. Love
the fact that you can have intergender matches. I also
love the fact that you can have your custom wrestler

(01:52:36):
where all kinds are really cool street clothes. You can
always dress them up, not have them be in the
same clothes for four years in a row, basically, so
that's good. The roster alone, I mean, this has to
be definitely the most expanded, biggest roster yet for a

(01:52:58):
video game. I was taken a look at this earlier
today and I just said, good God amighty. I mean,
right now, we are like up to over three hundred
rustlers for two K twenty five. Like if I were
to just go over the names right now, that would
be like a whole segment itself. But like I'm not

(01:53:19):
going to like put it to you this way. Anybody
that you can think of, if you've been watching the
WWE product like the past two years, anybody that you
can think of is in the game. Put it to
you that way. Anybody that you can think of that
you've seen on a semi regular basis, they are in
the game. Even those that recently got released are actually

(01:53:43):
in the game. It's freaking ridiculous, huge fucking ross. I
gotta say, I'm very impressive they were able to get
all these people in this game. And then I'm looking
at some of the doc Obviously you're going to get
the Whyatts I guess when you preorder bonus. Right when

(01:54:04):
you pre order the game, you're gonna get access to
the Wyat six and then the two K twenty five
get Man Edition exclusive characters. You get access to Undertaker
skin from nineteen ninety. You also get a Undertaker Elite
skin basically that is a Mattel Toy version of them

(01:54:26):
Brother Love. You've got the two K twenty five Bloodline
addition exclusive characters that basically is going to include j Elite,
so so a Mattel version. You also get a Elite
Mattel version of Roman Reigns and for the Rock you

(01:54:47):
get a Nation of Domination version. And then also let
me see here, I'm seeing rumblings that apparently for like
future packs, but I haven't been able to confirm that
just yet, so I want to wait on that just

(01:55:07):
a little bit before commenting further. But from the graphics
that I've seen for these next gen councils for this release,
it looks very very promising. Apparently the developing team had
revealed that they were thinking about just for the Samoan wrestlers,
so Roman Rings and all of them. They were thinking

(01:55:28):
about adding it in this cool future where if you
tried to hit butt them, they would no sell it like,
it wouldn't phase them whatsoever, and they would just power through.
It almost made it into the game, But the reason
why they decided against it they were afraid that there
would be individuals that would spam the hell out of
it in online competition, right, look at that as a

(01:55:52):
loophole and pretty much be undefeated or somewhat as a result.
So that decided, yeah, we're gonna go on ahead and
take that feature out. I don't blame them on that.
I wish they could have toyed around with that idea
a little more though, because Okay, if I just can't
do ahead bud to this character, but I can if

(01:56:13):
my moves is set up just right and I can
punch them in the head or I can. Okay, Well,
then if that's how I'm able to counter it, and
then that's how I'm able to counter it. It would
have been nice, you know. I think if they would
have maybe just toyed the idea and maybe in a
beta testing motive they would have tried it out with

(01:56:35):
just one character and see how that would have done.
I think that would have probably, I think it would
have been fine. I honestly think it would have been fine.
But I can understand their reservations in regards to that game.
Sounds like it's shaping up pretty good. I'm looking forward
to playing it. I don't know. Maybe we'll do some
type of a launch joint, you know, come on, live,

(01:56:57):
play the game, all that good stuff. So I think
we will do that. I think we'll definitely do that
for sure. Besides that, there was something else, oh real quick,
So apparently we definitely got to talk about this before
you get ready to dip out of here. This will
be the last thing that we talk about here, and
I don't need to be long winded about this. So
apparently see I'm punk Tony Khan AW. They are being

(01:57:22):
sued over alleged assault, breach of contract and more so
apparently former AW wrestler there Ryan Nemyth, he's the one
that is issuing this lawsuit again alledged assault, breach of

(01:57:44):
contract and more Shout out to the good folks over
there at Fightful. Niamath filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles
Superior Court against AW punk Tony Kahan on February fourteenth.
He's seeking sense that conversation damages, punitive damages and demands

(01:58:08):
a jury trout. The lawsuit alleges that Punk assaulted and
battered to wrestlers Matt and Nick Jackson in addition to Nemth.
Khan subsequently suspended Punk for his actions, and Niamath alleges
that Khan did not feel that Punk could be removed

(01:58:31):
without a substantial loss of profit for a w Additionally,
he has a very deep affinity for Punk. He kept
Punk around despite his alleged violent outbursts. Apparently, during his suspension,
Punk made it clear that he despised Nemath, though he

(01:58:52):
claims he did nothing that would cause this hatred, Punk
reportedly made it well known that he was angry at Nemeth,
and some of you are hearing this, you may be going,
why exactly is Punk and AW being sued? Like I
still don't quite get this here. So Ryan Nemeth is
claiming that he reached out to two executives nae W

(01:59:17):
with worries that Punk would assault him after Punk made
his return April sixteenth of twenty twenty. Three months later,
June twenty first of that year, Punk allegedly assaulted Nemath
in the men's locker room in a menacing manner. He

(01:59:38):
reportedly yelled, do we have a fucking problem? Do we
need to step outside and handle this like men? He
also alleges that he tried to de escalate the situation
as he was cornered. The following day, Nemath reportedly talked
to Tony Shavani and other AW executives what happened. Punk

(02:00:02):
was not reprimanded for those actions. Nemth believes he was
benched not being scheduled for matches as a way of
punishing wrestlers by AAW. He spoke to AAW's attorneys from
Latin and Watkins, who reassured him he was not being

(02:00:25):
benched and if you're keeping track at home, he would
not be booked for a match for more than two months.
After talking to Shavani, Nmath's contract then contacted the aw's
legal team to foul a complaint on June seventeenth, twenty
twenty three. According to Nimith, it was Punk's desire that

(02:00:47):
he be benched. Tony Kahan went along with it due
to his deep affinity with Punk. He was then booked
for a match on August twelfth, twenty twenty three. On
the day of his match, Nimith saw Punk walking into
the arena. Punk reportedly began texting someone and Nimith was
then told to meet with AW supervisor Pat Buck. When

(02:01:12):
he got to the venue, he was told he needed
to leave immediately and was flown out the same day.
Are y'all with me, so far, crazy shit, so far? Uh?
Nimith leaving the arena went viral and was an embarrassing
situation for him. These were once again Punk's orders, according

(02:01:35):
to Nimith, who complained about it on August fifteenth, twenty
twenty three, The AW lawyers were reportedly stunned and could
not offer any explanation for the conduct of Punk and
for Con. A few months later, Nimath wrestled his final
match for AW on November eighteenth of twenty twenty four.

(02:01:56):
While he continued to reach out to aw's legal team,
one of their return Ernie's gentleman by the name of
Chris Peck, threatening legal action against Nemath. He accused him
of having a ghost writer in his emails. A week
after Nimah's last match, Punk left AW to rejoin WWEE. Allegedly,

(02:02:20):
Con was furious with Nimath, blaming him for aw's blaming
him for Punk's AW departure. The defendants then allegedly embarked
on a blackmail campaign of Nemath, trying to get him
out of professional wrestling. Neimath believes Con did everything he
could to ensure he would never make a living in

(02:02:43):
wrestling again. Since leaving AW, I'll no Nimuth joined TNA.
His brother Nick is over there as well. So that
is where things stand right now. Look, a lot of
this is very speculatory, right, A lot of this is

(02:03:04):
all in the air, and it's one of those things
where you go, Okay, like, that's a lot of speculation.
That is a lot of a lot of I think this,
I think that, and it's gonna come right down to, Okay,
what exactly can you prove? That's the thing. What exactly

(02:03:24):
can you prove? And uh, yeah, look as far as
text messages goes, that obviously is you know, hey, you
can obviously delete or what are you gonna do. You're
gonna get a You're gonna get a cease there, You're
gonna you're gonna get a warrant there so you can
try to look at phone records and try to look

(02:03:45):
at messages. And I don't really think so, I don't
think you're gonna go in that direction. What are you
gonna do? You're gonna try to see if maybe you
can get that jury trial and maybe you can can
enter discovery mode and have access to whatever emails and
you know, like unless Nimath has, you know, some emails

(02:04:07):
that can back up some of this stuff that he's claiming.
I don't really see this going anywhere. Do I even
see it being a case where maybe they'll settle this
out of court and give him a little something something
that's very well possible, especially if Tony Kahan wants to

(02:04:30):
just be done with this so that he can pretty
much move on. I can see Tony Khan maybe doing
something like that, but I don't think this is really
gonna pick up any steam though, boys and girls. Look,
I'm no legal expert. I don't claim to be none
of that, but you know, I will believe that maybe

(02:04:54):
this has more of a fighting chance if it's a
situation where Nimith maybe gets the services of Steven p. New,
you know, at least that way, if that, if that
word happened, then it's kind of one of those well,
wait a minute, maybe there might be something, Maybe there
might be some interesting meat on these bones, and and
and maybe there's some great substance here that you know,

(02:05:16):
we're not obviously seeing just yet that hasn't been revealed.
Uh So, I mean it's still early. You know, let's
kind of see where this goes. But if we're just
gonna go from a gut reaction standpoint right now, it's
kind of one of those ah much a whole lot
to do about nothing right now. We'll see, we'll see.

(02:05:38):
So that's that all right, So programming notes gonna be
here this weekend, we're gonna be covering the Elimination Chamber
Toronto event. We'll do a special post show on that one.
Looking forward to that. I meanwhile, I want you guys
to be kindri rewind check out previous episodes you might
have missed one demanded on the downloads where you get
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(02:06:01):
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of fun on their use keywords the RCWR Show and
Yeah that is going to do it. Great to be back.
Looking forward to talking a lot more things wrestling, entertainment
and beyond with you guys as we are knee deep
in the WrestleMania season until next go round. Wishing off

(02:06:25):
y'all to be safe, most importantly, be kind to one another.
I'll catch you guys later. Take care of y'all and Casey,
thanks for listening. In Infinity one Productions presentation, give me
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