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won. Big props to Billy, by the way, he's the one that produced that whole opening segment you know we've had we've had kind of the same intro for a couple of years now, and Billy's actually the one that puts all this toget. Billy's actual genius here. I just get on and press the record button. This guy just knows all about the wizard, even though I'm behind the control board, Billy, and no, it wouldn't be possible without him. So, Billy, what's up today? Man? How you
doing? Do it all right? Uh? Definitely hyping me up a little bit there. It's it's what we're supposed to do. Yeah, yeah, that's fair. It's not rocket science. But yeah, that that new intro is it's pretty fire, if I could say so myself. Yeah, the guy, the guy behind behind it right there, it's it's pretty cool to think. I mean, Billy, when we started this podcast a couple of years ago, we didn't even we didn't even have much. I don't even
think we had an intro. We just had like Triple H's intro that we're using, and so we we were just using like old ww audio And so you get to go through and see all these people and we just only used three of them on that intro, and there's there's still several more. I mean, what's that? How does that feel too? Because I know I'm just marking out as like a little kid from where how this podcast has grown and and and what we've been afforded to do. So it's just it's just
really cool to see that about you. Yeah, definitely. You know, I actually had a Facebook memory come up today that was our post promoting the Shannon the Dude interview, which was like our probably our first like big episode. Shannon the Dude has a hell of a following, and we got we got like fifty downloads. We're like, oh my god, this is this is awesome. But like that was one too, right, Yeah, yeah,
yeah, that's that's right. But the post was literally just a picture, like a zoom screenshot of us, and now I compare it to like the social content that we're putting out there, which, by the way, I gotta hype up my guy Austin, he's gonna hid me up for the for the audio. This guy with the visuals on social lately, man been killing it. And obviously if you haven't noticed yet, uh new logo,
Hello, new logo for the baby Faces. A little bit of an update to the to the look ads a little as a little flair to it, you know, because it was a basic, basic logo before. Now we got a little wrestling ring in the background, little old TV uh so same baby faces, but more of a new field, right and the intro, new new logo, and we were ready for twenty twenty four. Yeah,
exactly kind of what you said. It's got like that TV video. I was kind of the you know, I would that was the vision, having that retro WWE look and we count we had the start off with the gold and the baby blue, but to kind of get that metallic line in there and it looked like the old you know, wrestling. I just want to kind of get it to where like, you know, we are casual wrestling fans. We are the casual you know, we are the casual podcast fans.
I mean we are hardcore marks, but we watch and view this from a casual perspective. So that's why this is the casual podcast for the hardcore fan or the casual fan, whichever one you may be. And you may fit into that. And people just remember turning on the old television, the old Saturday staticky television and seeing that old WWE WWF wrestling logo, so really really cool. Like like I mentioned before, we are on officially the road
to WrestleMania as of right now. That Royal Rumble gets started off tomorrow a lot of big news this week regarding you know, favorites and stuff like that. Billy, we just kind of got we both happened to get like an email that originated outside of our company from like a London betting site. You know, that's basically confirming, you know, if you guys haven't been living under rock the IWC. There have been reports out this weekend leaked by SI.
I guess said sources close to Triple H has leaked that Cody Rhodes isn't going to quote unquote finish his story at WrestleMania forty and the whole seth Rawlins, saying, last time you and I were on, we were discussing seth Rawlins last Monday. We didn't even know the status of him. That one's still kind of up in the air, right because it came out on like Monday night and he said that I'm still going to be kind of doing it, and he was, you know, confronted by Gunther and of course they
had the heated exchange with see him punkin Cody. So I don't know if that prompted this SI rider to go out and leak this information because I don't know if Triple h is just he's going to keep things close to the vest. WW usually kind of does, but it seems like Gunther is the obvious or is jumped up to not the obvious, but spreading in the right direction,
kinding in the second favorite in the second favorite direction. When he was at if you got the football heads out there, plus two thousand odds last week and is now like plus two hundred, which is a drastic jump.
And me considering kind of what they're doing with Gunther and how they've been building them since last year's World Rumble, I kind of told you last week that's someone to keep an eye on. But Billy, as you said, and as a couple of people have said, that's there's still one favorite, and that's the money line, which is see him punk and that's kind of still
who you feel good about winning the rumble. Uh. I mean, we'll get into it here with our predictions, but you know, I'm gonna try to stay away from from the betting odds from now till tomorrow because they will shift drastically like they always do, Like a couple hours before the match starts, somebody will go to minus one thousand, and that that's who's gonna win. So, you know, if you're not one that likes to be spoiled
when you're watching these shows, definitely stay away from the betting odds. But as of right now see them Punk still the favorite. But like I said,
gun they're trending in the right direction. Honestly, I I don't think that know what they're gonna do with the world title scene, especially with the certainty surrounding Seth Rollins, and then you had, you know, you had this report of the whole Cody Rhodes thing, and I feel like, I don't know, they're just kind of like they're they're trying to figure it out
piece by piece and don't really have a full plan yet. So honestly, I think that's why gunther makes a lot of sense, because if Seth Rollins ends up getting if the injury ends up taking him out of WrestleMania, you could easily put the title on on CM Punk and then you could have CM Punk versus Gum. They're a good sell a face versus heel, like good good matchup, you know, it's just like a good backup plan. I
feel like with Gum through there yea. Whereas if you give CM Punk the win and Seth Rollins ends up getting injured, who do you put the title on to go up against CM punk? Right, So that's kind of where I'm at, Like the seth Rollins injury honestly plays a big factor in this. And then is the Rock going to be at WrestleMania? Is the Rock and Roman your main event? We talked about it last week. According to reports today, nothing has been inked for The Rock to wrestle a match for
WWE at this year's WrestleMania, but he wants to wrestle remend Rains. That's the latest report out right now. So that's where the Cody Rhodes thing plays into this whole thing too. So it's tough. I mean, I don't want to say it's like a super unpredictable rumble, like a lot of people are making out speed. There's a ton of like people that could win.
I think there's only two or three guys that make sense to win the rumble, And we've talked about you know, Sampunk Gunther and then maybe maybe you can throw in a guy like like a Drew McIntyre in there, just like a dark horse like that. But I don't think they'd have McIntyre win. Yeah, two rumbles, I don't think they if Cody went back to back rumbles, I don't think the Rock is going to show up and win the
rumbles. So I think it's a two horse race honestly, and I could see either of these, either of these guys winning it, But for now, I think I think Sampunk probably still the plan. Yeah. Yeah, like you said, we'll dive into that more as we kind of break down like the final four, maybe just different scenarios of who could win, because like you said, I mean, WWE is really sharp put and I don't think that. I don't think Triple H is just I don't think Triple H
is just out there just like revealing all his cards to everyone else. And we're not gonna put it past WWE two. At the very last second, change who's gonna win the Royal Rumble? Change WrestleMania plans Royal Rumble, And we went to a couple of years ago. Wasn't that like schedule that Matt Riddle was supposed to win that And at the very last sight Seane McMahon wanted to come in and win it at one point and then change there was there
was just like a lot so and they already have. I would imagine these these people already have scenarios roads to WrestleMania regarding who wins and if they have like a couple favorites. I think they feel pretty confident in how that store would play out if they need to. But I don't know, we'll just necessarily we'll see how that goes. Let's dive into the card of Royal Rumble. It doesn't it's a relatively short card just because there's not necessarily much going
on. You have a lot of drama in the uh the Royal Rumble match. For the men's part, they've been doing a lot with that, with with the with the gunther and see them, and they've been doing a lot of the drama with the women's World Rumble match too, with having the the the confrontation that a lot of wrestling fans have been wanting to see with Becky Lynch kind of squaring off with Rhea Ripley, and so many different things.
They've been building Naya Jacks over the last couple of weeks. It's it's there's a lot of unpredictability in that. But let's just go ahead and start with the undercard. Let's see here, right, I just had this up. We just have Logan Paul. He is the United States I don't even think that we've talked about that all that much like Logan Paul being the being the
United States Champion, he's actually carrying a WWE title. That's something that we said on this show that probably it wouldn't be that far fetched to the reach that he has. He seems that he's gotten himself in a feud with Kevin Owens. If you haven't been recalling over the last month or so, Kevin Owens is his whole gimmick has been the knockout punch, right. He's been going around and taking out loud mouse like Austin Theory and Grayson Waller front of
the show, and that's been his whole thing, knockouts. And Logan Paul comes in, has him on the Logan Paul thing, and you know, they start start doing a lot of start doing a lot of s talking this this seems like because it was kind of built out of nowhere, but Kevin Owens just kind of seems like the perfect not foil, but kind of like the perfect opponent to just kind of kickstart everything. Off for this rain with
Logan Paul. Do you do do you necessarily see a continued reign with the US title with with Logan Paul or do you think that you think that they do something here with with Kevin Owens. What's your direction for this match? I definitely think they want to have the title on Logan Paul for WrestleMania. So I don't, I don't, Yeah, I don't. I mean, I'm sure he'll win in some sort of like fluky healish way. It's where
you know, Kevin Owen still comes out of this looking pretty strong. But you know, I think Logan Paul a big name like that, he has a title on him. You take advantage of that on the big stage of WrestleMania, where you get some you know, casual viewers tune into an event like that and they're like, oh, Logan Paul, like I know him, he's a he's a big time celebrity influencer. Oh he has a championship's a championship match like that's that's a feature That's a feature match at WrestleMania.
And I think, honestly, you know, if you want to give somebody like La Knight a big a big moment at WrestleMania. You could have him to throne Logan Paul. And so that's that's kind of where I think this is heading. Maybe we go into like one of those multi men ladder matches at WrestleMania for the US title that there's a lot of guys on SmackDown. I feel like that don't really have a place on the card right now.
So you throw in an AJ Styles, a Bobby Lashley, a Logan Paul, like Kevin Owens, Sammy z A and if he comes back, you know, you throw in a bunch of guys to that. It's just an all out, you know, complete spotfest, and it's it's you know, they like to do that at WrestleMania sometimes, which yeah, totally totally cool with. So I think we're heading towards something like that. And I definitely think Logan Paul walks into WrestleMania with the belt, so he's gonna get the
win here against Kevin Owens. But yeah, like you said, Kevin Owens the perfect guy to throw in if you want to get somebody over, if you if you need somebody to go out there and have a good match, and uh, you know, a good story. Kevin Owens fit foil for that. Yeah, he's a he's a physical competitor and he it seems like those guys kind of get the best out of the styles that logan Paul sort of works and to your point, that could be like a pretty good wrestle
manning his logan. Paul also does fit that multi man style spot best match. I think that's where probably he would shine, you know, shine most. But Kevin Owens is a really good Kevin Owens brings a lot of you know, a lot of realism sense into his character. And just I don't know if you've seen the latest video on WWE, but they had they had an altercation at the Performance Center. They they did a pretty pre like a pretty good produced spot kind of hyping up that match where they got into a
scuffle. I think they did that with like Grayson Waller and bron Breaker a couple months back, where they made it kind of look like an absolute shoot while they were training, and that that's some fun stuff that they should do. I agree with you, Billy, I think that I think that this is logan Paul's spotty made a huge huge impact at the World Rumble last year. With Rickishet, another friend of the show, and they had that huge
spot. So ww trust him. They like what he's doing. And I will say I've said this before with Logan Paul, I I don't mind him whatsoever. I think that he looks great, but he has afforded a lot of opportunities that that that some people aren't he is. He is, you know, booked to look good in a lot of these spots, and just for that reason, like I said earlier, Kevin Owens kind of like the good person to do that for him, just because he's he's not necessarily bigger
than Logan Paul is. He's not necessarily like looks physical. It just looks like the perfect match. I agree with you. I think I think Logan Paul walks out of Royal Rumble still as United States Champion. It'll be interesting to see where they go from there, whether the multi tag match, whether if it's just La Night Spotlight, because I just think that An La Night and Logan Paul, just a promo just them two leading up for next couple
months could be absolutely money. We'll just dive into the next match here. And like I said, this is relatively sure. This is not in order. I'm not necessarily sure how they're going to do this. I know that they switched up last year starting off with the Men's rold Rumble, right, and so I'm not necessarily sure where they're going to start that quick question.
I don't know if we talked about that. Do you like them opening up with like like the Men's Rumble and like having finished with like a match kind of how they did last year? I mean, I guess you can kind of understand what the whole bloodline story and how the Roman reign Sammy's Ain thing was going, but with just a quickness, quick sidetrack, how do you feel? I'm a traditionalist. I love the World Rumble at the end. How do you necessarily feel about the new format and the things that they've been
trying with that? Well, I mean, I think I'm like you, I think it should be the main event. But when you have a hot story like last year, where like people were looking forward to that Roman and Kevin Owens match almost as much as the Men's Rumble match, I understood going with that route. I do like how they start off every pay per view now with and this is going back like probably a decade now, this kind of in their strategy. They always start out with a big match. Yeah.
I feel like the first time they did that was WrestleMania twenty seven and they started out with the World Heavyweight Championship with Edge and Alberta Del Rio, and everybody was like, what the hell, Like the World Heavyway Championships opened
the show, like something something crazy is going down tonight. They're all like speculating that, like Christian was gonna get involved and like have a match later for the like I didn't, Yeah, because like it hadn't been done before, like the World heavy Championship opening up a pay per view, and then it just kind of became normal after that to where they want to kick off the show with a big time match, which which I'm a fan of,
so last year I think it made sense to do that. I think this year they probably start with the Women's Rumble match and then you get the other two in there, you know, Logan Paul, and then you get the Roman match, and then you go to the main event with the Men's Rumble. When we went to the World Rumble, they started off with the Roman
Reigns match and and Seth Rollins match. I mean they might start with the Logan and Kevin because it's gonna be like, yeah, like you know, kind of a high flying, fast paced match, get the crowd into it. I could totally see that. But I think they're going to start with the Rumble match and it's gonna be the women's around Okay, Okay, I'm gonna go opposite. I think they start with Kevin Owens, and I think
they start with them first. Then I think that they jump to the Women's Royal rum But let's just go ahead and a kick that off a lot of, like I said, a lot of drama. Ever since we've been kind of regularly doing the show, the return of Naya Jack, she's come back and kind of run rampant a little bit on the on the w W Women's
locker Room, so we've gotten to see her. Becky Lynch, I wouldn't necessarily say in a funk, but we just kind of had her on SmackDown a couple of weeks ago approach Ria Ripley, and they're trying to build a really good story with that because she just came out and told Rha that I think that you're better than me, and that's why I really want to get in the Royal Rumble one challenge. You just kind of the old rock ass and WrestleMania seven, like I need to beat you kind of thing. So
it's kind of traditional going back to their roots right there. And you got a couple, you got a couple of other girls that just seemed just like no necessarily in the mix, not doing anything, whether it's with you know, whether it's with Bianca and everything, especially with a Charlot kind of being thrown out with the ACL surgery just like a little over a month ago, just kind of put a lot of things in limbo because I felt like they
were gonna feature they always feature Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania and Rhea Ripley what say you in this match? I think that there's a there's a couple of favorites if you want to look at it. And I think the Maybor personally that they the site that we got this from only did the only did the Men's World Rumble. But if I were, if I were to put money, and I'm not insight, I would probably think that the leader to win the Women's World Rumble I probably have to be Becky Lynch and we could get a
Becky and Rea WrestleMania. Yeah, I think Becky's probably the leader in the clubhouse, as they say. But honestly, I'm gonna go with a dark horse pick here because I think they are gonna go chalk with the men's Rumble match with Seampunk, like I said, and I'll you know, we'll get into that one here in a few but I think they're gonna go with a
little more of a dark horse pick here. I think Bailey is as primed as anybody to win the Rumble, and I think the story rights itself because the title is obviously on EO Sky right now, which is the faction of Damage Control, which Bailey has always kind of been the leader of. But you know, LEO Sky's obviously the champions, so it's kind of like a weird dynamic there. So it's just asking to blow up at any moment and
have a Bailey and EO Sky match. And I think that WrestleMania is always the perfect spot for, you know, the mentor versus student time matchups. You know, think back to Batista and Triple H at WrestleMania twenty one. Yeah, you know, there's there's a number of examples like that. So I think that it works. It's an easy story that that rights itself.
Bailey wins the Rumble. You'll see, you know, she'll kind of tease going after Rhea instead of EO, and then things will kind of like bubble up and she'll eventually go after EO and then you have the damage control blow up at WrestleMania. That's what I'm going to predict. I you know, Becky Lynch obviously should be the prohibited favorite here because I do think they're gonna go with Riha and Becky at WrestleMania, but I don't think they need the
Rumble to necessarily it there. And I think if you want to throw a surprise in on this show and not go chalk with every single thing that every single match, you're going to do throwing a little a little bit of a surprise here and have Bailey get the dub. Dude, I absolutely love that. And this might be a Baby Faces first. I don't know if I've didn't. I think I'm gonna officially switch my prediction. I think you convinced
me. I think you convinced me that that Bailey is the pick, because as I kind of sit here and think about the last couple of times I've tuned into Raw over the last couple of weeks, Bailey's doing a lot of She's getting over and she's doing she's doing a lot of character work herself. They're starting to show some foils and Damage Control because they've added new members and new people have come in, and you know, it's it's kind of extorted.
You know, it pushed Bailey out a little bit, and she kind of feels, you know, she's she's also been kind of not necessarily chasing Rhea Ripley, but she's been doing online things where I'm looking for Mommy and I'm she's wearing she's wearing the Mommy on Top shirt and I think they just showed her on Raw last week, them and Damage Control looking for a Rhea
Ripley. And I honestly, now that you kind of just bring that whole thing up, that could be, you know, we go chalk with some of the other matches, assuming you know, what everyone thinks is probably gonna who's gonna retain in the the ww Championship match and the World Rumble seem to be favorites on everyone who thinks that, and everyone seems to be thinking my self included the Becky Lynch thing just because they put her together in the ring.
And I'm not the biggest Becky Lynch fan, but they put her together in the ring with Charlotte or with Rhea Ripley, and I think they that's a match that they want. But I guess it doesn't necessarily have to mean that the World Rumble is the way that they can get there. I guess Becky Lynch has been built up enough where she can. I mean, she did come back and in like ten seconds got a championship match with Bianca bell Air and beat her after returning for months, so she's not beyond you know,
them just kind of sticking her into that. I kind of like, I kind of like your story with Bailey and how that rides. I'm really interested to see that happening. And actually, plus I think I don't know if this is I guess Damn Control would stay like a heel, and that
would kind of push Bailey into like the babyface category again. I think I think she's been getting I think that she's been getting herself over and she's been doing really well with her I've always liked Bailey, but she's added a really fun to mention to her character ever since the pandemic and just kind of being that annoying type of person. And she's she's done a really really well job here and like, go ahead. I feel like they haven't another reason for
Bailey. They haven't really like there's been a lot of talk about her opportunities at WrestleMania lately, like she hasn't really been featured all that much, even though she's one of the you know, the original four horse horsewomen from an XT, she's probably had you know, the short end of the stick as far as those four go with Charlotte, Becky, yeah, you know, formerly Sasha Banks, and Bailey. So I feel like she's just due to
like being a big storyline, and I think she's earned I think she's definitely earned it. Like you said, she's done great character work and the story rights itself. It's right there for you. And then yeah, you can always get to Becky and Ria. You get have Becky in you know, a number one contender elimination chamber match and then boom, that sets that up. So I think that's that's the way to go. My final four for
this match, We're gonna get into that is obviously Bailey. I think Becky finds herself in the final four two Bianca bell Air, you know, superhero Babyface, she's going to be in the mix, I think as well, and throwing out a surprise here Jade Cargill she signed with Yeah, that's right. So I think Bianca and Jay Cargill are an inclusion course for WrestleMania for just like a singles match. So I think that sets up here. You
have those two in the final four. Jade eliminates Bianca and kind of stands over her like, yeah, that's right, that's right, and then boom, Bailey the heel like dumps her over, and then you get down to Bailey and Becky and eventually Bailey wins. So if I'm booking it, that's how it goes. I think that's a good way to do it. You
set up, you know, a big time singles match. You set up Bailey to win the rumble, and then Becky comes so close to winning, She'll give her a moment elimination chamber and then go on to fan to face Rhea Rickley at Wrestling Media. I love it. The recular speculation pile, the the the rumor and innu window. That was one thing I was going to say, was Jake Cargo. Right, we've probably one of the biggest
signings of at WWE all of last year not named cm Punk. Uh, that was one of the you know that that's, if anything, that helped kickstart everything into probably getting cmpunk back to WWE. But it'd be interesting to see what they do with her. I mean, she's been they've been very quiet with her. It seems like they haven't even done like promo with her
and just thrown her out the media or anything like that. So just makes me think if they're whenever they debut, or if it's going to be n x T or if it she just comes straight to raw SmackDown whatever she's going to be on. I think during her first week sign they did show her
on w w TV and and that's just basically it. But you you you make a really good point about that final four because I was gonna say, Jake Cargo where she fits in and uh, I have a couple of different ones I could go just because after after here and yours also think that what if we can have to reach her nies in the final four And the only one I'm also thinking of is Live Morgan. We haven't seen her in a while, and they made her one of the iron women of last year's match.
I mean she came down to the very last one with Ria Ripley, who they obviously hold in high regards. I guess you can call her like the Gunther of the Women's World Rumble and and maybe that may be someone too, uh uh, And that's you know, she's a very small, petite, really non intimidating girl. We love, we Love Live Morgan, love us uh Live Austin sweating, we we Love, we Love Live Morgan on the baby Face podcast. She ever wants to come on, she is always
a friend. But it's it's like I said, they they did her made her look really strong in last year's Obviously she's been caught up in some in some weird legal stuff with smoking some of that Ganja down in Florida with with with Lana and probably got herself caught up into something. But that that's that's really not nothing now. I think WW doesn't really care about that stuff anymore.
But she is over and that return would do huge And I would think, just because of the way that she did last year, if my speculation is right. As she does come back, I would think that she would be in the final four. So I'm gonna say, but I also still love the Jade Cargill and the Bianca bel air. You have to I mean that that could happen like earlier in the match too, Like that's true, that that's true too, and someone can slip on a banana peel fall outside
of the ring something like that. What I will go ahead and say, I'll just go ahead and put Bianca. I'll put Jade, and I'll go ahead and put I'll go ahead and have your I'll go ahead and have your same final for it. I'm gonna have Becky in there because I think Becky Becky might they might put Becky on that uh Sean Michaels sort of tour where she's just trying to get back and the only the only way to the championship
to find out if she's the best is a World Rumble. She falls short and kind of rear Ripley just laughs at her, you couldn't do it, and eventually finds her way in that match down the road. She doesn't necessarily need the Royal Rumble. So I'm definitely I'm with you on that. I think I think it's Bailey, I think it's Bianca, I think it's Jade,
and I think it's Becky, And then you have it. It comes down to one of the two original four horse women, Becky and and Bailey, and which is, like you said, kind of writes his stuff and a little bit poetic and Bailey kind of being the lesser, lesser known thought of of the bunch. I kind of like that idea of thinking. So I think we have the relatively same final four, but if there's gonna be and that kind of goes into my my next one, that was gonna be
one of my surprises. I was gonna ask the world Rumble is known for surprise, and we talked about this several times with the men's and the women's match, where WWE has like a good enough roster where they're not really happening to rely on outside outside you know, surprises. You know, all we had to do was just rely on maybe people that we sign and that they
sign that we haven't seen, or just people that's been injured. So that's why I think maybe Jade Cargill and liv Morgan is one of your comebacks but if there's any other surprise, I would say coming in, watch out for trist Stratus. I could see trist Stratus coming in if you want to, you want to find way for someone to foil Becky Lynch's plans last second, it could be that again. But me, I'm I'm they already had like eighteen matches, so but I think Tristratus is probably gonna be one that comes
back. I don't see too too many surprises and the women's rumble outside of Live or U Jade, Yeah, I agree. I mean, like you said that the roster is so full nowadays that they don't have to rely on the big like Legend Spot or you know, in the women's you might see a little bit more of that because it's a little bit of a thinner roster compared to the men's and you need thirty of them. Yeah, so I would say some NXT call ups, well, you know see that pretty pretty
often in the run. Those are the shockers nowadays, right then and right, I mean maybe maybe you see one one Legend Spot and the women's Yeah, I don't think I would love to see. I mean, we got surprised with Ivory. A couple of years. I don't know if you remember Ivory from from I was Ivory probably before your day. That was like the attitude, Yeah it was before I but I knew like the center, I yeah that see that that that pocked me as a kid, like it's it'll
be interesting. I mean, Lita is always still an open option. You goat the Goat Women's legend. Spot was that when we're in Saint Louis and Molina returned, I was that was that was hot and and and Sasha. But I'm still I'm I've always been a Sasha Banks fan. I love Sasha and I don't know what on earth is going up with her. There's I mean I had people, not people, but I was seeing reports back when they did the all in in Wimbley and Sasha Banks was Theresa. Mercedes was
spotted in the crowd. She's she's going to a w anytime soon. That was like August, that was like six months ago. And and like once every month there's been a report Mercedes getting so close to signing with so close
to signing with w W. Oh. I just thought of one, Excuse me, why wasn't I thinking they were just Mercedes and Bailey were just spotted at Impact Wrestling to watch their other friend Trinity aka Naomi, who had just left Impact, and all signs seemed to be reporting to her coming to back
to WWE. Now is the rumble that spot we don't necessarily know, Like, like we mentioned the women's, they have a lot of depth at the women's right now that they can throw that they that might be like a raw after royal rumble type of thing, but that is another surprise one Naomi. All right, now, let's switch over to I guess I guess you think that they're gonna have Let's just go ahead and switch to the WWEE Championship match. Okay, this is a fatal four way between Roman reigns, the defending
undisputed World Wrestling Entertainment Are Universal Champion, the head of the table. He's taking on a couple former foes within all twenty twenty three that he kind of helped deal with, whether it's in aj Styles, La Knight who just popped onto the scene, and a returning hidden in all of these returns, CM Punk, Randy Freaking Orton when he returned at Survivor series and Perfect It is Perfect getting thrown back into the Roman rain storyline since it was the Bloodline and
Roman Reigns who literally injured him just literally almost like two years ago, and they've been doing a lot of fun stuff with that. Roman Reigns saying, well, that's funny because while you were gone, I forgot about you. And you know he's he's he's talking heavy shit. Romans turned into like a dick. Now I love it and we we he has a couple of foils here. It's it's a it's a fatal four way. It's it's they all
have one common goal and enemy. They've all been screwed over by the blood line and some sort bloodline's not as strong as it was this time last year. As rumble, what do you got in this match? Is? It's is Billy Here's a big question. It's it's started off with with the rumor and Indy Window, the speculation, and we finally have the Rock into the mix. Where how does all this play out with the WWE Championship. Is
this a spot where Roman Reigns can actually lose his championship? Could actually you lose his three and a half year title reign to possibly set up for that Rock. Does Roman Rains go into WrestleMania forty as WWE champion. With all the speculation Rock Cody Rhoades, what do you think happens with this match right
here, the WWE Championship match. Yeah, it's tough, honestly, because, like I laid out last week, if they want to do, if they want to give Cody a moment at WrestleMania and still do Rock versus Roman, then you make Rock versus Roman a non title match. You put the title in Randy Orton here, have the Rock costs throw in the match, and then you have Cody win Elimination Chamber next month and then boom me up
Orton versus Cody for the title, and then Roman versus Rock. However, the problem is they do not have the Rock like inked, like I said at the top, to wrestle a match for them. As of right now, there is no confirmation that he is going to wrestle at WrestleMania this year,
so you can't. If you take the title off Roman here because you want to get Cody involved, then you run the risk of like, okay, what if the Rock doesn't wrestle Rustle Media now now Roman reigns, your biggest star doesn't have the title on him, and what does he do at WrestleMania. Do you make it like a triple threat and then it's really underwhelming, right, So I think that, Yeah, I love the idea of The Rock coming out and costing Roman the title here and Randy Orton wins and
you get Orton versus Cody all that that I laid out last week. I think that is the perfect way to do WrestleMania. The problem is they don't have confirmation from The Rock that he's going to wrestle Romant in Philly, So I think you have to keep the title on Roman just to be on the safe side. And like I was saying with like the whole at the top of the show, like I don't think they know what they're going to do
at WrestleMania. I really don't. And because of that, they're probably gonna lean on the side of caution with a lot of these booking decisions at the Rumble this tomorrow because they have to set it up to where they have multiple options, right, you know, if you have going through Wind the Rumble, I feel like you have multiple options. So I think that's why he's in the mix. I think if you have Roman retain the championship here,
you have multiple options. If you don't do those two things, you are you are married to steth Rowlins being okay for WrestleMania, and you are married to the rock wrestling Roman at WrestleMania, and those two things are not are not certainties right now. So I would love to say Randy Orton's gonna win the championship here, but I just don't think it's gonna happen. I don't think that we see the Rock. I don't think we see the Rock tomorrow.
Unfortunately. I think it's gonna be pretty cookie cutter, and it's gonna be you know, chalk. Roman reigns retains the championship and they figure it out as as the week's kind of go on here, how do you think he retains? You think? Who do you think takes the fall out of these guys? I mean it's l A Night or l A Night who just got pinned by Roman not too long ago, a j who just kind of came back. How they gonna they could they could do this, They can
do this, stack them up and pin them spot. But I don't think they're going to go that strong with with Roman. Yeah, yeah, I don't know, Probably probably a J or L A. Knight. I don't think it'll be Orton. I think they want to keep board and looking strong just in case they put the title on him. So yeah, probably LA Knight or a J. I think a J would be cool with taking the fall. You know, at this point sure he's whereas like L. A. Knight probably needs a little more, a little more oomph to him.
So taking the fall from like I was that damn close and something else that it all slipped away from me. Again, it's because of at least they I don't know, they have to put the US title on L. A. Knight at WrestleMania. In my opinion, if you want a good, feel good moment to like open WrestleMania, L A. Knight winning the championship, that would be That'd be huge. So yeah, I think you have
to keep him strong. I think that's his moment setting towards Yeah night one open up with you know him versus Logan pol Or making a ladder match with everybody and he wins. Yeah, So keep him wigging strong a J. You know, at this point in his career, I think he's there to put people over He's not going to be a champion again. He's there to put on good matches, be in good programs, make the other guys look strong, and then Orton again. You might have to put the title on
him next month if you want to do Orton versus Cody. So yeah, I think you have to keep him looking strong too. I think you're the former face that runs the place. Aj Styles is now the face that puts over the other faces. I think what you just laid out in that scenario if something. I think if if Seth Rollins wasn't going to compete at WrestleMania, they would have if this guy towards MCT, this guy would not be
competing at WrestleMania. I mean, this guy's not Sean Michael's not going to work with the broken back like he would like you just don't fuck with your knees like that. And it's Seth Rollins who has history of bad knees. That's not something that he's gonna risk as a child. Now he's he's a he's a family man, So I think that I think I think that if he I think that he feels good enough, he's gonna go ahead and do that WrestleMania match. That's where I think we'll get We'll get into we'll get
into the main of But I think he's gonna do that WrestleMania match. He's gonna be planned for it, regardless of who wins a royal rumble. I think if the Rock does come back, and you know, if Rock happens to show up and costs Roman reigns a title, like you said in favor of Orton, then I don't think they have to worry about Rock not being inked for this year's WrestleMania. It's if he comes back, then that's already set in stone. It's gonna be for that Wrestlemanium. My problem with is,
and here I am Billy. I've been clamoring for this Roman and Rock thing for years just because of the way that the story has been played out, the bloodline thing. It's like I wanted The Rock to come back when it made sense, and it sort of just seems like like this is all gonna be thrown together in the last couple months and only got three months til Mania. I mean, I guess these guys are pros and ww always puts
on a good production. They could tell this but this is like, this story can have several layers to it, and in times where he should have came out during uh, let's just say last year's Royal Rumble when you had the Sammy ain't turning on the bloodline, or let's just say even during a Survivor or the elimination chamber heading into WrestleMania, or during tribal combat at Summer Slam, like these these big spots where family has talked about and and like
it's really the Romans really being a dick to his family. Then that's when you have like the Rock is like the Rock was just like totally random when he just came back, you know this last time, and just should I sit at the head of the table, I mean I popped, I fell over, Like all right, we're getting this match. And then it hasn't been really discussed about on WWE's in for a while. It's been relatively quiet, and which makes me think that this match could also be for next year's
WrestleMania too. And the guy that we had come on last week of Vigilanti talks, he thinks that that's a Summer Slam match that the Rock and Roman is gonna do I I don't necessarily see that, but it does. It does give more building to it. But this is this is when The Rock's going out on ESPN after ww just signed a five billion dollar Netflix deal, and The Rock is going in and saying, this is gonna be the biggest
WrestleMania ever. You're not signing The Rock to fight Roman Reigns at anything that's not WrestleMania one thousand percent. Because he said, I'm a long game kind of guy. And that's what makes me think this thing isn't gonna be hot shotted into a couple months, So let's move on to something else. Who's to say that. And this might be underwhelming to everybody, including me. I'm a huge Roman Rains fan, but we have yet to have that Roman
and Randy one on one match. I think that it's completely possible we could get Roman and Randy one on one in Philadelphia. We haven't had that. I think it's a I think it's a draw. It's not Roman versus Cody, it's not Roman versus The Rock. It's it's more of a fresh matchup
that we haven't seen one on one. It has a more organic story into it because Roman or Randy was gone at the hands of Roman Reigns and his family just from a couple of years ago, and it really put him out to where people never people didn't even think that Randy Orton was going to return in the first place. So I think we could be trending down that path too. I do to answer, I'm long winded and ranting. Sorry, That's why I'm on the radio and check them out every Saturday ninety seven to
five w a MZ from seven to ten. Well, God, yes, and you can check Billy out on weekends too, Bill. I was driving down the other day and I heard Billy just talking about the Ravens and we're talking about like you have a football. I'm like that, look at my guy. Anyways, I think Roman Roman Reigns does retain. I think I think this ends up leading to a match, a rematch one on one. We get Roman and Randy Orton at WrestleMania. That's a it's an interesting thought.
It's a letdown when you think about it. It's a letdown. Why Randy Orton or Roman? But like, okay, so if they do that,
why not just make it Cody? Right? Why not? I mean, we've already seen that match and Cody and Cody and Code, but this will get into a Cody and Cody and CM Punk have a that match with those two right now could be with with with the tension that they have and both kind of fresh off there and especially seeing Punk fresh off the ae W thing, and they're like their promo was pretty legendary on Monday night right now, that could just be me as like a mark. So that's what they're
going to go do and just it kind of at the end. Guys like Billy are always right, like Austin, come on now, don't overthink it. But I don't know. I don't know this. I mean I'm just overthinking. I'm overthinking it here. Just to take my words with the Graham Salt, I'm overthinking it here. I mean probably you probably are right. I don't think it's like crazy to think Roman and Randy could could be a WrestleMania main event. I think that is within the REMA possibility. But I
feel like Cody would be involved. It would be triple threat. I feel like, if you want to include Randy in it too, Roman versus Randy versus Cody, I think that's probably a pretty good story. To to help. They can easily do that, so that if you do it that way, then it's it's yeah. Randy kind of loses here at the Rumble in like a fluky way. He gets a one on one rematch with Rome in next month that elimination chamber, whereas he again loses in like a fluky way,
Cody wins an elimination chamber to become the number one contender. So Cody has a claim to the title. But Orton's like, dude, I got screwed over. So then you lead a triple threat. That's I mean, that's possibility, no doubt. And again that's what it comes in. And somehow swoops in, you know, like Randy Orton kind of gets jipped and he's still after roll rumbles, still kind of has his eyes on Roman Reigns.
But Cody comes in this is my story. And then Randy, Randy Orton's always played aye, you I got your kid, I'll back you up. This is your moment. But at the end of the day, what is Randy? What does the viper always do if you're align yourself with them and everyone's sitting there waiting this is Cody's storyline, and they find the blood lines out of it. Solo's attacked, He's dead over here, Jimmy's fucking decapitated over here. No one's here to save Roman Rains and stop Cody.
Then here comes fucking Randy Orton with an RK. Think about the nuclear he and Rand and Roman Rains is just looking at him like, dude, are you just happened and just kind of just still goes over there and covers them. I would love this. I'm dramatic. I would love to see.
There's been a lot of talk that, like all the decade WrestleManias have had triple threat the title matches either and then at WrestleMania ten where it wasn't triple threat because that really wasn't a thing back then, you still had two challengers for the championship with Lex Luger and Brett Hart taking on Yokazuna in the same night, so you had it there. You had the wrestle the triple threat at wrestle Manya twenty with Ben Waugh, Triple h and Shawn Michaels. Then
at wrestle Mania thirty you had Batista Orton and Daniel Bryant. So maybe they want to get a triple threat in there, keep that tradition going. I can totally see that. Yeah, I kind of like that idea too.
Yeah, so there you go, We'll move on. Yeah. I mean, that's there's just a lot of meat on the bone to talk about right there, especially when when you get into the SI report that we talked about with Cody Rhoades not being in it, and and this could be it, this could be a thing of that SI reporter just kind of overthinking too. Maybe he just watched Raw for the first time, saw the Gunther spot with seth Rawlins, saw the CM Punk spot with Cody, and just thought,
all right, this is what they're doing. Let's move on to what we're here for. The men's Royal Rumble. We talked about it earlier. There's a lot of drama being built up in this Royal rumble, Billy. You know, we we have the odds on favorite seem Punk. Like we mentioned, we have a trending dark horse right now, which is Gunther that's shot up from ridiculous odds. And I don't think it's too far fetched to think that he could walk away the winner, just because everything that they've done with
Gunther just over the last year. Ever since last year's Royal Rumble, I felt like he should have won that maybe if if, maybe, if Cody
Roads just didn't come back, that was probably gonna be his spot. But this is this is gonna be interesting, the whole Drew mack entire thing, a jay usso possibly entering it, maybe trying to come back at his come back at his brother if he can, uh there, there's there's They're doing a lot of good drama building in this Roald Rumble, the Cody Roads thing, how that plays out, And I much rather like it this way than know this is exactly what's going to happen, even though there is a favorite
like seem Punk, I like knowing that hold on now Gunther, hold on Cody. But it's it's gonna be Let's let's start with your prediction and kind of do you kind of just mention it earlier, laid out completely? You got cm punk. What do you see seem punk doing? Is he going? He's he's going and challenging Rollins for the title. Is that what you're thinking is that where the sets up and him and Cody completely split off.
They visit that somewhere else down the road, what's what's your complete thoughts on how this Men's Were Rumble ends? Well, first of all, the word Royal Rumble, the Men's World Rubble best match of the year. It just the most fun. It Like there's you always go into even when you're convinced that I like seam Punk's gonna win, you convince yourself minutes before the match, like you know what, what if they just went and threw a curve
ball and yeah, something crazy happened, then it's just fun. And it's not even about who wins the match half the time either, It's about all the storylines that that happened within the match, right Like the WWE usually tells you what they think of their roster with the Rumble match. If somebody gets
eliminated eliminated really quick, they don't they don't think much of them. Right now, heading to WrestleMania season, if you see two guys kind of have like a stare down in a moment and then one gets eliminated and they and they look over him like I kind of laid out with the Jade Cargill and uh and Bianca Belle air scenario, then that's probably going to be a WrestleMania
program. You know, there's just so many If somebody lasts a long time in the match, clearly they're pretty high on this guy and he could have a Marque spot in the next few months here too. So I think that's always the fun part about it, is like all this all this stuff that happens in between, and just you know how fun it is to kind of like fantasy book, like, Okay, what if this guy wins the rumble, what would that look like? And then if this guy wins, what
does that look like? And that's exactly what we're doing here before I get to my predictions. One little fun game to play if you're having a watch party, like I'll be having Austin's coming over. I got a couple of friends coming over for the Rumbles, So be a fun affair over here in the heart of Louisville un Mobile Headquarters, your house. Yeah, that's right.
So if you got you know, you got people coming over that aren't like huge wrestling fans and not really gonna understand what's going on, get them involved with this game. It'll make it fun for them. Basically, have some sort of entry fee here. It's gonna be like five dollars at my house. Everybody pays the entry fee and you draw numbers out of a hat. Right, you have thirty numbers in the hat. Everybody draws their numbers.
Those are your numbers now for the rumble match. So if you drew number one, whoever comes out at number one is one of your wrestlers. Right, So if you have a wrestler make it to the final four, you get five dollars back. Right, So you make your money back if you if one of your guys gets to the final four, if your guy wins the rumble, you get whatever that remaining pot should be. So theoretically you could have all four of the final four and the winner and get a
big, big payout. Right. So it's just fun because you'll you'll be there. You'll be like, oh, I got number five, Let's see who it is. Oh it's going through. Oh that's a huge that's a big favorite. You know what I'm saying. So it's a good way to get other people involved that can't wait. Know a whole lot about wrestling, all right, Speaking of final fours, Speaking to predictions, here we go, first and foremost, my iron man of the match is going to be
Cody Roads. H Cody Roads came out at number thirty last year, which was like probably the worst decision I've ever seen in a rumble match. Like it's so underwhelming. Everybody knew his Cody because he hadn't come out yet,
they already flew. Why did they blow their load with announcing Cody Rhads returning when they could have just had him like unexpectedly return at number thirty and it would have made and he could have opened the he could have opened the Royal Rumble and you could have made him like you could have protected him so well it's like stayed in the corner or something, or you could have had him like get it. Make it look like he got his arm ripped off and
he kind of stayed outside and just hobbled back in. You know, he kind of did that thing. But it's just like him coming out at thirty. Like his music, it takes like fifteen seconds for his music to kick in, and like like that's not Royal Rumble. Like you as soon as you hear that, you hear like someone's music, let's come out, not the doom right Slay as more than one Royal fan and he's got a theatric intro, so like by the time he comes down to the ring, like
seven people are eliminated. So like that's just weird to say. I never understood that either. Well, it was like, you know, when John Cena returned in two thousand and eight at number thirty off the same exact injury that Cody Rhoades had, it was freaking electric. Why would you not do that? Why would you not do that? Again? Like if you would have announced that Cody's returning, then you could have done that same spot.
Instead of you announce he's returning, you still put in that thirty to where it's not even a surprise, and then you have your big baby face come out at the last spot and then win the rumble with like hard even doing anything. Yeah, what does that do? Like it could make him come out in the middle of the match and at least have so And yeah, I think they make up for it this year by having him come out very
early, possibly even one or two. Honestly, I don't I don't put it past him to do that, and then he's it for the long call. In fact, I think that he makes it to the final four. The final four, I have c M. Punk, Cody Rhodes, Gunther, and Drew McIntyre. I think those your top four, yeah, you
know, kind of candidates to win the match. So you put those four in there, It's like, okay, I could really see any of these guys winning, And like I have said many times, I'm sticking with my guns, going with Sampunk to win the Royal Rumble, go on to likely face Seth Rollins for the title at WrestleMania, probably not the Night one main
event, I would say. Yeah. Again, I think Sampunk when he returned, it was probably promised to him that things like this that they didn't award him in his first run in WWE, that he would probably get opportunities like that. So you know, I think you run the risk of really upsetting him if you don't put him in a world title match at WrestleMania, if you don't have him win a Rumble, So might as well just like check those off the list so that you can say you've done it. You
don't have to worry about that in the future. One other little prop most eliminations I think Solo so CoA uh probably the most is Solo win the match. I mean, you never know, right, I mean, I mean, I I don't, I don't, I don't necessarily know. I love that. I'd love to go. I'd love to find that out. So solo watch for someone. Well, we'll have to see, just because I don't know if he come after the tribal chief like that, at least at least not well, he could be like he's in the match to win and
then like nobody challenges for him and raise that's true too. That's that's kind of what I wanted to do for That's what I thought they were gonna do with Sammy's ain last year. I thought that it was gonna be Sammy's big night, Sammy wins the world run, but everyone's all right, and then there's this gonna be Roman punking them for weeks to like give up that spot or whatnot, you know, and then that's that's then we get that that
we get the biggest story. One of the best stories that they've ever done was blown off of Eliminade Chamber all because of Cody Rhodes. I'm gonna go, like chalk with you. I think it's probably gonna be the same Final four, even though there's a lot of times w W W doesn't go chalk
with the final four. We've seen Kine shirtless and with forty year old Big show with Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns in time in a final four, So it would it would be It would make much sense because they've been doing all the drama that's been surrounding Drew mackins hire with I guess that sort of heel turn that he's doing or complete heel turn that he's doing, He's he's doing some of his best work in a while seeing Punk obviously it's one of the
gunther obviously, and Cody Roads that's that's probably gonna be your main guy. So I have to agree with you that to rebuttal for you and not only you, because there's a lot of people that just think of the whole cmpunk like he has to win or we met. Maybe that's what they promised him in his contract, and I think that seem Punk is let me get filled the doubt, the benefit of the doubt here, and I think this is
speaking to aw on multiple levels. I'm pretty sure everyone thought that that's what they told Cody the same thing too, You're gonna come out, and Cody didn't get a championship matches. First WrestleMania when he came back, he came out and got a huge spot against Seth Rollins, who is one of the more people in the company. Just a couple of years ago. He got that Wrestlemanium moment. He was one of the probably the most talked about match
of that whole WrestleMania. I don't think that you know these guys necessarily like care, especially after CM Punk and guys like Seampunk and Cody Rhodes have been through the Ringer at AW and other promotions. I know they they got the true grasses and always greener experience sy They kind of left on bitter terms with WWE. I'm gonna go over here making you guys denied me, and then they had the startup company AW kind of making some waves and then they're kind
of shiving sending shivers up and down their spine a little bit. And seeing Punk was the draw of a W the last couple of years. He was the ratings for a W and everything that CM Punk left for. I want to put these young guys over. I want to I want to go wrestle the Wheeler Utahs and I want to go wrestle that Daniel Garcias, that's like
what he said in his opening thing. He got a look of what those young, immature wrestlers are like and then kind of getting a taste back what it's like and a little bit more professional, grown up environment, you know, Vince McMahon really kind of not really hands on with everything you know, necessarily going on. That's probably a big, a big, huge reason for Cody to come back. These guys number one want money and they number one
and Cody family man. Now, it's I'm sure it means so much to him to have that WWE championship, But he's got a daughter, he's got a family. He just wants stability and protection. He's gonna get generational wealth. I'm sure championships on his mind too. And I think the same thing for cm punk. I don't think if they just don't write sampunk to get eliminated, he's just gonna go all aw and Jack Perry and go punch Triple
H in the back and leave. I think he's around professionals now. I think he's happy to be back around, and I think that he's willing to let things play out because he knows what it's like on the other end and he knows it. That's everyone else is all immature. Actually, these guys at wwe run a little bit better ship than what I thought. So, once again out rambling your winner of the twenty twenty four Men's World Rumble, gonna be Gunther, and I think he's going to be not the Iron Man,
but I think that he's going to look pretty good. I think it's gonna come down to Uh. I think it's gonna come down to Gunther and Cody Rhodes and uh. I think just just just like it was, but
Gunther is gonna get the best of them. I think maybe seem Punk comes back and fucks with Cody Rhods at the end, and uh, it kind of turns here like if Cody Roads eliminates c M Punk, c M Punk like, all right, I'm not get my story, you're not either, And then we get we get Gunther to go on to face Seth Rollins at WrestleMania, and I think we get Seth and I think we get CM Punk and and Cody Road singles match, Okay, I I think I think that's
more or less what we're getting. I think I think Gunther wins the title. I think Gunther dropped. I think, and here's how we all played with WrestleMania my early predictions. I think that we get the singles match with l A. Knight and Logan Paul for the US Championship. I think that multiman ladder match is gonna come from the Intercontinental Championship when Gunther drops it,
So he's gonna drop the inner kind of old championship Championship and fucked. I did everything I need, still respect it, put it over somebody else can try to get I'm going on to greener pastures, buddy, someone else studies. But he's gonna be in the World title match for WrestleMania. Well no, I'm I'm saying he's gonna drop like O Raw the next night. Oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think he's gonna drop like I think he's gonna come out win the World Rumble. I think he's gonna come
out and drop the title the next night. And I think that they're going to keep that tradition alive for the next couple of weeks, building up the WrestleMania with either tournaments trying to get in or invitationals try to get in and they're gonna do packages with all these men that's hold held it and now it's vacant. One of the most prestigious WWE titles is up for grabs and vacant at the biggest show onner who's gonna get and that's gonna be their way of
making it look good. That's just my I don't hate it. I would love to see. I think Jay USO versus Jimmy usso is a clear match that we're gonna get WrestleMania. I would love to see that for the inner
Continental Championship. So if you do have Guner winning the Rumble and going on to you know, greener pastures in the world title scene, I would love to see a Gunther versus j match next month that elimination chamber and then you have you know, like Seth Rollins cost gum Thro the championship or something like that. So then Jay is the Intercontinental Champion and then he faces Jimmy for the title. I think that'd be just fought like fun brother versus brother.
Yeah, if you go both ways, or Jimmy could come in and cost Jay the match, just like you know, and that's and then you don't I guess you don't need those singles. You don't need those brothers to be competing for the you know, the inter Continental Championship. Yeah, you don't need to. But I think it would just be kind of fun and like
a cool program for the Icy title. That was one thing I think completely forgot about the whole Jimmy and Jay thing because I think that either they're they're going to play out on the road to WrestleMania, whether it's jim and I think it's gonna be the Unhinged Triple M as our guy Jimmy usso as our guy Vigilini talks like to likes to call him unhinged Triple M because when he first came out with his new thing, Like did you see the title that
they had, they wrote Jimmy with three ms USO on the screen. So, and he's already like an unhinged character anyways, and I think I think he's the foil to his brother. They're doing the yat no Yeat shirt, and that's a good point. I completely forgot about that match. Yeah, so there you go. I mean, the rumble always sets up WrestleMania, right, so it'd be very intriguing to see how they kind of, you
know, give us a glimpse into what they're thinking for WrestleMania. Me and Austin have a little bit kind of a different card for wrestlemaniasm now as we should, uh, but we both as an object change. It's always subject to change. Pal My mine will change at least you know, seven times between now and on Saturday already start, right. I always keep a note on my phone around this time of like my WrestleMania card prediction. So I have that. I have that right now and we'll see, we'll see how
accurate it is. But like I said, I'll be making plenty of changes to that between now and next week probably so. But that's the beauty the rumble, man, anything can happen. You got to go in with that mentality if you're a fan that anything can happen. That's what makes it fun. That's you know, it's like March Madness for wrestling, where it's just
like sixty four teams, who who's gonna end up? And even though it's not a tournament, it's just like thirty guys they're all going to enter the ring and the biggest prize in sports entertainment the main event in WrestleMania is on the line, so it's it's honestly the greatest, you know, match stipulation that they've ever come up with. It's a blast for everybody. Uh you know, I'm still WrestleMania through and through my favorite night of the year no
matter what. But this right here, my favorite match of the year is the rubble Match. So everyone very much looking forward to it again. Watch party at my house, be having all all the snaums, all the drinks, all the all the props, all the fun. So looking forward to it, Austin. Should be should be fun tomorrow night. Yeah, I can't wait. That is the most exciting time. And it's the most like cat fans like, even even people that don't really watch wrestling, I mean
they you can let you. There's just so much action happening. If you're not a wrestling fan, I can understand the appeal to just kind of watching two guys just kind of choreographed for twenty five minutes when there's really not much going on. But when you got so many people in the ring and they're just trying to throw someone out, and then you got like a big hute
almost coming in and you got seven guys trying. The casual fan always seems to find that, and everyone also turns back into a hardcore wrestling fan again once a world rumble happens and the person that they think should win doesn't happen. It's oh, now I see why I stopped watching that stop their I go and that. That's my favorite is when people and why did you tune in? But yeah, it was gonna be fun. I always like watching
with people that don't watch wrestling, like my neighbors Steve. He came and watched it with me last year and like, yeah, yeah, I mean I'll try to give over again tomorrow. But he doesn't know like who is supposed to be the favorites and whatyo, So he truly has like anything can happen mentality when he's watching it, like like, oh, this guy's kind of cool. I hope he wins it. You know, it's just neat to see. It's kind of like watching a kid on Christmas right, where
like the magic is still there for him and they're not jaded. They're jaded like us, where it's like, oh, it's gonna be Ceampunker going through one hundred thousand percent you know. So that's why I say you got to come in it, even if you're a hardcore fan like us that that knows how it's probably gonna play out. Got to go into it with that that little kid mentality of anything can happen. Yeah, that's that's the beauty of it. Really. Yeah. Absolutely, it's the most exciting time of year
to be a wrestling fan. And and me and Billy were back on our regular schedule. You know what. There's with things kind of dwindling down in all of sports, and my god, we're almost to the super Bowl. That means no more football and it's it's but at west least we still got wrestling. At least we still have WrestleMania for the next couple of months to look up to. It's gonna be really, really fun. And just announced today, Ellie I mentioned it last last week. WWE has been doing a
lot with us. They're actually coming again to the KFC Gum Center. Ww SmackDown coming July or No, I'm June seven, June seventh, that's three days after my birthday, one day before Billy's. That's gonna be one hell of a night. They usually hook us up pretty good when they come to Louisville, So you know, get your tickets there at ticketmaster dot com. I'm pretty sure we're gonna be running some fun promos on the radio station.
Just stick by. And speaking of how about a little how about a little tease, Billy, you like teases, We have a little bit of a special guest alert. It's going to be coming on next week. We have a couple special guests, but we'll just tease you with the first one. He is rock solid member of the Judgment Day. Our Truth is going to be joining the show and getting in the ring with the baby Faces next Thursday.
That's typically when we kind of like to drop in new episodes every Thursday, so everyone has something fun to kind of ride them into the weekend. So that's what we're looking forward to. Our Truth should be very, very fun to talk to him. He's he's Our Truth having a kind of like
resurgence here in WWE. Billy. I mean, like I mean you can attest to when you watch back when he kind of had a mini run during the summer of twenty eleven, right before the whole cmpunk, John seen a thing like he was gaining some some footing and and it's it should be a fun one. Yeah, dude, I'm telling you. We're texting about it
last night. Our Truth in twenty eleven is some of the most underrated content of the PG era, Like this guy was was red hot and I'll even though it all happened how it should with the whole cmpunk Summer of Punk storyline, the R Truth made event we championship match with John CeNAT Capital Punishment in twenty eleven. I was fully convinced that they were putting the title in Our Truth because of like how red hot he was, dude, Like yeah,
his promos were off the charts. He had just turned heel. So what happened was the night after russell Mania twenty seven there was like a gauntlet match to determine the number one contender to the Miz at Extreme Rules. It came down Our Truth won. Our Truth won the gauntlet match, which was like crazy, We're like, whoa, this is out. This is truly and anything can happen. Thing that was like what in the world this is when he was still faced, like didn't even have a match the night before at
WrestleMania, Like and he's going to challenge the Miz. Like, so that was cool. But then something happened to where John Cena got back in the mix and then it was a triple threat with the Miz, John Cena and Our Truth. But then John Morrison got involved with it and like kind of challenge Our Truth to his his spot in the match, and John Morrison beat him, and like Our Truth and John Morrison were a tag team kind of
at the time, had good friends. So when John Morrison did that, that's when Our Truth turned and you know, had a great match with John Morrison over the Limit the next month, like the pro most lead enough to that were awesome. He was out there smoking cigarettes, calling kids little Jimmy and whatnot, and so like all that built up to all this guy can this guy can can do it? Man, Like the yeah, he's he's our top heel right now, so put him up John John Cena wins the
championship from the Miz. Uh So then you have John Cena versus Our Truth and obviously John on to win that and we led to the Summer of Punk. But I'm telling you, man, that was that was Our Truth's moment. I was saying yesterday, maybe Our Truth will still have his his like kofee mania moment at some point, because this is a guy that he has all the talent in the world. He's put in you know, he's put
in the everyone speaks highly of him. Yeah, exactly. So maybe one day he'll catch he'll catch that fire and have a you gotta tell him that, you gotta, you gotta tell him, you know what truth I they should have put the title on you. I want you to tell him that. Trust me, I'm gonna be I'm gonna be glazing, as the kids like to say that. One's gonna be fun. He's he's a very fun
character. He's he just seems like a genuine dude. I think I think we're gonna have uh some fun with our truth and just stick around because even after that, when that drops, we have even more special guests. And you want to listen to our podcast, it's the baby Faces on iHeart Radio. Make sure to follow us and check out our new logo. It's gonna
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Can't wait to see tomorrow for the Rumble, Buddy, Yes, sir, get here, you know, right right when it starts. I'll have all the food, all the drinks ready to go, and everybody else that's listening have a great rumble, enjoy it. Like I've said many times, anything can happen, man, So it should be a fun night tomorrow. Hey, this is your street Proface one. Have montest for Angelo Dawkins. Now you're listening to the baby Face Podcast on radio.