Summerslam 2024 Preview

Obviously you know he's back coaching. He's up in Northern Kentucky. The season starts, it's only in a couple of weeks, and school starts is a little bit right before that. So Billy, glad to have you back. Man It's good to see that beautiful baby face of yours. Man, how you been, Yes.

up to Cleveland. So it should be a good time. I'm excited we've been to This is gonna be my second WrestleMania. We went to one a couple of years ago and we still have plans on possibly going to the Royal Rumbles. So we're looking forward to having the full crew at a p l E coming up. But you know I'll hold it down.

and get her moment in Philadelphia WrestleMania. But I don't know nothing. Nothing about her title reign was really like excited me at all. So I'm interested to see kind of what you think. I know we were talking off airy didn't watch last week's Monday Night Raw, but from the women's perspective, and since we were there in person watching Bailey win the title and we kind of see them slowly building up Naya Jacks, what do you necessarily think about this? What do you think about her title

reigns so far? I mean, I remember that was like the big height that she finally had a WrestleMania moment. She's finally watched over by Triple h apart her first real singles run under the Paulo bec era. What do you think about Bailey so far?

every week, I'm like, what, I can't remember last time Bailey's had a memorable title defense since WrestleMania, Like.

of Triple H's booking lately. I'm overall a fan of Triple H and how he runs things, but there are you know, little things like that where I'll have a gripe here in there. That's certainly one of them. Bailey's little ring a little underwhelming. Now she's going up against Naya Jacks at Summer Slam. Ever since Naya return they've been building her up, you know, pretty the Queen of the Ring ring was a good, you know, kind of

launching pad for her. So I think this might they might take the title off her here again, there's not much reason to keep it on her unless you just want to stretch this feued out for some reason. If you want to keep this going, and you know eventually Naya is going to win the title. I'm pretty confident in that that's whether it happens this Saturday down the road. But I'll go ahead and take my pick. Nia Jacks win's the championship.

like you said, they've been building a Naia Jackson. That's what seems like it's it's most possibly going to go see he's been having the ring time, the squash matches and just the awesome got a factor in the whole Tiffany Stratton thing. She's carrying the money in the bank briefcase. But you know, if if you want to think about it from a storyline perspective, her and Nia Jacks have

been like really really close. I think it was on SmackDown this last week where she tried to attack Bailey with the briefcase and Bailey just kind of like roughed it up, and so like Tiffany put like tape on it and stuff like that, and it looks all damaged and used. So it seems like her and Nia Jacks

have like a storyline pack of some some sort. So I don't necessarily know if if they're what their plan is with Tiffany Stratton to keep that that that briefcase on it for too long, because I think that she's possibly have the title immediately. But you know, they've been telling the story of her and Nia Jax kind of being the bullies and they are like best friends backstage, so it'll be interesting to see that happen. I'm gonna go with Nia Jax myself. I've been kind of loving

her run since coming back. I think it's her time to put it on and I think it'd be really interesting to see. She even mentioned on our on our Body Battlegrounds podcast not too long ago, and it's something that I've been clamoring for for a while. She mentioned the blood Line being a part of that, and I think that that's something that they can possibly think on expanding to the women's division. Is she can possibly be

that female force. Hey, that's just kind of wishful thinking me thinking down the block because once again, there's still the whole Tiffany Stratton thing. But I would love to see her part of the Bloodline and especially what they end up doing later on in the night if that happens. Come to fruition, a lot of the gold can be on the blood Line, including Nyajack, so I think that'd be pretty cool.

If not here here's my other prediction. I think it's going to be this next match speaking of title reigns, and you might feel in the same predicament that me and I guess the rest of the IWC is feeling. I'm go aheading and labeling us as part of the IWC on this one. But Logan Paul and La Night Yeah, yeah, he's I mean, this is the time for La Night right. I mean that the logan pole, like the rain hasn't it hasn't really lived up to anything. I know, it's

been cool and probably on WWE's in that. You know, he's the logan Paul in his podcast, he's carrying the the United States Championship while hanging out with the Olympics team. He's interviewing like Kevin Durant and like he's with this guy Speed. These are huge social media influencers and obviously the crossover with the NBA and the Olympics and stuff like that. So we including Logan Pole at least you including Logan Paul in this kind of myth title reign.

Ever since getting in about it year ago, and like I said, we understand. We come from radio. We know what like ratings are and shoving things down people's throat giggy that they don't want. Do you think that you know this this is like another one of that, or do you think that Logan's kind of justified the US title.

hold onto the title for for a little longer. So now here we are, you know, four five months later at SummerSlam, and we have the match that we thought we would get at WrestleMania. So I think this is a no brainer. L A. Knight wins the title. They've been building him up, you know, he's he's one of their future guys, like he's gonna be top guy, He's going to be a world champion one day, and I think the US title is a is a great place for him to to kind of, you know, get his

feet wet as a champion. And I think that now is definitely the time for it. I think it's been overdue, frankly, but again it's because of the whole exposure thing with Logan Paul and wanting to you know, like you're saying, get that title on mainstream and when he's doing his podcast all that stuff. So I think that's been good for them. But but now's the time to switch gears and give it to one of your you know, your future stars in La.

for him. But here once again, I don't want this to be a slide on Logan Paul, because he's great as far as guys, it's just kind of come into

the business, especially like social media influencers. And I was listening to a podcast the other day where they were talking about our friend Maven and the tough Enough and how how how tough, and maybe it's just like a sign of the times with how tough road, how tough life on the road was in WWE years ago, back when they were doing the pull the Man off the Street and see if they could be a WWE superstar thing kind of the same thing with Logan. But he

gets it. He knows the character aspect, he knows how to well and he's been around the business. He knows

how to sell. He's got great facial expressions. I think this rivalry at La Night has had a lot of tread to it because they've been both showing up La Night's showing up to his house at his pool, and they're they're really hot on the mic with each other, and I think that that's gonna be fun, and I think I think, hold on, I'm pretty sure Logan Paul is from Cleveland, so I think that they's got a they.

He's supposed to be, supposed to have some few tricks up his sleeve, but he seems like the kind of guy what's best for business. I think, even being a hometown guy, the fans are going to be excited to see him lose in favor of La Night. So I think he's gonna do the job and we're going to have a new US champion with La Night, and much deserved because a lot of people still kind of reeling off that money in the bait decision of him not even making it. So I think this was a good test.

Everyone's been patient and now hopefully this is a time to go ahead and pull that trigger with La Night and put a title on them.

Paul during. Yeah, like it's been building for a long time.

is probably gonna have it. It's the brock lesnar thing is probably gonna go on hiatus and you'll you'll most likely see him back for the bigger pl E's like the road to WrestleMania. He'll probably take a couple of months off. We'll see him around Survivor Series, Royal Rumble again, and so that should be pretty fun. Another match we're going to go to. Speaking of the more I'm just starting to agree with your sentiment, the more I'm starting

to look at these these matches. Yeah, the Intercontinental Championship rank exkew me Sammy z Ain. He's taken on bron Breaker. It's the rematch from what they just had a couple of weeks ago. What are you feeling about the Sammy the Sammy's Ain title reign. You know, once again, fun moment we were there for WrestleMania. Just kind of like the other two people that we mentioned with the Bailey and Cody Rhodes kind of been Sammy's Ain has been featured.

It's not like he hasn't been on screen. It's not like he's and he's been a fighting champion. He's had his matches and he's had good matches. But I don't know, man, just him as a champion just has it resonated with me. And the way that they've been building bron Breaker is like beating people, injuring people, killing Ricochet and then for him to just lose the halluva kick at what was the last poe? Why am I spacing money at the

think when he had money in the bank. Maybe that was just a nod to Sammy z Ain give him a win in his hometown since they screwed him with Room and Rain just a couple of years ago. But I was not a fan of that. I was vocal on the internet with how Sammy's Ain had no business beating bron Breaker, but maybe that they were, you know, just kind of softening him up for this one. I think this is bron Breaker's time right here. I think he's a he's a walking future WrestleMania Maine event. That

dude is a stud. He's got the genetics, he's got the look, he can work probably better than most of the roster and He's lightning freaking fast. So the way that they've been building him is kind of like a little mini Goldberg run. With this Goldberg can actually freaking work. No disrespect to the actual Golberg because I grew up

in that time and I love watching Goldberg. But when we're talking about in the in the era where guys focus on your moves and your your ability to do things in the ring for such a long period of time, bron Breaker fits that mold, and I think that they're protecting him really well. Right now, this is the time, just like that la a Night, go ahead and pull the trigger on him, give him that Intercontinental championship, because I think Sammy's reign as Intercontinental Champion has just kind

of been men to me. What say you?

his big thing. You could have done the same damn thing with bron Breaker, and instead, his first big pl match for a title, he loses to Sammy freaking Zane. I'm sorry, I like like Samy Zaan's cool, like he is what he is. He's never gonna be like a top ten favorite of mine by any means, but I

get why people like him. Okay, But on the same token, it's like, I'm supposed to believe that this guy knocked off not only Gunther at WrestleMania, who was had the longest title reign in Intercominental Championship history, and he beats Broun Breaker, who, like you said, just kill Ricochet on television a month before that. Surely this guy could beat anybody. Then, Yeah, he'd be a ninety nine overall on W two.

it at WrestleMania. Maybe it'll do it again, but they You can't get in a habit of always having the big moments on the just the big shows, right because everybody's gonna start to expect like, oh, well, okay, he'll he'll win the title WrestleMania and they'll lose the Summer Slam. Whoever won a Summer Slam, they'll lose the Survivor Series. Whoever wins the Survivor Series, you know, they'll lose it.

The rumble. You can't just save it for the There's gotta be some stuff in between that give us something chilling in between that, and especially with mid card titles like the Inner kind of on championship. Money in the Bank would have been a fine time to put the title on Broun Break.

hate by any means. Sure, I get I get why people like him. I get why he is where he is today, you know, on the roster and all that, but it doesn't do much for me. And I think that Broun will have a much more you know, entertaining and have more substance to the title reign.

But when you think about like his stuff with Kevin Owens, his stuff with the Bloodline, there's stuff the sink his teeth into and we were just left with kind of after the the I know, we're harping on the Cody roads and finishing the story, but they had the whole rocky build up and you can't beat Gunther, and then he did and it was a great moment, and it's just like, all right, now, what so you're like teaming up with Jay almost every week you're beating some version

of the Judgment Day on television and you just, you know, you kind of interject yourself cause I know it was a couple of weeks ago where they had a Seamus and Gunther or Gunther, Seamous and bron Breaker kind of fight for the number one contender spot for that money in the bank pl and you know, of course bron

Breaker ended up winning that one. And it's it's, I don't know, just as a character thing, Sammy's ain't as much more entertaining, but just after after the whole rocky thing, after the whole underdog thing, you reach the top of the mountain and it's just unfortunately for him, it's like

where do you go from here? Because some people are better off left with just the chase, and I feel that that was probably better fit for Sammy and as we kind of talk about Sammy and Jayu, so there's a lot of talking speculation about you know, possibly joining up and going back into that bloodline thing because it doesn't seem like they're ever really pulled the trigger on jay Us to go ahead and do that. So and

maybe they might even do it down the road. But with you know, Survivor series and roll Rumbo approaching in a couple of months, and of course everyone thinks a direction of the bloodline feud is going to go. You stub Jimmy to return, and it's going to be interesting to see how Sammy's ain't intersects himself into that. I'm pretty sure that's where it's going to go anyways. So yeah, I'm with you. I got bron Breaker winning. That's three title changes that we had so far. Sort of feels chock.

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like that. We'd love to hear the feedback and feature you on our social media. Is just as well. Absolutely going through this, going to this next match. And here's where I think we break the spell with the title changes. And I know that you're not gonna like this, but we get into the World Heavyweight Championship match. Jamian Priest our Guy El Campillon Poppy money in the bank, Damian

Priest is going to gets Gunther. This is Gunther's first world title shot a major, major pay per view, and everything just feels right, like this is gonna go gun through right like he's he's done so much. He always does the fun, empty arena like promos when he's walking through the arena before the show, and he cuts his cunning lines and he's he's really interesting. I love Gunther. He's slowly kind of getting up to one of my favorites right now because he's a legitimate badass and he

looks the part. He plays the part. Every time I hear him chop somebody, it just makes my chest turn red. I mean, maybe that's just a ptsc from getting shot by cash Flow around this time last year at the golf Scramble, But I know what that feels like, and I know that Gunther's probably has one of the hardest hitting tree trunks as a hand. But they're doing stuff

with Damian Priest dude. I mean, if you look closely there, it seems like they're not really trying to separate him from the Judgment Day But he has a he has a different mentality. He's definitely playing like the not he's definitely playing like the older father, the wise person of the group. He's at ned the guy that's been there before, and he's obviously been around wrestling for a long time. He's worked his way up to get this championship shot, cash it in at money in the bank. Friend of

the show of course, can't forget that. But and they're also doing this peacock thing with them. They made a whole special and usually that's these are the signs of we're trying to switch someone to make you think someone different, make you think somewhat differently of how you feel the regular Damien Prize Judgment Day bad guy. It seems like they're kind of slowly turning him and they want to

make him a legit contender. And I honestly thought that he was going to lose money in the bank to seth Rollins And obviously that whole stuff kind of got mixed up with old sam Punk and Drew, But I still think that they're one to add to his resume. I think he beats Gunthera right here.

which was ridiculous. I should have put it on Drew McIntyre. They should have given him his moment, They should have let him have a title reign. Instead we get Damian Priest. Now, all of a sudden, you have a bunch of like random he faced jay Uso, which was just like a thrown together match like whatever, cool, okay, and then uh, you know he had the matchkins Seth and money in the bank. I really feel that Seth Ron should have gone over there. So you have Seth versus Gunther at SummerSlam.

Now we just have some weird like Damian Price is a heel, but he's not a heel. But there's like the ultimate you know, heel badass blah blah blah for a Summer Slam, you know, co main event match. I don't understand that. I don't understand when have we ever had a heel versus heel world championship match at a pay per view like Summer What are we doing here? What? What? What kind of heat does Damian Priest versus Gunther have? Bro like that? That's not that is not a SummerSlam

worthy world title match. It's simple as that they should

have put the title on Seth. They should have just made Seth a transitional champion, beat beat Damian Price, Damian Priest to goill handle his judgment day business, the weird stuff that's going on there, Fed Balor turn on him, all that stuff that's like brewing blah blah blah, and then you set up just Seth versus gun Through beats a very formidable opponent and Seth and Seth doesn't lose anything by losing that match by any means, right, you know that that's a good spot for him on the

roster right now to put over younger talent you know, have little title ranks here and there like that, you know, kind of like the John c and Randy Orton ten years ago type vive and that should have been that, and instead we have this has got to be the most random world title match they could have ever put on paper for the second biggest pay per view of the year. That's Mike Griston.

story just kind of isn't there. And what what sucks about that is while they're trying to build him, you know, they've been having this Gunther thing in the works for a while. They gave him like the All Star They gave him like the All Star treatment when they were when they were building him up for the King of the Ring, all the qualifying matches that he had, you know with of course Jay Usso and Randy Orton, they had him beat all stars to get there. So now

he's at the top. But that also makes me think he's established. He can lose this match. It's it's not like the one with with bron Breaker, where he've been building up this absolute monster that's been beating everybody in squash matches. Damian Priest, I feel, does have the character enough to kind of sneak this one out. And I also think he does it clean and he's kind of like the afterthought of the whole Judgment Day stuff. Right now.

They did some really good teases with this whole Seth rawl, saying where Seth rollins is like, if you lose, then you have to lead the judgment. Darry there was stuff with him and Finn and then the whole you know, obviously everything going on with the the Live Morgan Rea Ripley dom thing that's kind of taking precedents over that. So it'll be interesting to see. But I think that I think this is where Priest keeps it here. So but but you're going with the Gunther to win.

in my entire life. I'm so out of it, Like, let's move on, let's let's move on. We did the Damian Priest project, it was what it was. It we're six, you know, not six months into it, four or five months into it. Blah blah blah. It's time to it's time to go a different direction. Put the title on gun Through. It's it's been long awaited, much much you know, deserve for Gunther. And one thing, one more thing to

say about this match. This is some ship that I would expect out of a w This This is an AW title match right here.

about very controversial let's stick with the judgment day. Rhea Ripley returned just a couple of weeks ago after getting I Guess You Got injured written off written off TV for a couple of weeks. Through the uh the King and Queen of the Ring that was left up for grabs, liv Morgan won the titles. She took that from if she took that from Becky Lynch, and then that's where

everything with the whole Dom thing started. I thought it kind of started off slow, but as they picked up into it, it's become one of the most interesting things to watch on her all. And as much as I love as much as I love the visual of Live Morgan on my screen, and it's just, I mean, it's it's amazing to see. She's been talked about sinking your teeth into something and she's been doing this. They've been really running with splitting the lines of the PG thirteen

that kind of stuff. And I mean, listen, she's hot, she's blonde, she's young, so she really knows what to do to get us horny Mark wrestling fans invested. I'm speaking for myself, but for longest time, I just thought that she was kind of uninteresting, but she's really kind of developed in this storyline and everything that she's done with Dominic. You have Ria Ripley coming back and now kind of Dom's in the middle. Here's what I think.

I think Live Morgan retains in this one. I think they've been doing a spectacular job with the whole Dom thing and just kind of looking over her shoulder and being scared of Rhea. Obviously, if you look at some of the plants and some of the crumb trails, the breadcrumbs that they've left on raw, it looks like Live Morgan has something up her sleeve. I don't know if that's necessarily with Dom that helps her out in this match.

I don't know if Dom tries to get up and help Riha or maybe this can finally be the dissension of the Judgment Day that I mentioned earlier, because if you can go back and look on social media, she trashed the Judgment Day's little clubhouse. She got rid of the PlayStation that Dom wanted, No more nuggets for him.

Carlito seemed to be very pissed this last Monday night that there is no more PlayStation and I feel them, but Live Morgan is a woman scorned and on the Judgment Day poster she scratched and ruined everyone's name except for Finn Balor. Ben Baalor was the only person on that. It was like a briefcase or something. I can't remember. Excuse me if I don't remember, but in this graphic that she just kind of scribbled out like a pissed

off teenager, Finn Balor was left untouched. And he's kind of an interesting cog in the story because a couple of weeks back when they did the whole card thing and Live Morgan told Dom come meet me here, it was Finn Balor was the one that took the card, and Finn Balor is the one that's kind of getting in between Live and Dom. So it'd be interesting to see what Finn Baalor does. He just signed a new deal about last week, so he's in it for the

long haul. What makes me think that they love Finn Balor? Obviously they were the first to put the Universal the Red Championship on him way back in the day. It seems like they probably want to put him out on his own at least, even if he has like Live Morgan or something like that. At least be a singles competitor and get him out of the judgment day shadow.

I really this one's hard to predict, and that's cool because as much as I love the book in my head, I also just love being surprised, and I really don't love to predict all the intricacies that go on. But with everything surrounding at the Dom Ria, the possible Finn Balor thing, this has been a magnificent storyline. I think, uh, Live Morgan keeps a championship here.

right there. There's no way that she can beat you know, Riha Ripley without some sort of you know, Tom going on for her for her side. So I think that It makes a lot of sense too, just storyline wise, like she went after Dom, right, she went after Dom to to irk Ria, who you know is her longtime rival. You know there there's been a lot of history between

those two. So she goes after Dom while she's gone, gets Ria to return, and now all of a sudden they're they're going at each other, and all along she's had Finn Balor in her back pocket, knowing that whenever this match does happen, when I get Ria one on one, that I'm gonna have Finn Balor on my side to help me win the match and retain my title and get the ultimate revenge on on Ria Ripley. So storyline

wise makes a ton of sense. Then you can go into you know, Live in Finn You got Dom and Rhea, you know, kind of like a mixed a mixed tag team few and maybe maybe you can do that for the title even they've done that in the past with some matches, So I think this would be a lot of fun. And I do I do not see Lim

Morgan's title reign and ending. So one of the probably well we'll get to the main event, but my first one where that's the champion actually retains the title, so our girl, Live Morgan is still the world champion.

of your other co workers for storyline purposes. Let's go on to another hot feud, hot but in a different way. Office reference. Right there, we finally have the blowoff match. It should be the one everyone's looking forward to. CM Punk and Drew McIntire And I know CM Punk neither of these guys have a title, But what's your what's your opinion before I get into the actual uh, before we talk about the results of the match, what's what's your opinion on on CM Punk's return here in the WWE.

They're feud. I know it's been a little bit hot. It just if you watch the whole the network or I'm sorry, the YouTube special in WrestleMania, they had a lot more other things planned out for CM Punk. Obviously, he got injured. Unfortunately, that seems to be the theme every time the last couple of times seeing Punk's actually stepped in a match, so that's kind of hampered, you know what we've been able to see of his return so far since it's been strictly nothing but promos on

his end. But good thing for him is seeing Punk's generationally one of the best persons to work the MIC. He could keep a feud and a story going without even ever happening to wrestle a match. But good enough for him that we're finally getting this because you don't want the people to grow stale of that act, so it's going to be interesting to see them kind of

tie it up. Obviously, this is a blood feud. CM Punk has been the major thorn in the side of Drew McIntyre ever since getting injured, and at the World Rumble he obviously stopped him from actually kind of loosened him up for the cash in at WrestleMania, then a Clash of the Castle. This is supposed to be Drew's

big moment. They've been leading this up like there's no way Drew McIntyre is gonna lose in the UK, he does again, he gets screwed by CM Punk, and then that third time at the Money in the Bank also screwed by CM Punk. So they're they're making it and

I was not. I was a fan. I was not really one of the people that were super mad at that wasted opportunity for the money in the Bank briefcase, because I think that there's sometimes doesn't have to be every single year that that money in the bank briefcase automatically gets the championship because wrestling fans talked about things being way too predictable and getting mad at that. So in that case, you already know whoever the money in the Bank winner is is going to be the next championship.

Like we are. We are like adamant that Tiffany Stratton is eventually going to turn in and win the Money in the Bank Championship. But I'm fine with it being used for this storyline right here because at the end of the day, it's telling the ultimate story about how Drew is is absolutely obsessed with winning this thing and still taking his eye off the ball and doesn't see Sam Punk coming obviously those three times, so or I get into the prediction. I kind of want to see

what you think about this. You can go ahead and start and talk about Sampunk's return, this whole feud and ultimately who do you think is gonna win.

This was pretty much like Seth Rollins and Drew mcintyreck on of the two that were that were vocal about seem Punk and his return and how how they didn't like it and whether that's k febril. You know, it's been. It's been brilliant television. That's great.

would have been triple threat. But but these three have been kind of interesting, like cogs in this storyline in different ways for months and months and months now, and it's been one of the hottest feuds we've seen in a while, right, I mean, Drew has been on top of his game. I think this is really brought out

the best in him. I agree it's unfortunate in one sense that like because of this feud, that's the reason that he's not the champion in a way, right because if you if you put the title on Drew at Clash right like everybody expected, then you know he's defending against Gunther here at Summerslammy. You don't get this match with Sampunk, which has been the plan obviously for a

long time. So I see why they did what they did every single time with Drew because you wanted to lead to this blowoff match with CM Punk at Summer Salmon that there'll be more matches after this, no doubt about it. But it's been unfortunate. The fact that Drew, who has been carrying Raw pretty much this year, I would say, I don't think that's a stretch to say that has not been the world champion other than the

you know, minute and a half at WrestleMania. Because of the fact that the CM Punk feud almost like is more important than the world title right now. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, that's up for the audience. I agree, I mean, but not every title or every few needs a title. So I honestly I think this one could main event. Like I don't know, it depends, you know about the rem and Range situation. If Reman Rains returns, I think that ends the show

and we'll get to that next. But as far as like just you know, being the hottest match on the card, this one is definitely Yeah, definitely holds that candle. So I'm excited to see it. It should be really really fun, you know, these two can definitely go hopefully. Seem Punk

you know, doesn't have a lot of ring. Russ he hasn't been obviously as a wrestled in a while, and you know, coming off an injury, and he is he's been very injury prone as of late as he gets older, so hopefully, you know, they work a good, safe match and put on a show. As for who wins, this one is unpredictable.

stick with my guy. But again, fifty fifty, I could definitely see this going either way.

if he gets injured or whatnot. I think I definitely see se him Punk winning this one somehow, And I think as much as as much as Seth Rollins and character doesn't like Drew McIntyre, I think they're going to be put in a position to where he pins, kind of like how the How the Summer Slam was years back with Brett Hart, Shawn Michaels and the Undertaker, where Brett Hard it was swinging to hit Shawn Michaels, but it eventually ends up knocking out the Undertaker and then

he counts that and he's looking in Shawn Michael's eye as Sean has to count and make his most hated enemy the winner of the match and the champion. So I think that that could be another thing here where where seem Punk is is handed the hand of the victory by Seth Rollins. I would love to see it to be Drew though, just because like you said, he's he's he's been carrying Drew's been carrying Raw. He's had one of his best characters he was. He's vicious on

the internet. He just took a picture with a jungle jack a couple of weeks ago. So they're breaking He's breaking the fourth walls with all this stuff, and it's been entertaining because that's the most entertaining thing about wrestling in today's landscape is show us like real things. And obviously there was some animosity was seeing Punk coming back, and I'm pretty sure you know they're pros and they worked it out, but these two were very visible and

you could take real heat from that. When it comes to Seth Rollins and Drew McIntyre, so I think I think seem Punk wins. I think he moves on to facing Seth and they can kind of do their own thing without a title. I think Drew eventually finds himself back into the world title picture and then I think he'll be fine eventually. But I think this few probably belonged to c him Punk.

their face. And this is a perfect time. So the anti ae W in me says, let's go see Himpunk for this because I know all the internet marks are gonna hate it.

that title from Cody Rhoads. It was awesome. I still think about that time where we met Cody Roads and he came in here and he was hanging with us in the freaking studio and putting us over and we got the hold the belt. That's awesome and all that. But I do think he retains right here. I don't think unfortunately, I don't think this is now. I say that because once again, I don't even know really with this match. I don't know what they can do with it.

There's so many avenues that they can go with so many outside stories being involved. Now do they put the title on Solo? Is this the I mean, they've been really building Solo up for trying to give him a little bit more personality. They added Jacob Fatu to the bloodline. I know a lot of people are just kind of met by this. I've I've heard it called the Wish dot com a bloodline. But I I like everybody involved. I like I like Tongaloa, I like Tomatonga and Jacob Fatu.

Is that we talked about future main ev enters. I think he's in that same vein as bron Breaker. Right now, when you're looking at guys that you absolutely do not want to fuck with, and he's one of them. He is probably the best wrestler out of everybody right now in the Bloodline. Roman excluded, and I know a lot of people were talking about how they were fearful of him overshadowing Solo, But Solo's done a good job ever since he's come in with having some personality just as well,

he's assumed the role of the tribal chief. He's taken shots at Roman reigns. As I've said before, his rivalry of Cody goes back a couple of years ago when Cody rohad says you're not ready, and now Solo's kind of on his own run. Uh, I don't no. So you have one Friday Night SmackDown. If you're hearing this, we haven't recorded before Friday Night SmackDown. But the two tag teams tongaloa Toma Tonga are going to be fighting for I don't know if it's maybe I should look

that up. I'm pretty sure it's. Uh, Tongolo and Toma Tonga are fighting d I Y for the tag titles. Maybe they're wanting to put the titles back on the blood Line but then where does that leave you with with Cody Rhodes, you know, and they've been doing a lot of stories with a lot of foreshadowing with him

and Randy Orton. I'm sure he's seen online, uh, the way people have been pointing out the way Randy Orton when he's in segments with Cody Rhoades, he's kind of I in the title a little bit, and they've dropped some bread cumb crumbs or bread cumbs. They dropped some bread cumb crumbs with with Cody Rhodes and with Randy Orton just kind of side one on them. Maybe maybe

Randy Orton wants that last title run. So I mean, there's so many different avenues you can go when there's who knows the Roman Reigns and we're all we're all talking about Roman Reigns. But Jimmy Uso was eliminated to buy that when they first started the Bloodline thing a blood Line two point zero a couple of months back. So maybe he's the big return. So why don't you tell me who you think is gonna win? I think

I think Cody keeps it right here. I also don't think Roman Reigns returned this Sunday.

you know, blink of an eye. He lost the title match. Him and Bloodline enter the ring, beat down on Cody Roads. Boom boom, boom, beating, kicking, punching, all that stuff. Que Roman Rains music, Boom Roman Rains comes out with Paul Hayman. Paul Hayman's laughing his ass off as Romans storms the the Ring takes out the whole bloodline, all right, boom clears the ring, clears the Ring. That leaves just Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes, right, and there's no love lost

between these two. So I don't think Roman Rains is gonna come back and be some like oh blah blah blah, baby face blah blah blah. I think he's still gonna

be the badass that he is. I think he's just gonna give Cody Roads just like a dismissive, like smirk type look, and he's gonna he's gonna leave the ring, and we leave SummerSlam with Roman reiins that at the top of the ramp, you know, doing his whole little thing, while Cody Rhodes is just looking like I like you just saw a ghost, right, That's how I see it. And then moving forward from there, I you know, I don't think that it's gonna be Cody versus Roman or

anything right off the bat. I don't even know if we get Cody verse Roman again. To be honest with you, I think that, you know, we're gonna lead to a bloodline feud where Roman, you know, brings some guys by his side, probably you know, the USO's and others have been speculated. We'll see how that evolves. Sammy's. Ay, then you go into a bloodline civil war type deal at Survivor series. You know the Rocks the Rock involved with that, and you know, we'll see. I probably that that's probably

where where this goes. Right, the Rock is on Roman side. But then I think you know, either the Rock or Roman turn turns on each other. We get that singles match, no title, just a singles match Rock versus Roman at WrestleMania. All right, that means Cody Roads is still the champion for the foreseeable future until this Randy Orton feud comes to fruition, which maybe that happens around like the Rumble. Maybe that happens with the Rumble and Orton takes the

title off Cody. Okay, stick with me here. John Cena has to be in the picture at some point. In my opinion, it's his it's his career ending year. Right. Maybe Sena wins the Rumble. I don't know if they'll have him win the Rumble, but maybe. All right, then you're leading to Orton versus Sena for the title. Maybe Cody Rhodes as a triple threat. All right, be following me. You got Rock versus Roman at WrestleMania and then maybe Okay, so Cody is technically on Raw right the only reason

he's on SmackDown is because he's the champion right now. Okay, So if he loses the championship, I assume he goes back to Rawdy on SmackDown right now, But the only reason he is is because he's the champion. Right The last time he has been, you know, drafted to a brand, it was Raw, all right, but he won the Rumble, he went after the SmackDown champion. He's now the SmackDown champion. He's on SmackDown. But once he loses that title, maybe he goes back to Raw. Gunther wins the title that

Summer Slam holds it to WrestleMania. Maybe we get Cody versus Gunther ultimate good guy American guy versus you know, German heel badass guy at WrestleMania. So I'm just again just booking for the future, trying to trying to see how this might play out. But if if I'm booking, if I'm behind the scenes. That's kind of my tentative game plan between now Wimania.

made that such a personal thing. And maybe it's just because we went to WrestleMania, we were just more invested in the build up, and I think that that was probably the best build up of any WrestleMania match ever with everything leading up the final Boss Rock was amazing him teaming up with Roman and kind of being like an undisputed force. But you know, they have their things planned out and they do things so well. I keep

saying that they keep dropping the breadcrumbs. But you had that weird off interaction with The Rock and Cody the night after Mania, and they had the Rock hand Cody back something that we still don't know what it is. He mentioned that this isn't going to be the last

time we see each other. I can possibly still even see that being a WrestleMania main event match for Vegas, and I could still see them keeping us on our heels for Rock Versus Roman main event for possibly another year until when they are fully one hundred percent on Netflix. I can see that that, you know, being but I guess that the deal is it's gonna be on Netflix by January anyways, But I could still see in them dragging that out another year of giving us what they

wanted to. We could have had it last year. We could have had it last year, but the Cody cry Babies ruined it. I say that, but I we had We had a great time. It was an amazing main event. Everything everything worked out. But then I'm also still irritated by the continue the continuation of it because Roman still technically has a title. He still has a title rematch clause.

And as much as I've heard people say that the oh, the head of the table means more than the championship, well I like to look on the other side and say, him winning the championship is what made him head of the table. It's what made him and him beating his other cousins Jimmy and Jay and making them fall in line and he was he was you know, bestowed the lay upon him by his dad like that. That was like the capping of it. That wouldn't have happened if

he's not the championship. And he was just so obsessed over having that championship have with the point of having his family members get involved in almost every match and doing everything that they could to retain it, so that having the championship meant so much to Roman Reigns, and especially when they brought out the new title and they went from the two belt thing to the one Roman that was his baby, so you had such a personal feud.

I can't see him necessarily just like overlooking Cody Rhodes, you know, I could see possibly Roman Reigns does come back, and what if he does acknowledge Solo so CoA. What if he does come back and he helps Solo so CoA wins, And then you kind of just have like a slow build to where you know, Roman's like, this is him for the greater good and he wants to keep it in the bloodline, so he could be the one to defeat Solo rather than him have to go

after and chase it. But you still had the opportunity. You still have just the possibilities of Rock versus Roman next year, or Cody versus Roman or Roman Cody three, or you have solo. I don't know what's he here's a fun thing about that though, Even though I just said the whole head of the table isn't as much as a championship thing, WWE's done a masterful job and at least making sure that this feud whatever that they're

involved in, doesn't need the title. So I'm also thinking that this leads eventually to Roman and the Rock next year. Even like I just said earlier before, I could possibly see them pushing it till next year. But I think this is where we finally lead to Roman versus a Rock. I think the Rock maybe shows up. I'm still not even sure on that, but our friend Vigilanti talks to me to shout him out right now, was talking to him and he's kind of got me full on convinced

that Jimmy's gonna do the return at Summer Slam. Maybe he gets beat down. Maybe that's what opens up to Roman coming back. But also heard on another podcast like I hope when Roman comes back it's like a standalone thing. You get his you get his entrance, and you just

get the holy crap, he's back. So if you have another red hot babyface in there, like Cody Rhoades, I feel like that sort of takes away from him because Roman Rings, I think is obviously gonna come back as a babyface, and I think if he comes back in the same ring as Cody, they're both kind of sharing the babyface moment, and I think it should be Roman all along to be the only baby face in the Rings. So whether he shows up on a raw or SmackDown,

that's where I think he comes in. I'm not necessarily one hundred percent sure that he comes back on Summer Slam. I think it's gonna be Jimmy, just kind of like last year Jimmy came back and stopped Jay from winning the Tribal Chief Head of the Table. What was it called the Tribal Combat match. Yeah, he stopped them from winning that. So maybe it's two years in a row that they do that. I think Roman probably, Roman definitely

needs come back sooner, sooner than later. And maybe it's maybe it's solo winning this weekend and he comes out. He has a coordination. Now everyone acknowledged me, and that's where Roman Reigns comes back. I just don't want Roman Rains to come back in a convoluted there's heels, baby faces in the rings several. It should just be him and solo when he comes back, But I say, Cody still wins it.

You had the heat between three guys and Seth kind of just interjects himself just because he's a main guy. He's been there for a while and they had nothing to do with him after you know, they had nothing to do with him, and then now Set's kind of doing the same thing. He's kind of taking the heat away I think a little bit from Drew McIntyre and see him punk. So the last couple of pay per view seem punk is are the Seth Rollins kind of

been thrusted into things. So I don't know, I just maybe feel that that first night of WrestleMania, now looking back at it, if you wanted to do Rock versus Cody at any point, maybe you should have had that the first the first match of WrestleMania instead of the tag match. But you know, I'm still happy with what played out. I still had a good time, and at the end of the day, it's still all cinema. They've done a great job. I could sit here and pick

apart at all that I want. I'm not any movie critic, we are not wrestling journalists that if that's not us, we do not claim to have the inside information, and if anything, were critics. Just like everyone else, we sit and talk about the acting job, what the story job was.

We can literally care less of the outside politics that come through it and some of the some of the matches, because really all I care about is the entrances, maybe the first minute and that final five minutes, for the close, the whole thirty minutes in between that I'm sure most of these matches are going to be, and how most of the matches have been under triple H. I really don't care about. I just want to see the entrances.

I want to see how big of a star you are, how this starts off with the heat, and I want to see the final five minutes of the match. How do they conclude this? But maybe that's just my eighty HD talking.

biggest pay per view. Like, I mean, that's cool on paper, but it like it doesn't really, it doesn't resonate with the guy like me and we also, I mean, we're marks, but we look at a little bit more casually because wrestling doesn't surround our lives like some people.

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You know, I can't believe summer is already over, dude. This is like one of the shortest time. It seems like literally not that long ago, we're both freezing our ass off in Philly and now we're literally into football season.

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