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to WrestleTalk.com forward slash support, where you let every single one over five US dollars. But yes, our starting discussion... Discussion point is what opened last night's episode of Raw, and that is John Cena's second heel promo. Yeah, so here's my first bit positive I'd like to bring about this promo, which I thought was another very good promo from John Cena in this heel, guys. But my big number one positive, it is now canon in WWE that the spinner belt is bad.
It's official. That is now official WWE canon. It's a bad belt. But he said it was his greatest idea. And he's the baddie. Yeah. And one of his whole goals for turning heel. is because of the spinner belt. Yeah, it was weird that it all hooked onto that, but I thought the promo itself was fantastic. I personally...
I got more from this promo than I did the one in Belgium last week. Me too. And my reason for that being why, insofar as... i was concerned at first that we were in a bit of control c control v territory because the show opened the exact same way that last week's did which is it's the drone shots of the look how many thousands of people there are sold out it's europe
beat john cena comes out and he does he he does another you people promo and i was like oh no we're just getting another up and i was like and i know cody roads is going to come out in a bit which is what they did last week But he actually weaved that you people promo into being. And that is my motivation to go for number 17. And I was funny. I was talking to Laurie and two of our weditors. Weditors. It's because one of our weditors.
i did it again one of our editors is called wes weseter so editor wes and editor adam and i was talking to them about it and they weren't overly keen on this promo and that's because like well he hasn't brought up the rock yet
And I was like, but I think that's what we're, you can't just do all of that in one go. As I was saying last week, you can't do all of this in one promo. So last week was, here is why I turned heel, you people. Second week is, and here is why I'm going for the title. Week three, next.
week, which I think is John Cena's last show before WrestleMania. Is it really? I don't know if he's advertised for the shows after that, is Why I Sold My Soul. And that's actually a really nice way to space these out. I agree. I think that is really nice. It's a good drip feeding of information. You don't want to give all the answers right away. That's good cliffhanger mystery storytelling for a soap opera structure.
But I don't think Cody Rhodes' side stands up to that because there's no reason why Cody shouldn't come out and say what we as the audience want to say, which is...
Why have you sided with The Rock? What happened there? How do those goals align? You all like some big evil Hollywood trio now? Why was Travis Scott there? Was he smoking weed indoors? And Cody Rhodes should be the person who's angry about... this and who's saying these things like yeah but what what about the rock are you going to tell us about that or do we not deserve
that answers for anything because it's all about John Cena now. Travis Scott, he busted my eardrum. You've brought that reckless guy into this ring because you're all megastars, you think you're better than us. Sort of saying that sort of stuff, but Cody isn't. He's interrupting these promos, and I did love to see this promo, and we'll come back to that, but I've gone down this Cody rage route now. He comes out, and he's smiling. And he's high-fiving fans. He has been very pre-2015 John Cena.
yeah laurie blake made this point in the office before i came downstairs he was like i don't i can't buy into cody roads at the moment because i don't think he feels that angry about this situation because on both weeks now he's come out has not attacked john cena and is doing his full entrance and high-fiving fans and it doesn't feel like there's any sense of
urgency to him in what is going to be one of the biggest matches of his career at WrestleMania 41. He has this line when he comes out once he's interrupted Cena and he says... The mistake you made wasn't what happened at Elimination Chamber. The mistake you made was saying what you just said about the WWE Championship while I'm in the building. I heard him say that. I was like...
What? No, you absolutely should be saying what John did at Elimination Chamber was a mistake. Feels like you undermine one of the greatest wrestling angles of all time. Imagine if... I don't know, after the NWO formed a bash at the beach in 96, I mean, this probably is what happened because Nitro... Had very bad quality control. It was good in 1996 and 1997. But if someone came out afterwards and said, yeah, but the real problem is what you spray painting the belt.
i don't know maybe that does work but i think the difference is and this is actually very rock and you can almost feel his fingerprints on this a little bit and you know maybe this is just because we're currently re-watching this for our current um series that we're doing looking at the rock and john seen a feud from 2011 through to 2013.
is this feels very much like that which is that the rock was for the people and john cena didn't represent the people and cm punk didn't represent the people and all these people i am one of the millions i am one of the millions of the rocks fans And that's what Cody is doing here. Because Cody is talking about, your problem is what you've said about all of us.
about the people. So Cody is the rock in his people's champion guise and Cena is just you people promo bad guy. But also I think Cody is also very much John Cena. Old John Cena, where John Cena, like, he'd have awful things happen to him. He'd lose the belt. He'd come out on Raw the next night, smiles, does his little goofy...
sign off to the guy behind the camera. Because part of going to a WWE show is being part of the entrances. So you have to give people the entrances so they feel like that their ticket money they spent was worth it because they were able to be part of it. of doing a big whoa or singing Seth Rollins' song. Well, don't do that here. Do that in the dark match. Have him have a dark match segment, make him come out, do the full song, send the people home happy that way on the mic. But here...
Have them a bit more serious. Let's go back into what Cena said specifically, because I thought this was a really well-structured promo. Last week's promo in Belgium was really good. It was cathartic. It was in the making for 15, 20 years, and you just wanted to have... a lot of pauses for the crowd to give him heat. But this was the promo with the content where he talks about how, hey, all these years you've booed me and done this and that. I've learned.
who you are i know more about you than you know about yourselves you know that's an easy thing for any heel to say but then cena proved it oh so great because he starts going into this This monologue bit about I do this and you feel this. I do this and you feel this. And people start to give him the what treatment. And then Cena says, I speak with this cadence and you say what?
It was masterful. It was so great. It was just like taking every single Scottish person in the crowd there and leading them down this garden path and clotheslining them. And the second he dropped that, you felt this collective like...
what oh and totally shut the what chant down he got us yeah and it's like so one of the things i loved about last week's promo is the reactions to that from you know people like us or actually you know people who are john cena fans is that Yeah, he really called out every single one of us.
and was right about everything that he said. And it had the same thing here. It was just like, I come out here and do this, and the only thing you ever respond with is with profanity. It's like, this is why you're the bad people, and I'm the good person in all of this. not turned heel I'm a human being but the thing the shutting down of the what chance by getting them to start what chance
were so, so clever. Yeah, but it adds a lot of credibility to what he's saying because he can say, look, here's an example. I'm going to trick you all right now. I'm going to make you do a thing that you think you want to do. but actually I've made you do, I know you better than you know yourselves. And I know, this is sort of what he then went on to at the end of the promo, which went about 10 minutes, half the time of his promo the previous week. So he got to the meat a lot quicker.
I know you so well that I know the thing you love more than anything is wrestling. So I am going to ruin wrestling for you. I just thought, that is such a goofy, cartoonish, comic book motivation for a bad guy. I'm going to ruin the thing you love? But it works so well. It also ties into... Sorry, I was trying to cut you off there. It ties into...
what everyone used to say about John Cena online during his run of wrestling. Cena ruins wrestling. Cena ruins... Because he's a bad wrestler and he's a bad promo and he's a bad comedy character who we do not accept as a top guy. And, you know, it's not...
people who are now there were kids then are now grown up be like no you can't say that john cena's a bad wrestler because he did this and the others like what but we all watch those matches where he was being carried yeah and like really like in those early years when he was this is ugly duckling of a wwe champion
being clunky in the ring as all get out and then grew into being you know the 2015 US title run this and the other but there was always the feeling like John Cena ruins wrestling so now that's his motivation and that is his character And he ties that in so wonderfully to the most egregious, ugly WWE championship design of all time, the spinner belt.
Which is beautiful because it works in both camps. Those, like you and I, who hated that design and hated that the WWE Championship had become a toy, all of a sudden now we feel like... seen and sort of like being like recognized being like yeah that was bad but the kids who love that belt and defend that design now being told it's an ugly belt and it's now so ugly
I'm a heel and I'm going to bring it back as a heel thing. Oh, do you think you've got the impression that he's bringing it back? I think if Cena wins the belt... He brings back the spinner belt. That would sell so many. Well, that's it. So there's part of me that thinks, no, no, no, I'm going to take it back. He doesn't because that is what we want him to do. So he wins this belt.
And it's like, you want me to bring back the spinner belt design? I'm not going to do it because you don't know what you actually want. And that's the heel move is not making it a spinner championship. I don't know. I think there's a lot to be said for John Cena's heel run. when it finally happens as champion, is that he is holding the exact same belt. So we all had all these fantasies about what the heel champion John Cena would look like when he actually just goes for the exact same 2011.
Look. Which proves that he was a heel all along. But the reason I don't think that's going to happen is because I thought the spinner belt was more just a setup for him to say, and that's... when I realized what would hurt you most. Because you love wrestling so much. The WWE Championship is the most prestigious thing because, you know, that's how you reacted when I made it the spinner belt, which was...
my greatest ever idea. I'm going to ruin that for you by beating Ric Flair's record, so I'm scrubbing his name from the record books. I think that'll upset too many people. And... that I'm taking it home with me. Yeah. I'm going to retire with this belt and everyone else who comes after me will have a toy belt like you accused me of having all those years ago. Because I'm going to take the real, I'm going to be the last. real champion of this company which i love i think that is beautiful
bad guy motivation to lead us throughout the rest of the year, which I absolutely adore. The thing with the spinner belt is if he does bring it back, and the reason why I would suggest not bringing it back, nostalgia is a hell of a drug. And there might be kids who liked that design that might then start cheering it because it's the belt of their childhoods. I think right now everyone's in a place where they want...
to boo John Cena. Back in the day, we booed him because we did not like WWE or him as an actual product. But now I think more people are on board with playing their part in the show. That's fair. This is a Scottish crowd. That's a smart audience. A hostile audience, traditionally. And they were perfect here. Be interesting to see how London behaves.
Yeah, I'm curious about that. Because, you know, we're going to be there and we're going to go into business for ourselves. We love you, John Cena. You're the best. Yeah, spin a bell. No, the product's good now. Boo, Cody, boo. We're going to go and enjoy the show. Everyone's going to have fun. No, you're absolutely right, and we made this point last week, is that this crowd, this WWE crowd now, because they like WWE, is willing to be on board and play their... part for the shows.
I still stand by my point. I think nostalgia could make people cheer that belt, but I think you're probably right. There is more of an overwhelming sense of, no, we like this show, so we're going to play along with what they want us to do. I think it's such an objectively horrible belt. I think nostalgia's finally found its match. And people will still boo it. I bet you if we put up a poll... Okay, poll it! I think it'll be 60-40. No to yes.
But I think that is 40% too much. Let's put out the poll. If you could do that, Mod Mother. Do you like the spinner belt? Yes or no, Mod Mother, if you can hear me. Would you cheer the spinner belt? If it came back this year? No, no, no, because I think that's another question. Do you like the spinner? Okay.
Cody comes out. He sort of issues a few challenges, lays down the belt, and he's like, hey, let's do it right now. He loosens his collar. He's ready for a fight, and John Cena looks like he's going to do it, but then he walks away. Boo. And there I am all the time going, just hit him, Cody. Why can't you just hit him? What's wrong with you just hitting him? He's hit you. Yeah, quite badly so.
He hit you with a world title belt. Is Cody not cleared because he's got a busted... No, he's wrestling at house shows, I believe. Yeah. Yeah, he tagged with Punk the other night. Oh, well, I'm... Quite disappointed with Cody's characterisation here, but I'm loving everything Cena's doing. So I might need to look into this. I'm going to have a really busy day, so I can look into it.
I think next week is seen as last date before WrestleMania, which means I think they need to do quite a lot next week. If I'm wrong on that one, then we've still got time to do this. But if next week's is last week... I hope The Rock is going to be at that London show because otherwise we'll have gone through the whole build of WrestleMania with no show with Cena, Cody and The Rock in the ring at the same time when a lot of this storyline is really predicated on that.
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Five US dollars. We'll read out every single one before the end of the show. Jesse Woodworth says, last week Cena broke up with us. This week he threatened to take the dog. Is there no end to this man's cruelty? Cruelty? I mean, it'd be cruel if he brings back that ugly-ass belt. Kevin, after sleeping on it, which is crazy to say as an EU fam.
Not a fan of the EU, but a European fan. I like Cena and Cody's segment even more. John's heel turn wasn't against Cody, but the fans, who John is roasting every week, which would explain why John isn't focused on fighting Cody.
now. However, I still think he needs to explain teaming with The Rock and why it was necessary to turn against the crowd, because everything he said, he could have said it without being associated with The Rock. I get Oli's overall point on Cody's lack of anger though. Overall, the Glasgow crowd was good.
but not as hot as the previous ones to hide the very mid-shows we had in this European tour. If we had those shows in the US, they would have sucked. But man, that Jimmy slap is still resonating in the streets of Glasgow. By the way, just to confirm, I think I am right. March 31st is Cena's last date. Last announced date. Last announced date before WrestleMania. So he could always show up. I'd be insane for him not to.
Yeah, Kevin, on those, I agree. Even the really hot Glasgow crowd, there were points in the show during some of the matches where it got a bit awkward. This was the Triple H. midpoint of the six-week run between shows. These shows always happen in Triple H era WWE and it was this Glasgow show that was thankfully carried by quite a good Glasgow crowd.
taking the title home. I can see him escaping over the barricade and blowing a kiss to Punk at some point. Oh my God. Me and Wes and Adam were talking about that in the car ride back from Cineworld today. I think if Cena wins the title at WrestleMania, you do Cena Punk at Money in the Bank. Cena wins, goes over the barricade. Blows a kiss. Punk looking to win the title and save it for the WWE, his favourite company. You might have just booked one of my favourite angles ever. It'd be amazing.
It'd be funny seeing Cena trying to get over that barricade as well. Old teddy bear legs. When Cena did do the fighting pose, I was like, oh, yeah, he is still. There's John Cena. Sorry, back to Cameron. Think Punk's favour will be added in contract to be signed for three-way? Yes, I think so. We'll get on to that. Yep says, visualise this. Cena kayfabe never changes his shirt. Rips, tears, spills.
continues to wear that flag like Vader clinging to the last parts of Anakin left. Who will be Luke? Cody makes sense, but what if it's Punk? Or is that too meta? No, I think Punk is... If Cena wins at Mania, I think Punk is the natural... next person in line for him to face and feud with. I feel like you want to build someone younger for the future. What? What are you talking about? Are you high? No, we're going to do... I said that sincerely.
Who am I going to do? So it's CM Punk. And then probably Randy Orton. And then a few other men. Kazoo, I said this on the edited review, but it's a little ironic that fans hated the spinner belt back in the day, that Cena bringing it back now is a heel move. Very weird how Cena hasn't directly addressed Cody yet, though, and he only has one more appearance.
Well, that one more appearance, as I said, I think next week is going to be the promo where we reveal why he sold his soul, why he joined forces with The Rock. I think the rock might be there because otherwise that means we will go through the whole of WrestleMania without the three of them in the ring. And that will feel, I mean, it might, it feels possible. It feels possible, but it might also add a bit more credence to the, this came together very late in the day. as an idea.
Rafael Garcia. I didn't mind the spinner belt. The first wrestling show I watched getting back into wrestling in 09 was SummerSlam 07, seen at Autumn 1, of many. What I do mind is that you're in Scotland and there's no Drew, no Hendry, and no Drew and... Hendry singing 500 Miles. He's on Smackdown. Yeah.
It did feel like a missed opportunity, though. He's on Smackdown. Wednesday, yeah, because everyone stays on the brands they're given, don't they? Yeah, of course they do. Wednesday, 7383. Try that for their pin number. Can Smackdown's Cody Rhodes sod off back to Friday night?
Take Cena with him. Do your promos there. And then let's remember we have Walter Gunther and he's a world champion. Gunther needs to open night one and squash Jay in 30 seconds, then move on to Punk. Now, if Punk's going to win a world title, he's going to go after a proper world title. Yes. Master Nate, while I do somewhat like the design of the spinner belt, it's not good. The best thing that belt ever did was facilitate The Miz to get an upside-down logo, much like Luke.
I despise that run. Yeah, The Miz turning that around was... Clever. Clever, yeah, that's a word to use, yeah. I also, to your point actually, the Rafael Garcia made there is like, I didn't mind the spinner belt. The first show I watched was in 09. So the spinner belt, that is just the first world title you've seen. I think for people like us, and lots of other fans of our age, we saw nice world titles.
and then saw this gaudy, horrible thing, and then was like, no, that's rubbish. But if that is just the only thing you know, if Star Wars Episode III is the only Star Wars film you've ever seen, you might think that it's a good film. Or that that's the one you watched first, like a baby...
chick, first thing it sees as its mother, or me, first Doctor Who I ever watched was Sylvester McCoy. And to this day, I still rank him way too highly in a subjective list. I should have said episode two, because episode three is at least broadly fine.
Hachi writes, winning the WWE championship at WrestleMania 41, then turning it into a spinner belt will beat his principal about not giving us stuff a week ago. But we'll see. That was Luke's point. And Charles Berg says, I don't think Cena's going to kill R-Truth.
because it's something we probably want. That's devious. Here's a hot take. The US spinner belt was fine. It was. The WWE one was bad. It was too shiny. And only a piece of it spun. Charles Berg for Champion 2025. Jam that jam. I actually will completely agree with Charles.
I didn't mind the US spinner belt. One of the reasons why is that when Cena lost it, it went back to being the proper design. Well, this is the thing. The spinner belt makes total sense as a custom championship for John Cena. The moment he loses it... Turn it back to an old belt. Yeah. For the record, I thought the smoking skull belt wasn't very nice either. But it makes sense for that character. Like Daniel Bryan's wooden eco belt. The hemp belt. The hemp belt.
Total sense for him. If other people then held the belt that wooden belt, that would not make sense. Right, please do keep getting in your chats to wrestletalk.com forward slash support. We'll read out every single one over five US dollars before the end of the show. Back into Raw. The first match was A-Town Under versus Jey Uso and a mystery tag team partner in Glasgow, Scotland. It was Jimmy Uso. So I wrote in my notes last week, oh, that'll be Jimmy Uso.
And then we talked about this on the show, and I was like, oh, actually, no, Joe Hendry makes complete sense. That's why it's a mystery tag partner. That makes so much more sense. I'm really excited about that. I think... they did not expect people to think it was Joe Hendry booking this spot in Glasgow. So it being Jimmy Uso would have been a massive pop. And then, well, the Uso's reuniting.
Well, but they've already done that. They haven't tagged since 2023, isn't it? Yeah, but they have been in multiple trios matches. Well, that's different. This is a tag team match right here, player.
in snarky yes of course yeah good yeah but you know the idea is that jimmy usso comes out and he gets the pop and you get the usos reuniting against a town down under and that'll be the moment but then online and twitter and reddit got a hold of themselves and was like it's gonna be joe henry joe henry was tweeting like hey it could be me uh and then they were like that won him a lot of fans backstage like oh
of course people are going to think it's joe so i thought they very smartly just put jimmy out there yeah so while jay is making his entrance rather than do the pause look back music dip and then put jimmy us up on screen jimmy just runs out next to him because then you don't get the booze yeah because if you do that people are going to think it's joe
And so I thought they actually handled the situation that they did create themselves by accident. Very clever. Yeah. Yeah. So many people were eating. You couldn't hear the. I guess. It makes sense. Yeah, it makes sense. So this was just a standard match. Jimmy got worked over a lot. 1D on Austin Theory for the win. And then Gunther came out, took out Jimmy, and then he starts to fight with J.
just like every other week. But interestingly, Jey Uso sets up for a spear and he does a little stumble when he bursts out the corner. And that lets Gunther get on top of him. Jimmy has to make the save. Now, this was most definitely a planned botch. They're playing off the botch from last week where he did actually botch a dive to the outside and hit his head on the apron. And they're trying to tie this into the larger story that Jay isn't ready for Gunther.
Yeah, can we talk about the backstage segments? Yeah, yeah, let's skip ahead. So later on, Jimmy and Jay are sitting down on some stairs backstage and Jimmy's like, if you keep screwing up like your botched dive last week and the spear bit there. You'll become a joke. You won't win at WrestleMania. This Jay can't beat Gunther. Yeah, because Jay says, I don't think I can beat him. And Jimmy's like, yeah, you can't.
this version of jay can't what we need is the right hand man main event jayuso the man who won the royal rumble he can beat uh gunther um there's only one major problem with this he stood tall last week Am I supposed to have forgotten that happened? Yes. Because I saw him beat up Gunther last week and embarrass Gunther and stand tall and pose with the world title. So he knows that he can do this. He literally did it seven days ago. Luke, swear jar. Well, that's because, like, I feel like...
This is proper Vince-era WWE, where they are trying to make you forget things that you saw with your own eyes by just doing doublespeak and telling you that that thing didn't happen. Well, maybe it did happen, but then he had to slip. But he slipped before that. The botched eye was on to a town down under. And then he stood tall over Gunther. Yeah, but then he slipped here. So, fine. But he still... But then you can't be like, I don't think I could be Gunther. I literally saw you do it, mate.
I literally saw you stand tall over him. And I've actually seen you get out of the one move that he seemed to have your number on because you couldn't get out the saber hold. Then you got out of it. So I think you're fine, mate. I think this is a classic case of taking three months to tell a four-week-long story. So that means you do like, ah.
We need more. They have massively overcooked this pudding. And it also means that you get silly bits in the aftermath of this where Jimmy is right there on the stairs and he's like, well...
I'll see you later. He walks round the corner, which is just a thin wall dividing the staircase from another corridor, and Gunther... is right there yeah proper um smackdown 3 on the ps2 just running around backstage and seeing wrestlers just standing stock still and yeah you could have like facing a wall with nothing on waiting to be activated by the the computer and yet so just to me i'm like say gunther's just
Walking around backstage, listening to conversations, that's not the ring general. This staging was hilariously rubbish. But Jimmy got in his face and said, I'm going to challenge you to a match next week. week slapped him across the face in a really stiff slap yeah and then Gunther somehow does not go oh he just smiles so hopefully we will get a bit of drama and emotion next week because Gunther can
hopefully, really horribly beat up Jimmy, and Jay is somehow restrained and has to watch. Hot take. The build for Jimmy versus Gunther has been better than Jay versus Gunther. Well, it is, yeah. Yeah, none of this is working for me at the moment. I hope they do a really good angle next week because I think this storyline needs a good angle. And I want to preface this again before people come after me.
I have said time and time again, the story they have got here is a good story. The story that Jey Uso, despite winning the Royal Rumble, cannot beat Gunther because he's 0-3 against him, despite the fact that Jey, in that promo, said he's 3-0. and oh against him. And Michael Cole had to correct him on coverage, but he's actually going through against him. He's even botching promos. So the story is there and they've just told it.
really badly. This idea that I would love it if they really focused in on the fact that Michael Cole doesn't even think that Jay can do it. And Pat McAfee has got his reservations. Like, I love Jay, but I don't think he can beat Gunther. Gunther's this unstoppable monster. And I don't think Jey Uso has got this in him to do it. But they've chosen at every single turn to not tell that story, but claim that they are.
After that, we got the Judgment Day clubhouse where they're sort of hyping up Raquel Rodriguez and Dom is talking to Liv and Liv's like, hey. go and talk to Penta about joining Judgment Day. Finn didn't want me to be a part of Judgment Day, but I'm in it now and it's great. Yeah. Which is sort of your long, night-long narrative, which would pay off in the main event. We then got... A hype video for El Grande Americano.
The Great American, that translates to in English, or American, maybe. You can just rename everything now. And it's sort of this video package. It's got a very sepia tone to it. It's loads of AI-generated images. only way you can find footage of El Grande Americano because it's all in the olden times. Yeah, yeah. So they tell this with a voiceover guy of like that El Grande Americano was a legend back in his day with the likes of this person.
that person but then he just disappeared and uh yeah they they bill him from the gulf of america which is of course very i mean i find that a very funny political joke well it is a very good political joke to make but it has this whole gimmick has been, I don't know how divisive it is. Some people have understandably been offended by it because this is offensive or borderline offensive comedy.
Oh, because they say he's from the Gulf of America. Yeah, the Gulf of America. Right. That he is a... I guess you could... I don't see it this way, but you could look at this and say... they're making fun of Mexicans and Mexican wrestling and Mexican heritage. Oh, I didn't think they were. I mean, I totally could see why people would see it that way. And people have. But I can't remember the name of the...
But it's a good lucha website that has taken against this. The lucha blog? No, I don't think so. I can't remember. But anyway. I think it's quite obvious that Chad Gable the character is the heel here. not the promotion. And I do think WWE are going out of their way to make that evident. So you have, first off, for me, I saw people criticise AI images being used. I'm like, yeah, but if the character of Chad gets...
He would use AI stuff here. The Gulf of America thing, like that makes sense for America made Chad Gable. And then when they go back from that video package to Adam Pearce's office, Adam Pearce is like, what the hell was that? That's awful. You've got Rey Mysterio and Dragon Lee there saying, what the hell? That's awful. We know it's Chad Gable. Like, no one is justifying this like you would get in the old days where WWE, as a promotion, the commentators, other wrestlers.
They would laugh at the joke like that. They would laugh with the joke rather than at the joke. The joke here is Chad Gable. Yeah, that's where I think that I side with you on this one. Everyone is pointing out on the good guy side of things, that is Chad Gable and what is going on here. Because Adam Pearce is like, apparently he's now on the Raw roster. Apparently he's like, we've signed to the Raw roster.
How does he not know in kayfabe? Well, I think Adam Pearce's character at the moment is that he's losing control. Yes. Because later on, when he makes Bianca Belair the special guest referee, Michael Cole says Adam Pearce has lost his mind. That's been going on for a while. You know, the whole, I need a drink.
Adam Pearce. Well, so is the split of eight hound down. Sometimes these stories take a long time to tell in Triple H World. But I think, yeah, they are very much saying on TV, he is the bad guy in here and we should not take this seriously.
So yeah, so maybe I could be wrong on this one and I'm perfectly willing to accept that I am. I don't think there's wrong and right. I just think there's different opinions. Yeah, and if you want to disagree with that, that's absolutely fine with me. My personal take on this is that I...
I just think this is a bit of silliness. Yeah. But, you know, maybe I'm seeing it differently. But anyway, what happens is that... chad gable then walks in and in a very edging christian way he's like i'm sick i can't wrestle now and he's like well what here's an idea why didn't you face el grande uh el grande americano because it was supposed to be
Dragon Lee versus Chad Gable. And Lee's like, yeah, all right. Yeah, we'll do this match. And then Rey Mysterio calls Chad Gable a jackass as he leaves. Really good. Really, really good. Funny. And I have got... A pitch later on. Yes. I've got a pitch for you all later on. Lyra Valkyria then beat Raquel Rodriguez. Liv Morgan tried to interfere, but Lyra just rolled up Raquel.
I literally have no other notes. Oh, I've got no other notes. Morgan put Raquel's foot on the ropes right in front of the referee, and the referee did nothing about it. Afterwards, Judgment Day starts to beat down Lyra. Bayley runs down for the save.
I guess that's an intercontinental title thing for Mania. No, I think this is going to be Bayley and Lyra tagging together to go against Levin Raquel for the tag titles. Oh, for the tag titles, potentially. Maybe with Nia Jax and Candice LeRae and, oh, let's just... say Miz. Nikki Cross and Alexa Bliss. Yeah. Pat McAfee got his own kilt made. I then wrote here, they've announced another European tour at the exact same time as Forbidden Dorf.
for aw but apparently that was announced the week before yeah they announced this last week because it's around clash in paris um yeah one of the dates is on the same day it's in newcastle it's the same day as forbidden door and then there's like four other shows around forbidden door dates
in Liverpool, Leeds and Cardiff, I think. Yeah, that was always the plan, though, in the works for a while. Then we got Jimmy and Jay on the stairs with Gunther waiting around the corner. I will say the Jimmy slap has...
absolutely saved this segment because no one is talking about how goofy it is. Because also, from the staging perspective of it, if you haven't seen this, Jimmy and Jay are sat on the stairs. Jimmy is looking over in this direction as if he has seen Gunther. He's like, over there.
But then he walks around the stairs where he couldn't have seen that Gunther was there. So maybe did he see Gunther walk past? In which case, if he did, why didn't Jay spot that Gunther was walking past? Yeah, or it's one of those mirrors that you get when you reverse round corners.
The women's title match segment was next. Adam Pearce was in the ring and he confirmed that Rhea is not in the Mania match, even though she signed her name on the contract. That's not how contracts work. Io interrupts. EO, I love EO. I'm so happy she's champion. I think she says I am the women's world champion too much. Well, it's because that is her gimmick.
Because everyone keeps forgetting, in kayfabe, she's not being treated as the women's world champion, particularly Bianca Belair and Rhea Ripley, because they're so focused on each other. So she is just reminding everyone and reaffirming. I should be the focus here. I'm the women's world champion. I think it comes off a bit desperate. Belair comes out next and says this isn't fair. Rhea didn't win the Rumble. She hasn't earned the match because Piers was also talking that Rhea has a rematch.
When was that? I thought we got rid of that. No, that was a 2019 Baron Corbin idea. We brought them back now. We didn't announce that we brought them back, but the antiquated rematch clause has been back for a while. And it won't be consistent. We'll use it when it suits a story that we can't figure out. So then Rhea comes out again, and Bianca and Rhea are getting into each other. They pie-face Io again. And then...
Pia says, actually, Rhea, you get your rematch next week against Io Sky. And then the backstage bit later, Bel Air gets added as the special guest referee. Bit of fun, that, mate. I like that as a dynamic. Me too. And that is a good way for us to get into... Because I thought, like...
Okay, this has got DQ written all over it next week. But with Bianca Belair in there, I think it's just got a different finish. Maybe like a non-finish of just like, she just lays out both of them. And then Adam Pearce is like... Now it's a three-way, and that's official. Or maybe, because I don't think... I think Io should always beat Rhea. Yeah.
Bianca just helps EO win Rhea, like help retain the title. Then they went into a... I liked last week because it felt a bit wild. This week felt like, oh, I'll wait for you to do your spot. And it was a bit choreographed. I mean, this felt a lot like the other three-way match we're getting at WrestleMania in the Roman Reigns-Seth Rollins-Punk segment from SmackDown, which was just the rotating, and now it's your turn to come out, the conveyor belt promo.
segments. Dom goes to see Penta backstage, offering him a spot in Judgment Day. Hey! That could help you win the Intercontinental title in the main event. You're good, but you could be better. Then the New Day go up to Pierce backstage. They want a tag title match at Mania.
And then they immediately get interrupted by Belair for that segment to continue. Yeah, well, Pearce told them to like, I'm not quite sure what Pearce told them to do, but I don't think they're getting their tag title match just yet. Can I... Oh, no, I'll give you my pitch now. Now we've got into the next match. El Grande Americano.
The legend, newly signed, then took on Dragon Lee. He's billed from the Gulf of America during the introduction. It's so obviously Chad Gable. What? You keep saying this, but I saw the two of them. I know, I know.
But it's his physique. It's so clearly. And then he goes, Gracias! And it's his voice. I love how... obvious they're making this but doing just enough to make it that no one can officially confirm it yeah i think if you just think about the conversation earlier i think if you remove the gulf of america bit from this whole act i don't think it gets as much criticism as it currently is yeah maybe i i think that is where it
I think making it from the Gulf of America makes it a political joke, whereas previously it was just wacky Chad Gable-ness. Now it is a political thing. That is an explicitly political joke. Yes, of course, yeah. Can I have my weekly grievances about Pat McAfee?
sure yeah because Pat was back on commentary for this show and I think it's been pretty well established that I'm not a big Pat fan I find his brand of commentary quite annoying and I find his presence quite irritating but he's got a kilt this week but I also think he's bad at his job
Because what this act needs is a heel commentator who... just refuses to accept that it's chad gable and everyone else knows that it is like if this was jerry the king lawler lawler would be he would have so many things to say about how and so many points to prove that's not chad gable but Matt McAfee, Cole says like, oh, I googled him.
And no results came up. Pac-Man was like, well, maybe he wrestled underground and you just didn't hear about it. There was a whole video package earlier in the night that said he wrestled in front of thousands of people. So he's not paying attention there. But the killer one for me is... There's a moment in this match where Dragon Lee is trying to rip off the mask of El Grande Americano, and Pat's not picking up on...
that's the spot where you should be like, how disrespectful of this Luchador, trying to rip off the Luchador mask. Particularly as well, because it plays into the finish of this match. And I think it is because Pat doesn't... know if he's supposed to be a heel commentator or if he's not he kind of plays both sides but what this act needs is a heel commentator to pick up on those moments
The match itself, though, was really, really good. Really great. It was just loads of cool spots. So explode a suplex off the apron. Dragon Lee hits a stomp off the top turnbuckle. onto Chad draped off outside. It's like, it's exactly how Kurt Angle used to wrestle, where you could give him a comedy gimmick, but the in-ring would be really serious, and neither clashed with each other tonally.
So really good stuff. And Grande pulled Lee's mask off in the end and then got in the ankle lock to win. Yeah. And the Coles there would be like, he's even using Chad Gable's ankle lock, you know, and Kurt Angle before him. And Pat McAfee and one of them, maybe you learned it from Ken Shamrock. Then we've got CM Punk. He comes out after loads of advertisements for CM Punk on Stephanie's Places.
The audible groan that I had in the office when I was watching this bit. And he's just sat there just laughing away and talking about how much they hear him. Triple H, they're just so alike these days. God, they really do just get on now. Also, just the title. Stephanie's Places. What does it mean, though? You know, places that she's been. She's going to... Is the interview with Punk at... the same venue where he made his Survivor Series return? If so, why is that Stephanie's place?
I mean, what this is, is this is WWE trying to squash Chris Van Vliet. In the same way that they now have their own post-show Raw podcast. And live reactions. And live reactions to try and squash people like us and Fightful and going. and raw and stuff um it's just there you know that's how monopolies work is the why have competition when you could just listen to all of our stuff and just listen to all the things that we want you to hear uh i i get
I'm getting a bit of With Love Megan vibes from it. I have seen a bit of that show because my wife was watching it. Hate watching it, I believe is the term. I don't think she was hate watching it. I think it's just that my wife, because she works from home and Netflix is just on. I think... pretty much she's completed netflix and so when you've completed netflix you just have more things to watch
um and so she watched it and she did watch a few episodes she was like it's not a good show and it's like it's so awfully forced and fake um so i watched five more episodes of it and it's it's it never gets unforced and unfake It's not her house. That's what my wife said. It's like, it's not even her house. Just lie about it. Don't tell me that in the first couple of minutes. How you love hosting people and everything like that. But this isn't my house, by the way.
Don't want to show you where my house is. Anyway, it's obviously a big thing with Meghan Markle. She's trying to reinvent herself as this... Life influencer. Who makes pasta dishes. That's the one thing I saw her do. She made a pasta dish, which actually looked all right. It looked all right, yeah. Yeah, some kind of trad wife thing.
It's like Stephanie McMahon is now trying to reinvent her post-WWE corporate self into, hey, I'm a personality and I love chatting with people. I'm an interviewer. I'm an interviewer now. And I will have a podcast and I will get... performance level things out of people in my discussions with them. Yeah. I'm actually now looking forward to watching it. There was a line, and this is just to show you how fake and phony this show is.
And I think that Phil Brooks probably knows all of this because Punk has a line in this preview where it's like, you know, I don't know what the reaction was going to be like. Do people even still remember me? Are you high? Are you mad? Yeah, people just... I just forgot who CM Punk was. Two months after you were fired from the other major company in wrestling. I don't know if people are going to remember who I was when I went out there in Chicago.
I forgot it was in Chicago. Anyway, Punk comes out to cut a promo now that the three-way for WrestleMania is official. It's Seth versus Roman versus him. And he said that he's not getting what he wanted. a main event of WrestleMania, that's what's implied, or will he? And I was like, what do you mean by that? So either this is going to be the main event of one of the nights. So, yeah, so that is...
I think this is going to tie into the favor. Because he said the contract signing is next week. They had to also put Punk in the position they put Rollins in last week. They were like, hey, the cool thing with all the characters is not on this show. But if you watch...
from home, you can see it. So we did get booed and Punk was like, yeah, you should boo this because I wished it was here as well. Yeah, well, what do you like, Glaswegians? Do you like London? Because that's where this show will be. But yeah, it was handled, Punk handled it way better than Seth. I would agree. But he's going to look over the contract to make sure it has got what he wants in there. If it is, if the favor is just, I get to main event WrestleMania, that is lame.
And how does Paul have that sway? I don't know, but that is lame. Yeah. But if it is that the winner gets inserted into the scene of Roadmage on Night 2, then maybe...
That would be quite cool. And it gives it stakes, which might then should be the main event of the show. Hot damn, Luke. I'd never thought of that. That's an awesome idea. Here's my other caveat to it. And I thought of a way to... add another level to this it's only in punk's contracts for a stipulation just for him oh so it's a three-way and it's the main event
If Punk wins, he gets made and puts into the following night's match. But it doesn't apply to Seth and Roman. That's a fantastic idea. You haven't told us your other fantastic idea about El Grande Americano. Here's my pitch for WrestleMania. A tag team match. of the LWO versus El Grande Americano and Chad Gable. Brilliant. And he does both of them. My next step onto that is Chad's on his own. It's like, oh, El Grande's not here. He then at one point slides under the ring.
El Grande Americana comes out the other side and it was like, oh, it is Chad Gable. Then at the end, they do a double team move and both of them were under the ring and it is just someone else in the El Grande gear. And it's like, see, I told you it wasn't me all along. It's brilliant. I love it so much.
Anyway, back to Punk. He also says, the more things change, the more they stay the same. I work with children, which was a shot at AEW and the Young Bucks and Hangman Page. It doesn't have run through his head, though. It doesn't live rent free. No, no, no. And yeah, then he talks about going to SmackDown. He was the person who brought both Seth and Roman into WWE and he'll be the one to take them out. Much like the promo from SmackDown.
which i thought was i think was some good promo stuff in there but it was like you know the It's your entree. It's not like the main cause we can really dive into this. Really what it was there was just so they could have shots for the video package where everyone points at the song. Which I thought was clunky. But the same as it was on Smackdown and here, the most interesting part of this storyline is Punk's relationship with Heyman. Yeah.
And he had that moment where it was like, Roman is realizing in real time that his wise man is not just his wise man. and that and like punk had the moment of smack then it was like thank you paul for uh getting roman roman turning all of that interesting stuff is there and seth is also here After that, we got Logan Poole in an Instagram clip saying he'll be in London's Raw next week. So we'll get to see Logan Poole. Yeah.
Logan Paul and AJ Styles have set up their WrestleMania match. And Cathy then interviews Bron Breaker outside the arena, and he says he's going to beat Penta, Judgment Day interference or not, because the dogs are barking in Glasgow. And then we had our main event, which was... Brombreaker versus Penta. So two Intercontinental title matches in two weeks as the main event. And these two just had cool moves. They could only do...
cool moves. Sure could. Frankensteiner, Canadian Destroyer. That leaping clothesline over the announce desk. Everything looked awesome. It's like the old Paul Heyman, big move, big move, big move. template, but there it's finisher, signature, finisher, signature. This just felt like they had loaded up their creator wrestlers with all the best strong grapple moves. I loved it. Judgment Day starts to walk down near the end. It's Dom and...
Carlito. Dom distracts the referee while Carlito stops a Bron spear. Bron throws Carlito out. Anyway, referee sees this and doesn't DQ it, but he does DQ it when Dom chop blocks Bron, which the referee sees. It's a DQ. finish. Finn appears to beat up Bron with a chair. Finn looks like he's going to hit Dominic too, but he gives him the chair instead. Dominic goes to give Penta the chair, much to Finn's frustration, and Penta kicks it into his face. But Judgment Day end up standing tall.
Yeah, and Finn was annoyed at Dom. Like when Dom was handing Penta the chair to join the Judgment Day, Finn's like, what are you doing? What are you doing? And then when Penta superkicks the chair into Dom's face, Finn's like... Well, yeah, of course. Of course that was going to happen. I now need to step up and handle Judgment Day business again. I think this was a really fun match. It's one that had DQ written all over it from the very get-go, so I couldn't fully get invested in it.
but the idea of doing a four-way at Mania, which is the reported plan of it's Penta, Bron, Finn, and Dom.
i i love because i think there's multiple ways you can go out of that which is the interesting directions dom getting the win i think is probably the most interesting one so dom having a title and finn not pence are winning you know it's because you know you get a big win on the big stage and bron retaining and just continuing this run with the ic belts like there are some really good options in there apart from finn winning but there are some you know good options in there
And there's also, maybe after WrestleMania, you have a trios match of Judgment Day, Finn, Dom and Carlito versus Bron, Penta and... El Grande Americano. Yes, exactly. Ray Phoenix, of course, debut in Ray Phoenix. Overall, pretty lacklustre show, if I'm honest. I thought it was one of the weaker episodes of the last six months.
But it had a very good John Cena opening and the old Grande Americano stuff is very fun. Yeah, I said it earlier in the show, but this is in Triple H's sort of booking regime. You just have shows like this. Tony Khan has the exact same problem as well, is that you just get to a point when you're sort of like in the midpoint of the pay-per-view build and you don't want to pull too many triggers. So you end up pulling none. And this was a show where they just pulled no triggers.
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Yes, 55, no, 45. I wasn't far off. Ben Vlerick, I found it absolutely hilarious. I thought it would have been yes in the lower half. I found it absolutely hilarious. Totally laughed my ass off. And Jimmy just ran out. Quick. No, you don't get your own entrance. Run. Before the crowd realises it's not Joe Hendry. To be fair, they handled it the best way you could. Disaster avoided. Now, I'm not even an Uso hater, but damn. Them in a singles match compared to tags.
Yeah, I don't think it was a pretty good tag match. I thought it was... It was a template. It was formulaic. A new L'A Parker. Is it L'A Parker? It's L'A Parker, isn't it? Hope Chad Gable gets healthy soon. Him versus El Grande Americano would be six stars guaranteed. I haven't actually seen any of this stuff with L'A Parker.
I'll be honest, I don't watch a lot of AAA. Unfortunately, it's just not really my cup of tea. Christopher Hines. Disappointed in my fellow Scots last night, they could have been better. This build so far... has given me pre-Mania 31 vibes. Lucha Match and Main Event were great. Also, shout out to Punk for being the only person in the whole show to say Glasgow correctly. Yeah, because how do Americans say it? Glasgow. Glasgow. I always say Glasgow. I thought it sounded like...
Space Viking. I think being a Finn fan is worse than being a Ziggler fan. If Finn doesn't exist, your favourite wrestler today has a very different career. Cody, Omega, even AJ Styles. It hurts. He is just a... He is just a lad. Anonymous. The history of El Grande Americano was not AI generated. I met Grande in the 60s after a lucha basement show, which later became Lucha Underground. He shook my hand so hard I grew a sick finger. He truly is your favourite luchador's... favourite luchador.
Well, there it is. Kings of the Yellow Spill. You know what's funny? I think WWE is more willing to turn Rhea heel than Bianca, and that might be what they are trying to do. Problem is, men want her, and women want to be her, and Triple H doesn't know how to work with that. Look at Lashley. I think turning rear heels would be a mad thing to do. Well, I think she's leaning in that direction. Which I think is a mad thing to do.
I think she could be a badass tweener. She is coming across quite annoying at the moment, for me personally, because there was a moment in there where Adam Pearce was like... she's got a rematch i've been trying to give it to her and she doesn't want it and then ria comes in the ring is like oh screw her i want my rematch i feel like oh so now you want it i'm like
Oh, you'd just sound like a tit there. If you had a rematch, just take the rematch, you knob. A brutality. A brutality. Kenneth Jones writes, this all feels like a build to a regular pay-per-view. Ollie was right about Booker's having a five-year shelf life. That's not my take, that's...
A long, established thing. Triple H is in year three. He may burn out soon. That was actually your prediction for this year, wasn't it? AEW's worst year was Tony Khan's fifth year booking. This idea should be a WrestleTalk Extra video. I don't know how you would do that as a rest talk extra video. Do the fifth year of Gado's booking in New Japan. Some guy writes, hey, hi guys, which triple three...
Threat main events night one. I originally thought women's, but I've changed course. I think Bianca might be getting booed in favour of Io. I don't think they'll want the closing shot of night one being Bianca winning the title and getting booed.
If it's not the women, it's the other triple threat. And I think I'm leaning more towards it being the other triple threat, and that'll be part of the story with the contract signing next week. It's J.U. Salon Gunther. He won the Royal Rumble. If it's not... You know who's retaining his jam that championship and getting 20 quid off of Arlie Davis? This guy.
Some guy writes, hi guys, which triple threat? Oh no, I've just done that one. Ollie writes, honestly, I feel like Punk's favour is going to be that Paul Heyman has to be in his corner at WrestleMania. Oh, that's... That makes more sense, though, in terms of something Heyman can control. Travis Bott. As a kid, I loved the spinner belt, but then Triple H won it and my brain refused to accept that. That was the beginning of the end. I hate the W belt, but loved when Kofi...
brought it back. So bring the spinner belt. So bring back the spinner belt. P.S. Rock's W belt is the worst. It's the one we're actually just about to get to for our review of WrestleMania 29, which will be coming out next month. Merck 1987 writes... With Dom floating around the IC title scene, I hope we get a Dom Mysterio, Houdini of hardcore type run, where the IC scene is full of interweaving feuds that mean Dom keeps escaping with the belt and goes a full year until Dragunov destroys him.
Love that as an idea. That's really good. Space Viking. Heart. So like the show, but the booking around Cody Cena is kind of lazy. Rock is boss. If Cody touches Cena, he gets fired. Security around Cena, etc. I get that professionalism is part of the gimmick, but give a reason why Cody has no issue dropping Miz, but not... good point yeah i like the idea of rock being the boss and putting all this security and lean into that hollywood entourage part of the gimmick
The field team leader. Hey, folks, I'm hoping for a way to somehow get a Punk vs. Champ Cena match as a reverse of their 2011 classic, but now Punk fights to keep the title in the WWE. Also, WWE is missing the money train by not calling L. No, I think they've got the right way because it's not Chad. Yeah, make no sense. But yes, the Money in the Bank 2011 rematch. Love it. Would be awesome.
Texas Goose. Surely the heel move is for him to make us expect the spinner belt, and then he brings back the winged eagle, only to walk away with that. If he brings back the winged eagle, he's getting the most cheers ever. After Owens and Cody tried. Yeah.
Senpai, so if Rhea has a rematch clause, doesn't Roman and everyone else who lost their title get one too? I know it's kayfabe, this goes with what I said last week, that Rhea is being inserted into this instead of giving any other woman a chance.
She should be in the title match. Yeah, but kayfabe-wise, what's the reason? Oh, kayfabe-wise is all over the show. But what I'm saying is like, Roach-senpai's second point is, it just feels like Rhea Ripley's being inserted rather than giving another woman a chance. But Rhea is so over that she... she should be involved in a big match at WrestleMania. I feel like they've got the reason. It's Io. Rhea granted Io the match, title match initially, which she didn't have to. So Io could be like...
well, the Bianca thing, I will add you to this match somehow. I wonder if he just does beat her next week, but still, I think you're right. It should be a year's decision. R.A. Polos. I was hoping this Raw would get me more interested in the non-WWE and Women's Title Mania feuds. It did not.
I do not like that they made Io vs Rhea next week with Bianca as ref. Feels like an unneeded detour to get to our triple threat destination. I agree, but I am going to Raw next week, which means I get to see that match. The last time they had a match, it was really great. I'm quite looking forward to getting to see that match. This is a good idea from JMC. I love this. Do you think in London next week, Cena will say you are absolutely not getting WrestleMania?
Should put on the photo of Sidi Khan with a tiny WWE belt. What was that? We punked you. I genuinely want it. If I can get in touch with Sean Ross Sapp, that's what I want him to find out next. Why... Was that title belt so small? It's that size. It's one of the sizes of the replica belts on a set.
Team Ghost Rider Inc. Pat should have said Lucha Underground as a joke to hype up the match and also give a quick information on El Grande Americano. Could have done. Kuzloc says, not related to last night, but I know Drew is upset with his mania plan. but his promo work to make the Priest feud seem like something has been awesome to watch. Honestly, the stuff they did on SmackDown was like, hey, maybe this isn't just a nothing match at WrestleMania.
Well, he's such a hard worker, he can make magic out of nothing. Graff writes, in two days' time, it'll mark eight years. Since that WrestleTalk show came up in my sub feed. It's been such a crazy ride being here for all of it. Thank you for the memories. O-Dog, Captain Luke and everyone else. Cheers. Here's to eight more. Hashtag team bottom for life. Hashtag.
Pipe bomb greater than maths. I'll graph you had me for a bit, but you've lost me now. A man of taste. And speaking of, finally, Tan Ruzza, all the way from Australia. I've been watching You're Married at First Sight. Cultural export. You have the worst people, Temrisa. The very worst.
Sending love to my favourite guys and hoping you are doing well. I think if Cena brings back the spinner belt, it might be the biggest face move. Bringing in the more interesting looking title with a big W is brilliant. I might be entering the forbidden door. You're going to be back in London. We'll be at the WWE shows. Can't see you. Well, thank you very much, everyone, for joining us here today. The result of our poll is...
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