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Uh, we are here to give our Royal Rumble 2026 predictions. Get your predictions in the comments down below, whether that be on YouTube or on uh Spotify. Apple Podcast doesn't have that functionality, so maybe leave it within your review or your five-star review, leave on. Or just say it really loudly to yourself in the mirror in the bathroom. Yeah. And it might as l loud as you can. Yeah, because it'cause it might find us. Like we have magic mirrors.

So yeah, get your comments in, subscribe wherever you are, QR codes, all that good jazz. Uh and we are gonna go through the four matches announced for this year's Royal Rumble. We'll go through the names announced for the Royal Rumble. Recording. What might happen at this show? Shall what order should we do this in? Should we do Drew versus Sammy first? Sure. Let's do Drew versus Drew McIntyre versus Sammy Zayn for the undisputed WWE Championship.

Drew retention. Yeah, the thing about this show as a whole, I have no idea. And I think to the credit of the company, to have started the year off with a uh A shock title change?

A bowls title change. Um has created a sense of like Oh, all bets are off. Like who knows what's gonna happen as a result of this, you know, then then the the feeding of creative is is Deciding that, well, that doesn't really vibe with us anymore, so let's do some new things makes us go, ooh, sit up and pay attention. Um, I think Drew's a likely winner here.

You might go with Sammy. Like, you know, I don't know. It would it's not out of the realms of possibility that you've got a little transitional championship and then maybe they can have a return programme and and then we go into WrestleMania. I don't know, but I think It's one of those things where like okay we we've Sammy excuse me, Drew has won the bell, and now we need to double down on him. And this is their opportunity to double down on him. Yeah, this to me feels more like

I don't want to say an easy win, but you know what I mean? It's just like this is a good first title defense for him. Yeah. It's against a popular guy. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia absolutely love him. So that makes a lot of sense to put Sammy's aim within this match. This is this is for me is a a pretty easy Drew win. And they couldn't book Mansor for this hometown pop, so not anymore. Uh because they got they got rid of him. That's a shame. I like it.

Do we do one of the oh my there's actually do you know what the the hard thing is is because like there are three really exciting things on this show. Both of them are the Royal Rumbles and also the AJ Gunther match. Let's do that. Oh we're just moving straight on from the sound. Oh, I thought we would talk a little bit more. Well you could talk about all of that if you like. I've I've got nothing else to add onto it.

Uh and I think this is a good first uh championship win retention for Drew. I I'm following your lead, that's fine. Yeah, okay. Cool. I mean like and do wanna like what do you wanna do for you? It's just normally we spend an hour and a half and we're like well this is gonna be a five minute podcast. Well we've got way more things to talk about in the other matches. We do. Uh which is AJ Styles versus Gunther in a career threatening match. If AJ loses, he must retire from WWE.

I am on a coin flip at this point. I don't know. Two weeks ago. Well sorry, I can't even say two weeks ago. Last week when this match was announced. Mm. Twenty twenty six is the final year. We're only one month into it. Like we're not even a full month into it yet. There's still eleven months yes, there's twenty twenty. And then I remembered there well, I don't remember, I then found out there was a report from last September while I was away on holiday, so I completely missed this one.

That is contract is up. uh after the Royal Rumble and uh PW and Sidef reported that AJ informed them that this was gonna be his last date. Shinsuke Nakamura put up that post saying that AJ told him in October last year, I'm gonna retire at the Royal Rumble.

And yet, because uh actually and on top of that, they did the Nakamura match on Saturday night's main events out of the blue, which really sort of felt like a uh well, we should really do this one last time. Let's actually have a good version of this match within WW because we've yet to have one of those. No all the subsequent matches they had after that. Um

And then the punk match on Raw has really made me feel like this is final. This is there's the we're get we're done we've done the two matches left to do. Yeah. And now we've done them. And yet, because it doesn't feel like it's been made a big deal of it doesn't feel like this is the retirement match of AJ Styles. This doesn't feel like this is his final match in WWE. I really don't know where I land. It's really I've been thinking about it all weekend.

Because as I mentioned on the Raw show, there's like a little triangle you've got going on between what we want as fans who are invested in AJ Styles the talent. What WWE want as a promotion specifically? Like how do they promote in order to get people to watch? you know, improved buy rates or or sponsorship deals or whatever and ticket sales. And then what the fa uh what AJ wants as a performer and which of those are So rarely are all three of them aligned at once, I think.

If there's an appetite I I want to say if there's an appetite from the fans of WWE will go down that road, but often sometimes that they've shown in the past that they don't necessarily. They just do their own thing and and hope that we'll come along for the ride. It's really rare that a performer just gets what they want to do and and you know I I I think if AJ Styles is to sit down and look at his tenure in WWE or i really his career

twenty plus however many odd years. Well it was in W C W so nineteen ninety nine it must have been like two thousand one uh two thousand and one I think is when he signed his contract. Yeah, he was in W C W in the dying days. Yeah. So so really that's a a very long and very prolific career multiple times. WWE Champion.

GP champion um to to have had such a splash in Japan after a long run in TNA, to have such a splash in TNA when you know TNA was For for me as someone who was casually in and out with TNA during that period, to really know who AJ Styles was and to make a point of trying to find AJ Styles most. That's a great career. He's, you know, the his title runs in WWE were really good. He's drawn some really good stuff out of some of their top networks.

He had match of the year last year, really, you know, however you w wanna slice it, with John Cena in that retirement run. Certainly one of the fondest matches people will look back on of that. One of my favourite matches of the year. Yeah. If I'm AJ Styles and I'm like, I've made my money, I'm alright. I was planning to do it now. Yeah. I was planning like I'm I've come to terms with it. I'm at peace with this. And I can see that for him. You know, there's not every performer wants to go out

on a stretcher or on the shield or with the big pageantry of John Cena. It's ten years to the show since he came into WWE. Very poetic about it. I can't help but feel like, however oh, and I also try and think about AJ Styles in the context of where he sits as a WWE performer. A legend in the industry, a WWE champion.

But not a John Cena. No. And not even necessarily a Randy Orton. No, he was never the face of the company. Yeah, he might be the face that runs the place, but he's never been, you know, WWE's boy. Yeah. Um so like are they inclined to do the same to give them the same treatment they would give to a uh

A John Cena, maybe we'll see with a Randy Orton, or maybe will he go down the Goldberg route of it of it we're building to this match and then and then that's it. I don't know. I I'm but then again, I can't help but feel that if this is it and A J loses, there's money left on the table. And I think if you're WWE, that's where you go, What can we do? Yeah. I feel so

This part of me the things that this is it. Yeah. Right. And I feel like I've got to try and come to terms with this as well. Like I'm gonna be the edge of my seat during this. I'm gonna be into every single one of these near falls because I don't I'm not ready for this to be over. And I think one of the reasons I am not ready for this to be over is because this has not been made.

Yeah. Like this doesn't I I was fully expecting a full year. Like I was expecting twenty twenty six to be the final year. And it just feels like AJ Styles retirement run has just been something that Michael Cole has reminded us of anytime that AJ has come to the ring, as opposed to being over even within like the end of last year.

That's it, but it's it's all it's very casual. Yes, yes. I guess it's it's you know, during that that John Cena match it's just um uh Cole being like, Oh yeah, and by the way, uh AJ's retiring next year so um we should probably enjoy this while we've got

It doesn't feel like this is a huge thing. But also to your point, do WWE think this is a big deal? In the same way that they clearly didn't see Goldberg's retirement as a big deal because they fobbed him off, you know, with in sort of like his final his final speech. Maybe they don't see this app. as big a deal as some fans, i.e. me, yeah, do. Like I I said in the news um yesterday He is literally the blueprints of today's in-ring style. There is a bunch of guys. There is a group of guys.

Who are the real people, they are the architects, the blueprint for why we have the in-ring style we have today. Yeah. Because while everyone else was doing the same eighties, nineties. Slow, methodical, plodding around the ring, headlocks and rest. AJ Styles, Amazing Red, Christopher Daniels, Air Paris, a lot of these guys were just completely reinventing Brian Danielson, reinventing how wrestling is and have created the modern style.

So I would say he should be given the same thing that like Hiroshitanahashi had in New Japan Pro Wrestling, the same thing that Jucian Thunder likes. And he's not getting that. And that kind of bums me out a little bit, which is why it makes me feel like he's not returning. But also, maybe it is just a case of they don't see him that way. And he's just a gut, you've been here for ten years, you've been a champion, you've had a good run.

Off your part. Yeah. Did I ever see him getting the John Cena pageantry? No, but I I mean I certainly even in like October, I we were here and I was talking about okay, what's on your your WrestleMania card? And I had AJ versus whoever the TNA champion is at the time. Um I think I maybe saw a little run tour.

Summer Slammy or something like that, give him a Saturday night's main event send off, not necessarily build. You know, yeah, something or something I'm coming down on this, is it? It's not like I was expecting him to get a full Saturday night's main event or you know a big WrestleMania thing. A WrestleMania retirement wouldn't.

lovely. Or you know, a Saturday night's main event would have been lovely, but I don't think they're gonna give him that sort of a level. But at least build to him. Yeah. Not just like a two week thing where just sort of like, oh yeah, and there's a retirement match. And then that's like this last week it's just been like, oh yeah.

It could be his final match this coming Saturday. It it's because we have been told twenty twenty six is his final year, it feels like we've not been prepared for it enough that it actually could be coming to an end this Saturday. Two questions. Mm-hmm. If it does, do you think that it's Ada Sales goes off to Georgia, sails off t the ends of the flat Earth. Or does he do little spots in AEW just to

Just to just to finish it off and and have done it. I'm only going by what he has said, which is I want Mm. So that I'm only going by what he has said there that maybe this is just Yeah. Does he go to TNA? I don't know. Uh I think it's a slight benefit to TNA. I don't think it benefits AJ Styles in any way to end his run there. It's like a bit of a homecoming thing, which is, you know, poetic.

Going to AEW, like he's got friends there. The plan was he was supposed to go there in twenty nineteen. That was, you know, that was the the the plan that they had. He was gonna be there on the debut episode of Dynamite. So he and Gallus and Anderson stuck with their didn't work out as well for them, it worked out very well for A.

So maybe you could go and do like a couple of guest spots here and there. But I'm going by what he has said, going by his word, this is it. And he's gonna end his running WWE. So then in that case, if you think this might not be the How do you

have him win and keep Gunther's momentum. That that's gonna be that was gonna be my other point that I wanted to make on this is we're looking at it from the AJ side of things. I think there's a bigger thing actually talk about with Gunther and Gunther cannot lose If Gunther loses this match, you halt all of that momentum from the scene a win. And he's also likely going to be facing Brock Lesnar at rest.

Do you not SummerSlam? Well, no, so yeah, the reported matches at SummerSlam and then they they the reported idea is that he has the match with WrestleMania at WrestleMania, then they do the rematch at Summerslam. Right. That's the career. That's the one where Brock's career is on the line. So in my world Well Brock beats him at WrestleMania and then Gunther gets the rematch with him by

Really gun through and just beat some at WrestleMania and then you do the same thing with the AJ thing. It's like, well if you want a rematch, career put your career on the line. Like I don't see either way one of those is is the wrong way to go about.

Mike Meltzer was writing about this when he was talking about the Nakamura post on Instagram. If you haven't seen this, Nakamura put up a post uh after Saturday's main event. It was an excerpt from his diary where he revealed a conversation he had with AJ during the J Japan tour last He said, Are you retiring? And they just said Yeah. At the Royal Rumble I've already. Meltzer, when he was writing about that in the updates, said it's not a planted story to fool the fans or work the dirt.

Uh that's not to say that plans could change and that they could have AJ win, but that would require Gunther to lose, and that is not Right. And that's the way I sort of look at Gunther as well. Like when we talk about this, it's that it you've got to keep this Gunther momentum going. If you have him lose now, I do think that takes away something from the Cena. If he retires AJ, like off the bat, like you kill two legends in two months.

And you've got this career killer gimmick. If he doesn't win now that ruins that that the career killer gimmick away. 'Cause you can reignise it again, but you'll always have the it's it's the eight it's the J Uso tap out. So so there you go. I'm thinking'cause I I I I the likelihood for me is my pretty

It's just and then goes on and is in the Royal Rumble. But the fact that he's also in the Royal Rumble does make me go, Well, you you're gonna have him eliminated from that? And I guess you can make the argument, well he had a war with AJ Styles, whatever. I wonder if you have AJ win this and then Gunther is so fuming that he comes in the Royal Rumble at thirty and just batters everybody and chops. Yeah. And the asterisk of yeah, you're the curricula and we'll heat it up but you didn't take a

comes back and he takes AJ's again at the end. So like yeah. So the point point on that is sorry, so it's going to is can you get the second amount of heat in a second? That is a good question. And I don't think you can. You don't think you can? I I I won't get the same level of heat you won't get the same level of of of will they won't they and on the second You won't get a will they won't they. But I don't think there was a will they weren't they in the John Cena.

Until the match was taking place. There was a lot of people who thought there was. During the match. Before the match we were all talking about he's gonna go out. Like Melter and Alvarez when they were talking about it were like he lost a um Survivor series, there's no way he's all he's gonna lose his li his

other matches. They're gonna have him lose his last two matches. I never saw him doing anything other than going down on the way out. Neither did I. Yeah. Like I looked at that matches there's only one option here and it's John Cena losing. Yeah. But there were a lot of people who argued that he should win.

There's a lot of people to be wrong. But I think that if you do you won't you won't get the same level of heat. And I and I actually think the same thing with the Brock thing. I think if you do the rematch at SummerSlam, there will be less heat for that match than there will be for the first match. I can see a world in He beats AJ Hill. Goes into the Royal Rumble and eliminates Brock Lesnar.

That sets up the Brock Lesnar match for WrestleMania. Or Brock Lesnar eliminates him, and that sets up the match then for WrestleMania. I like that more. Yeah. Because if you're gonna have someone eliminate Gunther after he's just claimed that victory like it then doesn't feel like you have lost the Royal Rumble match, you were eliminated by Brock Lesnar. Yeah.

'Cause I I don't I can't see him winning the match then also winning the Royal Rumble. No because then like him going against um CM Punk, that doesn't further the the curricular storyline either.

Like that that's that I that's not I don't think that's the right angle to go down. I think actually there's more mileage in doing Bronn versus Punk like coming off the back of the Royal Rumble than there is doing punk versus Gunther coming off the back of the Royal Rumble. Of course there is the world where they decide that the career killer thing was just like We didn't intend to, but there we go. Um AJ wins and Brian.

and you tell the story of, You really aren't the ring general at hell, are you? And that might then undercut it. Yeah. You know. Yeah. It's it's absolutely a thing they could do. Not my favourite. No it's not my favourite of the pitches that I've heard. The uh the to undermine Gunther, like after you've just done that thing with Goldberg and with Cena in in twenty twenty five. My official prediction is Gunther. Yeah. I'm going for a Gunther win here and I'm gonna be so sad.

So excited during this match because I really don't know. Yeah. I don't know where like I'm landing on this one. The the I'm gonna go with Gunther as well, and I think the final that Whatever it is that because it's in Saudi, um, with all respect to the Saudi crowd, I don't think the air is gonna be sucked out of that arena in the same way as it would be sucked out of a US arena. Or only gonna European arena. Like if this is if this if this rumble was taking place in

Or wherever. I think AJ Styles retiring in the middle of, you know, World Rumbles would probably kill the vibe. Yeah. I don't see that happening in Saudi. Can I uh tell you a joke that I've been uh uh watching? a while that I've been too afraid to say on a podcast. Wow. Um maybe uh Saudi Arabia is a good place for him to retire because both of them have issues with the gay community. Yeah. One of them considerably more to be very clear.

The gay community The gay community I was like me and my friends at university. So much. It was the we and like, you know, idiots in our sort of like late teens, earlier twenty. Funniest thing in the world. It is quite funny. The gay community so good. Anywho, I I'm I'm so into this match and I'm so excited for it. Yeah. When you're a forward thinker, you don't just bring your A game, you bring your AI game.

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We have got Eoskaya, Rhea Ripley, Roxanne Perez, Liv Morgan, Raquel Rodriguez, Bailey, Lyra Valkyria, Asker, Chelsea Green, Jordan Gray, Charlotte Player, Alex Bliss, Niajax, Lash Legend, Julia, Maxine Dupree, and Becky Lynch announced for Apparently Maxine Dupree announced on a shot of brandy. The f is a shot of brandy? No no it's a bit brandy with an eye. Oh it must be one of her podcasts or something. Has she got a podcast to say that? Well Brandy Rose

I'm gonna I'm gonna Google this. Shot of Brandon. Shot of Brandon. You see how they're running out of things? They've got Undertaker on Cody's and Cody on the Undertaker's. They're like, Oh god, we need some gas. Um, so it's got a YouTube channel. Great. It is Brandy Rhodes. Cool. Um, she did an episode with John Moxie five years ago.

Maxine Dupree. Uh oh but it's on uh I think it's now uh part of uh what do you want to talk about? Ah it's like an offshoot. It's like an offshoot of that. Yeah, so she announced on the Maxine Dupree reveals WWE goals, wedding details, and total diva's obsession. Well that's where you want to announce you go against the Road Rumble, don't you? Telling Brandy Road so she can then pass on the message to Adam Pierce. Uh it was over Mike night.

And that's that's where Finn Balor wrong. He should have gone on to what do you want to talk about? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well he did. I did it. Well that okay that's it. That was a missed opportun once again, another missed opportunity for Finn Balor. Sorry, that's the problem. He went on the wrong podcast. He went on the wrongshoot podcast. He was on the bus. Yeah, it was like he took the wrong left. Should have been with the sidemen, not KSI.

Yeah. Um is that does that work? I actually don't really know who they are. Probably I I know they exist and I know that they also make chicken wings. Or is that sides and it just happens that they've got the same name? I don't know. I I thought that was their company. I know that the side men are a thing because I've heard them talked about on uh Beard Meets Foods podcast. Yeah, I just don't know what they are.

I think it's the leader of it. I think KSI is there and then they all lean out from behind him and go, Yeah. So like like Pat McAfee's lads. Yeah. And Pat McAfee has a show and then there's just a bunch of white dudes on a couch that occasionally go like, Yeah, you're awesome, Pat. I I love you.

Yeah. Um anyway, who do you think's winning the Royal Rumble? Um it's a really good question. Um I so I'm prior to coming on the show, I have been watching I finished all my shows, so I've just been watching Because I it turns out I just love entrances. I love it. When the problem with the modern found here in human form. When the buzzer goes off.

Do I actually care about any of the actual in-ring action? In the Royal Rumble. I don't care about any of the in-ring action of the Royal Rumble. You're joking. Or and especially with the the women's rumble, it's like Here's a l a returning legend. She's gonna come in and she's gonna do a heads as a takedown. The heads is a takedown in the Women's Royal Rumble is like the super kick in NXT. Like it's just everyone's move. Um

I have a friend coming over to watch it with me at the weekend. Um, who I have said should my friend Emma, who we've talked about in in Unreal and previous podcasts, she she's s found herself potentially on the verge of hyperfixating on wrestling because she stayed at my house and I had a lot of stuff to watch. Um and she's a big fan of specifically the the the women.

And I'm excited to introduce her to all the people. It's a great it's like a catalogue. The the buzzer goes off and here's a new one and here's her entrance theme and here's her vibe. And you can get that and maybe they'll do a little bit. Um and as a result, I've been reminding myself of previous royals.

watching, you know, all of them. Fortunately there are only eight of these as like what, ninety thit six of the men's and God. I watched the first ever Royal Rumble. You ever watched that? Uh there are a lot of those early rumbles that are Rafael going. Ross. We watched the um when we did the Royal Rumble random ones. Oh god, that was a fun day. Do you remember that? That was a really fun day. We did a ten-hour Royal Rumble stream. We watched the 88.

Rough guy. We only got excited because all of a sudden Andre the Giant was in the ring with Shawn Michaels. Yes. And Ollie described it as like seeing a car on the road with uh with a horse and carriage. It's like that thing where like Oprah and uh Einstein were alive at the same time. Yeah.

Um I so anyway, I've been excited watching older rumbles, watching the women's rumbles, and the thing that is really interesting to me is how how the chart, the rise of uh Live More Where she debuts just before the first Royal Republic. to be a woman in the Royal Rumble because we need women if we're gonna do we need thirty women. That's what thirty women. That's what they discovered when they

That's what they discovered when they did the first one was like, uh oh uh oh we actually haven't got enough people. So we're gonna need to call in literally every wrestler that has been here for the history of time. Matt Blue walks into the the performance center like It's like me at Clock Tower. Where are my where are my women? Are they gone? It was like me at Clock Tower last night. It was like, Okay, one, two, three, four, five Okay, we could do two seven player games. Um

So then subsequently, you know, she's she's in and out, whatever. And then over the last few years, you've really seen her become a star. And she's had two second places. And I think it's gonna be Liv Morgan this year. I think this is her year. I'm looking at the rest of the roster. Not that there's no star power, um, but I don't see another person where I'm like, I have four or five.

Live Morgan, I can see where you're going. I can understand the argument of of maybe a Rhea or an EO. EO is, you know. To Michael Cole's money and mine, the best one of the best wrestlers on the planet. Um certainly in the women's division, certainly in WWE. I just think I'm more interested in them as a tag team at the moment. I think there's a lot of potential. And Liv Morgan winning the Royal Rumble, I think presents you with the best uh credit.

I agree. I'll give you my my top names I've got going into this. Liv Morgan, Charlotte Flair, and B. Bianca is lovely. I'm gonna jump out of my seat. Oh can we do that as a fun game? So yeah, Bel Air I think is making her return at this Royal Run. You never bet against her. A B I just think there is still stuff to be done. Which is really funny because I was having that Finn Balor conversation on the other podcast. But like Charlotte Flair is someone who was like, Why aren't you?

And I think maybe it's just because like I'm like Charlotte Flair versus Jade Cargill. It's almost like so here's my thing. That's uh that's overexposure, I would argue. Charlotte and and this the w what I was pitching with Finn, even though yes, he's a ten years ago and 'Cause he's not really been around, it does feel a little bit fresh. Charlotte's been around. I think the reason she's not in the main event at the moment is because she felt stale and she knew. And it's worse.

Yeah. And I think you've s you you don't that's a fragile thing. I think Charlotte winning the Royal Rumble again two years in a row. wouldn't be a little bit of a I'll strike that from the record. But be angry because I did forget that she won. The thing I was gonna say on Charlotte Flair is that I agree that she is probably wise enough to know that she does need to take a step back Are WWE wise enough not to see that Charlotte Flair versus Jade Cargan

is a money match to do at WrestleMania. Dollars. Like that's what I mean. So with the Finn Balor thing, Finn Balor versus CM Punk is not a money match at WrestleMania. Charlotte Flair versus Jade Cargill is a money match to do at WrestleMania. But she is like my third pick. I g if she wins I would not be surprised. But my my two names that I've got much higher up are Living.

Liv Morgan I thought was gonna return at this Royal Rumble and win it. Uh and then she surprised me by returning in November. I think there is you're like the story you said there is completely the right one. I think she has got a journey to go through this Royal Rumble. Bianca Belair versus Jade Cargill is a match that WWE have been teasing for three years.

And what better way to get there than by having Bianca Belair make her triumphant return, win the Royal Rumble, and face Jade Cargill for the WWE Women's. WrestleMania. I've got one. That maybe accomplishes the Charlotte. Now that the elimination chamber is fully solidified as this is how you get the other Rumble two, which I love because it it feels again like you don't No, I don't love it.'Cause it just feels secondary.

But I th I like the fact that at the very least it's a this is how you get a shot at a title. Yes, you know uh because otherwise it's just like we'll just hand pick a competitor and that that feels tertiary rather than secondary. At least you've uh And I think the the chamber itself feels like a place where you can tell a bunch of stories. And in this case, Bianca winning the uh the chamber um and going after Jade, uh Charlotte and Alexa both

Carries on their storyline. I think your more interesting storylines for WrestleMania are Jade and Bianca, Charlotte and Alexa, and then down the line, Jade and Charlotte. Maybe, you know, further. I don't know, because you're right, it is a money match, and I think it'd be really good. Um Charlotte Bianca's one. Charlotte Bianca's a th, you know, I I would love to see it again. I I just I love um

The the potential storylines of a lot of them, but I think that's one you can hold off on a little bit. Yeah. Especially if you're gonna do what I sort of was suggesting. the raw show of having Raquel surprise win the women's world title, live win the Royal Rumble. Finally I'll get uh there's me pitching judgment day having a another ch contract on a championship in the same, you know.

You know, th there's a storyline there. Um, she's got storylines. She could have it. The thing with Stephanie Bacquer that Raquel can be a part of. You have the Roxanne of the Corner thing, we talked about that a couple of times. Like who are you gonna be? Is it gonna be a triple threat match, but the rest of it? Um yeah, I think I think it's live to lose.

Uh sidebar, excellent use of the word tertiary. Thank you. It's a wonderful word. It's very pleasing to say. I think I'm actually gonna go with Bianca Bel-Air and Liv Winslow. Okay. Because you can have Liv Raquel and Roxanne all in the chamber working together, but eventually one of them's gonna win, you can maybe come into a triple threats. The House of Cards does have to fall.

So I think that there's a lot of story to be told there. I think it really does highlight how um an important Stephanie feels as champion. Yeah. That I'm looking at mainly SmackDown women to win this. Um But I Liv Morgan I think doesn't I I was originally pitching for Liv to win'cause I think she almost needs to win this because Raw needs a top contender that feels like a top contender to that title. But you can achieve that elimination chamber. Um I would like to play. Okay, great.

So Bel Bianca Belair, yep. Tiffany Stratton. Yep. I think he's gonna make her return. Tiffany Time gonna hit like crazy. The names that are sort of like leak Um'cause they were on the poster. Oh I don't want l oh, okay, that's different'cause it's NXT. Yeah,'cause they're NXT names. They're on the poster. Tatum Paxley. Um, who's the other one? Um Thea Hale. Okay. So she'll probably accidentally win it.

Um and I can't remember who the other NXT name was. JC? I don't think it was. It might have been JC Jane. Jadapong. But uh those three I could say Lola Vice uh Lola Vice was the other one. Lola Lola Vice Utility play a low level. It's so great, Lola Vice. Uh I'd have Sol Rooker in this match one hundred percent. I'd also stop dicking around with her in NXT and just go up onto the main roster already. Yeah.

Uh the women's the women's division on SmackDown needs them. Bring Jada Parker on. You've been waiting long enough. That's the thing, right? And then the main roster is they just wait too long. Well, well actually on that note, did you see the the the News from NXC's ratings last week.

is that like they had um you know it was the same rating they usually get, which is a very good rating. It's like nothing to I I I think people took me the wrong way when I said it was nothing to write home about. What I meant by that was it wasn't like solid rate it wasn't massively up, it wasn't massively down, it was what it was. Um The big thing was in the 18 to 49, which increased from hour one into hour two. That's a great result in of itself. Even better, even bigger, it increased.

twice fold for the main event of the three-way tag match. Wow. Which was awesome. Cool. If you haven't seen it, guys, I've I kind of I keep banging this drum for and I have done for now a week. Go out of your way to watch this three-way tag match. It is superb. It's so great. So there's some like I'm looking at the NXT women's division has been the standout of NXT for the last year and a bit.

Th I'm excited to see some of those names come up and I think those are the names you're gonna get. Tatum, um, who was gonna just say Thea Hale, Sol Rooker, uh Lola Vice. JC Jane I would I think would be a really good uh one to put in there, but I don't think it's like a necessary one to put in there. Is there any other name on?

Oh, uh Mariah May. Sorry, what's her name? Blake Monroe. Blake Monroe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's ready. Yeah she's ready. Yeah, yeah, a lot of guys. And I'm gonna say Ricky Saints as well for them as well when we get to it as well. She's posted some ring rusty videos. And she's gonna make a little surprise. I'd love it. Yeah. Page making a WWE return. I think it'd be really, really fun. I think it'd be great. Uh I if she is though, I need her to be my.

Oh yeah. I d I I just wanted to have that moment. I do not want to see unmotivated page like we saw unmotivated Saran. I think for me it's more just like a you never uh you never got this opportunity to do this and you were so excited and it was cruelly, cruelly Eve of it happening. Uh I'd also like Victoria to have a pop in front of the crowd. I've watched the Thunder Dome and I was.

Ah, the iconics. The iconics. They are out of contract. Give me the iconics. Yeah. Oh, I just thought about it now. Here's the thing, it's like A TNA person maybe in there. TNA star Kilani Jordan. Yeah, TNA star, the former Zaire Lee, TNA star, the the former Dana Brooke, TNA knockout star, the former Zaire Brooks side. Yeah. And it's just like I mean TNA at the moment.

There's someone needs like it was Meltzer, actually, I think it said like it does feel like the land of WWE cast offs. You look at that result, it's like it really does. The land of WWE cast offs, Mike Santana and Eddie Edwards at this point. Yeah. Um But yeah, and I went. I wouldn't call Mike Santana on A.E. W. Cast off. He's made a much bigger name for himself there. Yeah.

Yeah, that's who I'm going with. And those are my surprises I'm gonna go for as well as any six follow ups. I'm looking forward to that. Me too, man. Walmart Business is in the business of helping your business, regardless of whether you're building bridges, building spreadsheets, or building lesson plans. Walmart business can help save you time, money, and hassle so you can focus on what you're building instead of what your supply closet is.

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Brombreaker, Logan Paul, Bronson Reed, Austin Theory, Sion Evans, and Ober Femi. Dan, thoughts, feelings, vibes. Um, wide open. No idea. Truly no idea. I I'm gonna give you a name so that I've said. podcast at some point, but I I keep thinking about loads of different things you could do and why and what works and what doesn't. Um obviously Cody being the only other person to get three would be a fun little story. Um I

I personally would have uh found a way to get him away from Drew so you can do Cody versus Punk at Mania. Uh and that way for me would have probably been something like, sorry, Sammy. Peace and everything, but I want a match of the Royal Rumble. Congratulations, I don't mean to take not Royal Rumble. I w I want the matches out. And have him lose.

Screwy or clean to Drew either way. He it like basically close the door on Drew at Saturnite's main event, see the little heel turn where he's gonna step over Sammy to get that opportunity first. It's like, well, congratulations, you'll have your match, it'll be against me. I don't know. Get him away from Drew. The punk Cody three.

Is enough to to drag him over. I don't know. There are ways you could do it, but now that it it there's an unfinished business there, it would feel weird for him to win the rumble and go after Punk. It'd be so weird. So that means he goes after Drew or Sand. Um Sure. Yeah, I I Cody I'm writing off. Yeah. He's not on my list. For potential winners.

If only because there's so much unfinished with they didn't have a finish with the Jacob Fattou match. Like they didn't even have the match on Saturday night's main advance. Loved it. So that to me feels like that is shenanigans within the rumble, dual elimination between the pair of them. Yep. As opposed to one of them winning. I I think a dual elimination of them carry on brawling off up the crowd would be quite fun. Yeah. I think that's good. Um okay, Roman Reigns.

Is on my list. Is on your list. I've got three names on my list. Okay. And Roman Reigns is high. But that was in a pre Drew winning world. Yes. Yeah. So he has gone down on my list since. He was on my list from October through to that January when Drew won. Annoyingly I'd recorded my three camp predictions uh before Drew. In a in a sethless world, I can absolutely see an argument that he could go against Drew or politics.

I like that. Like, you know, that's there's there's opportunities. Again, it comes down to who's got the most story potential and what who can you do the most with. And Roman has that built in for both, I think. Um Bronn Breaker is maybe one of the least interesting ones to me. He's on my list. He's on your list. He's on my list. He is one of my three that Bronn wins. I think you doing a story of putting Bron back into the rumble.

Um like lifting him from suspension and putting him into rumble feels like it's been done for a reason. I also think there is an argument to be made. For you'll never guess this guys, pulling the trigger on a young person uh winning this match rather than relying on established name Roman Reigns who's been on top of this company. A decade plus

So there's I think there's a much better reason to give it to Braun than to do Roman again. Even though Roman hasn't won the Rumble for like, you know, since twenty twenty fifteen was when he last won a Royal Rumble. Um But I think there's much more mileage. And there's more maybe there's more money.

in Roman wins. And ul ultimately you want your money matches. You want your money matches. It's in Saudi Arabia to kind of like you know put that spin on it as well. Like I think they're gonna ra probably react bigger to a Roman win than they are a Bron win. Probably I'll I personally find The brawn thing a bit less interesting now than other things you could do with Bronn, maybe. I don't know. Maybe that's just me having seen it.

Being a bit stale on it, I don't know. I think the trigger the the time to pull the trigger on him was when he defended he was going against Punk for the title. I probably agree. Like I I think I I think not pulling that trigger there has hurt his momentum somewhat. Even though they've done very good angles with I think the heat in him going for that title is lesser now than it was Which actually then ties back into the AJ Gunn thing we've done earlier.

Speaking of Gunther's another one who where I say that's a possibility you can raise. Yeah, I'd have to outline the case for it over here. Yeah, absolutely. I I'd I've been currently number four on my list, but I I don't see uh I I it's not like Cody where I'm pretty much dead set and I'm not. Gunther I can though.

And then the final one for me is Overfemi. Yep, me too. And that's my that's my number three. To when you say like pull the trigger on a on a young star, sorry Bron, I don't mean to leapfrog you. That one is more important Because Obafemi dri charisma, he drips aggression, he drips power and strength

just this quality that I ha I'm trying to use any word under the sun except for aura, but unfortunately aura is what it is. He has such a composure and when you had the John Cena final match show And you knew it was gonna be, you know, Ricky or O. I thought it was gonna be Ricky because him and Cody have a bit of When it ended up being him and Oba, at no point in any of the promos, even in that one backstage segment with the two of them, at no point did I

At no point did he look intimidated or like he didn't quite belong or he wasn't ready. Lotta people advocating for him to beat him. He I was on one of them. There was something I mean you could have done something, you could have done a lot of different things. Well I I was I said it was a schmozz. I was like Schmoz. I was like Drew will run in and cause a DK. Yeah, but they're not pinning either of these guys. I I I saw that a different version of that, you know. Um

I don't know. I think I think if you're gonna push someone new, there's is this it's it's like the very other end of the spectrum. on my Chelsea Green comes in at thirty thing, which is to say there's very few people that you can do a debut with It's never been done, am I wrong? It's never been done? A debut when you win the rumble? Like day like this is your first match up onto the main roster. I don't think

Trying to think sort of like previous Rumble winners. The other the other the only other person I can think of who's had a debut uh so seismic that they win the world title in the that with Yes. But he'd already been on the roster for like a year at that point because he debuted uh the night after WrestleMania. Yeah. It wasn't it wasn't a year, it wasn't it somewhere. Oh sorry, I was talking about like he winning the Royal Rumble. I was like a

No yeah, I I mean I mean winning the world title, making it a big splash and you being a main event statement immediately. Yeah, it's like it's like Brock and Kurt. Yeah. Because Brock like'cause Kurt wins the world title within his first year on the main roster. But he's already he's my point is that he's had uh

Mid-card time during his debut matches with Sean Stasiak and then he goes off and do European champions. Excuse me, meet. His no, it was Sean Stasiak at the time. Oh, was Estasiak in the end? It was Sean Stasiak. I remember that show so vividly. Um'cause then sure says that pops up in my WCW.

And the thing that got me'cause she knew I like wrestling but she didn't know which one. Sean says, yeah, on the final episode of WCW Night Show. Yeah. Beating Bam Bam Bigelow. There he is. There he is. And then he goes on to ruin WrestleMania seventeen. Anyway, I was just trying to draw a weird parallel and it was a bit pointless because what I would essentially want to say is like what Well I love the idea. And if I was in that writer's room, you bet I'd be banging the drum for this one.

Oba wins the Royal Rumble and then he beats Drew for the title at WrestleMania. And he just he is the WWE. I I was banging this drum two years ago when we were doing these uh like Predicton World Rumbles in WrestleMania's way too far in advance. I was like, this dude is it and I think you should rub because the alternative is you bring him up and you just do squash matches for four weeks and then you put

And I don't like that idea. I think just bringing him in and having been in. The report is he's heading to Raw. And I don't think him versus CM Punk, they're doing too much with Punk and Braun. Or Bronn going for the world title. for it not to be Bronn winning the title at WrestleMania. But imagine that's your scene at WrestleMania is Braunbreaker is the world heavyweight champion and Oba Femi is the WWE. That shuts down all. Old man.

Yeah, Al Fella chat that has been WWE's uh a bit of a an anchor around their neck for the past year or so. Because it's not just like wrestling fans talking about it, wrestlers are openly talking about it now, about how like the main event scene is just full of So what a way to end off WrestleMania forty two is with two guys under thirty being your champions, born in the nineteen nineties. Being your champion.

got a real vibe of WrestleMania twenty to it when you ended with Eddie and Benoir as champions and it really felt like this is'cause like WrestleMania. WrestleMania twenty was like it it all begins again. And it really was like this is the brand new landscape. These are our new top stars that we're pushing here, and it is Eddie and it's Ben Watts, two guys that we've never really gone into on hard

Do it this year as well. You have Oba win and he wins the world title. And there's some really nice stuff with Cody. As a challenger. And speaking of Cody, it's not a good thing.

It finally pays off that Saturday night's main event angle that you did where Oba Femi looked to be having Cody beat until Drew came in and ruined it. So then it's Oba versus Drew for the WWE championship at WrestleMania. Like that story kind of writes itself. Yeah, there's a there's a there's a lot of potential them and I just for me, when I think about the roster of people who could win the men.

That's the most exciting. It's the most exciting one for me. It's the most interesting. So I'm I'm going with Ober. It's a it's it's n unl I don't know if it's likely. I don't know if it's the money. It's my heart button But it's the one where I'm like, sod it, I ain't got uh there's no skin in the game.

I've uh what happens if I get this prediction wrong? Well, I mean I g like apparently I got something wrong with the last podcast and you had a or you wanged on about it for five minutes. No, that's that's that's because you tried to claim that you were right about it to begin with. Um Obra is my heart pick. I think Bronn is my head pick. Yeah. Uh and Roman is my cynical pick. I think I'd rather watch Braun pull a shape.

With World Rumble for me. I mean, you could have Ober do the same thing, but Bronn feels like he's got that aggression that the chamber demands. Yeah. And Oba feels like here I am. I love the idea of him just debuting and winning. I don't want to see a single person eliminate Oba Fermi, but I want to see Oba. Become the Royal Rubber winner. Do you know what I mean? That feels and Roman Reigns like, what is this?

Like there's so that oh that uh unfortunately I booked myself into a into a corner. The thing is Dan, is cause you present it's really exciting. That is what I wanna say. Just imagine he comes out like not necessarily like he just lasts for a while, but the last Two in the rumble are Obi Femi and Roman Reigns, and Oberfemi eliminates Roman Reigns, and everybody is talking now. Do you know what I mean? It's like when And sure like Saudi Saudi would cheer in a big way for Roman Reigns, but

Saudi crowds, you know, whatever you feel about the the the regime, the people are a very different crowd and the crowds over the past and they've been they've been like a really good crowd lately. It is so like, you know, I think they would they would give you the All faces that you want for that moment. And that's two years in a row where you've had shocking Rumble winners. I think it's like Oba is

But I said this when I turned with Bronze. Bronn is the right choice to win the title uh with punk. Yeah. I don't want to just go say that Ober is the right guy to win here because anyone can be well maybe not Austin Theory, but anyone can be the right guy to win. Yeah. Ober in my head though is like feel to win this match. He's in my three. He was third, but your sort of uh hype for this is is pushing him up somewhat. He's my heart pick.

I'm going with Brombreaker. Ah, cowards. I'll go with Brombreaker just for a little bit of difference. But I I will be I will be happy to be wrong, and I really hope I am. Can we do some surprise men before we go? Surprise dude. So NXT stars, Ricky Saints. Yeah. Uh I think will be there. I think that makes sense. Um I think Ethan Page could have a little moment. Ethan Page, absolutely. Like if WWE had been smarter about things, Mr. Iguana. Yeah. Um, but I think that they have did not realize

Or capitalise on what they had with Mr. Iguana um all those months ago. I think a seventh place entrance for Mr. Iguana in a row. But what I mean is like the right place to go. If you had a made a bigger deal out of Mr. Iguana when he got like just surprisingly massively over in the summer of last year. But I think if you just bring him in for a quick

The Royal Rumble is that weird sort of like nether world. Well, on that note, Joe Hendry. Yes, big time, yeah, yeah. Joe Hendry absolutely uh should will probably be in this Royal Rumble. Chris Jericho. Is he coming? Amen.

I mean, I would love it, if only because in WWE's canon, the last time we saw Kusjerica was in Saudi Arabia. He's just been here the whole time. He's just been like trapped somewhere, like in the sands. He's been wandering the desert and finally he's back. Like Here is why I've got such a pause on it. He's still on the AEW roster page. Right. And you might be asking well, what does that

They have got rid of everyone else. Like the second their contracts are up, they are removed from that AEW. Absolutely. If like the second that guys have gone from AEW, their names have been taken off. And this year alone, where like contractor comes to win. Immediately they're not on the roster page. So with that you were like, well maybe they're doing it as a big angle to hide the fact. I was like, well, why would AEW help WWE?

Hide the surprise. Hide the Absolutely not. If anything, they would have gone out of their way to actively reveal that Chris Jericho was going to be in the Royal Rumble. They would have been spoiled. They would have played spoiler on it. So maybe he is just sticking around with AEW. I don't know. Um I was so sure on it and now I'm unsure on it. It was like the Age A.

Like I was so sure on it, but now I g I feel like I am unsure on it. Like the longer it goes, the more I'm like I don't know if he actually is gonna cross. I think it'd be the best thing for Jericho to do. Yeah. But also I think he's touring with his band at the end. Yeah. So I mean that's how I should have a look. Do you want maybe this will actually help us answer the question?

No, so well the Royal Rubble does funny things to travel plans. Well it's slightly different when you're in America, slightly different when you have to travel across the world to to get into it. Also if he is playing a gig on the same day is why I was thinking. Fuzzy Tor, let's have a look. Because I'm pretty sure they're actually in the UK. Um So uh go away, stay in browser. I don't wanna download Google, I'm not a mad Uh fuzzyrock.com

What's that thing you do where you two words don't get like Microsoft works, two words that don't actually go together. Right, yeah, yeah. That's very funny. That's very funny, that's really good. Thank you. Well done. I like that. Uh that took me a second. That's um that's the state. Sorry, this is this is bad. But look this is no do you know what executive journalists their UK tour starts in February.

That's February the sixth in Brighton. I mean you're coming this way anyway, you might as well carry on. That's what I'm thinking, right? Like if they were playing a gig on the same day and then they're over in the States in May. Yeah. So yeah, like they're they're touring from February through uh all of Feb actually in the U. And the only reason I know that as well is because my mates or my my brother in law um

said there's a support act he texts me and he's like, What do you make a fuzzy? And I was like, I think they suck. And he was like, Yeah, I think they do as well. Like I I really tried, but man, their albums are well naff. And I was like, Yeah, they do suck And he's like,

There's a band on that are supporting them that are awesome. So I see the support and leave. That's what I said. I was like I I we can go watch the support band if you want and then go. I'm I'm quite happy to do that. Sick Avig isn't then go. No, I can get an earlier. Yeah, also I can get an earlier train. Yeah. So he's not playing a show with So that does open him up to be there. I am 50 50 on it and I don't actually know. I think the other thing is, as I mentioned before.

These these Royal Rumbles they're trying to make them left far less reliant on this price pops. creating a bunch of like creating rosters where you can fill a Royal Rumble without relying I think that's a really good pro. This is just a bit of fun. Just a bit of fun between you and me. Yeah. And this is this is not like a surprise return pop.

Return. This would be a Jericho is back in WWE. And also, like, I think it is a perfect place for him to come back because he can do the countdown clock gimmick. Yeah, like that you're halfway through and then just like I've me and Oli have been talking about that since like October last year. So like I think that is

such a good way to bring him back. Yeah. It's just the roster page that's making me that's making me down it. And I just can't fathom a world in which AEW would help that. No. There's a especially at this point, because you think someone would go, can we check?

Should we uh oh you're right. I just it was an oversight. I'll probably fix that. Like I don't know. Unless it goes like Jericho just really like him and Tony of Best May's like I don't know what to do. Do do us a solid since since I did you a solid start in the company. Yeah, do me a solid here because I think this would be a really it'd be really nice

For the fans. That's a very Jericho thing to do. Very Jericho thing to do. And I think it'd be a very tony thing to do as well, to be manipulated um by someone else that you should not be manipulated by Because who's a fan. To to help someone else. Because the fans will. Uh so yeah, those are my NXT call-ups um and the name. So the report from Fightful that came out a couple of days ago now was that uh they're flying people out, like they've they've tried a flight.

F after Raw. So the Raw talents have gone over there and SmackDown talents are going over there with them on that same flight because they need to be there for SmackDown on Friday. But because that they charted up. Which means they've got privacy in the airport and privacy in the hotel. WWE sources are saying. It's actually easier this year to keep surprises secret because we've essentially got a government that are helping us keep everyone safe and and private.

Whereas like if you do this in Bumble F Missouri or you know like wherever the rumble was last year, you've got people hanging out at hotels. Yeah. Trying to see who it is, getting their autographs to sell on eBay. So it's actually gonna be easier this year to hide surprises and they're gonna charter some flights out midweek to fly some other people over, so they'd be like that's where the surprise names.

Uh so yeah, uh then maybe there'll be Booker T, you know, like a surprise appearance that I run for Why not?'Cause he's on the show every week. As a commentator. So I like no, I'm w when I'm talking surprise, I w I wanna be like Sorry, excuse me, Paul London is here? What do you mean Maven's in the impact zone? I'd love it.

I would love it if you go out with a s subscribe. Truly like he'd come out with his little camera. Yeah. A are there any um and I I'll use this term lovingly, sh influencers uh that can be in the Royal Rumble. Oh millions. Like yeah. Oh if it was a Twitch streamer that that that could be in there. I'm a jade. I'm as old as you are. I've never But no, not a clue. Yeah. Loads of them. I'm still I'm still shocked that iShow Speed is a is not AI. Top Twitch streamers.

Twenty twenty five. Tyrese Hallaburton's mate, he could be in there. Yep. Touch uh oh I've actually got uh January twenty twenty six. Um The Burnt Peanuts. Yeah, big Mr Beast is gonna be in there. Is there any Netflix people? Oh, Millie Bobby Brown. That's Millie Bobby Brown's music. I mean Finn Wolfhard sounds like a wrestler name. Finn Wolfard, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which one's he again? Ah, they all blend into one. He's the main one. Uh Zazovot? Yep. Yep. Uh Zakro. Sure.

Oh games done quick. That's good that's what I was tuning as that's'cause they just did their uh games I haven't seen Sullivan today. Maybe he's over there. What? No rolls bars Sullivan. Ah, he's gotta get ready for the cruise. I don't know. I don't know if his if his travel crew I don't know okay. I'm Joe Brown, confirmed. Look, uh this is me reporting. This is from my inside sources. I don't know if his travel arrangements are going to allow him to get across to Saudi Arabia.

back across to the Bahamas to the crews. If they want it to happen, they'll make it happen. The WWE can't. I think chart I mean the Charting flights, you know, they get like private jets. They can do anything. They can actually make this work. Maybe it'll be Hassan by Maybe he'll be in the comments. Thing is, there'll be people in the comments being like, I can't believe they said the bird penis. Oh, BDA, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not my fault.

Be famous. Like if you always if you want me to know who you are, be famous. Yeah. It'd be like if it'd be like if someone got mad that I was on TNA and someone else was like, Who the hell is Luke Owen? Why would you be mad about that? I'm not famous. Of course people aren't gonna know who the hell I'm Uh I don't think I'm big enough to be on that shark.

I don't think I'm big enough to be on Hustle. Like like if Hustle Wrestling asked me to be on that show be like, Are you sure? Yeah.'Cause I don't think that's a wise move at all. No. I th I am I am not a I am not an actual person to be putting onto a This is a bit of a bad idea. Coming out to absolutely crickets. Put me in a Royal Rumble on a wrestling show. No idea who I am. Anyway, those are all the matches. So you're going with Oba Femi. Or I think Oba.

Liv Morgan, Bianca Belair, Gunther for the AJ match, and Drew for the title match. Interesting. I love all of the options. I love anything that we talked about today. I'm super excited for this Royal Rumble because much like last year. Sort of like five three, you know. I've got I said three people I think could win it. Yeah, you know, that's can't compare that to the two the back-to-back Cody wins where I went into those runs being like, Well, Cody.

Again, we'll be like could be Punk's like no no no Cody Cody is winning this. They're literally telling you on TV Cody is gonna win this Royal Rumble. Both of them. Yeah. So this I'm I'm super stoked that we have got both of them. Mm. Even with la even with last year's women's I was like, well, Charlotte Flair. Yeah, they've d they've done a brilliant job, I think, of of blowing the creative wide open at the start of this year to create a scenario where there are so many strata

Counterpoint. Uh uh. They've also done a great job at doing nothing to promote the Royal Rumble, which has meant that there are no storylines going into the Royal Rumble, so it literally could be anyone that wins it. I do think a Royal Rumble Is what is the only real show of the year where you can just sort of promote

It's pretty mudd. Do you know what I mean? Oh honestly. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much. And I don't really need to know who's gonna be in it. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. I don't need you announced this business of like why haven't you announced enough names? I don't I don't care. Well no, people are mu are now uh annoyed they've announced too many names. Oh picture.

I've heard the opposite as well. Isn't that just wrestling fans? Tell me about it. Well, Dan, thank you so much for joining us. You're welcome. I'll go back in the in the fridge, the cabin. Um Please uh do get your comments in down below uh on the YouTube and on Spotify of what you think is gonna happen in the Royal Rumble. Who do you think is going to win the Royal Rumble?

Who which uh which Twitch streamer would you book to be within the Royal Rumble that you can fly over to Saudi Arabia? Let us know in the comments. Give us a recommendations, just shout out your mate's YouTube channel if you really want. Uh and uh yeah, we'll see you this coming Saturday because patreon.com forward slash Russell Talk, myself and Ollie Davis, Ollie's making his triumph and return to the channel.

We will be doing live reactions to the Royal Rumble. Patreon.com forward slash Rustal. Come and join us over there. It's genuine like I love doing live stream live reactions anyway. But since we started doing them on Patreon. Where you don't get tools. Just the community, yeah, yeah. Do you are just coming in just because they want to be dickheads and ruin everyone's fun? Yeah. Like it's well nice. It is just hanging out with friends just

So come and hang out with us and watch the show together. It's a genuinely lovely time. And then on Sunday, myself and I Davis will be here in studio, reviewing the show, reviewing the Royal Rumble in full. Yeah, me too. Oh I've got I've got Royal Rumble fever. And I'm and I'm I'm now gonna spend the rest of the day feeling a bit giddy. Yeah. And I'm going to spend the rest of the week feeling a bit giddy as well.

It's only four sleeps. Yeah. Um, I think I'm gonna go and have my lunch break now and I'm gonna watch the two thousand one Royal Rumble. Oh, I'll join in. Yeah. AKA the the best Royal Rumble ever. A little bit. Thank you so much everyone. Take care. I love you. Goodbye.