Special Edition WWE Royal Rumble 2015

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It is 702 on the East Coast.
It is 402 on the West Coast.
It is the 25th of January and the year of our Lord 2015.
It is episode 26 of season 5 chronologically number 285.
The clubhouse is live and on the air we welcome each of you individually no matter
how you are listening, whether you are live on you stream, whether you are listening
on our archive, or whether you subscribe on iTunes.
We don't care how you listen, we are just glad you are here.
My name is Rob and I have a new chair and it is mighty comfy and that is what I have to
say about that.
But I am not alone today.
Remember this is a special edition today because it is Royal Rumble Day.
The first paper view of 2015, normally you are one stop shop for all things sports
and entertainment, but tonight we are wrestling intensive because the first person I am going
to introduce could not be more excited about tonight.
It is his favorite paper view of the year.
He sits across from me from the desk almost each and every week.
He is also my host.
He is Chad.
Welcome to the show, sir.
I am more pumped about this Rumble than I have been in a long time.
You said that when you got to the studio and I can't disagree with you.
They sold the heck out of this thing.
That was a good go home show.
But we are going to talk about it here in just a minute because it is not just you and
I tonight directly across from me at the desk was the first person to arrive at the studio
tonight and a guy who is considering on trimming the beard up.
You heard it here first folks.
He is the king of bowling.
He is Andrew Beckham.
Welcome sir.
Great to be here.
I have got to say after this intro.
I am not ready to talk.
I am ready to just like physically throw people.
I am pumped up.
Yes.
This theme.
I just love the name of this band.
I am going to go Jones.
Yes.
But the song is called going to be a fight tonight.
It is the official theme for the 2015 Royal Rumble.
Is that something like something on Urban Dictionary, anybody but me?
He danked Jones that, yeah.
Also joining us directly to his led to Andrew's left is a young man that has not joined
us on the show for quite some time, but he is none the less.
One of our favorite people.
He is the official official.
And I am saying the word official and I am sticking by it.
Pokemon news person for this show because he always keeps us up to date.
He is Steven Zimmerman.
Welcome to the show sir.
Hi everyone.
I forgot what a microphone was.
And to his left is the official fact checker of this show.
You may know him is fond on go, but his mom and even don Ford I am going to call him
Don Ford.
Welcome sir.
I was at that go home show.
I know you were.
I almost had to punch you through the phone because you were 5 minutes ahead of me.
Well you are at 20.
Second delay.
What do you mean 5 minutes behind?
Because you know I don't watch it live.
I know I still want to win.
He used LA's tactics on watching stuff on the computer when it's like 2.5 days late.
Let's do some headlines first of all.
It is now official.
The thing we've been talking about for almost what two years now, it is finally happening.
This little mania 32, it is now official, it is out there, will be at AT&T Stadium in
Arlington, Texas next year, April the 2nd, April the 3rd, is the day 16.
What we have been waiting on, I don't know about you guys, but my entire life is the
big geographically desirable to wrestle mania.
I'm very excited about this.
Have you seen the logo?
Yeah, I have.
I like it.
It looks very old, school, like it.
It looks very WCCW, kinda has the, that classical feel with the gold letters and the star
right there.
I didn't have so long horns on it, but they're not like over the top long horns.
They just kind of work into the logo.
Very classy.
I haven't seen it yet.
I haven't actually didn't make it look gimmicky, like I expected them to, like I thought
they were trying to go super western, like they do with every textist thing.
But I liked what they did with this year, with a little play button underneath it, because
they're in the Silicon Valley.
The only way you're going to see the logo, you have to look it up from the press conference.
I haven't found it on.
I've never tried to put anything on TV yet, and now it's selected before, you know.
I think we may see it tonight, who knows, but, or we may just, we may not tell about my
textory turns going to WWE, the Hall of Fame on the second at AEC, the raw on the fourth
at AAC.
We're going to go ahead to say it now.
Yeah.
We will not be on the air.
That's what we do live remote for me.
And that's going to take some doing.
You never know.
It's very excited, basically everybody in this studio and everybody that will be joining us
for the paper view tonight, we will be doing the Hall of Fame.
We will be doing Wrestlemania, we will be doing Raw the next night.
I have already cleared it through the lovely and talented Mrs. Irving.
She is aware that this is happening.
There goes my tax return.
That goes the rest of my salary for it.
I think that goes to the house is on the third mortgage.
I can't wait.
I'm excited.
Tonight is the 26th annual Royal Rumble.
So you can say that this is the 25th anniversary.
Not last year.
Does anybody remember who won the first one?
Axel Jim Dougan.
That is correct.
I actually had somebody at work saying that they saw online that it was listed as Big
John Stun.
Oh, that was what I was about to say.
For some reason, I had this picture of Big John Stud, because like, wasn't it designed
for him to win or something like, like, remember the brawl for all was for Dr. Destiny
right?
Wasn't like the role for Big John.
No, the brawl for all was for, um, not Dr. Death.
I thought it was designed for for Barton.
No, it was Dr. Death because J.R. really wanted to put him over some former fashion.
They thought he was the toughest guy in the locker room, and then he gets laid out.
Like, happy anniversary, Hulk Hogan 31 years ago on this past Thursday.
Hulk Amania was born.
I will remember 1984 when when Vince took a chance on Sterling Golden, Sterling Golden.
That's a bad bit.
I got him into Rocky 3 though, so I think Rocky 3 was Rocky 4.
It was Rocky 3.
It was Rocky 3.
Yeah.
Thunderlips?
Yeah.
I'd take Sterling Golden over Thunderlips.
Yeah.
Oh.
Let's get that pull right.
Okay, there's the logo.
Wow.
It's classy, isn't it?
Yeah.
I was very impressed with it.
And there are rumors right now that Gold dust will retire from entering activity right
after WrestleMania go back stage and be a road agent, which I am totally and completely
on board with.
LH is showed up to the studio, good to see you, sir.
And day glow green, and his Texas Rangers deal, there you go.
But, uh, it's our shirt too.
Look at the shirt.
I want to shirt for psych, very nice.
But Gold dust rumored to be going backstage after WrestleMania.
My thing is, as long as his last match, if it's going to be WrestleMania, is Gold dust
star dust.
I have to put in on that.
He tweeted that it's not true.
Gold dust did.
It's coming from fairly good.
I don't know, but he put it in a tweet, so it'd be retiring.
Yeah, right.
I hope not.
I mean, I like the guys doing the best work he's done in a decade.
He just doesn't want it to be tarnished because someone found out early.
That's all it was.
That's all, that's all he is.
Like he just wants to make sure people care when he does retire.
He's just, I don't know, retire.
He's just happy he's not going out as black rain.
That was a horrible bit.
At least he's doing good wrestling to go out.
He really, you know what?
And he's doing the best wrestling of his life.
He's credited DDP yoga for it.
Yeah, wow.
He heard a great interview on, uh, on Austin's podcast with, uh, with DDP.
Where he laid out his, basically his, uh, company plan for the next three years.
Actually, I think it's like the next five or six years.
He's opening his own DDP performance.
DDP yoga performance center in Atlanta.
That's going to have a full production studio and everything.
And his goal was by 2018, I think he said to make it a $500 million company.
And I'm not putting, I'm not putting the past to do it.
I've never seen it somebody would drive like he had.
But I just, you know, just listen to that guy get kind of pumped up.
I don't know what it is.
Uh, new series is going to premiere on the network tomorrow night after raw.
It's going to be called WWE 24.
And it's going to be a series of behind the scenes leading up to WrestleMania 30.
Jack Bower first.
It's a big man.
In an inferno match.
You are running out of promo.
Um, but I finished the Monday night war last night because they, they've actually,
but put a finality on that series.
Great ending to it.
One of the things I didn't know was
part of the reason, like when Bishop had to bail, I said they can give it to the TV time.
He actually in his deal.
They had a 10 year deal with TNT until some guy from TBS came and said,
no, we're getting rid of the whole thing.
And Vince actually wanted to do a separate nitro program,
but he couldn't find the ear time to do it.
Which I think you, I say, what are you doing?
To have both of those programs?
I didn't know.
But I'll be interested to watch Raw 24 or WWE 24.
Because I, I can be the head of myself because I'm ready to talk about Raw.
This is why Raw frustrates me.
Because it can suck for so long.
And then you put a show out there like this.
I was honest to God and retain for two hours of my life because that's how long it takes me to
watch it because I fast forward commercials.
But you want to know how good of a heel Seth Rollins is.
And Chad and I were talking about this in pre-show.
Yeah. He got less in your face pop.
Like people were cheering for Brock Lesnar.
It was a last time that happened.
Now I'm not watching the show.
Would you have seen it live?
No, and if you were there sir.
Yeah, would you have gone live if you knew what was going to happen?
Would you have gone?
I'm still not sure.
Not even 20 bucks seat like me.
Just give me.
Yeah, but like, well, along with your $20 seat,
you got an oxygen tank and a stick to beat off the goats from that height.
Just to say, I saw him.
I saw him.
But I have seen him.
I have seen him.
So why?
But I saw him explain my versery.
Did you need to put inoculars to see him now?
I mean, we're not there yet.
It was not just like that.
And if I wasn't a sandout fan before,
oh, God.
Is did you see this?
He, they were doing dueling Xbox.
Oh my God, I was crying.
I was laughing as hard.
And Chad didn't watch it until the next night.
I'm like, dude, just don't fast forward this segment backstage
with Hall Nash and H.
I'm like, I would do that in the first place.
And my favorite part of it was a Nash looking at
Asian going.
I'm kind of sure you run in here.
And H goes, I'm so excited.
I'm so excited.
Like, give me more of that.
But yeah, sandouts, sandouts, Xbox.
My first thought was, does sandout need to mix in a salad?
What just happened here?
Or does the Xbox need to mix in a salad?
I'm like, wait a minute, that's damn you.
Sandout now.
And then just, Xbox, oh, you're hired.
That was a brilliant piece of business.
Sandout student day one right here.
And JBL does need to learn math.
If we're talking about 1992, that was 23 years ago.
Not 33 years ago, okay?
I don't need you adding years to my life,
John Bradshaw, I'll leave field.
I was just excited.
There he was.
But my favorite sign, right in the middle of the, of the,
of the third section, the bunny is sting.
See, that was funny.
That made me laugh.
And dear God, why do we need to give the new day,
microphones?
Oh, for all the way above me now.
All three of them?
Well, it's not like we argued that this bit was going to fail.
That was never out for debate.
Did you see that sign, it's seen a watch as a bachelor?
And we had the bachelor was spelled wrong.
Not helping.
Not, yeah, not helping.
Was there an SH in there, please?
No, it was B-AC-E-H-B-A-C-E-H-L-O-R.
Oh, God.
I was like, you're missing a letter, jack-hole?
Like, I know you like to say, do math.
But do English.
What's the, the shirt I showed about a Dallas Comic-Con last year?
I do not judge people by race, creed, or religion.
I judge them based on grammar, syntax, and sentence structure.
Oh, did they come out after I missed that?
Look at the belt.
Yes, that's what they did on Tuesday.
Oh, wow, they actually had a, they had a championship belt that had the Dallas Cowboy star on it.
Oh, crud on the right side.
That's what Miss Jones did, just dolled.
Oh, yeah, whenever.
Yeah, when they're doing the press conference.
Very nice.
Very, very nice.
Oh, it's in there.
And the tag team thing with the ascension and they brought it with,
I don't give you wrong.
I love that bit.
But what does that do for the ascension?
It's very in a, like, more and more each day.
I don't, I don't understand.
You, you, you want, you push them for so long.
You do all these vignettes, and now all you're doing is burying them.
They do, they do.
They're, they're world warrior rip-offs.
JBL said it, but I like them.
I hate them.
They're rip-off.
They're rip-offs.
They're rip-offs.
But you also haven't gotten the chance to see them truly work.
Every match you've seen takes less time than this sentence took me to say.
But they're, give them a kiss of rip-offs.
But, go, but everybody's rip-offs, somebody's bad.
This one's bad.
But why am I surprised?
I mean, Cena could have been in men on a mission.
Let's be honest.
I know, I know.
Hey, can we leave the two Marty Genetis alone and let that battle tonight?
See how they go?
Let's be honest.
I keep that.
I just, I don't know.
If you're trying to beef up this tag team division,
I was just, I mean granted, it was great to see the,
at the accolites back together and everything else.
I marked out like a school kid when they were there.
I said, that's probably, if I knew that they were going to do that,
I probably would have gone to the show just for that.
That was actually the biggest selling point for me.
Like, I don't know why.
I was like, you know, because of the DX for you, you know, the DX.
And WO was actually pretty big.
I didn't know Sting was going to be there.
But let's talk about that right now.
Well, played, sir.
So, no, here's, here's me last week.
Do I want to go?
No.
No.
I mean, it's the go home show for the rumble.
But the go home show's haven't been that great.
But look at the tag team thing.
I knew something about that, but I was like,
I can watch that on TV.
And then that happens.
My favorite part though was right when they showed him in a JBL.
That's not really him.
That's a cardboard cutout of Sting.
So that's a picture of Sting.
And for a moment, I believed him.
Because it looked kind of weird, angle.
And then he moved and I was like,
son of a f***.
Yep.
There was much cursing in my living room.
I looked over there and then Jules, I'm like, oh no.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He said when he was there, I was like, I said,
I see I just said, would you?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's pretty loud in here.
I think Sting's gonna be here.
Just on halfheartedly, you know, like Sting's here.
My wife came out of the bedroom and went.
He showed up, didn't he?
Oh, no.
Now, but here's the question.
Do we now have, are we counting both of these appearances?
Because he's only contracted for five appearances in this contract.
Or are we counting in-ring work as an appearance?
So he's done a wrestling trip later.
A wrestling, yeah.
Him and Triple H is the plan for WrestleMania.
They're saying that they don't expect him tonight.
That he's not infilly.
But I thought the redden black was an interesting choice.
But I think he didn't want to get his black and white mixed up with the NWL black and white.
First then somehow.
And he's wearing a T&A glove,
check it out on T&A shop.com.
Yeah.
Yeah, not actually told about that.
I was like, really?
You said the meme where it was like, shop T&A and T&A and T&A and T&A and T&A and T&A and T&A and T&A.
Promote T&A and raw.
Here we go.
But I thought it was really well done.
Of course, that place exploded.
I mean, you were there, don't you?
Yes.
Was it just deafening?
Oh, I mean, I was 50, 50 and going.
But the APA is what my deciding thing was.
That's so what the heck, 20 bucks.
When he went up there, the whole, the whole arena just everybody stood up.
Everybody is like, whoa, like it was worth it.
It was easily worth it.
All right, so let's talk about something that happened off camera that you didn't see,
which may be my favorite story of the week.
Apparently during the main event, there was a kid sitting behind the announced table,
was he couldn't have been older than six or seven.
Started freaking out, like freaking out, triple H noticed it.
And this actually made good morning America.
They were on GGMA talking about this.
He broke character completely.
Walked over to the kid and was like, look, we're just playing.
It's just pretend it's cool.
And just basically hugged this kid and was like, no, it's okay.
This is just, we're just acting.
And Stephanie actually joined him.
And then afterwards, they brought the kid back stage and showed him everything that
goes on behind the scenes.
Which I thought that's a great story.
But it was, but it was really, I thought it was a nice moment.
Yeah.
You know, my mom smarted me up when I was little, little, little.
You know, but a lot of parents, they want their kids to have that illusion.
And when your kids freaking out that bad, that guy in charge
come over and break character.
But people, people were actually tweeting out pictures of it, like,
as it was happening.
Which, you know what, I give credit, we're credit to do.
So congratulations to you guys for doing that.
God bless you.
Lesnar is scheduled for Raw tomorrow night.
So, I just, this thing, this thing tonight's going to get weird.
I just, and I want to talk about Joey Styles' theory in just a minute.
This is the first paper view where I completely confused backwards on.
And I don't know what I can't debate you.
I can't debate you.
I can't debate you.
Exactly.
Like, when was the last time we could sit in this studio and not map out the whole paper view?
Yeah.
And none of the outcomes look interesting for a Roman reign.
No, you can't get the wrong path.
No.
But even now, given some of the theories I'm hearing, I'm doubting that now.
I'm doubting a Roman reign's win.
It's just, my brain is melting.
No.
It's not enough heat.
No, you should have.
You should have read or seen the conversation me and Rob had early this morning.
Yeah.
And we're going to talk about that here.
I want to talk about when we run the card.
Laila reported injured and had surgery last week.
She is denying it and saying that the surgery was a personal surgery.
And she's going to be back in no time.
She got the tubes.
You have a big fan of the Laila for me, heat dancer.
Joey Styles is a great theory, though.
This theory is that Lesnar loses the title without getting pinned.
He inserts himself in the rumble and wins.
I'm like, you know what?
I'm kind of on board with that.
I like it.
I think that's smart-booking.
It keeps something fresh.
And then it makes Brock Lesnar re-relevant again.
Because he's been off for so long.
You almost just like, eh, he's there.
But now with that happening, you're like, oh, you dropped the belt from him.
Kind of like, kind of like edge that a few years ago in a elimination chamber.
Yeah.
When he lost his belt, not to Kofi, I got in the other chamber in one.
Yeah.
It's just smart-booking because if someone's kind of going to stale a little bit and
you notice, that's the way to kind of jump him back and put what he had to see in
a win.
No, it'd be wrong.
Who's there?
Who's there?
Well, we'll talk about it.
We'll talk about it in a minute.
Justin Gabriel has apparently quit.
Yeah.
He's my pick for the rumble.
We do drug test on this.
Did you see a punk apparently quit the day of the rumble?
Yeah.
We're going to talk just a one quick thing about SmackDown because SmackDown really didn't
do much for me this week.
Right in the beginning, when King says that we're on the road to the Russell Mania and
we're in the fast lane, I want to see, I see what you did there.
Because that's the February paper view now.
It's fast lane.
Yeah.
And apparently a couple of the matches have been leaked for this February paper view.
Don't expect a lot.
Mark Henry versus the Great Collie might have helped me, it might as well be.
He's gone.
What do you talk about it?
I mean, you're looking at, one of the things I heard was like, it was like
scene and Roman Reigns and attack match versus, I just lost it versus like Frenchy
and somebody else like, this is a paper view match and Brock Lesnar sent on card
a bit.
Probably not.
I'm not.
But we do want to talk a little bit about impact, I don't have any impact.
Headlines for you this week, but I do have a couple of impact points I would like to talk
about.
First of all, Josh Matthews, I don't know who's feeding him, but they need to stop.
Because last week we did the bit where Jeff Hardy, what did you, about going to ask
about this, even?
That Jeff Hardy spot where he ran across the rope?
Yes.
That was cool.
Yeah, no, I like it.
But now you're referring, and he was like, that's not old school.
I was like, you better watch yourself, son.
But then he starts, everybody here on Friday night impact.
Easy killer.
It's just, it's not, it's not getting stupid with it.
I think he still has a transition from SmackDownia and what in doing.
But this was, yeah, Josh Matthews is your lead announcer.
It's hitting guy out of Mike today.
Mike today's doing their Saturday morning show.
It's called un-uncaged or something.
Yeah.
Thank goodness, they got rid of it.
It's actually better.
It really is.
Today's never been a lead guy to me.
He was great as a color guy on SmackDown or on a nightrope, but.
I don't think I remember him by his him, y'all, that Jeff cheers.
No, but I loved him on nitro when he was the guy that would give you the backgrounds
on all these guys.
Like, that was a great job for him, but as a lead announcer, I was never a fan.
But let me ask you this, sir, because you and I are the only ones that watch this show.
Yay.
We had, okay.
Well, we had a feaster fire this week.
Here's my question.
Now that we've gone back to the sixth sighted ring, should we go to six briefcases?
That'd be interesting.
I thought four briefcases on a six sighted ring just didn't look like the thing is on the
feaster fire with the six briefcases.
What would we do with six brief?
Here's what you do.
We have two more, right?
You need two more, right?
Have two tag team title shots.
And whoever gets those two, that's the two that have to go for the title.
That was my first original idea.
Okay, that's what my first thought.
And then your sixth one could be like a wild card where I get to pick no, I can pick
any title I want to go for.
But if they made, what if they made that the money in the bank style where it's just
a 24, seven rule, like 24, seven title, it's like, cash in it in right now.
Yeah, there you go.
They're six.
And then you see like, lastly job, the bill at a Chuck E. Cheese on a Sunday in the parking
line.
While the guy's wearing a crash holly shirt, yeah, we bring back the TV title.
I'm okay with that, too.
I just, I just think that the four briefcases on the six sighted ring looked kind of
one key to me.
They can even sell out of Chuck E. Cheese, don't give them, hey, they're doing well in New
York.
I can't hate right now.
And not anymore, because that was what the TV title was, it's kind of a midcard title.
Kenny King, you and I are both fans.
Why can't he use the pretty boy put pitbull thing more?
Because I like that name and it's in his, is Twitter handle, it's pv2 at the end of
his Twitter handle.
Because they're trying to like have him overheal and then that, I guess it's kind
of somewhat of a face tactic.
But like it's also with Dolph Ziggler did.
So I don't know.
I don't know exactly why.
But Dolph Ziggler's things still say heal Ziggler, yeah, but I don't know.
I guess they're like thinking that's too face.
I didn't know that him and Nash were tight, but Nash tweeted right before Raw on Monday,
looking forward to catching up with my boy at Heal Ziggler.
So apparently him and Nash are real close.
And you know what, what they did with Lashley and in the ring, not the street fight was
what it was, but him on the mic, what they did with him perfect, don't let him cut
a promo.
Because it's like the first time you heard Mike Tyson talk.
But all he was bringing my title now, that's it, don't let him cut a full blown promo
because that's why you had him with MVP to begin with.
So we're the ones to talk right into it, so for the ones who don't have that channel,
did the three men and black, separate, yeah, they straight up beat the crap out of it.
Yeah, he's, he's face now, the BDC took him out.
Hey, but you, you, you, you, you're like the new crew, though, you got low key.
Uh-huh.
So Mojo.
Uh-huh.
And then he was.
Yeah, he was kind of a he, but he's not with them, but he's just kind of there.
He agrees with this.
They're the BDC, the beat down crew, or beat down clan.
I don't, although I don't like NBC, but you can refer to us as the clan.
Let's back off on that, but I kind of, what, what it is, is MVP's using the, the reasoning
of him and Loki and Joe worked all the floor to independence together.
So that's like his family.
And then Kenny King's just, he's been with him for the last six months.
I, I think it's a good, we were talking about this in pre-show.
I think it's a good stable, but you've got to have a face stable to face off against them,
not just a bunch of random guys.
Now, whether that means we're going to get a Bobby Lashley, Bobby rude thing or not?
You know, Bobby's world.
Oh, for my tag team.
Um, but you know, because you know, I'm a Bobby rude fan, so I'm good with anything
that they do is because the guy, the guy, him, and I'll say a beer money, should have
signed away two years ago, but that's just me.
And I'll admit this, and we were talking about this right before we went on an air destination
America is all in with TNA.
Because on Thursday nights, you get last week's impact, this week's impact, and they're
doing like Nitro, where they show it again after the premier showing of this week's
impact, and then they're doing their other Saturday morning show in the middle of the
night on Thursdays, like you're, you're getting like eight hours of TNA straight destination
America, um, what, who's your, who's your cable system?
This, this, this, this, I thought it was on this, I thought it was on that channel.
What does the show besides extreme guard, it's, it's like, it's, it's like, it's, it's kind
of like, lifetime moving at work without the chick stuff, and they don't promote their
own product a lot around CNA, which is weird.
But I will say this, if you're going to promote impact on other stations like during
raw, make the commercials in HD, please.
The commercials are in standard definition, and it just looks like hell.
And so we get to the end for Feaster Fired, and I thought this was pretty good booking.
First of all, you get Rockstar Spud gets the exhibition title shot, so maybe he finally
gets the push.
The tag team title spot goes to Magnus, and after Magnus and Bram are feuding backstage,
it begs the question of who's going to be his tag team partner.
So it gets down, we get, hold on, stay with me.
It gets down to the last two, and it's Austin Aries and Robby E.
Stay with me.
Stay with me, Ellen.
So Robby E's like, I could get a shot to World Heavyweight title, and then it dawns
on him with the other unopened briefcase, and he starts freaking out.
And obviously it goes, I must be the dumbest guy in the planet, or I'm the smartest wrestler
in the world, because here's what happens.
During the match, Rockstar Spud, it was, Rockstar Spud that they were, that they were
being mean to.
I thought it was, it was somebody.
And, uh, velvet climbed the turnbuckles and grabbed the briefcase and gave it to Robby
E.
And so Robby E goes, I didn't grab the briefcase.
It doesn't belong to me.
It belongs to her.
I am the smartest man ever, and it was the fired briefcase.
So Austin Aries gets your World title shot, which I'm okay with.
But the question becomes, because I don't know what velvet's contract status is, and we
know Bowley's gone, and the rumors are the Dudley boys may be there tonight.
Yeah.
Bowley's been gone from TNA for a few months now, so I think, honestly, it seems bound
for glory.
But the rumor is that the Dudley boys may be on the paper of you tonight.
So the question begs, if they sell this bit, does velvet show up?
That'd be hilarious.
That'd be correctness.
Here's my, here's some point, just thought about this.
All three Hall of Famous and TNA are with the WWE now.
No, not all of them.
No, not all of them.
Oh, my bad.
Yeah.
Angles, the only one that isn't.
Yeah.
But three of the four.
Yeah.
So I thought it was good booking for the end of that show.
And that show, I don't know what it is.
They changed the production value, the production value looks better.
This show was more intriguing than it was two months ago.
It seems like this in America is keeping them, like, holding them responsible for
their quality product.
I like what they're doing with it.
I really do.
They just can't tape so much in advance.
I mean, they're tape and stuff in August.
Baby steps, baby steps, baby steps, baby steps.
Are they, are they back in Florida?
No, they're still in New York.
They're not scheduled to be back in Orlando.
What, Steven, till May?
I thought it was, maybe it's March.
April, April, something like that.
They are going to be doing some tapings in Orlando,
but it's not going to be staying in Orlando.
They don't have a deal with Universal.
So why are you?
Right now, they've been at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
That's what they're doing.
And it's been good for them because they've been actually darkening the lights over the crowd.
So you focus more on what's going on the ring.
It's been really well done.
I like what they're doing with the show.
I can't complain.
So, and it's on Friday night, too.
So there's not competing with anything?
So, so that was actually,
Vince's, I guess, make a move with Dixie that we'll move back to Thursdays.
And we'll let you guys dance.
I don't think they announced Friday until after SmackDown announced.
Did they see them?
Well, SmackDown was kind of leaked a long time ago with the Usos 18 Wheeler driving down the highway.
And it said Thursday night.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
If we got about that.
You are the smartest man alive because once Hogan left,
they're starting to do these smart things.
See?
I said it from the get go.
Hogan was sent there to tear it down from the inside out.
I'm taking that.
I'm taking that.
Think about that.
All right, boys.
Let's run the card real quick.
Pre-show.
We don't have it on in the studio.
Time out.
Did anyone see or hear Ziggler taking a shot at Punk on SmackDown?
No.
I missed that.
Man, that was great.
What was it?
He goes, I'm much rather be here in the company taking all the abuse that I get instead of
going home, sitting on the couch and complaining on someone's podcast.
Why?
Whoa.
I was like, yes.
Yes.
I'm going to do this.
Don's great, T-shirt, by the way.
Yeah.
Pretty bad.
Pretty awesome.
That was my Christmas present.
I'm going to listen to the show.
I wrote that down.
I'm going to print that out.
I'll set my mom's.
What?
Such a cheap pie.
Such the show.
Yeah.
It's even cheaper because I bought it for it.
The cheap pop really is cheap.
I totally.
I'm mick-folding.
I'm mick-folding that thing.
But let's run the card.
We're going to start with the tag team elimination match that is happening during
the pre-show, which we don't know if it's because we can't get it in the studio.
The new day is going to take on Tyson Kids Cesaro and Adam Rose.
This is a tag team elimination match.
I don't see how this benefits anybody but the new day.
What happened to Cesaro?
I like that team, man.
But they're not going to push.
And they haven't pushed Cesaro.
Right.
They never pushed kids.
So it's the tag team of never push.
That's why I said the new day wins.
Chad.
New day probably wins.
Andrew.
New day.
Steven.
New generation.
Tomorrow.
Tomorrow is the new day.
Okay.
I hate to agree.
But yeah.
New day.
I think it's a clean sweep.
New age outlaws versus the ascension.
Okay.
Me the road border.
We're pops.
The body.
The body genetic.
And this.
But isn't this also on the pre-show?
Or is this on the main card?
This is on the card.
Oh dear.
This may lead it off.
Not the way they've been going lightly.
You think about last last paper.
They let off with the match that nobody can keep up with.
I think this turned into a double DQ because I really just don't want to pick this match.
Chad.
I don't know where you can go with this because they just continually bury.
I think JBL comes out from behind the table and caught just shenanigans.
So it just said no decision.
Because I think it's going to be.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No clear winner.
Okay.
Steven.
I'm just going to take the outlaws.
The new age outlaws.
New age outlaws.
The old age.
The old age.
The old age.
That's why I said age to LA.
I'm going to go with the essential and then a beat down on the new age to make a point.
Okay.
I can't see them.
This ancient jobbing.
I have to go with the essentials as much as I hate them.
Okay.
Fair enough.
It's all the essentials I've been doing.
Steven's tag team match because apparently we can't defend the title on a paper view.
Page and Natalia versus the Bellas.
Yay.
This could go one of two ways.
Literally.
If the Bellas win it just furthers the heel heat.
But you could also have it where you have the Natalia page split that sets up for something
down the road.
Chat.
I'll agree with you on that.
Andrew.
Bellas win by a velvet sky.
Whoa.
Okay.
You're going to put her in there.
Okay.
Fair enough.
Steven.
You're a big page man.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I probably won't care about this match unless awesome Kong shows up.
Oh, but she won't because she's side with her.
There we go.
There were people talking today that like have a kid left because she was on a shimmer event this weekend.
Yes.
And Bob Ryder came out and went.
Guys.
She's under contract.
It's okay.
Yeah.
You know, a lot of wrestlers with shimmer wrestled for more promotion.
Especially for TNA because there's a lot of cross over there.
LA.
I'm taking it's going to be a dark match because I'm.
The new day match was earlier.
John.
Wow.
That means two things.
Racist though.
I don't get that.
Oh, dear.
On this one.
Yes.
My thought is on this.
Who cares.
I'll probably be take the bathroom break at that time.
And the sad part is that I'll probably the match right before the rumble to.
Yeah.
I'll give it to.
I'll give it to the Palace.
Who cares.
Tag team titles on the line.
Usos versus Miz and Miz now.
I don't know that you move the title yet.
I think this is what happens.
They lose the match.
And I think this is where you start.
This separation between Miz and Miz now.
Because it was already started on raw.
With the usos getting in as a year.
Chad.
Hmm.
But it may be wishful thinking too.
How long have they had this belt?
Survivor series.
Wouldn't it?
That's when the usos got it back.
Yeah.
So two paper views.
Hmm.
That may be a little soon to move it.
But.
Now.
I think they drop them.
Okay.
Andrew.
Miz and Miz now.
Alright.
Steven.
The starter brothers.
Now you get Miz now to come out as Rick Steiner.
Now you got something.
Yeah.
Alright.
I'll take the usos to take the belts.
LA.
Well, when it comes to my decision.
Uh-huh.
It's not that way here.
Oh, no.
When it comes to my decision.
Yeah.
This is an audio medium.
Nobody can see this.
Oh, they can't.
I don't know.
Because we all have faces for radio.
But I'm going to say that.
It's not time for the cut scene yet.
Okay.
Okay.
We're going to have Miz and the Miz down.
Get the titles.
As long as I get the subtitle.
That's all I want.
WWE.
We're all heavyweight champions.
No, no.
I thought you were going to start double.
Don't you try to act.
Talk.
Alright.
I'm waiting on you then.
Dude.
You're going to say something.
Okay.
WWE.
We're all heavyweight champions.
Chip on the line in a triple threat match.
Lesnar.
Cena.
Rollins.
As much as I like Joey Styles' theory.
I still think Lesnar retains.
And I think he pins Rollins because that's going to continue the face turn.
Chad.
Yeah.
That was way too much face heat.
If that's where they're going.
That's on the face.
That they're stupid if they do anything.
But that.
Andrew.
Lesnar's going to win.
Alright.
Steven.
I want Rollins.
But I'm taking Lesnar.
LA.
I want Rollins as well.
But if Lesnar doesn't see.
Oh god.
For those of you that don't know he has.
LA can handle any wrestlers failure to John Cena in three steps or less.
Okay.
But I don't really know about this face thing.
Well Lesnar because if that's the case.
What happens to John Cena?
They're already saying.
But they're already saying this.
Cena's not going to be in the title picture.
WrestleMania.
He's making.
He'll just go proglessner.
He's making the Marine.
He did that last week.
He's making the Marine.
He did that last week.
He did that last week.
He's making the Marine.
He did that last week.
He's been done.
The day I hear 16 time champion.
I'm going to throw up.
Roll.
He the same day.
I can say.
They.
The same day that.
That has as many Hall of Fame rings as Rickson.
Yeah.
Exactly.
I'm.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
Let's talk to Rumble.
I don't even have a full list in this thing yet.
Because you can't have a full list of the rum.
You're going to have so DDP's rumored to be in tonight.
Little back.
Little.
Little.
Little.
Little back.
Like dice.
Punch out.
Um.
But you know.
But King hippo's in TNA now.
So we can't fight him anymore.
Until probably three weeks ago.
Curry.
Hey.
Coney.
Siwa.
I'm trying to.
That's my favorite curry in a moment.
Fire championship.
I wouldn't fire championship.
I wouldn't fire championship.
I wouldn't fire championship.
I'm still.
Until three weeks ago.
I would have totally still been on board with Roman rings.
And he may still win tonight.
But I honestly.
I cannot give you a prediction.
I cannot hold on.
Because I got something to queue up for you.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Chad.
I'm giving this a big IDK.
Yeah.
Because I'm trying to look up our our potential.
But the list keeps changing.
Because they're saying now the ECW originals that we're supposed to be on.
They're not going to be on because they don't want ECW guys getting a bigger pop than
the main roster guys because they're in Philly.
They would get a bigger pop anywhere.
You wouldn't jump to me.
Yeah.
I'm still.
Andrew Beckham wins the Royal Rumble.
I'm going to do this.
It's not all.
It's not all.
Hey yo.
I'm really not in this match.
But if I win.
Andrew.
Harry almost won.
Okay.
You want to have the 22.
They've announced.
You want to go from that.
The two fixed Scott Hall throws wins the Rumble.
We got Roman Reigns Daniel Bryan Rusev.
Bad news Barrett.
Ray Wyatt.
Dean Ambrose.
Gold Dust.
Star Dust.
Big Show Kane.
The Miz.
Miz.
Our truth.
Sigler.
Ryback.
Fondango.
Luke Harper.
Jimmy Uso.
Jay Uso.
Diego.
Fernando.
Are no longer on the list.
They were taken off this morning.
This.
Okay.
Yeah.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
Rowans on the list.
Because he lost his match on SmackDown.
Which took him out of the Rumble.
Okay.
I did.
Here.
Shameless.
No.
For Rumble.
I heard that as well.
Yeah.
He went on this list.
Okay.
So Steven.
Okay.
So Steven.
So Steven texted me this morning with an interesting theory.
Which has been the B plan for the last two wrestle manias.
You took my thunder.
That's what I was going to say.
Dwayne Johnson is in Philly.
He's there.
He has also been seen at the hotel where the other superstars are.
That is true.
Can you imagine if this comes down to WWE is even reporting it on their website.
This comes down to the rock and Roman Reigns.
But, Steven, I'll let you go ahead with your theory.
And then I'm going to add two afterwards.
Okay.
Well, my theory was Vince is still worried about numbers.
Because you look at what's been leaking the last couple weeks.
Everyone wants Daniel Bryan Lesnar.
That's not going to happen.
Everyone wanted Roman Reigns for the future.
Roman Reigns won't be put over well with Brock Lesnar.
Because Brock Lesnar is never put on product and on.
And those are also two guys that work real stiff.
Yeah.
You have the rock who's just a household name everywhere.
Right.
So if you want to really build this mega star in Roman Reigns.
So you're going to put them against Brock Lesnar who's known to the like the fighting world
in the WWE world or the entire world with the rock.
And so you want to have someone get put over the right way.
Almost like how Brock finally got put over the right way when he fought Hogan at 18.
Kind of love that match.
So that's why I think rock wins.
Because Vince has been trying to pipe this match for two years now.
And he's been debating with age over six months.
Brock Lesnar will make more than Reigns.
Lesnar.
Now let me play devil's advocate for you.
Because I've with you.
But there's one small caveat to that.
Or you punk returns.
I would lose my lower.
Oh.
But here's my thing.
If you do that.
You now have two years in a row or a part-time guy wins.
The rumble when goes to main event wrestle.
Mania reference Batista.
What do you think?
What do you think that means?
Remember.
Rock was face going to face Hogan turned heel on the match.
Because they were wrong.
Because they were wrong.
No.
Because the crowd reaction.
Yeah.
In Toronto.
Because he's a good thing.
You think.
Rock gets booted out for winning the match.
Because he's a part-time guy.
And Lesnar's on this face pop turn.
Oh.
That's not a party would rock saying I don't need you guys.
I can come whenever I want to.
That's brilliant.
That's brilliant.
That's brilliant.
That's brilliant.
Now granted.
Remember.
We're talking wrestling.
So.
But that'd be some damn book book.
That's my thunder that's you stole that I stole back.
Here's a problem.
This is not going to be rock and rock first time.
They faced each other for the championship.
No, too.
Yeah.
But this is 13 years later.
This is where they're both a lot more popular and both bigger than what.
And these guys do not like each other.
And here's my pick then.
I was going to stay.
Don't bring it down a bit.
I was going to say Justin Gabriel, but he's out.
Stop it.
Shark boys talking to be on there.
So I'm going to go with the rock.
What the hell?
I think it's a value.
Well, we talk about breaking news.
Breaking news.
Okay.
The new day loses.
Oh, they've lost.
I said kids destroy the new day by himself and wins the match.
It says Tyson kid.
And this is all.
After a kid finishes them off.
Both with suplexes and a suplex hooked pin.
So we've now lived to see the day for a Tyson kid push.
Yeah.
I'm going.
You're right in the microphone, sir.
Okay.
I'm going.
For a brand new.
Even though you're.
You guys just shot it.
You're out.
Same.
Same.
Same.
Same.
I was asking them to shoot for a mid part of this.
Bruce said.
Bruce said for the.
I just.
Because we've got to start the future sometime.
And I agree with that theory.
I did he do you start with.
Rains is a feature.
I just don't.
I just don't think Romans where they thought he would be at this point.
It was this about the month ago.
Ray.
Why.
Oh, you know what?
Austin's on board with that pick.
Austin has said he'd like to see.
Ray.
Why in the rumble.
Which one of the legends picked that in that roundtable.
I don't know.
I believe it was.
I think it was hope.
No.
It was.
It was.
It was.
It was.
Okay.
And then he proceeded to get knocked out.
Yeah.
But again.
This is the brilliance of this rumble.
It's everything is so up in the air.
There's nothing that we can set in stone.
And I can't think of the last time we said that on this show.
And we've been covering paper views for four and a half years.
There is a potential and a genuine potential for greatness.
Yeah.
A genuine potential for greatness tonight.
A genuine potential.
Frenchy wins.
We don't watch Wrestlemania.
I did.
The Frenchy wins.
We complain online.
Okay.
So we've run the card.
Now let's grade the card.
Chad.
We will start with you as we normally do.
A minus.
Okay.
Fair enough.
Andrew.
Listings on the card.
I'll give it a beat.
Okay.
Steven.
I'm tweenering between the solid A and A minus.
Okay.
I was going to give it something.
I'll give it a beat plus to the diva's match and the new day match.
So I'm giving it a beat plus.
L.A.
Mary in the card match.
I don't count that one anymore.
I can go anywhere from a C plus to a minus.
I'm saying.
So it'll be a bad favor.
At least average.
For me.
I'm saying a B plus just because I want to give a little bit of margin for error.
Oh yeah.
But it definitely has the potential to be the best paper view we've watched in a long time.
I'm losing sight of L.A.
from that limb.
He just went out on.
I can't lose.
I can't see you.
And honestly.
I can't see you.
You want.
So Chad's failure on the show from here on can be credited to John Cena.
Do this podcast.
This is better than capital punishment.
And I got to be honestly say.
I couldn't be happier with the group of people watching this.
No.
There's only one person missing.
And that's because he's in Utah right now.
Docs on vacation.
So.
So I'm sure he's going to be watching it somewhere up there.
So Doc.
Did you just try to speak?
Clearboard.
Don.
No.
That's only when we go to underscore vacation.
All right.
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Is the Royal Rumble fell us?
You know it.
We will be off next week.
Next week's is Super Bowl.
We're not going to do a show during the Super Bowl.
It's just not smart.
Yeah.
In my display.
Your balls.
You're a little to play our egos for nobody to listen.
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