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Today on Not Sam wrestling, it's time to examine what will John Cena do as a heel? How did Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, and Centimeters Punk become a contender for the main event of WrestleMania? Drew McIntyre has done it again, and what another week. Another week for EO Sky. This is not Sam wrestling. This is not Sam wrestling, not Sam wrestling. Introducing your host from New York. Here is Sam Roberts. Here he is. Here he is. And there could be no more important time for him to be here, him being me, the last professional broadcaster, Sam Roberts. As we are on this road, baby, Tis the season. It's WrestleMania season. Everything is heating up. Everything is changing, and you have to look around every corner to try to figure out what exactly is going on in this corner is my favorite of all. Welcome to Not Sam Wrestling. And I will tell you, as I'm jotting my notes down, as I'm as I'm writing my rundown for everything that I wanna cover today, and it is an extensive rundown, I go on Instagram and I see on three sixteen day of all days, Sunday, March sixteenth, Stone Cold Steve Austin decided to post. Fanatics decided to post. WWE, the announcement is made. Okay? And this is the only announcement. On April 19, Saturday, and April, Stone Cold Steve Austin will be in Las Vegas as he will be at WWE World doing meet and greets. Now this is exciting enough. I'm sure everybody when these tickets go on sale for these meet and greets are gonna go crazy. Imagine being there for WrestleMania weekend at WrestleMania forty one and part of this extravaganza is you get to meet Stone Cold Steve Austin. Huge for any wrestling fan. However, with all the talk with this, great as the end of WrestleMania forty was last year with the Undertaker and Cena and The Rock and everybody. Everybody's sitting there going back into childhood. All of us of a certain age just regressing and feeling those feelings again because ultimately, that's what it's all about, isn't it? Feelings. Just the knowledge. This has completely changed the way we must discuss the possibilities for WrestleMania forty one, and it said it in two ways because we can't get our hopes up. Because too often, we come up with these dream scenarios. And when the actual scenario differs from our dream scenario in any way, we get disappointed as if we were entitled to our dream scenario, and that's not what's going on here. The WWE is not putting Stone Cold Steve Austin to do meet and greets because they're trying to tell us something. The only thing they're trying to tell us is if you'd like to meet and greet Stone Cold Steve Austin, here's when you can do it and the amount of money that you could pay to do it. However, however, when we are speculating speculating wildly I can barely even get through rule number two because I'm so excited about this. When speculating wildly, you have to remember rule number three. Everything counts. And this ain't, you know, Stone Cold Steve Austin being on the side of a truck and everybody reading too much into it. This is the fact that of all days for him to be confirmed in Las Vegas, WrestleMania Night One and WrestleMania night two, are the days that Stone Cold Steve Austin has been confirmed to be in Las Vegas. Of all days, when we're talking about Cody Rhodes being in a scenario where he may need help, Stone Cold Steve Austin against The Rock and John Cena, Stone Cold Steve Austin is confirmed to be in Las Vegas. When we're having all this conversation about Paul Heyman guys and Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins and, most importantly, Centimeters Punk, Stone Cold, Steve Austin is confirmed to be in Las Vegas. Am I announcing anything? No. Am I speculating wildly? You better believe it because it is our duty. Now you know I'm confirmed to be in Las Vegas as well. April 17, the Thursday before WrestleMania, I'll be bringing Not Sam Wrestling live to the Comedy Cellar in Las Vegas. If you don't have tickets yet, they're already starting to get scooped up, so grab them now. You know every time we do a live podcast, it is not something you wanna miss, especially when it all goes down, WrestleMania weekend. And WrestleMania weekend will officially start Thursday, April 17, '5 PM local time. The Comedy Cellar in Las Vegas is where we will be doing a live Not Sam wrestling. You can get tickets on Ticketmaster. You can get a direct link at notsam.com, but you're gonna wanna be in Vegas. I mean, we talk about what's so and by the way, we made other announcements about on the Raw recap. We made other announcements about fanatics fest, but these are superstars we kind of knew were gonna be at WrestleMania. Now we got Stone Cold Steve Austin at WWE World, WrestleMania week. Well, it just it just it just adds a lot of fuel to the fire that is already there, and that fire really centers around the fact that as much as is going on at WrestleMania, as much activity is happening. You got your Roman Reigns. You have your Centimeters punks. You have your Rhea Ripley's and EOs. We'll talk we'll talk about all of it, but, ultimately, we are at the point where I feel as though John Cena versus Cody Rhodes has gone down the road and is on the road to becoming one of those iconic WrestleMania matches. It's not just an exhibition. It's not just two baby faces going at it from two different eras to find out who's the best. It's super babyface Cody Rhodes versus super heel John Cena, and that to me could it's hard to say now, but the same way we talk about the John Cena heel turn and are already talking about where it ranks as top heel turns of all time. And I think whoever you ask will easily put it in the top three, and it ain't three. So if we can already say that, I think we can already say. The bad guy John Cena versus good guy Cody Rhodes. Cody defending the title he won a year ago versus John Cena trying to get that seventeenth world title now selfishly. I think that's gonna be up there on the pantheon of main events. That's gonna be up there maybe with Hogan Andre, maybe with Hogan Rock. You know, those iconic I mean, and a lot of them feature even Hogan Warrior, I would put up there just when you start thinking about those iconic matches, Austin Rock, that have taken place at WrestleMania, I mean, Cody Cena, you would have to imagine, would be up there. And I think that a lot of it is going to depend on what John Cena truly embodies, truly looks like, truly acts like as a full fledged villain. Who is John Cena as a heel? And Triple h said that in one of the many controversial comments that is destroying the fabric of kayfabe. Meanwhile, we have the best story. How can kayfabe be being destroyed at the same time as we have the best stories in wrestling? How can both be happening simultaneously? Somehow, depending on who you listen to, they are. But what triple h said after the elimination chamber at the press conference was, I don't know what a healed John Cena looks like, and none of us do. And that's going to put so much weight on on what the main event of WrestleMania is going to be when you do we now have are are a couple of weeks removed from John Cena turning heel on Cody Rhodes. And the conversation about who and what John Cena is hasn't stopped. We're getting a taste of it for the first time this week, but but but what does it look like in that big picture way? Right? I don't think John Cena's gonna shave his head. I don't I I to an we still have to know this is John Cena. He can't fully transform, but he also can't give us the version of heel John Cena that we love. We love the doctor of thuganomics. We think that the doctor of thuganomics is great when the doctor of thuganomics showed up to, what was it, WrestleMania thirty five? I wanna say it was WrestleMania thirty five in New York, and he confronted Elias. We loved seeing the doctor of thuganomics again in that throwback jersey. It can't be the old heel John Cena because this is the first time that John Cena as a heel is a heel because he's at the top of the industry. Now when did all of this start? People have gone back to as as far back as a year ago when when Rock was attacking Cody Rhodes and John Cena's face was right there on the truck. Now I have never been one of these people that goes the faces on the truck mean something. And rule number three is everything counts. So I definitely think that they merit a discussion. I'm not poop and that's what everything counts means, and we'll talk about everything counts because there's another match that I think is gonna get added or I hope is gonna get added to WrestleMania that is a truly everything counts match in the story. But I don't think the faces on the trucks are an everything counts scenario. I think sometimes it's an Easter egg. I think sometimes they are added in. It's everything counts could mean that it was done on purpose just to get people talking. But, ultimately, if the truck pointed to anything, it would have been John Cena's run-in during the bloodline rules match. Right? I mean, that that that was there. That spoke for itself. There's been a lot that's happened since then. But I think that I do think that this wasn't one of those scenarios. Some would have you believe that the day of elimination chamber, you know, everything got changed and a decision was made. I I don't buy that at all. I think that if you just trace it back that this character was burned out of John Cena losing the Royal Rumble and what he said at the press conference. What he said at the press conference after the Royal Rumble that he is basically saying that instead of what he said earlier, he's going back on his word. He said he was coming back to the WWE. He's gonna earn everything. He acknowledged that his win loss record has not been great. He acknowledged that he was gonna have to earn his way back in the main event of WrestleMania, and then by the end of the Royal Rumble, he'd completely gone back on his word saying that he thought that he was entitled to what was best for business. What's best for business is for him to be the champion, he said, which is a very selfish way to look at the business. And he said, so what's best for business is that I'm in the elimination chamber, and that's the way it's gonna be. And you hear people complaining. I wanna see John Cena. Why don't we see John Cena on television building up to the Royal Rumble? Of course. I mean, building up to the elimination chamber. And the reason is because he's a villain already. He's already a bad guy. This is what we said about The Rock when he was a villain. This Hollywood Rock. The guys that this is John Cena, mister always show up, mister hustlety hustle loyalty and respect, not displaying those things. This is we already have the foundation, but we had all developed such an appreciation for everything that John Cena has done into over the last twenty years. And we're so excited about this nostalgia run for John Cena where we're buying T shirts in every city. I already have two of the exclusive John Cena City T shirts, you know, from where I saw him in different cities. You got to. I got the Indianapolis shirt. I got the Toronto shirt because it's just such a fun thing, we thought. But I think that that's where the foundation is laid for this character to turn heel because that's where he started acting like a heel. And and and this is such an exciting thing because it's it's kind of reminiscent of what The Rock did a year ago when it felt like The Rock versus Roman Reigns for the three days that it felt like that match might actually happen. It seemed like if you go back to day one Raw last year and then The Rock showing up after the Royal Rumble, it was almost just like The Rock is gonna play the greatest hits, show up, and have a match with Roman Reigns. And then The Rock got keyed into the fact that wrestling's changed. The Rock kind of looked at the scene around him and was like, oh, things have changed. The audience, while they're aware, there's a lot of new people in the audience. The audience loves the current crop of guys, and the audience wants new. The audience wants to see the legends, but they always want new. So not only is the main event between Cody and Roman Reigns actually more compelling, but they don't want The Rock to play the greatest hits. What's even better than The Rock playing the greatest hits is The Rock doing something new. And now we've got John Cena who's coming in, and instead of playing the greatest hits like we were ready for and we're all celebrating, John Cena is doing the unthinkable. He's doing something new. He's a villain. You know? I I I think that that that as far as traits go, this this should be an easy shift. Right? You don't have to lose the passion. John Cena's passion and desire for greatness should maintain. It should just be the way that he gets that pat the the the way that he uses that passion and the way that he gets that greatness, that to me is where he should demonstrate being a villain. You know? All all everything that made him Super Cena. All you have to do is flip that motivation and add a little bit of resentment for the fact that people booed him. He can now finally really, like, lay into the fact that everybody's appreciating him now, but the only reason that they're able to appreciate him now is because he had to walk through those flames of the boos everywhere that he went. He had to give up his life for wrestling so that he could walk into an arena and hear every grown man in the building, 16 and up, chanting John Cena sucks. John Cena sucks. Bring that in. Explain that to me. Tell me that you're a human being that felt that, that had to fight through that and that maybe celebrating it with the same people that said that is not something that he wants to do. He did he doesn't appreciate that. And the fact that now he shows up and people resent the fact that it that he's got a that that he skipped steps. People people expect him to earn absolutely everything as if none of that counts. No. No. No. No. Everything counts. We all know that. Right? I mean, think about it. Right? John Cena showed up with all kinds of of humility, with with so much reverence for everything that was going on in the WWE like I just said, talking about earning everything. But what happens? What would happen? Right? That's all well and good when you announce halfway through 2024 that you will be back in 2025, and don't worry, you're ready to earn everything. And then you get here at the premiere of Netflix and you reiterate that, don't worry, I'm gonna earn everything. But the reason that you say that is because you're pretty sure you're gonna win the Royal Rumble. You're John Cena. The reason that you say that is because you're ready to earn everything. Except what happens when you're on the apron and Jey Uso shoves you in the back, and now you're off the apron. And all of a sudden, instead of the greatest of all time winning the Royal Rumble, the guy from The Usos wins the Royal Rumble. And I'm John Cena, and I gotta sit there and be like, okay. Well, just, gee golly, keep earning it. And then on the way to the elimination chamber, I got people on the roster, whether you're Centimeters Punk, whether you're Drew McIntyre, resenting the fact that I don't I'm not wrestling a qualifying match. Do you know the business that I'm bringing into this place? And I gotta I gotta turn on the TV while I'm filming a movie, trying to get more awareness for me and for the business and for what I'm doing, and I gotta turn this TV on and and hear people on my show that I built complaining that I didn't get I have to wrestle a qualifying match, excuse me, for the royal for for the elimination chamber? A qualifying match? Excuse me? Then I get to the elimination chamber and people are calling their shots. People are acting like, this one's gonna win, that one's gonna win. Some ignoring that I'm even in the thing. Excuse me? 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Unlock a healthier, easy way to eat with huell, nutritionally complete meals in minutes so you can focus on what really matters. And then Cody Rhodes is worried about The Rock when I'm over here the greatest of all time, and Cody's just like, yeah. This will be fun anyway, Rock. Excuse me? No. No. No. No. No. What if John Cena's feet landed on the ground in 2025 in WWE and he goes, wait a minute. I'm here to win the title. Like, I know we're all having fun, but ultimately, this ain't fun if I'm not winning the title. So if you guys think that I'm just here to not win the world title, but maybe just have a good time, you're dead wrong. And that's the vibe that I'm getting. What happens if the reason that he was able to be cool with everybody leading up to this is because he thought it was a given that he'd win that title. And when he realized that maybe in this current state of the WWE, being friendly ain't gonna get him the title, he has to do what he did. He has to sell his soul to The Rock. He has to snap, and he has to remind everybody because they they wanna say he's the greatest of all time, but they're putting him on the pain no mind list. I mean, when you think about John Cena, who was gracious to John Cena? When John Cena was coming up, who was gracious to him? Was Edge gracious to him? No. Was Randy Orton gracious? No. Centimeters Punk. Was Centimeters Punk gracious to John Cena? No. Centimeters Punk sat cross legged on a stage and credited John Cena's success to John Cena being an a*s kisser on television. And what about the legends that came before him? Were they gracious to John Cena? No. The Rock did everything he could to humiliate John Cena week after week on television. Fruity pebbles. We don't remember this. The Rock returned, went to WrestleMania, beat John Cena. John Cena is the one that has to survive for the next year on television. The Rock gets to go away now. After having beaten the top guy, he gets to just kinda leave for a while, and John Cena is the one that has to recover. He'd wait a whole another year before he finally got another match with The Rock, but The Rock was not gracious. So if if if if his people that were wrestling at the same time as him weren't gracious and if the legends that came before him weren't gracious, why is John Cena in a position where he's expected to be gracious? He's not. I think that's gotta be the mentality of this John Cena. So so what is the non gracious? What is the John Cena with no humility in his system look like? Well, first of all, I think Stu the camera guy is out of a job, and we love Stu. For the record, Not Sam Wrestling, one of the top podcasts in support of Stu the camera guy. But I don't think that we have any room for John Cena to let Stu know when it's time to go to work because John Cena is in a position now where there's no on off switch. It's not it's always time to go to work. We're gonna go wreck some people. I don't think that John Cena has to run to the ring anymore, which maybe that'll be good. I mean, Stu's gonna have to figure out another way to get cardio, but John Cena doesn't have to run to the ring anymore because when you're John Cena, they wait for you. And I think that that that running to the ring is is is something that John Cena did because he was hungry because he was hungry to prove to everybody that he deserved to win. He wanted to run to that ring to get to work to prove to everybody how much he wanted to be in that ring, how much he wanted to put the work in, and how much he deserved to win. I don't think John Cena feels like he needs to prove this anymore. I think John Cena might resent the fact that people would be asking him to prove it and thus resent the fact that he should be running to the ring. I mean, he said so at the rumble. He said so in the press conference. His what he's done in this business affords him the opportunity to call his own shots, and this is the shot that he's calling now. You know, I think I think say what you want about John Cena in any era, but John Cena has always been a guy who's all about commitment. John Cena commits. And based on that, I think John Cena is going to be an absolute beast beast of a heel. I think in a very real way, John Cena is gonna make Cody earn everything. You wanna talk about going to work? I think John Cena is gonna do everything in his power to make sure that Cody has to go to work every time he's in the ring with him. You know? I've I've talked about the fact that I believe that there is nobody who does better as a super babyface against a supervillain than Cody Rhodes. There is something about a supervillain that brings out the very best in Cody Rhodes, and I think that that's what John Cena is going to command. John Cena has been rough on people before. John Cena was rough on Roman Reigns. When it was time to pass the torch, John Cena was rough on Roman Reigns. When it was time to have his match, yes, Austin Theory beat John Cena at WrestleMania thirty nine. But boy was John Cena rough on Austin Theory on the way to WrestleMania thirty nine. And by the way, John Cena was rough on Roman Reigns, and he was rough on Austin Theory when he was a babyface. Can you imagine in John Cena's brain what he's allowed to do as a heel? How much he's gonna be allowed to test somebody like Cody Rhodes? Now luckily, if there is anybody that can handle being tested like this, it is Cody Rhodes. I mean, I I I truly believe that John Cena is going to bring out the best in himself as far as a performance goes, and that is going to bring out the best in Cody Rhodes as well. Well, I mean, I I think it's going to be absolutely epic. You know? I I think that that John Cena is going to attempt to do to Cody Rhodes what The Rock attempted to do to John Cena building up to their match at WrestleMania twenty eight. And I think that Cody Rhodes is aware of that. I think Cody Rhodes is a student of the game. I think Cody Rhodes knows that this this match, this pairing is potentially the rising tide. This is the one that's gonna have to raise all ships. This is the one that Roman and Seth and Punk are gonna look at and say that's the level we have to be playing at. That that that EO Sky and Bianca Belair, that's the level we're playing at. That Charlotte and Tiffany, that's the level that we're playing at. Actually, I I hope. I would that's what I would like to see. That's what I think this has the potential to be. You know what I mean? Is John Cena's music gonna change? I mean, I think it probably should. Doesn't really that's such a heroic we all love. Now look. We are also many of us that have been watching WWE for a long time are previously conditioned to boo that sound. This is where the yeah boo came from. When he came back at Madison Square Garden at the Royal Rumble, and what year was that? O eight maybe? New York was so surprised to see him that they couldn't help but cheer. But then as they listened to that music, they remembered, oh, we're New York. We're supposed to boo him. Yeah boo boo. Now look. With Heel John Cena, you don't want the yeah boo because the yeah boo proves that the boo is not authentic. It's the yeah that's authentic. It's the sound that release the sound that comes out of your mouth first is the emotion. The second one is your brain telling you this is what I'm choosing to do. You don't want the yeah boo. Now we are conditioned to boo, but we haven't been booing it because we're happy to see John. And we don't want yeah boos either because we wanna take this heel turn seriously. So by that respect, maybe we should change the music. WrestleMania is gonna hit differently. I think it'll be important if we do and I think we should change the music. Hogan didn't come out to, you know, real American or American made once he went Hollywood Hogan. It would have been absurd. But I think we may because it is WrestleMania, because it's going to be a big entrance, or maybe it won't be because he's such a heel, I think that that music hopefully will be established leading up to WrestleMania because we wanna know what we're doing and why. You know? I think that he's gonna need a a an aesthetic change. Like I said, I don't think he's gonna shave his head. I think maybe his hair will be a little more trimmed up. You know what I mean? Close-cut. Not as fun maybe. Do I think he's gonna wear tights? I don't want him to wear tights, and I'll tell you what, because you go back to Hogan. Right? Hogan I mean, even Shawn. When Shawn Michaels turned heel, the tights that he he didn't completely change his aesthetic. He started wearing the vest, but he was still wearing tights that in a way resembled the Rockers tights. They just didn't have any fringe on them. They were still you know, they had the red zebra patches all over them. You know? When Hogan turned heel, he didn't go full, like, well, Hulk Hogan would have worn that, so I'm gonna wear something different. He just changed up the colors. Right? Right? He started wear I mean, he started wearing long tights, but Hogan had worn long tights at that point before. He gave up the trunks for long tights, but Hogan had had not been shy about wearing yellow or red long tights. In fact, that's what he was wearing at Bash at the Beach, but he went with the black and white, with the lightning bolts, with Hollywood instead of Hulkamania on the weight belt. I think, you know, Seth Rollins. When Seth turned, he dropped the fatigues, but he wore gear that you could still was reminiscent at least of the shield. I think John's gotta remain reminiscent. If John Cena just comes out in trunks, for example, that may be too far of a departure. Maybe we go some kind of maybe a gray cargo short. Right? No jorts at all and not camo either because you went through that camo phase. What if you wore a gray cargo short? How about that? With some black sneakers. Maybe a gray cargo short with wrestling boots and the wrestling boots is the big change. But I don't know. Just the idea of him wearing tights is still maybe too much of a departure, but I don't know. I don't know. I think that I think that there's a very good chance that John Cena wins the WWE championship from Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania. You know? I think that with John Cena as champion, first of all, it leaves WrestleMania on a bummer, but WrestleMania thirty nine was left on a bummer. So it's not it's not unprecedented. With Stone Cold being there, I think it does change things. But who knows? Maybe Austin will turn heel too. He's done it before at WrestleMania. I think that that that Cena winning the championship is interesting because there's a lot you can do with it now that you couldn't before. You don't have to worry about Cena not being on TV every week. Because as a heel, why would he be on TV every week as champion? If anything, you can pull that Brock Lesnar schedule where it makes people hate you even more that you're not defending it on television, that you're not even showing up to television. You know? He is booked for backlash, which is in Saint Louis. He's being advertised for backlash as is Randy Orton, and that, you know, brings me to another thing. Think of all the babyfaces that are on the roster now that you could do matches with John Cena. You could do a Randy Orton versus John Cena match, where it's babyface Randy Orton versus heel John Cena. Who would have ever thought? You know, you can do, Centimeters Punk versus John Cena, where Centimeters Punk is the baby face and John Cena is the heel. Who would have ever thought? You know, you could do Jey Uso versus John Cena. You could do Sami Zayn versus John Cena. Who knows? You could do Drew McIntyre versus John Cena, and maybe it turns Drew McIntyre babyface. There's a lot you can do, and you can have Cody going through another rebuild phase because this is the thing about Cody Rhodes. This is how strong this Cody Rhodes character is. Because people will tell you, well, you know, you don't wanna kill Cody Rhodes' title reign. It wouldn't kill anything. These are the same people that would have told you after WrestleMania thirty nine, and they did. You know, they put on their pink bathrobes and talk about how you're killing Cody Rhodes. Cody Rhodes only got bigger. Between WrestleMania thirty nine and WrestleMania forty, Cody Rhodes only got bigger. And you know why? Because Cody Rhodes is built different. Cody Rhodes is special. These rules don't don't apply to Cody Rhodes. It just is what it is. Cody Rhodes lost to Roman Reigns. And by the time we got to WrestleMania forty, people wanted to see a rematch so badly that they pooh poohed the idea of The Rock main eventing WrestleMania. There is no other person that people I mean, you you built the biggest baby face to face Roman Reigns as with Sami Zayn. That could have killed anybody else because people wanted Sami Zayn to be the one to beat Roman Reigns. You presented this idea of The Rock coming in and being the one to face Roman Reigns a year later. And still, at WrestleMania thirty nine, the Sami Zayn thing was not enough to make people not want to see Cody Rhodes versus Roman Reigns. A year later, The Rock was not enough to make people not want to see Cody Rhodes versus Roman Reigns. And I believe that if you have John Cena beat Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania, you will continue to have that support of people remembering how much they love this Cody Rhodes, remembering how much joy it brings them to support this Cody Rhodes. And then when it is time, whether it's a year after at WrestleMania, whether it's SummerSlam in August, '2 nights in a stadium in New Jersey, whenever it is, you're going to have people that are on that journey. You're gonna have people that if if Cody loses the title and the next step is a series of matches with with Drew McIntyre or a series of matches with Roman Reigns or whatever it is, you're going to have people that want to be on this journey with Cody Rhodes. And now part of John Cena's journey in his final year in WWE is people wanting to see Cody Rhodes beat John Cena. And you wanna talk about passing the torch? You wanna talk about what doing what what is tried and true by the industry? It's one thing for a baby face John Cena to come in, somebody beats him, and we all know John Cena is just doing business. You talk about killing kayfabe. Ultimately, all that does is put John Cena on a pedestal. He did what's right for business. Everybody would know. On the other hand, if John Cena is a monster heel and somebody like a Cody Rhodes or whoever it is has to climb a mountain to finally beat this guy, that that is how you pay it forward. And I think that that's that's what we're looking at. You know? What's interesting about this WrestleMania, what's interesting about this John Cena is that usually WrestleMania is the climax. Usually, WrestleMania is the climax of the story. WrestleMania '39 was the climax of that first year of Cody Rhodes, and he's back in the WWE. WrestleMania forty was now the two year climax of Cody finally finishing the story. WrestleMania forty one is only the beginning of John Cena as a heel and potentially as a heel champion, which is, I mean, very, very exciting to me. And by the way by the way by the way, what about The Rock? John Cena turning heel is a big enough story on its own. But where does The Rock come into this? Is The Rock gonna be part of the road to WrestleMania? Is The Rock even going to be at WrestleMania forty one? Because John Cena versus Cody Rhodes is a headline in and of itself. Was The Rock simply there to set the plate for John Cena to turn, or is The Rock part of this Cody John Cena match? Only time will tell, but I told you when we started this that I had a a, everything counts match. And that everything counts for me was built on SmackDown in inside of two minutes. It was a pre tape. They put Drew McIntyre in front of a darkened brick wall and said, tell your story. And inside that two minutes, I said, I gotta see this Damien Priest Drew McIntyre match. He's done it again. Drew McIntyre has just he's keyed in. I don't think I I think as good as we all know Drew is, I still don't think people really realize how much he's done. You know? Because I I I think, you know, when he's in this rivalry with Centimeters Punk, Centimeters Punk is a naturally compelling figure. Anything Centimeters Punk does, especially now, is gonna be incredibly compelling. But I think carrying this thing through as many months as it was carried through, it really helps that Drew McIntyre was there, so keyed in on the way stories can be told in wrestling. I had Drew McIntyre. I think it was the live podcast that we did in Cleveland. I think SummerSlam weekend. I think that's when it was. And he said that he was looking at what the bloodline was doing and seeing how you can tell these long term stories and elevate storytelling in professional wrestling, and that has been a mission of mine forever. That the way stories are told in professional wrestling can be elevated, and now they are being elevated. You know, I came on here not that long ago and said for me, I would love to see Drew McIntyre versus LA Knight at WrestleMania. If for no other reason than the fact that coming off of the Royal Rumble, everybody's talking about it. Everybody's aware of it. They're taking little shots at each other on SmackDown. But I but pretty quickly, on the way to the, elimination chamber, that kind of died down and it was like, okay. That's not the direction things are going. And then Damien Priest eliminated Drew McIntyre, at the elimination chamber. And I said, okay. Damien Priest, eliminated Drew at the Chamber. Damien Priest also, I remembered, eliminated Drew in the Royal Rumble. And many times, you know, when we're fantasy booking, when we're building story lines, when we did the ultimate show, we can go back and watch it on Peac**k. It would be like, okay. Well, this guy eliminated this guy at the Royal Rumble and that sets up a WrestleMania match. But in in in your head, yeah. But in reality, in a in a reality where storytelling is elevated in wrestling, in a reality where week to week there is so much happening that we need depth, we need meat on the bone, I need to be able to sit down and tell somebody that's not watching why this story is worth a WrestleMania match, why this is so compelling. Because if you're just gonna have a grudge match at WrestleMania, you eliminated me from the Rumble is not enough. And so when it when when Damian Priest eliminated Drew McIntyre at the chamber and then and then John Cena was the one that won the chamber, I said, So I guess it does kinda feel like it's gonna be Priest versus Drew McIntyre. And I said, you know, Priest has done a good job in the build, especially to the chamber, of being the guy that explains to Drew that he's delusional, of being the guy that tells Drew like, that shuts down Drew McIntyre. And I said, okay. You know, this would be great for both of them. I'm a fan of both Damien Priest and Drew McIntyre. So this, you know, this would be a good match. Right? And then Drew McIntyre went on SmackDown and reminded me everything counts. Just when I thought, I don't know if Chamber and Rumble are everything counts. It all mattered because because Drew McIntyre kind of pointed out to us what maybe some of us, myself included, had forgotten, that the whole time, what was in front of our face was Drew McIntyre and Centimeters Punk's rivalry. That that was also what was in front of Drew McIntyre's face. But happening around us the whole time, going back to a year ago, with Damien Priest benefiting from every single time that Centimeters Punk screwed Drew McIntyre, and that is something that has not really been addressed. And finally, we can address that he built a case that priest has silently been taking advantage every single time something bad happens to Drew McIntyre. And in a world where it has been established that Drew McIntyre is a guy that is a paranoid thinker that feels put down upon, that is that that has this hyper awareness of fair and unfair and justice, that Drew McIntyre has this skewed vision of justice, that to see somebody benefiting off of the perceived injustices that Drew McIntyre has been obsessed with for a year and a half, of course, that person would have comeuppance. A year ago, Drew McIntyre went to WrestleMania and won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship from Seth Rollins, fulfilled his destiny. Centimeters Punk heard him. Damian Priest cashed in, and we all said, here we go, baby. Drew McIntyre and Centimeters Punk is on fire, and that action is what really got the ball rolling for this blood feud between Centimeters Punk and Drew McIntyre. And then Punk did it again to him at Clash at the Castle. And so much was made about the fact that this is Drew McIntyre's hometown, and Centimeters Punk embarrassed him, and Centimeters Punk, I'm gonna kill you, and Centimeters Punk, I'm gonna get you, but I'm gonna get my title back. Money in the bank gets the briefcase, cashes it in the same night. Centimeters Punk screws him again. Except let's go back to Damien Priest being the one that took advantage and cashing in the briefcase. Let's go back to the fact that when Centimeters Punk got in there in a referee's shirt at Clash at the Castle, Damien Priest did not hesitate to retain his title against Drew McIntyre. Let's not forget that when when Drew McIntyre cashed in his money in the bank briefcase and Centimeters Punk screwed him, it was Damian Priest that once again was able to leave with the world heavyweight championship. So now now not only is Drew McIntyre furious because he has a plan. He has a plan going to WrestleMania this year, and that plan was meant to take effect first at the Royal Rumble, then at the elimination chamber, and it was Damian Priest that screwed him both times. We are now at this point where not only is Drew McIntyre mad at Damian Priest for screwing him out of the WrestleMania match that he wants, because let's be honest, If you screw somebody out of the WrestleMania match that they want and that leads to this WrestleMania match, it's always gonna be a less than match. To an extent, you're going, oh, the the what what makes this match this match is that Drew McIntyre didn't wanna be in this match. He wanna be in a different match. Now if that's kind of the the surface level, but what's underneath is you can now take all the venom that Drew McIntyre had for Centimeters Punk. All of it. The WrestleMania thing, the clash of the castle thing, the money in the bank thing, all of that now gets pushed forward to Damien Priest because he was there for all of it. Then all of a sudden, this Drew McIntyre Damien Priest match is not something that's been built since the Royal Rumble. This match becomes a year in the making. And now Damian Priest gets to come forward and go like, look. You're now coming to me making my life a living hell because what? Because I tried to win the Royal Rumble, because I tried to win the elimination chamber, because I was a successful world heavyweight champion. You're crazy. You're obsessed. You have your own weird version of what justice is. Bro, get a hold of yourself. I'm gonna kick your a*s at WrestleMania, and then who are you gonna blame it on? It also gives Drew McIntyre a chance. Even though he lost ultimately in the war against Centimeters Punk, he can take all that energy. And if he can beat Damian Priest, well, now that all somehow in his own head has resulted in a victory because he beat a he he beat it. He beat Damien Priest. So you've now got both, and both Damien Priest and Drew McIntyre are in this position where it's like you talk about who's at the top of the card, and most of us would say, man, Drew McIntyre and Damian Priest should both be in that conversation. When you talk about who should be main eventing WrestleMania, when you talk about who should be the world champion, when you talk about who should John Cena be facing, who should Cody Rhodes be facing, who should Gunther, who should Jay Uso be facing, both Damian Priest and Drew McIntyre are names that come up. So now not only do you have all this personal animosity, but but but you've got going forward who's the next guy. And you've built a match that has a hell of a foundation, and it all happened in a two minute pre tape. Amazing. An amazing, amazing thing to see. Now speaking of matches being built for mania, we already, if you follow these lips moving, I've done a lot of talking about Roman Reigns, Centimeters Punk, and Seth Rollins, and the return of Roman Reigns on Monday Night Raw. Immediately after Monday Night Raw, you get to see my reaction to all of it. You get to hear my reaction to all of it Tuesday morning on the Raw recap, which, Megan Morant and I, host. You can subscribe to it wherever you got this podcast from or watch it on the WWE's YouTube channel. You also got an emergency podcast here on the Nazian wrestling feed about Roman Reigns returning, and I was accused of glazing Roman Reigns again. And and this is something I'll be accused of because I put my one up for my tribal chief, Roman Reigns. That just is what it is. Paul Heyman but but there is still room for analysis of everything that that went down and is going down. Paul Heyman showed up on SmackDown this week to celebrate Roman Reigns day, of course, with the launch of WWE two k '25, but also to announce that Roman Reigns would be on SmackDown this coming Friday from whatever European city they're in. I don't remember at the moment. I know we were in Barcelona on Friday. I know that Raw in Brussels, Monday, but I don't remember where SmackDown's gonna be. However, wherever it is, Roman Reigns will be there, which is interesting because Seth Rollins and Centimeters Punk are both on Raw, but Centimeters Punk has said that he will be on SmackDown as well. He'll be there. And I don't know. Maybe Rollins will be there as well because you set up a tremendous dynamic. Now Paul Heyman did not address whatsoever that what happened between he and Centimeters Punk in that cage and the fact that Roman Reigns reacted the way that he did. I mean, let's go through it step by step. You had this hell of a cage match. Great, great cage match that in any other scenario, had it not been a Roman Reigns return, I think would be justified in complaining about the fact that we did not get a real finish in that cage match because it was an awesome cage match that I desperately wanted to finish in. However, it was Roman Reigns. I think we can forgive it for our tribal chief. But first, you have this this this this animosity between Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins, which dates back to the Royal Rumble, but it dates back a lot further than that. Of course, Seth Rollins time trying to take Roman out of WrestleMania this year by giving him that stomp on the steel stairs at the Royal Rumble. But also, Seth Rollins being the one that caused, some would say, Roman Reigns to lose the championship that he held so dear at WrestleMania forty. Seth Rollins being the one that that betrayed him in the shield. Seth I mean, it goes very, very deep with Seth Rollins. And there was that emotional connection between Roman and Rollins that Roman was exercising those demons as he tried to end Seth Rollins once and for all. But when Roman Reigns got stopped by security, he looked in that cage. And what did he see? The wise man consoling Centimeters Punk. And he goes right back to November when he was sitting across a table from Centimeters Punk when they were making the decision for Centimeters Punk to be on the bloodline side at survivor series in war games. And Centimeters Punk did it for Paul Heyman, and he did it as a favor with the understanding that the favor would be returned. And now what does Roman Reigns see? Paul Heyman consoling and checking on the person who to Roman Reigns face said that Paul Heyman was his wise man before he was Roman Reigns' wise man. And Roman Reigns steps into that cage, and he teaches both Centimeters Punk and Paul Heyman a lesson in that moment. And he takes out Centimeters Punk and ends Monday Night Raw with his finger in the air. To me, you cannot deny the impact that Roman Reigns made. As it stands today, as I talk to you in this moment, for me, this is my night one main event for WrestleMania. To for me, this is the match that today and this could change. A lot of matches are being built and a lot of momentum is being built for a lot of people, and we'll talk about that in a moment. But for me, right now, today, after I felt about coming off of Raw last week, this is night one. Cody and Cena is night two for me. I don't think, however, that this being a main event is Centimeters Punk's motivation. I don't think that Centimeters Punk getting the main event of WrestleMania is any longer the motivation of that character. Right? I I I think that he still wants to main event WrestleMania, but I I I think that that this is not some way of getting to the main event. You know? I don't think I no longer, I should say, think that that's what the favor is. You know? I I think that that that, you know, I I it it becomes one of those things with Roman and Centimeters Punk. It becomes one of those things where you know? Remember when when when your friend got a significant other, and your friend's significant other told you that they weren't allowed to hang out with you anymore. That's Roman Reigns telling Paul Heyman he's not allowed to hang out with Centimeters Punk anymore. We're just friends, dude. We're just friends. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It makes me uncomfortable. I don't wanna see it anymore. A lot of times that doesn't work out for the new significant other. That's why I worry that the favor could be Centimeters Punk saying that he gets Paul Heyman in his corner whenever he wants it for one match. And if that one match is a triple threat at WrestleMania between Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, and Centimeters Punk, if that could be very, very damaging to the relationship between Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman. What's really interesting though is the the venom amongst the three and technically four with Paul Heyman as well, parties that that this has become one of those triple threat scenarios where the energy spiraling between them is what makes this match. It's not about a title. It's not about, like, well, I've earned this, so I'm gonna get in here, so I'm gonna get in there. It's not about that. It's about the fact that they're a tornado has spun, and these three are now linked whether they want it or not. I mean, technically, I don't feel that Roman Reign I don't think Roman Reigns likes Centimeters Punk. I don't think Roman Reigns likes Centimeters Punk hanging out with his wise man, but that's not where Roman Reigns' true vitriol is. That's not where his true loathing and hatred is. Roman Reigns cannot stand being betrayed. Sami Zayn felt this. Seth Rollins felt it on Monday Night Raw. You know? I I I I think that Roman's hatred, his real venom is for Seth Rollins. Meanwhile, Seth Rollins' true hatred, and he said so on the Raw recap podcast. First episode, Megan and I interviewed Seth Rollins, and he said on that podcast that there is an element of love with Roman Reigns, that the two of them are brothers forever linked. He says that he may not get along with Roman Reigns, and he may not agree with what Roman Reigns does, and he may have to stop Roman Reigns, but he doesn't want bad things to happen to Roman Reigns like he wants bad things to happen to Centimeters Punk. So Roman's venom is with Seth Rollins. Seth Rollins' venom is with Centimeters Punk, but Centimeters Punk's venom is now with Roman Reigns. Centimeters Punk stepped into this going, Seth, I don't care about you. I'm trying I I'm trying to get to WrestleMania. I don't care about you. And while Centimeters Punk doesn't like Seth Rollins because of what Rollins has been doing to him, ultimately, Centimeters Punk hates Roman Reigns. Right? Centimeters Punk is is is has can't believe that he's stepping back into a WWE where somebody who the original Paul Heyman guy is being told he can't hang out with Paul Heyman anymore, where Roman Reigns is trying to tell Centimeters Punk what to do inside that War Games cage? No. Centimeters Punk dropped Roman Reigns' name, his third appearance back in WWE, returned at Survivor Series, said nothing. Came back on Raw, basically just said he wasn't here to make friends, he was here to make money, and then on SmackDown is when he started dropping names, and he dropped Roman Reigns' name immediately. So I think you got this this tornado of hatred with a sprinkling of dislike coming down under it. And what does Paul Heyman do? Because Paul Heyman's promise from Roman Reigns was Roman Reigns saying, alright. We won't the bloodline won't put a hand on Centimeters Punk. And how did we end Monday Night Raw? Hands being put on Centimeters Punk. You know? I I I I I think I would like the favor to be Paul Heyman is in the corner of Centimeters Punk. But then if Roman Reigns wins that match, what is now not only were you in the corner of somebody else, but you were in the corner of a loser. And you think you're gonna now come back and be my wise man? That doesn't feel very appealing. But then what if Punk wins? Punk could win without pinning Roman Reigns, then maybe he'd be all good with Paul Heyman. But is Roman Reigns if this does main event night one of WrestleMania, is Roman Reigns gonna lose two WrestleMania main events in a row? WrestleMania forty and WrestleMania forty one, Roman Reigns comes out not successful. It's getting very, very interesting to me. But also, I think that we're building, another match that could main event night one of WrestleMania. I I I think I think I think Jey Uso and Gunther could absolutely main event night one of WrestleMania, but you get some real, drama brewing in this women's world championship scene. You know? Ever I would say ever since the Royal Rumble, there has been this acknowledgment of the momentum that EO SKY has has been kind of very quietly building and the amount of people that wanted her to be the one to win that Royal Rumble. And I think that I heard that a lot, and I think WWE heard it as well that when Charlotte won and there were people who didn't want Charlotte to win, and and people will go, well, who do you wanna win instead of Charlotte? A lot of people wanted Iyo to win. A lot of people love this EO sky. I think that that that that has been acknowledged and built upon ever since the rumble. And I think that that there were people who might have thought or been worried that EOSKI was taken out of the elimination chamber qualifications when she lost the match because Rhea Ripley interfered, and that was gonna be bad for EOSKI, but it was absolutely necessary for EOSKI because it was the moment that brought EO Sky into a scenario where not only could she find her way into the championship match at WrestleMania, but she now gets to walk in to the WrestleMania match as the women's world champion. Now on Raw, you had Iyo come out. She's confronted by Bianca Belair. You got the Iyo Sky Bianca Belair showdown because Bianca Belair won the chamber, and then boom, here comes Rhea Ripley. And all of a sudden, Rhea's star power, she tries to use it to kind of eclipse what's going on. And all of a sudden, you've got this stare down between Rhea Ripley and Bianca Belair, neither one of whom is the women's world champion. And Rhea shoves EO SKY out of the way, and Bianca shoves EO SKY out of the way. And what do we get? EOSKY taking both of them out. The fact that and I don't know. You know? A lot of people speculate this could turn into a triple threat as well, and I I'd be fine with it. I would like there for there to be some logic into how Rhea Ripley finds her way back in, but I'd be totally fine with it. But the fact that EO Sky stepped up and put both of them in the place, not only does it substantiate EO to the people that are already behind her. When EO Sky steps up like that, the people that have been supporting her are like, yes. This is what I've been waiting for. This is what I've been wanting to see. But what it also does is anybody that hasn't been on that wave suddenly gets on that wave. Right? Because because you see not only do you get behind this person getting fired up and going, I'm the one that you guys should be worried about, not each other, but the fact that you get this reaction from people who have been waiting for this has everybody else going, oh my god. Yes. I I'm with you. Yeah. I feel that energy. I'm excited about this as well. You know? I I I I think and and it's and it's and it's really interesting. Because if Rhea were to get added to this match, by the time we get to WrestleMania, can we build up enough momentum behind EO Sky that she becomes the favorite? It's odd to think, especially after last year's WrestleMania, that at this stage in her career, Rhea Ripley would come in as anything but the favorite in any WrestleMania match. But we've got a very unique scenario and something very special building around EO Sky. And however many weeks, what do you got? You got about a a month still to build this thing. If you continue on this methodical route to not only acknowledge but build the momentum behind Iyo, you could've then you could've, by the time you get to WrestleMania, not only have Iyo, who you can make an argument, is legitimately the best women's wrestler in the division, but you've now built somebody who's yet another person with that star power. And I talk about the star power that Rhea Ripley has. I talk about the star power that Bianca has. I'm talking about the star power that Charlotte has. I'm talking about the star power that that Tiffany Stratton is coming into. You get Bianca Bella I'm sorry, Becky Lynch back. She's got that kind of star power. If you can build EO to not just being a favorite for people that are there watching every week, but to have that star power, I think that you may be on the precipice of that. And regardless of who wins at WrestleMania, I think that if we continue down the road that we're on right now, Iyo's WrestleMania entrance could be something very, very spectacular. The same way Rhea's entrance was something very, very spectacular spectacular last year as much as it was a big deal, that EO, that Rhea Ripley Becky Lynch match. What was really special and and I think the memory that I have from that was the Rhea Ripley entrance where that was the moment. That was the coming of age. That was the she is the WrestleMania star of the women's division and you recognize that in the entrance, that could be something that you build for EO SKY, and it's something that I would love to see personally. We'll see if it comes to fruition because I I I I really think that as long as you you stay down this road that you're on right now, you can get there and you may even get to a place where it's like there's no arguing about Rhea Ripley, Bianca Belair, EO Sky may be the one by the time you get to WrestleMania, and a lot's gonna change between now and WrestleMania. But I would also say a lot is changing, and we will get to emails, but we got a lot to talk about today. I told you. I told you we had a lot to talk about today. A lot is changing in the bloodline. While we've got these the things that we've been talking about today, the Drew McIntyre, the Roman Reigns, Centimeters Punk, Seth Rollins, the Cody Rhodes, John Cena, the EO Sky stuff, the Charlotte Flair stuff, that stuff is right in front of our faces. But I'm telling you right now, right under our nose, we got something very fun cooking with the bloodline. And you know I love to talk about the bloodline, and I could feel it. On SmackDown, I Bryte said, okay. There's something cooking here. There's something real fun here. So so big Jim, big Jim Uso, big brother Jim is out there looking for United States championship match against LA Knight. LA Knight is there as the new US champion. He beat Shinsuke Nakamura last week on SmackDown, and here's big Jim going, you know what? I'm realizing that I need to get my a*s to WrestleMania, and I don't know how else to get there. So I'm gonna go ahead and challenge you for the United States championship, and then here comes Solo Sikoa. The interruption from the group formerly known as the new bloodline, now simply Solo Sikoa with Tomatanga and Jacob Fatou. Of course, by the way, Jacob Fatou is there. Two. So Solo Sikoa has the mic, and he's back to being swaggy, by the way. He's up to tricks. Solo Sikoa is always up to tricks. Swaggy solo comes out, and and he says that there's only one person, and he's pointing to himself, that should get the opportunity for that United States championship, and that person is very obviously Jacob Fatou. And everybody goes, Jacob Fatou. And he talks about Jacob Fatou being the one to bring the United States championship back to the family. Then he and big brother Jim have an argument about who's the bigger failure. Is Jimmy Uso a failure, or is it Solo who's a failure? And, of course, big Jim brings up the fact that Solo lost the ula fa'ala to the tribal chief Roman Reigns. Right? And now now they're at each other's throats. Look. Solo Sikoa to me is clearly up to something. He's up to no good. I think that that as much as we were thinking we'd love to see a Solo Sikoa, and when I say we, I mean me. I wanna see Solo Sikoa versus Jacob Fatou. It feels like we may be headed toward maybe it's gonna be a multi man match for the United States championship at WrestleMania. I mean, maybe it'll be Ellie Knight versus Jimmy Uso. Maybe we'll do a multi man match before we get to WrestleMania. I don't know. But at some point, it feels like there are there it feels like they're building multiple contenders for the United States championship for whatever reason. But more importantly, it doesn't feel like the Bloodline breakup, the Jacob the new Bloodline breakup is coming for WrestleMania to me. Because it feels like they're too succinct on the same page right now. That if they were to break up, you'd you'd have to go, like, okay, and in two weeks we're gonna do a Jacob versus Solo, which could happen. It could a % happen. But I feel as though Solo Sikoa is back to being manipulative. I think Solo Sikoa is aware that he's lost all of his power because he no longer has the ulefala. And he said that if Roman Reigns is the tribal chief that we'll all acknowledge Roman Reigns. And Jacob Fatou doesn't forget anything, but I think what Solo wants to do right now is use all of his power to get Jacob Fatou on his side. What's more important than Solo being The United States champion is making sure that not only they have the championship inside the family, but that Jacob Fatou is on his side that we forget about all that stuff that we said before and go like, no. No. No. I'm gonna help you win this United States champion. You're getting a championship. You're gonna be the champion, Jacob. You're gonna be the champion. Don't worry about anything. I'm gonna help you get there. Don't want you to just follow me. Follow my lead. Don't worry about it. This is this is where we're focused right now. You know, I think I think Solo Sikoa is doing some manipulation. And I feel as though the the the road that we're on will get to a Jacob Fatou versus Solo Sikoa match after WrestleMania. I think that that we're at the point now where not only can we speculate wildly on WrestleMania, we can speculate wildly on what may happen right after WrestleMania. And if it's me, I've got Jacob Fatou finally putting hands on Solo Sikoa on the SmackDown after WrestleMania. That's when I would love to see it happen. I would love to see whatever's gonna happen at WrestleMania happen at WrestleMania. Maybe a miscommunication, maybe Solo screws up. Maybe his true colors are shown. I don't know. But then Jacob turns around and on SmackDown cleans house after WrestleMania. And we we finish WrestleMania forty one and and the next year leading to WrestleMania forty two is that build of a babyface Jacob's tattoo. Because that's when whether it happens at Backlash or further down the road, that's when we start to get to Solo Sikoa versus Jacob Fatou. Who knows? If John Cena is a heel with the WWE championship and Jacob Fatou is now a baby face, What if baby face Jacob Fatou challenges John Cena for the WWE championship at some point inside the calendar year? What happens then? What happens if by the time we get to WrestleMania forty two, Roman Reigns is back to being a heel. Because he's showing heelish tendencies in the Centimeters Punk, Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns thing. What if he's back to being a villain? And what if we can build to Jacob Fatou as a babyface versus Roman Reigns as a heel for a WrestleMania, for a SummerSlam, for something like that? That's just that's just where I see it going or where I'd like to see it going. But for me, I think these seeds are being planted, to get there. Now, also, wanna give a quick a few quick shout outs. Number one, NXT had a great show at the theater at Madison Square Garden. Roadblock was amazing. It was basically a premium live event on television. Go back. Watch the whole show. I know I tell you sometimes to check this match out, check that match out. Go back. Watch the entire show. We had Stephanie Vakhar beating Julia, becoming double champ, north women's North American champion, women's NXT champion. Stephanie Vaccara is the one going in to stand and deliver. Excellent match between the two of them and just a great night all around. And I can't wait to see what Stephanie Vaccara does as the centerpiece of that division, the true centerpiece of that division. We had teases for debuts on SmackDown, all kinds of wild speculation. I'll let, the Internet do what the Internet does on that one. And, also, shout out to Andrew Schultz, who not only got pulled into the action on Monday night raw, but then went on his podcast and kept kept the talk going, kept that s**t talk going with Logan Paul. I I let's build. Let's build. Let's get Andrew Schultz on the roster too. Why not? Why don't we get Andrew Schultz on the roster too? Hey. Maybe you disagree with me. Maybe you didn't like it at all. If you do, email me. Not Samwrestling@gmail.com. Our email address is not Samwrestling@gmail.com. Let's get to some emails. This one's coming from, Aibo. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. Hope you're good. Emailing in from London. Chip Chip Cheerio. I wanted to ask, who was the last heel that you truly hated or disliked? The last I can remember viscerally hating was mid two thousands JBL, but as I've gotten older, I've not had that feeling as much. Okay. The last heel that I hated for all the right reasons. I think Baron Corbin is a great example of that. But I think the the last heel that I really didn't like, and it's only because he was so good at what he was doing, was probably 2019 era Sam Roberts. Probably 2019 Sam Roberts on those preshows. That was the last heel that I truly hated. And to this day, a lot of people still haven't caught up to what that guy was doing. So great performance. Let's go to, Oliver who's writing in. Hello, my, OPTC. I love you and acknowledge you. And we say Two. I was just told by my, parents that my present for getting accepted to some top end universities and graduating high school was going to WrestleMania. And luckily enough, I'll be there Thursday for the pod. My only question was if people 18 are allowed because I know these comedy clubs have strict rules. I don't know what the rules of that club are. It's always the rule of the club. It's never my rule as far as I'm concerned. I don't care if you're five years old. If you're buying a ticket, come on in. Either way I mean, come on. You graduated high school. You're going into a great college. You're getting to WrestleMania. You're smart enough to be able to get into that club whether you're 18 or not. You do you. And congratulations, by the way. Raj from Queens writes in, do you think we will have a repeat of Rock versus Hogan at WrestleMania eighteen at WrestleMania forty one where the crowd cheers Cena and boos Cody? Okay. A lot of people have presented this and said, well, what if John Cena gets cheered? We're not in that era anymore. John Cena is not getting cheered. John Cena is getting booed at WrestleMania. And as much fun as we'll be having because we are now, the the audience that the WWE has now, I think, are is a developed audience that likes to do what we've been advocating for so long. I mean, ten years ago, the call to action on this show before we had the three rules now it's watch the product, speculate wildly, and everything counts. But the original rule was simply boo the bad guys. And the reason that boo the bad guys is no longer a rule of Not Sam wrestling is because turn on the TV. People boo the bad guys. People cheer the good guys. And it's because of the storytelling, and it's because of the people that are in that position. People love to cheer Cody Rhodes. People are happy to boo John Cena. I believe that the storytelling going into WrestleMania will be effective enough that the villain will get booed and the hero will get cheered. People said coming off of WrestleMania thirty nine. You know, I'm not even gonna say people. Dave LaGreca said it. Everybody said this. They said, you why would you have Cody lose in Los Angeles? You know WrestleMania forty is in Philly. Cody's gonna lose momentum in the year between WrestleMania thirty nine and WrestleMania forty, and he's gonna get to Philly where they're gonna boo Cody Rhodes because he's a white meat babyface. However, what happened in Philly? They love Cody. They were there for it because they're booing the bad guys, and they cheer the good guys. I believe that Cody's momentum is gonna grow and grow as we see the interactions between John Cena and Cody Rhodes. And I a % believe that John Cena will get booed and Cody Rhodes will get cheered at WrestleMania. Let's see. Mark writes in, hello my PTC and wise men on all things wrestling. Far two. Far two. Raw left me with questions. In a punk versus Seth versus Roman match, who's the heel? Do you think the favor will come into play? Number one, it doesn't matter who the heel is. The heel is the heel. Just like the story is all that matters. And like I said, we we I I kind of broke down the story and and the feelings and the animosity, and it goes you don't need you don't always need babyface heels, especially in a triple threat scenario. And do I think the favor will come into play? I do. I absolutely I personally do. And it's the same if Iyo meets Bianca and Rhea at WrestleMania. Who's the heel? Again, it doesn't matter. Cheer who you're gonna cheer in those scenarios, especially in triple threat scenarios. Heal babyface matters even less in a triple threat scenario because it's three people anyway. It's not good guy versus bad guy. It's either good guy, good guy, bad guy, bad guy, bad guy, good guy, good guy, bad guy, Tweener, like, whatever. And it doesn't matter. Sometimes there will be, like, clearly this person is a bad guy, clearly this person is a good guy, but other times it just works out the way it works out. And finally and you're lucky I'm going through all your questions. Usually, it's one. If Jacob faces Strowman, will Jimmy Uso face LA Knight or his brother solo? Oh, yeah. That's true. I don't know. Well, it's gonna be Jacob and Strowman on SmackDown this week. So unless they're building to another I I don't know. I've I feel like Jimmy and Jacob will both face LA Knight. I don't know. I don't know. Good question. Sam writes in, what a name. Hi, Sam. My podcast, OTC. Last week, I submitted an email about Cena that was too wordy, and you opted to not read it in full. I understand the error of my ways, and I will give you a much shorter email this week. Maybe I'm still in my heel era. How involved would you like to see Travis Scott in this storyline? Would it be better to have him tag along or be immersed into it like Mike Tyson did? I think a cool way for him, to flex his talents is to have him do a disc, track collab with Cena to add to this, feud and heel turn. You know, I think that, I don't think John Cena should be recording music because that's too likable. You know, I I I don't know. I mean, I how much do I want I want Travis Scott to be involved as much as is good. You know? I think, ultimately, it's a decoration. Ultimately, it's a cherry on top. Ultimately, you have plenty you have plenty with Cody and Cena combined where you don't need anything else. But this isn't about need sometimes. It's about, you know, extra accoutrement. And, you know, it's like extra cup holders in the car. I only needed two, but I'd love to find out there's seven. So I I I I don't think that see, Mike Tyson was a little bit different because Mike Tyson was an athlete. Mike Tyson was this like, if you told me Mike Tyson was gonna be in a match, it'd be incredible. Like, you know, I don't think that Travis Scott is gonna jump in the ring and knock anybody out unless they're already on the floor, but that's because Travis Scott is not a fighter. He's a musician. I I I think that that he he should probably be part of the entourage. But, you know, I don't I don't mean him to be a special referee or anything like that, and I don't think it would make sense if he was a special referee. He's already declared on whose side he's on. Let's see. John writes in, on Thursday's Bennington, Earl was talking about how he loves the Tony Storm, Mariah May feud. I didn't know that. Sam, you know what to do. Earl, you dawg. Oh, Earl from Bennington. Oh, he loves that. Okay. I mean, look, it's a great feud, but you dog, Earl. You dog. Will writes in, oh, oh, so this is a Reno from Oklahoma. Okay. Whatever. On today's WWE path, I see a lot of similar things to the Attitude Era being reimagined only with different characters. Do you agree, or are you seeing something else? It's I I not really. I mean, I I think that that I don't the Attitude Era, you know, there was so much happening week to week that it's not like in the Attitude Era people were reaching back years to tell stories. Like, the difference between WrestleMania thirteen and WrestleMania fourteen is night and day, fourteen and fifteen, night and day, fifteen and sixteen, night and day. Like, the Attitude Era was crazy how fast it was moving. If you look at it, say, the first real WrestleMania the beginning of the Attitude Era where it really kicks in is probably WrestleMania fourteen. By WrestleMania fifteen, it's looking very different. WrestleMania sixteen, which is WrestleMania two thousand, it's a whole different world. WrestleMania seventeen has very little connection, and then by WrestleMania x eight, what are we even talking about anymore? So, you know, no. I mean, in terms of, like, how much there is to talk about, maybe. In terms of how good the characters are, sure. But, no, I I I think that the Attitude Era is amazing and it exists in its own world. And I think the Era that we're in right now is amazing and exists in its own world. And I think that's okay. Heidi from Saint Louis writes in, I was watching the new Raw recap podcast after our o t c returned, and you said this isn't the time for wild speculation. Since now is always the time for wild speculation, that comment got me thinking. Are there different rules for Raw recap than there are for not Sam wrestling? If so, what are they? This is a great question. Love everything you do and can't wait for when the WWE comes to Saint Louis, so maybe I can come to a live show. Shoot. Do we need Heidi? Heidi. Heidi. Do we need a live Not Sam wrestling for backlash? Heidi, do we need to do a live podcast for backlash? You tell me, Heidi. You tell me what we need to do. But I did say that on the raw recap, and I remember doing that as a wink. Because wild speculation, this is the place for it. Right? Wild we speculate wildly on Not Sam Wrestling. That's what we should be doing. We watch the product. We speculate wildly, and, everything counts. To me, Raw Recap is much more of a feelings based program. Not Sam Wrestling is not a feelings based program. Not Sam Wrestling Emergency Podcast is a feelings based program. Not Sam Wrestling Collectors Edition, something else completely. There's Not Sam Wrestling, There's Not Sam wrestling emergency podcast. There's Not Sam wrestling collector's edition. Those are the three podcasts that we have under the Not Sam wrestling banner. And then there's Raw recap, which is the cousin of Not Sam wrestling as far as I'm concerned. Not, Raw recap follows far more, in line with Not Sam wrestling, emergency podcast in the sense that Megan and I are literally doing Raw recap right after Raw goes off the air. Like, we are watching Raw in the Not Sam studio. And within five minutes of that show going off the air, we're running and we're doing the show. So we don't have time for proper analysis. Proper wild speculation requires analysis. You know, it requires some thought. Raw recap is more feelings. So that's kind of where I associate all of it. Does that make sense? Let me know if it does. You got a lot to get back to me on. Doctor Charlotte writes in, First, I want to acknowledge you as our podcast final boss. Love the show. I guess that was maybe established at the elimination chamber press conference. If you know you know. I wanted to give another perspective about why Roman, pulled up on the cage match the way he did. He pulls Seth out of the cage knowing that once again, Seth fails to pin or submit punk. I feel that's I I really feel that's why neither one of them wanted to leave the cage. But with Centimeters Punk, I believe I heard Roman say an eye for an eye. The reason he pulled Seth out was not only to give him the beatdown, but Roman took something from Centimeters Punk. Prior to Monday, Punk was undefeated at MSG. I did bring that up on the raw recap. He was four and o. Now he's four and one. Okay. So the same reason Punk I don't mind that. Punk eliminated Roman, caused him to lose the rumble. Now Roman pulls Seth out of the cage, causes Punk to lose, but doesn't want Rollins to leave looking like a winner, so he tries to end him right there. I think it was Michael Cole who mentioned it on his entrance because everything counts. I've been thinking about it all week. He did. And there was a chiron that said four. No. That's why I wrote it down and mentioned on the raw recap. This is good stuff, doctor Charlotte. No wonder you're a doctor. You're a very smart lady. Pulling Seth out of the cage was revenge for Punk, throwing Roman out at the rumble match, effectively disrupting our tribal chief's road back to WrestleMania and his title. The Paul and Centimeters Punk interaction just added more fuel to that already burning fire. Would love your thoughts. I love that. I think it's great, doctor Sharla. I think that that's a that's a great call. I think that, and I think Roman was kinda done. That's why the beatdown was for Rollins. I don't think he was planning on going back into that cage and beating up Centimeters Punk. I think he was like, okay. You made me lose. Now I made you lose. We're even. I don't really care about you anyway, punk. I'm here to beat up Seth Rollins. Oh, you're hanging out with my wise man? Okay. I'm gonna teach you not to hang out with my wise man. And boom. That's also why that beat down for punk was less intended for punk and more intended for Paul Heyman to see. This is what I do. You sure you wanna hang out? This is what happens. Keep hanging out with punk. This is what I'm gonna do to your guy. Keep doing it. I love it. I think we're on the same page, doctor Sharla. Andy writes in, hello, my original podcast tribal chief. I love you, Sam. Five two. With Cena and Rock teaming up and the possible triple threat match for Roman, Seth, and Punk, I feel that we may be getting Shield versus Authority two point o after Mania forty. Roman and Seth versus Roman and Seth versus what? Rock and Cena? WrestleMania, after WrestleMania after see, versus authority two point o. After Mania forty was the end of a story, but 41 is the start of a new one. Betrayal is going to be in the back of everyone's mind, but the possibility of the OTC, Seth, and Punk teaming to take down Roxina. I'm gonna say Drew could be I don't know. I don't know. I think you're reaching, Andy. I think you're not talk to doctor Charlotte about that. I think you're reaching. Kelton writes in after watching SmackDown, I noticed Paul Heyman's pocket square was multicolored. Could be a reach, but in the era where everything counts, could Heyman turn on Roman and punk to align with Seth Rollins? I do not see that coming. Mike writes in from the island of relevancy known as Pensacola, not Sam. Far too. I acknowledge my podcast tribal chief. I have two ideas for Cena on his final run. First, his entrance music should change to his song bad man while he's a heel. That's possible. Second, he should face Randy for his last match, and the finish should be Cena, putting up Randy for an AA. After the flip, Randy turns it into an RKO out of nowhere. Pin Cena and his career. I mean, I don't know. I I don't I think that, you know, I don't know. We don't call spots here. You know? You're talking about a match happening in December and you wanna call the final spot. I I have always thought that Cena's last match should be with Randy Orton, but I'm not ready to lay the spots out yet. Alright. This is gonna be our last email of the day. Zach writes in, have you been impressed with the have you been impressed with the bullies for Jey Uso versus Gunther since Jay won the Royal Rumble? I honestly expected Jimmy Uso and Ludwig Kizer to get more involved. I figured we'd have some singles matches between Jey Uso and Ludwig Kizer and Jimmy Uso and Gunther as well as tag team match to I don't know. I mean, Ludwig Kaiser and Gunther separated a while back. I, you know, I no. Not really. I I I I didn't think that that would happen at all. I I think this is Jay's fight to fight. And I think, like, Gunther sent Ludwig Kaiser on his way a long time ago. Gunther specifically said, go find your own way. If Gunther then brings Ludwig Kaiser back in, it's like, what why did you say that before? Everything counts. So I I mean, you can't expect Ludwig Kaiser to be involved in Gunther's business anymore. Gunther said, Ludwig Kaiser, you should not be involved in my business anymore. And as for Jimmy Uso, I, you know, I don't no. No. I I I think Jay's been doing this all on his own so far, and I think that that's that's what the fight should be. Now if Jay beats Gunther, I think Jimmy should be there to celebrate with him. But no. I I I wasn't thinking The Usos are gonna team back up. Because also, if The Usos start teaming back up on the road to Jay becoming world heavyweight champion potentially, then you're kind of taking the steam out of Jay becoming the world heavyweight champion by giving us the Usos again. A lot of people wanna see the Usos back together again. But Jay's story of proving that he's his own man I mean, this whole thing is, like, based on the Roman Reigns, which one are you? Literally, Gunther called him a tag team wrestler. So, like, if Gunther said, like, you're a tag team guy, you know, you're not you're not built for this, Then why would Jay go, oh, really? We'll get a tag team partner. We'll have a tag team match. Like, that doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense at all. Hey, man. But I appreciate all the emails. I appreciate you guys, hanging out today. Don't forget to subscribe to the YouTube channel, Not Sam Wrestling. Comment, like. Don't forget to subscribe to any audio, platform that you wanna get Not Sam Wrestling from. Don't forget to watch Raw recap first thing Tuesday morning. It might come out even earlier this week since Raw is, on Europe time, and we'll be able to record it earlier. And, yes, we'll be here always because we're Not Sam wrestling. Get your tickets for the live Not Sam wrestling show Thursday, April 17 in Las Vegas at The Comedy Cellar. We'll see you there. Have a good one, everybody.