You on your five star matches?
You on your 30 minute classics?
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Big meaty man slapping meat.
What is good ladies and gentlemen, this is Randall Beatley, your host of the slapping meat wrestling podcast.
And in the words of the band Stained, it's been a while.
I know it's been about three weeks since I've posted an episode.
Just a lot going on outside of this podcast with normal life as well as I just haven't been inspired to talk wrestling.
The last episode I talked about was reviewing Revolution from AEW and I gave it a lot of props.
I gave AEW a lot of props on that episode with what I felt about it.
And I left watching Revolution saying I'm going to give AEW another try.
If they continue to book like they booked Revolution, maybe I'll start watching.
And I've watched maybe two episodes since then.
And I'm just going to say, Tony Khan, you lost me again.
You lost me again.
I don't have specific examples.
I don't take notes of it.
I'm not reviewing the shows.
But I just.
It's you went back to doing the typical booking that lost me with AEW.
And I just I need more story.
Right.
So I'll give an example. Last week they had Omega fight.
Ijo del Facchino.
I think it's his name.
And which those are two great wrestlers.
Probably could be both in that inside the top 10 best wrestlers alive, depending on the list of who you're asking.
If you ask, you know, Dave Meltzer, they're both in the top five.
And I'm not against putting two very good wrestlers in the in a ring together.
But if there's no story as to why that match is happening, you lose me.
I don't care about dream matches.
I get this response every single time I I complain about AEW.
And they're like, well, Tony Khan's not trying to do stories.
He's just trying to put dream matches together, which proves my point that Tony Khan is playing GM mode on a video game.
And he's just creating all of his all of his favorite wrestlers.
You've ever done that on WWE?
You try to, you know, create your favorite wrestlers or you go to community creations and you download all the creations of your favorite wrestlers that aren't in the game.
And you're just playing dream, dream mode, GM mode, universe mode, whatever you want to call it.
You're just you're just playing that on the game.
You're putting all your favorite wrestlers in it and you're putting dream matches together.
Right. That's what Tony Khan is doing.
And in the end, he's losing that there is an audience out there who watches WWE, who I think want to give a W a shot.
The casual fan who loves good storytelling would watch a W.
I like the sport in the entertainment world of wrestling.
I think it's fantastic.
However, at the very end of the day, it is two or more people in a ring fake fighting.
So you have to do something to to make me enjoy the entertainment of it and give me a story to tell me why they're fighting.
Right. And I'm not that's not a critique.
Calling it fake from is not a critique. It's being realistic.
It's telling you what it is. It is two people fake fighting.
But that's also the same thing with any action movie ever.
Right. But in the movie, there's a story as to why this guy hates this guy, why they meet in the middle and then what happens after.
And if you're like Fast and the Furious or whatever, that goes on for 35 years.
And they never end. They never end the right.
But the same thing with like Star Wars. Right.
Star Wars is essentially a group of people, two factions of people, the dark side, the Sith and the Jedi's fake sword fighting.
If you really get down to it, the actors are fake sword fighting.
But there's a story around why the fighting is happening.
And A.W. that's what you need.
You can bring people back to watch your company.
If you first off, stop on the backstage drama.
But also just tell stories, tell a story. Right.
And A.W. fans are really like, well, they tell the story in the ring.
Yeah. But if there's no motivation, like if I don't I don't have a motivation as to why Kenny Omega is fighting Vakino other than you book it as dream match.
And so because Tony Khan and the rest of the world want to see this and right.
You go against good booking practices and you just put together a dream match and you don't tell a story as to why it happened.
And that's my that's a pay per view worthy match.
You know what you could have easily done?
Built a story for those two to fight.
And then have the match at a pay per view.
The next pay per view, which I don't know what it is.
I think it's all in or is it a double or nothing?
I think it's double or nothing. Actually, if I'm thinking about it, one of the two. Right.
You could have built this to the next pay per view.
You could have built a story and then had them have the dream match at the pay per view.
And I would have been perfectly fine with it.
But you lose people like me who want the story of it.
Why is the bloodline the best thing in wrestling right now?
Because it's a story. There's there's there's a plot that we could follow.
The WWE just put a playlist on YouTube of the three years of the bloodline story
and you could sit and watch the story unfold.
Right. But we're not getting that in AEW. There is no story.
And if they start to tell one, it doesn't go very deep in depth to entice people who care about the story.
You got to remember the industry that you're in, Tony Khan.
It's not a sport. You are not UFC. Right.
You're closer to Disney than you are to UFC.
You have to tell stories. That's the only thing that's interesting in this industry.
Because at the end of the day, if I wanted to watch two men fight each other, I'd go watch boxing.
I'd go watch UFC because at least that's real.
And as far as I understand, not predetermined. Right.
I don't know what Dana White does.
I don't know if he predetermined or pays people off to lose or whatever.
You can argue when they go to like the when they go for the full match and they have to go to the judging table.
You can argue maybe that's a little bit rigged.
But at least there's like as far as we can tell, none of this is scripted. Right.
With WWE though, we know it's scripted. The jig is up, my dude.
Like we know it's all scripted. So you have to tell stories.
You write what everyone I don't think people understand why WWE instead of calling their fans fans,
why they call them the WWE Universe, because they're in the business of creating stories.
And so so let's transition to this idea. I don't I didn't plan what to do.
I just want to talk wrestling for a minute and get up to date with with everything.
I don't know how long this is going to go. I owe you three episodes worth of content.
I'm not going to go three hours, but I'm going to talk for a minute.
WWE calls their fans the WWE Universe because they are trying to first of mimic the Marvel cinematic universe.
And and they're trying to create this idea that what happens on TV is in a separate universe than what happens in the real life.
Right. And that would be a cool thing if they would.
That would be a cool idea if they would go full all the way in doing that.
And what do I mean by that? I personally believe that they need to.
If I'm Vince McMahon or Triple H or whoever is involved, we'll talk about Vince here in a minute.
If I'm the owners and people who run WWE, I'm going into Florida.
I'm buying whatever I need to buy next to the Performance Center and I'm you can call it like Titan Center or or or something.
And I know like when they were in the the Thunderdome right during Covid, they call it the Thunderdome.
So if you do something like that and use unknown like NXT talent as the fan base or hire fans.
Right. Don't because I don't think you understand the fan base.
The fan base is a character in the in the in the show. It's a character. And so if you don't control your that character, then the story doesn't get told.
Let me explain. If I'm trying to get Bianca Belair right, let's go to the Bianca Belair Alexa Bliss story.
Right. When they were building up that match. Right. Bianca started getting booed, but she was the face.
She was getting booed because no one no one booed Alexa Bliss.
Everyone loves Alexa Bliss. And so when you let in a crowd that you can't control in there and they start booing your face,
you don't you don't tell the story that you want to tell. So you need to be able to control that.
And so what I would suggest and this is what I would do if I was Vince McMahon. I would build first off my own arena that I own.
And that's where all of my shows are going to sort of like how they do NXT. Right. In the Performance Center.
I would write. And then when you the only so most of the crowd would be like NXT superstars and then other hired members that you say,
hey, cheer when we say cheer boo when we say boo. Right. We're going to pump in some sound and you just got to be louder.
Right. And what I would do is is to create that type of atmosphere.
And then when you do the pay per view matches, then you do the big arena shows and you allow the crowd to come in when you do the sort of like movie
ask show like pay per views are supposed to be movies. Right. In this universe. Right. So the TV shows need to be sort of
need to be in a controlled element to get the story over. So when you do the big movie reveal
and that's why I think WWE needs to go to like for a year because you know companies telling a story 12 months out of the year where they release a new movie every 12 months.
If Star Wars produced a Star Wars movie every 12 months, people would get tired of it.
And I think WWE needs to only do four or five events a year.
So yeah, that's where I'm at. That's where I'm at with that. I would love that idea of WWE creating sort of a WWE universe that that mimics
where the storylines and what is going on in the story is complete. It's completely separate from current events.
I don't think like like it hurts my head when people come in and wrestling and they break the fourth wall where they mention like current events
because you're supposed to be telling a story. Right. If we go down to the basics of what wrestling is, their characters, they're playing, you know, you have superheroes and you have villains.
Right. If Marvel went into their story and talked about like anything that's going on today in their story, it kind of breaks that fourth wall.
Right. Like if if if they were doing a Black Panther movie and they mentioned anything that because Wakanda is a made up place based off a myth of what Africa of a country
that maybe maybe existed at one time, maybe didn't we don't like but if they were in Wakanda and they mentioned something present day like now, like it breaks that fourth wall.
And it sort of hurts the continuity of the story. You're telling stories. The main point of what I'm telling is WWE tell me stories.
AW tell me stories. I don't care about what the Internet fans want and dream matches. You can give me dream matches.
Just do it with a story by giving me a motivation. Right. Give me a motivation why why I should care about each character involved in the story that's being told.
Let's talk about Vince. Vince McMahon has paid apparently like 17 million dollars back to WWE basically to cover the hush money he paid for the the legal things that he's been going on with these accusations.
And ladies and gentlemen, just like that Vince McMahon is probably taking over. Vince McMahon is probably back. Right. He paid restitution for the alleged mishappens.
And now I think he's taking control again. I think with with that being said, I think we start seeing theory get pushed again. I think some of the guys Triple H brought back Candice, Johnny Gargano, Dexter, Hit Row, Bray Wyatt.
With them coming back or with Vince potentially back in the fold as being in control. I think we're going to start seeing them take a back seat.
And I think some of the guys like theory are going to get pushed.
Chad Gable. I think Triple H want I don't think Vince McMahon is going to take complete control. I don't. I think Triple H is still going to be in control of booking until I see otherwise.
I don't I think Triple H is still going to be in control. But here's what I've noticed. Triple H isn't good at this job.
But but but I think I think I warned you guys go back and tell me if I'm wrong or not. But when Triple H was named head Booker when when Vince sort of retired.
Right. And Triple H was named head Booker. I think I warned everyone.
It's not going to be as good as you think it's going to be. He's going to turn the main roster into NXT.
He's going to book the way he booked NXT. And that's exactly what he's doing. If you've if you watched NXT during that time during the Triple H black and gold era.
NXT was boring on on the week to week. And then they put on very good pay per views or premiere live events right to take over events.
Save the next day. But but the bill to it was boring as all get out. It was boring. Stories weren't being told. It was just dream matches or you know there was some type of story.
None of it was entertaining. It was just match after match after match for two hours. And it it. Oh wait that's a W. I hate to say Triple H books the same way.
Tony Khan books because they're booking for the same audience. And that's the cat the hardcore fans who just want to see matches and really I think there are a W fans out there.
If all if you go to the show and they just put on seven matches and there was no story at all.
They just gave you seven matches every week. There would be fans that would be happy with it.
And then there would be people like me who'd be like well none of this makes sense. What are we building to. What what what is the reason we're doing all of this.
Where's the motivation for it. Like what what is the reason that I should watch this.
And I just don't.
See like Triple H to me is not a good booker. I was very worried when he took over very worried when he took over because I immediately assumed that
the product was going to get worse and it was already pretty made at the point. But what I figured was he was going to bring back some crowd favorites he was going to try to push people that no one cared about.
And Triple H is sort of like silver lining was we're just going to use the bloodline.
And that's going to save me. But that's a triple that's me that's a Vince McMahon creation Vince and his team built the bloodline not the other way around.
Our Triple H didn't build that.
So I just.
I don't know. I just don't know. I just I think Triple H will still be there. I just don't. I don't like the way he books.
He's had how many weeks to plan for WrestleMania and I'm just not happy with what we're getting.
There's no excitement here. I have a few matches I'm excited for. I'll be honest. I like Logan Paul and Seth Rollins. I think that's going to be a killer match.
Roman versus Cody. I'm just not excited for it because of the story that's being told.
I think that there's a lot more that we can do with the bloodline.
I think I personally think that there's a lot more we could do other than Roman Cody and then the tag team match for the titles.
I think that we could do a lot more. I do. Let me explain.
I don't know if I've gone through this, but before or not.
But let me sort of explain what I would have done at Elimination Chamber when Jay came out.
They were half right with what I would do. Jay comes out during Elimination Chamber.
You know what I have Jay do? Kick Sammy in the face. They held that back too long.
Have Jay kick Sammy in the face. Have that lead to a match between Jay and Sammy at WrestleMania.
Have them beat down Sammy Zane. Have Jay and Jimmy consistently beat down Sammy Zane.
At WrestleMania, Sammy faces Jay. He loses because Jimmy's there to protect him. He beats him down.
Right. So at Backlash, you have Jimmy versus Sammy. Same results. Right.
Jimmy wins. Jay comes out and they beat up Sammy. Right.
Now we're going to Puerto Rico. Or is Backlash in Puerto Rico? I don't remember.
I think Backlash is in Puerto Rico. I don't think they've announced in between Backlash and Money in the Bank.
So I don't know if there's one in between or not. I'm assuming Hell in a Cell would be there in between.
But let's just say we go to Hell in a Cell and it's Sammy versus maybe both of them in a cell.
Or maybe Sammy versus Jimmy again or something where they put some other stipulation.
Maybe it's Sammy versus Solo in a cage match or whatever. Right. And again, beat down.
So yeah, you do that. You have Jay versus Sammy at WrestleMania. At Backlash in Puerto Rico, you have Jimmy versus Sammy.
The same result. He loses, gets beat up. He loses, he gets beat up by the bloodline, including Solo. Right.
Then I'm assuming Hell in a Cell will be in between Backlash and Money in the Bank.
And you could have Solo versus Sammy in either Hell in a Cell match or a no holds barred or street fight or something like that. Right.
And then again, Sammy loses, he gets beat up. And then you have a then you could do one of two things.
You can then have Kevin Owens show up and be his protector. Right.
And then they can build towards having the tag match at SummerSlam or you could have Sammy beat down, beat down, beat down, beat down four months in a row.
WrestleMania or the Elimination Chamber. He loses because of betrayal by Jay.
And then the month of March leading in the WrestleMania is one month.
WrestleMania is another month. Backlash another month. Hell in a Cell another month. Right.
So four months in a row, you're just getting beat down by Jimmy, Jay and Solo.
So at Money in the Bank in London, you can do one of two things.
Kevin Owens either comes out and at the end of Hell in a Cell, Kevin Owens comes out and protects Sammy, which then leads up to maybe Kevin Owens fighting the bloodline or something.
And they create a tag team. They do something leading up to SummerSlam where they would have their tag match where they could win.
Or what I would actually prefer is you go into Money in the Bank and Sammy Zane wins Money in the Bank.
So he's beat down, beat down, beat down, beat down. And now he starts to rise again and the fans are still behind him.
Right. You have Sammy win Money in the Bank and he does the baby face move.
Hey, Roman, I'm not waiting to tell you. I'm not waiting to sneak up on you. I'm telling you right now.
In Detroit and SummerSlam, I'm taking that title.
And he says, I'm cashing in. Don't plan another match because I'm coming. Right. I'm coming for you.
Right. And that's how you tell the story. And then at SummerSlam, Sammy Zane wins the Undisputed Universal Championship.
And that's the story I would tell. And you push Cody back to the background.
Not because Cody doesn't deserve it, but because Cody's not the hottest baby face right now.
You've spent six to eight months building Sammy Zane as this underdog baby face.
And everyone knew he was turning on Roman. Everyone knew it was going to happen, when it was going to happen.
And when it happened, it made him the biggest baby face in the company with the biggest reaction.
And you're going to sort of cut that story short because you want to insert Cody Rhodes.
I'm sorry. You can't do that. You just can't. You got to tell Cody you're going to get a shot at the title.
Right. I know there's backstage politics, but look, Cody, like Cody could have easily transitioned into a feud with Seth Rollins.
Cody could have won Royal Rumble. He could have had his match with Roman. Seth could have...
Right. This is why Seth Rollins needs to lose his match. If Seth Rollins loses to Logan Paul, that pisses him off.
He comes out in the main event of WrestleMania and attacks Cody Rhodes. He heals Seth Rollins, attacking Cody Rhodes.
And angered Seth Rollins, who just feels like everything is going against him. He attacks Cody Rhodes.
And this needs to be the feud to determine who faces Roman.
And what you could do is it doesn't even have to be who faces Roman. It's who's going to face Sammy.
Because Sammy is going to be the one to beat Roman for the bet at SummerSlam.
So then you have Cody finish off the Seth story.
Or you have Seth beat Cody. One of the two.
I would ultimately pick Cody because then you can do face versus face, but there's motivation because Cody just wants the title.
And so Cody's willing to do things that are heelish. And you can make Cody a heel. I think Cody's a really good heel.
I really do. He doesn't need to be beloved by everybody.
I think Cody makes a really good heel. Right.
So that's how you do the story. That's how you should have done this.
But right, I'm not excited for Cody versus Roman. I think I know what Roman's winning this.
There's I've never calculated a situation where Cody wins this match.
It just doesn't feel right to me. Right. That you just give him a shot on coming because he's Cody Rhodes.
That doesn't make any sense to me there.
However, with them about to start doing the worldwide tour with them going to Puerto Rico and then they're going to London literally back to back.
They're probably going to do Hell in a Cell in between here in the States and they'll probably do an entire European run leading up to money in the bank.
Roman's not going to do that full tour. Roman's not going to be away from home for basically two months.
So. Roman won't. I think Roman might be at the pay per views.
He's not fighting at backlash. Don't expect Roman wins at Mania. Don't expect Roman Reigns to be at backlash.
Just don't expect it. I don't like I know the fans of Puerto Rico want to see Roman Reigns.
Don't expect him to be there. That's why I believe some some type of dirty ending is going to happen.
This is why Seth needs to attack Cody because then Cody can immediately transition into Seth Rollins.
Seth Rollins, you cost me my title. Then have that be the match at backlash.
Have that be the magic backlash. That's made that main event.
You have to write and we'll probably get a Damien Priest singles match where he wins.
We'll probably get Selena Vega on the card in some way, shape or form.
I think it'd be pretty decent. I just as long as it's continuing the story and this isn't just like we're going to cater to.
Right. But this pay per view has a chance to destroy like here's the thing.
You have a chance to destroy the best faction in the bloodline and build a faction to take its place in Judgment Day.
You have that opportunity or you keep the bloodline and you build Judgment Day as a legitimate faction to challenge them.
Rhea Ripley should beat Charlotte.
Dominic needs to beat Ray as much as that pains me to say I'm I'm I did not like Dom as a face when he was with his dad, but they separated him from Ray.
They gave him a character that it's funny. They've embraced the comedy act.
It's funny. And I think now you can turn it to where it's a legitimate thing where Dominic can beat his dad.
Get rid of it in that story and transition that Dominic is killing it right now.
He is Damien. Don't know if he I think he's in the Andre the Giant match.
I don't know. I really don't know.
But that's on Friday before mania.
But let's just say priest is in that Andre the Giant match.
He needs to win. You have the ability.
Finn Balor needs to beat Edge.
You have the ability to make the Judgment Day.
The top faction or a competing faction.
With.
The bloodline.
So I'm not going to do like a prediction or go through of that.
Yeah, we will do that on probably on Wednesday.
And then once mania season's over, like I'll be honest with you, I'm not exactly certain how often I'll do this show until the product is.
I'm just bored with wrestling at the moment.
I'm just it's not entertaining to me and I have a lot more things that I find entertaining that I could do with my time than.
Sit here and watch a show that I don't.
I haven't watched Rawl or Smackdown outside of some clips in about two weeks, honestly.
And when I do come back to the show, it's going to be more than just highlights.
I'm going to try to make this like things that I enjoy because I just I just don't enjoy the product that we have right now.
So it may be like, hey, let's talk about this or that.
I may even transform this into.
I don't know something else.
In the in wrestling, more than just talking about the current product in the news and all that, because there's no real news and the product is but at the moment from all companies.
So.
I want to feel excited about this, but I just don't.
I just don't feel excited about what's going on in wrestling, especially with WrestleMania.
And this is supposed to be like star study.
You're going to Hollywood and you don't have the rock and you don't have Stone Cold and you don't have, you know, you don't have big, big.
Stars there, you have the Miz hosting it.
You couldn't find some B level celebrity to host WrestleMania.
You have to put the Miz.
Right.
You.
Have seen a but we know that we know he's filming, so we know he's not going if he wins, he's not going to hold it for longer than a day or two.
And more than likely, he's probably not going to win.
You have Logan Paul, which is a decent celebrity.
But when all you have is Sina.
And Logan Paul, and that's your star studded WrestleMania.
Now, the rumors are they're holding things back for Raw after because Triple H books for the marks who think that the Raw after mania is better than mania.
That's insane, dude.
This is supposed to be the biggest event of the year.
And you're going to hold back surprises to the day after.
That's insane, dude.
That's literally insane.
Literally insane.
I don't know. I just I really I really don't know what to talk about that.
I don't we I mean, we got a decent Hall of Fame class.
I'm not a big fan of the Hall of Fame.
Personally, for me, I think WWE should just stop doing it until you build a physical Hall of Fame.
It literally means nothing.
And you run out of people that even want to be in it.
And like Batista was told was supposed to be the headliner this year, but because he's filming and he can't make it, they're moving him back another year.
We have a three person class right now.
Muda was never in WWE, but they're going to credit him because they own WCW.
You have Rey Mysterio, who's still an active competitor, who's going right.
Like with Edge, I can understand.
He was he retired.
He got put in and then he come back.
Right. But imagine if like the NFL decided last season, Tom Brady still playing, but we know he's going to be in the Hall of Fame.
So we're going to put him in there anyway.
That's it. Like like this is how you know WWE like can't be taken seriously as a sport.
No other sport would put an active full time competitor in the Hall of Fame.
Right. But you run out of choices.
And so yeah, Rey Mysterio's either he's right. Either he's retiring after this match or.
Right. But no, does anyone actually care about the Hall of Fame?
Like I remember when I went to Mania 33 and we bought tickets like we were deciding tickets or things to what events did we want to go to?
Of course, one day of access.
If you go to WrestleMania just for fan access, do it.
Even if that's all you go there for, if you can't afford tickets to the shows, Raw, SmackDown, NXT, whatever, go to fan access.
If you're in LA, go to fan access.
Do it. It's worth the time and money.
I remember when we went there, crazy things happened.
So first we did an interview for WWE Germany.
I don't know if it aired or not, but they stopped us just randomly and they were like, hey, can you do this interview with us?
We're interviewing fans, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
We're from Germany. I don't know if it aired.
I mean, they spoke mostly German and their English was kind of broken.
But again, we just thought it was so cool.
And then we go and we're waiting in line.
We're waiting in line for fan access.
You get to meet certain superstars depending on like the price package that you buy.
Now, we bought the basic level.
We didn't, you know, if I had the money to hand out, I would have met, you know, Roman Reigns.
I would have or something like that.
But so the general mission superstars you could meet the day that we went.
You had Kalisto, which is a funny story.
My friend called him Rey Mysterio when he walked by.
Just because in WWE, when you see masked superstar, you instantly think Rey Mysterio.
And then when he turned around, he's like, no, man, I'm Kalisto.
My friend was like, oh, man, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Right. It's funny.
But apparently he's like, I get that all the time.
Don't worry about it.
Kalisto was such a cool dude.
And then there was Dana Brooke.
I want to say Lana was there that day for general mission, but her line was like a three hour wait.
Of course, everyone would go get a picture with her.
Right. So we were in line waiting for to meet Dana Brooke, which is a great story.
So as you get closer to the front of the line and you can hear sort of the conversations that get said with these people,
because it's literally just like, hey, here, sign this.
Here, let's take a picture.
And then you go like you can't just sit there and have full conversation.
So a lot of times it's like, hey, big fan or whatever.
Right. And so as everyone's leaving, the guys were getting closer to the front of the line.
You can hear what Dana Brooke is saying.
And for the 10 people before me, including my friends, I was the last of my friend group.
I was the biggest.
And so I always stood at the back of the line of our friend group.
I was the tallest and the biggest.
Right. And so I was at the back of the line.
So there was like four of us, four of my friends in front of me and then like the six people in front of them.
Right. So that would be 10 people in front of me.
She didn't say she just said, hey, have a nice day or whatever.
Picture with me.
I left and she was like, have a great day, babe.
And I was like, wait a minute. Don't don't do that.
And from that day, I've been a Dana Brooke fan because I can sit there and say, I don't know if she said it to anyone else.
She called me babe. That's all I got to say.
And I'm not going to mark out about it. It's kind of weird to mark out about it.
But it's it's one of those things where she ain't into me.
But hey, she called me babe.
And so I'll take what I can get at this point at that point in my life.
It's kind of looking back at it. Not that big of a deal.
But it's one of the memories I have from from mania.
But standing in that line, you know, so we just got done.
I think the German interview was first anyway, the same day we were waiting in line to see Dana Brooke and the dude behind us started talking to us and was like, yeah.
And so he started talking and he was like, hey, do you guys want to be in in the local Fox Sports Web as a news story?
And we were like, sure. Why not?
He was like, yeah, my name. I think his name was Brian.
And he worked for I want to say it was an out of the D.C., Maryland area for their local Fox Sports News Sports Division.
And he was there at WrestleMania to basically cover it.
And we've we made the news. I could go back.
I got to find the article, but I could literally go back and show you me and my group of my friends.
We made the Fox Sports Local Channel in that area.
It was it was a cool time. Go to fan access.
If that's all you do, go to fan access. Well worth the time and money.
But anyway, we when we were planning this trip and they were planning out events like I really wanted to go to NXT Takeover.
I still think I've been to Vindicis.
I went to an NXT pay per view this year, but I really want to go to take over like WrestleMania edition because like stand and deliver, which is what they call it now.
Like those are their big events. Right.
That's their big event. And I really want it like like they're going to Philly next year.
And if I could either get if I can get the time off and save up the money to go wrestle.
First off, I hope WrestleMania starting next year goes back to one year.
And yeah, that's just the hope for that. But WrestleMania and then I would go to NXT.
I would write. But like we were talking and all my friends like we got to go to the Hall of Fame.
And I was sitting there like, I mean, if you want to.
But I would rather spend that money to go to NXT.
And because you're sitting there and there's not much crowd interaction at the Hall of Fame event.
And I don't know, it just feels weird to me to go to it would be weird to go to any Hall of Fame event, especially like there wasn't anyone when I went.
There wasn't anyone really super special that got inducted that I was like, oh, I'm here for this guy.
Right. So I just I wish WWE would quit it with the Hall of Fame gimmick until they build a physical Hall of Fame that people can go and watch.
Like, I don't know why I haven't done that yet. If you built a physical Hall of Fame that either one people can go to like what I would do if I was WWE is I would build a physical building Hall of Fame in Florida.
Put it right next to your your performance center.
And.
Just have have people like, hey, come down here.
You can tour the training center. You could tour the Hall of Fame.
You can meet some of the, you know, maybe the trainers, whatever.
Do do guided tours like that. You're an entertainment center like company or an entertainment company.
Build something like WWE. You know, the biggest thing, the greatest thing for the fans.
If WWE does sell, would it go to Disney? Because we would get a theme park.
And that would be great. And we would get themed restaurants and we would get we would probably get a physical Hall of Fame.
If Disney bought it, they would make that a number one tourist attraction for one for the WWE side of their parks.
So like as an entertainment company, you have to do the best to entertain people.
You know how cool it would be if.
WWE had a Hall of Fame and you could go in there and you could tour it and you could tour the performance center.
And and I would even have like a history of WWE Museum.
Like if I'm WWE, I'm thinking large scale, like you have all that extra stuff sitting in your warehouses.
Like all that. I mean, they do those videos all the time of do we found this in the warehouse?
Like, what can we find today type thing? Right.
Build a history of WWE Museum.
And at the very end, put the Hall of Fame and have people tour it.
That would be and then I mean, shoot, charge like fifty dollars for the day and you could sit and tour the building, you know, get food, charge.
I mean, build a museum, my dude.
You get incorporated into the performance center, have people, you know.
Tour the performance center, tour the museum, tour the Hall of Fame, have like a 50 day all access path, fifty dollar a day, all access pass.
We can tour the Hall of Fame, tour a museum, tour the performance center, get access to all three buildings.
Right. You have to get like a lanyard and a pass loan.
Like I understand like at the place of business or maybe even like either have them guide it or like or, you know, maybe background.
I understand there's a security risk doing that.
But I mean, you can even set up a thing in the performance center where the people who tour it can, you know, do a move or something.
I know when they do access, they have like a foam pit where you can jump off a top rope or drop off the turnbuckle into this foam pit.
Right. And now there's rules like you you can't do like flips.
You can't like you can't do anything that would hurt yourself.
You have to sign a waiver and all of that stuff.
Right. But. Set up something like that.
Set up a ramp where like you can enter, do like an entrance.
Right. To your right.
They have that set up at access, at least they do when I went where you could literally pick a song you want to make your entrance to.
And you could walk out as if you're entering the arena.
Right. Create a fan experience.
Like there's so many things that you could do WWE to benefit your bottom dollar and to create a fan experience outside of just going to the events.
I'm a history person. I would love to go to a history of WWE museum.
That would be freaking fantastic.
And you have enough history where you can build a museum out of it.
So this is one of those things where like WWE you're missing the mark here.
Yeah. So.
Yeah. Well, definitely we'll do a WrestleMania prediction.
Like I said, I'm not very excited for it.
I think the card is shaped out.
We only know where two of the matches are going to be on the card, which is another thing we could talk about.
You know, typically when you're buying tickets.
Like when I bought my tickets to WrestleMania 33, I didn't have to worry about what night to buy a ticket for.
Because I wasn't there for the whole card. That card was super long.
I'm not there for every match. Right.
So my favorite wrestler, I mean, if my favorite wrestler was Roman Reigns, that's all I'm going there.
Okay. I'm buying a night two because I know he's man vending the whole thing.
But if I want to see Asuka, I don't know what night she's going to be on.
Is she on night one? Is she on night two?
Like where Charlotte going to be? Where's the Usos going to be?
We now know that Theory versus Cena is going to start the show.
Which probably is because Cena needs to get back to Australia to finish filming.
So he's got to go and he's probably then going to leave at the end of the event.
It also tells me that Theory may have something up his sleeve.
If Theory's starting the show, are they having something bigger up his sleeve to work with?
Who knows? We'll see.
But I will say this, if they do surprise us, I think Matt Cardona could come back.
I think all this, the same names we named for the Royal Rumble could be there.
Randy Orton's rumored to be coming back.
So it'll be interesting.
We'll go over WrestleMania in depth on Wednesday though.
And then we'll definitely do like a review show of it the weekend, the Wednesday after that.
The next two weeks will be about WrestleMania.
After that, I really don't know.
I'll have to plan out something if I even want to continue talking.
It just depends on the direction the program goes.
But with that, thank you all for listening.
I do appreciate it.
And I'll see you guys next on Wednesday.
In a few days as I predict what happens at WrestleMania.
I'll see you then.