WWE 2025 Year in Review: The 4th Annual WRAP Awards | The WRAP

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[SPEAKER_02]: Hello, everyone, and welcome to a very special early live edition of the rap right here on the fake media network YouTube channel.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Happy Tuesday night to you all.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Happy New Year's Eve Eve as we get ready to wrap up the year, 2025, usher in 2026.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I can't believe I'm saying this, as we get ready to start the road to WrestleMania again in Las Vegas running it back next year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The year that was in WWE for 2025.

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[SPEAKER_02]: all of the best, all of the worst recapped, reviewed for your viewing and listening pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm Keela Cash and by my set as always is my co-captain.

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[SPEAKER_02]: My right hand, these sometimes advocate for the rappley and prove him as jade a parker.

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[SPEAKER_02]: From NXT, I bring to you back on the rap as always.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Someone who is not salty today on a very special awards day, he is perky.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I present to you perky, Scott Young, welcome back perky.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we have Michaela as always.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a pleasure to shop it up and talk all things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: WWE, and how could I not be perky sky?

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[SPEAKER_00]: We have the awards.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We got a black champion on Triple H's watch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's the King's birthday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there's just so much to celebrate today.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, how could I not be perky?

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, there are a few things to celebrate.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm down two or three of them.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I really am.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm very happy for you that we have a black champion in WWE on SmackDown that Triple H on the last day of the year, just about saw color.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He saw it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He recognized it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a miracle I tell you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then King James turns 50.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Congratulations to him as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, 50s are strong word.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You might drop that tonight for his birthday, but, you know, yeah, one a day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm pretty sure it's Tiger Woods birthday, too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So like, it's a goat day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a goat a day.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a good day, a day of the goats, all shot out to the goats, and it's going to be a lengthy show tonight.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We're coming on the air a little bit earlier because we got to go through the wrap awards.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's our fourth annual award ceremony as we celebrate and then integrate some of the Pesson verse moments in WWE of the year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We got some fan votes as well.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll go through the ballots and just a bit, but you know what we got to do.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's been a minute.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We have not talked.

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[SPEAKER_02]: NBA, Yackityak for a minute.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And over the last two weeks, things have changed in the NBA.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We're guarding the standings.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We have injuries and fortunately people out for several weeks, which makes me very, very, very sad.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But let's take a peek at the NBA Western Conference

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[SPEAKER_02]: in the west are the thunder, who are 28 and five.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Number two, the spurs, who are 23 and nine, three, the nuggets, 22 and 10, the rockets, number four, 20 and 10, the lakers, still hanging tough, 20 and 10, five and five in their last 10 though, batting, 500.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The timber wolves, number six, 21 and 12, the sons, 19 and 13, the warriors, 17 and 16, the Grizzlies, 15 and 17, the troublasers, 14 and 19, the jazz.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I can't believe they're even in the mix here with with a,

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[SPEAKER_02]: 12 and 19 record.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then we have the maps 12 and 22 into basement right now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The kings and the pelicans were Scott, your thoughts on the rankings as we reach almost our star season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a tight race.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You lose a couple of games, you lose a couple spots.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the West is tight.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Lakers are going to take a little bit of a hit with AR15 recharge and reloading.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's going to hurt a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: King James is getting his legs underneath them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's going to help.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I expect a big game tonight on his birthday spurs are showing that they're for real they have to use to keep up with the thunder but in all honesty none of this really matters right now would you know we'll see what happens after the all star break but it's it's a tight race right now in the west.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, Joker is out for four weeks.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No ligament damage.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Thankfully to the knee.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, oh, God, after the game he had on Christmas night, which was insane.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, well, let's hope he's okay.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's going to be out for about a month, but he should be back at it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I like didn't for a lot to get a watch off for them.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This season, but I like the spurs a lot.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They've been the thunder what three times in two weeks.

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[SPEAKER_02]: very impressive.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If they have to meet up at the playoffs, that would be a very fascinating series to watch.

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[SPEAKER_02]: As we flip things over to the east and still number one, right now the Pippton's 24 and 8, the next or right on the hills 23 and 9, Celtics 19 and 12, the Raptors number 4, 20 and 14, the Magic 18 and 15 as well as the heat at number 6.

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[SPEAKER_02]: 18 and 15, the 76ers who are playing right now who are 16 and 14, the maves, the Cavaliers who are 18 and 16, the bulls coming in at number nine, 15 and 17 Hawks, 10, 15 and 19 bucks.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Number 14 with Yanna Spak, 14 and 19 bringing up the rare would be the Pacers who are 6 and 27.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they are really impressing me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought the injury would kind of wipe them out, but they are up hangin' tough.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They're in the top five, and they could be challenging for that top spot.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If Jay Cetanum does come back and that Achilles right before the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We shall see as we enter the next stretch of the NBA season and we're on the street with my hawks that it might be time to say goodbye to Tri Young.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So Scott, he might be moving to Calabassas, might be a Laker.

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[SPEAKER_02]: real soon potentially to see bought property out west.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That would be one of the worst days of the lakeers can make.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're already one of the worst defensive teams.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So why not go and add a five foot eight defensive.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing to the team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Go add a lot of offense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I mean, what is he going to do defensively?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Who's you guys at guard the rough?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, what will we do on right now?

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, let's see, he's got property.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's not going to the clipper.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's not prime time enough for him.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So the lakers are going to get him.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They have Luca and tray on the same team as they were drafted to two different teams, and now they're somewhere else.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Nice and them to the clips let them go over there and let James hard and come back to the East so he can continue his streak of making the playoffs every year that that he'll he'll get the Hawks to play off in the East let's he'll get them there him and Jalen Johnson I think they'll work real well together let's not let's not try to aren't they like Owen for us as he came back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, yes, they are.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They aren't there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So there you go, Jalen Johnson's playing way too good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They have a little tray tray out there, missing trays and sending them back to the bottom of the East, playing way too well.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, well, it might be time to say goodbye, but honestly speaking, why would I want James Harden on my team when he's going to do what he always do disappear in the playoffs?

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[SPEAKER_02]: but he'll get you to the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You're not going to the playoffs right now without here.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Sir, listen, I rather be at home versus him not showing up in the clutch.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I rather be at home sitting down, chilling, relaxing, getting my can't cool on early versus him, disappearing when it counts most for like a game five, please.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, if you'd rather be at home watching the kids do anything, then that's fine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I still say, if you want to make, if he's going to LA, sit until the clip was going to, we do not need what or having, I have a reason to get him, AR 15 is already better than him.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So we don't need your young famous last words, we'll see if Scott will eat those words just a month's time.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then if he does, I have like the oven

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[SPEAKER_02]: bird on standby, the crow, with hot sauce and seasoning already to go humble pie.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I fixed a great meal for my cook, Captain, I do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That would be the worst.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It would be the best for me just for you to eat crow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I would have the roof for that guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely the absolute worst.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like rooting for Steph.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just you, you would have you would have to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd rather, at this point right now, I would rather root for Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors than Lil' Trade Trail, than the Lakers right now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That actually makes me happy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh god, stuff curry praise from his most hated, hated fan.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I love that for me, I do.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All righty, enough in B.A.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yakityak.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's now get to the wrap awards.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Very important awards ceremony.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I want to shout out our guy Steven, because he used to be here every year in his Rinnit Tux.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And he's unavailable this year to join us.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So he is here in spirit and we thank him for his service for always being there for us every single year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And he was there for some long recordings.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He went down the list of the best and worst in WWE.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So we will miss you, sir.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We hope to have you back here some day as you lock in on WWE once again, but Steven Conway from Speaking of Strong Style.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We miss you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I have a Renett Tux in the closet just for you and your honor tonight.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, let's get to the wrap awards, shall we?

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[SPEAKER_02]: It is in award special.

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[SPEAKER_02]: that commemorates the best and worst in WWE this year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We have our lower tier categories for the worst.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then we work our way up to the tip of the very best of the best and winners will vary, trust and believe.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There will be some crossover for sure, but mostly this should be a variation of winners and losers.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Take your pick.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So let's get to our first category.

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[SPEAKER_02]: worst match of the year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The worst match of the year, dirt worst trash match from 2025.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Scott, who are you crowning?

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[SPEAKER_02]: This is incredible honor.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, worst part of this probably not the worst match, but it's by far the most disappointing and it had the worst ending of a mall, but I got to go with John scene of versus Cody Rhodes in the main event.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Travis Scott and his sage being there just absolutely ruined it for me and then he never decided to show back up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that for me is going to take the cake as the worst match of the year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I was debating this as well.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But if you want to pick a match, they're left a sour taste in your mouth.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It would be this one to close out Resomini and night two.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And they were having a nice recovery because night one was kind of rough.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Night two was on an upward swing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, we're gonna tear it up, show up the year, and then that main event happened.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And it was the very worst of John Cena.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was not the best of Cody Rhodes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Travis Scott came and went, never to be seen again.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's with retconned out of WWE history.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The man has been shaded on various interview platforms over the last several months.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And it really culminated in a bad match that saw John Cena become a 17-time

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[SPEAKER_02]: World Heavy Champion, congrats to him.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He broke the record in WWE canon, but my Lord, the match was no good, and it just made me sad to think at the time he was washed as a wrestler, because it was just not it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That match was Garboge.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, worst part is, like you said, that night to had potential to be one of the best, if not the best PLE of the whole year, if that main event could have delivered.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They had arguably the match of the year to open the show coming off of one of the best matches, which was the main event of night two.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, just really disappointing all around.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, and we have some fan picks from Paul Fontaine.

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[SPEAKER_02]: His worst match, probably one of the Tiffany Jade matches.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I like the Tiffany Jade matches.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought they had quirky chemistry.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't bad.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Quirky, it was quirky.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I went classified as bad.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I found myself liking it more than hating it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then our girl, Lady B, she checks in.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Worst match to her was Becky Lynch versus Nikki Bella at Clash and Paris.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, see, I didn't hate that one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I, my expectations for Nicky were very low.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that might be why I enjoyed it probably a little more.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I, I wasn't really expecting much.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was I, I didn't hate it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was I, it existed.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I say for matches like that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It existed on the timeline.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It happened.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But let's get to the next category.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Worst moment of the year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The moment that you question your fan card, that you wondered why do I tune in?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Why do we do this job?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Scott, why do we pick up these microphones and do our thing every single week?

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[SPEAKER_02]: So Scott, what was your worst moment in 2025 as a WWE fan?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, it was going to be Travis Scott and his sage.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was going to, he was going home with a lot of awards.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But then at the last minute, at the very last minute, Cody Rhodes again came through with the home invasion of Drew McIntyre and had one of the worst segments I have ever seen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So Cody Rhodes, two for two on the worst awards for the rap.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, Cody, you're cracking up the awards for all the wrong reasons to kick off this episode.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But it was really bad.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If you have not seen it look it up on WWE's YouTube page, it is trash.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That segment was so bad.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But it was not my worst moment of the year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The worst moment

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was an, and actually let's do an extra honorable mention his return and then run her up for best match hand mass occurring John Cena at Resopalooza.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's make it a two full one special of trash.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's a strong can in a forest match, too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, Brock definitely was in the conversation for these top two awards as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But,

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[SPEAKER_00]: There was nothing top in Cody Rhodes running through security and jumping over golf courses to get through Drew McIntyre and the cleanest looking home invasion footage of that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: For a K drones, I mean, the footage was so clean.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It could be nominated for an Emmy Award for best editing, best directing, best cinematography.

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[SPEAKER_02]: not for best writing, please.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But the security guy taking a drink in the water by the lake of reincarnation was a site.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The nutcracker getting beat down as well.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The manicure lawn was quite the site.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Drires a very nice house.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He does.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Was that a run-up property?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But what I do know is that I hate it that segment too.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I hate it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Proclessors return even more.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So let's get to our fan picks.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Paul Fontaine comes through worst moment of the year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Sea Empunks promo on John Cena right before their matches out of your Arabia.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I didn't hate that and hate as promo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I really enjoyed Sena's, so, but I didn't hate Sena's.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was fine.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was serviceable.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, if we had to do a redo with the Rose reversed, it would have been better with better alignment and material.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was I.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then lady B, she's on my way of length, Brock Lesnar returns as Summer Slam.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That was a sour taste moment, tone deaf by WWE, but WWE is going to guess what WWE all the time.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Our next category is

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[SPEAKER_02]: worst feud storyline of the year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The storyline that irked us something that just made us think why is it going on and on and on and on and on Scott, your selection for worst feud and or storyline of the year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh man, a lot of strong candidates triple age versus AI.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Definitely

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to give the worst feud to Cody Rhodes when it comes to the rock and his soul.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The sage Travis Scott, just that whole combustion of everything that they had going on led to absolutely nothing, may John Cena have to do stuff on the fly like he said in his interview with Cody.

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[SPEAKER_00]: First there was this plan and then they were gone and now there's no plan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So Cody Rhodes, the rock, Travis Scott, Sage and Souls.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that order of Sage and Souls.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got to make sure that the Sage is in there because that is part of Travis Vaggers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Every time he was around, he was, or wouldn't that Sage everywhere?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that is a part of the worst food of the year, by far.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it would have to be the first,

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[SPEAKER_02]: a few months of John Cena's ill-turn.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was no good.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I really tried to wrap my arms around and with love and support and understanding and empathy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then I quickly realized, no, this is trash, this is really, really bad.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And seeing us trying so hard to be hated, buddies coming off like a robot,

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[SPEAKER_02]: trying to be a bad guy, and he wasn't filling it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Then Travis Scott disappeared.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The rock set list, and I have to go make movies and get nominated for Oscars and Golden Globes and Sag awards and Critics Choice Awards.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't have time for this.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like he basically came and dropped by and left.

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[SPEAKER_02]: all of us hanging.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The payoff did not pay off at all.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And John Cena's retirement tour for the first six months suffered because of it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was detrimental to Cody's championship reign at WrestleMania.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It just side tracked everything for months on and it made me believe that John Cena as a wrestler was washed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And once he decided to bring some, once he decided to bring some color back to his insurance, we saw that he was not washed and he had a lot left in the tank.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it was like night and day.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It really was like, it opened my eyes to realize this guy is not washed.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He still has it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank God, because that was quite concerned.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So our fan picks, Paul Fontaine.

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[SPEAKER_02]: His worst food store line of the year, seen a seal term, he's with us.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then lady bees, worse fewed store line of the year, new day he'll turn and whatever that was supposed to be.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what?

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[SPEAKER_02]: that is a great selection because I too wonder what the hell was he'll turn what was the point of it in hindsight.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's been a year and we have a little to show for it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, they won the tact and status for a time at a match of WrestleMania that could have went to more attack teams versus them and that's saying something as a new day lover.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But the he'll turn in hindsight has done

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, not only that, it, you know, up until this Uso's tag team, the Oreo, the Oreo tried that they had going on or that the Dunkaroo, as you like to call them, just as not paned out, Grayson Waller is no biggie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we are where we are, Xavier Woods and the best shape of his career can't do none but play video games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But Scott he makes a lot of money playing video games makes a ton of money playing video games and that's just him playing video games I didn't even talk about his WWE contract

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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, listen, he's making a living.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I can't knock it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You re-up this contract.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So good for you, coffee and the non-beer disturbs me every time I see him.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But listen, I love them still.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I do truly, I do.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I pray and hope they find something to reignite.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There's spark as a team heading into next year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Hell, go back to being baby faces for God's sakes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: bring back the unicorns and bring back the pancakes that annoyed me, but just bring back you bring back when makes you special and what makes you beloved because this ain't it, send that dunk a room back where he belongs and catering.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like her, I think he's got something.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he could do something, but it's just not with the new day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know what he can do Scott.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here we go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He can make a plate and catering.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's what you can do.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Get some top of where.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Pack that packed that plate up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Take it on the road.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to have to get extended.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let let that man going thrive on an XC.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The CW needs the great heel.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let him go back there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm good on that too, Scott.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't need him back on the seat up where he can go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, we don't say to be

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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't say to be, listen, sir, to be is where you can find yourself, you can reinvent that yourself and you can just get lost on Evolve and evolve your way out of WWE.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's where you can go and I like Grace and Waller too, but it's ain't it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: None of this is it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So you can go back to Evolve, kick it, do something, and then leave.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought you were about to say he could go back to evolve and keep rocks, but, um, yeah, all right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, if they want to pay that man, I'm probably a million dollars ago, be on the evolve.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So be it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, it's a living, isn't it?

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[SPEAKER_02]: A great living and you work twice a month.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So let's get to our

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[SPEAKER_02]: happier category.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Now this next category is one that holds a very special place in my heart.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was created for a man that touched our lives in so many ways.

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[SPEAKER_02]: because we saw how bad and great he was at the same time.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It is a man I'm still rooting for to make it in this industry.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I pray that he makes it, he breaks through, figures it out.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I believe he got cut a little bit too early for my liking, but if he wants to continue this path being a wrestler, damn it, but in the work.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But in the meantime, his legacy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: will continue to live on via the Von Wagner award of excellence, also known as our most improved award.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This award goes to someone that has over achieved in 2025.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They were at the depths, the bottom, the doldrums and then they rose up and they improved and they have hope.

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[SPEAKER_02]: and they have light, and they have us rooting for them.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I will put my hand up and I will make my pick.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I will select most improved Raquel Rodriguez.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's a really good pick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Shout out to Kevin Nash, you know, when you think about the Vaughn, it's crazy to think that him and Ron Breaker started on the same night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the same main event.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: For that NXT title, now one's going for the World Heavyweight Championship on January 5 against CM Punk and the other.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's still being a bodyguard on a W collision.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but the rock kills a really good pick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My pick is, uh, it's going to be lash legend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think she opened a lot of eyes, especially in the war games match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um,

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's, I just think she needs more opportunities, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Every time she's out there, she's knocking it out the park.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She is getting better every time she's looking more comfortable, more dominant the way she's supposed to look.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, even though we know her tag team was cut short unfortunately before they got their tag team titles on the main or NXT, I still think the improvement that she has shown this last year should give them the confidence to really let her go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely, she's improved so much and, you know, it makes me sad that Clara and last not win those tag team titles on several occasions.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It irks me to this day, but I'm going to be all right, but it speaks to WWE's faith and last to stand her own as a potential solo star.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And what I love about last is when she showed up, she dressed like she got that main roster money.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Because listen, the fits have been fitting.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She presents herself as big time.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She cuts great promos when she's able to do so.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And her and I, she's care and I are right now in terms of like the charisma.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And when it's time for her to dump her as all friends of Nai attend to do, she will be a bigger star because of it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So shout out to Lash.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But Raquel, she's my girl.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She hasn't proved so much.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Cause you know on this show, I just say girl, get out the ring.

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[SPEAKER_02]: what you're doing, you're killing a flow, but Kevin Nash told her to work like you big, work like you strong, work like you tough.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And since that time, she's put it in that work, has improved so much, has been a part of some great matches on WWE television and PLEs this year, shout out to Raquel for putting in that work, listen to that advice and being the best she's ever been on the main roster.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, she's starting to show flash because of that NXT champion she was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And for Lash, this whole tag team with Nye is absolutely just to set her up to have a nice, big power slam of Nye.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this whole thing, that's what it seems like to me because when she turns baby,

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[SPEAKER_00]: face and just body slams now and just throws her it's going to be great and the crowd's going to love it and she's going to I think she could be a really good baby face a powerhouse baby face that they don't have right now because I don't know what's going on beyond on his hand.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So but yeah so the last is great Raquel like you said she's doing great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She had a good

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[SPEAKER_00]: Shout out to her man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Shout out again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Shout out to Kevin Nash.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She took those words.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She didn't get upset.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She took the criticism and she just utilized it and now she's working big.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's not just, you know, trying to do moves.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's doing things that makes sense and she's, you know, throwing a little bit of some storytelling in there as well.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, and lower let's pray over Bianca's finger because this has been a tragedy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We thought we have her back in two, three months.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's been eight months.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And we're heading into warrior rumble season.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And honestly, she can come back at elimination chamber because we know how it's going to be inside of your area.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We know what the reaction is going to be.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I will refer to

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, these striplets can't see her, so she might, she might make it to the mention, right?

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[SPEAKER_02]: You ain't right, but I'm just saying for pops, sex.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and now you're right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Elimination Chamber.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because you know, the, you know, the, the Queens ain't getting no love over there and salty.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We, we, we, we know that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If she does, I will fall out my chair.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll take a drink and they have to noon.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If she gets a pop over there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She might be, she might have been gone just long enough to where they're like, you know what?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You are really good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You are genuinely, really good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Even though you got a little color, we, you know what we do like you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That might surprise me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They might, I doubt it, but that you listen.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I will tell you this right now, because we will talk about the show like in late January, okay?

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[SPEAKER_02]: So the show comes on in the afternoon.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If Bianca Bellaire returns and she gets a pop from that crowd, I will pop a bottle and I'll take a picture of it, send it to you and send list of what I did.

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[SPEAKER_02]: See it proof proof and I would save some of it for the show when we do the recap.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we do in a drunk show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't wish you were that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm taking shot during the show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am 1,100% with Bianca Velerec comes back at the rumble because I think she might.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If she comes back at the rumble and gets a positive pop and listen, here's the kicker.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not only gets the positive pop, but keeps it throughout the match as she starts eliminating people and making it further

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm with you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm I'm taking shots there in the show.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm with you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I represent the bottle.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I will have the cup on the you hear me sipping you with your pouring.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You were witness me being turned up after being turned up eight hours earlier after the show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a deal.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm with it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, dead ass series, if they get for a massive Alexa bliss like pop that she got earlier this year, I might cry and get drunk on the air because I couldn't believe my eyes are my ears.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But we shall see.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But let's get to our fan choices for the vans as Scott likes to call it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Puff on team selection for the Vaughn up 2025 goes to Maxine Dupri.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a good pick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I will say she's doing a lot better right now than I thought she would do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see again, it could be the Becky lunch effects, so we'll see what happens after the Becky lunch feud, but she is doing a lot better than I thought she would do.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, my agree, and maybe be also agrees with Maxine Dupri.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She's improved a lot.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And what I like about Maxine, especially the last couple of weeks, is her promos.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She's a very good natural talker on the mic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's a show that champion.

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[SPEAKER_02]: absolutely care.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So like a champion, confidence on the microphone, smooth talker is over with the people next match is going to be key for her.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I just want her to let loose and joy it in the ring and not be as rehearsed because I know she practices so hard.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But just go with the flow of the audience

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[SPEAKER_02]: And the story you're telling and those matches will feel less structured and you'll be more in the moment because I know She's trying to remember everything but sometimes just got to go out there and let it flow and once you do that, it will make her about a worker Yeah, and that's just going to come and reps. That's just going to come with you know working with vets working You know with with the other women on the roster she hasn't worked with a lot of different women and that you know that's a part of it too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, I think like the matchup Becky will be key for 100% that's a big match, big show, but I think what she does after that win or lose, I think that's going to really tell how much she's improved and how much of it was just the Becky let's check that out.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All righty.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So next category is a fun one for us, best entrance.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So you know, you got to come out there for these big shows and deliver presentation, entrance, the atrics, fit, music, the moment.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And they're been a few that stood out to me this year, but I

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, honestly, the best insurance for the whole calendar year is J. Uso, but if we're talking single insurance where we can just pinpoint one show where like that was it, that was the one, I'm going with John Cena at SummerSlam.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When he brought the color back, when he went back to the old John Cena, brought back the energy, brought back the baby face, John Cena, that was just the vibe was just different.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything about it just worked.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It made you think that that heel turn could have been so much better.

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[SPEAKER_00]: if they would have just stuck to their plan, if Travis Scott wouldn't have got lost in his age, the plan could have worked because when he came back with that, with that energy and stuff, it was beautiful and it was magical and the crowd reacted appropriately.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So single insurance, Mitch John Cena at SummerSlam.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if we're just talking every week consistently, interest of the year, I don't think it's even close to Jayoo so.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Gets J for sure even though he gets himself tired during said insurance like dude cardio cardio is key That's what I got the commercial breathe J breathe.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's okay.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's a great insurance.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It does Put you through a lot in terms of work out.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Johnson is entrance to summer slam was special but I was so scared because this guy legit turned baby face the night before and I was scared

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[SPEAKER_02]: because like, is it for real?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Is he playing us?

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's out here in the full colors.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But sure enough, the baby face turned stuck.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And it was a great entrance.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Stu was back in effect, which I loved and appreciate it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So it was a great entrance.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But if I had to select honorable mentions, I'm gonna select two.

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[SPEAKER_02]: One, WrestleMania night one, CM Punk's entrance, the match of a face old theme, this fire burns and the new coat of personality with living color playing him down to the ring of WrestleMania, main event night one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, especially for a lot of reasons, you could tell that was a very full circle moment for him and to have them playing the song anytime you have the live the live band playing you down it's it's awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I think that's a great choice.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, and my second honorable mention at summer slam Naomi when she came out to her theme song played by her dad that was pretty great.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And knowing what we know now, it was even more special.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I was just about to say, especially now after everything this transpire that's.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing, speaking as a father, nothing is greater than being there for your child in one of their biggest moments.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I can't imagine, as great as it was for Naomi, I can't imagine how special it was for her pops.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and pops is shredding too, like he was going on all if he was coming on too.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That was a really, really fun moment.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So those are my two best entrances alongside John Cena who traumatized me, hello, because I don't want to believe it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Because I thought, oh, the turns coming Travis is coming back.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The rock is going to come back and do his job.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But it still was a great entrance at SummerSlam at MetLife Stadium.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So Paul's pick was, oh, but for me, for me next team, I will say,

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[SPEAKER_00]: He has a certain aura about him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when he came out during the John Cena Saturday night to main event finals show, that interest right there in particular felt big time, felt main event, especially standing opposing to Cody Rhodes, who has a great interest as well as one of the best ones.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That felt like a main event talent coming out with the shadow and stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think that's a great pick as well.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, that one was, ooh, that was really good.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The lasers, the lighting, the entrance, like the aura, like that word is used a lot.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The aura was there that night.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I felt it really good.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It really spoke to his future in terms of presentation on the main roster.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They got that on lockdown and later be also selects John Cena at SummerSlam as her entrance of the year as well.

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[SPEAKER_02]: As we get to our next category, which is,

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[SPEAKER_02]: PLE of the year, show of the year, the event that gets 10s across the board, and I'm going to have to add a bonus category out of the blue and this would be for next year moving forward as well.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So let's get to PLE out, let's get to PLE out of the way regarding the best overall show of 20, 25.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going with evolution, I thought that was, I thoroughly enjoyed that show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: WrestleMania could have been it if that made of them would have delivered, but I thought evolution was absolutely incredible, delivered and showed case why the women honestly really carried WWE, I thought all year, the most consistent all year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: that was on its way to being the undoubtedly no question best match of the year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, their chemistry is off the charts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They told a great story, the story leading into it of rea never being able to beat her was great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then the moment happened where I became a fan and I had to call a spade a spade and call a queen a queen and they only took her, took her throne and spot a top that women's division, just a great topper Becky Lynch doing her thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We got an NXT match, JC Jane and Jordan Grace, nice showcase, the tag team match we had.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Naomi had a match earlier in the show versus, I mean, she did her thing with Jay Cargo earlier in the show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Evolution to me was probably my favorite show all year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And again, it showcased the most consistent part of WWE all year, which was that women's division.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I have to agree.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Evolution is also my PLE of the year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I loved it from Atlanta.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They showed up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They was competing against Cowboy Carter, across the street at the bends.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I forgot all about that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: WWE set them up to fail and they absolutely delivered their best show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, great show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I'm glad you brought that up because that's a great point.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, Beyonce was across the street.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The fans carried as well.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like they wanted to be so loud and say, listen, what you not going to do is play around our faces, what you're not going to do triple ages.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to demand or no reassess and think about it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, we want another show.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So they will out his hell.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Surely get the popper from life in Atlanta.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like the pop she got for the hot tag.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It made her cry because she put that she put at that article days before from the players Tribune that had me crying at work like girl what you're doing to me so like that really submitted her baby face turn with Alexa Bliss as a tag team and then of course the work up and down the card was good mother strategists coming through looking good and listen I like Tiffany but you got out worked by Trish that night undoubtedly so I was like damn come through and then

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[SPEAKER_02]: E.O.

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[SPEAKER_02]: and Rhea tore it up and then Queen A. and I never thought I would hear Scott say those words.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Queen A.O.

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[SPEAKER_02]: me came out there, cashed in that briefcase and won the championship.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And he called it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He wanted to happen at the show at the end and it did and it was perfect.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then I realized in that moment, I converted Scott into a full blown A.O.

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[SPEAKER_02]: me fan.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I've done great work this year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I am so proud of me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I did, because they were, they were going to get all out, I think, with all in, which one was it all in, it was all in the day before.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was that weekend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I knew they WW wanted to do something to steal the headlines.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, but I, they, they couldn't have done it any better.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The match was incredible.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Naomi came out and I mean, she was great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The fire she showed she earned it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She had been one of the best characters going since money in the bank when she won that briefcase.

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[SPEAKER_00]: see what we caution man and she was great and I'm sure her and Jimmy had a great night after that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, listen, no, we know now baby Bambino was there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Baby Bambino was present.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He won.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He got to see her first.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He got to see her biggest moment of her career.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: 100%.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like we have to remember, she was pregnant since money in the bank.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's crazy that she climbed a ladder, one that got put through multiple tables and her magic is Jade.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They're made.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Baby already out there taking bumps.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Some are saying, baby took a lot of bumps.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So it was like the baby had an adventure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: When you really think back on it like, yes, baby was present for that moment too.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The she has to play back for him one day.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, yeah, you were here for this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Crazy crazy times a great show Becky Lynch and again, and I that's not for you about Becky Lynch, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She did some good by your content.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, lie with her Bailey, you know and you you already mentioned rock Hill, so you know the tag team match, her and Roxanne with the tag titles.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You mentioned Charlotte I

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[SPEAKER_00]: Stephanie Vicarre got her bed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was the big win.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She got to get set herself up for the title match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That show did so many things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Storywise did so many things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Action wise.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, like I said, that man event was arguably one of the best main events all year in the match, which is fantastic with that type of ending.

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[SPEAKER_00]: you just can't ask for much more.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Belady said, who needs men when we're all right here?

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[SPEAKER_02]: preach on that Fernando welcome.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, we went early tonight because we have early bad times, but you are here.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We thank you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We appreciate you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We knew you was rolling up around this time.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's all good.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We love you being here.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We got time.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So it like an hour may be a more show to go to talk about the best and worst moments of WWE.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So you hang tight.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You might review our answers just for you in a bit as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I was going to say, we should definitely give for Nando a little recap at some point just kind of go over what we've done so far.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, and we will do that probably after we go through the next picks for the from the fans, so nearly of the year from Paul's perspective goes to WrestleMania night to

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was on its way there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just, I can't give it that after that main event, but that opening match, Rhea, EO and Bianca, that's one of the top three.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If not the best match of the all year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Dirty Dom got one of the best reactions all year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That show too.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So absolutely, man.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That, let listen.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We were on track for having that be the PLA of the year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We were on track for that and then it is all kind of crumbled at the end, all kind of crumbled.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I enjoyed WrestleMania, mostly if you just kind of put sprinkles of night one and sprinkles of night two together and you eliminate all the junk could have been the show of the year and then

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[SPEAKER_02]: Alright, so Fernando, and for anyone tuning in right now, we are doing the 2020-25 Rapp Awards, celebrating in the best and worst moments of WWE this year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So to recap our picks so far, worst match of the year, we both picked Cody versus John Cino one at WrestleMania night two, worse moment of the year, Scott picked Cody Rose doing a home invasion at Jumec and Tire's crib and taking out the nutcracker and a police officer.

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[SPEAKER_02]: My worst moment of the year was Brock Lesnar's return to WWE and subsequently beating John Cena at Recipalusa in September.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The worst feud storyline of the year we both picked John Cena's heel turn, which did not do much for either of us.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The Vaughan Wagon Award of Excellence, most improved award I picked, where Kelwad Regas,

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Best entrance.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We both picked John Cena at SummerSlam 2025.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Peely of the year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We both picked WWE Evolution and we got Fernando's picks coming in right now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Night one was so much better.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought night two was dragging in the right direction until the end and then elimination chamber was his best paper view for moments.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it was and then the rest of the year happened.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, if you swap night ones main event when night two, night two is the PLA a year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even think it's close after that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because night ones main event was incredible as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That triple throw up was awesome.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was for sure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And his worst moment is also Cody Versicina as well.

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[SPEAKER_02]: As we get back on track here with our next category, it is a fun category.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Go to pleasure of the year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Now this is a category where

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's something that we shouldn't love, but we do.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You try to resist it, but you can't try to shake that feeling, but you can't help yourself, but to love this thing, this character, a gimmick, something that says, this makes me happy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Scott, what is your guiltyous pleasure of the year?

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[SPEAKER_00]: For me, it's gotta be solo-sacoa.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thoroughly enjoyed almost everything he was a part of.

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[SPEAKER_00]: His antique, just his, when he needed to be over the top, the way he would be in the ring when people, and he would do their little taunts, you know, whatever it was, I think he was great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he showed a lot of personality, and I've been saying it for a while.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Whenever they decide to turn him baby face,

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[SPEAKER_00]: is going to fully embrace him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then he also showed that he can go in the ring.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That match with Gunther should have been a wake-up call for anybody that was sleeping on him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because that was a great match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He hung there with one of the best in the world.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I so low so cold for me was an easy pick for my guilty pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So low is such dumb, big fun.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I love him.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's so funny and he has great personality.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I love him.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He needs to be a baby face.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This mafia crap ain't working for me, but he's just the best.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I love him.

51:02.322 --> 51:03.584
[SPEAKER_02]: He is a great go-to pleasure.

51:03.604 --> 51:05.507
[SPEAKER_02]: I have two go-to pleasures.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a cheater that way.

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[SPEAKER_02]: My first go-to pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: At the TV on, fired up on YouTube one Saturday afternoon watching worlds collide.

51:16.282 --> 51:21.650
[SPEAKER_02]: And then we see someone named Mr. iguana.

51:21.670 --> 51:28.560
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my God, and yes, and a star was born.

51:28.600 --> 51:34.268
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my God,

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[SPEAKER_02]: The fans were into it.

51:37.841 --> 51:40.684
[SPEAKER_02]: The man showed up at money in the bank.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Got a pop.

51:43.087 --> 51:46.351
[SPEAKER_02]: Just the man got over in like four hours.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was incredible.

51:48.634 --> 51:51.097
[SPEAKER_02]: El Grondé, Americano, yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: El Grondé as Ludwig Kaiser, Chetabiscuits, is a great guilty pleasure of mine.

51:57.164 --> 52:00.188
[SPEAKER_02]: And the fact this man is speaking fluent Spanish,

52:01.484 --> 52:07.433
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, DuLingo, come on, come on, come through with the bilingualness of it all.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I love that for me, and I love that for him too.

52:10.598 --> 52:26.682
[SPEAKER_02]: But my true guiltyous pleasure is the teamwork, the collaboration of two really, really pretty people, Chelsea Greene, and all ego-eathened page.

52:28.096 --> 52:39.979
[SPEAKER_02]: the on air pairing we didn't know we needed we got it was like damn look at that chemistry look at these two beautiful people coming and having fun

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we've, we've talked about it multiple times.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's an incredible pairing, a nice male and female that look great together that don't have to do any type of romantic stuff to feed off each other, to play off each other and it just works beautifully.

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[SPEAKER_00]: you don't find that often and for them to have that type of chemistry is incredible.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's a great pick and I hope she's she gets him called up to the main roster because I think he could do great things on the main roster.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, and Fernando has to make mention of all of the Americanos because they're at least five of them this year, five of them.

53:29.453 --> 53:31.460
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we got it down to three now.

53:31.580 --> 53:34.269
[SPEAKER_00]: So we got, we got it down to a trio now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right?

53:35.212 --> 53:36.457
[SPEAKER_00]: There you go.

53:36.637 --> 53:39.527
[SPEAKER_00]: Since it's Tyler Baydon, Pete Dunning, gotten the nose going on.

53:39.607 --> 53:41.353
[SPEAKER_00]: But, um,

53:41.570 --> 53:43.614
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I can't argue with that.

53:43.654 --> 53:46.820
[SPEAKER_00]: And now, Elgron is the most overbaby face in Triple A.

53:46.860 --> 53:48.323
[SPEAKER_00]: So, thank you girls.

53:48.343 --> 53:48.984
[SPEAKER_02]: Which is crazy.

53:49.405 --> 53:53.232
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's just call out Pete Duns face, okay?

53:53.252 --> 54:04.793
[SPEAKER_02]: His face is so strong that when you look at him through that mask, you can tell it's Pete Dunn, because he has like the most sour plus face of sour plus faces.

54:05.752 --> 54:08.316
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I didn't know which one was which for the longest time.

54:08.356 --> 54:10.200
[SPEAKER_00]: And then they didn't even have things for Facebook.

54:10.220 --> 54:12.363
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, oh, there we go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Got it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's got it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, you're right.

54:16.570 --> 54:18.834
[SPEAKER_02]: That's stare is one of a kind.

54:19.315 --> 54:19.756
[SPEAKER_02]: It is.

54:20.497 --> 54:23.162
[SPEAKER_02]: Because I was confused to like which is which for a minute.

54:23.462 --> 54:26.427
[SPEAKER_02]: And then when a zoomed on his face, I said, that's Pete Dunn.

54:26.727 --> 54:29.331
[SPEAKER_02]: I cannot mistake that mug through that mask.

54:29.351 --> 54:33.437
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't because that's face that Sarah puts expression is strong.

54:33.737 --> 54:36.401
[SPEAKER_02]: And I said from that day forward, I will not confuse the two.

54:36.681 --> 54:38.183
[SPEAKER_02]: Because I was truly confused.

54:38.544 --> 54:39.585
[SPEAKER_02]: I will rebel, bravo.

54:39.645 --> 54:41.728
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know which is which, a toss of that man's face.

54:41.869 --> 54:42.810
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, close and 4K.

54:43.150 --> 54:43.972
[SPEAKER_02]: I said that's be done.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Undeniably so.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I know a strong face when I see one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh man, yeah.

54:50.976 --> 54:51.978
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't have that issue no more.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just need to see a face to face.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Got it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's Pete.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

54:56.366 --> 54:57.428
[SPEAKER_02]: I got my confirmation.

54:57.468 --> 54:58.550
[SPEAKER_02]: I said, you're undeniable.

54:58.570 --> 55:00.073
[SPEAKER_02]: So because I was confused for a minute, too.

55:00.093 --> 55:02.397
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, are they really Pete done?

55:02.498 --> 55:03.660
[SPEAKER_02]: Is that really Tyler bait?

55:04.261 --> 55:10.673
[SPEAKER_02]: Did they have standing in

55:10.653 --> 55:13.097
[SPEAKER_02]: Then our fan picks, Paul Fontaine.

55:13.117 --> 55:14.338
[SPEAKER_02]: Go to pleasure of the year.

55:14.679 --> 55:18.444
[SPEAKER_02]: He's on team Mr. Aguana as I am as well.

55:18.865 --> 55:22.971
[SPEAKER_02]: And then Lady B. W. W. We unreal.

55:24.393 --> 55:24.914
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yes.

55:25.675 --> 55:27.317
[SPEAKER_02]: We're just coming back in January.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And oh, yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You best believe we're going to be talking about that.

55:32.565 --> 55:33.606
[SPEAKER_00]: Shout out to Jelly Roll.

55:36.337 --> 55:38.281
[SPEAKER_02]: Gee, she's going to love that shout.

55:42.068 --> 55:43.371
[SPEAKER_02]: You really get it.

55:43.431 --> 55:44.473
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me go to the make up.

55:44.493 --> 55:45.815
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me go to the made up category.

55:45.895 --> 55:46.396
[SPEAKER_02]: I made up.

55:46.998 --> 55:48.861
[SPEAKER_02]: So we had to call out best.

55:49.022 --> 55:51.326
[SPEAKER_02]: PLE and now worst.

55:51.787 --> 55:53.530
[SPEAKER_02]: PLE of the year.

55:55.033 --> 55:55.193
[SPEAKER_00]: Ooh.

55:56.416 --> 55:59.121
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I got to go with Survivor Series.

55:59.472 --> 56:08.982
[SPEAKER_00]: I, or board games or whatever, it was, didn't November show, it, uh, just really disappointing.

56:09.583 --> 56:19.454
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it just didn't, as you, as you, has, have famously, uh, like to say, that could have been an email.

56:20.054 --> 56:25.260
[SPEAKER_00]: You could have just sent an email, we could have aided, and then we could have just called it a day and moved on the wrong.

56:26.118 --> 56:32.926
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, which was a better show than the show that people paid thousands of dollars to go see in San Diego.

56:32.966 --> 56:35.649
[SPEAKER_02]: That was a bad peely.

56:35.850 --> 56:40.435
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's time to retire war games for a bit.

56:41.036 --> 56:43.619
[SPEAKER_02]: Call me when we really need you.

56:43.659 --> 56:47.704
[SPEAKER_02]: But my runner up, Ressa Palusa.

56:49.034 --> 56:51.177
[SPEAKER_02]: Just a show.

56:51.897 --> 56:56.423
[SPEAKER_02]: First show in ESPN and y'all going to live with that outside of AJ Lee's return.

56:57.164 --> 56:58.305
[SPEAKER_02]: This to best y'all could do.

56:58.766 --> 57:07.336
[SPEAKER_02]: Russell Palooza, a four match card with Brock Lesnar, Steamrolling, John Cena, and that was the highlight outside of AJ's return.

57:09.218 --> 57:09.959
[SPEAKER_02]: Return to Sender.

57:10.019 --> 57:13.523
[SPEAKER_02]: That could have been an email that could have gave me a refund.

57:15.477 --> 57:20.525
[SPEAKER_00]: that was the start of the Drew McIntyre losing the Cody Road story that never end.

57:23.210 --> 57:24.192
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he could have just won.

57:24.472 --> 57:29.520
[SPEAKER_00]: He could have won the title right there and we would literally be in the exact same situation in position.

57:29.561 --> 57:30.342
[SPEAKER_00]: We are right now.

57:30.622 --> 57:37.654
[SPEAKER_00]: We could still be having this three stages of how a match Andrew McIntyre wouldn't look like a complete goof all the way through.

57:39.372 --> 57:41.536
[SPEAKER_02]: Agreed, oh, which reminds me.

57:41.576 --> 57:56.481
[SPEAKER_02]: Honorable mentioned for worse feud of the year, Drew and Cody and Alistair Black and Damien Priest, those, but at least, but the Alistair Black Damien Priest, they had a couple good matches on Smackdown.

57:56.501 --> 57:59.807
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, so a couple, one of them was Rose, the last man standing was real strong.

58:00.388 --> 58:04.114
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, except for the magic and the fireball, but, you know, that's okay.

58:04.634 --> 58:08.640
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking forward to the black priest tag team.

58:08.660 --> 58:09.581
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to get eventually.

58:10.603 --> 58:12.526
[SPEAKER_02]: Listen, I'm here for that.

58:12.666 --> 58:19.275
[SPEAKER_02]: If that is listen, see now you try to a spound hope after what I hope for a year ago.

58:19.316 --> 58:21.258
[SPEAKER_02]: Here you go, saying.

58:21.759 --> 58:25.765
[SPEAKER_00]: I know I love what's you guys together when they fuse.

58:27.905 --> 58:29.868
[SPEAKER_02]: First of all, why are you going to do this to me now?

58:30.829 --> 58:40.924
[SPEAKER_02]: So now you're trying to paint a picture for me of the potential of Damian Priest and Alistair Black being a bad ass to acting and I see the vision.

58:41.164 --> 58:44.028
[SPEAKER_02]: You got Selena there and the cut, you might have Lola there.

58:44.288 --> 58:51.819
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't see, now we paint pictures that's the most showing to have great looking team right there.

58:52.079 --> 58:53.862
[SPEAKER_02]: It is great.

58:54.415 --> 58:59.768
[SPEAKER_02]: a full last smoke show that I can get into, but then I think about what was taking for me.

59:00.322 --> 59:06.851
[SPEAKER_02]: a year ago and all I wanted you got to let it go, I can't because see you brought it back up.

59:07.673 --> 59:15.945
[SPEAKER_02]: You created a vision and now I have to have my own vision of what could have been after that best seven series with on dry day and Carmelo.

59:16.285 --> 59:24.557
[SPEAKER_02]: They could have been tag team champions for mello was so low, but y'all didn't give me that tail with triple H and rope dog at AI.

59:26.647 --> 59:33.876
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, thankfully Triple H wasn't at the tapings because that's the only reason that would come out of his one-bed title because he went home after the first year.

59:33.896 --> 59:34.977
[SPEAKER_00]: He was like, all right, you got this?

59:34.997 --> 59:35.698
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, I'm heading home.

59:35.838 --> 59:36.659
[SPEAKER_00]: I gotta go see the fit.

59:37.460 --> 59:41.145
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, see, even you got Fernando all in on this team.

59:41.906 --> 59:42.887
[SPEAKER_02]: See what you're gonna start it?

59:43.448 --> 59:48.975
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, listen, 2026 Black Priest tagged theme champions.

59:50.657 --> 59:53.160
[SPEAKER_00]: Just just say to get Black Priest.

59:53.410 --> 59:55.494
[SPEAKER_00]: a black priest led by Zelina Vega.

59:55.855 --> 01:00:02.348
[SPEAKER_00]: I think her walking out talking smack to attacks and with them super high in her, come on, man.

01:00:02.769 --> 01:00:03.511
[SPEAKER_00]: It's right there.

01:00:03.551 --> 01:00:05.355
[SPEAKER_00]: All they got to do is just put them together.

01:00:05.395 --> 01:00:08.922
[SPEAKER_00]: It's right there, it's so easy.

01:00:10.285 --> 01:00:12.687
[SPEAKER_02]: So easy AI could do it, but they won't.

01:00:13.368 --> 01:00:14.629
[SPEAKER_02]: They won't, but we shall see.

01:00:14.809 --> 01:00:15.610
[SPEAKER_02]: I would love to see it.

01:00:16.391 --> 01:00:17.352
[SPEAKER_02]: Got, let us see it.

01:00:18.013 --> 01:00:18.373
[SPEAKER_02]: Alrighty.

01:00:18.793 --> 01:00:20.475
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get down to our next category.

01:00:20.515 --> 01:00:27.802
[SPEAKER_02]: For an act, don't you find least, oh, god.

01:00:27.822 --> 01:00:30.565
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, for an act, we should name them the black priest.

01:00:30.585 --> 01:00:32.427
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we shouldn't name them that, cause we might wait a minute.

01:00:32.827 --> 01:00:33.348
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait a minute.

01:00:33.908 --> 01:00:34.509
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait a minute.

01:00:34.689 --> 01:00:35.790
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know about the skies.

01:00:37.652 --> 01:00:38.993
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's too much color.

01:00:38.973 --> 01:00:40.575
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, baby, baby dot.

01:00:41.255 --> 01:00:42.617
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, I think it's a different name for him.

01:00:43.578 --> 01:00:46.881
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, so let's select our best moment of the year.

01:00:47.482 --> 01:00:58.073
[SPEAKER_02]: The best feel good moment in WWE in 2025, the moment that made us happy to be fans of this great sport.

01:00:58.593 --> 01:01:00.795
[SPEAKER_02]: Scott, what was your moment of 2025?

01:01:01.276 --> 01:01:08.203
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't believe I'm saying this.

01:01:09.787 --> 01:01:15.217
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was Naomi Cashin in that money in the bank briefcase at evolution and winning that title.

01:01:16.379 --> 01:01:17.942
[SPEAKER_00]: I became a fan.

01:01:17.962 --> 01:01:23.593
[SPEAKER_00]: I was caught up in the moment because it was such a great match and we had a great moment like that.

01:01:24.080 --> 01:01:35.293
[SPEAKER_00]: It's either that or it was specifically John Cena catching AJ Styles and hitting Bray Wyatt's finisher in the fireflies coming out as John Cena just sat there and watched in the ring.

01:01:35.853 --> 01:01:52.973
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's between those two, I think those were two of the best moments we had all year, but yeah, shout out to Naomi, man, the black queens, rain, and John Cena when he went back baby phase, showed he had a lot in the tank and the butterflies was just a beautiful

01:01:53.577 --> 01:01:56.981
[SPEAKER_02]: Man, to fireflies, this is to Abigail.

01:01:58.282 --> 01:01:59.944
[SPEAKER_02]: Damn it, that was a great moment.

01:02:00.324 --> 01:02:01.986
[SPEAKER_02]: That was a great moment in Australia.

01:02:02.106 --> 01:02:08.413
[SPEAKER_02]: It really was Naomi's cash in was great, too, because my conversion was complete.

01:02:09.054 --> 01:02:10.095
[SPEAKER_02]: And that made me happy.

01:02:10.335 --> 01:02:11.857
[SPEAKER_02]: But I can even go further back.

01:02:12.417 --> 01:02:16.361
[SPEAKER_02]: I can account the moment Scott became a true fan.

01:02:17.002 --> 01:02:23.449
[SPEAKER_02]: It was the episode of SmackDown when Naomi and Bianca had that segment in the ring.

01:02:23.429 --> 01:02:32.963
[SPEAKER_02]: and the fans who would normally what and ignore the segment, they had to sit back and realize, oh, these are the actors.

01:02:34.005 --> 01:02:37.410
[SPEAKER_02]: They cry in, they're showing real emotion.

01:02:37.470 --> 01:02:51.951
[SPEAKER_02]: Like when you captivate an audience, who could really take that segment in high jacket and you have the Man of Tension, that was one of the best performances in moments of the year for me, Angela and Viola out there, putting in work.

01:02:54.580 --> 01:02:56.382
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Tyler Perry would have been very proud of that.

01:02:58.284 --> 01:03:01.247
[SPEAKER_00]: I will probably see that script sometime on Netflix next year.

01:03:01.567 --> 01:03:04.811
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, that was great moment, great between both of them.

01:03:06.232 --> 01:03:11.658
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a shame that we won't get that WrestleMania match that was probably doing and was probably going to happen.

01:03:12.239 --> 01:03:19.947
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, that was definitely the start of it and that cash in between that, the money and the bank win, the cash in.

01:03:19.927 --> 01:03:22.411
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that was Naomi had a great year.

01:03:22.531 --> 01:03:28.100
[SPEAKER_00]: She had, and she didn't even have a four year, but she had a tremendous tremendous year.

01:03:28.841 --> 01:03:34.170
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, Fernando is going out there and saying, Naomi had a better year turn than John Cena.

01:03:34.210 --> 01:03:34.611
[SPEAKER_02]: She did.

01:03:34.631 --> 01:03:34.731
[SPEAKER_00]: 100%.

01:03:35.092 --> 01:03:36.294
[SPEAKER_00]: She did?

01:03:36.334 --> 01:03:36.714
[SPEAKER_00]: 100%.

01:03:37.295 --> 01:03:44.567
[SPEAKER_02]: Listen, she took her music that was identifiable and catchy and changed it.

01:03:44.547 --> 01:03:49.874
[SPEAKER_02]: and I said why, but then it grew on me because it was extension of her character as hard core.

01:03:50.235 --> 01:03:56.243
[SPEAKER_02]: She leaned into the rock with her Instagram stories and her posts, leaning into the rock vibes of it all, and loved it.

01:03:56.323 --> 01:03:59.748
[SPEAKER_02]: Like she really took something and reinvented herself.

01:04:00.028 --> 01:04:01.831
[SPEAKER_02]: She got caution tape over y'all.

01:04:02.031 --> 01:04:03.813
[SPEAKER_02]: She made caution tape fashionable.

01:04:05.155 --> 01:04:06.437
[SPEAKER_00]: Come on.

01:04:06.502 --> 01:04:17.114
[SPEAKER_00]: I enjoyed her Instagram stories when she would open the briefcase and she had like tasers and stuff in there She would pull in like weapons out on my car plates and her hair.

01:04:17.435 --> 01:04:26.786
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's take it easy Nobody's gonna no first of all nobody's gonna take your briefcase Because we don't know what's inside of it all right.

01:04:26.806 --> 01:04:30.410
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't know what you got put in there Definitely couldn't take that to the airport.

01:04:30.430 --> 01:04:32.172
[SPEAKER_00]: So we know she drove everywhere

01:04:32.152 --> 01:04:32.873
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

01:04:32.893 --> 01:04:36.236
[SPEAKER_02]: Then she was rolling on set briefcase on a scooter.

01:04:36.796 --> 01:04:38.698
[SPEAKER_02]: No, that was cool.

01:04:42.201 --> 01:04:48.106
[SPEAKER_02]: And then AJ Lee's return, I have to say, was another great moment.

01:04:48.126 --> 01:04:54.231
[SPEAKER_02]: 10 years in the making, y'all had everybody watch a smack down on a Friday night, just see the last five minutes.

01:04:54.251 --> 01:04:54.872
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was worth it.

01:04:55.392 --> 01:05:00.657
[SPEAKER_02]: Something we never thought we would see, but we did see it and AJ coming back looking good.

01:05:00.637 --> 01:05:05.871
[SPEAKER_02]: and ripped and gorge and a top tin merch sell her to close the year.

01:05:08.500 --> 01:05:11.624
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, she showed up like three times all year and she's a top 10 merch seller.

01:05:11.944 --> 01:05:18.913
[SPEAKER_00]: And while we're talking about that feud, Becky Lynch coming out the Seth Rollins music to come face the face with CM Punk.

01:05:18.954 --> 01:05:28.346
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that was a very tremendous moment as well, not quite on those levels, but I think it should definitely get a mention just because it was unexpected.

01:05:28.526 --> 01:05:37.157
[SPEAKER_00]: And she, if there's any woman who can care who has earned and deserves the title of the

01:05:37.289 --> 01:05:38.751
[SPEAKER_02]: absolutely for sure.

01:05:39.432 --> 01:05:47.822
[SPEAKER_02]: Getting to our fan picks, Poff on Tane, Liz's best moment, as Joss in a sealed turn on Cody despite the follow-up.

01:05:48.042 --> 01:05:58.335
[SPEAKER_02]: Listen, in the moment, before we, before we saw what we saw at WrestleMania and beforehand, then after that for a bit, it was an all-time moment.

01:05:58.315 --> 01:05:59.838
[SPEAKER_02]: It was buzzworthy.

01:05:59.959 --> 01:06:07.576
[SPEAKER_02]: It was great seeing us face, because we knew he was too happy, too enthusiastic about everything.

01:06:07.937 --> 01:06:12.788
[SPEAKER_02]: And then when he turned Stone Cold Sour and the rock did the kill emotion.

01:06:12.808 --> 01:06:13.850
[SPEAKER_02]: It was rap.

01:06:13.870 --> 01:06:15.514
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a great

01:06:15.494 --> 01:06:26.893
[SPEAKER_02]: in the moment moment that I won't soon forget because it was something we did that we did not expect and Cody telling the rock to go fuck himself with this offer.

01:06:26.953 --> 01:06:38.532
[SPEAKER_02]: Unbelieved just great television, great directing everything was great until it happened after the fact and then after the fact

01:06:38.731 --> 01:06:42.816
[SPEAKER_02]: not so great, but in the moment for the night, it was an incredible moment.

01:06:43.277 --> 01:06:46.101
[SPEAKER_02]: And then later, Bees moment, Johnson Hill turned as well.

01:06:46.141 --> 01:06:48.344
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a great moment in the moment.

01:06:48.885 --> 01:06:49.906
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a great moment.

01:06:51.648 --> 01:06:57.156
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and it's crazy to think that we're not even talking about the bloodline reuniting as one of the best moments of the year.

01:06:57.176 --> 01:06:58.437
[SPEAKER_00]: And that was a great moment as well.

01:06:58.477 --> 01:07:01.161
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I can't, it's just,

01:07:02.086 --> 01:07:08.056
[SPEAKER_00]: It's that moment was greatest just everything that followed and try the sky just kept falling around with that sage man.

01:07:08.277 --> 01:07:09.362
[SPEAKER_00]: It just could rock with it.

01:07:11.654 --> 01:07:33.055
[SPEAKER_02]: have come on man, just just a big one to big roll up page, just roll it up this big, a big fatty, just roll it up and he's waving it around, walking down, jigging a contact eye, just in law, Jesus, that that first I don't know, Netflix was something else, I tell you something else, something else.

01:07:35.357 --> 01:07:40.362
[SPEAKER_02]: And now for the big, big category,

01:07:41.422 --> 01:07:43.286
[SPEAKER_02]: Breakout star of the year.

01:07:43.346 --> 01:07:56.276
[SPEAKER_02]: The star, they had a breakthrough on WWE television, a star that is going to become a bigger star and 2026 if the booking holds up.

01:07:56.476 --> 01:07:59.363
[SPEAKER_02]: Scott, who is your breakout star of the year.

01:08:00.845 --> 01:08:01.687
[SPEAKER_00]: John Evans.

01:08:03.069 --> 01:08:14.631
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think anyone's made a bigger impact than John Evans this year as far as a young guy who people genuinely want to get behind, want WWE to push.

01:08:14.651 --> 01:08:17.256
[SPEAKER_00]: This dude was on five shows in one week.

01:08:18.097 --> 01:08:19.620
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he was everywhere.

01:08:19.680 --> 01:08:22.245
[SPEAKER_00]: He showed out every time.

01:08:22.225 --> 01:08:41.228
[SPEAKER_00]: Every time he's been on the main roster, he has gotten the crowd fully behind him, even back when him and Ray Phoenix were just randomly teaming up to him and Gunther have an match in the John Cena tournament overall to him just showing up, taking on anybody on NXT, people are waiting on him to win that NXT tag team championship.

01:08:41.548 --> 01:08:44.612
[SPEAKER_00]: He goes to TNA has a great match with Leon Slater.

01:08:44.652 --> 01:08:47.035
[SPEAKER_00]: They have a great tag team.

01:08:47.015 --> 01:08:57.192
[SPEAKER_00]: This dude has literally done everything in every company all year and I think 2026 is the year that this guy finally gets some gold.

01:08:57.673 --> 01:09:02.642
[SPEAKER_00]: And honestly, WWE is so scared to put the rocket strap on young guys.

01:09:03.243 --> 01:09:12.178
[SPEAKER_00]: If there's anyone that you want to take a chance on and if it fails, it fails, and he will be able to bounce back from it, this is the guy.

01:09:12.158 --> 01:09:26.722
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the guy that you can take that chance on and he could fall flat on his face and it not work and he will bounce back because he's that good and the crowd is that invested in him as a character as a person and as a wrestler.

01:09:27.183 --> 01:09:31.230
[SPEAKER_00]: Giovanna Evans to me was a clear cut choice for the breakout star.

01:09:32.206 --> 01:09:35.411
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree, I love him.

01:09:35.431 --> 01:09:45.908
[SPEAKER_02]: He is so talented, he is charismatic, he's a humble, he's a really nice skybell accounts as a good head on his shoulders.

01:09:46.348 --> 01:09:49.253
[SPEAKER_02]: He has Jocelyn's phone number, okay?

01:09:49.233 --> 01:09:55.721
[SPEAKER_02]: He's got the main line, a direct line of communication to get advice from the tree of knowledge.

01:09:56.202 --> 01:10:04.452
[SPEAKER_02]: And when you have that kind of access and someone that can grounds you and show you the way, then that tells me everything I need to know about your future.

01:10:04.772 --> 01:10:08.177
[SPEAKER_02]: If WWE can just get out of their own way and push him.

01:10:08.517 --> 01:10:11.200
[SPEAKER_02]: He's 21 years old, so the hell what?

01:10:11.481 --> 01:10:18.970
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't wait, you push him, you crown him, you make him a star.

01:10:18.950 --> 01:10:24.295
[SPEAKER_02]: In Mexico, in America, internationally, he is beloved.

01:10:24.715 --> 01:10:28.398
[SPEAKER_02]: You do not wait 15 years to crown him.

01:10:28.838 --> 01:10:36.125
[SPEAKER_02]: You do it while he's hot, while he's not in his prime yet, because he's only going to get better.

01:10:36.645 --> 01:10:38.987
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what scary he's only 21.

01:10:39.587 --> 01:10:48.535
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not even reached the peak of how great he's going to be in the next five

01:10:51.181 --> 01:10:54.185
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and Fernando, I think we've talked about this before because I'm with you.

01:10:54.726 --> 01:11:16.137
[SPEAKER_00]: If they have an opportunity now to make a new youngest world heavyweight champion, you know they want to erase Voldemort and his name out of every mention in WWE and for good reason, you have an opportunity right there was Yvonne to make him the youngest world champion in your company's history, and people will buy into it and believe it.

01:11:16.418 --> 01:11:18.100
[SPEAKER_00]: And you mentioned over Femi.

01:11:18.080 --> 01:11:25.667
[SPEAKER_00]: The only reason I didn't pick him is because I thought he was this dominant last year, and I think he's just treading water, and so they call him up to that main roster.

01:11:26.027 --> 01:11:44.745
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm with you Fernando, if they have a great opportunity to officially and permanently erase Voldemort from the history books where we don't even have to mention talk or think about him ever again, because Randy Orton's world, youngest world reign,

01:11:44.725 --> 01:11:53.409
[SPEAKER_00]: how it starts is always going to be tainted because he's he's going to be a part of it javank any race replace and improve that instantly.

01:11:56.257 --> 01:11:59.005
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you're attempting me to do a song right now.

01:12:01.600 --> 01:12:06.568
[SPEAKER_00]: I was just saying bad again, it's right there.

01:12:06.829 --> 01:12:14.221
[SPEAKER_00]: Like 2026 has so many things lined up for them that all they have to do is just take a chance.

01:12:14.621 --> 01:12:21.853
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all they have to do is take a chance and run with the things that have already started, the momentum that has already been built.

01:12:22.762 --> 01:12:28.509
[SPEAKER_02]: that is so true, but you're not going to get away with you rhyming something with a certain song, okay?

01:12:28.969 --> 01:12:49.292
[SPEAKER_02]: Because all the one to do right now is cue up some crazy sex school, but to you'll see cue up switch, erase, replace new face, that's my home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home home

01:12:50.099 --> 01:12:52.862
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't take no mess of nobody, switch.

01:12:53.042 --> 01:12:53.763
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on now.

01:12:57.227 --> 01:13:03.755
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Once I started going, I was, you know, let me just run with it every just fish it off.

01:13:06.919 --> 01:13:07.780
[SPEAKER_02]: I knew it immediately.

01:13:08.160 --> 01:13:09.562
[SPEAKER_02]: If you know, I was going to call you out for it.

01:13:09.582 --> 01:13:13.526
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, okay, listen, going through the Bible that is crazy, it's cool.

01:13:13.626 --> 01:13:14.267
[SPEAKER_02]: Come through.

01:13:17.268 --> 01:13:19.791
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, so I'm gonna play that for I go to bed tonight.

01:13:20.152 --> 01:13:21.474
[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks, I'm switch, why not?

01:13:22.074 --> 01:13:25.399
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, don't take no mess from nobody.

01:13:25.539 --> 01:13:26.160
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on now.

01:13:27.722 --> 01:13:29.364
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, so you're welcome to my collection.

01:13:29.925 --> 01:13:32.168
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely, on a Bob, come on.

01:13:33.029 --> 01:13:34.992
[SPEAKER_02]: So Paul's pick for breakfast or to the year.

01:13:36.774 --> 01:13:37.455
[SPEAKER_02]: Interesting pick.

01:13:38.817 --> 01:13:39.758
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't disagree.

01:13:39.818 --> 01:13:43.663
[SPEAKER_02]: Dominic Mysterio, Dirty Dom.

01:13:45.685 --> 01:13:57.258
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, came a world champion and we both talked about it on the show after that match with John Cena in particular came out with a whole different swag walk.

01:13:57.838 --> 01:14:07.489
[SPEAKER_00]: He just he was built different after that and you could tell the injury came at a bad time, but whenever he comes back, the crowd is going to be fully ready for him.

01:14:07.569 --> 01:14:13.195
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's not a bad pick, especially since they were essentially building AAA around him at that point.

01:14:13.445 --> 01:14:14.486
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I agree.

01:14:14.547 --> 01:14:15.788
[SPEAKER_02]: He's had a great moment.

01:14:15.828 --> 01:14:18.151
[SPEAKER_02]: His moment at WrestleMania when he won the championship.

01:14:18.933 --> 01:14:20.435
[SPEAKER_02]: The IC title to be exact.

01:14:20.515 --> 01:14:24.360
[SPEAKER_02]: The fans were so happy because the fans like we don't hate him.

01:14:24.400 --> 01:14:26.563
[SPEAKER_02]: We boo him because he's great.

01:14:26.723 --> 01:14:27.664
[SPEAKER_02]: He's a great heal.

01:14:27.785 --> 01:14:29.367
[SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't out of like go away.

01:14:29.387 --> 01:14:30.308
[SPEAKER_02]: He they loved them.

01:14:30.729 --> 01:14:33.192
[SPEAKER_02]: Then he came back for the love and

01:14:33.172 --> 01:14:38.078
[SPEAKER_02]: WWE has to pull the trigger at some point and just get him over as a baby face.

01:14:38.538 --> 01:14:56.258
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think it's going to be a lot of equity when he and his dad reunite because the vision is circling for his championship and they took out his dad and got to believe the long-game angle once judgment day blows up is going to be a material family reunion with Ray and Dirty Dom joining forces.

01:14:56.338 --> 01:15:02.605
[SPEAKER_02]: That is where the money is if you're trying to submit, if you're trying to submit

01:15:04.002 --> 01:15:07.268
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Dirty Dom coming in to save his dad from the vision.

01:15:08.650 --> 01:15:15.262
[SPEAKER_00]: That would, it's specifically Logan Paul, you're not going to get much more baby face love than that.

01:15:16.123 --> 01:15:25.740
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, even Logan Paul would make Dominic Mysterio for give his father, even he would reach his limit, like you know what dad, let's make peace.

01:15:26.463 --> 01:15:27.824
[SPEAKER_02]: This dirt bag, please.

01:15:27.844 --> 01:15:29.686
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm cool what you're getting beat up by bragging about.

01:15:29.967 --> 01:15:30.828
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I'm ready for that.

01:15:30.848 --> 01:15:34.431
[SPEAKER_00]: But Logan Paul, that's definitely not happening.

01:15:35.573 --> 01:15:42.880
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey Maria, welcome to the party as we're counting down the best and worst moments of WWE this year.

01:15:42.940 --> 01:15:47.305
[SPEAKER_02]: And you're throwing in your pick as well, Leon Slayer as a breakout star of the year.

01:15:47.845 --> 01:15:53.551
[SPEAKER_02]: Listen, this man is not signed to WWE officially, but he's unofficially signed.

01:15:54.432 --> 01:15:55.153
[SPEAKER_02]: Seriously.

01:15:56.669 --> 01:16:03.705
[SPEAKER_00]: And honestly, I think that even goes more to your point that they've showcased him that much and he's not a WWE guy.

01:16:03.725 --> 01:16:05.750
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got an NXT title shot coming up.

01:16:05.790 --> 01:16:08.496
[SPEAKER_00]: He was on John Cena's last show 2026.

01:16:08.616 --> 01:16:12.906
[SPEAKER_00]: He might be the consensus pick for breakout star the year.

01:16:13.088 --> 01:16:13.829
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree.

01:16:13.849 --> 01:16:16.374
[SPEAKER_02]: So she flipped because he's in TNA doesn't matter Maria.

01:16:16.735 --> 01:16:17.777
[SPEAKER_02]: He's going to get poached.

01:16:17.957 --> 01:16:18.799
[SPEAKER_02]: He's going to get poached.

01:16:19.259 --> 01:16:20.041
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't you worry.

01:16:20.081 --> 01:16:21.744
[SPEAKER_00]: He's already poached.

01:16:21.764 --> 01:16:22.986
[SPEAKER_00]: He is already poached.

01:16:23.026 --> 01:16:23.908
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't get it twisted.

01:16:24.469 --> 01:16:24.569
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

01:16:24.970 --> 01:16:26.172
[SPEAKER_00]: He is already poached.

01:16:26.192 --> 01:16:27.935
[SPEAKER_00]: They are just waiting on their contractory.

01:16:28.216 --> 01:16:29.899
[SPEAKER_00]: He has the contract that is house.

01:16:29.879 --> 01:16:35.746
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he is waiting on his teammates to expire and him to show up on that debut episode.

01:16:36.427 --> 01:16:41.433
[SPEAKER_02]: And then he is signing the WWE what it is in a safe locked away secured right.

01:16:41.893 --> 01:16:46.439
[SPEAKER_02]: But her other pick would be Joe Hendry who did security WWE back this year.

01:16:46.999 --> 01:16:49.202
[SPEAKER_02]: If y'all watched NXT tonight.

01:16:50.103 --> 01:16:51.965
[SPEAKER_02]: Booker team.

01:16:51.985 --> 01:16:52.486
[SPEAKER_02]: My brother.

01:16:54.028 --> 01:16:55.009
[SPEAKER_02]: Scott.

01:16:55.141 --> 01:17:01.267
[SPEAKER_02]: This man is now starting to sing this man's theme song, and I'm over here howling.

01:17:02.428 --> 01:17:03.549
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean howling.

01:17:03.709 --> 01:17:12.438
[SPEAKER_02]: Booker T. Lord, he could be a lot, but him singing along to Joe Henry out of tune was a moment.

01:17:14.019 --> 01:17:20.045
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, let me tell you something.

01:17:20.225 --> 01:17:22.988
[SPEAKER_00]: Booker T help you get over

01:17:25.516 --> 01:17:31.863
[SPEAKER_00]: Shout out to Booker TV and shout out to Joe Hendry for of all people getting Booker T to get on your side.

01:17:31.883 --> 01:17:34.045
[SPEAKER_00]: It's your song.

01:17:34.065 --> 01:17:34.926
[SPEAKER_02]: That is wild.

01:17:35.367 --> 01:17:36.828
[SPEAKER_02]: I can not believe my ears.

01:17:37.509 --> 01:17:42.474
[SPEAKER_02]: It broke the geosophore commentary because Booker wouldn't stop singing the entire song.

01:17:43.736 --> 01:17:48.901
[SPEAKER_02]: God Booker T is a kingmaker when it comes to getting people over trick.

01:17:49.602 --> 01:17:51.284
[SPEAKER_02]: You need a remix of your song.

01:17:51.484 --> 01:17:53.346
[SPEAKER_02]: Get Booker to do your adlips.

01:17:53.815 --> 01:18:13.917
[SPEAKER_02]: that's another one right that for yeah yeah he's that's the original right there yes that's the original right there check it back a crack whack yes ma'am uh righty and then lady bees break us are the year goes to nail me that's it that's a solid pick yeah

01:18:14.183 --> 01:18:20.692
[SPEAKER_00]: I've already, I've sung her places more than enough tonight, but yeah, she had a fantastic 2025.

01:18:21.193 --> 01:18:23.597
[SPEAKER_02]: She absolutely has no argument from there with me.

01:18:24.177 --> 01:18:36.435
[SPEAKER_02]: As we get to our next category, best-fued, best storyline of the year, what stood out is the best-damn storyline in WWE in 2025, Scott.

01:18:39.019 --> 01:18:40.461
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, for me,

01:18:41.639 --> 01:18:48.870
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it might be CM Punk and AJ Lee versus Becky and Seth to see those two go at it.

01:18:50.172 --> 01:18:57.603
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought the promo is a real strong and I already mentioned how much I thoroughly enjoyed the Becky Lynch, seeing Punk face to face stuff.

01:18:57.783 --> 01:19:00.106
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought their chemistry was actually really good.

01:19:00.827 --> 01:19:02.750
[SPEAKER_00]: Seth and CM Punk have great chemistry.

01:19:02.790 --> 01:19:04.693
[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen them in their matches.

01:19:05.416 --> 01:19:20.995
[SPEAKER_00]: And for them to essentially build an entire paper view around AJ Lee returning the pop that she got on her return, I think for me that was probably the best feud and but I have to mention, uh,

01:19:20.975 --> 01:19:29.810
[SPEAKER_00]: The Kabuki Warriors and AJ and I'm EOS guy in Rio Ripley as a close run up and we'll probably will probably be the one for 20.

01:19:30.431 --> 01:19:36.722
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to probably, you know what, I'm torn on that those two now that I think about it, but it's between those two right there.

01:19:38.035 --> 01:19:38.856
[SPEAKER_02]: Great picks.

01:19:38.896 --> 01:19:46.048
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to lean towards the kabuki warriors in Rio and EO to read in Rio and EO to wrap up the year.

01:19:46.108 --> 01:19:53.540
[SPEAKER_02]: The second half of 2025 was really their storyline that carried Monday Night Raw.

01:19:54.081 --> 01:19:55.183
[SPEAKER_02]: The

01:19:55.163 --> 01:20:00.871
[SPEAKER_02]: heat, the emotions of it all, the acting by everyone was pretty solid.

01:20:01.511 --> 01:20:06.338
[SPEAKER_02]: Oscar being a tremendous shit talker in her native language.

01:20:06.859 --> 01:20:11.825
[SPEAKER_02]: Just talk and shit, reading people, backstage, I lived.

01:20:12.286 --> 01:20:13.207
[SPEAKER_02]: I love Oscar.

01:20:13.568 --> 01:20:14.990
[SPEAKER_02]: She's like one of the best.

01:20:15.510 --> 01:20:22.399
[SPEAKER_02]: If not one of the best to ever do it, sorry, go, Berg, that lady cleared you in every way.

01:20:22.740 --> 01:20:23.621
[SPEAKER_02]: And what about it?

01:20:24.022 --> 01:20:25.103
[SPEAKER_02]: What about it?

01:20:25.083 --> 01:20:25.985
[SPEAKER_02]: what about it?

01:20:29.551 --> 01:20:33.337
[SPEAKER_00]: Golberg doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Asuka.

01:20:33.758 --> 01:20:41.691
[SPEAKER_00]: When this dude gets upset because his, his nationally televised last match isn't enough for him.

01:20:42.072 --> 01:20:45.578
[SPEAKER_00]: So he doesn't even deserve to be in the same breath as Asuka.

01:20:46.059 --> 01:20:47.021
[SPEAKER_00]: What are we talking about?

01:20:47.942 --> 01:20:50.787
[SPEAKER_02]: That's why they cut his speech on NBC.

01:20:51.442 --> 01:20:56.948
[SPEAKER_00]: Right, this dude, this dude upset that his last match was was on NBC.

01:20:58.070 --> 01:21:01.233
[SPEAKER_00]: It had the nerve to be mad because they cut a little bit of his speech.

01:21:01.314 --> 01:21:02.335
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you kidding me?

01:21:03.236 --> 01:21:05.178
[SPEAKER_00]: They built a whole show around you.

01:21:06.239 --> 01:21:07.541
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't even get me started.

01:21:10.705 --> 01:21:14.569
[SPEAKER_02]: Alright, so my feud of the year was real.

01:21:15.110 --> 01:21:15.730
[SPEAKER_02]: It was real.

01:21:15.811 --> 01:21:21.297
[SPEAKER_02]: That's their ship name, that's their tack team name in the

01:21:21.935 --> 01:21:22.856
[SPEAKER_02]: Run her up.

01:21:29.004 --> 01:21:31.307
[SPEAKER_02]: Trying to think, what could else be out there?

01:21:32.048 --> 01:21:34.652
[SPEAKER_02]: That could be a good runner-up in terms of storyline.

01:21:39.658 --> 01:21:42.762
[SPEAKER_02]: Punk may be Seth, I'm looking at Fernando.

01:21:43.484 --> 01:21:46.587
[SPEAKER_02]: Pot, they had a good stretch of matches for sure.

01:21:47.408 --> 01:21:49.330
[SPEAKER_02]: Becky and Lyra was Maria's pick.

01:21:49.391 --> 01:21:50.712
[SPEAKER_02]: That was good to you.

01:21:50.732 --> 01:21:52.654
[SPEAKER_02]: Some of us and I match was not great.

01:21:52.894 --> 01:21:55.818
[SPEAKER_02]: Even Becky agrees it was not great.

01:21:55.978 --> 01:21:59.322
[SPEAKER_02]: I blame the fans, mostly, because they suck during that match.

01:21:59.402 --> 01:22:01.844
[SPEAKER_02]: But in the beginning, that was a really good feud.

01:22:01.884 --> 01:22:04.067
[SPEAKER_02]: But I'm going to go with Ria and E.O.

01:22:04.367 --> 01:22:05.428
[SPEAKER_02]: and the booky warriors.

01:22:06.049 --> 01:22:08.732
[SPEAKER_02]: And then Paul saying

01:22:08.780 --> 01:22:19.482
[SPEAKER_02]: Ria, Niel, Kabuki Warriors, and then Lady B is Pong and Seth, Becky and AJ included in that mix as best storyline in the future of the year.

01:22:21.132 --> 01:22:30.443
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I like Fernando's pick punk versus Seth, because I mean, that started and then it had a whole continuation into their wives and stuff.

01:22:30.463 --> 01:22:36.730
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's that is a genuinely really long one, especially when you consider Seth took the title from him.

01:22:37.310 --> 01:22:43.557
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, punk is still kind of still feuding with division, which is still technically Seth's group that started.

01:22:44.258 --> 01:22:46.701
[SPEAKER_00]: Seth is still

01:22:46.681 --> 01:22:59.897
[SPEAKER_00]: I do like Fernando's pick because I think punk verse set is kind of the essence of where even I have my pick of punk and AJ versus Becky and Seth kind of is punk verses set is still the essence and the meat of that whole thing.

01:23:00.164 --> 01:23:15.620
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, and Maria also checks in Becky versus Maxine as a runner up for feud and or storyline of the year definitely in contention as a rap of their feud this Monday on Raw with the title on the line in Brooklyn, New York at the Barclay Center.

01:23:16.181 --> 01:23:23.709
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, now it's time for our last two major categories match of the year.

01:23:23.749 --> 01:23:28.534
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought my choice would be easy.

01:23:29.493 --> 01:23:37.579
[SPEAKER_02]: It is challenging, but I'm going to stand on business, but I'm going to wait to hear Scott Santers first.

01:23:39.517 --> 01:23:41.801
[SPEAKER_00]: I mentioned that it's all about the women this year.

01:23:41.841 --> 01:24:01.238
[SPEAKER_00]: AJ Styles versus John Cena was my number three-pick because I think that was a great match and I prefer that one over the Cody Super Cena match just because I'm I'm if I'm a lot of the finisher barrage is in Cena just throwing out tribute after tribute was incredible to watch.

01:24:02.078 --> 01:24:12.308
[SPEAKER_00]: But for me, my two that I came down to, both involved EO sky, EO versus Bianca and Rhea was my runner up.

01:24:12.328 --> 01:24:24.340
[SPEAKER_00]: That might technically be the best match, but I just can't get over the moment and the match leading up to it, EO versus Rhea Ripley at Evolution with Naomi Cashin and that for me is my match of the year.

01:24:24.400 --> 01:24:29.385
[SPEAKER_00]: The match leading up to that moment was just,

01:24:29.365 --> 01:24:31.267
[SPEAKER_00]: it was perfect.

01:24:31.287 --> 01:24:37.514
[SPEAKER_00]: It was everything that match was supposed to be and then the cash in on top of it.

01:24:37.714 --> 01:24:43.980
[SPEAKER_00]: To in one of my PLE of the year, I'm going with you, versus Rhea, with the Naomi cash in.

01:24:45.282 --> 01:24:48.906
[SPEAKER_02]: Whew, and you can't go wrong with any of those choices.

01:24:49.546 --> 01:24:53.010
[SPEAKER_02]: Really good year for matches in WWE.

01:24:53.328 --> 01:24:59.679
[SPEAKER_02]: I also want to circle back to another breakout store of the year ever so briefly because names pop up still for me as a go to the list.

01:25:00.160 --> 01:25:03.145
[SPEAKER_02]: So Luca is a runner up for breakout store of the year.

01:25:03.486 --> 01:25:09.356
[SPEAKER_02]: So I want to point that out she is actually a part of my runner ups to for match of the year.

01:25:09.416 --> 01:25:15.707
[SPEAKER_02]: The women's iron survivor challenge at deadline.

01:25:15.687 --> 01:25:22.722
[SPEAKER_02]: with Kalani and soul and Kendall and Jordan and Lola.

01:25:22.802 --> 01:25:26.530
[SPEAKER_02]: That was a great 25-minute match.

01:25:26.550 --> 01:25:28.133
[SPEAKER_02]: There'll probably be fourth of my list.

01:25:28.755 --> 01:25:31.300
[SPEAKER_02]: Then it's A. J. Versescina.

01:25:33.119 --> 01:25:50.098
[SPEAKER_02]: crown jewel Austria, the love letter to all of our heroes, just sentimental, beautiful, then super seen a versus cold, yes, I'm a slam, the redemption, because how do you go from like a negative star main event of WrestleMania?

01:25:50.078 --> 01:25:51.681
[SPEAKER_02]: to getting five stars.

01:25:52.061 --> 01:25:57.671
[SPEAKER_02]: That is the greatest recovery and come back I've seen to run it back and do it up like that.

01:25:58.032 --> 01:26:00.476
[SPEAKER_02]: We had like seeing a hidden cold reds and shit.

01:26:00.776 --> 01:26:03.501
[SPEAKER_02]: He had the man on the code you've made and listen them up for an AA.

01:26:03.801 --> 01:26:07.968
[SPEAKER_02]: Like everything they did was just great a entertainment.

01:26:08.169 --> 01:26:08.810
[SPEAKER_02]: I loved it.

01:26:09.531 --> 01:26:16.002
[SPEAKER_02]: But my match of the year and we were praying and hoping this would main event

01:26:16.606 --> 01:26:29.097
[SPEAKER_02]: It still stands as my favorite match, Bianca Ria Eo, opening night, WrestleMania night to triple threat for the women's role championship.

01:26:29.414 --> 01:26:33.880
[SPEAKER_02]: five stars, automatic, perfect match.

01:26:34.441 --> 01:26:39.228
[SPEAKER_02]: We lost beyond this finger in the process, which hurts me so badly.

01:26:39.869 --> 01:26:43.134
[SPEAKER_02]: But we got wrestling excellence.

01:26:43.895 --> 01:26:47.440
[SPEAKER_02]: Excellence that night, the top off the show.

01:26:50.440 --> 01:26:51.021
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no.

01:26:51.041 --> 01:26:54.906
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you just, you can't say enough about any of those matches.

01:26:55.327 --> 01:26:58.171
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad Maria mentioned the TLC match as SmackDown.

01:26:58.211 --> 01:26:59.573
[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to bring that up as well.

01:26:59.633 --> 01:27:00.655
[SPEAKER_00]: That was a great match.

01:27:01.836 --> 01:27:04.360
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, that triple threat was special.

01:27:04.440 --> 01:27:08.366
[SPEAKER_00]: And let's, let's talk about real Ripley at WrestleMania.

01:27:08.386 --> 01:27:09.327
[SPEAKER_00]: Like,

01:27:09.458 --> 01:27:16.325
[SPEAKER_00]: She's starting to put up a reputation for putting on one of if not the best match every year.

01:27:16.505 --> 01:27:24.194
[SPEAKER_00]: Like she is getting to that point where we might need to start talking about her being a Mrs. WrestleMania.

01:27:24.214 --> 01:27:34.204
[SPEAKER_00]: Because her matches are all talked about all year long and this isn't the first time where she's had one of the if not the best match of the year.

01:27:34.745 --> 01:27:38.689
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not the first time her and Charlotte put out a banger.

01:27:39.260 --> 01:27:43.430
[SPEAKER_00]: We might need to start having that conversation when it comes to real Ripley.

01:27:43.450 --> 01:27:45.896
[SPEAKER_00]: And Bianca Belair is already in that conversation as well.

01:27:45.996 --> 01:27:56.442
[SPEAKER_00]: Eoscott, we might need to start having a conversation about these three women right now, be in the modern day of horse women, because these three women are

01:27:56.422 --> 01:27:59.887
[SPEAKER_00]: setting a standard when it comes to WrestleMania.

01:28:00.708 --> 01:28:04.793
[SPEAKER_00]: Bianca's been doing it for a while since her match with Sasha Banks every year.

01:28:04.873 --> 01:28:05.594
[SPEAKER_00]: She's doing that.

01:28:05.935 --> 01:28:07.757
[SPEAKER_00]: I just mentioned what Rhea Ripley's been doing.

01:28:08.258 --> 01:28:13.905
[SPEAKER_00]: EOS guy since given the opportunity has showed up and showed out, starting with Bailey.

01:28:14.566 --> 01:28:25.821
[SPEAKER_00]: And now last year, I'm just saying these three women are three, three of the best

01:28:26.493 --> 01:28:32.767
[SPEAKER_00]: I, you know, I, I picked the the eO versus reimag because I think the moment put to it over the top.

01:28:32.787 --> 01:28:36.595
[SPEAKER_00]: But when you talk about just pure wrestling, I cannot argue with the triple threat.

01:28:36.656 --> 01:28:38.941
[SPEAKER_00]: It was action pack from start to finish.

01:28:39.562 --> 01:28:41.687
[SPEAKER_00]: The only knock I have is that it took out a queen.

01:28:42.088 --> 01:28:44.974
[SPEAKER_00]: But we still got a great match in the process.

01:28:45.089 --> 01:28:56.363
[SPEAKER_02]: A queen with her roses, the best fit she ever put together, just greatness, had to overcome bullshit from the fans, y'all trying to boom my queen.

01:28:57.384 --> 01:29:01.870
[SPEAKER_02]: I know Rhea is awesome, but y'all trying to sacrifice my queen at the altar.

01:29:02.070 --> 01:29:08.818
[SPEAKER_02]: She said, no, not on my watch, but what you said was so great because they are really

01:29:09.389 --> 01:29:12.153
[SPEAKER_02]: the cornerstones of this generation for the women's division.

01:29:12.994 --> 01:29:22.909
[SPEAKER_02]: And at some point interchangeably against each other, they could all may invent a WrestleMania one-on-one against each other.

01:29:23.350 --> 01:29:25.273
[SPEAKER_02]: We still want Rio versus Bianca.

01:29:26.595 --> 01:29:28.598
[SPEAKER_02]: Rio and EO, that's the one.

01:29:28.678 --> 01:29:29.940
[SPEAKER_02]: Have unfinished business.

01:29:30.701 --> 01:29:33.305
[SPEAKER_02]: Bianca and EO could may invent a WrestleMania.

01:29:33.545 --> 01:29:38.653
[SPEAKER_02]: Any combination of those three in a main event, it tracks for me.

01:29:41.232 --> 01:29:43.154
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's not forget what Bianca and EO did.

01:29:43.174 --> 01:29:44.595
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was at backlash.

01:29:44.615 --> 01:29:46.117
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, about the two years ago.

01:29:46.157 --> 01:29:47.198
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think it was at the end.

01:29:47.218 --> 01:29:50.921
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, let's not forget what they did over there because that was an incredible match too.

01:29:50.941 --> 01:30:01.732
[SPEAKER_00]: So like you said, any of those combinations is a main event ready to happen, but the one, the one is Bianca versus Rhea Ripley.

01:30:01.852 --> 01:30:02.733
[SPEAKER_00]: That is the one.

01:30:02.913 --> 01:30:09.079
[SPEAKER_00]: I know Rhea versus EO, that's gonna be special too, but Bianca versus Rhea.

01:30:09.329 --> 01:30:17.512
[SPEAKER_00]: That is the one that say what you want, Voldemort McMahon was that he was setting that up.

01:30:17.873 --> 01:30:19.217
[SPEAKER_00]: And that was going to happen.

01:30:19.297 --> 01:30:24.030
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if Triple H is going to do it because I don't know if he has that type of vision and foresight.

01:30:24.213 --> 01:30:30.140
[SPEAKER_00]: But Voldemort McMahon was setting that up and was going to make that special because he saw what those two could do against each other.

01:30:30.200 --> 01:30:33.904
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the one that needs to happen and we'll and could close a night.

01:30:34.765 --> 01:30:35.405
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.

01:30:35.525 --> 01:30:37.788
[SPEAKER_02]: And y'all can run me Bianca and Charlotte too.

01:30:37.848 --> 01:30:42.093
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll be at it because y'all been teasing that for a long time and we haven't gotten it yet.

01:30:42.153 --> 01:30:44.035
[SPEAKER_02]: Last knocking her horse woman belt.

01:30:44.095 --> 01:30:47.278
[SPEAKER_02]: The last not she needs to knock off.

01:30:47.298 --> 01:30:51.503
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, listen, Charlotte loves Bianca down.

01:30:52.327 --> 01:31:06.218
[SPEAKER_02]: Give me that because you know she's going to put in like an all-time performance because she will get up for the sisters as Naomi, if you are black, she will sell for you at a very high level.

01:31:06.856 --> 01:31:12.324
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, you can't argue with her, she recognized Queens when she sees it.

01:31:12.584 --> 01:31:12.945
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

01:31:12.965 --> 01:31:15.388
[SPEAKER_00]: The queen recognizes other Queens.

01:31:15.548 --> 01:31:17.651
[SPEAKER_00]: And I can't knock her, especially right now.

01:31:17.691 --> 01:31:19.314
[SPEAKER_00]: She's having the most fun she's had.

01:31:19.754 --> 01:31:23.079
[SPEAKER_00]: I bet you she would love to give Bianca that final notch in her belt.

01:31:23.559 --> 01:31:24.200
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.

01:31:24.240 --> 01:31:28.206
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's not forget the Sasha moments that he own me moments.

01:31:28.186 --> 01:31:31.030
[SPEAKER_02]: So let's listen, Charlotte's selling for soul.

01:31:31.732 --> 01:31:46.394
[SPEAKER_02]: When she sell for a sister, you know that she likes you and she sees division, lash, like she's putting in like, when she sees a queen and the potential that you have or Charlotte gonna put in that work and make you look good and sell her ass off.

01:31:47.897 --> 01:31:48.037
[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.

01:31:48.057 --> 01:31:50.260
[SPEAKER_02]: So, whoo, I love it.

01:31:50.361 --> 01:31:53.245
[SPEAKER_02]: Please make that happen to a blade, please see color.

01:31:54.006 --> 01:31:55.729
[SPEAKER_02]: Do enough of me to do that.

01:31:56.317 --> 01:32:00.902
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, and the Fernando's is so Ruka is coming to join them in greatness.

01:32:01.002 --> 01:32:03.665
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, she's coming, I'm going to tell you who else is coming.

01:32:04.466 --> 01:32:05.467
[SPEAKER_02]: Kendall Grace coming.

01:32:06.328 --> 01:32:06.909
[SPEAKER_02]: She's coming.

01:32:06.949 --> 01:32:07.770
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a problem.

01:32:08.831 --> 01:32:11.214
[SPEAKER_02]: Kelly Armstrong is a problem.

01:32:12.395 --> 01:32:14.017
[SPEAKER_02]: These are good problems to have.

01:32:15.779 --> 01:32:23.387
[SPEAKER_00]: The NXT pipeline that they have right now is is very, very strong and very deep.

01:32:23.502 --> 01:32:31.387
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not even the biggest fan of her, but Jacy Jane has shown that she has no one to sleep on her, especially with that cruise she has rocking with or so.

01:32:31.548 --> 01:32:31.909
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:32:33.273 --> 01:32:46.514
[SPEAKER_00]: The NXT pipeline, especially when the men are strong, we talked about Oba and Giovanni, even Rick, but that women's pipeline that they have is crazy deep, because you're right about Kendall Gray.

01:32:46.855 --> 01:32:51.242
[SPEAKER_00]: She is going, she could be the most consistent one out of all.

01:32:51.262 --> 01:32:57.272
[SPEAKER_00]: She could be the Bailey of all of them, where you could just put her in anywhere plug-in play and she's gonna elevate everybody.

01:32:57.392 --> 01:33:00.597
[SPEAKER_00]: Because she might be the best pure wrestler of all of them.

01:33:00.897 --> 01:33:04.701
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, five to a player to can do it all.

01:33:05.242 --> 01:33:05.963
[SPEAKER_02]: I love that.

01:33:06.464 --> 01:33:07.465
[SPEAKER_02]: Got stocks in her.

01:33:07.945 --> 01:33:10.288
[SPEAKER_02]: The JC Jane stock.

01:33:10.308 --> 01:33:11.750
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm buying it, man.

01:33:11.810 --> 01:33:12.651
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm buying in.

01:33:13.251 --> 01:33:14.813
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, she's really impressed me this year.

01:33:15.254 --> 01:33:19.599
[SPEAKER_02]: The crew, Laney, you get some chat of biscuits now.

01:33:19.619 --> 01:33:21.061
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know where you went to.

01:33:21.141 --> 01:33:23.784
[SPEAKER_02]: Went to the mall, went to Norstroms.

01:33:23.964 --> 01:33:26.567
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know where she went.

01:33:27.070 --> 01:33:35.061
[SPEAKER_02]: But all I know is she got some fits now, the hair and makeup, beat for the guys, family, you already know, she's been recognized.

01:33:35.622 --> 01:33:39.868
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, she's been recognized, man, franchise, franchise.

01:33:40.269 --> 01:33:41.510
[SPEAKER_02]: Move them up to SmackDown.

01:33:41.570 --> 01:33:43.253
[SPEAKER_02]: They need all the help they could get.

01:33:43.653 --> 01:33:44.254
[SPEAKER_02]: Move them up.

01:33:44.635 --> 01:33:45.095
[SPEAKER_02]: It's time.

01:33:45.997 --> 01:33:46.477
[SPEAKER_02]: It's time.

01:33:46.537 --> 01:33:49.061
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm with you Fernando.

01:33:49.161 --> 01:33:56.892
[SPEAKER_00]: Fallen is definitely, she, she, when she decides to break out from that group, she's going to be a strong baby face.

01:33:57.023 --> 01:33:57.985
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, absolutely.

01:33:58.025 --> 01:34:04.838
[SPEAKER_02]: And one more honorable mention for match of the year, it's set the tone for WrestleMania night one in our trip with what we gained.

01:34:05.519 --> 01:34:15.859
[SPEAKER_02]: We got to shout out over for me, Javans, trick, main event, stand and deliver those brothers stood and they delivered.

01:34:16.396 --> 01:34:23.086
[SPEAKER_00]: The triple threats from very strong WrestleMania weekend every just about well actually no all of them all delivered.

01:34:23.106 --> 01:34:25.269
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, the triple threats are very strong.

01:34:25.769 --> 01:34:27.131
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, absolutely.

01:34:27.592 --> 01:34:34.382
[SPEAKER_02]: So Paul's match of the year goes to John scene of versus AJ Styles at Crown Jewel in Perth, Australia.

01:34:34.842 --> 01:34:43.855
[SPEAKER_02]: I find fine pick.

01:34:47.277 --> 01:34:53.023
[SPEAKER_00]: A very, a lot of top heavy, very strong matches for WWE, they had a good year and ring I thought.

01:34:53.603 --> 01:34:54.004
[SPEAKER_02]: Me too.

01:34:54.164 --> 01:34:54.544
[SPEAKER_02]: Me too.

01:34:55.065 --> 01:35:03.113
[SPEAKER_02]: And now it is time for the most important award of the evening superstar of the year.

01:35:04.515 --> 01:35:05.436
[SPEAKER_02]: Who could it be?

01:35:06.196 --> 01:35:11.682
[SPEAKER_02]: You must have a calendar year that stood out.

01:35:11.763 --> 01:35:15.328
[SPEAKER_02]: You put in the work in the ring on the mic.

01:35:15.809 --> 01:35:20.456
[SPEAKER_02]: You are box office, you are a money, you are a draw.

01:35:20.796 --> 01:35:28.968
[SPEAKER_02]: You draw the people in in terms of viewership and dollar spent on these shows that are pricey as hell.

01:35:29.549 --> 01:35:33.675
[SPEAKER_02]: And Scott said, you might disagree with who is the superstar of the year?

01:35:34.396 --> 01:35:35.297
[SPEAKER_02]: We shall see.

01:35:35.758 --> 01:35:40.605
[SPEAKER_02]: But Scott's selection for a superstar of the year is.

01:35:43.454 --> 01:35:47.438
[SPEAKER_00]: I know John Cena is the sexy pick and I won't question anyone who picks him.

01:35:48.399 --> 01:35:56.749
[SPEAKER_00]: But I have been praising the women all year and I've been praising them all show and much superstar of the year as a yo sky.

01:35:57.109 --> 01:36:01.574
[SPEAKER_00]: I think she has been the most consistent wrestler all year.

01:36:02.054 --> 01:36:10.744
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the way she has elevated her stock with the fans has been a whole different level for her to get the same type of reactions as real Ripley now.

01:36:10.724 --> 01:36:26.982
[SPEAKER_00]: per being a champion, her having two of the best matches of the year, her being able to have one of the best stories of the year, having one of the best fudes of the year and going in the 2026, which should have eight even better year.

01:36:27.563 --> 01:36:40.697
[SPEAKER_00]: But when it comes to that wrestling, that wrestling part of the show, I don't think anyone has been more consistent or has a catalog of better matches

01:36:41.774 --> 01:36:43.456
[SPEAKER_02]: a fine choice.

01:36:45.038 --> 01:36:50.905
[SPEAKER_02]: I was torn between EO and John Cena.

01:36:52.847 --> 01:36:55.310
[SPEAKER_02]: Tough choice.

01:36:55.330 --> 01:36:57.293
[SPEAKER_02]: Who do I lean towards ultimately?

01:36:59.976 --> 01:37:02.859
[SPEAKER_02]: EO sky is my winner as well.

01:37:04.061 --> 01:37:11.730
[SPEAKER_02]: I was leaning towards John, but we're talking

01:37:12.149 --> 01:37:15.139
[SPEAKER_02]: was a tale of two tours.

01:37:15.372 --> 01:37:17.674
[SPEAKER_02]: One half was pure shit.

01:37:17.694 --> 01:37:19.296
[SPEAKER_02]: Second half, great.

01:37:19.956 --> 01:37:29.745
[SPEAKER_02]: Eosky, a straight line of consistency that you could see from the beginning of the year to where we are now.

01:37:30.245 --> 01:37:32.828
[SPEAKER_02]: They planted seeds before WrestleMania.

01:37:33.288 --> 01:37:40.094
[SPEAKER_02]: They planted the field at WrestleMania and she carried every feud, every match.

01:37:40.575 --> 01:37:45.379
[SPEAKER_02]: She was a standout.

01:37:45.359 --> 01:37:47.061
[SPEAKER_02]: They couldn't do that anymore.

01:37:47.681 --> 01:37:54.529
[SPEAKER_02]: So, I am going to credit EO for being my superstar of the year.

01:37:57.211 --> 01:38:01.256
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I, you know, I just was so impressed with her.

01:38:02.076 --> 01:38:05.360
[SPEAKER_00]: Every match she had was good to great to incredible.

01:38:06.001 --> 01:38:07.923
[SPEAKER_00]: She didn't have a bad match all year.

01:38:07.963 --> 01:38:10.305
[SPEAKER_00]: The crowd never left her.

01:38:10.445 --> 01:38:13.088
[SPEAKER_00]: They never tried to turn on her.

01:38:13.068 --> 01:38:26.609
[SPEAKER_00]: I, no matter who she was in the ring with, the crowd was always with her, even when she was in the ring with Maria Ripley, who was arguably the most over-restler in the company, they never turned on EOS guy.

01:38:27.470 --> 01:38:28.351
[SPEAKER_00]: I just can't say enough.

01:38:28.652 --> 01:38:30.074
[SPEAKER_00]: Maria Gunther is a good one too.

01:38:30.154 --> 01:38:35.322
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he had a great year of retired scene, of retired Goldberg, one-on-world heavyweight champion.

01:38:36.063 --> 01:38:38.046
[SPEAKER_00]: What I mean, was a

01:38:39.022 --> 01:38:40.183
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he had a great year.

01:38:40.243 --> 01:38:51.477
[SPEAKER_00]: Dom is a great pick by you, Fernando, you know, was essentially the centerpiece of Triple A that back half of the year, Intercontinental Champion, became the leader of judgment day.

01:38:51.497 --> 01:39:04.573
[SPEAKER_00]: I just, when I sat down and thought about it, and I thought about it all year, who was most consistent, who was I watching and who did I look forward to watching every week, it was Eosguy.

01:39:05.819 --> 01:39:12.870
[SPEAKER_02]: same here, absolutely, and Paul and Lady B selected John Cena as a superstar of the year.

01:39:12.910 --> 01:39:20.982
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's not a wrong answer, but if I'm looking for straight line consistency throughout the year, I'm giving it to EOS guy.

01:39:21.343 --> 01:39:33.902
[SPEAKER_02]: I will also give an honorable mention to Oberfimi as well as superstar of the year for just being a dominant force in NXT and just having great championship matches throughout the year for sure.

01:39:35.637 --> 01:39:56.076
[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, his matches may not have been the best all year, but if you're just talking about like what you did in the year, you got to mention Jay Uso, he won the rumble, he won the world heavyweight championship at WrestleMania, ended the year as a tag team champion and was consistently in the main events.

01:39:56.596 --> 01:40:08.445
[SPEAKER_00]: You have to mention, Jay, who's so, and I know he didn't have the strongest catalog, but just, I mean, anybody else has that kind of a year, you're talking about them as wrestler of the year.

01:40:08.847 --> 01:40:11.131
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely, and he had a good year, definitely so.

01:40:11.171 --> 01:40:18.905
[SPEAKER_02]: There might be pushback from the interwebs, but until fans stop eating and buying merch, then he is still that guy for right now.

01:40:19.005 --> 01:40:23.252
[SPEAKER_02]: And he is still that guy on Monday night raw, getting those pops from the fans.

01:40:23.753 --> 01:40:25.977
[SPEAKER_02]: But before we go, that is wrap for the wrap awards.

01:40:25.997 --> 01:40:28.982
[SPEAKER_02]: We do want to touch on two news items of note.

01:40:28.962 --> 01:40:34.267
[SPEAKER_02]: The first one is Carmelo Hayes, is our new United States champion.

01:40:34.627 --> 01:40:37.550
[SPEAKER_02]: He beat Ely Dragon off on the holiday edition of SmackDown.

01:40:37.950 --> 01:40:42.334
[SPEAKER_02]: This past Friday night on USA, a great championship match.

01:40:42.654 --> 01:40:44.997
[SPEAKER_02]: And it took a minute.

01:40:45.337 --> 01:40:46.298
[SPEAKER_02]: It took some time.

01:40:46.338 --> 01:40:51.483
[SPEAKER_02]: But it seems as if WWE is backing mellow.

01:40:52.383 --> 01:40:56.387
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank God, Triple H in this case, Saw Color.

01:40:59.168 --> 01:41:01.951
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I, this, this could be a good thing for me, though.

01:41:02.051 --> 01:41:04.613
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he'll be a nice, vulnerable champion.

01:41:04.653 --> 01:41:10.479
[SPEAKER_00]: Someone who you could believe genuinely could lose that title at any point in time, no, no matter who he's facing.

01:41:10.519 --> 01:41:21.249
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's put in the work, you know, when I made it with shout-out to the miss, help him get there, gave him a little bit of a boost.

01:41:21.689 --> 01:41:25.733
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, mellows, I think mellows

01:41:25.713 --> 01:41:32.703
[SPEAKER_00]: And I him walking into the new year as the champion has to be a good sign going forward.

01:41:32.883 --> 01:41:36.328
[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully, unless your place decides, oh, that one's supposed to happen.

01:41:36.849 --> 01:41:40.674
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, come on back, and he beats him on the first smack that of 2026.

01:41:41.556 --> 01:41:44.019
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, first of all, try it.

01:41:44.520 --> 01:41:51.029
[SPEAKER_02]: Second of all, you know, I do love the fact that even in Kansas, SmackDown amidst that we're not going to give you miss versus mellow.

01:41:51.470 --> 01:41:55.095
[SPEAKER_02]: We're just going to skip that, can and don't need to see it.

01:41:55.548 --> 01:41:58.253
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't need technology, right?

01:41:58.273 --> 01:42:00.356
[SPEAKER_02]: It a bit of movement is on the joy and dream.

01:42:02.861 --> 01:42:07.068
[SPEAKER_02]: They said, well, we're not going to do is have this man get shit over mellow.

01:42:07.108 --> 01:42:14.601
[SPEAKER_02]: We learned our lesson when we try to put Javana against a miss and they got the faces low tight as to see stop that.

01:42:14.621 --> 01:42:17.365
[SPEAKER_02]: Got you to make this man like a old legend.

01:42:17.686 --> 01:42:18.748
[SPEAKER_02]: Get that shit out of here.

01:42:19.088 --> 01:42:21.252
[SPEAKER_02]: Get that shit out of here.

01:42:21.535 --> 01:42:26.907
[SPEAKER_02]: going to be ruin and baby faces into on a 26, uh, uh, not on my watch, not on my watch.

01:42:28.209 --> 01:42:30.013
[SPEAKER_02]: Play with me in front of the church.

01:42:30.093 --> 01:42:37.890
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a man in AAA, send the man in AAA so he can get a, I've, use in the Miz in AAA, he will be over over there as well.

01:42:38.051 --> 01:42:39.173
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying.

01:42:39.524 --> 01:42:43.291
[SPEAKER_02]: This to get you a bag, get you a bag of Mexico City.

01:42:43.331 --> 01:42:43.932
[SPEAKER_02]: That's fine.

01:42:44.513 --> 01:42:50.925
[SPEAKER_02]: Go ahead, go over there, have some fun, get over, beat you as a legend, stay in Mexico.

01:42:51.386 --> 01:42:55.534
[SPEAKER_02]: For an extended tour, don't come back to America because I know what you're going to do.

01:42:55.834 --> 01:42:58.239
[SPEAKER_02]: Getting that old legend status pop, get out of here.

01:42:58.559 --> 01:42:59.541
[SPEAKER_02]: Get out of here.

01:42:59.521 --> 01:43:02.426
[SPEAKER_02]: But Fernando, you really sweet, fight game channel of the year.

01:43:02.827 --> 01:43:03.508
[SPEAKER_00]: How do I do you, man?

01:43:03.949 --> 01:43:05.232
[SPEAKER_02]: We love and appreciate you.

01:43:05.292 --> 01:43:20.821
[SPEAKER_02]: And then another breaking news from Monday Night Raw, from last night in Orlando, the Usos are now nine time, tag team champions, they beat AJ Styles and Dragon Lee in the main event, really strong match down the stretch and juu.

01:43:20.841 --> 01:43:22.103
[SPEAKER_02]: So in the year,

01:43:22.083 --> 01:43:23.064
[SPEAKER_02]: as champion.

01:43:23.445 --> 01:43:34.361
[SPEAKER_02]: Some people view this as a emotion, not to me, because listen, tag team wrestling is still king, the Usos main, a vinted, Rassomania as a tag team.

01:43:35.062 --> 01:43:47.179
[SPEAKER_02]: And if you want to elevate the division and Lauren knows they need credible teams, the Usos are the team to highlight AJ and Dragon Lee were great champions for the time they had the belts.

01:43:47.159 --> 01:43:54.334
[SPEAKER_02]: I would prefer them losing to the Usos versus the first option, which would have been Bron Breaker and Bross and Reed.

01:43:55.681 --> 01:44:01.488
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that because that's not forget who was the last tag team to main event, a WrestleMania.

01:44:01.548 --> 01:44:13.662
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's take it easy with the motion stuff when it comes to J. Uso and winning the tag titles, because all this does is set up for God mode, Roman Reigns to come back and win the world heavyweight title.

01:44:14.323 --> 01:44:20.290
[SPEAKER_00]: And, um, Sammy Zayme, I mess around and win the intercontinental title, and then we just got a full bloodline full of belts.

01:44:20.310 --> 01:44:22.633
[SPEAKER_00]: So who knows what's going to happen in 2026?

01:44:22.951 --> 01:44:27.236
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's basically the seventh inning being refiliped and reversed for 2023.

01:44:27.437 --> 01:44:31.061
[SPEAKER_02]: I hate it here.

01:44:31.942 --> 01:44:34.305
[SPEAKER_02]: No, Seth hurry up and get back.

01:44:34.806 --> 01:44:37.950
[SPEAKER_02]: Come back and rescue us from that dream scenario.

01:44:37.970 --> 01:44:39.592
[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, no, no, no.

01:44:39.812 --> 01:44:42.195
[SPEAKER_02]: Hail, no, I love Roman.

01:44:42.215 --> 01:44:45.499
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to redo of three years ago.

01:44:45.732 --> 01:44:49.118
[SPEAKER_02]: without growth, without layers, I'm okay.

01:44:49.279 --> 01:44:52.966
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm okay with him winning the world title and just for that moment, it won't need Samian there.

01:44:53.206 --> 01:44:58.115
[SPEAKER_00]: But just for that moment, I'm okay with them through having to go as baby faces in a hole.

01:44:58.316 --> 01:44:59.899
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a very different dynamic.

01:44:59.919 --> 01:45:01.682
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't have to be long, but just for a minute.

01:45:02.658 --> 01:45:08.205
[SPEAKER_02]: Fernando's cooking towards the end, both we have very happy new year, very happy I found you.

01:45:08.225 --> 01:45:09.807
[SPEAKER_02]: We have we found you too, Fernando.

01:45:09.887 --> 01:45:10.828
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Fernando.

01:45:11.189 --> 01:45:13.572
[SPEAKER_02]: We love your support here every Tuesday with us.

01:45:13.612 --> 01:45:15.574
[SPEAKER_02]: We appreciate you and Maria as well.

01:45:15.995 --> 01:45:17.257
[SPEAKER_02]: And they hear you go cooking.

01:45:17.777 --> 01:45:19.620
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, woo, Lord.

01:45:19.660 --> 01:45:20.721
[SPEAKER_02]: Lord, have mercy.

01:45:23.324 --> 01:45:26.168
[SPEAKER_00]: Brothers, versus brothers at a WrestleMania for the titles.

01:45:27.295 --> 01:45:33.985
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so, I, I am so, if there's a reason to put the Luchib brothers together, versus the Usos, is it for Nando?

01:45:34.486 --> 01:45:36.609
[SPEAKER_00]: You in the kitchen right now is getting hot in there.

01:45:37.270 --> 01:45:39.413
[SPEAKER_02]: You, you cooking, you stirring up a pot.

01:45:40.194 --> 01:45:43.038
[SPEAKER_02]: Usos versus the Luchib brothers at WrestleMania.

01:45:43.920 --> 01:45:48.066
[SPEAKER_02]: Brothers versus brothers.

01:45:48.086 --> 01:45:50.429
[SPEAKER_02]: Man, that will be special.

01:45:51.411 --> 01:45:55.497
[SPEAKER_02]: But you gotta get, you gotta get, you gotta get Penta and Ray in the same room first.

01:45:57.417 --> 01:46:00.240
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we got, we got Pinta, we do have Pinta Ray in the same room.

01:46:00.260 --> 01:46:01.901
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just Ray in the studio and not Ray Pinta.

01:46:02.802 --> 01:46:06.265
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you just, you gotta be more specific about what you're right.

01:46:06.285 --> 01:46:07.126
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what that is?

01:46:07.146 --> 01:46:15.493
[SPEAKER_02]: You gotta be real specific when you pray because you've got to pray for specifically when you say, Ray is a Mysterio, is it Phoenix?

01:46:15.553 --> 01:46:16.514
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it Ray Charles?

01:46:16.794 --> 01:46:20.658
[SPEAKER_02]: You gotta be real specific about what you're asking for when it comes to Ray.

01:46:21.098 --> 01:46:27.424
[SPEAKER_02]: So I hope that happens at WrestleMania.

01:46:27.404 --> 01:46:29.807
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:46:29.827 --> 01:46:30.227
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm with that.

01:46:30.267 --> 01:46:33.190
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's a great tag match.

01:46:33.651 --> 01:46:36.494
[SPEAKER_00]: That would be a great way to open a WrestleMania with those.

01:46:36.554 --> 01:46:40.338
[SPEAKER_00]: Those four kick it in all the entrances you would get would be special.

01:46:40.878 --> 01:46:43.341
[SPEAKER_00]: Them eating and then you got the luchibros.

01:46:43.361 --> 01:46:47.025
[SPEAKER_00]: Penta already has one of the best entrances in the game as it is.

01:46:47.085 --> 01:46:52.230
[SPEAKER_00]: So him and Ray Phoenix, you know they would do something elaborate and over the top four WrestleMania entry.

01:46:52.210 --> 01:46:53.471
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, the fiddings.

01:46:53.491 --> 01:46:54.432
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a really hard.

01:46:54.873 --> 01:46:57.856
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, oh, oh, oh, the fidd, say what have on my God.

01:46:57.936 --> 01:46:58.477
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my God.

01:46:59.078 --> 01:47:01.080
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that would love to owe me on it.

01:47:01.180 --> 01:47:01.500
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll put it.

01:47:01.881 --> 01:47:02.682
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm with the two.

01:47:03.322 --> 01:47:06.806
[SPEAKER_02]: So before we go, I do want to touch on one more thing from Monday Night Raw.

01:47:07.227 --> 01:47:17.638
[SPEAKER_02]: It was the promo segment between Braun, Break, or in CM Punk, heading into their championship match next Monday, January 5th, one year Netflix anniversary.

01:47:18.799 --> 01:47:20.361
[SPEAKER_02]: That was all right.

01:47:20.662 --> 01:47:39.126
[SPEAKER_02]: a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a,

01:47:41.080 --> 01:47:51.938
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but I mean, that's a little bit he can say that I could see a punk can't say that he was in the same octagonas, you know, John Jones or any of them, because he only got Mickey doll.

01:47:51.998 --> 01:47:56.626
[SPEAKER_00]: So you know, at least at least, Bron can say that he did actually run with Lamar.

01:47:56.706 --> 01:47:57.928
[SPEAKER_00]: He just got smoked.

01:47:57.948 --> 01:48:00.152
[SPEAKER_00]: See a punk and only say he got beat up by Mickey.

01:48:00.841 --> 01:48:05.131
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, listen, Mickey, go, got that dub, get that dub.

01:48:05.593 --> 01:48:06.816
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, God, that bag though.

01:48:07.176 --> 01:48:08.059
[SPEAKER_02]: He did, didn't he?

01:48:08.700 --> 01:48:10.164
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that was a bad bag.

01:48:10.344 --> 01:48:12.169
[SPEAKER_02]: Getting the side back, still from UFC.

01:48:12.850 --> 01:48:15.998
[SPEAKER_02]: That is rap for all things to be WWE.

01:48:16.737 --> 01:48:23.567
[SPEAKER_02]: enjoy the wrap awards fun as always to dive into the best and worst of WWE for 2025.

01:48:23.607 --> 01:48:37.446
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're already in store for a busy 2026 because we're going to be back next Tuesday night to recap the fallout from the first RAW of 2026 live on Netflix from the Baraclace Center in Brooklyn New York where we have new champions.

01:48:37.426 --> 01:48:38.668
[SPEAKER_02]: quite possibly maybe.

01:48:38.708 --> 01:48:44.576
[SPEAKER_02]: And then NXT a note where these show as well with New Year's Eve Walker there be more title changes.

01:48:45.037 --> 01:48:49.764
[SPEAKER_02]: We shall see we'll be back next week to discuss two very jam pack shows.

01:48:49.824 --> 01:49:01.240
[SPEAKER_02]: But until then, I want to thank Perky Scott Young for joining me tonight to recap all of the best and all of the worst from WWE over the past year.

01:49:02.266 --> 01:49:03.688
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we're having a kill as always.

01:49:03.708 --> 01:49:13.359
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a pleasure to chop it up and talk on things WWE, shout out to Fernando, shout out to Maria for being in the chat, hope you guys have a great new year.

01:49:13.440 --> 01:49:18.265
[SPEAKER_00]: Kilo, hope you have a great new year, 2026 looking forward to it.

01:49:19.126 --> 01:49:22.751
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, should be, should be a very fun year, hopefully.

01:49:22.771 --> 01:49:26.215
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's got to be better than what 2025 was.

01:49:26.195 --> 01:49:27.416
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for sure.

01:49:27.617 --> 01:49:30.720
[SPEAKER_02]: It was so, so year for WWE.

01:49:31.141 --> 01:49:33.444
[SPEAKER_02]: Some good moments, some so, so moments.

01:49:34.585 --> 01:49:38.149
[SPEAKER_02]: I do think this is an inflection year for WWE.

01:49:38.189 --> 01:49:40.812
[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of questions are going to be answered.

01:49:40.832 --> 01:49:46.319
[SPEAKER_02]: And our question is, how much are people willing to spend still on WWE?

01:49:46.339 --> 01:49:49.222
[SPEAKER_02]: It was not as high as it was two or three years ago.

01:49:49.363 --> 01:49:54.008
[SPEAKER_02]: Will that bubble burst a bit?

01:49:53.988 --> 01:49:59.136
[SPEAKER_02]: after WrestleMania that will basically tell the story heading into the rest of this year.

01:49:59.577 --> 01:50:05.847
[SPEAKER_02]: But as always, I want to thank Fernando and Maria, all of you guys who joining us as we go live every Tuesday.

01:50:06.287 --> 01:50:08.090
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been fun for the last couple of months.

01:50:08.531 --> 01:50:10.474
[SPEAKER_02]: Can't wait to be back at our regular time.

01:50:10.494 --> 01:50:20.670
[SPEAKER_02]: 11 o'clock PM Eastern next Tuesday as we recap the first few shows of 2026, including God help us a three hour SmackDown on USA.

01:50:22.962 --> 01:50:24.104
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we'll see about that.

01:50:24.384 --> 01:50:24.785
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

01:50:24.805 --> 01:50:30.913
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, as I said before, I will be going to sleep around the 90 minute mark on smack down.

01:50:31.294 --> 01:50:37.263
[SPEAKER_02]: I will wake up around midnight, go on my phone and read the recaps of what happened because I cannot make it to 11.

01:50:37.283 --> 01:50:38.184
[SPEAKER_02]: I am sorry.

01:50:38.324 --> 01:50:39.265
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to tap out.

01:50:41.148 --> 01:50:42.009
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, watch it.

01:50:42.029 --> 01:50:45.274
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just going to start it about 30 45 minutes late.

01:50:45.760 --> 01:50:48.404
[SPEAKER_02]: Do not blame you because you won't miss nothing at all.

01:50:48.624 --> 01:50:58.179
[SPEAKER_02]: But we will talk about what we can right here on the rap next Tuesday live on YouTube around 11 o'clock PME Stern.

01:50:58.519 --> 01:51:06.511
[SPEAKER_02]: So until then, for myself and for Perky Scott Young, that is the year that was in WWE.

01:51:07.413 --> 01:51:13.742
[SPEAKER_02]: May we ring in 2026 with good health, with love, light, happiness,

01:51:13.722 --> 01:51:20.931
[SPEAKER_02]: the road to WrestleMania upon us as we hit the road heading into Las Vegas Nevada once again.

01:51:21.451 --> 01:51:34.988
[SPEAKER_02]: So for all of us here happy new year, be well, be safe, and that is a wrap for all things to be w e. Take care and bye bye.