HUGE Changes To WWE WrestleMania 40 Plans

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0:00 Rundown
0:19 HUGE Changes To WWE WrestleMania 40 Plans
4:41 Potential Spoiler Royal Rumble Surprise
7:18 Samoa Joe vs Sting?
9:37 Hart Family Movie
11:43 Questions

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Coming up on today’s wrestling news huge changes to WWE’s Wrestlemania 40 plans we’ got a major spoiler on a surprise Royal Rumble appearance Samoa Joe is open to give him sting a tile shot before he retires and Natalia teases a half family movie in the works and

Wilborn Michael H and this is the news so let’s talk about the story that everyone is talking about right now of course off the back of that Sports Illustrated Justin Brasso report surrounding Wrestlemania 40 and their main event plans we hope assumed that we’d get CM Punk challenging Seth

Rollins and of course Cody rge challenging this man Roman Reigns well now according to that Sports Illustrated report Roman Reigns opponent is going to be the rock of Bo which is huge yeah meanwhile what’s going on with these two of these guys CM Punk and cod roads

Apparently slated to face each other MH what’s going on with the World Heavyweight Champion well Seth Rollins will face Gunther WWE serving gunt for Seth Rollins on the grandest stage it has really messed my brain and the entire internet’s brain up this report coming out because I was feeling quietly

Confident yesterday on the back of that uh report about Cody in the Rock having a nice moment together and yeah you think it’s all 24 hours ago it’s all sort and it’s all fine and then it’s now it’s completely up in the air how much weight do you put behind this report uh

So not all I think it would be foolish to H hear the outlet Sports Illustrated the name just in Brasso and completely yes blow it off as a non story as rumor as all that sort of thing look we report we we report we aggregate from the likes

Of f or from The Observer from John Pollock from Sports Illustrated every one of those outlets and several of the other ones you know you don’t need to name them all have valid sources and valid reasons to report their things they report they typically double Source

It treat this as credibly as any other story that we would like to tell you on these other the morning news stories this one however and this could just be me desperately wanting Cody Rose to finish the story I’m the Copan with you and thus never have to say the phas

Finish the story again and th never have to just have a standup fight with you outside of WrestleMania this year when I get to say as I’m still your head against the ground the Sher just had him win at 39 the Cody Rose is going to get

It done WWE have done a really effective job at building the likes of CM Punk the likes of gunet H Drew McIntyre as credible winner for the rumble this story has just B down on those being incredible G especially right like gun was a guy who you were absolutely seeing

In something massive at WrestleMania but as Intercontinental Champion not something to do with Seth until WWE talked into existence oh yeah nice if this story is a case of WWE greasing the media’s wheels in order to uh I don’t know make their already suspenseful match even more suspenseful come

Saturday Cody still to win but the card that has been presented by Sports Illustrated certainly feels credible yeah exactly if you going to rearrange those pieces and and like you say it’s a consolation prize for the likes of Cody and punk for them to face each other

Even if it’s not a main event oh well then then you’re in real trouble it’s it’s one of those the match itself is awesome yeah but is that a fair tradeoff for not fighing for World titles and Main Event in WrestleMania if it stuff off I’ll be

Honest but like the match is incredible the promo that they sold you on the dream match and made it the American dream match on Monday Night Raw but like it’s absolutely the one Cody match that I think masters of the audience as when we were talking about the office hypothetically

It was one that was well for the first time a match came in a vision that didn’t look like a consolation word uh it’s the biggest consolation for both them as won the just the card that we all probably saw this time last year I think but it is arguably I think you

Like you said the timing this is really interesting because it now is arguably the most unpredictable men’s Royal Rumble Match in history mhm and I bearing in mind the fact that like they already had that like anywh they had like could could have gone back to back

An achievement in of itself so it becomes unpredictable yeah now I think if all eyes weren’t already on the match they certainly will be say else is unpredictable oh what culture live show it goes down over WrestleMania weekend we can guarantee Sim M will main that one whatculture.com tickets we are the

Meet in your WrestleMania sandwich it goes down Sunday lunchtime so after night one but before night two of WrestleMania and you’ll have plenty of time to get over 4 night2 if you want to again head to that uh yeah join us in Philadelphia for our first live show in

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Wrestlemania weekend who’s that my what Jade C because the rubber Mill is turning on her appearing on Sunday on Saturday excuse me I look like Gult like start is Rumble PL this is from PW Insider who have noted the J Cargill is going to be in attendance at the rumble

Now of course she’s been in attendance at other D shows they’ve put her on camera to tell you so but she’s yet to make her in ring debut there was of course uh Triple H’s comments in one of the recent press conferences that they want to get her to a certain level in

Ring we’ve seen lots of video over working out of the PC um so the time doesn’t feel to be approaching it’s going to be WrestleMania sus as of the rumble kicking off on uh Saturday and indeed yes D Cargill is set to appear at the show and you can put like two and

Two together and make here that she’s going to enter the match yeah on the same story by the way um PW inside also added that son DeVille has been doing reps at the performance and with a view of making a return and will also be present at the rumble again same as Jade

Could just be there in the building but is certainly working towards a return after the injury yeah it’ll time that injury get well soon son I’d love to see her in the r I’d really like to see son to see Jay Carill as well H just makes

Sense like you say even if you’re not saying right from that moment on she’s working week in and week out on the main roster you can do something in the rumble eliminate Nia Jax off the top of my head and set up a match between the two of WrestleMania and then she barely

Has to work between now and Mania just to get ready for the match is just training after that I like it I think it’s the safest place well it’s not safe it’s Royal Rumble but the best possible place for her to debut and he get a huge

Reaction of course a monster Pop like bear in mind that obviously they’re going to be in Tropic AR field which was the site of the Thunder dorm yes uh so it’ be nice to do away with those memories forever but it’s going to be a very ww Centric crowd she’s been

Introduced she’s had a soft launch yes um you’re not just bringing in somebody from a that a sizable portion of your audience might not actually know you have they have told the WWE fan base through the just the main visual of Jade car’s screen she is a big big deal her

In her gear and walking down that long like sort of arched ey at the rumble I think is like it couldn’t look and feel any bigger for and I in terms of the wom’s RO Rumble he talked about how big the men’s Royal Rumble feels I think the

Women’s right now you just kind of split between the likes of Becky and and Bailey winning it mhm having said that potentially having a debut for Jay carille a return for Naomi and AJ Lee it up be so good wouldn’t it be amazing factors there I think yeah yeah our next

PK be involved as well right in the M yeah uh join us on Saturday night for our live stream for it of course but now let’s switch viers uh to aew because Samo Joe has been chatting to oh yeah us Mar Andrew paard was chat with the promotional tour for the suicide Squad

Killed the Justice League video game um and Andrew brilliant journalist the is was asking about Joe probably second best journalist in the game he’s certainly up there um in terms of uh Sting’s tile defense sorry in terms of SAR Joe’s tile defenses and the possibility of Sting getting a shot oh

Boy it appears well it is they are getting a title shot for the tag titles in a couple of weeks of course him and Doby Allen but when asked about sting facing Joe Joe said 100% I was I would always give the sting at get a shot at

The world championship do you see that happening before he retires I would love to um for those that don’t know when you may have seen the footage of Samo Joe flinging himself down the staircase that was in a TNA match against sting yes run it back stairs included sting doing that

Spot instead yeah why not re anyway anyway yeah uh I there’d be some it’s feeling unlikely now that we know sting and Derby are getting the tag title shot whether or not that comes against STS and Big Bill or if the young books are get it thr the Catster pigeons there um

Sing fighting for the world title uh suddenly seems Out Of Reach because he’s got another belt to go for but in this run with s Jo as the dominant Champion as the guy that is kind of calling aw his kingdom and all that kind of thing I

Love the idea of him just want to take thing down to make a point you know imagine if Matthew and Nicholas Jacks had that they are as string pulling EVPs yeah they’ve got the Tank TI watch in two weeks I believe it is and then it’s still a couple more weeks

Until Revolution imagine to sof and sting up the like week before you can have a tile shot against Samoa Joe as well no I far B for me to be question The credibility of Andrew PA culture left Peg on Twitter yes but uh is this us not reading his story correctly is he

All about sting or is he about Gordon Sun there ex lead thing with the police and Solus ass thing because I’d be bang up for aw world champion Joo getting in there with s how long would that match go though they just they got lock up

Don’t stand so close toly and then he also Busters it there’s no p he just see sting get a more busted T trick you out of that one Stinger oh look Gordon bucket to well we know he’s got stamina yeah you know who else has got stamina

Who Natalia she’s been at WWE segue she’s been at WWE a long time she’s putting in the Reps and potentially putting in the work in Hollywood wrestling has more than one royal family so says Coo’s theme and Hollywood would appear to agree because obviously with the Acclaim not the Oscar book success

Ultimately with theim the iron claw the film focusing on the Von Erics Natalia is teasing potentially a heart family movie in the works uh this was from fight for select but also from Natalia’s Instagram eag view may have caught this she was with uh Rory kin he of the kin

Cinematic Dynasty um s house and said that she was working on something near and dear to her all fight for select flesh is out uh to note that she tagged Yale Productions who were the site who were the production House of various films it may have heard of the kill room

Becky trick fight and the wrath of Becky I assume that’s a Becky sequel yes I don’t know um but yeah apparently there’s a film on the heart family potentially in the works it’s film stuff so everything is in development until it’s done I guess but uh there are a few

Big wrestling denes like other than the likes of the Von ER and the mcms and the Rogers is quite like the hearts potentially be perfect for the S oh yeah it’s it’s it’s ideal fair for this sort of thing is it especially like you say especially off the back of the iron claw

Um I’d love to see something like that yeah and it feels like if you’re going to do it now is the time to I mean it’s still going to be you know a while before it actually happens but uh yeah a lot of intriguing Source material highs

Lows all that good stuff this is it isn’t it it’s Triumph and tragedy there’s always like with the hearts there’s always like a a happy inverted commas ending to find but you’re going to have to go through some of the Strife to get there and like metalia indeed

Could be like a central figure that has been look we kind of made it through to the E after like what the industry so uh there’s law specifically around her that could make her kind of like a great centerpiece for the film as well love to

See and I I need to go and see the iron FL yeah it’s out over here next week and select his Cinemas fair that the states get it before us I suppose we do have to wake up a little bit early for elimination chain anyway let’s move on to your

Twitter questions out what C WWE of course you want to get in touch so this first question today comes from Jay R Jay thank you for your question uh good morning mandm uh he writes it on me uh what is your prediction on how the Fatal fourway will end I’m guessing Randy will

Be about to win but Jimmy intervenes with which causes Jay to help setting up their WrestleMania match uh I’m going to share a prediction I’ve shared roal R predictions video which will be tomorrow I think something like that yeah uh triple Smash and stack think um Edge and

Daniel Bryan from WrestleMania 37 but with all three I’ve got various different ways in which you can do the orders of the finishes but it’s finisher finisher finisher and Roman almost looking upon the pile of bodies and being like oh great stuff I’m still a tribal Chief uh I expect solo and Jimmy

To get involved but yeah I just like the visual of him increasing the St making the m in very literally look even bigger to for Cody rhs or whoever and then who could beat him only the king of the mountain Jeff jar then I didn’t even

Think about him for the rumble why are we doing this just in brass of Sports Illustrated nonsense get jet back um yeah I think obviously Roman retains on Saturday night in terms of the Jimmy and Jay stuff I think that’s going to be kept more to the rumble rather than the

T and I think Jimmy and Jay may not be involved in this match whatsoever it’ll just be a solo thing which leads to solo get involved at WrestleMania which leads to the Rock saving Cody because I’m still hoping that Cody’s having the title match and Rock’s just doing this

Decep of match wrestlevania next year please it’s solid increasingly realistic when you pitch The Rock to something like a running isn’t it yes like it’s almost as like Daft saying like ah thinking about him on the mid card against Grayson Waller he’s trying to get a young guy over it’s very d by

Second question aans up dollars don’t they yes so like gra said I started with seven bucks in my pocket yeah digo dollars house um sorry sorry um Tom would you f your dingo I wouldn’t or coner but a yeah apologies for the delay in today’s news technical problems here

At the office is me we SP sat around for half an hour talking about which animal we’d fight I’d go George Misan against a turkey I think I can fight the goat he thinks he can tap a goat out no I just tap out gear team tap or snap either tap or

Snap Tom Wells gives us a second question today thank you Tom for this also good boy he sent a lovely picture of his dog Spencer that the question do you think WWE should expand the Ed Rumble to 35 or 40 people the roster is getting pretty full we’re

Starting to run out of space of fun SL Nostalgia spots I think we could currently fill a 30-man rumble with serious contenders I’ve got lots of thought about that to actually but I’m not going to share them CU if you’re going to use Pi your stupid dog to

Manipulate tell Spencer you know talk about it is this the dog Spencer yeah it’s like it’s in a box take that box take that dog and put it under a pole t and a pop somewhere you got any thoughts on this roll uh I love Spencer thanks

Tom thanks for your question Tom not you got make the Royal Rumble any bigger you will remove the importance and significance of it I also really like the idea that I saw someone suggested years ago 10 from raw 10 from Smackdown five from NXT five special gifts say sming

Go um yeah I wouldn’t make it any bigger the 40 man was a one-off for a reason Del R was that yeah I was thought it was M get diesel in yeah I why it was a run big enough to have his big daddy Co going do it again

Final question today uh it comes from someone who just started following us on X thank you uh to Blackpool statue man right oh W he’s one of them Legends yeah thank you for this more interesting than at least a half of the blackb combat Club thanks Danny uh for this who says

Hi guys I hope you have a great Thursday do you think WWE are going to hire Jr for one last run I’ve seen a bit of this kicking around you know Jr to his immense credit was working his way to getting the um sting retired wasn’t he

Like he’s been great on Dynamite in these short birth yes and his contract is coming due personally I can’t see Tony khah letting him go out of just like you know when like aw crawls some of his creative FS just does nice things yes I can see Tony khah offering Jim

Ross a sweetheart deal to come in as in when he’s comfortable to call the Main Events add genuine gravitas maybe not have such a locker room presence that he did in his original field but yeah coming as Jim Ross lend his voice and just enjoy semi-retirement on a nice

Wage stri him is what Tony car will offer if he doesn’t offer that then I think WWE would be mad not to bring in J on a part-time basis Triple H if you recall um previously uh made a point of wanting to use Jim Ross more uh not so

That he could be bullied by Vince McMahon just because he knew that he have lent credibility he was the first commentator on Triple H’s NXT if that way back when in full sale um so there is a bit of Precedence for this but I have a feeling Tony KH is going to offer

Him too nice a deal to S I’d welcome him back in might be right there I think it’s the right way to use him I think obviously yeah I would not be surprised though if WWE decid to I know they had lots of you know commentary changes with

Kevin Patrick and people like that I think yeah the best way to utilize him is on big shows for just big matches not the whole show have him appear so Cody versus Roman may something like that can match per match deal both for any company he wants yeah i’ let just he

Should be free to do something like that that’d be awesome I don’t see that happening because of the way the buness is um I’d like to see is going to happen I think you right I think he’s going to stick around in aw doing what he does

Right now which is the best version of himself in opinion um but anyway thank you for all of your questions thank you for sticking with us with all the technical problems today we’ll be back hopefully normally with the news at a normal time tomorrow but for no my fact

My thank you for joining us and we’ll see you soon