00:00it's wild this is his last week as a full-time performer in wwe now he's wrestling once it's
00:04on saturday but still this is this is it this is what we've all been building toward
00:08is this last moment john cena in the wwe as a performer so let's look ahead and get ready for
00:16um what should be an emotional weekend in the wwe
00:30so wwe pushes toward john cena's last match and honestly the the main part of every debate with
00:42this is what do you do with john cena i think having him lose the ic title to dominic mysterio
00:49um it adds a little bit of the drama to this of will he win or won't he i think if this was for
00:54the ic title obviously he's not retiring with it so you have a little bit of that and then you have
00:59the discussion of like are they really gonna make him lose his last two matches how are we going to
01:02do this here so i think you at least have the possibility of john cena winning this match
01:08in everyone's minds a little bit i think that'd be the wrong move i think you have to win it with
01:13gunther here um but you at least keep that possibility i've also seen a lot of criticism
01:18of gunther getting this chance and like yes i i get wanting to have a young wrestler do this but
01:27and this is where you kind of always miss out on the i think some other people miss out on the well
01:33it needs to be a young wrestler thing and this is where i think some wrestling fans not being sports
01:38fans um comes in obviously there is a lot of crossover between the two but there are a lot of
01:42wrestling fans who are just wrestling fans and that that is fine like you do you homie i
01:45whatever um like no criticism here at all but it is not just as simple as oh well this kid's 23
01:54javon evans should beat john cena in his last match why because the kid can not even rent a car
01:59and because of that you are going to give him this win and it is going to elevate him and it's going
02:03to carry him for the next 20 years of his career or you're going to give it to gunther who's already
02:1140 how could you possibly what is he going to get out of it you need to have someone ready for that
02:18it is not just as simple as they win and thus they are now john cena and they are ready for this
02:24and everything like that um you look at like a few different times where they've tried something
02:29along those lines um fandango beating jericho at wrestlemania in theory it makes all the sense in
02:37the world younger performer comes in beats chris jericho made man the problem is they didn't build
02:44the character up well it was okay um didn't build the character up well and didn't follow it after
02:50you didn't have this character ready for this and so instead of well he's young so now he gets this
02:58big win and off he goes instead of that it was he was young he wasn't ready for it the crowd wasn't
03:04ready for him to have it and thus we have now wasted this big opportunity and i'm not saying if you
03:09had javon evans win this tournament and beat john cena and like that that he wouldn't be ready for
03:15it but you need to have someone who the audience believes in and who you know is going to be ready
03:22this this shouldn't be a first step for someone this should be the last step for some people and
03:29like i am one of the few who thinks the brock lesnar win over the undertaker was an okay thing for
03:34them to do now stick with me for a second on this i can like the other one like the other two that
03:40would have made sense would have been randy orton uh winning it at wrestlemania 21 maybe a little bit
03:46too early in the whole scheme of things but randy was obviously going to be a star he was obviously
03:50ready for it and then cm punk winning it um now obviously a year later he's gone so that wouldn't
03:55have worked all that well but at the time that felt like if you want to really make this guy
03:59this is the one that you give him for that but for brock lesnar like at the time it's kind of weird
04:07to say this now but at the time we were all a little kind of over it with brock they hadn't booked
04:12it very well um in like that that whole kind of like pre-undertaker thing he'd come in wrestle john
04:19cena but he lost to john cena and we did all these things and it wasn't all that big and all that
04:23like it wasn't it wasn't as big as brock lesnar would become but what they did with brock is like
04:31he goes in he beats the undertaker he has beaten he has ended this streak brock's still wrestling
04:38so if you want like i get there was a pause there for obvious reasons and far be it for me to say
04:43nice things about brock lesnar but brock is still wrestling and has was in the main event picture
04:48for the wwe for a long time after that right like he was in the main event of wrestlemania 31 he was
04:55in the title picture for forever right like we are that was wrestlemania 30 we're coming up on
04:59wrestlemania 42 it was 12 wrestlemanias ago and again he's missed a couple for obvious reasons
05:06but this was someone who stayed as a main event level wrestler for a decade after it holding this
05:14dominant win over the undertaker as one of the things that they did so yes would it have been
05:18better on randy probably would have been better on punk absolutely but because you had someone who
05:24maybe didn't necessarily fit the age demographic of what you were looking for but he was ready for
05:28it and honestly needed a bit of a jump start that was what you gave him gunther seems like a better
05:33dude but in somewhat of a similar situation where he dominant title reign but he's lost it and the guy
05:40who he lost it to maybe wasn't ready for the opportunity right like i i had the the thing i
05:46thought jay usa was a good call for the royal rumble but he has fallen off quite a bit and so now like
05:51that loss um like he loses there gets it back loses the punk the punk one was fine but i mean even then
05:57punk gets cashed in on and so gunther becomes this afterthought a little bit gunther is a main
06:01eventer but does he fit in the title picture right now i probably not given the brawn breaker of it all
06:06uh what are they doing with seth at some point is he going over to to smackdown and wrestling cody
06:11probably not so gunther doesn't really fit into the title picture right now but he is going to be
06:16someone who's going to be a main eventer for this company for the next five years giving him this win
06:21re-establishes that greatly and now you have a guy who you are planning on keeping dominant for a really
06:27long time giving him this big win this feather in his cap and just establishing to a grander audience
06:33that this guy is for real because this is probably going to be a big audience so yeah it would be
06:39cool to get them familiar with javon evans with this win but if you're a wrestling fan and you've
06:44brought up gunther to non-wrestling fans the first thing anyone asks is oh my god they didn't make him
06:50a and you know where they're going and we're going to cut it off there because you know the type of
06:53character that vincent man would have made him 10 years ago people don't know who this guy are who this
06:58guy is for like the general public right and i'm not saying that he wins this and all of a sudden
07:03gunther is going to be in peacemaker but this is a chance to show one of the dominant guys who you're
07:09going to build around for the next three to five years show this audience that he is that dominant
07:14guy get this across to him and maybe you get a few more people sticking around next time to watch
07:18that asshole get beat by someone else so i i think gunther is actually the right choice i had said before
07:24like i think penta would have worked there really well um but he's got hurt i i think carmelo hayes
07:31if there would have been a way to build it that would have been a pretty effective way uh pretty
07:36effective guy to do it with um and you could have built a faction out of it i kind of laid that out on
07:41another video that we did but for the way that everyone is sitting right now and we can argue
07:46about how they haven't built up other guys like this is why i thought braun breaker was the guy
07:51to do this because this would have been the last step of him getting over to that level now in
07:56this time he has gotten over now he's challenging for the title on the first anniversary on netflix
07:59and he might just win it so we may have just passed go and collected two hundred dollars on that one
08:04but they don't have anyone else ready in this spot that can take that ball and get to that next step
08:11for carmelo it would be jump-starting a build that they have dropped the ball on for a year and a half
08:16that's fine but it's not what you need in this spot and i don't think that's the way to get the
08:21most out of it i think for this one you want to establish it like this is the final note on a guy
08:27and i think it's the final note in getting gunther right back into um that main dominant status so i
08:33have no problem with gunther getting it um i hope that one thing we see here is that there are some
08:40call-ups ready and we get these opportunities like oba um oba's ready ricky saints is ready
08:47and i wonder now if ricky kind of gets like he gets spun off into a thing with cody um and kind
08:53of helps cody with oba there tough to do that in a heel babyface dynamic that they're going to have
08:57on saturday but like that match is going to be a lot of fun to see i'm also very excited to see
09:03soul ruka against bailey um soul i think has star potential written all over her right now the look
09:09the moves the match uh all of that probably do some work but the rest of it like she she carries
09:15herself in a star way and has a star move set all these different things right the one thing i'm very
09:20interested in is like when you think okay what's the way that we can maximize soul ruka it is probably
09:28someone like uh lira valkyria or um eoskai like a a fast-paced high-flying type of a match i think this
09:35is a good test to see like bailey um it's not not great cully in there but bailey's not going to be
09:42running around and doing planches and doing this that and the other thing or a lot of them anyway
09:45bailey is a bit more of the style of wrestler that soul is going to have to work well with to get to
09:54that championship level on the main roster so yes it would be cool to see her do a bunch of flippy
10:00dippy shit and uh have a really really fun match but i'm interested to see when you don't have as
10:06many of those things and you do have to to work a regular wrestling match for lack of a better term
10:12can you still be entertaining do you still come across as a star because this is probably the
10:16style rightly or wrongly this is probably the style you're going to have to work when you get
10:20to that championship level on the main roster so i think a really interesting test for soul ruka
10:23coming up on saturday at uh saturday night's main event a lot more coverage of this to go
10:30throughout the week on couch potato diary and on living room lariat we are streaming live um right
10:37now on a few different platforms and i've been going for a couple of hours i'm going to be on
10:41sports at 960 throughout the rest of the week but again i miss this i miss you guys i want to do
10:46these live more often so going to be back live i'm saying it right now so i can't get out of it
10:52going to be back live um on wednesday at 4 p.m for sure doing that i was hoping to do a tuesday
11:01one but i remember to have a thing so we will see about tuesday but wednesday for sure 4 p.m um we're
11:07going to be back live here doing the thing on um on a couple of these platforms anyway so keep a
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