00:00it is a new season the new year in WWE they played the video last night where Triple H was like okay
00:10we're done and then something had slapped on his desk and all right well that was the offseason
00:13now it's up into the next year and that is what it is like for wrestling fans as the Raw after
00:19Mania has kind of taken on a life of its own and sometimes the hype can overshadow what we actually
00:26get to experience on the Monday after WrestleMania but this is the first one in the Netflix era so
00:31what do we get um I I think the first thing you need a strong angle with Cena saying he's going
00:40to ruin wrestling on Monday um I would imagine this means we get the spinner belt back in some way
00:46shape or form I I hope it is more than just that like I again I know I'm talking about this with
00:52AEW I know I can be very um impatient when it comes to these sorts of stories where I I can
01:01really want there to be I just want to know everything now let's just get to the next thing
01:04and get moving and let me let me know that now um and so I I know I can be impatient but this feels
01:10like it needs to be a very big episode of Raw and this story needs to make us forget that
01:15underwhelming feeling we had um not even 24 hours ago at WrestleMania that this needs to make us feel
01:21like okay holy shit here we go this is gonna be amazing like um not to speak positively of the
01:28human being but Brock Lesnar coming back to come out and beat the shit out of John Cena after that
01:33now don't literally do that but having him having that sort of a thing where after Raw you are buzzing
01:38it's like I can't wait till we get to Raw next week and get this ball rolling again because that is
01:42not the feeling right now the feeling right now is I am interested to see Raw uh because I need to
01:49make sense of this and I want this to be fun again and that that was not fun so again what is
01:54this strong angle that we are getting with John Cena do we get more of a rock tie-in is there more
02:01of a group out of this than just John Cena and and what do we have now in in this particular thing
02:07and so look like the this is the first time in the Triple H kind of era here where momentum is
02:13rather not significantly down but momentum is down things are like public perception anyway
02:20is trending a little bit negatively for the first time and they were feeling themselves this week you
02:25could tell in the lead-up to WrestleMania where they are taking some not-so-veiled shots at AEW and
02:31they are just flaunting political stuff all over the place which they would never do but there was a
02:36lot of just like yeah we know we know we're on a roll right now so where now do they go that that
02:42has slowed a little bit because we have seen a number of wrestling promotions and I'm not going
02:46to say the John Cena thing is going to kill WWE or anything like that but we have seen a number of
02:51promotions have a really difficult time getting that momentum and getting that ball rolling once it has
02:58stopped going in a different direction so fascinated to see how Triple H will respond with all of this
03:04tonight I am anticipating a Rusev debut I think a lot of us were anticipating that on Monday and or sorry on
03:12on Sunday with the Randy Orton thing so I am anticipating we get some form of a Rusev involvement
03:18I am going to keep kind of going to bat for Jeff Cobb being the muscle of a new Seth Rollins Paul Heyman
03:25group and and have him be integrated in in that way and that is another follow-up I'm interested by
03:32this one isn't a make it make sense this one is more of a I just want to see where they go with it because
03:38that that was the best thing really coming out of um coming out of Monday Night Raw was the the or
03:44sorry coming out of WrestleMania into Raw was the Rollins Heyman situation that was brewing there so I
03:50I I am really hoping that that turns into a bit of a faction um I think that a lot of times as wrestling
03:57fans we can get a little bit too faction war fairy and even like honestly um after we finished the
04:02stream last night on twitch.tv slash primetime pk doing uh WWE 2k25 I I went into the universe mode
04:09for the first time and I like everyone's in a faction and that that can get a little watered
04:14down and everything too but I do think that there could be a value still if you are going to have any
04:20rock involvement having a rock cena uh kind of a faction bringing that in having Rollins have a couple
04:26of other guys with Paul Heyman to help elevate them a little bit and I do think the time is now for that
04:32when you hear Roman Reigns talking about how he only has a couple of years left Randy Orton was
04:36just in his 20th WrestleMania there's a reason only a couple of guys get to 20 WrestleManias
04:40um because that's very hard and you then have to be quite old so um that is definitely going to be
04:46a thing Kevin Owens like I don't think he is like super close to retiring but having a neck surgery
04:51that takes you out 12 to 16 months certainly doesn't lengthen your clock at all and Cody Rhodes
04:56isn't the youngest cat in the world anymore either so that there is now I think while they still
05:01have this momentum and while they still have all these eyeballs I do think that there is a little
05:05bit of importance to at least put some of the spotlight on some of the younger talent in some
05:09of these elevated ways and so that's why a Jacob Fatu is really important now a brawn breaker feels
05:15massively important given that the major major performance he had um in the lead-up to WrestleMania
05:21and at WrestleMania 41 so I do think now is the time to start factoring some of those guys in
05:26and the easiest way to do that is uh by the way of factions but another thing I was thinking going
05:31into to this raw tonight I do think that while we can make our jokes about the brand split um and I
05:38I will still hold on to the belief that a brand split can be a good thing um and all of that but I
05:46do think that there is a need for a draft now they've kind of fallen into this thing where they've been
05:51doing draft in the fall for the new season of it but this is really the start of a new season
05:56in WWE right we talk about that a lot but this is kind of the new year in world wrestling entertainment
06:01and coming out of WrestleMania it is a chance to freshen some things up it is a chance to give some
06:07new life into some characters and play shuffle the deck a little bit and there's a couple I think
06:12that could really benefit from that right now one of them is Charlotte you look at what is going on in
06:17the women's division right now over on Smackdown and there isn't a whole lot for her at this
06:23particular moment right like I don't think anyone's really clamoring for the Tiffany Charlotte feud to
06:28continue and honestly that felt dunsky on Monday or on on Saturday right like that that felt like it
06:35was over and done so what what is next for her I think a getting drafted over to Monday Night Raw
06:41would kind of liven things up for her a little bit Gunther kind of same thing like he
06:46it I I am sure we get somewhat of a rematch in there but now we're beating him too many times
06:52or we're having just a transitional championship thing with Jey Uso and that doesn't help anybody
06:56and so the easiest way to kind of avoid that is to draft Gunther over to Smackdown and just put them
07:02on on different sides and have Gunther starts to work up on the title picture over on the undisputed
07:08WWE championship side of of everything and so I do think that coming out of WrestleMania where you do
07:14have a finality in a lot of these things that is really the time to start doing this draft and start
07:21to really push that forward now for you so that that is kind of something that I would um consider
07:26as uh just you know a little bit of advice from me towards the WWE a couple more things to that I'm
07:33looking for on Raw tonight but a reminder um if you've missed any of this live stream or just you
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07:49get your podcasts um I'm also wondering if we do get any kind of AAA uh or AAA integration into all of
07:56this um tonight you have the the big announcement that caught a lot of people off guard on Monday
08:03there have been some like very subtle crossover stuff before with JBL um going over there and
08:11getting involved in some stuff and like uh Chad Gable there's obviously the Lucha thing involved
08:17with that I'm obviously that the spotlight would be Viquinho is there anything with him uh maybe in
08:24the El Grande Americano storyline or anything like that but I just I wonder now that we are like it's
08:29April 21st today June 7th is going to come up very very quickly I wonder if we get any of that
08:34promoting towards um the show in June with Worlds Collide the one more thing I would like to see
08:41I want a renewed focus on the New Day I I think they win the tag team titles and that's awesome and uh
08:47the match was a little lackluster but I I think that you come off of a hot angle with Big E
08:52and then you don't have any Big E involvement in anything in the build-up to this and it is just it
08:58it has lost so much steam and they are having to rely on just kind of generic heel tactics to try
09:05to be this heel thing and so I think that is a story that needs a bit of a shot in the arm going
09:11into um this kind of new year for WWE so those are a couple of things that I'm looking for from
09:17Monday Night Raw tonight uh as always wherever you are taking this in we're gonna have a Raw recap
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