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hello all James here now normally when I
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do these videos I have a not super
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specific sort of script but I've got all
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the bullet points I want to hit before
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you know that I've got to the right me
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that I'll try and hit so I've got all my
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thoughts in order i've not done it this
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time because I've just had so much on we
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did a show with Stevie a special one
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regarding Wrestlemania 41 did another
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one with Dutch today and now I'm just
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releasing this video to give just my
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thoughts I guess on the main event of
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Wrestlemania 41 and how much the more I
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learn about it the more it bugged me and
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something more specific than most has
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bugged me about this so uh first off we
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have to talk about the main event now a
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lot of people didn't like the match
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itself i actually thought for the match
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itself it was a throwback to like the
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early Wrestlemania i kept saying you
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know Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior
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kind of thing it was so slow so sluggish
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in comparison to everything else that
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happened but for me I thought the match
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was fine and the crowd was going crazy
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and that's really what matters but we're
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not talking about that we're talking
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about this dog finish that ended up
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sort of deciding the fate of Cody
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Rhodess and John Cena which really
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really the more you think about it the
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more it just makes my head explode now
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one thing that I complained about with
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Stevie was the triple threat match with
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CM Punk Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns
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regarding the amount of kickouts it's
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just something I've never enjoyed even
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at WrestleMania to a point but that was
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just too egregious and then Cody Rhodess
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and Cena start doing the same thing the
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egregious kickouts of the attitude
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adjustment or as we all prefer to
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remember it the
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FU but then it's I nearly called him Old
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Trafford uh Travis Scott comes out
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here's where it just really fell off a
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cliff travis Scott's music that terrible
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song that's been permeating WWE for
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weeks he walks out people are still
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cheering because guess what the only
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other time Travis Scott has done this
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entrance he came out with you know who
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The Rock so the reports I've got and
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I've had more than one is that the fans
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were still cheering when Travis Scott
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came out and the reason they were was
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because they thought The Rock was coming
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out as well Dwayne Johnson the final
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boss and guess what he didn't that's
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what ruined it i mean you can argue
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whether it was stupid you know all these
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attitude adjustments and everything
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we've seen in every other single match
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and then all it took was one kick in the
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balls and a belt shot after kicking out
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of everything else to put Cody away now
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that's something you can argue
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absolutely uh for me there's something
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just more annoying where was the rock
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now we researched this yesterday and
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today i say we I did about where The
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Rock was two days ago on Instagram he
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posted a video saying that he was in
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Hawaii how he much he enjoys being in
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Hawaii and he was driving down the roads
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wherever he was in Hawaii and there was
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a video of him doing that now uh Becky
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Lynch was asked was she going to be at
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WrestleMania and she said "No of course
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I'm not." And then everybody sort of
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gets the idea well you must be because
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you seem to be the lady Doth protest too
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much it goes the same with like Jordan
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Grace who did the same thing I think for
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the Royal Rumble oh I'm visiting my
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mother and then The Rock for whatever
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reason post he's in Hawaii
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now the Rock was meant to be at
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Wrestlemania i don't know if you know
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this or not i'm actually going to bring
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up the screen in a second to prove you
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in fact I'm going to just find it one
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sec here we go this got down to the
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merchandise uh portion of WWE their
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their area where it says t-shirts and
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this is more than one person who's who's
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done this is finally the rock has come
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back to Las Vegas this was at like the
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official fan access thing i've just put
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the Rock Wrestlemania t-shirt so let me
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see if I can find others one there we go
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there's another one finally The Rock has
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come back to Las Vegas uh I know I've
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seen other photos of it as well but the
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fact is is that I'm absolutely convinced
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that The Rock was meant to be at Las
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Vegas so why wasn't he well the reason
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this video is taking so long to come out
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is because The Rock Dwayne Johnson was
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going to be on the Pat McAfee show and I
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was hoping Pat McAfee would discuss ask
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why The Rock wasn't there now I was
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trying to find the actual video of him
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speaking that but I think like some WWE
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footage is playing over it so I can't
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use it but I'm going to give you the
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quote of what he said i know I knew then
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in fact I might as well uh cuz this is
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from Wrestle forget it i'll just read it
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i knew then the best thing for the final
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boss is we've established this thing
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with Cody's soul i don't want to be
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involved in that let the final boss step
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back into the shadows let all the
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spotlight go to co uh John and Cody not
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make it about Cody's soul or John's soul
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let them do what they do straight
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away you made it about Cody's soul
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Dwayne i mean it was I'm presuming it
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was your idea you were talking about
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Cody Soul for weeks beforehand and John
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Cena's soul so I mean how can you then
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take a step back for this is what the
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entire feud's about or at least what the
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entire John Cena heel turn was all about
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is that he sold his soul to The Rock for
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as of yet and maybe forever now unknown
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reasons but here's more of the quote i
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called John and Cody after Elimination
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Chamber and I said I think the final
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boss work is done do you do why do you
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think that i'm sure Hawaii's lovely i've
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never been but the thing is is that the
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merchandise department was making merch
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t-shirts promoting The Rock returning to
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Las Vegas that was definitely on the
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creative cards or if not officially and
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they just took it upon their own you
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know put took it upon themselves the
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merchandise department to create these
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t-shirts it was so obviously the right
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thing to do for The Rock to interfere in
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the main event of Wrestlemania 41 that
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only a complete idiot would have thought
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that The Rock wouldn't have done so let
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me continue we just pulled off the
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greatest angle in wrestling history uh
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no but that it w it was great but I mean
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the greatest ever no i'm always here if
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you need me but it's best for the final
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boss to not be involved in that finish
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the finish of Wrestlemania 41 it so was
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the wrong call to make once again the
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fans were cheering Travis Scott that's
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how bad it was because they thought The
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Rock was going to come out after him
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people thought that The Rock was going
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to come out after the finish after John
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Cena pinned Cody Rhodess that's how much
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belief the fans there and everybody
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watching at home I'd wager had in Dwayne
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Johnson The Rock the final boss turning
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up on this show i don't know why he
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didn't or I don't know why I thought it
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was appropriate to not and let me tell
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you that killed that main event
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absolutely killed it stone dead who
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wants to see Travis Scott a 130 pound
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sping wet sackish hit i mean yeah fine i
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mean Cody Rhodess like reversed the slap
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thing and then you know gave him the
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crossroads and everything like that but
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he is nothing physically it's
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embarrassing that he's even stood next
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to Cody or John or whatever i don't care
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how many rap songs he's had or how many
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number one hits he's had he just he
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doesn't belong in there i don't even
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care if he's trained to wrestle which I
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believe I've heard as well but here's
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more quotes they know when I come to
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them at Coding John and I lay this out
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and here's how I really feel how it
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should go we can insert the final boss
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into this finish but where do we
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go what does where do we go now i mean
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all that's happened is we didn't even
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see Cody on Raw so we don't know how
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he's doing but I'm sure he's doing
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absolutely fine john Cena
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uh well he's just going with Randy Orton
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now apparently for a month and then who
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knows who afterwards it just all that is
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is that it was a really really good
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story they started and then in the weeks
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after that they seem to systematically
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ruin it and I say they I've got a
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feeling it's one person ruining it and I
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think it's The Rock and I think the
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reason unless he's like some terrible
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family emergency or unless for some
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reason he's under house arrest and we
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don't know there is no reason he
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shouldn't have just flown over to Vegas
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from Hawaii or wherever he was and been
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part of the main event wwe were banking
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on it and I'll tell you what I said this
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a week ago in wherever I said it
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that WWE are already I I think WWE are
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going to struggle to sell tickets after
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WrestleMania maybe not struggle but in
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the next year or so I think things are
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going to come back to bite them because
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WrestleMania they didn't give what the
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people wanted and expected and that's
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The Rock turning up the tickets are
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unbelievably expensive and if you buy
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Front Row Steve Austin might kill you
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with his ATV as well i'm going to give
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you more quotes i can get involved but
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why get involved in that finish when
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that should just be focused on John 17
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time champion and what 2025 looks like
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no it isn't sorry that is the anchoring
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story line no the soul will get back to
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it no the soul was the story there's
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been six weeks of no rock turning up or
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sending him videos or talking about John
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Cena's soul or really explaining the
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heel turn i've just got done recording
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with Dutch Mantel and he's just said I
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can't buy John Cena as a heel the way he
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portrays it because it seems almost like
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high school theater where he's just got
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the glum I'm unhappy it doesn't none of
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it quite makes
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sense and the only thing that was sort
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of helping it was that the John Cena was
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aligning with the rock and really what
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was anchoring the story was the mystery
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of why and now all we have is still the
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mystery of why but instead of oh we'll
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get the answer down the line which we
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may still do when The Rock can be
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bothered turning up what we're now
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getting is uh don't worry about that
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look over here Randy you know look at
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the monkey look at the silly monkey kind
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of thing u I'm sure that's a South Park
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quote
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but I don't get it i mean it just it
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wouldn't have taken much time out of the
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rocks day to do that all it's done is
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just created just Travis Scott on his
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own i mean somehow somewhere somebody
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thought that Travis Scott was a a
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adequate substitute for the rock no one
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wanted to see him there or none of the
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hardcores did they all thought he was an
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idiot and he all and he looks stupid uh
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you know next to people who actually
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work out and have had more than a
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sandwich you know once a week I guess
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but ultimately this video is about The
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Rock the Rock has The Rock ruined
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Wrestlemania and I don't know if he's
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just got something in his mind where
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he's genuinely trying to take a step
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back and not overshadow John Cena and
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Cody Rhodess guess what that already
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happened or not even overshadowed but
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this was like Seth CM Punk and Roman
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Reigns this was a threeperson feud they
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were all interconnected what if just I
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don't know uh CM Punk hadn't shown up
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and then it wouldn't have been the same
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or you know Roman Reigns hadn't shown
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well you know I'm not integral you two
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deal with it with uh Paul Heymon or what
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if Roman Reigns and Paul Heymon hadn't
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turned up and or Paul Heymon said "Well
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I'm not integral just have to throw you
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away with absolutely no consequences
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whatsoever." That's sort of the same
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thing i don't know what once again I
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don't know what The Rock is thinking uh
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he's made a massive error of judgment
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you can moan all you like and I'm sure
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some people did actually someone sent me
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a video of uh Dave Lere from Busted Open
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Radio doing a rant on how they've ruined
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Cody Rhodess i don't think they've
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ruined Cody Rhodess at all i think John
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Cena had to win cody had to lay down his
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uh belt and to to make it all worthwhile
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and everything like that i don't think
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they've ruined Cody at all he can be
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rehabbed very very easily ultimately
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this could be the seed for a heel turn
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in the future because I always think and
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and I think Stevie says this Dutch says
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this as well Cody's always come across
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quite healish i think it'd be a natural
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transition for him i think it's a harder
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transition for John Cena quite frankly
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someone else also said that the original
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creative was for John Cena to turn heel
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Wrestlemania 41 instead of WWE
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Elimination Chamber would that have made
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things better in hindsight yes I think
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it would have done the buildup would
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have been more boring but quite frankly
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there was only three week build and six
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weeks of TV getting getting there really
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so I don't think the buildup was that
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good either and I know a lot of people
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praise Cody Rose and John Cena the first
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week on Raw and I guess of dissenting
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voices of people who've got a platform i
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was one of the few as was Stevie
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actually uh Stevie Richards if you don't
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know I've got a podcast or show with
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Stevie Richards he would be very upset
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if I called it a podcast by the way but
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the fact is is that once again I just
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can't harp on this point enough it
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wasn't Cena yeah he looked rusty I guess
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uh but his hair transplant's kicking in
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i hadn't realized he had a hair
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transplant i just thought it was some
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judicious combing or or you know or
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spray paint or something but uh it
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looked really good but here's the thing
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is you can argue about the quality of
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the match but it's the quality of the
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finish that really ruined the quality of
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the match and dare I say the quality of
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the show and both shows ultimately
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because that's the main event the other
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one isn't the main event uh Roman Punk
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and Seth that was the main event and
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that will have knocked it down two or
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three notches in everybody's mind with
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just such an unfulfilling finish if it
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was The Rock doing it if they hadn't
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done such a horrible ref bump at the end
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of Chad Patton you know acting like he's
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dead from what is the most minor of
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collisions i mean it's like having your
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you know when you're like eight and your
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baby brother like jumps on your chest
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when they're like two it's like and then
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just carry on with your day then you
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know Chad Pattern dies again from uh
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Travis Scott gently yanking him out of
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the ring in fairness though that did
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tear Rey Mysterio's groin that exact
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move so you never know it might have
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torn um Chad Patton's consciousness
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somehow and it just went out for a few
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minutes and also where was Charles
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Robinson here we know he was there do
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you remember that Wrestlemania some
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years ago when like the original referee
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goes down then Charles Robinson sprints
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to the ring he can still move he could
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have cartwheelled down there he could
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probably still do a cartwheel at his age
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there's so many questions so
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unfulfilling creative but you know what
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even if you ignore the referee nonsense
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if you ignore that John Cena is of
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course he's going to be a bit rusty and
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it was and if you didn't like a basic
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match well I do like a basic match and I
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just like you know the crowd did most of
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the work you don't need to do anymore
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that's up to you but ultimately what
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ruined it is the Rock not turning up and
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Travis Scott turning up in his place it
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killed it and then you've got the stupid
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belt shot that which is fine i guess a
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bullshot and a belt shot kind of thing
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but I mean he kicked out of a million
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attitude adjustments beforehand anyway
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that's my piece
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ultimately I just wanted to watch the
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Pat McAfee show to see what he'd say and
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basically he's just begged out of it
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saying he wasn't needed he was needed
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more than ever the Rock is according to
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him as well he is the person who has
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ruined Wrestlemania 41 so there you go
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that's my opinion on it so you tell me
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if you agree and I'll catch you for the
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next
