So as we all know, our favourite thing, or at least one of our favourite things as wrestling fans,

is the big return. It usually leaks online, then we argue about that. But when you do get it in the moment, you have water coming out of your seeing devices, because it's just cool. And it does funny things to your tum-tum because you get the emotions. Then when Cody Rhodes came back at WrestleMania, it was like you were living in an alternative universe. However, sometimes on a big old wrestler does return, it does not go to plan. And this is down to many factors. You can't just say, well, it's all on them. You like come back to WWE and you're told you're going to be a sheep, that's your character, that's your gimmick. There's nothing you can do. We're going to do in the ring going, the ring going? Actually, I quite like that.

Because goofy wrestling for life. But we've already gone off track here. The point is, Hello, I am, Simon, from what coach, and this is 7 W. DoR returns that flopped hard. Listen, this is agreed upon list. There's one here I don't actually agree with. We're going to talk about it anyway, because that's what we do do. Don't point at people. It's rude. Number seven, Ronda Rousey. Now, let's make it very clear when Ronda Rousey first broke onto the scene at

WrestleMania 34 and had that awesome tag team match, which is a team with Kurt Angle to take on Triple H and Stephanie McMahon. I thought her whole run was pretty damn good. And yes, I know that she was practicing her matches and she wasn't doing her workers' workers' schedule. But ultimately, we are living in a time period where you can do that, and it goes the same for Logan Paul. If somebody has those special things around them, as long as we all know, and we can discuss it with the facts, just make people happy, man. As long as when we watch it on the television, we can be entertained, but I think everything's all right. Also, you hate all that.

That's cool, too. Of course, you would probably say the peak of her powers was that WrestleMania 35 made a bit. Well, we did Ronda versus Becky Lynch versus Charlotte Flair. I think it's only fair to say that one reason we did get that was because of the star power due to Ronda, when there was a nine-month period where she did vanish, because Ronda had stuff to do, and she came back in the 2022 Raw Rumble.

I think a big issue, if we do go back to that first time in the company was that sometimes Rhonda was kind of portrayed as a baby face and sometimes she was kind of portrayed as a heel and then quite clearly Rousey wanted to portray herself in a specific way and managed to be disagreed so when she was put out there in front of the fans, nobody knew what what to do. There's also that one occasion where she did get booed and it didn't really look like she liked it. So I actually think what it comes down to is the fact she won the 2022 World Rumble, which is always going to irk some people. But between that PLE and that year's WrestleMania, she only wrestled for around about 13 minutes. And once again, if you are not appearing on TV consistently, while we see what happens, the WW Universal Turn Against you. I think some people felt like she was being handed things, although I'd always take that with a pinch of salt, because normally was going to turn down an opportunity. We got to WrestleMania 38, we did Charlotte Flair versus Ronda Rousey, and actually that kind of turned the tide too, because Charlotte was the champion going in, and Charlotte was the champion going out. It kind of left Ronda Rousey in Nomadsland. And of course, eventually she became the women's champion, but then it all went bad with Liv Morgan 2. So actually, I think one of the reasons dip flops so hard is because the bookie wasn't very good, which goes down to that last match he had at SummerSlam against Shana Basler. Ronda had already decided that she was going to take off. They were meant to do some kind of M.A spectacle when there were too many chefs in the kitchen. Now, I actually still enjoyed it because I thought it was different. When you do go back and watch it now, it's just not what it was meant to be. So really it comes down to the fact that if you're going to compare run number one with run number two, run number one is way better. But given that Ronda Rousey is now stepping back into an MMA cage, she'll probably be back in a wrestling room one day too. Let's just hope it was better than this. There are a few highlights, but ultimately I don't think WWE knew what they wanted to do.

The Ultimate Warrior Vincent Man relationship is crazy because every time they got back together, within weeks they would fall out again and then for some reason they decided to get back

together again. Now do not forget shortly after SummerSlam 1991, Vincent Man did kick the

Ultimate Warrior out of the company, mostly because the ultimate one

got up to Vincent Man and said, I believe you should pay me more money. So Vincent Man then kind of did have to pay him more money. Then after the fact said, nobody is allowed to do that to me. So goodbye, Jim Hellwig, which was his real name, I'll never see you again. Then he came back. I did have a brief return in 1992, when of course he returned in the main event of WrestleMania 8 to help Hulk Hogan against Papashango and Sid Justice. And that's when he got into a feud with Papashango, and Green Blood came out of his eyes. Don't ask me, I do not know. And then do you want to know what happened shortly after that in November? So only six months later, he fell out with Mr. Man and he was gone again. A few years past this time and we got to 1996 and you've probably heard about this because you would have seen what is essentially a squash match between the Ultram Warrior and Triple H because that's what WW brought him in to do. Apparently Triple H's always said he had a bunch of ideas and Warrior was like, no, we're just going to do this. So he took the pedigree, he no sold it, his finisher, one, two, three. This time only lasted three months because, again, apparently the Ultimate Warrior was just too difficult to handle backstage. And there was a bunch of apologies and forgiveness videos that he has to do. Although, and you can find this right now, after Brat Hart had left the company,

Vince McMahon felt like he needed to bring a big star in towards the end of 1997, and they sent

paperwork to the Ultimate Warrior, why he never signed that we do not know. But that would have

mean, heading into 1998 in the right of Stone Coles Steve Austin, you could have got the rattlesnake

versus the ultimate one, because that's where the warrior would have seen himself. So yeah, really, it just was a relationship that was never going to work, meaning every single time the ultimate warrior did step back into the WWF, basically was a flop. Number five, Rusev. So this is the one that I do not agree with. Now, maybe there were bigger plans for Ruseb when he stepped back into the W.W.E. in 2025, but we do not know that. And he still had that damn good feud with Seamus. Remember the good old-fashioned Donnybrook, whatever it was called? Those two people kick the crap out of each other. And even as I'm talking to you now, W.W.E. is teasing Roussef versus Oberfemi,

and I want to see it. Now, of course, Obfemi is going to whip that guy eventually and get the one, two, three. But if that is Rousseff standing in the company, I don't see a problem with it. Not everybody can be a WrestleMania main eventer. I mean, you have to have your spot. I suppose it does come down to the fact that there is some rumours out there and they could be true, they could be not be true.

I just do not know because no one's ever confirmed them to me. I mean, you have to have your spot. I suppose it does come down to the fact that there is some rumours out there and they could be true, they could be not be true.

I just do not know because no one's ever confirmed them to me.

But when Rousse said was in A.W, he wanted to wrestle more. So Tony Kahn was like, all right, you can wrestle more, but you have to lose to this guy. and Rousse would be like, no, I don't want to lose to that guy.

So they were an impasse.

They never actually appeared on television all that much,

or at least he had a massive gap in that contract.

Well, he does go back to World Wrestling Entertainment.

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