CM Punk & Cody Rhodes SHOOT on Pat McAfee - WWE HAS A VERY BIG TKO PROBLEM | TNT #142
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
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Summary
WWE feels like it’s breaking from the inside… and it’s all happening right before WrestleMania 42.
Pat McAfee’s shocking role in the Cody Rhodes vs Randy Orton feud wasn’t a creative decision. Reports say it came straight from TKO CEO Ari Emanuel, with McAfee originally turning the idea down before eventually agreeing to it. The move was driven by corporate strategy, ESPN synergy, and ticket sales… not storytelling.
That decision has created real tension backstage.
Cody Rhodes’ promo on SmackDown? Not on the run sheet. Said to be “from the hip” and fueled by legitimate frustration with TKO inserting itself into WrestleMania storylines. Meanwhile, talent reaction to McAfee being added has been mixed at best, with some feeling Rhodes is now forced to carry unnecessary weight heading into the biggest match of the year
Then CM Punk took it even further on Raw.
Calling out Roman Reigns, The Rock, Pat McAfee, and even Ari Emanuel directly, Punk went after ticket prices and corporate decisions on live TV, echoing real frustration from both fans and talent. WWE is reportedly now considering lowering ticket prices, suggesting what Punk said may not have been just storyline
So the question is simple…
Are we watching a storyline… or the beginning of a WWE vs TKO power struggle playing out on television?
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🎙️Chris Jericho returns to AEW and may have signed a new deal
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on, guys? |
| 0:01.4 | Thank you so very much for joining us right here on Tuesday night. |
| 0:05.4 | It is Tuesday Night Titans episode 142 for your Tuesday, April 7th, 2026. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm your host Shady from New York, as always, joined by the one. |
| 0:16.5 | And the only the man who has, and probably could, say professional wrestling better than Pat McAfee, |
| 0:22.9 | Salomon's what's going on, brother? |
| 0:25.5 | Oh, I could be the savior of professional wrestling and you won't have to worry about me |
| 0:28.7 | ruining the WrestleMania main event either. |
| 0:30.4 | No, no. |
| 0:32.0 | I'll just stay out of the way. |
| 0:33.1 | I'll stay on the side. |
| 0:34.3 | Yes, yes. |
| 0:35.0 | I would much rather see you on television than Pat McAfee, honestly. |
| 0:38.5 | Well, I appreciate that. You know what? You know what the real issue, though, with professional |
| 0:42.9 | wrestling is? It's not these five-foot-five guys wrestling, these imaginary 45-minute Iron Man matches |
| 0:48.3 | that I've never seen before. I don't know what he's referring to. You know what the issue is? |
| 0:53.6 | Corporate greed. Yeah. Pricing your audience out of going to before i don't know what he's referring to you know what the issue is corporate greed yeah pricing your |
| 0:57.0 | audience out of going to your shows i think that's the bigger issue i didn't really understand |
| 1:01.6 | that 45 minute iron man comment either i mean we barely get 45 minutes of pro wrestling on a fucking |
| 1:06.0 | friday night's mic now we got 45 minutes in between PLE match. |
| 1:13.0 | Why don't you address that as the bigger issue? |
| 1:13.9 | Yes, yes. |
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