It is Royal Rumble Season, my friends. Thank you very much for joining me today. My name is Simon Miller. This is What Cultural Wrestling. Please hit subscribe. You know the deal. No matter how many years do go by. It's always going to be the same. So what should WWW do when they get to their second biggest event of the year? Although I think in 2025, more people on Netflix watched the Royal Rumble when they did WrestleMania. So I'm just saying, man, if you want to get into statistics, the Royal Rumble's number one. Now, a lot of this is going to be sorted out likely by the time you've seen this video, but what can I do? WW's got nuts in 2006, and they're doing a lot of title matches, but thankfully, we know that CM Punk versus Brombreaker, where you can argue that it's done on that first raw in 2025. CM Punk did beat Bronbreaker and I just said 2025. Of course I met 2006, mark that one,

I shall be doing that until at least February. But that begs the question, what should CM Punk

do at the end of January and at the start of February, whatever the hell the Royal Rumble is?

And I have come up with what I could guess is called fantasy booking, which may annoy C. Munk.

I saw him doing an interview recently. He's like, why do people keep doing this? I'm just trying to have fun. I'm trying to be a good guy about it. But given the L.A. Knight needs to come back to WWE, given that LA Knight does not like CM Punk in terms of what we've seen on screen,

and given that LA Knight's probably not going to win the Royal Rumble, I wouldn't have him be a

surprise, I would have him come back to TV in the next couple of weeks and walk up to CN Punk and said, hey man, we fell out a lot during last year and we still haven't had a one-on-one fight. Let's do it at the flipping Royal Rumble. Now, you could do the Bronbreaker rematch. I want to make this very clear, but if we do do that, Bronbreaker is going to have to destroy Sienpunk in around about three minutes as you do a Brock Lesner, John Cena situation for 2014, and I'm not against that at all. However, if you are now going to rebuild Brombreaker and maybe do that at WrestleMania, which is another rumor, I would put LA Knight in there. Now listen, if you you're an Enlight fan, you're now saying, Buss-Ire who's never going to win that world championship, and I agree with you, but given that maximum, we're going to get five matches on that card, which would be the two raw rumbles, and I think three world championships that we will get into, at least he is in a prominent position. And if you do come up with a way to protect L.A you do then put him in another angle that can push him throughout 2006, what difference does it make if he's in the Royal Rumble if once again he's not going to win the thing? And sure, somebody could throw him out that leads to a WrestleMania program. But from the end of the Royal Rumble to start at WrestleMania, we have months. So you've got loads of time to do that. I just think at the start of the year, you want to let the fans know these are the people we're going to take care of over the next 12 months and doing CM Punk at LA Night does that and then some. And also, who doesn't want to see those promos? We kind of got a little bit of it a few months ago, especially before that Paris show, but that had Jay Uso and Seth Rollins in it. So just do see M Punk, take it on LA Knight one on one. Let CM Punk go nuts on the microphone, then tell Elinite, hey dude, you're allowed to do it back. I think it will create intrigue. And again, if you're super duper into Lard Knight, you'll be able to spend your disbelief and be like, man, he's going to do it. And maybe he could. Maybe you could come up with a totally random scenario where Bronbreaker and the Vision screw over CM Punk. He loses his title and LA Knight is the champion. Now, the issue I have there is the other thing I think WW should do would negate that because they would be copy and pasting the same storyline. But it could happen. But yes, CM Punk would probably walk away with the title,

but as long as you have a good idea for LA Knight, this is a good position to be in. Don't have to win to be over, man. You've just got to be on the right path. Now, the other match all depends on what happens in these three stages of hell, which is going down in but a few days. I sued it to record this, between Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre. Now, I can't believe I'm going to say these words.

And this is more fantasy booking, right?

So if someone from Reddit is. Now, I can't believe I'm going to say these words.

And this is more fantasy booking, right? So if someone from Reddit is watching this, you can

yell at me and throw garbage at the screen. But I think Drew McIntyre could win. At the same time,

he was super-duper horrible about Cody Rhodes' dad, Dusty Rhodes. So I can't imagine a heel is then

going to be granted with the victory as well, because the message you want to send out there is if you are a bully, you'll get your comeuppance. But given this is happening so close to the Royal Rumble, why can't Drew McIntyre have a three-week title reign? Instantly people are mad, Simon, that would be absolutely crap. I tell you what's crapper, though, Drew McIntyre losing again. this is the third or fourth time he's fought Cody Rhodes and forget all that as well, right? Bring in the Cody Road stuff, bring in the CM Punk stuff. Anytime over the last couple of years, Drew McIntyre's been in a big program, he never wins. And that's the issue. So if here, which has to be on blow off match if he does lose, what does he do on Smackdown? Right. He can't get any heat after this. He'll be like, ha ha, you absolutely suck Drew McIntyre, whereas beating Cody Rhodes in a three stages of hell match where he can be a super asshole because the ruse will allow him to do it. And then doing Drew McIntyre versus Cody Rhodes number, what, 747 at the Rumble and then allowing Cody Rhodes to win the belt back, no one is going to care massively because what difference does it really make? And also doing short title reigns means interest in the product will remain high because a bunch of the audience would be like, I can't believe they did that. I better tune in and it keeps you guessing. When was the last time WW did this with one of those world championship? I think it's been ages. And ever since Roman Reigns had that 1,316 day title

reign, everybody seems to think that's what you need to do. It's not true. The belt should serve the story and the story should serve the belt. Cody Rhodes is so damn over. He could come out in a yellow suit and call him some Stardust and he'd be totally fine. So let's say Drew McIntyre does win on that smackdown. He holds it for what a month, whatever it is, three weeks. He goes there.

Cody Rosen says, man, if I can't beat you, I retire or something dumb and we're not going to do that. Cody Rose then gets his belt back. And on that night, too, we will have a raw rumble winner. And then Cody can get into that feud as well. And because our brains are totally screwed up in the Monday, we are going to forget within 48

hours. As of me sitting down here, John Cena retired three weeks ago, and nobody is talking about it, so sure you'll go in wine and be like, I can't believe they did that the day after, but by Raw or by Smackdown this week, you won't care, and it'll be good for Drew McIntyre, because even though he would then have to separate from Cody Rhodes. At least he can be like, well, I was a chair

for a few weeks and then he can go into a bigger program. It's essentially what I think we should do with LA Night 2. Now the third singles match I've got, I think it's quite obvious. It was made obvious on Rawr, I should say. It's definitely the Kerr versus Raquel Rodriguez. Now, I don't know what to make of this definitely the care injury. Again, I'd rather she was happy and healthy.

Wrestling is the most important, the least important thing. Care versus Raquel Rodriguez. Now, I don't know what to make of this definitely the care injury.

Again, I'd rather she was happy and healthy. Wrestling is the most important, the least important things. But everything I am reading online seems to suggest it's nothing too major and she's just going to be off TV for a couple of weeks. Hence why we did the angle with Raquel, because now we can do Raquel versus Stephanie at the Royal Rumble. I would still get Liv Morgan in there super fast as you can,

although I get you want to break up the Judgment Day first, or at least her stick her o'er in. But Raquel Rodriguez has been great the last few months, and I don't actually mind if she would beat Stephanie Vacare, especially because now I think about it, you have the excuse that Stephanie was injured. So maybe that is something you can do too, at the same time, if you're going to crown Cody Rhodes as the champion, I can't really see

WWE doing both. Then again, it is the raw rumble, right? It is the second biggest paper view of the year, at least on paper. So why can't you change a couple of titles here? And Raquel Rodriguez is another one that doesn't need to be the champion for the next 10 years. And also, I've said this before, Stephanie McCair is going to become one of the big baby faces in WWE. You could argue she's already on her way to do that, but she doesn't need to hold on to this title. In fact, ever since she won that championship, it's not been that well booked. Like she hasn't had any megafews, and she's kind of jumped around and Nikki Bella comes kind of prods her with a stick. So if you can start the year off by really establishing Raquel Rodriguez as a massive bad guy, and that makes Liv Morgan go, well, I'm massively jealous of you now. That could actually be the catalyst as to why the day of judgment does fall in a hole. I don't think it's a problem at all, especially because again, Stefan Vacare is going to walk into this thing hurt. So if Raquel's a horrible person and cheats and breaks that leg clean into, well, that justifies the win. This is not meant to be a predictions video, but now I think we should do that because I think it's going to give us a bunch of stuff to talk about after the fact, and that's what you want coming out of a major pay-per-view, or PLE, whatever the flub you want to call it, it doesn't always have to be moments or oh my gosh this surprised person came back sometimes you can just book a somewhat

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