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Can WW still save WrestleMania 42 after the Pat McAfee disaster? I'm Andy HMurray the H stands for Hullabaloo because that's what we're all making about this Pat McAfee thing, three days after the fact.

But here we go.

So, going to dive into some of your opinions on this matter and your reaction.

We asked the YouTube community earlier today if you think WrestleMania 42 is still salvageable after what happens with Pat McAfee, Randy Orton and Cody Rhodes on last week's episode of Smatdown.

Also asked for some ideas on how they can do it and stuff like that. We'll talk about the results of that poll in just a minute. But first of all, we're going to talk a new report on the matter that's come through today. It's from Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio. And he goes over some familiar stuff, right? He talks about how this was not WWB's decision to use Pat McAfee in this way.

It came from TKO. over some familiar stuff, right? He talks about how this was not WWE's decision to use Pat

McAfee in this way. It came from TKO, the company's ownership, and it came from Ari Emanuel,

who is much higher up on the food chain than even Nick can in all of this, and certainly

Triple H. So Dave reports that Pat McAfee was the first choice for this role,

and we had a report previously stating that this decision was made around

about the time of Elimination Chamber.

But actually, in an interesting twist, Pat McAfee turned it down at first.

He said no initially to the idea of being Randy Orton's mystery phone caller.

So they ended up scrambling. W.W. did? They ended up looking for somebody else. And in the end, they were

actually able to make a deal with Pat. That's why he came on TV and did the whole thing. So yeah,

maybe some good negotiations going on there, maybe a little bit of

extra cash for Pat's wallet, who knows? But whatever the case after initially turning the situation

down, Pat said, okay, I'll do it, Chief, and they ended up running with it. Dave notes that ESPN

has a huge push for WrestleMania coming up. They are going to be on location in Vegas. They

have a whole bunch of wrestling stuff coming up. Understand coming up. They are going to be on location in Vegas. They have a whole bunch of wrestling stuff coming up.

Understandably so.

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