On today's wrestling news, the real reason Pat McAfee returned to WWE, the original

WWE plans for Chris Jericho, MJF turned down WWE, and CM Punk makes a major tease for

WrestleMania.

My name is Phil Chambers and I am not joined by Gareth because he was out drinking last

night basically.

But getting right into it, Pat McAfee, returned to WWE lastW.E. last night, he was the guy that Randy Oughton had been talking to on the phone these past few weeks. Now, the reaction to this is mixed, let's say, but on the show, he kind of came out, Rotton came out, sorry, at the beginning. It was already kind of a big hometown pop for Randy Ought, for a heel, Randy Orton, obviously. He ended up brawling with Cody Rhodes, and then Pat McAfee appeared, he came out, he gave Cody a low blow. And then they started, like, hitting Cody Rhodes with chairs and things. And Pat McAfee revealed that it was Randy Orton that called him. Now a few weeks ago, Pat McAfee said that the business has kind of passed him by,

and Randy was saying that the business didn't pass you by, it's just gone in a direction that none of us like.

Then he started talking about the forgotten fan and like the Attitude Era fan.

He quoted a bunch of Attitude Era catch phrases and then he complained about all-foot-five guys that are doing Ironman matches every week, apparently.

And then he also mentioned declining ratings and the lowest ticket sales, low-ticket sales for WrestleMania, the lowest rated Smackdown.

And he basically was saying that what the hell is going on when a guy like Randy Orton is in

WWE and that Randy Orton is going to save the effing business. That's what he's going to do.

But what is the real reason as to why he has come back? Well, there's a couple of reports.

PW Insider have reports saying that the call to bring him back was from very high up in

WWE leadership, not creative,

with one of their sources suggesting it was either WWE president Nick Kahn or it could

even be higher up TKOCEO, ARIE, Emanuel and Bodyslam.net revealed on their Patreon that

sources indicate that this was not a call from Triple H

or WW Creative but a call straight from Ari Emanuel and TKO Brass. So high up within

WWE. Now the Body Slam 1 continues to say that another source indicates that

Ari Emanuel believes that McAfee is a star and will help elevate the program

between Orton and Rhodes and get it to where it needs to be between his show on ESPN and the

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