We come to you today because the Royal Rumble is over.

The road to WrestleMania is upon us and we have feelings.

Welcome to an ATSAM wrestling, emergency podcast where we have feelings and many of those are wonderful feelings.

Because the tribal chief is back and not just back in the W.W.E.

But he has returned to form. Roman Raines has won the Royal Rumble.

And I can't tell you that I thought I would be saying that up until maybe this week.

And it was before the Pat McAfee interview. It was,

it was actually when I sat down and recorded the podcast with Megan Morant that we ran,

uh, that used to be raw recap that has now been rebranded to WWE now, which I'm excited about.

But, and it might have been before that, but that I think was the first time that I said it publicly that for a long time I was saying, well, brawraker's going to win and blah, blah, blah. And maybe that was, and you know, I think a lot of that was because I hadn't seen Roman Raines on television. I hadn't been following the story of Roman Raines like I was all those years ago. I hadn't seen him since war games. And even before war games,

hadn't really seen him.

He was so here and there for all of last year.

Really since WrestleMania, you know,

when he came back in January of last year

to have the match with Solo Sacoa,

that felt like, okay, we were wrapping up that story.

And then there was the road to WrestleMania from the Royal Rumble until WrestleMania,

which had that break in between because he left after the Rumble and came back at

that Money Night Raw at Madison Square Garden.

And then that built to what was the triple threat match between Roman Rain,

C.M. Punk, and Seth Rollins, but was not a

title match. And after he got taken out by the vision, he had a couple matches with Bronson

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