This is not Sam wrestling introducing your host from New York. Here is Sam Rivers.

Coming to you from Houston in the very rude state of Texas. This is not Sam wrestling.

A very special post-royal rumble episode of Not Sam Wrestling.

So look, we're just coming off the royal rumble and I did. I opened it up to Q&A so we'll

get to all that. I opened it up to a Q&A on Twitter, hashtag Not Sam Wrestling. So I'm going

to go through the hashtag and look at all those cues and give them A's. But man, let's

talk about the royal rumble and I don't want to take away from Wrell's collide. Wrell's

collide was tremendous. The eight man tag was just above and beyond what anybody could

think it was. I thought Andy Shepard did a great job on the kickoff show for only doing

that. I think that's like his second kickoff show. I thought he did good. But the royal

rumble was to me so far above and beyond what I thought it would be. So firstly, you know,

I like to pay attention not just to how I feel about shows, not just to even how the fans

and the arena feel about the shows. I get this unique position of getting to hear how

wrestlers feel about shows and about matches. And one of my favorite things to see is when

the wrestling fan comes out in people that work in WWE because realistically speaking,

I mean, anybody that's got a job where you started off as a fan, whether you're maybe

a writer and you know, you grew up idolizing journalists or I'm sure athletes get the

same thing or anybody, any industry that you work in that at one point you were like,

oh, I would just love to work in that industry or you grew up, you know, just really having

such great admiration for the people in this industry. When you do it as the job, it

becomes a job. It becomes your day in, day out next thing next, next, but there are moments

in wrestling. What makes wrestling special is there are moments in wrestling when it will

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