Today, at Not Sam Wrestling, the road to WrestleMania has officially begun the 2022 Royal Rumble

is officially behind us. What happened? How do we make sense of it? Was it any good at all? This

is Not Sam Wrestling. This is Not Sam Wrestling. Introducing your host from New York, here is Sam

from Rumors. I've got thoughts. I've got thoughts. Welcome, episode 380 of Not Sam Wrestling. Yes, I have

thoughts. We are hours at the time of this recording removed from the 2022 Royal Rumble. And if

there was ever a time that I was happy for Saturday paper views, it's this weekend. It's the Royal

Rumble. Because generally speaking on a Sunday paper view, it means right after the paper view,

I'm downstairs in the Not Sam studio. If you're on Patreon, you know it to be true because you can

watch it happen live. And I'm giving you my thoughts about the pay-per-view mere hours before the

podcast comes out. On these Saturday paper views, I got a good 18 hours or so to process before I

head downstairs and put my thoughts down for all of eternity, for history. I think these podcasts go

into some kind of wrestling presidential library or something. I don't know exactly where the

library is, but I'm sure that these podcasts are saved for posterity's sake. All that said,

I've said before, when wrestling is good, man, I go to bed in a good mood. When wrestling is good,

I go to bed, I feel uplifted, I feel like all is right in the world, I feel like everything is

going to be okay with all the madness that is happening around the globe, all the madness that

we're exposed to every day. The one thing that can put my soul at rest is a good wrestling show.

And if you want me to go to bed, thinking about all the madness, if you want me to go to bed,

thinking things are just not going to be okay, show me a bad wrestling show. And I'm going to tell

you right now, Saturday night, I didn't go to bed feeling okay. And I'm going to tell you why I

didn't go to bed feeling okay. I'm sure a lot of you watched the Royal Rumble 2022 and I know a lot

of you are thinking this because I saw it in my mentions on Twitter at not saying I'd said,

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