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Hi, this is Kevin Owens,

and you're listening to the Wrestling Inside the Ropes podcast

with James Stewart and Mike Riley.

Great name, Wrestling Inside the Ropes podcast.

So what does that mean you guys aren't allowed to discuss if anything happens outside the ropes?

What if somebody gets clothesline over the top rope?

Do you guys cover the Royal Rumble?

These are questions I need to answer.

Anyway, you're listening to Wrestling Inside the Ropes with two geniuses who came up with this name.

Ugh. Yeah. the ropes with two geniuses who came up with this name.

My developing opinion on Sunday's pay-per-view Survivor series, this show, with all these three-way matches, could be a massive pick.

Seven matches announced as we record this on Tuesday night.

Five of the seven schedule are going to be Raw versus Smackdown versus NXT, which on paper looks super cool, even if these matches have zero stakes, which is another problem. My concern, the overall execution of this show.

With the exception of the first Smackdown, when the WWE roster was being held hostage in Saudi,

this has been a terrible invasion angle. These brands are total chaos. They're eight weeks-ish in

and they're still show jumping. So who's been the stable force on Ross Smackdown or NXT

that I'm supposed to be loyal to on a singular brand.

Two brands just had a trash draft.

And the other, while I know many of the important names, is just too new to people to identify

as the brand I'm going to cheer for.

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