WRESTLEMANIA 42 BREAKDOWN PT.2 (Frank & Gus 4.17.26)
WRESTLING SOUP
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4.3 • 753 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
0:00 – Intro / Media Overload Before WrestleMania
0:35 – How's Your Media Intake? Everything Feels Hollow
6:04 – Is WWE in Its Death Throes?
8:44 – Roman Reigns & the Fading Star Problem
3:12 – Dan Hausen Curses Stephen A. Smith
4:25 – Dan Hausen & Stephen A. Smith Interaction
22:21 – WWE Needs to Lean Into Millennial Nostalgia
29:09 – WWE Needs More Athletes
30:51 – TKO / UFC & WWE: A One-Sided Relationship
32:40 – Floyd Mayweather vs. Jelly Roll
33:40 – Paige Returns to WWE: Reaction & Discussion
45:09 – Roman Says He'll Leave If He Loses
1:00:06 – Night Two Card: Omos vs. Brock Lesnar – OBA FEMI HAS TO WIN
1:05:33 – 6-Pack Ladder Match for the IC Title
1:10:18 – Nia Jax vs. Jade Cargill / Women's Division Talk
1:21:43 – Trick Williams vs. Sami Zayn
1:24:27 – Dom Mysterio vs. Demon Finn Bálor
1:30:03 – Roman Reigns vs. CM Punk – Main Event Preview
1:38:43 – Outro / Get Out of Here
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| 0:00.0 | One of those burritos. |
| 0:08.4 | No, I wish. |
| 0:09.6 | I have one of those if I sit back down. |
| 0:12.2 | It's going to be hard to get back up. |
| 0:13.9 | Feels. |
| 0:14.8 | I feel you. |
| 0:15.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:16.8 | It's been a long. |
| 0:19.1 | It's been a long fucking months. Yeah. No, I'm right there with you, my dude. Since March, I've just been like running nonstop. And now I'm like, all right. That's, that's it. Now it's WrestleMania. And I'm like, oh, boy. Yeah. Yeah. Here it is. Here's the shit. |
| 0:38.8 | Good God Almighty. |
| 0:44.2 | How's the, how's your, your media intake in the past couple of days? |
| 0:47.3 | Everybody and their grandma's doing fucking interviews now. |
| 0:52.9 | I mean, I've been watching a lot more WrestleMania-based stuff, right? |
| 0:57.0 | Like, random stuff. but I'm just... I guess I'm kind of watching everything in the background. |
| 1:02.8 | Do you know what I mean? |
| 1:03.8 | Like, everything's on YouTube and stuff. |
| 1:05.6 | Like, I'm doing different things. |
| 1:07.3 | But usually every time this year comes around |
| 1:10.5 | or this time of year comes around, |
| 1:13.1 | it's like, okay, there's a lot more media to digest, right? |
| 1:17.8 | And I don't mean just the wrestling side of things, but like all the interviews and stuff. |
| 1:22.1 | And we usually pay attention. |
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