Is AJ Styles Really Retired?

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0:27it's cheap heat with peter rosenberg featuring stat guy greg and dip oh you bet your ace it is welcome aboard welcome to cheap heat live on pro wrestling nation 24 7 back stateside i am your forever 24 7 champion peter rosenberg and uh joining me in the also frigid philadelphia Pennsylvania it's the physically large stack guy Greg hey SGG Bridget is an understatement but that's a great shirt not appropriate for this weather but still a just incredible classic great shirt listen for those of you that are watching on the uh if you watch us on YouTube I am wearing the first SGG themed is this this before or after Uptown Malcolm that's before yeah this is the first the very first piece of sgg merch there ever was on gp the shirt that just says the virgin with sgg hitting his boy his mind dance i don't even remember where we because oh because instead of greg valentine instead of greg the hammer but why but why did we call you greg the virgin valentine no idea we just got to roll with things sometimes It just flowed.

1:47Well, listen, if it's still true, SGG, it's very impressive. I'm glad you and Crystal have chosen your path. After how many years of marriage? I saw the anniversary post the other day. You guys have been together a long time. Well, anyways, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the show. I am happy to be back stateside. And Kelly was just saying to me as it started, like, how is everything, you know, how did you survive travel, blah, blah. And, you know, this moment in – Survive is the word that she used? I don't remember if that was the word she used. But that's the word I'm using, not for travel, for this thing called life.

2:28I'm just – I'm back from traveling. Travel is easy. if you remember your passport if you keep track of when your flights are you know WWE they generally do a great job making sure we're well taken care of no one has to worry about a meal if you want to have catering and be taken care of hey if you have a headache there's someone there to give you some Advil they got you pretty well taken care of the thing about it is you come home at the end and when you're gone and when you're gone everybody misses you and you miss everybody and you want to come home so bad and then you get home and you're back in life with a one-year-old my wife was sick almost immediately after getting back so she's been just in a bad way all week baby yesterday started getting sick after many delays we're finally supposed to go to dc tomorrow to see the family to celebrate my niece and nephew's 18th birthday to celebrate Maya's first birthday to see my mom who had her birthday two weeks ago and now all of it's thrown into question into flux because baby definitely had a temperature she definitely sweated through her outfit last night she looked like SGG on Radio Row you know what I mean she sweated but she didn't have the big man tell you didn't have to go back that far you looked like me last night I sweated through my outfit last night too so like I say all of that to say it I'm sorry I feel bad because I get on the air doing this amazing job, which will be, I promise you, from noon to 2 Eastern time, if you're listening to us live on this Friday, this will be the best and easiest two hours of my week.

4:11With a bullet. I mean, there's not even, since the second my flight landed on Sunday, it has been just a roller coaster. So to all the dads, to all the moms, to everybody who's just dealing with whatever life, listen, I know at some point I'm going to look back and I'm going to go, man, Bear is sitting right next to me. My parents are healthy. I'm going to say these were the good old days. But as I'm in these good old days at this specific moment, these days are ass. I'm going to be honest. Yeah. Could be a whole lot better. Yeah. And we're in an apartment we don't want to be in. It's nasty. Now, fortunately, though, I literally had a dream last night.

4:58about my take for cheap heat this week. This does not happen very often. It was divine intervention. It came to you like one of those biblical joints, huh? Like when Moses had the tablet and all of that. Man, I don't know if I'm going to say it's that deep. Although, you know, let's be honest. The commandments are simple enough. Yeah. Here's what I woke up from my slumber thinking about. was it still dark outside when you woke up from your slumber did this pull you out of your sleep or was it just top of mind no no it was it was still dark it was middle of the night oh so that's how you know you got this is a lean in moment that's how you know this is i mean come on and we're going to talk to all of you guys today at 877-344-4893 and there's a whole lot of stuff to get into we're going to talk about the the rumble we're going to talk about what it looked like because i was there obviously we'll obviously talk about the things that happened within it and around it, what's happened since.

6:02AJ Styles definitely being retired. AJ Styles definitely being retired. And there's so many things to get to. But my thought that I had in the middle of the night was this is it. This is it. If you are one of the many millions and millions of people who desperately wanted to see another CM Punk run. And you dreamt of like, can you imagine if we got CM Punk back? The best thing about wrestling is that you can get these guys back in professional sports, in other sports. There's no coming back in your mid-40s. It's over. There is no run to the top anymore. But in wrestling, you can get these guys back in their mid to late 40s, early 50s.

6:54Hey, if you're Ric Flair, late 50s. You could see them go on a run, right? 70s if you were Ric Flair. Yeah, that's right. This is what you dreamed of. If you were a CM Punk fan who thought, what would it be like? You got it. He's holding the title. Night two main event against the guy who has been the guy now for the last six, seven years. You could argue more than that. You could argue 10, 12 years. You could argue since he left. There's a million ways to look at it. But unquestionably, Roman Reigns at the top as the challenger against CM Punk for the world title night two at WrestleMania. SGG, this was the fantasy.

7:43This was the absolute dream. This is the pinnacle. There may be better stories to be told. maybe maybe maybe the Cody story maybe the Seth story but in terms of the moment SGG if you are a Punk fan this WrestleMania matchup that we now have is what you dreamed of yeah I mean absolutely and if you're a Roman fan right this was also the dream now granted my dream had Roman as champion um in this scenario Punk being champion and Punk being somebody to conquer it's better for Roman and his story to finally get the monkey off his back that way because in my version of the dream right punk is just a nuisance coming at the champ of course who's not gonna go at the top but now in this dream had Roman ever given up the title in this dream no this is like day 3000 yeah Roman Roman has first of all he's carrying all three right the the black one the blue one and the black and gold one maybe he got another one maybe he has the world title also i don't know maybe maybe he's united states champ maybe he's women's united states champ i don't know maybe he won the aw title we don't know maybe i don't know but roman roman is still the champion at the top the monster that under the bed uh in this dream and and cm punk is the one trying to conquer him but either way this is what we wanted right when cm punk came back there was a list of dream matches this was one at the top but before we get to roman and punk I got to ask you, P, since you brought this up about where CM Punk is right now.

9:16Has he checked off most of the list of dream matches that people have wanted to see from him, right? Because he had the Drew moment. He did a Hell in a Cell. He did War Games. Main event at WrestleMania already. Feuded with Seth. Had one-on-one matches. Many matches with Seth. Is there much left out there for CM Punk in terms of WWE? Dream matches? are there any other dream matches out there for cm punk in wwe

9:52um oh cody i guess you see that well yeah no no cody i think absolutely right you gotta you could creatively have a really fun time with that story um i liked i don't know if you go as far as calling it dream match but i really do like the indie dream kind of matchup of punk and sammy zane i think that's a lot of fun too oh yeah you know i don't know if i go as far as calling it like a mega blockbuster dream match that kind of thing but i would like to see it um no i i think we're i think we're there um i don't what else is there that you really that hasn't happened. That really fits. Yeah, there are new guys to be excited about, your Oba's and your Javon's.

10:37But those aren't guys I'm dreaming to see with CM Punk at this stage. You know what? I'm going to put that out there to the nation right now. 877-344-4893. Do you believe this is the pinnacle moment for CM Punk's WWE final run? and are there any other dream matches out there in WWE that maybe we're not thinking about that you would love to see for Punk? Let me add, SGG, while we're talking about Punk today, and it feels like it's going to be a Punk kind of day for a variety of reasons, Punk and Roman. In one sense, Punk, Roman, super exciting. In another sense, I could totally see someone making the argument, eh, it's kind of chalk.

11:24It's kind of like what you'd expect. Do you really? Who cares? I could see people feeling that way. And they made you care. Like they didn't just like stare at each other and get the match made. That's what I like. And I'm guessing there's going to be more. And SGG, this is what Roman needed. Roman needed a heat up here. Not that the crowd doesn't always pop and isn't excited to see him. But like, you know, I've been thinking for a while. We've talked about this. He does need a freshening up. Like the tribal chief, OTC, head of the table thing, while throwing the names around as cute, from a story standpoint, I'm ready for more from Roman.

12:05I want Roman to just be the unequivocal ass-beater who runs WWE, who's cool, who's dominant, who is funny. I want everything from Roman. And the tribal chief era was incredible. I don't think you could do any more to make it better. But like he's separated now. He's separated from the Usos. He's separated from Heyman. I don't think any of it really makes sense, SG. I think this is about getting the one box to check for Roman is to sort of make up in some ways for the big dog era. You know, when a lot of people enjoyed him, and you were certainly there from day one, and I was certainly there to see the potential, but where the stories and the matches didn't always meet what people wanted this is the time for just solo roman reigns to be dominating you know what i'm saying yeah i know exactly what you're saying and and i'm here for it and i think with the promo what excited people was the fact that like yes when drew when drew and punk feuded drew talked about some things we didn't see about how punk used to treat him when he was younger and seth and punk same thing like punk you turned your back on me you blah blah blah the roman punk stuff we saw it play out in real time we lived it we watched roman get booed all throughout the big dog era go back go go away from cancer come back still getting booed we watched him have to grow from that to where he finally got the stamp of approval from the fans and so for him to rewind the clock all the way back and he's not taking us back behind the curtain either he's saying you did this to me 12 years ago or whatever it was you thought i forgot and now i'm coming back to make you pay for it it doesn't require the fans to do like any history lesson any feeling that there's no blanks to fill in we we saw it and now we get to see the thrilling conclusion to to that um so who did and and where do you i want to take these calls but also where does drew land drew i hate to say it man listen cody maybe cody maybe a triple threat situation with uh jacob fatu i don't know but he is not gonna to get any piece of that rumble win of roman reigns and it's unfortunate because you know i think about when roman first won the universal championship and he had that survivor series match with drew who was wwe champion he looked at him and he told him in no uncertain words you are a secondary champion fast forward now he wins the rumble drew is wwe champion again and he wasn't even considered he was he's still this reinvented drew reinvigorated dominating smackdown and really good says without saying that he is still a secondary champion he even looks at punk he said i could pick you because you're the biggest star available the other star is drew with the title that roman made feel like the epicenter of the industry and now roman's looking at that belt as secondary it's it's insane the amount of disrespect to drew that has endured for over five years but the match is set i gotta tell you man is anyone better in the the countdown show spot and post like that setup than punk he loves it like he he loves it he's so good he loves he missed it clearly and he loves it so much like for real like you could tell just because he has the the wrestling mind that he brings to it he can break down anything but then there's nothing you can say to him that he won't have a response to correct i don't know if that's just a chicago in him i don't know if that's what made him so unlikable back in the day that he will get the last word he has something slick to say it could be a quip he could try to cut you down it could be anything and he'll do it in the ring he'll do it to his fellow panelists he'll do it with the audience but you will always get a soundbite out of he will say that's really what you want he will say things that you can't believe he's saying in saudi arabia he will just bcm punk the whole show that's who he is yeah he i i gotta tell you man it was it was i've had him on the post show before they had him do a countdown or two when he first came back to the company and i wasn't on them for a couple if you remember like there were a couple i didn't do in in i don't two years ago yeah there was a saudi one where he was in a stamford they were just still figuring out what the look was for the show and he was new to it then and and he was new to it at that time as well so the chemistry then and of course i wasn't there sgg what are we talking what are we talking about qb1 qb1 they did it why are we why are we nitpicking why are we doing what we're talking about no but i think now that he's been back for a while and he has become so solid in the spot punk was just fun if you didn't see it and i gotta tell you he took a surprisingly low number of shots at me during that show i i expected you must have loved the one he got in though when i said i said um i was trying to do i was trying to have a conversation about sammy zane and did sammy zane have what it takes to go to that next level and be beat drew mcintyre did you see this i didn't see this one and i said well i said you i said you remember when we were kids and everybody loved Hulk Hogan but every once in a while he would like rake the eyes and Punk just jumps in and goes, love Hulk Hogan, where'd you grow up?

18:23Wouldn't he? You know, at SGG obviously all I was trying to do was make the comp of when the baby face is willing to do illegal things. Whatever it takes. I'm just speaking, you know what I'm saying? I'm just doing my best to do this complex, underrated dance that the Countdown show is. How can I reference what I'm saying without outright saying it? And he just stabs it. Just pops the balloon right in the middle. You got to be on point when you're dealing with it. My favorite was when he asked you why you weren't working on Monday. He was like, is that a Jewish thing? I forget what holiday was coming up.

19:01Yeah, yeah. It was Hanukkah was coming up. Is that a Jewish thing? I don't work Mondays. And Hanukkah, what? What are you talking about? Hanukkah was starting on that one. No, Hanukkah was starting. Listen, he's a very smart guy. It's always based in something. So, like, him just, I'm going to get a jab in at Hulk Hogan just because I can, and I'm CM Punk. Like, that's what makes him great. Now, if you didn't watch it, it's kind of worth going back and checking it out. Punk was a lot of fun. Now, I did tease this, SGG. On the other side, we're going to take our first quick break. we're going to open up the phone lines as we talked about on all these CM Punk Roman Reigns topics who else would you want to see Punk in there with is this the moment 877-344-4893 but on the other side of this break I'm just going to give you guys my my first person account of what Royal Rumble actually looked like because there's a lot of chatter about what the show actually looked like and then before he gets here and shuts down the conversation because he's going to be here an hour to sgg and i got to talk about the man of the hour yesterday the internet's hottest agent dip hot in the streets yesterday i mean listen we can't i have to tell you what they said about it in the discord there was a hilarious comment about it oh i can't wait and we got to get it done because once he gets here in the second hour we got to pretend it didn't happen but as of right now we all saw dip everywhere yesterday all over the dirts uh It is going to be a fun day.

20:33Excited to be with you guys. The Hellfinators here. Kelly Murphy is on the phones. SGG is in the house. Emilio Sparks is somewhere. Dip will be here. It's GP Live, Pro Wrestling Nation 24-7. Promotional consideration paid for by the following. Shine this up real nice, Jabroni. And I know just what is. Dig it, Rod. What's your name? It doesn't matter what my name is. The rock smells what you're cooking. Dig it, Rod. Dig it. lay the smackdown in the kitchen the loading dock even the boiler room plus storylines and special guest referees everything inside the ring and almost anything out wwf smackdown lay it down finally the rock has come back to playstation cheap heat live pro wrestling nation 24 7 peter rosenberg stat guy greg getting you ready for the weekend hope everyone's doing all right really hoping my family is healthy enough for us to go down to D.C.

21:33and see the fam this week. And SUG, I gotta tell you, my brother's interest in wrestling just keeps on going. Where's he at now? Did he pick up where you guys left off? I don't know if it was the 80s or when he stopped. He's still rolling. The other day he told me, he was like, this WrestleMania 8 match between Flair and Savage is awesome. It's eight, right? Flair and Savage is eight, I think. Eight at Hoosier Dome, right? Yeah. And then he's asking me all about it. You remember that storyline, too? That's one of the all-time storylines. And that's what he was pointing out. He's like, yo, some of these storylines are just crazy.

22:17It was so dirty. Yo, do you see this random thing that just hit my timeline? I have no idea what validity there is to it. It says WWE 2005-2006 roster contracts got leaked. You ever see anything like this go around? Nah. I will tell you, though. It feels believable. I wonder if it actually is. I wonder where anything... Like, what would that mean? Like, where would that be coming from that it would get leaked? And why now? What's the most shocking number out there? It's, oh, the most shocking, the women numbers, I guess it shouldn't be shocking, but they're so bad that it is. Jillian Hall,$52 ,000.

23:12Tori Wilson, when you think about how big she was in 05-06, she's making 260. whereas for example just to measure up for example see some make sense and some don't make sense Rob Conway$186 ,000 Snitsky $292 ,000 right but then Trevor Murdoch$48 ,000 how could that be Wasn't he champion? Wasn't he like... Tag champ. They tried to make him a big deal. He was tag champ. Stevie Richards,$94 ,000. Simon Dean,$132 ,000. Shelton,$366 ,000. They had these guys doing NXT numbers with no NXT.

24:14Nah, some of them are crazy, bro. So, I mean, then there's something that makes Kurt Angle, a million twenty three thousand first class flights. Olympia, which which does feel like it makes sense, right? Batista, eight hundred thirteen thousand first class flights, big show a million.

24:42um where's where's oh cena 1.7 first class tickets hotel accommodations ground transport every week so hold on kurt kurt got the first class but he didn't get hotel accommodations in ground transport nope remember they're contractors so like it's a different kind of deal not everybody gets that most people are responsible for this sean a million 45 000 first class flight tickets hotel accommodations ground transport

25:17interesting stuff here hurts hit the hertz calendar what do you get now listen you're making you're making a million just stop by national when you get in and handle your business now uh before we talk to some of the people um dip was hot in these streets yesterday I mean you see Seth Rollins is out doing everything at Super Bowl he's out in these streets as he should be like we spoke about this here I don't know how much got to on-air conversation but his mind for football is great let's just be real he's gonna be I know he's talked about you know running WWE and taking over creative and filling in that triple H spot and rising up the ranks but if that I don't want to say it doesn't work out for him if he chooses to pivot elsewhere it will be in that football analyst spot and he can sit in that chair forever but he's so good at it he's really really good like I've had the conversations with him he's not pretending he's a legit hardcore fan um so he's out there doing everything and dips moving around with him and i don't know the circumstance all i know is the photo of mjf and seth rollins having a chat i mean broke the wrestling internet yesterday and yeah i i have mixed feelings on it in one sense edgy i love that things like that still get conversation because like it it shows you how much people really like care about wrestling care about the fact that you have these like dream matchups that maybe you think you might never see that there really is kind of a forbidden door like i do think that's a cool thing i guess i just don't understand why people are so actually surprised by it like do you guys realize how small this business is you think there's a world in which seth rollins and mjf could be in the same space and not talk like it doesn't make any sense not at least talk not at least talk you know what i They definitely know each other.

27:21And why wouldn't they talk? Even if the comedy nominated wasn't there, which we're going to get to that for sure also. Yeah, I mean, sure. But they've... And also, I've been in the same... This isn't their first meeting.

27:38I'm going to say it right now. Without getting into specifics, someone we know well had a birthday party that you heard all about, SUG, Party of the Cinch. They were both there. Both having a good old time. Yeah. Enjoying themselves, staying made. And the man was there too. So it's not surprising. Listen, it's fun that people get all sort of like, oh, my God, can you believe it? It would be one thing if someone said something on television, like on one of their shows mentioned. Okay, now we're going, wow. Running into each other at Radio Row at the Super Bowl. It's just not that crazy to me. But I love that people care.

28:18when all kinds of celebrities Martha Stewart was there too so that's the picture you need you need MJF with Martha Stewart that's one now we're having a conversation that's a holy shit moment right there everybody was there now now back to the to the rumble a lot of people have been asking me go ahead sorry I should you before we do that though these two comments in the discord are hilarious so Joel said uh seeing MJF and Seth meeting was like when Jay-Z and Nas showed up on stage together and in reply to that marshall t says something like uh in reality it was just dip setting up a play date with his human action figures that is that is a very funny line if you know how much dip loves his his action figures and and loves his clients yo that is hilarious um and if you want to participate in such hijinks on the discord sign up for the patreon man um patreon.com slash gp live um i was thinking we got to drop one in the next several days actually the last one was a ball but we're going to drop a special episode where we just kind of you know go behind the scenes let the let the curtain down let things swing a bit and say whatever we do special episodes let our hair down but you know that's not good for much no no it's It's not great.

29:44Oh, we just got a terrible text message. It's great because we could talk more about this topic, but it is terrible for the listeners. I'm demanding a Seth Collin. Yeah. He just can't be taking photos, being all up in the videos, and then pull this. And he's taking away our co-hosts. This is an outrage. anyways so it looks like i just read the text yeah it absolutely is an outrage i i saw the first half like in my notifications i read the full text i'm not gonna do it on air i'll let you i'll let you do that if you should if i see fit yeah and it absolutely is an outrage it's an outrage no this is it and also and also it's predictable come on it's the friday before the super bowl and you're running around doing super bowl things every day why did you even pretend you were going to give us hour two.

30:41Why? We told the people. Exactly. Everyone was happy about it. All right. And now he's stepping on my tease. So let me tell you guys about the Royal Rumble. The makeshift stadium was a pretty cool site in real life. I will tell you. My favorite thing about it, SGG, is that they didn't make up, like, they didn't create in the makeshift stadium a makeshift, like, there's no bowels of the stadium it seemed like oh you know what i mean like there's when when we're at a real stadium like a permanent stadium backstage is underneath and in the area where the teams are you know stuff like that they didn't do that the backstage area was also created behind the stadium right it kind of feels the way like if you went to like a rolling loud or some big festival and you saw where the artist area is it's kind of like that like lots of tents that are created and like makeshift rooms i'm gonna tell you something guys i freaking loved it it was awesome because sometimes we end up in a building where to get from point a to point b you have to walk all the way around the the inside of the stadium oh yeah in the longest way possible to get somewhere, particularly like, bro, at Mania, when you're at a football stadium, they may have a locker room that's at the 30-yard line on one side, and then they have another one on the opposite 30 on the other side.

32:19It could be endless getting places. Whereas this, because they make it up in the back, it's just like this one walk that's probably 50 yards with a little tense of everything you need right in one direction. Everything is where it makes sense. Yeah, did you happen to see my post when I threw up a bunch of, like, BTS shots? Yeah. Did you see the one of, like, Damian Priest and Carmelo Hayes throwing the baseball around? Just playing catch. Just playing catch? Yeah, because, like, that was the setup. You have, like, everybody just sort of in this common area. And then there's the biggest tent is catering, of course.

32:55And by the way, shout out to catering, man. In Saudi, just the fact that every meal has Mediterranean deliciousness as the backbone of everything. Oh, you were having. No matter what meal you're having, there's hummus, there's baba ganoush, there's pita, there's rice, there's just a mixed grill with lamb and steak and chicken. It's just like you're always at a pop in Middle Eastern restaurant every meal you have. So it was a good situation. Now, as for the stadium itself, when I watched on the monitor, I was like, is it empty in there? Because I was out in the fan zone. The fan zone was cracking.

33:38A, a lot of people, of course. But B, they did it outside. Like, they had a true fan zone outside that was, like, the most elaborate, well done. Like, SGG, if they could move the Vegas Convention Center event and put it all outside like they do in Saudi, it's phenomenal. It's phenomenal. They lay down, like, basically turf, and they have all the sort of exhibits and stuff outside. It's amazing. But I was like, I saw tons of people there. How is this possible? If you remember the money in the bank at Intuit, the same thing happened. now I don't know why they did it again with the LED lights but the LED lights make it look like there is no one in the seat now I'm not going to sit up here and guarantee you and say I know for a fact it was sold out I don't I didn't have that conversation I know for a fact it was at least close just based on the people that were there like I think the place held like 25 ,000 it was it was if not a sellout very close to a sellout um you could tell too that they heard the chatter because they had like drone shots throughout the show that was like no guys there are people in these seats like just they went they would they would use the drone to show to have to show you the people yeah and you could see like oh yeah these led lights are just literally washing people out it's a very weird thing the led lights i don't even know what the desired hope is like it's just something that's going to look cool but congratulations you played yourself it does not look cool because it ends up looking like nobody's there and and and and even like i saw some of the commentary online the crowd wasn't hyped for the women's rumble i didn't get that feel there at all um i think they were hyped at the at the spots that there were that they were hyped for i gotta tell you man it's a pretty it's a pretty astute wrestling crowd now just to see the evolution of the fans from 2018 to 2026 it's like a markedly different feel now sgg do you think i'm foul that when we were going over on the countdown show the greatest moments in royal rumble history do you think it's foul that as my honorable mention i had to i had to bring up titus world slide no it's like it was most memorable it is it's one of the it was memorable people still remember it people talk about it every time there's a royal rumble it's not going anywhere yo if you guys can kelly is there any way out of the break or one of the breaks if you could the next one we could hear like the 30 or 40 seconds after at the greatest royal rumble when titus o 'neill falls underneath the ring nothing brings me joy sgg like hearing cory graves trying to pull himself together for three minutes and me and me and e talked about this the other day the way that things are set up that could have been so bad that could have been really bad for well yeah because you don't know what's under the ring like there's there's gatorades under there there's crew equipment he said he said there's normally like an led board or something there there's there are things that oh yeah first of all often there wouldn't have been a curtain it would have been he just goes headfirst into an led board right there's so many things it could have been and instead it was perfect and there was nothing and he completely disappears and he was in the ring at the time and he's like so i'm he's like i'm working with somebody and i i see titus come out and i go all right i'm gonna have to turn around when titus gets here you know they always interact if you're up you're gonna interact with the person who comes in and he's getting ready and he's getting ready and then he looks back and titus is gone no titus there's no titus titus world slot yo titus world slot he flipped it into a t-shirt the whole it was it was amazing um so then to close it out on the chatter of the rumble i don't understand sgg why it was such a big deal that i said i spoke to aj styles and i i know that he's retiring because you don't know what you're talking about, P.

37:53We, on the internet, we know the real. So you know what they tell you to tell us because you're a parrot and a shill. So they tell you what to tell us and then you try to tell us and try to convince us that we don't know what we know, which is that AJ Styles is not retiring. He put the gloves back on. He's going to be on TNA next week and if he's not showing up on Thursday, then he's going to AEW on Wednesday. Just you wait. he's gonna have his big moment he's not retired they're just trying to push a narrative that's false because we know yeah you don't know so they thought i think i eventually understood that what what i think got people mad was by me saying aj styles is a man of his word and he's if it's retirement match he's gonna retire they took that as me working for the man and i and i'm actually dumping on him if he decides to come back somewhere it's saying like you're not a man of your word like like i would are you people in they are insane they are i didn't even hear the question they are i i went up to him had a lovely moment like everyone else did and remember at sug i did a tna podcast i've been following and knowing on some level aj styles for like 15 16 17 years I really, really am an AJ fan.

39:25And he's always been awesome. You know, had a moment and I was like, this is really it? Come on, you're going to TNA. You're going to TNA. And he's like, I'm done. And gave me the same spiel he's given everyone. He said it to you guys. He said it to you guys two years ago. I don't want you to step back. I want to quit while I'm still the man. I said, well, listen, you have not lost literally one step. and like that's that's the thing that that's what makes him incomparable we love cena had great matches some of the best of his career i'm not going to sit up here and tell you he didn't lose a step he definitely lost a step but he was having great matches and made it work aj literally his 450 is the exact same everything currently is still the same like it has not and but his line is, I don't want that to change, and so I'm out.

40:18All I can do is I just try to bring something interesting to our post show, which is like a hybrid of real and part of the show. I'm just trying to bring you any real information. If he was working me, that would be fantastic. And this is what annoys me at the internet. You guys are such annoying, like weirdo losers who hate on me for no reason and don't even know what I do you don't even know that I would pop if he showed up on AEW and we'd be talking about it every week I don't give a damn I just I just want wrestlers who I admire to have the retirement they want make their money be happy and for companies to thrive and wrestling fans to be entertained I don't care I want more of AJ why would I want him to retire yeah newsflash for these people we need moments to talk about We got a two-hour show every Friday.

41:10That's right. Facts. I mean, Sam has it four days a week. I don't even know how you do it if you don't get moments like that. Give me something. We need something for the calls to talk about. We got a full line of phone calls. We need this. Yes, AJ, please show up on one of these shows next week. I would love it. I would love it. All I could say was what he said to me. And then everyone acts as if, you guys, that's not how it works. There's no one comes up to me and says, you need to do blank. Now, in this case, I thought it was interesting information, and I did think people were confused by the glove thing.

41:46So I was referencing that to reinforce that, no, no, he is retired. Because I thought the glove thing was – the glove thing was obviously something. The glove thing was clearly – I do too, based on something he told me, but I did leave that part out. See, there we go. So you're probably right. but it wasn't less of a theory it's a little bit less of a theory but that's the thing i'm drawing the line of what i feel comfortable saying but it didn't it did not change what i heard from him about the gloves did not change the overall message retired from in ring and he said it to stephanie you have the audio guys of him talking to stephanie mcmahon where he talks about the possibility yeah let's let's hear let's hear um him talking to what's your uh to stephanie mcmahon on what's your story about maybe coming back a little never say never right that's the saying um and you know there's there's a i know there's i think everybody's allowed at least once come out of retirement you know for sure for sure i'm not saying that i'll do it anytime soon i'm just saying that i mean what if my has there been anybody who hasn't i don't know has there you know pretty much everyone who's retired has actually come back at least once yeah at least at least I thought that was how it worked here.

43:03Yeah. I mean, it seems to be. Well, I mean, what if my son wrestles? Yeah. The opportunity to tag with him once? Right. You never know. So there'll be a time where the gloves will never go back on, and it may be now, but we'll see. So, you know, listen, I totally love that he's leaving the door open on some level, but that really doesn't change the fact that that was his retirement he lost to gutter and he was retiring like that that is what happened and um you know does it feel a little bit rushed to me it does i i really wish that we would have had more and again sg there's obviously more to the story we don't know you know maybe maybe there were conversations about what he could do with it and he didn't like what options they gave him maybe they were like we don't know if there's a wrestlemania match oh maybe we'll find this for you and maybe he was like you know what i don't like this i don't like this up in the air let me just end it i don't know but i do think it was the end yeah i i think i think he knew for a long time that it was the end and this is so my theory on the gloves is this it's quick but i thought fanatics or tops one of those gloves and he was going to chop it up, put it in the car, put it on some merch.

44:28So he was like, wait, I can't leave these in the ring. I actually need to get these to somebody. I don't like this theory because I think someone could have gotten them from the ring. Yeah, that's what I thought. But with respect to us not getting AJ for the whole year, I think he knew that he was leaving at the Rumble a long time ago. And I think that it was something that he told people. Obviously, there's that letter from Nakamura. But then there's John Cena, right? John Cena was retiring. John Cena and AJ had one last match. And of all the people that John Cena wrote, you know, did tributes to and everything like that, CM Punk didn't get a love letter because his career was continuing.

45:11Randy Orton didn't get one because his career was continuing. Cody didn't get one. you know Dom nobody got like a love letter from Cena except for AJ Styles because I think even at that point Cena knew that AJ Styles A was saying goodbye very soon and B might not get to say goodbye in the same way that he had by touring the country so like I think they knew right away so Cena said all right I'm gonna go into business for myself and let AJ know how important he is to to me and to everybody in this moment when it's not on anybody's radar because you know cena likes to do that too like a little wink and a nod and then you figure out later that this had a deeper meaning yeah that's a really good point the the breadcrumbs have been there that this was the end and i get it people are sad that it's the end i'm sad that it's the end but i do i do think it's the end um we didn't get to any calls this segment so we'll jump into calls next.

46:09Plus, I want to talk about the winners and some of the moments throughout the Rumble that created some controversy and also a fairly interesting episode of Monday Night Raw to follow up from Philadelphia. So we'll do all of that coming up next right here on She Pete Live, Pro Wrestling Nation 24-7. Promotional consideration paid for by the following. Your Olympic hero has arrived. It's true. It's true. Hey, think, die, kid. You people have to be honored to have a man of intensity, integrity, and intelligence among you. Yes, I'd like a room, please. Sorry, No vacancies. Oh, that's okay. I'll take theirs.

46:41Ah, here come my fans. Prepare to lay the smack down in the all-new Hell in a Cell or in a high-flying ladder match. WWF Smackdown 2 Know Your Roller for the PlayStation game console. You'll think you got what it takes, jabroni. I love this place. Rated T for team. You know, SGG, I realized I was about to post a video of me in this shirt, and I realized it goes against the point of what I was going to say in the message because I'm wearing the old SGG merch that says The Virgin on it. And the message I was about to deliver on this show is what I'm going to deliver on my social media. I keep seeing, like, I just saw a clip moving around of different football players at the Super Bowl talking about when the person's coming up and saying, what's your favorite Bad Bunny song?

47:27And everyone's saying, I don't know Bad Bunny. I don't listen to Bad Bunny. I just want to say, I have a PSA. Y 'all need to hang out with attractive women more often. This is really an important, the number one message I need to relay to you. You guys are not hanging out with hot chicks enough. If you literally have never heard Bad Bunny, I mean, I'm not, listen, obviously, there are lovely ladies out there who don't actively pursue Bad Bunny music. I'll just say, though, if you enjoy the music Bad Bunny, you will probably end up enjoying the company of lovely ladies and vice versa. That's all I'm saying.

48:10So all these football players saying it, I'm like, what are y 'all doing? What are you doing with your life? Oh, let me guess. You got married at 15. Hit the button. Congratulations. You played yourself. Yeah, seriously. You met this girl at 14. Y 'all got married at 22. Great job, buddy. she did an even better job she did a great job she did a great job she absolutely did yeah but I just like I just am so annoyed like there was the obvious racism we were going to deal with and xenophobia of the bad bunny thing okay you know we're living in a time in this country where immigrants are under attack and you know particularly particularly um spanish-speaking immigrants in this country feel unsafe and like they're under attack so the idea that racists would be against the bad bunny thing okay i expected it sgg what i think is not i didn't expect is the random people who they're not even being particularly political about it they're just like closed-minded and ignorant and don't know his music i'm like y 'all haven't heard anything which is insane it that's the that's the part that kills me like the small mindedness of it all just like i don't know his music i'm not interested and then when they throw out the bands that they want to hear it's like you think motherfuckers want to hear that like we don't want to hear and at the very least and at the very least you don't appreciate that that's that's niche like you think bad bunny is niche and on some level everything these days is niche right but his niche is tapping in his albums number one in china right now okay so his niche is hitting a lot of people if you then turn around you're like you know i'm just gonna throw out a name of someone who's dead so so it doesn't matter i want ozzy osborne okay great ozzy osborne is popular to a very specific sect of people everyone else is gonna go that's not for me i don't know it right guess what no one cries about it like a bitch god everyone protest we're not gonna protest yeah y 'all really y 'all really want to protest fun music with hot chicks dancing i don't understand what side y 'all are on i do not understand seriously i what are you people fighting for and then as a wrestling fan it is your obligation to support bad bunny on sunday that's right this Because we've talked about this.

50:43It probably predates, no, it definitely predates the serious era because Bad Bunny hasn't been back since we've been doing this. But we've said this many times. There's never been, I mean, the closest would be Mike Tyson. But the level of star Bad Bunny is to fully participate in WWE. I mean, bruh, respectfully to Jelly Roll, who I like, lovely guy. Yo, not even in the same category. Absolutely getting trounced. Yes, they both won Grammys, but in terms of popularity and being world-renowned, Bad Bunny's on a completely different plane. You can go up and down the list of celebrity guests we've seen.

51:29You know, nothing. not only is he the biggest star but that is involvement we're talking about big matches and storylines and risks he was in the rumble and guess what he was in the rumble the same year I won the 24-7 championship on the same show that's right I think he got F5'd yeah Bad Bunny is the man no Bad Bunny is the man bro it is your obligation as a wrestling fan no matter what's happening at your Super Bowl party on Sunday, if anyone has anything to say, you go, nah, nah, nah. Have y 'all seen his entrance at Backlash? Come on. If you haven't seen that entrance at Backlash, I don't want to have a conversation with you.

52:15And they're not even talking about it. I knew Bad Bunny was out of here when he went to SNL. Bro, he's a multi-time SNL host and musical guest. Nah, Bad Bunny's the man. i'm excited my lady's excited and i don't give a damn about seattle new england so i'm i'm i'm particularly excited um sgg did you see did you see mjf take the quick l to brody king to set up a title match i did and i was i was kind of shocked not necessarily appalled but definitely shocked i feel like would it have been a crime for him to win the eliminated match and send brody king to the back of the line because everybody wins they championship eliminated match can we switch it up and have somebody lose and then just well that is the back of the line see that that's the most interesting point i mean i love seeing brody king win i love the crowd chanting f ice before the match um i love i love brody king getting a moment here but you are right about the fact that like when they set up that championship eliminator it always feels like that person's getting the match.

53:26Yeah. Which means you always have the champion lose. Like whatever. Yeah. You get to see the champion lose, but then the champion doesn't lose the title. So it's like literally a meaningless. Why don't they just have them have more like contenders matches rather than championship eliminators? I don't know. I don't know. Because as a plot device, the eliminator match is losing its luster because I can't think of somebody who lost the eliminator match. They go on to lose the title match, but then now they're one and one with the champion. Whereas if this was just a contender, then you have a feud and you can continue it.

54:04But it's just like the eliminated match is not doing it for me anymore. Now, a Twitter account, MJF, as we said, is out and about in Vegas. Not in Vegas, in San Francisco for the Super Bowl. and a site called Compass on the Beat grabbed him for a moment. I saw a couple interesting questions to MJF. One, I saw MJF putting over Bad Bunny and how much he loves Bad Bunny doing the Super Bowl. He's the right side of history. Listen, MJF's the right side of history kind of guy. Don't tell anyone. He's a great guy. And then MJF was asked about CM Punk. Let's hear what he told. At Compass OTB. There was an individual walking around here yesterday that you kind of kicked him out of AEW.

54:55You talking about CM Punk? Okay, I didn't know if I could. Yeah, no, it's okay. Who could possibly give a shit? Yeah. It's about me right now. It is. Fuck him. It's always about you. It's always about me. If there was a forbidden door, you could wrestle anybody, anybody, anybody. I'd love to beat the shit out of him just for shits and giggles. I would love to literally be put in a situation where I can bash his stupid fucking face in again because he had a fluke victory over me. at the dog collar match because of that schmuck Wardlow. Again, the only time I lose is somebody cheats. I had CM Punk's number.

55:27I beat him twice in Chicago.

55:31I don't know, SGJ. There's story in there. And there's some passion in there. Passion's a good one. You know what I'm saying? Passion's a good one. I think passion's the right. KO-esque in terms of if we get these people in the ring again and by these people i mean mjf and punk there's gonna be moments where you're like is that real which is what i want to see and i don't care which company gets it done but these like it's so funny punk has spent so much of his off time from like his hiatus in wrestling just ruffling feathers and i guess in aew while he was on again and he did it too, that now that he seems to be like a company guy and willing to work and like best for business, all the matches that I want to see are the people that I think might want to punch him in the face for real.

56:29I don't want to see him do like a Rey Mysterio. I don't want to see him do. I want to see the guys that I'm like, they don't like each other. How close to the edge can we get this? Which might make me crazy, but I want to see it. All right, we want to hear from you in our last segment. Let's take all calls to close things out at 877-344-4893. Your thoughts on Roman Punk for the main event. Is this the pinnacle for CM Punk's return? And who else would you like to see Punk get? Let's talk to you to close things out right here on Cheap Heat Live, Pro Wrestling Nation 24-7. Promotional consideration paid for by the following.

57:06You can't make a game as lifelike as SmackDown. Just bring it without the help of an expert. You call this texture mapping? Out of the way, Junior. I think we need to add a few more polygons to Stephanie. Mr. Jericho, can you write down that compression algorithm? I'm a little busy, Junior. Yes, thanks to help from WWF superstar Chris Jericho. Just Bring It is the most electrifying, trash-talking, realistic SmackDown game yet. Rated T for T. Welcome back. I just got good news. My babysitter can come today. Wow, that is useful. That would be tremendous, SGG, because I got to do a radio program.

57:41Normally, it's great. You know, like working from home, you know, these days on Fridays is nice. But on a day when there's not good things going on, you really do just think, can I just get the hell out of here? But I'm going to be able to get some help. As you do, this is all in your future. Coming down the pike one day. Yo, I'm going to be coming to you for some pro tips. Listen, my number one pro tip. My pro tip isn't a tip because I make mistakes every day. I made a mistake yesterday. All right? I messed up. But I try to get right to that. So you want to be the guy that tells me how to do it wrong?

58:18So I do the other thing? I just – my only tip is that I don't think – either – there's two options, and both are on the table. One is this whole marriage and parenting life is harder than anyone said, or I'm a bitch. But both are on the table. like can't can't both be true yeah it's definitely a combination probably not that i call you a bitch but it's possible it's a combination but like i know you i don't know what it is i don't know if it's like 90 you're a bitch and then 10 no i don't i'd like to think it's not all 90 that but but like for example i know you you like to live your life you like you're the physically vacationing you're watching trash tv you're doing wrestling podcasts you're having a good time trash tv is gonna have to go that that's gonna have to be cut to a minimum because kids repeat things yeah that'll be i already know that just becomes your nighttime thing and you guys watch when the baby goes down and you last for about five minutes before you fall asleep that kind of situation but like you know i i don't like talking about it with people with kids because they're like what are you talking about?

59:34I have three. And I'm just like, all right, well, I don't relate. So I like to actually talking about this with people who don't have kids because they can relate to, wait a second, you had to do what today? Because I was used to the most, the hardest thing I had to do was run bare outside a few times, which by the way, can still be annoying, particularly when there's snow and ice everywhere on the street. And it doesn't want to go anywhere. And it's terrible. So, but when you go from, you only worry about yourself to, like on a day for example where my wife is sick I literally work from the second I wake up till the second I go to sleep with like a few minutes commercial breaks on the subway Kelly gives us breaks we got a break there and we chat for a moment I look at my phone whatever the thing may be it's just the whole thing man you adults man you adults who have been out here adulting props you know what you know what i would say to you that's i don't know how well this is gonna go over but what popped into my head go ahead when you said you can't tell this to kids people who have kids because they're like i got three kids then you got to tell them but yeah you also have one job i got three radio shows i got wwe i got no it's fact it's a it balances out what you're saying is based on facts what you're saying is based on facts it's it's and listen Everyone's situation is different.

1:01:03Some people, the way that they operate, the wife just does literally everything, doesn't even trust the husband or even tell the husband what to do. It's like straight up mad men. And the husband just comes home and gets his steak. I know that is certain people's situations. I'm here to tell you, folks, it's not mine. Now, that doesn't mean she trusts me, but she does still rely on me to do things, okay? Yo, literally yesterday she walked in and the baby's crying. And she's like, what did you do? And I'm like, this is the worst part. I go, what? I didn't do anything. And then I looked at the baby.

1:01:44I did. When I went to pick her up, my finger accidentally slid across her cheek and actually scratched her. I did do something. Oh, no. It was me. I know it was me. I know. it was the worst. I felt terrible. I cut my nails yesterday, tried to make sure everything's smooth, but man, I couldn't catch a break yesterday. Now my baby looks like she went, looks like she had a fight yesterday. You almost got the brakes beat off you yesterday. No, I don't know. It could, honestly, it could have been, she could be like, wait, you could have been, what? Hold on. Come here for a second. 877-344-4893. Gunner in West Virginia.

1:02:27What's up, Gunner? Hey, guys. I hope you're having a good Friday so far. We're having a snowy one again here in West Virginia. So I am excited for this big Roman Punk match. And I'll tell you, I actually fizzled out with watching wrestling a little bit before the Cena retirement match. I mean, of course, I got invested in that. But I kind of got fizzled out because everything just kind of seemed run of the mill. There's no real big stories, no real big, ooh, I need to tune in and find out what's going on. Now they have given me a reason to tune in because I want to know kind of who is going to lean more towards the hillish side and who's going to be more towards the, you know, the good guy, if you will.

1:03:12Because you can always have a good guy and a bad guy in a situation. That's just 101 basics. So I'm ready for it. And I think, you know, we're going to see eventually a Punk and Cody matchup later on down the road. But I'm excited for it, guys. Hope you guys have a good weekend. Thank you, buddy. Appreciate you, Gunnar. I'm with you, man. I'm with you. Let's go to Tim in Arkansas. He wants to get back to the Finn of it all. What's up, Tim? I believe Finn was at the rumble. I think Finn's the hooded guy. It would make sense, right? The person did have facial hair. I think he'll well he had you can see kind of a little goatee I did look at it I did and I think he's going to squeeze his way into the Wrestlemania picture somehow do you think thank you for the call buddy do you think SG that he was the that he was the hooded guy I didn't until we heard from Tim from Arkansas and now I think he's a suspect also I was listen I was looking at everybody with facial hair with a little bit of a goatee in a certain stature you were even potential for the hooded guy because I was like I don't think that stature is I see some facial hair you look you're looking slim in the in the suit so it could have been you I don't I don't know it's the camera angles if I was in the audience I'll be able to better narrow it down and rule you out but from my seat at home where the camera can do certain things for people.

1:04:51I was like, Rosenberg's got a beard. He might be a suspect. Yeah, SGG, I wish my shoulders were up to snuff. I just don't. I'm not. Whoever it was had broader shoulders than Rosenberg. See, you protesting is trying to make me now feel like... Yeah, it's like now I think you are. I get that. That's natural. You get accused. You got to defend yourself, but now you're protesting a lot. SGG, breaking news. Do you see the big news for one of your favorite celebs? No. Lewis Hamilton? Yeah, I heard about this. I don't know how I feel about this. Listen, feel good about it. I guarantee he does. He feels great, I'm sure.

1:05:36IG official with Kim Kardashian? No, he's – I don't know. Why, is he struggling? Yeah, he hasn't won a world champion in a while, so, you know. So I still consider him the GOAT. Let's go to Melvin in Houston quickly. He wants to talk about the Hobbs debut. What's up, Melvin? Hey, how y 'all doing? Okay, so one thing. With the powerhouse Hobbs, I want to say when Finn Balor debuted, they had the Prince Devin, and then it switched over with the smoke to Finn Balor when he first came over to NXT. I believe that was one of the things. And the next thing I wanted to talk to you guys about was the whole Roman thing.

1:06:13I don't know if you guys heard on the O'Shea Jackson podcast that they had asked CM Punk how do you feel about going through the whole shield single-handedly since he beat them the first time at TLC in the three-on-one match. And CM Punk was like, huh, I never thought about it like that. From when he went to AEW, had the feud with Moxley, came back, had the stuff with Seth, and now with Roman one-on-one. Hmm. I didn't repeat that. CM Punk is no longer straight edge if he thinks for one second that he is not going to be looking up at the lights of wrestlemania sure he slid past mox sure he got past seth but even in the shield it was for now but even in the shield it was understood that roman was the powerhouse roman was the guy that you had to really get past if you want to get past the shield he's not going to be able to do it at WrestleMania.

1:07:11He's going to go out like everybody does. Obviously, we have a lot to talk about with regard to Roman and Punk as we make our way to WrestleMania. And if you want to have that conversation with us, tap in Rosenberg Wrestling on YouTube. Tap in to Cheap Heat Live on Patreon. SGG, stay mage this weekend. And enjoy yourself, P. I'm going to see if that's possible. Thank you to Kelly. Thank you to Zach. Thank you to Emilio Sparks. to my beautiful wife and daughter. I hope they feel better. Happy birthday to my niece and nephew. Have a great weekend, everyone.