Review will be up immediately thereafter.  Chatter a bit here if you like and check out my previews for each match and reviews for about 10 indy shows (I’m not even half done with my list yet) below.

It’s our day.

KB

Yeah it’s a double shot this week with the second edition of Talkover (All things NXT) with special (and hilarious) guest Uncle Sam:

https://mightynorcal.podbean.com/e/wwp-60-join-norcal-and-special-guest-uncle-sam-for-nxt-talkover-everything-nxt-including-a-takeover-preview/

And the extra big show where NorCal and I preview Wrestlemania plus hit some prop bets:

https://mightynorcal.podbean.com/e/wwp-61-a-mega-size-wrestlemania-preview-with-norcal-and-thomas-hall/

Man oh man it’s that time of year again. We’re less than two weeks away from Wrestlemania XXXV and you can see most of the card from here. It’s certainly going to be a long show (as is the case every year anymore), but there are some rather intriguing matches out there. While you can probably guess the results of most of them, some of the matches aren’t quite as predictable as others, even though that might have seemed to be the case at one point.

The match that has changed my mind several times now is Seth Rollins challenging Brock Lesnar for the Universal Title. At first this seemed like another successful title defense for Lesnar as we continue on the eternal search for the right person to take the title from him (read as we wait to build Roman Reigns back up again) but then things started to change and it got a little more fuzzy.

Over time, Rollins was getting back to the point where he was before his horrible knee injury: one of the most exciting and consistently successful performers in WWE. Couple that with Lesnar having trouble facing smaller wrestlers (certainly compared to his matches against power guys, which tended to be short, dominant performances) and you had all the makings of the final boss battle for Lesnar as Rollins could be the one that finally stops him once and for all, giving us a regular Universal Champion instead of a part time attraction.

Then we got to the big part: Reigns returned a little earlier than expected and has Rollins’ back going into Wrestlemania. That would be the same Reigns who took the title from Lesnar after chasing it for over a year. Having him back and healthy is the kind of thing that can turn everything on its head in the blink of an eye as it opens up several possibilities.

Think about all the places this could go. Does Reigns turn on Rolls? Does he help put Lesnar down to counteract Paul Heyman interference? Is it a repeat of Wrestlemania IX where Lesnar wins and then issues an open challenge, setting up a spear to give Reigns the title back for the big surprise celebration? There are actual options here, and that has changed a lot about the match, including the odds.

According to Graham Mirmina from SBD, odds of Seth Rollins winning the title of Universal Championship at this year’s WrestleMania is much better than Brock Lesnar. Sportsbooks have Rollins’ odds listed as -250 while Brock Lesnar’ are +170. However, Lesnar has been the keeper of the belt for a better part of the past two years so don’t be surprised if the odds shift in favor of Lesnar as April 7th gets closer.

It really has changed a lot in just a few weeks’ time and that’s what makes this time of year so exciting. What should have been a layup result just a few months ago is now one of the more intriguing matches on the show. These two could have a heck of a performance against each other, even if you knew what the end result was going to be. Now that there is a monkey wrench thrown in there, it isn’t as simple as it once seemed.

Wrestlemania offers so many possibilities and it’s often a lot more fun when you don’t know what you’re going to get. Fans often come up with what they think is going to happen in the first place but now, there are some different questions to be answered as we head into the show. That makes things a lot more fun and I’ll take that over “can we just get to the F5 already so we can move on”? It’s what makes Wrestlemania so great and hopefully that’s the case again this year.

It’s certainly Wrestlemania season and we have a rather fun chat about Kofi Kingston, Kurt Angle vs. Baron Corbin, Batista, and we open the mailbag for things that get on our nerves.

https://mightynorcal.podbean.com/e/wwp-59-the-mystery-of-batistas-anger-is-solvedsort-ofkofis-bumpy-ride-to-wrestlemania/

Speaking of the mailbag, make sure to send in some questions if you’d like to hear us discuss them on the show.  We’ll talk about whever you’d like for us to, be it from WWE, Impact, indies, old school etc.  Drop them in the comments.

To me actually.  Ten years ago to the day, I posted my first ever review.  Now it’s about 5200 later, meaning I put up about ten reviews a week.  I know I’ve slowed down a lot over the years, but egads how did that happen?  Thank you for being around with me this long and I’ll try to be around for a long time.  I mean, I’m destined for carpal tunnel but I can get someone to take dictation right?

In which we talk about Torrie Wilson and probably get in trouble for it, plus Jim Ross and all the Raw and Smackdown happenings.

https://mightynorcal.podbean.com/e/wwp-58-rowdy-raging-ronnie-rousey-torrie-hall-of-fame-wwe-dropping-pg-aew-gets-its-man/

Also, make sure to check us out on the Wrestling Rumors Facebook page tomorrow for our live Fastlane preview (we’ll have the audio fixed).

https://www.facebook.com/wrestlingrumors/

We’re back this week with a discussion of Roman Reigns, Batista, Dean Ambrose and…..Dana Warrior?

https://mightynorcal.podbean.com/e/wwp-57-roman-reigns-comeback-the-curious-case-of-dana-warrior-why-the-heck-is-batista-so-mad/

Throughout my years in high school and college, I always had a deck of cards with me. I’ve played cards in one for or another since I was two years old and haven’t really stopped since. To this day I collect decks of playing cards and have quite the unique set to my name. It’s something I’ve always loved doing over the years and I’ve also spent quite a bit of time making (and losing) money with them. Be it at a weekly card game across the street or at a casino shortly after my 21^st birthday, I’ve spent more than enough time playing with cards in various forms.

As some of you may or may not know, my wife is from England and came to live with me in America. Since we’re from two different countries, we had two wedding ceremonies for the sake of not having our families go from one country to another, which would have been a combination of next to impossible while also being incredibly expensive. The first wedding was in England, where we had a three day honeymoon….of which we spent a good time in a casino.

My wife had never actually been to a casino before so she wasn’t exactly sure what to expect there. While she was a little unsure, she wound up having quite the good time and asked to go back both other days we were in town. After three days of gaming, we wound up ahead about 75 pounds total and left, having had quite the positive experience overall, which isn’t a bad way to start a married life.

So what made it so enjoyable? Well aside from making money, the casino had quite the friendly staff and was very uncrowded, which helped things a lot. It can be very annoying going to a place where the staff is rude and you feel cramped because the building is overflowing with people. Issues like that mean you can’t sit back and relax, as you should be able to do during something like this.

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It’s a rather complicated world to get into and that’s where such a guide like this could come in handy. There’s so much information available and instead of having it all all over the place, putting it all into a single location could cut down on a lot of hassle. This is something that is supposed to be fun in the first place so having it all together like this eliminates a lot of the complications. Whatever you’re looking for can be found at the Online Casino Box.

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I think we have some stuff to talk about this week.  Between the debuts, the departures and Kofimania, we cover quite a bit here.

https://mightynorcal.podbean.com/e/wwp-56-nxt-storms-the-beach-of-raw-and-sd-huge-roman-reigns-news-and-three-superstars-released/

In this book, I’ll be looking at Monday Nitro and Thunder from January – June 2000 and try to see just how bad everything was able to get. The shows were a nightmare but somehow it kept getting worse every single week. Each episode will be broken down match by match and segment by segment. Included will be analysis and ratings for the shows to see why the year is remembered so poorly.

The book runs about 385 pages and is available on Amazon both in a physical paperback for $10.99 or an e-book format for $2.99. In case you don’t have a Kindle, there are plenty of FREE apps you can get from Amazon for pretty much any electronic device, all of which are available at this link.

You can pick up the book from Amazon here in paperback and here as an e-book.

And from the UK Amazon here in paperback and here as an e-book.

Or if you’re in another country with its own Amazon page, just search “KB Nitro VII” and it should be the first thing to come up.

Also you can still get any of my previous books on the Intercontinental Championship, Monday Night Raw from 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003 and the first half of 2014, Monday Nitro from 1995-1999, In Your House, Summerslam, Starrcade, ECW Pay Per Views, Royal Rumble, Saturday Night’s Main Event, the WWF and WCW pay per views from 1998, Wrestlemania, WWE Grab Bag and Clash of the Champions, NXT Volumes I, II and III at my author’s page here.

I hope you like it and shoot me any questions you might have.

KB