The Chief

My Network says 8:00 Eastern but the now playing part doesn't match up, I'll take your guys word for it. Pumped for this show. Getting some last minute "homework" done for GWE anyway so I can wait a couple more hours!

People forget, but Roddy had the incident that led to him getting fired from his Legends contract a few weeks before he passed away. Dusty was still actively involved in the company.

What if you vote anonymously?

This was my favorite episode to date, always love hearing Buzz stories. Great behind the scenes look at one of the most interesting personalities in the business.

Because Triple H has to have his epic 25-minute-plus star-making main event without anyone's attention being diverted? Don't really buy this. The HHH/Taker and HHH/Sting abominations were full of ridiculous distractions and run ins. HHH big matches are often synonymous with screwy finishes and gimmicks. I think there's going to be a main event with plenty of screwy run-ins and heavy HHH involvement but it won't be HHH vs. Reigns.

Yes. Exactly. Just because you're a doctor doesn't mean you are omnipotent in your field. Some doctors are better in some things than others. The same doctors may not be as good at certain things than said others. Not every doctor has access to every single type of study. New breakthroughs and new procedures are happening constantly. Some doctor's will approach things differently than others will. It's been this way forever. It's why people seek second opinions when they're confronted with something serious/unknown.

Damn, I'm also a little shocked to see no nomination for The Spoiler. And I wouldn't vote for him but for how long he's been prominently featured on a national stage, I'm surprised nobody nominated Kane!

Remember a few weeks ago when Shane McMahon was announced as Undertaker's opponent everybody said "just give it a couple weeks, there's no way that's going to be an actual match." Well, here we are. You also have Sin Cara and Zack Ryder competing for a singles title and Kalisto will be defending his singles title on the PPV proper. This entire build has been so random, it sounds more like a kid's create-a-PPV from a video game. I'm oddly intrigued?

There's precadent here. If WWE has interest in either one, they would probably get a James Storm type spot in NXT. I see all 3 of those guys as equals when it comes to star power.

Actually, and I forgot where I heard this, I'm pretty sure Patterson was one of the inner circle who was kept in the dark about this. From what I remember, he was really close with Bret and wouldn't have stood for it.

Can I have a 20 minute Lesnar vs Harper match? Please? You can do whatever you want with the rest of the show and I promise I won't complain. Just give me those two beating the shit out of each other. Please.

As a faithful Where the Big Boys Play listener, I heard a few names on each of your lists that made me do a double take (because of your tastes) I think this podcast convinced me to submit a list

Not interested in watching the dads fight each other over their sons t-ball game. This kind of thinking needs to die.

Brock Lesnar vs. Bray Wyatt is officially announced for WrestleMania Roadblock. That could have been a pretty interesting match if The Wyatts were kept strong leading into it and not jobbed out to the old giants.

Spoken for truth. Cena and Kane don't get hurt by this and you would have given two guys in Bray and Bryan instant credibility. It's a net positive.

The point is that they usually don't feature people from their roster on a lot of promotional stuff outside of Cena and maybe Orton. You're much more likely to see The Rock on a 7-11 cup than New Day. You're much more likely to see Shawn Michaels on a video game cover than Roman Reigns.

For the most part that's how they promote their video games too.

Any chance they just stick Rock in Romans corner? I could see the way WWE would see the logic in doing that, in theory Rocks popularity would rub off on Roman and help offset babyface pops for HHH. But personally I think it's counterproductive. When they had Rock help out Roman in the Rumble last year it made Roman look like a kid who needed his big brother to help him win his fights. Rock is so far above that kind of stuff it just looks goofy.

Just need to add that American Alpha's Marty Jannetty meets the Steiner Brothers ring attire is bad ass.

For those that don't believe he's the victim of a political hit, would you at least admit he's a victim of political attrition?

Godfather called England nothing but a place full of fags when he feuded with Regal The French have always been portrayed as pansies by US babyfaces. "I've never seen an attractive Oriental" paraphrasing Jim Ross Lots of strange backhanded jabs at the Japanese by wrestlers and announcers when Yokozuna was champion

I immediately flashed back to what happened when Will's favorite wrestler was "snoring" on the air and got a little worried

If Dean vs. Brock was for the title, this card becomes a million times more interesting. You don't even need to change anything else, you can still have garbage like HHH vs. Reigns and you can still push Shane McMahon off a building for your vanity project retrospective videos. There's a million problems with how they portray Dean but he's got the majority of the people behind him and 90% of the roster can't say that.

I believe non-wrestlers should be used to ultimately get wrestlers over. Shane McMahon angles are always used to get Shane McMahon over. I'm not entertained by business-exposing stunts like jumping onto crash pads and beating up trained wrestlers with horrible punches. That stuff was hokey 15 years ago and it looks even stupider now in hindsight. The fact that they need stars so bad right now and see this as a suitable alternative to creating stars is frightening.

One more time, this is awesome, massive babyface pops. All for your top heel beating down your "top babyface." That was vicious. The crowd, not the beat down although in fairness that was decent. It's really time to pull the plug on this Reigns experiment.....