The Shades of Gray on the Road to WrestleMania
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Why do Justin and Robin consider the Cody Rhodes vs Randy Orton matchup the ideal WrestleMania main event?
You're listening to the Busted Open podcast with Robin Lundberg and Justin Labar, Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes, Roman Reigns, CM Punk, some blurred lines with the face and heel rolls, but is that a problem? This is the Busted Open Podcast. The main events I I feel like have taken shape in the right way as far as being pillar matches, because to me, Randy Orton and Cody Rhodes one on one was the way to go, and that's proven itself out the last few weeks.
Yeah, you know, I mean I feel like uh I feel like as we talk about the main events, the men's main events, the men's world titles for WrestleMania, I feel like we should have the The music bed of uh Robin Thick's blurred lines. plane uh beneath us. Um First of all a couple of things here. Let's make m no mistake. There's been a lot of conversation about ticket sales, ticket prices, which I certainly acknowledge are just the the the the prices of tickets, not just for WrestleMania, just W W in general is just I mean I I I w what I guess what's the wha what what what do the kids say? What do the athletes say? I mean, get your bag while you can get it. I mean I if if people are gonna pay it, I guess, you know, who am I to hate on you for for for be being able to get it?
But There's all that conversation. WrestleMania's still gonna be fine. We're still gonna tune into WrestleMania or you're still gonna go to WrestleMania and there's still gonna be You know. A lot of pe tens of thousands of people in a stadium. So it it's gonna be fine. Yeah, there we go. Thank you, thank you, Zach and Sasumu. Um Ticket sale i whatever. And we're still gonna get to WrestleMania and it's still probably gonna have the the magic that is WrestleMania. It's it we're gonna have the Pyro and Ballyhoo, it's gonna feel big. There's gonna be celebrities. So I'm I'm not trying to say, Oh my god, the sky is falling, but I will say that as we approach Mania that there is um There is some lackluster feel at times, or if not lackluster, it's a feeling of like
Th w w w w what what am I supposed to be feeling? What what is the goal here? You know, I mean I won't I I won't deny, Robin. I mean you look at the main event, you look at Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton. CM Punk, Roman Reigns. Everybody's getting a reaction. That's and that's good. Everybody the the fans have an opinion and care about all four. So that's good. But it's the manner in which we are kind of getting there. It's kinda like there are some weeks where I'm just like Are we w w w are are is the writing staff on the same page? Is the writing staff and the talent on the same page? What what what are we trying to accomplish here? Or you'll see a segment go down. Like what like what I saw in the in in the ending of SmackDown this past week and I just go
This is this isn't timing out properly. There's either been too much time given to this or not enough time, or we're missing somebody or something. It's it's it it's just been it there's just been a a sequence of odd choices.
How are ticket prices and fan reactions influencing the WrestleMania 42 build?
I get finished watching the segment and I go, Well, I don't know if I'm more excited to watch the match at Mania, but I I have questions and and that's that's what it's been. And again, I'm not saying sky's fallen. We're gonna get to Mania, mania's gonna be fine in ten years, twenty years, thirty years we'll look back. It'll be another success. It'll it'll be a WrestleMania that oh it broke that year broke a a new record gate for for for the b you know, whatever. It but it but there the it there has been uh just a sequences of scratching my head of timing or or energy or something in that in that category that I'm like, this just doesn't feel like WrestleMania to me.
Well, you know, like I I really enjoy the Randy Orton current incarnation. Uh the that like where you're you're sort of he's lovable, but you know he's also unhinged. Like it it's been a good mix. But I agree with you at the end of SmackDown. It was a little bit of an awkward ending. And I was talking to Mark Henry about this yesterday. I'm also, you know, it's time to slow our jelly roll. We don't need any
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Why do Justin and Robin consider the Cody Rhodes vs Randy Orton matchup the ideal WrestleMania main event?
0:00–2:57
2
How are ticket prices and fan reactions influencing the WrestleMania 42 build?
2:57–8:42
3
What does the crowd’s mixed response to Randy Orton reveal about his character’s legacy?
8:42–18:52
4
Why is the timing of WrestleMania in late April affecting the overall storyline pacing?
18:52–36:43