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00:00Fan anger at the Royal Rumble winners, the real reason for heat in the men's match,

00:05Drew McIntyre frustrated with his WrestleMania plans and more.

00:09I'm Oli Davis, not your Jam That Jampion, and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:23On Saturday 1st February, Jey Uso and Charlotte Flair won their respective genders Royal Rumbles.

00:28Jey's dad Rikishi was, for a change, happy, posting PROUD OF MY SON.

00:34GOD DID.

00:35Jey's original Tribal Chief Roman Reigns tweeted YEET.

00:39Even the Dictionary acknowledged main event Jey, with Merriam-Webster sharing the definition

00:44of the word.

00:45Yeet.

00:46Interjection.

00:47Used to express surprise, approval or excited enthusiasm.

00:51Excited enthusiasm, title of your next indie show.

00:54Well Dictionary, let me introduce you to YouTube comments section.

00:57I don't think you've met before.

00:58Because the overwhelming sentiment on Jey winning the 2025 Royal Rumble is a majority

01:03no yeet.

01:05YouTube publicly hid the thumbs down counter on their videos back in 2021, but you can

01:10still use plugins to find out how many dislikes a channel's upload has had.

01:14And just over 24 hours after the Royal Rumble finished, the video of Jey Uso winning has

01:2037,000 thumbs down, compared to 20,000 thumbs up, meaning 65% of people disliked the video.

01:30With highly voted comments like…

01:31Don't forget that Jey Uso had the worst fight of the year at WrestleMania 40.

01:35I'm not a Jey Uso fan, but we just had Gunther vs Jey at Saturday Night's main event for

01:40the championship last week.

01:42My excitement for this year's WrestleMania just vanished.

01:46Even the video of Jey celebrating with his son got 16,000 dislikes, compared to 12,000

01:53thumbs up.

01:54For what it's worth, we ran a poll on mine and Luke's podcast review of the Rumble,

01:57and 70% voted yeet, compared to 30% no yeet.

02:02And Charlotte winning the women's match was even more disliked, getting 32,000 thumbs

02:07down compared to just 7.2k thumbs up, which means 82% disliked the video.

02:14That's YouTube Rewind 2019 levels of bad.

02:17I will say, I think the men's Rumble was one of the best ever.

02:20And after decades of Vince going for the boring, safe option, I respect Lavec for getting behind

02:25a new star.

02:26While Cena, Reigns and Punk were the big name favourites going in, this is Cena's last

02:31year.

02:32Roman is becoming increasingly part-time, and Punk is near 50.

02:35Yes, I know Jey is 39, but in WWE right now, he's a relative spring chicken.

02:40As for Charlotte, I always thought she was going to win, so I'm not surprised.

02:44I'm just disappointed.

02:46But it's not just a portion of the fanbase who are upset with the Rumble.

02:49WWE's own wrestlers are apparently screaming and cursing backstage too.

02:55Quickly following the end of the Royal Rumble PLE, PWInsider reported that Drew McIntyre,

03:00who was eliminated just after all 30 men had entered the match, had been vocally upset

03:06backstage and stormed out of the venue before the show was over.

03:10Apparently he was annoyed with another wrestler who was more concerned with getting themselves

03:14over rather than letting the focus be on other people's storylines and spots.

03:19It all sounded very similar to Survivor Series 2023, when CM Punk returned to WWE.

03:25Drew was reportedly visibly frustrated backstage then too, and left the arena early.

03:30Whether that was a work or a shoot, it ended up becoming WWE's best onscreen feud of

03:352024.

03:36They worked a shoot into a work shoot, much love HHJJ Kiss.

03:40But then the Wrestling Observer corroborated PWInsider's story, being told it wasn't

03:44just Drew who was upset with the individual who was trying to get themselves over.

03:49Other wrestlers in the match were unhappy with it too.

03:51PWInsider have now issued a follow-up report identifying the wrestler as L.A. Knight.

03:57Yeah.

03:58And that McIntyre is believed to be upset by Knight's, quote, errant movement.

04:03Errant movement, title of your next indie show.

04:05Watching the Rumble back, this seems to happen from Logan Paul's entrance at No. 30.

04:09He enters the match, hits moves on AJ Styles and Jey Uso, and starts posing for the hard

04:14canon celebration.

04:16While that's happening, Knight slowly stalks around the ring, creating modern wrestling's

04:20favourite kind of shot where we all go HE'S BEHIND YOU.

04:24But at the very moment Paul turns around to get punched by Knight, Drew runs across the

04:29ring to throw Jey Uso over the top rope.

04:31Damian Priest runs after them, but because Knight is also in the middle of the ring,

04:36they awkwardly bump into each other.

04:38Priest continues to run forward, and him and Jey throw Drew over the top rope, eliminating

04:42McIntyre while Wade Barrett is still doing L.A. Knight's catchphrase.

04:47In a match that was mostly perfectly staged, with every interaction having a lot of space

04:51to be focused on, Drew's elimination came off clunky, sudden and anticlimactic.

04:57PWInsider add that WWE has been in contact with Drew since he stormed out, and that the

05:01whole situation was played down.

05:03WWE apparently understand why McIntyre was frustrated in the moment, and they believe

05:08it's something that can be fixed on the road to WrestleMania.

05:11But Drew's anticlimactic elimination might not all be L.A. Knight's fault.

05:15No, McIntyre's WrestleMania direction could be to blame too.

05:19Drew was trying to eliminate the eventual winner Jey before he was thrown out.

05:23That makes sense.

05:24Since wrapping up his excellent feud with Punk last October, McIntyre has become the

05:29Bloodline Hunter, targeting Sami Zayn and Jey Uso, in what appeared to be a really exciting

05:34build to Drew, eventually taking on the OTC Roman Reigns.

05:40Or maybe even an anti-Bloodline faction of Drew, Kevin Owens and Seth Rollins, which

05:45I have been calling Sword.

05:47Drew has a sword, Roman and Seth used to be in the Shield, it's right there.

05:51So why was McIntyre eliminated by Damian Priest, a wrestler who has just been drafted

05:57to the opposite brand SmackDown?

06:00According to British tabloid the Daily Mail of all places, it's apparently because the

06:03plan for WrestleMania 41 is to do McIntyre vs Priest, which the article's own source

06:10described as a nothing match.

06:13Nothing match, title of your next indie stipulation.

06:15The Daily Mail also corroborated the night story with the very weird sentence, his fume

06:20when he was eliminated was clear to see, but it has been learned that the fume was

06:25genuine.

06:26The Mail adds that Drew had to be calmed down backstage by his family and members of the

06:30locker room.

06:31As for his Mania direction, Drew reportedly feels as though he deserves a more prominent

06:35feud after the most successful year of his career in 2024.

06:39There is storyline context for doing Damian vs Drew, with Priest cashing in on McIntyre's

06:46freshly won title at WrestleMania 40 last year.

06:49But it does feel like a step down the card for McIntyre, who was firmly in the main event

06:54scene.

06:55And it's not just Drew who's been screwed out of the potential title programme down

06:58the line, as Luke cheated to beat me in our pay-per-view match following the Rumble, where

07:03we had to throw a paper ball into a basket from across the room where this happened.

07:54Now, I've decided to be the bigger man here, to rise above the hate, and give respect where

08:00respect is due.

08:01You cheated, Luke!

08:02You used an illegal foreign object in a shoot sporting competition!

08:07How you won that match was like a heel hitting me over the head with a title belt!

08:11You should be ashamed of yourself, Luke Owen DAD, I should've won!

08:15You are a cheater, you're a filthy cheater!

08:18Agree with me in the comments, agree with me very often, and all in caps.

08:22Luke screwed me.

08:23He got his belt out, and he screwed me on that table.

08:25I will get my rematch.

08:27Meanwhile in WWE's women's division, Alexa Bliss' WWE return, making her first appearance

08:32in almost two years, was a resounding success.

08:35Even people on YouTube liked it, with it currently being the most viewed WWE star return upload

08:40from the Royal Rumble, and having an incredibly strong 30,000 thumbs up to 46 thumbs down

08:48on, which is practically a 99.99999% like ratio.

08:53WWE, as is their way, used the great moment of Bliss returning to criticise the dirt sheets,

08:58with commentary saying BUT THE INTERNET TOLD ME THIS WOULDN'T HAPPEN.

09:02WrestleVotes did report on the 9th January that Creative was working on plans for her

09:06return, with merchandise already in development.

09:08So the Internet actually told you, Michael Cole, it was happening.

09:12But in recent weeks, reports did start to come out saying that plans for Alexa's return

09:16had fallen through.

09:18One version's timeline is that Bliss was being planned for a return, but she couldn't

09:22come to terms with WWE on a new deal.

09:24WWE didn't want to bring someone back and not have them properly under contract.

09:29Fightful even reported that in the Rumble rehearsal on Friday, Shotzi was in Alexa's

09:34No. 21 spot, which would've been her return to the main roster since last year's match.

09:38Even on Saturday, the day of the show, the other participants had no idea Alexa would

09:44be in the Rumble.

09:45Bliss' deal then came together in the last day or two before the PLE.

09:49But breaking news, pro wrestling might be a work.

09:52The Wrestling Observer smells a scheme, and speculates that WWE were actually working

09:58everyone, including a lot of their own staff, using the t-shirt that was ready to be released

10:03on the day of Bliss' return as potential evidence.

10:06However it all came together, it worked, as Bliss got the biggest pop of the night.

10:11As for what next, PWInsider writes that Alexa will join the Raw roster going forward, which

10:16likely means she won't be with the Wyatt Six faction, who were just drafted to SmackDown.

10:20As for Shotzi, while she missed out on a Rumble spot, Fightful report she is expected to return

10:25to the main roster soon.

10:26She's been wrestling on NXT since December, to get some reps in ahead of her comeback.

10:31Now go watch mine and Luke's podcast review of the Royal Rumble by clicking the video

10:34onscreen now, where Luke also cheated to beat me.

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