THE ROCK in 2024 Is THE BEST VERSION OF THE ROCK (Wrestling Hot Takes)

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[@MooBurger2]

Day 82 of asking for top ten wwe x aew dream matches

[@GuntherB28]

SANTI, ACKNOWLEDGE HIM!

[@quay2093]

ACKNOWLEDGE OUR TRIBAL CHIEF SANTIZAP

[@ns0121]

Santi glancing over the likes to this like la knight looking into the crowd Vs the miz "look at that u gained a few"

[@ethanburgess8412]

No

[@jimcornette4492]

Half the roster been in wwe

[@InYoGirlVideos]

No way yall think that the Iyo vs Bailey match will draw more views/ more entertainment than the Rock/Roman vs Cody/Seth

[@brettt141]

it would if they didnt book it. WWE mistakes of the past being repeated. Always putting over the old talent that wont be around long over those there every week

[@ryananderson5202]

Womans wrestling sucks

[@joaodcvieira]

Nobody thinks that. It's about what's fair. Bailey won the Royal Rumble so she has to Main Event night 1 of WrestleMania. That's how it used to work. Even at this year's Rumble, at the beginning Samantha Irivn said that the Rumble winner would go on to have a championship match at the MAIN EVENT of WrestleMania. They ruined it with these exceptions.

[@InYoGirlVideos]

@@joaodcvieira I agree with you on that part. But I believe that the bloodline vs Seth and Cody is what most people want to watch

[@jameshanniffy2895]

It's not even the biggest women's match tbh. Rhea and becky is the way bigger draw.

[@theprince1822]

You should do a video about you ‘resetting’ each brand and going wrestler by wrestler and assigning them to their different divisions like a tier list. (Main Event, Mid/Main, Mid Card, Mid/Tag, and Tag Team)

[@Formulemur]

Random Wyattzworld and Santi collab

[@babygiraffe3]

I thought the same thing😂

[@samhernandez4]

WE LOVE WYATT

[@crxspyzayn]

SANTI VS EDITOR WRESTLEMANIA NIGHT 2 MAIN EVENT

[@user-sy5sy2np8r]

Also, Seth Rollins isn't going to turn on Cody because they won't be able to do anything with it in the story. Drew McIntyre is going to beat him at WM so he can go have surgery.

[@ayo7848]

I thought Seth Rollins is fully recovered from his knee injury so why does he still need surgery? Genuinely curious

[@user-sy5sy2np8r]

@@ayo7848 He just went through a short physical rehab. He wanted to make sure he could perform at Mania, but he still needs surgery.

[@ayo7848]

@user-sy5sy2np8r Alright that makes sense. Thanks for the response

[@laflamejm271]

The comment about “burying” was something I’ve been going on about too. I’m glad it showed up. It’s cool to see people with similar thoughts.

[@BigBadLlew]

I love the brand split and hate when they have wrestlers show up and fight on the opposite brands often, because when they do actually cross over (rarely) it feels special

[@pleaseshutup7053]

Then you must be pissed off the whole time during the brand split 😂

[@NoahFranke01]

I'd love to see imperium vs new day in War Games if Big E is able to return. I know it's only 3 v 3 but I think it would still be an incredible match

[@oscarsantillan12]

Perfect video 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@toohottyentertainment]

To anyone going into a WWE show this year, MAKE SIGNS! You’ll be a legend like the Die Rocky Die guy😂

[@payrysdoscs4903]

4:10 About her, once this Damage Ctrl story ends, I'd love to see her align with Zelina Vega. After all, they're a team irl on their podcast. That podcast is a riot almost every episode, so imagine the backstage interactions they could have 👀

[@NoLimitGee856]

I have to disagree with the bury take wwe put themselves in positions where they have to spend a year building up superstars because they go on abnormal losing streaks which the fans don’t like i think me personally I understand storytelling but some ppl just can’t get behind ppl after they keep losing such as AJ Styles, Liv Morgan, Sami Zayn, Shinsuke Nakamuta, even Naomi who just came back are all getting bashed in the comments 💯

[@kevinuchiha6830]

Can't wait till wm season

[@ItaliaStalia]

Santi you should try to do some videos covering main event or nxt lvl up

[@itachiuchiha-pr9fz]

I don't know if you noticed it but Rhea Ripley they keeping her away from Bianca belair the last time they actually went against each what's an NXT

[@HMOPodkast]

Every time I Think The Bloodline story is coming to a end they hit me with something new & has me invested all over again

[@joshguantes8989]

Literally a gen z person and I literally didn’t see a problem with the sign I don’t get it

[@karthikbhan3675]

I love the content but what kind of "Hot" Take is "SmakDown being constantly blacked out is a buzzkill". My guy that's just a statement there's nothing hot about that. Hopefully the YT community can actually provide actually hot takes On that note why don't you do a week where you pick out comments from both the YT and Twitter comments so there would be more comments available resulting in more actual hot takes longer vids(if you what that and I would personally love that!) and better overall content Could be a neat little one time thing and if it works out you can do it occasionally!

[@comrademoslex73]

Are you gonna do a live stream on AEW Revolution tonight since it’s the last match of Stings career?

[@DIBSonManyRose]

That 45 minute promo was the best part of smackdown

[@comrademoslex73]

It wasn’t even 45 mins if we’re excluding the commercial break, it wasn’t even for 40 mins, it was about 31 mins honestly

[@grandpaneg6959]

It took up 45 mins of a 2 hour show therefore it is a 45 min promo. Like it or not the ads are a part of the run time unless you wanna call smackdown a 1 hour 20 minute show

[@jayv4mayor]

What a shocker

[@richarddaniel6286]

@@grandpaneg6959 he is just a casual viewer who watches wwe when big stars come

[@brettt141]

i thought he would never shut up

[@Ricky-pq3nv]

Yooooo what’s up Santi

[@markopolo19892012]

The entrance music was better in the attitude area as well

[@ryanbear9665]

Would love to see some Aew or other promotion content It's stings final match tonight and pretty everywhere is covering it apart from here :(

[@MrSHADOWANGEL999]

Some real spicy takes

[@je2409]

What’s crazy is that on Smackdown when Santos Escobar was making his entrance with his Legado del Phantasma teammates, I was reflecting on how this entire feud started with Rey becoming disappointed in Santos’s jealousy of Carlitos’ return, leading to a betrayal and the creating of another Mexican Latino faction, which resulted in the war between LWO and LDP. All because Santos disappointed Rey AND THEN REY CAME BACK

[@robertthomas496]

Love the content. I disagree with your point about it not making sense for Seth to turn on Cody. Cody beat Seth 3 times, Seth cut a promo about how he needed the Main Event spot against Cody, and Cody still chose Roman. I don’t see Seth turning on Cody in the Tag Match. But I do think that Cody and Seth win the tag match, banning Bloodline from the Cody/Roman match. And then Seth loses to Drew, Seth gets pissed, and comes out to cost Cody the title. He has every reason (in a Heel mindset) to want to screw Cody. Especially if he’s no longer World Champ

[@zacowaco97]

Hot Take, Risky doing Seth Rollins Double Duty after just being cleared so after rock and Roman win the tag match, Priest will cash in beat Seth and it will be Priest Vs McIntyre for Heavyweight Championship, Priest doesn’t have much more time before he has to cash in

[@thaneshansatkunanantham507]

I want to see a rock concert on cody just like cena

[@user-kf8fx7hy2q]

Wyatt’sWorld watches you??😂😂 That’s awesome

[@youjerbchannel1533]

Should have Cody Rhodes & Jey Uso vs The Rock & Roman Reigns

[@Vxngeancez_WRLD]

Dawg, people get offended if u call them dumb! Ofc someone is gonna get offended by someone telling someone else to die

[@leytonhoward3959]

Before bron breaker Gunther was also killing ppl in squash matches

[@EmoBrockPurdy]

Seeing that Wyatt left a comment on this is awesome. He's just getting back into WWE now too. That gave me a good laugh 😂

[@syllvanusmensah1367]

Seth's motivations are so dumb😂 I mean Seth has just cost himself his title and nothing concerned him about Rhodes' story

[@watsontocooper3110]

is that THE WyattzWorld 😭

[@milanthomas9695]

I would like to know why the Bailey/Iyo program is setting up a Sasha Banks return even tho it isn’t happening lol. The fact that Bailey has no friends and her and Damage Control terrorized the whole roster, it only leaves one person to help her lol.

[@user-mn4to4st1j]

the old era by far was better because the old era take a lot of risk

[@NgannouSix9]

yes everything is predictable now

[@LonzoBall.]

Nah. Attitude Era still the best era. 🙃

[@nichlousbrooks4902]

As a younger watcher(I’m 19) but has been watching since rurhless aggression. The blacking out and the censoring really made everything worse. It sucks that I was so invested in the rocks promo then the screen went black or the censorship happened and really halted my excitement

[@chiefbosa5819]

Michael Myers ghost days good times

[@evdomos]

I've been trying to think of why Santi is the best to watch and I think it's in part because he's not overproduced like the other wrestling channels with teams. KZbin started as "guy in room" and I think that vibe resonates with a lot of people. I also like his positive leaning look on everything with not a lot of raw negativity. It makes it much more fun to watch and watch along with.

[@KKeerat]

Good Afternoon bro hope it's afternoon

[@Batmanthe3rd]

Santi please just once do a non WWE video. I really wanna hear what you think of AEW Revolution and more importantly Sting bowing out

[@anthonycotugno293]

who helps bayley against damage control???

[@VEILmscx]

The censorship for that sign was incredibly stupid. It took some of the build up from the whole segment even if it was small.

[@Kaslo25]

If feels like Bron’s squash matches are just to kill time while he finishes up his tag title run in nxt

[@yungflav193]

Yea those blackouts on smackdown really took me out of the promo

[@sonomni]

I honestly think LA Knight vs Austin Theory would be a big feud if done right, also I feel like if Punk hadn’t gotten injured, Randy would’ve been the one in Cody’s Corner

[@crayrayprod.]

Yea, I wish he was gonna be the one in his corner man.

[@milanthomas9695]

If Punk wouldn’t have gotten injured, I don’t think would have gotten involved in this fashion. Rock came in to face Roman with the intentions of Cody replacing Punk’s star power

[@alexfuller3029]

As a relatively new wrestling fan, i think i may have picked up on a pattern. The Dakota turn probably happened now so Bayley can win at Mania because she knows the trick. Last year, Asuka was misting everyone and she did it to Bianca right before Mania. So when she tried it, it failed. I feel like this is there way of giving the moment without having to sacrifice the match. I want to say that's the motivation behind Cody getting spiked against Drew, so we all have this looming shadow.

[@pleaseshutup7053]

It ain’t that deep Dakota turned on Bailey so they can stack the deck against her and build more babyface sympathy

[@dobronx702]

We should call this series Lukewarm Takes because generally that’s what these takes are

[@Arjay404]

2:42 As a kid from the Attitude Era which has fond memories of that time, I will say that for the most part this is indeed the best time in WWE, HOWEVER I will say that everything that's NOT the top of the card was much better in the AE, there are just way too many belts at the top of card that the mid carders and people that aren't mid-top guys have nothing to fight for. I generally like that Gunther and Rhea have been holding the titles hostage for so long, I used to think it was okay for Roman too, but his run with the title has become stale and boring, so I'm happy and hoping that Cody will take it from him, so that even if he does keep it hostage the belt is at least defending a lot more often, even on non PLE shows. We need to split the men's tag titles, have the JD day lose one or heck maybe both at this point, build up the women's tag team division so we have some teams that makes sense fighting for it, introduce another secondary title for the men's division and maybe even introduce a secondary title for the women's division. This way we can have some titles that can move around a bit and still allow certain titles to be held for longer period of times without stifling all the competitors vying for those longer reign titles runs. Tell me someone like Sami, Gable, LA Knight, (Heck even AJ, Randy and Jey) don't deserve to have a title right now. There are so many people near the mid to upper half that deserve to shine at the moment but can't all because WWE is too busy racking up meaningless numbers

[@NgannouSix9]

it's not the best era

[@Arjay404]

@@NgannouSix9 That's just like your opinion, man. If you are going to disagree with someone at least state some examples as to why your opinion is right.

[@pleaseshutup7053]

You saying there needs to be more titles is a perfect example of why it’s not better. If they actually did storylines without titles they wouldn’t need more titles. Like for example the tag division on 2000 was millionx Better than it is today but nobody back then was saying we need 2 sets of titles

[@pleaseshutup7053]

And i doubt you were a kid during the attitude era watching because you named nothing

[@Arjay404]

@@pleaseshutup7053 But the tag division was better partly because the tag teams had something to fight for. Hardyz, E&C, Dudleys, Too Cool, APA, New Age Outlaws, while not all of them were great, we still had a lot of teams. Today because the titles are unified and being held by the JD and Priest and Balor are pretty much top of the card or mid-top, they aren't going to have them fighting against "minor" teams. If however the belts were held by proper tag teams and the belts were split there would be more people that would have a chance to fight for them. And this wasn't even a problem a short time ago, if we go back to when the New Day or the Usos had the belt things were much better. We don't really need a bunch of new belts even though I said that before, the only reason I think we need that is because the belts that currently exists are being held hostage by their holders for too long, if the belts moved around a bit more then there wouldn't be a need for more belts. Though even having said that I think that 1 or 2 belts more wouldn't hurt, a IC type belt for the women's division and split the men's tag belt. Then just stop holding all the belts hostage, 1 or 2 is fine both more than that starts to become too much.

[@boy1da81]

The tag match should open the first night of WrestleMania. Gives Rollins a reason to lose to Drew because he already had to wrestle earlier in the night and could be hurt/exhausted and Drew will win.

[@ghostyy3648]

I need Wyatt and Santi to collab

[@Staylit2]

I dunno I was able to see it in the US

[@ianacquaye3719]

Saw a video that compared the Bloodline story to the MCU - Seth being Iron Man, Cody being Cap and Roman being Thanos

[@pleaseshutup7053]

Who is the rock

[@ianacquaye3719]

@@pleaseshutup7053 to be fair, the creator of the video did not give the Rock a character but the comments said 2014 Thanos

[@JakeFromYoutube]

3:31 have you taken a sign before Santi? If so, what did it say?haha

[@alexmalone7753]

LA Knight should be a champion this year thats why we are mad

[@Kratosx23]

Not *A* champion. *THE* champion.

[@TheFigureGuy123]

Do 2k24 videos❤

[@Kratosx23]

Current Rock is WAY better than Hollywood Rock. Hollywood Rock sucks. This is the first time in The Rocks entire career that he's not a catchphrase machine, and he's actually cutting promos that actually have some meaning. He's not relying on catchphrases, he's not relying on humor, he peppers them into his promos and it's no longer overbearing. He's somehow now just finally fulfilling his potential, after he's retired.

[@masterrserch3971]

The kid with the "THE ROCKY THE" sign is not only smart, but awesome to make that wayyyyy long ago callback from one of the greatest shows ever, and that's all ill say about that, cuz if ya know, ya know... (Im sure ill eventually "reveal" later in replies if it gets a bunch of HUHs... 😅)

[@greatnessdelton1381]

Cape Feare reference, got it

[@masterrserch3971]

@greatnessdelton1381 no one who speaks German could be an evil man

[@GrenderYT2022]

Day 1 of asking for rating all John cenas open challenge matches

[@Stiisho]

The situation with tv commercials in USA is totaly out of control, i mean is really fckd up its like every 5 minutes, i dont know how you guys watch TV, sports...

[@hunterofbeards183]

I want more Bron Breaker

[@brax7152]

If the Rock didn’t get involved, Gunther could have main evented night 1

[@blackrose8418]

Imagine Bayley and Iyo Sky getting the main event instead of Rock, Roman,Seth, and Cody. Ridiculous thinking

[@LEWfromdaHOU]

You know how the WWE can spin this whole situation with Cody vs Roman? Rock is possibly a turncoat. Remember, when Cody went to seel counsel with Rock. This could be spinned to them planning to get over on Roman by having Rock join the bloodline and dismantle it from the inside. That way the bloodline won't be able to interfere in Cody's match at Wrestlemania. If Roman knows whats good for him, he shouldnt agree with the stipulations for night 1s tag match. Paul Heyman should be able to sniff this out since he is the wiseman and all.

[@EliURBANLIFESTYLE]

Hot take, do you think this Era would be known as the bloodline Era?

[@Mrryn]

18:32 I 100% second this...if LA Knight wins at Mania. Say what you want about wins and losses not mattering as it depends on your character's portrayal, but LA Knight has looked really good despite losing iirc every PLE he's been in for months now - lost MitB, lost to Roman, lost at the Rumble, lost in the Chamber. Each one he was booked strong, even had the "visual win" vs Roman twice in Saudi Arabia and in the Fatal Four Way, and was screwed out of the win due to interference. But Knight *needs* this win...if he drops another one, even a screwy finish, to AJ at Mania, it'll be actually damaging to him and make me question what exactly the booking plan for him even is. That said, it feels only sensible that LA beats AJ in the battle of TNA at Wrestlemania, and current WWE has been pretty good at just going with the result that makes sense even if predictable. But just putting it out there.

[@ayo7848]

He won the SummerSlam battle royale and at Payback against The Miz

[@Mrryn]

@@ayo7848 Consolation wins after losses with nothing at stake but point against, thank you for the correction. But I guess that says a lot about those that I forgot about them (or in the Miz match case, subconsciously blocked it out due to what feels like a lot of missed potential). Even with nothing at stake, this is still chance to make his first big Mania moment against like Santi said a bonafide legend not just in WWE but in wrestling period. And as much as LA needs the win, he desperately doesn't need another high profile "came up short" moment.

[@ayo7848]

@Mrryn True this is the time to make LA Knight win a big match. The pop after he wins will be great too

[@CoachPaul24]

Saying that there is no heel on par with Heel Rock in the WWE is crazy given that Randy Orton is still around, arguably the GOAT of heels.

[@pleaseshutup7053]

Orton is not the goat of heels

[@backandtotheleft5623]

I don't care about knight at all, but we have realize what year it is. He's not fighting former champion AJ, as much as he's fighting jobber who's barely on tv anymore AJ

[@tiagocarravieri5522]

Hot take: most of the hot takes are not hot takes

[@mvelo6331]

3:51 Sonya Deville is also a great hater. Just look at her feud with Mandy Rose, Naomi and Bianca Belair. 😅

[@vincebasile8721]

I'm not gonna lie but it's something I could see HHH do something tells me Dakota & Bayley are working together I know she slapped her once & Bayley hit her a couple times on the outside but something idk what maybe it's just me thinking since it's so obvious she was going to betray Bayley that I think they're double swerving us with it idk but I'm still thinking Dakota & Bayley are on a side together & I'm probably wrong but that's my random thought.

[@siclay]

i wish LA Knight and AJ Styles are younger, they could've quality long rivalry similar to the likes of Rock vs Austin vibe..

[@pleaseshutup7053]

Lol rock stone cold vibes 😂😂😂

[@pleaseshutup7053]

Prime cena and Randy orton couldn’t even match rock and stone cold vibes

[@Doretto19]

I'm fairly new to the wrestling world, what exactly happened at WM27 to make it so bad?

[@AliFrankTheTank]

nothing happened, ehhh main event .. lol

[@djqmusic6107]

At 6:44 pauses video to watch WM27

[@ysonline]

They should have Bron squash Omos at WM. Also, to those who think AJ isn't a big deal, well, he did retire the Undertaker 😂

[@pleaseshutup7053]

True

[@ashly.8]

Yes XENOS say it louder

[@kennyomegamark5991]

was i the only one who hated this smackdown crowd, they were dead for anyone who wasn't from an older generation EG, Rock, Randy, Rey etc, were dead for the women or new stars, signs alone don't make good crowds

[@ericreidister1142]

IMO they didn’t do a great job of explaining why Seth suddenly has Cody’s back

[@isaiahbernal4943]

I can see Bayley lose a la Cody Rhodes last year

[@slideN2future]

It took 5 minutes from the time Roman Reigns music hit until he finally said his first words. I took Rock 4 minutes to do the same. Not only that but I think they could have cut the amount of crowd work, practiced economy of words and gotten the job done better and faster.

[@Halalrock]

I think they’re trying to inflate Smackdowns ratings, Rock knows the longer his on the longer and more people are tuning in

[@noahp1124]

just confiscate the damn sign if it’s a problem

[@Kratosx23]

Even if the women got the main event, who do you think Triple H is gonna give it to, Bayley and Iyo, or Rhea, Triple H's favourite wrestler? 😂

[@pleaseshutup7053]

Lol right

[@user-uj8oc8ty3f]

Do you think the four horse women may come back?

[@pleaseshutup7053]

Banks is all elite so how can they come back and it was never an actual thing on tv anyway so what do you mean come back

[@acourot5984]

Day 30 of asking Santi to make a video on Tony Khans biggest blunders😊

[@eliasville3459]

Ok I'm calling his ass our for not having my hottake

[@ryananderson5202]

NEVER FORGET MAUI

[@jonathandailey4281]

Ik I’m in the minority but I prefer Carlitos new entrance

[@aaronglover5448]

Aj vs la doesn’t do anything for me at a mania

[@cordaroharris9102]

Wrestlemania 27 Roman wasn’t even on the card 😂😂😂😂😂

[@TheRavenholme]

Now all the Rock needs is a Bloodline remix of his Electrifying theme and he'll be perfect. EDIT: A quick KZbin search gave me this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4nHh2h6jalkZrc&ab_channel=RedRum - and holy sweet baby Jeebus, it's _glorious_

[@lucasstrohl4320]

I think when bayley wins the womens championship, dakota kai then also turns on damage control and wins money in the bank or is bayleys opponent throughout the summer. This makes dakota a top heel and a serious contender for the title.

[@soul4mygod]

its not cool to tell ppl to die tho

[@NgannouSix9]

it's not the best era

[@el-musa7670]

Literally 0 reason to mention God when talking about how bad Wrestlemania 27 is. I understand you are not trying to be disrespectful to the people who believe in God, but it is hard to not see it that way. Sorry for being negative but I just had to comment on that.

[@KKeerat]

Bro in india My screen also get black out

[@f7or1n]

Dont be surprised when Seth turns on him

[@BenDavis25]

F*ck the rock's story