Kaz (The Ringer Wrestling Show): "The widely reported backstage story is that Ari Emanuel made this call to include [Pat McAfee] in..."

The Ringer Wrestling Show · April 6, 2026 · 1h 29m

Pat McAfee Sides With Randy Orton and Causes Outrage From the IWC!

WrestleMania ticket sales

The widely reported backstage story is that Ari Emanuel made this call to include [Pat McAfee] in that angle. The deeper story is the tickets still aren't all sold out.

Cody Rhodes/Pat McAfee promos

There were reports that came out afterwards that both Pat's promo and Cody's follow-up promo that night were both complete shoots.

Injury update

Kyle O'Reilly is reportedly sidelined with a legitimate neck injury.

Pat McAfee/Randy Orton storyline

The idea that your top heel voice going into WrestleMania is shitting on your champion and shitting on the current product in favor of a bygone era is crazy.

WrestleMania main event speculation

If you had this finally come full circle and Ari Emanuel, Pat McAfee, and The Rock are standing tall at the end of WrestleMania, that's something.

AEW documentary

MJF said he pitched a Wednesday Night Wars documentary to Tony Khan. He said he thinks they dropped the ball because they won.

WrestleMania venue strategy

The very core problem with WrestleMania this year is that by going to the same place two years in a row, you actively destroy a lot of the travel market.

Cody Rhodes character

Cody certainly has a superpower of not letting you know when he's shooting and when he's not. He has the magical ability to make you think he's shooting even when he's not.

Internet Wrestling Community

I still don't count myself a member of the IWC because the IWC is the most toxic, disgusting, annoying nonsense. It's like a 'get a goddamn job and get off my dick' community.

WWE creative direction

The worst thing a wrestling promoter can do is treat its audience like they're marks, like they're dodos. You have to treat your audience like they're intelligent beings.

Wrestling fandom toxicity

I've never gotten that mad over a wrestling thing ever in my life. To have a scripted television series have that much influence on your day-to-day life to which you're threatening people, you're doxing people—that's the part that gets me.