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WWE Raw 6/22/26 Review | NEW CHAMPIONS CROWNED, Missing Star RETURNS And HEEL TURN! · Solomonster Sounds Off

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  Speaker 1: We are back a little earlier than usual because Raw
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  Speaker 1: was overseas. I believe this is the end of the
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: European tour, so after this week we were back to normal.
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  Speaker 2: But Raw was in jolly old England.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: They were in London at the two the final Raw
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  Speaker 1: before Night of Champions, which I guess technically means the
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  Speaker 1: international tour is not over because they will be in
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: Riot on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: So what am I talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, we got a one o'clock start for
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  Speaker 1: a Night of Champions on Saturday. But tonight or today,
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  Speaker 1: It feels weird to say tonight, I guess for some
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  Speaker 1: of you watching it would be tonight. This was the
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  Speaker 1: go home episode of Raw. Before the show a pretty
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: pretty boring show for the most part. It was a
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  Speaker 1: newsworthy show really for three things. Mainly it was newsworthy.
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  Speaker 1: There were things that happened here on this show, but
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  Speaker 1: I just couldn't shake this feeling of boredom for most
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: of it. And typically when they're overseas, especially in the UK,
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: they're very lively, right, you guys were a very lively,
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  Speaker 1: energetic bunch more than we are here in the States typically,
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  Speaker 1: And for the most part that wasn't really the case
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  Speaker 1: for large chunks of the show, which tells you that
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  Speaker 1: there were a lot of people in the audience who
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: were very disinterested in what they were watching. But we
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: had another Vision main event, so I won't fault you
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  Speaker 1: if that didn't get your gears going. Another Vision main
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  Speaker 1: event here on this show. But it paid off with
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  Speaker 1: brand new Tag Team Champions being crowned. They put their
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: tag team titles on the line against the Street Profits.
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  Speaker 1: This was after cameos from Joe Hendry. Yes he lives,
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  Speaker 1: He's alive. Joe Hendry was back briefly literally on the
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  Speaker 1: show for maybe twenty seconds, and then Seth Rollins came
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  Speaker 1: out and he also made an appearance and he provided
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  Speaker 1: the assists, and in the end we had new Tag
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  Speaker 1: Team Champions four times over the Street Profits five if
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  Speaker 1: you want to count their run. From NXT. Credit to
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  Speaker 1: Angelo Dawkins. I will say that man has clearly put
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  Speaker 1: the work in. Just he is in the best shave
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  Speaker 1: that I have seen him in. He's probably in the
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: best shave that he's been in since he came to
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  Speaker 1: the Performance Center. And he came to the PC a
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  Speaker 1: long time ago, probably over a decade ago, but he
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  Speaker 1: put the work in and he's looking pretty good these days.
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  Speaker 1: So we got new tag team champions Crown that, we
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  Speaker 1: had the return of Joe Hendry, and we got Lyra
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  Speaker 1: Valkyria turning heel on Bailey, which is not something that
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  Speaker 1: I was expecting. I don't know that Lyra Valkyria has
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  Speaker 1: ever been heel in her career, so this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be something different, and I don't know if she
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  Speaker 1: can pull it off. I don't know that I trust
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  Speaker 1: WWE Frankly to allow her to pull it off because
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  Speaker 1: we've seen heel turns that have flopped in this company before.
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  Speaker 1: I could think of a major one last year that
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  Speaker 1: also flopped. But it is something different, you know. Lyra
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  Speaker 1: has just sort of been spinning her wheel doing not
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  Speaker 1: much of anything for a while now. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: hate it. I'm not against it. I just question whether
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  Speaker 1: or not she can be successful because she's a great babyface,
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  Speaker 1: you know, But there are great babyfaces that go on
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  Speaker 1: to become great heels. Maybe she'll be one of those people.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: One person who we did not get on the show
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  Speaker 1: tonight was Brocklesner. I thought maybe there was a chance,
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: there was still a chance that brock could show up,
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  Speaker 1: he could take Obafemi out of the King.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Ring. I knew.
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  Speaker 1: I knew going in that it was unlikely, but there
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: was no brock Lesnar appearance. We did, however, get one
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  Speaker 1: final stare down showdown, face to face between the finalists
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: and the King of the Ring and the Queen of
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  Speaker 1: the Ring. So we had Obafemi, we had jay usso Ye,
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: and then we had Lived Morgan, who thankfully is okay.
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  Speaker 1: We had a little scare the other day would live,
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  Speaker 1: but she's fine. Live Morgan and EO Sky they are
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  Speaker 1: going to be in the finals of the Queen of
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  Speaker 1: the Ring. They were on the show as well. Chad
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: Gable was on the show. He was there to apologize
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: to the Alpha Academy Maxine dupri though was not willing
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  Speaker 1: to accept his apology. We'll talk about what happened there.
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  Speaker 1: We even got a cameo here from Solo's Socoa. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Lions today, what's going on? Shout out to Lions Today
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  Speaker 1: and everybody else who's able to join here because the
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: stream is at five o'clock in the evening, so there
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: are people in other countries who normally can't join live
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: who hopefully will be able to drop by. Even Solo
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: Secoa dropped by here on the show today. He made
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  Speaker 1: a cameo. Couldn't help this show though. Again I thought
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: for the most part it was pretty flat. But we're
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  Speaker 1: going to go through everything that happened here. This is
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  Speaker 1: your raw on Netflix review. It is Monday, June twenty second,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. I am the solemn monster. Hit that
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  Speaker 1: little bit. We are going to spin the wheel and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how this is going to go because
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  Speaker 1: we're at a weird time. We're not going to have
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  Speaker 1: as many people as usual. We can hope for a
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  Speaker 1: low number. Maybe if we land low enough, we could
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  Speaker 1: hit the goal. What do you think, let's find out. Ooh,
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  Speaker 1: that's definitely not a low number. That is definitely not
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  Speaker 1: a low number. Hey, Frank, Puerto Rico is listening. He says,
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: shout out to Puerto Rico. We had a hell of
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: a parade here in the city about a week ago. Well,
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: seven hundred likes is going to be impossible unless we
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  Speaker 1: get more people in here. But don't give up hope.
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  Speaker 1: You never know. That's the goal here. If we want
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  Speaker 1: to be the booker later seven hundred. All right, let's
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and start from the top here. Will work
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  Speaker 1: our way through this show. And then once we're done here,
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  Speaker 1: I got some final prep work to do for the
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  Speaker 1: Uncrowned Wrestling Show, which is going to be dropping tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: that out when we're done here if you have not.
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: Yet listened to yesterday's episode. It's pretty good.
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: Covered a lot of ground there. Opa Femi covers a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ground as well. When he takes a step
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: when he's walking down the aisle, when he's walking down
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: the street, he definitely takes up a lot of space.
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: He's a big guy, and he strutted down to the ring.
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: He was not in his wrestling attire. He looked like
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: he was ready to hit the club. He got in
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  Speaker 1: the ring, fans were just going nuts for him. They
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: were chanting his name for a very long time and
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: to the point where he told them, okay, settle down,
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: settle down. Obah said that he's been backed by Destiny
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  Speaker 1: since he was born. She's been very good to him.
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: He credited Destiny for all of his accomplishments. He said
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  Speaker 1: it would play into this weekend when he becomes the
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: King of the Ring. He said, if he wins, he
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: gets to challenge the champion of his choosing, which is
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: the first time I believe that they have actually come
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: right out and said that in those words. We could
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: pretty much surmise that from the fact that Roman Reigns
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: was telling Jay Usso to go after the other championship live,
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: Morgan's been talking about how she wants it all. She's
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: going to win the other title from Rio Ripley. But
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  Speaker 1: I think this may have been the first time we've
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  Speaker 1: heard one of the wrestlers actually go out there and
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  Speaker 1: say that we get to pick the champion of our choosing.
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  Speaker 1: So he questioned whether he should go after the WWE championship,
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  Speaker 1: and the reaction from the crowd was very was very tepid.
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  Speaker 1: He was very like, eh, or should he go after
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  Speaker 1: the World Heavyweight championship, and everybody cheered because that's the
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  Speaker 1: title they want, that's the man they want him to
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  Speaker 1: go after. They want to see Oba Femi against Roman Reigns.
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  Speaker 1: So jay USO's entrance music interrupted and he made his
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  Speaker 1: way yeating through the crowd all the way down to
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  Speaker 1: the ring. Crowd wanted him to run it back. Oba said,
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  Speaker 1: if you're thinking about running it back, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: put an end to that right now.
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  Speaker 2: And see that was a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: I would not have had him say that unless you
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  Speaker 1: went off and said that on his own, because literally
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  Speaker 1: two seconds later, jay Usso ran it back anyway, and
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  Speaker 1: Oba just stood there and he looked like a gooff.
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  Speaker 1: If you can stand there and say that you're not
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  Speaker 1: going to run it back, I'm gonna make.
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  Speaker 2: Sure of that.
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  Speaker 1: And then two seconds later, you know, the the guy
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  Speaker 1: is on the ropes and he's yeating again and you
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  Speaker 1: don't go over and destroy him. It makes you look
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  Speaker 1: like a you know, a freaking loser, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can't back up your words. So I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: said that. But anyway, so Jay said, you must have
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  Speaker 1: forgotten I'm him. He added that he was counted out
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: the people counted him out when he won the Royal Rumble.
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  Speaker 1: They counted him out when he won the World Heavyweight Championship.
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  Speaker 1: They counted him out when he entered the King of
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  Speaker 1: the Ring. They're counting out the possibility that he could
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  Speaker 1: win King of the Ring right. Every step of the way,
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  Speaker 1: people have counted him out. So Jay said that he
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: would climb this mountain on Saturday. He guaranteed that he
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  Speaker 1: would become world champion.
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  Speaker 2: He declared.
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  Speaker 1: This was Oba's warning shot, and Oba wondered if that
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  Speaker 1: meant that Jay would be shooting for.
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  Speaker 2: Real that night of night.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: The prospect of jay Usso shooting on Obafemi is just
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  Speaker 1: this hilarious visual. To me, it is not something that
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  Speaker 1: I would recommend. I will say that if Obafemi and
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  Speaker 1: jay Uso are in the ring together and jay Uso
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  Speaker 1: begins shooting on Obafemi, it's going to be a bad
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  Speaker 1: night for jay Uso. So that's something I would avoid.
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  Speaker 1: But Oba said, look, he warned him not to miss,
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  Speaker 1: don't miss. You're gonna take your shot. Don't miss or
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to destroy you. And even if you don't miss,
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: I'm going to destroy you. Anyway, he said, Jay isn't
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  Speaker 1: the family member he's really worried about, and Oba told
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  Speaker 1: him take your stupid bullets and give them to your cousin.
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: The fans like that, So it was pretty well established
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  Speaker 1: here in this segment. What the fans want to see here,
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  Speaker 1: the match that they want to see.
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  Speaker 2: I guess.
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: The only question is do we actually get it at
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  Speaker 1: Summer Slim or is this something they're going to hold
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: off on for Saudi Mania next year, because that really
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: is the big match, right Roman reigns Oba Femi in
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  Speaker 1: terms of putting him in the ring, which somebody knew.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: Obviously the bigger match would be Roman in the Rock,
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: but Roman and Oba is one of the biggest matches
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  Speaker 1: they could do. I just don't know that they want
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  Speaker 1: to be giving it away. This soon still a possibility
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: he could win and he could go on to pick
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: Roman at Summer Slim. Beyond that, though very basic segment,
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: one thing I did notice when again Jay he comes
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: through the crowd and he's yeating and he's got to
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  Speaker 1: run it back and he's yeating and he's all fired up. Right,
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: He's very intense on these promos, and he was so winded.
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  Speaker 1: Was he gassed himself out before he even started speaking.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, get this man an oxygen mask. That
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  Speaker 1: was very noticeable. Otherwise this was a very basic segment.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: We go backstage. Adam Pierce is on the phone. He
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: runs into La Knight, who accuses him of being on
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: the phone with the bloodline. Jimmy Usso walks up. He
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: asks La Knight what his problem is. He tried to
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: help him last week, but La hit him with a chair.
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: So they start yelling, and you know, Knight said he
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: didn't like the fact that Jimmy or Pierce. I think
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: it was suggested they have a match tonight. It's going
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: to be La Night against Jimmy USSO and La Knight.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't like that idea. He said, that's a terrible idea.
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  Speaker 1: I got a better idea. How about tonight it's La
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  Speaker 1: Night against or Jimmy.
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  Speaker 2: Use I don't even know which one it is.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy USO and Jimmy said, that's what he just said,
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  Speaker 1: and La says, well, I don't hear what he says.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: I don't pay attention to what he says. So we
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  Speaker 1: had an impromtu match made for later in the show.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: Then it was a homecoming for Page.
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: They were in London.
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: They were in the UK, and it was Paige and
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: Brie Bella defending the women's tag team titles against Bailey
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  Speaker 1: and Lyra Valkyria. Now, before the match, Jackie Redman interviewed
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: Lyra and Bailey in the back. Lyra was all excited,
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  Speaker 1: she was all amped up. This match was her idea.
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  Speaker 1: This match is a match that she got herself. And
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  Speaker 1: she said they've had no luck all year. It was
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: all supposed to happen tonight and Bailey says that they've
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: been the best tag team in this division for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. Lyra got the match for them. Tonight's the night.
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  Speaker 1: So once the bell rang, immediately Lyra hit Page with
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  Speaker 1: an inziguri and a dropkick. Later on, Bailey dropped Brie
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  Speaker 1: with her belly to Bailey's superlaw. Page though young Brie
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  Speaker 1: out of the ring to break up the pin, so
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  Speaker 1: the challengers they got heat on Brie for a while.
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  Speaker 1: During one of the breaks, Brie came back with a dropkick.
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  Speaker 1: Some tags were made. Page came in. She went wild
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  Speaker 1: for a little bit. She went for the page turner.
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  Speaker 1: Lyra countered into a night wing for a near fall.
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: Bailey went for the Bailly to belly again on Brie,
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  Speaker 1: but she sent her out to the floor instead, and
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  Speaker 1: Valkyria hit a fisherman's buster on Page and it looked
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  Speaker 1: like she was trying for a second one Page, though,
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  Speaker 1: countered into the rampage and spiked her down on her
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  Speaker 1: head and she got the pin to retain the title.
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  Speaker 1: So bri Bella and Page are still your Women's tag
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  Speaker 1: team champions. But the big story here wasn't the match,
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: it was what happened after the match. So the match
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  Speaker 1: is over. Bailey goes over to check online. Now you
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: know something bad's gonna happen here because they're still in
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  Speaker 1: the ring. And now they turn the music down and
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: Bailey goes over to check on Lyra. Lyra gets up,
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  Speaker 1: she helps her to her feet. Now they wanted you
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: to believe that Bailey was going to turn on her.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: They swerved you, though, because instead Lyra shoved Bailey hard
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  Speaker 1: into the middle rope and she just lost it. She
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: mounted Bailey and she's slapping her and hitting her over
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: and over and over again. She throws her hard into
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  Speaker 1: the middle rope on the other side of the ring
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: and outcomes some officials and I don't remember if Adam
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Pearce was out there, but I know Davari was out
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  Speaker 1: there ken done, so they came out to try to
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: break things up. Lyra broke free and she hit nightwing
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  Speaker 1: on Bailey because she wasn't done yet, and the fans booed,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: and so the jury is out on whether or not
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: this is going to work. I don't know that anybody
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: was expecting Lyra by herself to go heal. I would
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  Speaker 1: imagine there were people out there who said, Okay, I
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: can see Bailey and Lyra. You know they've lost so much,
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: maybe they go heel together. Li going heel on her
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: own is not something I was anticipating. And I don't
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: know what to expect because she's a very good babyface.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know if she has it in her to
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  Speaker 1: be a great heel or at least the kind of
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: heel they're going to book her as. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if it's gonna work. But the way I look at
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: it is, Bailey has gone from babyface to heel to
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  Speaker 1: babyface to heel multiple times.
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  Speaker 2: So if it would have been.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Bailey going heel a it would have been predictable. But
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: b it's something we've already seen before, you know, Plus
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: she had voices in her head. I don't know whatever
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  Speaker 1: happened to that, So this is something different. At least
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: it's a different dynamic we'll have. Bailey is a babyface
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  Speaker 1: and Lyra is a heel. I don't know if that
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  Speaker 1: means they're going to change her music at some points
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  Speaker 1: that the fans stop doing the whooh when she comes out.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: But if they do, they'll probably downgrade it and give
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: her some you know, deaf rebel trash that's worse.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, that's what we're looking at here. We're looking
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: at a Lyra heel turn. Really, I mean, if you
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: think about it, Lyra has been floundering for a while now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously in storyline they've lost and lost and lost,
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  Speaker 1: but really since she got bounced out of the Icy
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  Speaker 1: title picture, they've had nothing for her. She's been on
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  Speaker 1: the back burner. She hasn't really been a factor on
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: these shows. Maybe the heel Terran could help get her
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: back into the mix. Soul Ruka, by the way, she
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: is the Intercontinental champion. They just had a match recently
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: she beat Lyra. Another loss. Now that Lyra's gone heel.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Who knows, Maybe she comes back around to Soul and
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: they feud over the icy title we'll see speaking of
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: the intercontinental title, a title that this man should be
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: competing for at summer slant angry Bird, who called her
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: an angry bird.
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  Speaker 2: As Actually, I like that.
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  Speaker 1: Lyra is now an angry bird. Now where do you
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: guys come up with this stuff? Chad Gable had requested
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: time to speak on this show. Very important to get
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: him on the show every week. Consistency this is the key.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: So I like that they're keeping him on the show
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: so far every week since he's come back. He came
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: out to his new AI generated rock theme song. He
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: was clapping his hands like this. He was clapping his
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: hands above his head. He was trying very hard to
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: get the crowd into it, and they were like, eh,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're sold on this music.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Neither am I.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: He said that he was here for something very close
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: to his heart. He said, it's been a hell of
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: a month, started when he lost his mask in Mexico,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: which technically was last month. I'm sorry, excuse me, sir,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: that was technically last month. But it's been a hell
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: of a month. Nonetheless, for Chad Gable, he lost his
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: mask in Mexico. Gable said that he realized that he
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: had lost his dignity as well and his friends. He said,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Raymons Stereo taught him that it's never too late to apologize.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: So Gable said that he was going to call out
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: a few people, and the people he wanted to call
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: out were Alpha Academy, Otis, Tozawa, Maxine Dupre. They make
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: their way down to the ring and they all look
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: very you know, suspicious of this man and what his
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: intentions are, because they were. They were abused by him
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: physically and verbally. He treated them like shit. Why should
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: they want to hear anything he has to say. Gable
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: went down the line with all three of them singing
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: their praises. He looked at Maxine, he complimented her on
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: winning a singles title, something that he still has not
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: been able to do. He tried to hold down Tozawa,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: who he said has the heart of a lion, and
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: then he saved Otis for last, and he said, you
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: know you and I we trained together at the Olympic
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Training Center, and he talked about how loyal a friend
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Otis was and Otis even he held his kids in
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: his arms when they were born. And then he said
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the magic word. He said, I'm.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Sorry to all three of them.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: And so Otis was ready to shake his hand because
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Gable put his hand out for a handshake, and Otis
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: was about to accept, and Maxine stepped in front of him.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Not so fast. Maxine took the mic. She said she.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Knew that the fans, and she knew that Otis and
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Tozawa were ready to forgive him, but not her. She
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: said that they were gonna leave Gable the way that
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: he left them alone. She shoved the mic into his
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: chest and she left the ring. Tozawa left the ring.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Otis was the last one to leave. He was a
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: little hesitant. He kind of looked back at Gable, but
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: then he decided to go ahead and join the others.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: And that's how the segment came to an end. And
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: there was a little more to Maxine's promo. I thought
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: that first of all, I thought her delivery and the
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: promo she cut was good. She's another one who, kind
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: of like Lyra, has just been on the back burner
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: for a lot while they haven't really had anything for
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: her to do. We got the whole Maxine due pre
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: singles push and it just kind of flamed out. But
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that she can't be, you know, useful
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: in another role on the show. In terms of the promo,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I thought she cut, you know, a fine promo here. Gable,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I thought he did well. Otis didn't say anything Tozaua.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Didn't say anything. They just stood there and stared.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: But I mean, look, I thought as a segment it
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: came off well. I could see the story they're trying
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: to tell. I still feel the same way I felt
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: last week. Please don't drag this out for too long,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: because I feel like the longer you associate Gable with
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: this crew, because they've already established this crew is only
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: at a certain level on this show, and you don't
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: want Gable to be kind of stuck in that same
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: spot with them because he's he's so much better, and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: you hope that they can parlay this whole triple A
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: thing into something really big for him. I don't know
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: if that ever means a world title, but at least
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: the IC title. So my only hope is that they
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: don't drag this out for too long here, Maxine, though
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: you know she was acting very heelish, I guess, you
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: might say. But at the same time, everything she's saying
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: she wasn't wrong. You know, she was one of the
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: people who was verbally abused by this man. Actually might
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: he might have put her in an ankle lock once
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: now that I think about it. So he treated them
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: like garbage, and you could understand her feeling the way
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: she feels. But she's also been hanging around Austin theory.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: So I still wonder if the end goal of all
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: this is for her to end up with the Vision.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they're going to go that far
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: or not. So that's just something to keep in mind here.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: At the end of all this, you know, are we
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: looking at Vision Alpha Academy? Is that going to become
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: a thing? At some point?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: It might?
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: She may quit these guys, end up with the Vision,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: and then we get a little a match or a
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: feud between them and I don't know, then Gable, what
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: is gabled? Is Gable aligned with the remaining members of
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Alpha Academy to feud with the Vision? I mean, is
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: that the plan here? I don't know what the plan
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: should be. Is summer slim in Minneapolis, nothing with Gable
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: and the Vision. The plan should be Gable and Penta
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: for the Intercontinental Championship. And there was a segment later
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: in the show that gives me hope that they realized
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the same thing, and that's exactly what we're gonna end
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: up getting. But we'll get there a little bit later on.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: We had Dragon Lee. He went one on one with
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Ethan Page. There was a wild suicide dive here by
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Dragon Lee that knocked Paige into the announced desk and
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: sent himself floating over the desk and into the barricade.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: He hit more of the desk, honestly than he hit Ethan. Paige,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: by the way, was sporting a black eye or like
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: a shiner under the eye. It didn't happen on that spot.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: It happened, had to happen earlier. I just didn't see how.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: But he set up Dragon did for a styles clash,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: and Page head butted him low and then finished him
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: off with the ego plex for the wind. A solid
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: little match here.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Really nothing special, you know, it was a wasn't terribly exciting,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: but it was fine.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: You know, it was fine. It's a win for Ethan Page.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: I like Ethan Page.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I want to see big things for him on this
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: show at some point. It's not happening right now, but
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: feeding him wins to me is more important than feeding
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: wins to Dragonly. They mentioned the WWE Unreal Season three
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: is coming, Oh boy, season three. Yes, it's coming on
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: July twenty first, and in this season they will be
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: covering the retirement the end of John Cena's run.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: They mentioned also the return.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Of a former WWE superstar.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I assume that means Page. They didn't mention who it was, so.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Then Michael Cole and Corey Graves they pitched it over
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: to a video package covering all of the drama from
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the last few months between the Vision and the Street
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Profits who would be in the main event.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Later on here in the show.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Jackie Redman was backstage with the Vision. She was backstage
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: with Austin Theory, Logan, Paul, and bron Breaker because the
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: other members of the Vision are injured. I don't know
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: that we will ever have the Vision back to full strength.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I feel like one person will come back, another person
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: will get hurt, then that person will leave and the
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: cycle continues. So they're missing Paul Hayman. Still, they're missing
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Bronson Reid. By the way, I gave Angelo Dawkins a
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: lot of credit earlier for getting in the best shape
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: of his career.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: That much.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: You've been following Bronton Reid on social media. Best shape
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I've ever seen him in, going back to his days
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: even pre NXT. He's going to be a beast when
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: he got he might be smaller, but he's still going
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: to be a beast. When he gets back. He may
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: be faster. Theory said that everyone is after the vision
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: seth Rollins is going to be taken care of in
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: a steel cage on Saturday. The street profits. They don't
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: know sacrifice Logan Paul says that he wants to take
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: his brace off and beat them up with it. He's
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: healed faster than any human being in history. He would
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: put all of his money on the vision. And then
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: bron Breaker said he was gonna rip STEP's head off
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: in their cage match. So they showed At this point,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: they cut back to the crowd and they showed someone
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: some boxer from ZUFA. They're trying to make Zufa boxing
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: a thing because they own it, So they showed a
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: ZUFA boxer in the crowd. Nobody gave a shit. They
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: showed Actually, there was another boxer, a retired boxer that
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: they showed that got a pop, This guy Derek Chesora.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: They showed Michael Page from UFC. He's a welterweight. They
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: showed him in the crowd. But then they showed Jason
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Statham in the crowd. A real star, an actual celebrity,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: was in attendance tonight on this show.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: He was there.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: It looked like he was there with his kids. He
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: was having a good time. He's got a new movie
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: coming up, by the way, called Mutiny. I saw the
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: trailer for it when I went to the movies a
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: few weeks ago. It looks like a Honestly, it looks
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: like a version of like Diehard two, except it's on
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: a ship instead of a plane, and he just kills
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of people, which is all I really
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: want out of adjacent state the movie. Jackie Redman was
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: in the ring to bring out Eo Sky, one half
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: of the Queen of the Ring Final this Saturday.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Io got in the ring.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: She said she's extremely grateful to have gotten to the finals.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: She said she was going to beat liv Morgan to
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: become Queen of the Ring. This is a very basic
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: provo here. Until Liv Morgan came out and Liv was
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: looking okay, there was an injury scare. They had a
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: live event in Birmingham last night. I think it was
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: a triple threat match, and a lot of people online
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: on social media gave soul Ruka a lot of shit
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: because it was a springboard and the way she landed,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: she landed on Live's foot and it looked like Live
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: may have suffered an injury and the matt ended shortly thereafter,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and I guess it was bad enough that sol Ruka
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: has gone dark on her ex. I think her tweets
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: now are protected and you can't see anything. I only
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: saw some of it, and it was bad enough. Again,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I can only imagine the kind of shit that she
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: was getting from this one clip. This one clip. You know,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: people talk about it, Oh, we need more house shows.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Wwe needs more house shows. The talent needs to get
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: more reps, which, by the way, is one hundred percent true.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: There should be more house shows.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: They should have the ability to go out there and
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: wrestle and get and especially the people they call it
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: from NXT to work with the more experienced veterans and
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: just get better and hone their craft. Absolutely I agree
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: with that, but can you imagine they start doing house
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: shows more, We're gonna see more clips and the slightest
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: little botch or something goes wrong, and the kind of
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: shit that these people are going to have to take
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: on social media is unbelievable. So anyway, for the time being,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: sol Ruka is off of X and honestly probably not
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: a bad idea. So Liv talked about winning Queen of
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the Ring as she was walking down to the ring.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: She got into the ring, she said that then she
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: would go on to Summer Slam and she would beat
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: EO's friend Rhea Ripley to win the other championship. EO
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: asked if Liv was sure the crown would fit on
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: her big head. I like that, I like that line,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I chuckled. Then she yelled at her in Japanese. Morgan
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: punched her in the face. Liv ended up being put
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: down though with a springboard dropkick, and that was it
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: as basic as it gets. Same thing with Oba and
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Jay at the beginning of the show. There really wasn't
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: a whole lot to this. At least we didn't have
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: to sit through two contract signings. It's the best I
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: could say about it. Actually, the best thing I could
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: say about it is that it's good to see live
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: healthy because it did look bad. That video clip looked
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: bad and boy, and can you imagine She's in the
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: finals of the Queen of the Ring this weekend. Like,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: even if it was like a sprained ankle or something, right,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: you take a couple of weeks off depending on how
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: bad the sprain is. She doesn't have a couple of weeks.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: You know, She's got fourys fucking five days. She's got
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: to fly to Saudi and be in the finals of
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: this tournament, let alone whatever she's gonna do a SummerSlam.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: It would have been a disaster if she was injured,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: so thankfully she's not, and she looks to be okay.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Now we go backstage and Jimmy and Jay were back there.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Jay was asking Jimmy, do you need help tonight against
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: La Knight, and Jimmy says he has Night handled. Jay
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: needs to just focus on Oba Femi. Jacob fought too,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: showed up and he let them know I don't answer
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: to you because they wanted some answers out of him
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: about Solo. So Coed Jay was on edge about Solo.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: You know he could very well show up tonight, which
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: in fact he did. Jacob said he sent the message
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: to Solo on SmackDown. Now we wait said if Solo
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: c loss is the line, he won't like what he
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: finds elsewhere. Dominic Mysterio and JD McDonough they entered dan
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Housen's lair his science lab, want to know where their
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: money is. Apparently they gave him one hundred thousand dollars
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: last week to take care of Obafemi and they did
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: not do that, and dan Housen said he spent it
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: all on his latest science experiment. He spent one hundred
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars in a week. He burned through one hundred
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: grand in seven days. He is the Floyd Mayweather of WWE.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: So they threatened to steal his experiment. Dan Housen then
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: puts a curse on JD McDonough. Dom says that McDonough
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: is uncursable, and McDonough says yeah, And he turns around
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: and whatever the science experiment was, he was sitting in
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: like a plastic bin and he touches it and he
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: gets electrocuted and he falls to the ground comedy, comedy.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: This is I like Dan Hausen, but these segments, these
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: segments aren't doing it for me. We had La Night
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: against Jimmy USO and this is where the crowd really died,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: I would say, for the first time here on this show.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: This match went about twelve minutes. It felt twice as long.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: This was a very dull match. Jimmy supplex Knight on
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the aprin At one point, back inside, he went for
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: a running hip attack. Night moved out of the way
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: and Night made a comeback. He ran though into a
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Samoan drop. Jimmy was on the ropes. Night was setting
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: up for that leap to the top for the superplex,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: but he stopped. He was on the middle rope and
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: he's staring at something in the crowd, and the something
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: that he is staring at is one Solo Socoa. I
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: love how Solo Socoa has color coordinated for the show.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: He came out here. He was wearing a red blazer.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: He had the red dress Pan's on. That distraction allowed
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Jimmy to shove Night off the ropes and Knight acted
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: like he tweaked his knee on the way down, so
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: the referee went to go ten to him. Solo quickly
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: scurries up the steps. He's on the apron. Jimmy is still,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: you know, sitting on the top rope, and Solo just
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: looks at him, and Jimmy sees him, and Solo smiles
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: at him, and then he spikes him right in the throat.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: And Knight saw what happened, and he looks surprised. He
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: was taken off. God, he was taken aback by what
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: he just witnessed, but he took advantage of it. He
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: dropped Jimmy with a BFT and it was very alarming
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: because that's his finishing move. Night Light came out, he
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: got a great reaction. He's very popular, but he hit
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: his finishing move here. Nobody reacted. It was silent. He
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: hit the BFT to silence the stone cold stunner it
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: is not and he covers him and he gets the
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: pin and wouldn't you know, La Knight won a fucking match. Now,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: of course, when La Knight wins a match, which is rare,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: he doesn't really win. Solo Socoa won the match for him.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: But you know what, if you're La Night at this point,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: you just take the dub. You don't get too many
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: of them, especially over members of the Bloodline take the
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: dub and just be happy with it. But it's just
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: funny to me that even when he wins, it's somebody
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: else who really gets to take the credit for it.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: As far as Solo Sekoa doing what he did, you know,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: when SmackDown was over last Friday, my thought was, it
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: started to feel to me like Solo may end up
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: linking back up with the Bloodline at some he still could,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: but what they did on this show obviously was the
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: opposite of that. There was no hint of that whatsoever here.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: So if he is in the end going to end
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: up just kind of realigning with Roman and his crew
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: and the MFTs are going to go the way of
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: the Dodo, it's going to be a while before we
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: get there. But again, I just I can't bring myself
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: to get excited about this stuff, you know. I mean,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: I'll compliment Solo on his you know, his wardrobe. Guy
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: knows how to dress up nicely. I wish I could
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: sit here and tell you that this story excites me,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: but it doesn't. It really doesn't. I feel like I've
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: been watching the same story play out for about three
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: and a half years now. Then you got La Night
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: out there hitting his finish to fucking crickets because nobody
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: gives a shit after a break. Jackie was in the back.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: She caught up with Bailey with an ice pack on
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: her neck in the trainer's room. She said, did you
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: see this coming? And Bailey said that I have nothing
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: to say and she walked off. Elsewhere, Raquel Rodriguez was
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: talking to Roxanne Perez and she was venting. She's sick
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: and tired of letting every opportunity just slip through her fingers.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Roxanne said that it should have been you and Live
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: in the finals of the Queen of the Ring. But hey,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: at least we could be happy for Live. So Dom
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: and JD show up then Live Morgan walks in. She's
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: very upset over what happened with EO earlier on. Raquel
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: cuts her off, though, and says, hey, can you not
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: see that none of us are doing so hot? She said,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Dom and j D they lost a lot of money.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: JD got electrocuted. Roxanne and her thought that it was
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: going to be you know, me and you. It's going
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: to be rock you know, Raquel and Live in the
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: finals of the Queen of the Ring. Liv said, look,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: everything's going to be okay. I'm going to win the
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Queen of the Ring. She said, Raquel, you're going to
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: take the intercontinental title off of soul Ruka. She said,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Dom and j D, you need to focus on getting
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the men's intercontinental title from Penta. So Roxanne's hearing this,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: and Roxanne pipes up and she says, uh, excuse me,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: but what about me? And before Live could answer, McDonough said,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I think I need to go to medical and Live
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: said yes, yes, yes, we have to get him to
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: medical quickly.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Off they go.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Earlier today, Corey Graves sat down. Why are WWE wrestlers
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: so depressed? Now, says mind the Gap? Why are they depressed?
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: OLG?
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: I wonder, Well, let's see Johnny Gargano on SmackDown. All
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: I need to tell you is that he's on SmackDown.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's enough of a reason to be depressed.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: So Johnny Gargano is planking every week. Sammy's aim was
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: depressed for an extended period of time on that show
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: as well on this show. I mean j D McDonagh
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: just got electrocuted multiple people. In fact, over the last
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: few weeks on Ron SmackDown have been electrocuted by Dan Hausen.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, what's not to get depressed over? Have you
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: watched these television shows? By the way, they're pretty depressing.
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  Speaker 1: com slash Harmony. That's wis dot com slash harmony. But
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: earlier today, Corey Graves had the chance to sit down
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: with Seth Rollins, and Seth said, things have not gone
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: according to my plan. I don't know if I'd be
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: sitting here without the street profits help. Corey suggested that
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Rollins might not walk out of Saturday's show at all.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: You know he's in that cage match with bron Breaker,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: and Seth says, look, I know a lot can go
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: wrong in this situation, but I'm an expert at getting
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: out of problems. The last time that I won the
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: World Heavyweight Championship, it wasn't in the most upstanding way.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: It didn't tell me though a lot about who I am.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: This cage match is going to tell the world who
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: I am. And if I can beat bron Breaker, I
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: can put the vision behind me. Then I can get
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: to the second part of my mission, which is getting
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: back to championship that I never lost. So he put
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: his focus here squarely on winning the World Heavyweight Championship.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: And if the idea is to get him there to
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: a match at Roman, whether it's Summer Slam or whatever,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: he can't be losing to bron Breaker. He really shouldn't be.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: That's why I think he's going to go over and
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: win the cage match on Saturday, because bron Breaker is
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: not being primed for a World Heavyweight Championship match anytime soon.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Seth rollins though he feels a lot closer to that
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: than Breaker is, And if that's the case, then he
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: should be winning that match. And if that's not the case,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: then bron Breaker should win. But I just don't see
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: that happening. Chad Gable was in the back talking to
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Adam Pierce. He said that he's been speaking to Penta.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: That's what Gable said. I said, ooh, you have my attention, Penta.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: You say the Intercontinental champion. He was quickly interrupted I
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: live Morgan Dom and JD McDonough, and Dom said Penta.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: You're not getting Penta before we do. And he wanted
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: an apology from Chad because he's the king of the
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: luchadors and you disrespected me worst of all. And Gable said,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: you're the one that sent me down to Mexico in
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: the first place. Said that's what I get for listening
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: to a dumbass. But if you want an apology, I
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: could try to, you know, give you the chance he
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: could beat one out of me, So Dom suggested JD instead,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: and Adam Pierce looked over at McDonough who's standing there
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: twitching in the background. He looks at McDonough and he questions, like,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: are you okay with that? If I make this match,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: assuming you get cleared by medical? Like are you are
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: you okay with that? And McDonough so stupid McDonough asks,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: come again, doctor. He puts his hand out to shake
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: the doctor's hand. He's putting his hand out to Adam Pierce,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: thinking that he's a doctor, and Pierce orders him to
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: medical right away.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Here again.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: McDonogh was twitching in the background throughout all of this.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's doing well. I'm I'm concerned for
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what though, if medical clears him to
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: wrestle next week after what we saw from him tonight,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: they should get their licenses revoked. They'll be in the
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: same camp as the aw Medical team. We got to
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: the main event. We're already up to the main event.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Here Street Profits challenging the Vision bron Breaker Austin Theory
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: for the World Tag Team Championships. Logan Paul was out
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: there in the Vision's corner. Logan Paul got ejected early
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: in the match when he placed Theory's foot on the
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: bottom rope for a rope break after a pen attempt.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: The referee saw this, so he ejected him. The Street
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Profits they try for a blockbuster Breaker, they'll crotched Montese Ford.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: They sent the Vision to the floor. Breaker came off
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: the apron with his flying clothes line that sent Dawkins
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: into the desk. It sent Breaker over the desk. Then
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: he leaped up on top of the desk and he
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: posed as they went to the second commercial break here
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: of this match. At this point, after the break, we
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: got random chance of CM punk from the crowd in London.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: In case you were wondering how into this match these
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: fans were. They were so disinterested that they decided to
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: launch into chants of cmpunk. They were begging for something, anything, Please,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: Roman Reigns is not here. Can we at least get
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: cmpunk on this show?
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: The answer is no. Neither of them were there.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: And the fans, I should say, the fans were awfully
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: quiet for I would say a good chunk of this match.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: And again, these UK crowds, especially these main events, they're
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: usually loud, they're energetic, you know, they're singing, they're having fun,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: and not really the case here for most of this match. Look,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: when you're bored, you're bored. When you're bored, you're bored. Yeah,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: I had to listen to what was it there was?
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: I didn't listen to the podcast they did, but the
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: clip was floating around on social media after last week's
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Dynamite of a Meltzer and Alvarez from their radio show,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: and I think it was Meltzer who was like, oh,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: you know, the crowd, it's a bad crowd. Must have
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: been a bad crowd because they weren't really reacting to
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: stuff last week. Oh it must be the crowd's fault.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Bad crowd, right, And I just I laugh when I
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: hear that, because at the end of the day, right now,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: can there be bad crowd, Sure, but I think by
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: and large, if you have a crowd, and an aw
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: is a great example of this, you have the sicko crowd, right,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: they go nuts for great wrestling, it almost doesn't even
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: matter where they are. But every now and then you'll
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: get a crowd that's quiet. They're not making a lot
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: of noise, And it makes me laugh when people's first
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: instinct in that situation is to blame the fans, well,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: the crowd. Yes, I don't know what these people were,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: you know, so so depressed about here?
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Why they were so quiet?
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: We got a great show, the crowd sucked, right, But
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: maybe the crowd just wasn't interested in what the fuck
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: they were watching. And that's the case with most of
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: these WWE crowds when we talk about man, the crowd
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: was fucking quiet. I could hear the fucking air conditioner vents.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: And the question you should be asking is why what
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: didn't work here? That the crowd was so quiet for this?
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Instead of blaming the crowd and saying, well, this crowd sucked.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Maybe the show sucks. Maybe stop blaming the fans and
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: take a look at what you're seeing on TV and
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: try to figure out why the fans are not into
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: what they're seeing.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: That's just a suggestion, I just put that out there.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Both teams made tags. Montes hit a super kick and
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: a standing moon salt for a near fall. Theory hit
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: a rolling clothesline on Ford. Breaker came in with a
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: German supplex to Montes for a near fall. Breaker was
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: measuring forward for a spear, but he ate a kick instead,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: and Breaker came back with a power slam, and the
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Vision got a top rope bulldog out of an electric chair,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: right out of the Steiners playbook, but in this case
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: it was only good for a near fall. So Breaker
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: tossed the top half of the ring steps into the ring.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Angelo Dawkins sent Breaker into the ring post, and now
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: here comes Logan Paul, who was already ejected. But Logan Paul,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: he's slithering his way back out through the crowd, and
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: he's got the brass knuckles, and he hands Theory the
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: brass knuckles. When all of a sudden, we hear Joe
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Hendry's theme music We have not seen Joe Hendry since
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Austin Theory took him out. I don't know how long
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: ago it fell, like two months ago, it was at
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: least six weeks ago. He has been persona non grata.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, he has just been gone as Joe Hendry.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: This was his big return here and they saved it
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: for London and it was very It was very weird,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: and I get that this is the Joe Hendry thing.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: He just appears. So he was on the apron.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: They zoom in right, but he's like coming out to
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: cut off Logan Paul, who's over on the side where
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: the announcers are. But first he's got to do the
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: pose on the apron, so they cut to him on
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: the apron. Logan Paul has to pretend it doesn't even
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: see him yet. Then he jumps down from the apron.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: He comes around and he chases Logan through the fans
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: into the crowd. That's the last we saw either of
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: these guys for the rest of the show. But he
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: left the brass Knuts Logan did behind in the ring
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: and Theory spots them and he starts to crawl towards them.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Now we hear burn it down and here comes Seth
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Rollins right, So bron Breaker hears this, and bron Breaker
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: goes over by the aisle away. He's gonna cut him
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: off as soon as he comes out. He's waiting for
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Seth to come out. Seth, though, doesn't come out down
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: the aisle. He came out through the crowd on the
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: opposite side of the ring. He reaches in, he grabs
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: then away from Theory and he wallops him right in
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: the head with the brass knucks, and the referee didn't
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: see this. Now Breaker turns around, he sees Rollins on
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: the other side of the ring. Rolins basically waves to him.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Rolins retreats back into the crowd. Bron Breaker he runs
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: after him and in one leap he just jumps over
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: the barricade. Honestly, the most impressive thing I saw on
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: the entire show tonight was that bron Breaker jump over
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: the barricade into the crowd. That was the most impressive
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: thing I saw all show. And so at that point,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Austin Theory is on dream Street because he just got
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: walloped with the brass knucks, and that paved the way
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: for Angelo Dawkins to drop him with a sky high,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: and then Montese Ford came off from the heavens with
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: the big Frog splash and he got the pinfall to
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: win the tag team titles. The Vision no longer the
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: World tag Team Champion. The crowd did light up there
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: at the end, at the very end, we had a
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: couple of cameos and then we got the title change,
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: So of course they popped for the title change. But
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: again I just can't help but think like the time
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: to do this title change would have been Saturday Night's
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: main event last month, because as I recall, like first
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: of all, that was also the main event of that show.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: That was the match where Logan got hurt. But the
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: crowd was pretty hot, as I recall, for that, Matt
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: like they were into it. They were ready to see
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: those titles change hands. And I guess it wouldn't have
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: worked out as well, you know, in terms of the
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: Seth story, right, because he was still kind of on
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: the rocks with the Street profits they were not on
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: the same page, so story wise, maybe it would have
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: worked better there. But I just think in terms of
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: doing the title change, that was the time to do it,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: and you would have had a hotter crowd for it. It
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: would have felt like a bigger deal. And also that's,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: you know, Saturday Night's main event. It's a step up
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: above Raw. So it was a special show. I just
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: think in retrospect and looking at how into the crowd
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: or into it the crowd was on that show as
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: compared to this one, that would have been a better
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: time to do the title change. But look, I am
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: happy to see the Belts off of the Vision, mainly
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: because bron Breaker who never even won them, right, he
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: was a substitute. He doesn't need these titles. What was
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: he need the tag team title for?
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: We got the Belts back on a real team, an
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: actual tag team. That's the good news. The bad news
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: is they don't have anybody to work with. There's no
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: other real team on this show except the Usos, and
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: one of them may well be challenging for the world championship,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: one of them at SummerSlam. The other teams on this show,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: and what are you left with? What are you left with?
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: The war Raiders they're in Triple A now, the Americanos
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: they're also mostly in Triple A now, same thing with
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: Julio and Bruto. And then you got Alpha Academy. Oh,
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: what a fucking tag team division you got on this show?
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: There's no division. So I mean, it's great that they
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: won the belts, but now reality sets in. It's like, well,
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: what's next? A rematch with the Vision? I guess I
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: don't know, because they don't have a division. That's the
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: big problem. But anyway, Night of Champions is coming up
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: on Saturday. I had a whole rundown of the card.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: Six matches. We have the finals of the King of
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: the Ring and Queen of the Ring. We have a
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: triple threat for the WWE Championship. We have a Women's
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: US title match, and we have a Men's US title match.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: So I have the full predictions on SoundOff nine to
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: sixty eight. Again, the podcast went up yesterday and tomorrow
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: on the Uncrowned Wrestling Show, we'll talk more about Knight
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: of Champions. But I'll also have predictions for Forbidden Door,
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: which I did not do yesterday, so that will be
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: on Uncrowned tomorrow. As far as the raw show itself,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: that's what I got for it. So now, unify the
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: tag team titles, says bliss Fan. Now you would think
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: that that would be the sensible thing to do. I've
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: been advocating for that ever since they deunified them. Honestly,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: it's been a couple of years now, but honestly, like
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: it wouldn't even make that much of a difference. It
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: absolutely is something they should do. I'm not saying they
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: shouldn't do it, but I also don't think that it's
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: sort of a fix. It's a fix to a problem,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: but the problem is much larger than just unifying the belts.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: Even if you unify them, you still don't have much
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: of a tag team division. Tag team wrestling in WWE
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: right now is dead.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: It's dead.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: It was alive and well on SmackDown for a period
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: of time over a year ago, year and a half ago,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: but that was a long time ago at this point,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: and now we're in this dead period, this dead zone
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: when it comes to tag team wrestling. We don't have
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: real teams right You got some makeshift teams. We don't
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: have real teams. And I think if they were serious
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: enough and wanted to put the effort into rebuild the
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: tag team division, it's something that's just going to take time.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: It's not going to happen overnight. You've got to It's
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: not enough to just call up a couple of teams
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  Speaker 1: like Hank and Tank or something from NXT, like, you're
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: going to have to really recruit teams and bring them in,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: and they clearly have no interest in doing that. You know,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: they've they've actually let go of multiple teams. The New
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: Day is gone, the MotorCity machine Guns are gone, right,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, so you would think if they were serious
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: about really beefing up their tag team division that those
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: are teams they would have held onto, and they didn't.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: So it's unfortunate. But you know, people who just kind
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: of throw that out there, oh, just unify the belts,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: you just got to understand that even if they do,
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: you still have major problems that are just not going
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: to be fixable overnight in this company. I mean, I
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: like tag team wrestling as much as the next person,
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: but WWE does not. All right, the goal was seven
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: hundred likes, which was a very ambitious goal. We are
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: currently at three eighty one, so that is not going
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: to happen. However, I am going to read your superchats here,
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: so if you have any you want to send in,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: get them on in, because when we're done, we're done.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Crypto and Poker is with us. Just watched Obsession at
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: twelve midnight and still half full. I'm telling you, man,
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: people are still flocking to the theaters to see that movie.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: It's a great movie. It's the best movie I've seen
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: all year. Try Chickens says, I'm currently watching the World Cup.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: I wanted to stop by and say that Oba Femi
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: needs to win King of the Ring. Triple H cannot
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: fumble Oba, Oh.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: He can't, Kenny says.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: Every time I check out clips of WWE Unreal, I
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: hilariously laugh at how production the production team zooms the
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: camera closer towards everyone's faces during interviews. Got to get
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: those reactions. Says Also, I watch Masters of the Universe.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: The movie was good and fun to watch. Also, I
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: hope Indiana already gets an OSCAR nomination. Will it into existence?
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: I kind of feel like the Academy is not usually
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: very kind to horror movies, but it would be a
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: shame if she doesn't at least get a nomination. I mean,
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: she was phenomenal, but dry. Chicken, thank you very much.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: I know he's gonna go back to his World Cup.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry I've interrupted you our World Cup watching. I'm
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: streaming at a very odd time this week, Let's see
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: here we got WWE wrestling and gaming. In your own
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: booking of Brett Hard's run in WCW, how do you
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: book him after Stark ninety nine? Well, I'm not gonna
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: book him in five seconds here, I mean, you're putting
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: me on the spot. How am I going to book him?
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna book him strong. I'm gonna keep him in
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: the world title picture. That's what I'm gonna do, even
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: if he's not the champion. But if you want to
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: know how I would have booked that first year in WCW,
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: there is a video up on the YouTube channel where
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: I went through the entire thing. But I would definitely
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: keep him in that upper mix. For the money they
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: were paying him. You keep him in the upper mix.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: You don't have him, You don't reduce him down to
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: the mid card GMB for ninety nine, thank you, brother.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: Still believe Lyra offered way more on the table as
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: a face. If you don't dress or look like a
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: goth or look like a pretty blonde, being over becomes harder.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Are you saying that the reason la Knight is still
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: so over is that he's a pretty blonde Alexander with
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: a tense spot. What are your thoughts on the South
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: Bushwick church burning down? As a fellow New Yorker, I
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: am not a religious person in any way, but it's
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: said that we lost a one hundred and seventy six.
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: Year old landmark. It's always sad.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: It's a very sad story.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: But I hope you're doing well. Brother.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: WWE Wrestling and Gaming. Top five most famous wrestlers of
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: all time, Wrestlers that are the most well known. I
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: mean you think of people. Obviously Hogan and Rock are
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: on that list, but you know, Hogan, Rock, Sena, those
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: are probably the main ones.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: I would say Hogan, Rock and Sena.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: After that, it gets a little fuzzier if you're just
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: talking about popularity like in this country. Obviously, if you
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: want to expand it out to other countries, you're getting
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: into El Santo and you know, cultural icons.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: Whether it's Mexico or Japan.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: If you're talking like us, like mainstream US wrestling, you're
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: talking about Hogan, Rock and Sena. You know, Austin, I
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: don't think stone Cold. If we're just talking popularity outside
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: of the wrestling bubble, I don't think you have him
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: on the list. You know, people may have heard the name,
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: but he doesn't have that same level of popularity outside
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: of wrestling that like Hogan and Rock or even Sena
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: have Batista. Batista would probably be on there. Batista has
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: done very well for himself in Hollywood. You know, Guardians
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: of the Galaxy. A lot of people who didn't know
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: him before they know him now. Those movies were huge.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: Flair maybe yeah, probably, you know what, probably Flair. Flair
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: actually more in the last like ten years, probably has
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: become more mainstream than he was during his wrestling career
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: because a lot of people like rappers have paid homage
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: to him and their songs, and you got Rick Flair,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: Drip and all this stuff. So I would say more
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: people know about Rick Flair now, even if they're not
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: wrestling fans, and they would have ten or fifteen or
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: twenty years ago. Donovan says, I was a huge La
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Knights supporter. Then he crapped hard all over my name,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: send him to main event.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: He really alienated a good part of his fan base
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: with that. I'm sorry, duh, Donovan. I think you have
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: a very cool name. I like that name. Brandy or
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: who said Randy Orton, Brett Hart. You're talking to the
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: biggest Brett Hart fan in the world here. You cannot
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: put Brett Hart on a list of like the most
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: famous pro wrestlers, like mainstream names of all.
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Brett Hart, Randy Orton. People don't
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: know who they are.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: Walk up to a random person on the street and
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: mention Sean Michaels and they're gonna look at you like
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: you have a fucking cyclops eye. But if you say
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: Macho Man, Macho Man, Randy Savage, they might know who
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: you're talking about. You know, there's a reason why if
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: you when Halloween rolls around in terms of the wrestlers
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: who are probably the most I would say dressed up
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: as like Hogan and Savage are they gotta be still
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: right at the top of the list, and their arrow
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: was like forty years ago, thirty years ago, both dead.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: But you will see countless people dressed up as Hogan.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: You'll see countless people dressed up as Macho Man because
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: they were very colorful characters too, So that helps. You're
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: not gonna find people dressed up as Randy Orton or
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: Brett Hart for Halloween.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry you're not. You're just not one person. Maybe
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: And even if you're of the mindset that like, these
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: are the more recent names, right, I'll give you Roman Reigns.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: You could put Roman Rains on that list. Roman Reigns,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: I think would be known by a lot of people
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: outside the wrestling sphere. But if you honestly believe, like, oh, well,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: you know, come on now, the current era, you know,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: people like Randy Orton or in La and Night or
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: somebody would be more well known. No, no, because all
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: the names that we just talked about, Rock Hogan, right,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: people like that were when wrestling was like super popular.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: Wrestling is not super popular in the way that he
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: used to be. This is the misconception that people have
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: Wwe may be making more money now than they've ever
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: made before, but that does not equal popularity per se.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: They may be more mainstream now in terms of being
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: on ESPN and stuff like that, but that does not
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: equate to the product being as popular as it once was.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: I guarantee you most people have never heard of Randy Orton.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: Like you.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: If you if you disagree you are living in a
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: bubble like you are, you are living you are I
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: will call you bubble boy from now on. I'm sorry.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, bubble boy, but you're wrong on this. Sidrow
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: is with us with a five. I need to finish
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: my paper on United Arab Emirates. It's Dubai next Monday.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: That's the wrong sound effect, but it still works. Uh
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: uh and just finished A book called Fear of Sunlights
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: was written by was written by Gladys Gladys Knight.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: There we go. That's the right one, though those are
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: Those were both good. I like those. Prince Vegeta.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: WWE is fucking up its King of the Ring tournaments,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: like sid fucked up his toys in Toy Story.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: A terrible villain Sid is and that first toy story.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: Lakers pats j WWE title run or say Brett is
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: overrated for life. I could say Brett is overrated for
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: life and not mean it. I can lie to you.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: I'd rather lie to you than have a j USO
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: world title run fine with me?
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: Uh? Sidrow with another five. Girl says what can go wrong?
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: What can go wrong?
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: Will go Rome man says that's Murphy's law. But you
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: heard of Cole's law. Girl, No man, it's finally sliced
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: raw cabbage with salad dressing. I just had some coleslaw
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: the other night. Darius says, Roman somewhere is confused by
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: Gable's apology. Yeah, he's like an apology. What's that? The
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: word sorry? It's not in his vocabulary. He doesn't know
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: what that means. Paul Carpenter, we are now the Vision
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: Academy man, He's yeah, please please on this Vision Alpha
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: Academy stuff.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: I smoke a lot of weed. Is with us?
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you Solo dropping some love. I appreciate you too.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: Weed.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: Have yourself a good ice, smoke, a latte and some weed.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: It's a lot of emojis.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Brother.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: Alexander says, I like how WWE has not acknowledged that
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: Dan Housen is technically a free agent. Pierce or all
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: this has not fought to sign him on their show.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: Why would they? He doesn't wrestle, he doesn't do anything.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: He annoys the both of them. Why would they want
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: them on their show? They're probably trying to pawn him
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: off on the other Why would they want him. They
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: don't get a cut of the merch that he sells.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: That goes right to the company, that goes right into
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: TKO's pockets doesn't increase their paycheck. Barry MK with a
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: fifteen dollars super chat. Why do you think ratings were
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: down in the Ruthless Aggression era? Even with all the problems,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: the shows were a lot of fun, bad and good.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: Something crazy could happen every week on those shows. So
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: here's the thing you gotta you gotta realize. When the
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: ratings went up in the late nineties, right, that was
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: the peak of the Attitude era and Stone Cold against
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: Vince McMahon and the Rock and DX and just this
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: perfect storm. They brought in a lot of fans from
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: the outside who probably never watched wrestling before, or maybe
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: they were lapsed, maybe they watched it as a kid,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: they got out of it. Now it's cool again, so
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: they start watching it again. And so you're getting cable
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: ratings at the peak, like in ninety nine Nielsen ratings
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: in the fives and the sixes and the sevens, they
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: did an eight point one for their highest rated episode.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: Like we're talking eight nine, ten million viewers a week
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: tuned in live to watch this show. And that's what
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: competition from Nitro, Like these numbers were not they were
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: just they were not real. They didn't make any sense.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: They were so high, and so eventually the bubble bursts
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: and the numbers come back down to reality. The Attitude
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: era died when Stone Cold turn Heel. I mean, there's
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: a noticeable business drop and drop in ratings that you
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: could probably trace back to that one event.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, but every era.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: Has its peak and then it dies and a new
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: era begins. So yeah, there was a lot of great
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: wrestling in the Ruthless Aggression era, but of course the
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: ratings were always going to go down because the peak
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: of Austin and the Attitude era was over. And so
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: I guarantee you there were a lot of fans who
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: once that happened, they were like, peace out, We're not
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: here for the wrestling. We don't give a shit about that.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: You don't care that brock Lesner and Chris Benoit can
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: do German souplexes. You know, they wanted the Attitude era.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: They wanted Austin driving in on a zamboni. They wanted
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: you know, Sable showing her tits and all this stuff.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: That's what they wanted, That's what they tuned in for.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: That's what Russo gave them. Crash TV the ratings were
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: always going to have to normal lies and settle in.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: This is what people don't realize. They were always gonna
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: come down. It doesn't mean it was a bad show.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: The ruthless aggress like that era of SmackDown in two
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: and o three is peak television. It's great stuff, but
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: that's not going to necessarily appeal to a wider audience
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: of like casual fans. Some of them will. There were
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of people, you know. Once Austin turned heel,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: it was like, all right, peace out, We're done. It's over.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: San Juan Wolf with a nineteen ninety nine. I like
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: seeing that. What's good solo? How's life look at that?
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: He's just checking in on me. Life is good. It's
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: very busy. I'm very tired, but we keep doing what
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: we do, like Triple h says, that's what we do.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: But things are good. I hope things are good with
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: you as well.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: Chicago for MBK, I had fun at my first hog
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: show this past Friday, Electric matches in crowd and I
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: went back to listen to you and JD on commentary
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed him.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: Man I said this at the end I really think
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: that was our best Chicago show. We've done a lot
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: of them now. When it was over, I just kind
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: of looked at him, and he looked at me. I'm like,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: that was a fun show. Like everything hit, it was great.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: So I'm glad you enjoyed it. You picked a good
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: one to go to. Hopefully you'll be at the next one.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's not locked in yet, but the hope
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: is that we'll be able to make our way back
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: to Chicago, maybe in October is probably what we're looking at.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: We got a few more here. We got the real
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: Cso too. I seriously hope we don't get King yeat
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: this Saturday. I hope not to. Also, he says, if
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: the plan isn't for Oba to win King of the Ring,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: what are we doing if they have the yeat Man
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: beat him. I'm considering stopping watching WWE. That will be
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: the final straw for me. Well you say that now,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: but you'll be back. They all come back. But I
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: feel you, man, it doesn't appeal to me in the
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: slightest There is no option where Jay Usso wins King
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: of the Ring, whether he picks Cody Roman, both of them,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: none of that appeals to me O two oh to
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: the J eighty four with a ten spot. Could we
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: make an argument that Macho Man is the real mister WrestleMania.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: He got the best matches out of Steamboat, Hogan, Warrior,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: and Flair on the grandest stage of them all much
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: loves Solo Monster. I would not argue with you if
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: you wanted to say Macho Man was your mister WrestleMania.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: He didn't have as many WrestleMania as some other people did,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: taker Sean, you know, his body of work on that
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: show was limited compared to them. They had a lot
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: more longevity than he did because he left and went
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: to WCW. But his WrestleMania resume, like I'd put his
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania resume up against most other people. Just the Steamboat
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: match alone is so legendary. And I didn't think any
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: of the matches in the tournament at WrestleMania four were
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: particularly great for him. It would be the performance where
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: he had to wrestle four times in one night and
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: then he wins the championship, so that was like a
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: big WrestleMania moment for him. Five against Hogan, they had
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: a very good match. Six was like a mixed tag.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: It was kind of like a throwaway. Seven was just
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: a fantastic match with a Warrior, best match those two
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: ever had. And then eight. I love the match that
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: he had with Flair. It was if it wasn't Flair's
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: best WWF match, it had to be number two. And
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: then Savage he was doing commentary. At nine, he had
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: the False count Anywhere match with Crush, at which I liked.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: I liked that match, so I won't argue with you.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: I won't argue with you. The thing about the Crush
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: match was like, as a wrestling match, it wasn't really great,
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  Speaker 1: but I just I'm a sucker for like when they
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: venture into other parts of the building, and at that time,
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  Speaker 1: that really wasn't something you saw in WWF, like even
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: that little bit of the backstage stuff that we had.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the match, I was like, Oh,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: this is cool. And he hangs him upside down by
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: his foot. He tries to anyway, he's trying to tie
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: his feet together, but then the rope came undone. The rules,
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: by the way, were very weird the way they did
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: that false kuint Anymore match, Like you had to pin
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: the person outside the ring if you were to pin them,
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  Speaker 1: but then like they have sixty seconds to get back
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: to the ring. Like it worked very differently than like
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: modern day false kuint anymore matches work, Mgmballin. I know
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: wrestling is boring, but solo is not. Let's get be
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: the book Yeah, let's get be the booker, guys, Solo
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: is more exciting than most of these shows. Unfortunately it
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be that way. We are seven out of ten
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: on the bonus goal, though I just noticed where are
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: we on the likes eh four forty two again the wheel?
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: The wheel said, as you could see here seven hundred.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: That seems very unlikely, but I don't know. We're creeping
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: up there on the on the bonus goal WWE Wrestling
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: and Gaming. What is your opinion on Vince Russo. I
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: think he was able to parlay a lot of success
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: he had in the nineties into a much longer He's
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: very similar to Bischoff in.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: That way where they.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: Were able to parlay a relatively brief period of time
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: thirty years ago into a lifetime of work.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: Good for them, can't them for doing that?
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: And the real CS says, I'll stick to your reviews.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: Probably a good way to go. I'm always here, you
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: know that, Scott. He said, I saw somewhere on Facebook
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: that Miss Elizabeth worked for ESPN in nineteen ninety four.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: She did, in fact, actually the full video is on YouTube,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: and I wish I could remember the name of the show.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: It was a voting show and she was one of
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: the She was one of the hosts. Like they opened
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: the show. There were two male hosts. She was the
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: female host. She was like to the left of them,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: but she was also like a correspondent during that hour,
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: and so it was weird seeing her in that role.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: But yeah, that I want to say it was ninety four.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: I think if you just go on YouTube and type
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: in probably miss Elizabeth ESPN, it'll probably come up Low
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: King seventy two thirty five solo, Call my wife and kids.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: He says, Oh, you don't be get Linda on the phone.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: Get Linda and the kids on the phone. This is
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: it for me, brother.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: You know, if nothing else, Hogan left us with lots
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: of tall tales and fables and stories that will be
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: worth the entertainment for years to come. That is only
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: one of the many, many stories, all right, So here's
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: the schedule as it currently looks for the remainder of
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: the week. Tomorrow you got a brand new episode of
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: The Uncrowned Wrestling Show, and I will include.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: Forbidden Door predictions in that.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow night will be a brand new episode of Tuesday
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: Night Titans over on JD's channel. We have much to discuss,
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: as we do every week. Wednesday DA might post show.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: Friday is the final three hour SmackDown, so we'll be
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: in the normal slot after eleven o'clock eleven thirty at
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: night whatever, but thank god, it is the final three
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: hour SmackDown, so we'll have the post show. Then Saturday
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: one o'clock Eastern is Night of Champions. When Night of
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: Champions is over, I will be live as I came
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: live tonight after Raw. I will be live on YouTube
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: after Night of Champions and that will lead nicely into
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: the next episode of the podcast next Sunday. So got
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: a lot of content coming your way. I hope you
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: guys enjoy it. I do it for you. Also, if
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: you missed episode nine sixty eight, please go back and
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: check that out. The podcast from yesterday is doing well.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: Eric says.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: SmackDown is at two on Netflix internationally tomorrow.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: Are you sure about that. I don't think it is.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: I don't think it is. I heard that it wasn't
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: going to be airing live tomorrow. It doesn't matter if
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: it is. I'm still I'm not reviewing it tomorrow. So
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: I already have two shows to do tomorrow. I ain't
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: going live. I will not be going live for SmackDown.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: If it is airing live tomorrow, let me see you're
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: smack then airing live tomorrow. Let's see. Yeah. I don't know.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm of the impression it's not. I don't
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: know where you're getting that from. But maybe you're right.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't believe that's true. So we'll
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: have the usual post show on Friday.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: If, by chance, though I have the chance to watch
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: SmackDown earlier than Friday, then maybe we'll go live at
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: like eight on Friday. But we're saving the review for Friday.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: That is not changing. Solo should break out his New
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: Year's Eve outfit for the last three hour.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: I have some plans. I have some.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: Plans for SmackDown to commemorate on Friday. You'll join me
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: then and find out what they are anyway. Thank you
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: guys for hanging out with me. Be well, stay safe,
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: have yourselves a great rest of your evening. Yes, they
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: are taping SmackDown tomorrow. It's being taped tomorrow because they're
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: on their way to Riod, so they're in London. They're
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: taping it tomorrow, but it airs as normal on Friday.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: Be well, stay safe. I will be back with you
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: for more content here on the channel very soon Wednesday
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: night in fact, and until then, take care, guys,