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WWE Raw 1/12/26 Review | AJ Styles Battles GUNTHER And Bron Breakker Gets SUSPENDED! · Solomonster Sounds Off

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  Speaker 1: We're back with another early review. WWE's European tour continues Friday.
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: They were in Berlin, so we went early, actually live
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: a little bit early on Friday to talk about the
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: big WWE Championship match between Drew McIntyre and Cody Rhodes
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  Speaker 1: and so here on Monday. No big championship match, but
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  Speaker 1: we did have a big main event first time ever
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  Speaker 1: on TV. We had Gunther in aj Styles. They were
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  Speaker 1: in Dusseldorf, Germany, and we had an excellent match, which
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  Speaker 1: I don't think should be really a surprise to anybody
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  Speaker 1: when they announced the match, I think we all kind
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  Speaker 1: of assumed it was going to be an excellent match,
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  Speaker 1: the first, hopefully in a series of them. We know
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  Speaker 1: for a fact that we're getting at least one more
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  Speaker 1: based on the finish they did here. But I was
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  Speaker 1: looking at this and saying, you know, it's January twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Can they stretch this out to WrestleMania? And I believe
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  Speaker 1: they can. Whether or not they're going to do that,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I certainly think there is a
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  Speaker 1: way to do that. But this was the first time
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  Speaker 1: ever on TV with these two men. For the match
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  Speaker 1: we got, I felt like it was an excellent match
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  Speaker 1: with a very controversial finish, which was of course by design,
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  Speaker 1: where Aj Styles came into this main event tonight promising
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  Speaker 1: that he would do to gun Through what Gunther did
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  Speaker 1: to John Cena. He promised that he was going to
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  Speaker 1: come in and he was going to make him tap
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  Speaker 1: like a bitch. So he was going after the leg,
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  Speaker 1: he was going after the submission, And they did the
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  Speaker 1: finish where Aj Styles let go of a calf crusher,
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  Speaker 1: believing that Gunther had tapped out, but the referee did
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  Speaker 1: not see it, and so therefore the match continued. But
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  Speaker 1: unbeknownst to the referee, we had a low blow by
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  Speaker 1: Gunther which then led to the finish and him beating
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  Speaker 1: Aj Styles, And upon seeing the replay, it was clear
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  Speaker 1: as day that in fact Gunther did tap like a bitch,
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  Speaker 1: but because the referee did not see it, it did
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  Speaker 1: not count, and so Gunther gets the first win. But
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  Speaker 1: they did the finish in such a way that clearly
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  Speaker 1: sets things up for a rematch between these two. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was a clever way of doing the finish,
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  Speaker 1: and I could see where some people might be upset
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  Speaker 1: about what they did here and having Gunther tap out, now,
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  Speaker 1: of course he's gonna get chased down even more by
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  Speaker 1: chance of you tapped out, just like he did after
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  Speaker 1: WrestleMania last year when he wrestled jay Uso. But they
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  Speaker 1: did the finish in such a way where you know,
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  Speaker 1: you look at it, and this is the way I
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  Speaker 1: looked at it. I looked at it, and you know, said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: Gunther was well aware of the fact that the referee
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  Speaker 1: couldn't see the tap. So you know, everyone's playing checkers,
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  Speaker 1: he's playing chess, that kind of thing where it's like, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 1: he'll let aj think he's won the match and then
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  Speaker 1: he'll take advantage. And that's that's kind of the way
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  Speaker 1: that I saw it, So I thought it was a
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  Speaker 1: clever way of going about doing it. I look forward
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  Speaker 1: to seeing what they have in store next. I I
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  Speaker 1: would assume that we're going to get a rematch between them,
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  Speaker 1: either Saturday Night's main event, which is coming up a
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  Speaker 1: week from Saturday, or at the Royal Rumble. And actually
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  Speaker 1: I could see that because if Gunther is not going
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  Speaker 1: to win the Royal Rumble, and right now I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe he is, I could see them not wanting him
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  Speaker 1: to be in the Rumble itself and giving him something
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  Speaker 1: else to do on that show. And same for aj
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  Speaker 1: by the way, you know, because if these two were
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  Speaker 1: going to continue on together, maybe they don't want either
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  Speaker 1: one of them in the Rumble match and getting eliminated.
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  Speaker 1: So we're definitely going to get that in the next
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  Speaker 1: few weeks. But that kind of swings back around to
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  Speaker 1: the original question I had, which was, are they going
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  Speaker 1: to stretch this out to let's say, a third match
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  Speaker 1: or a fourth match and get us all the way
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  Speaker 1: to WrestleMania, which is still a ways off. I mean again,
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  Speaker 1: we're still in not even quite mid January yet, we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about mid April, So that's the only question I
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  Speaker 1: have about it. But I was just happy to see
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  Speaker 1: Gunther doing something on this show of actual substance instead
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  Speaker 1: of coming out and just spitting out more catchphrases and
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  Speaker 1: slogans and showing his T shirt. It was nice to
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  Speaker 1: get him back in the ring with someone I would
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  Speaker 1: consider to be an equal, going out there and having
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  Speaker 1: a competitive match, and that was easily the highlight of
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  Speaker 1: the show. One of the other highlights of the show
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  Speaker 1: involved bron Breaker, who was in our main event on
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  Speaker 1: the show last week, he was unsuccessful in challenging Cmpunk
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  Speaker 1: for the World Heavyweight Championship and he beat him clean.
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  Speaker 1: Punk beat him clean last week. And what did I
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  Speaker 1: say in the review last week, what I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be watching for this week is how they handle the
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  Speaker 1: follow up with bron Breaker. The key is in how
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  Speaker 1: they follow up on this loss. He should be showing
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  Speaker 1: up this week ready to take on the world, and
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: he was, and unfortunately for Dragon Lee, he ate one
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: of the most wicked spears that you'll ever see. The
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  Speaker 1: way they shot this was great, but they did an
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  Speaker 1: angle on the show where bron Breaker came out when
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't supposed to and he was attacking people and
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  Speaker 1: Adam Pearce. When all was said and done, Adam Pierce
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  Speaker 1: suspended him indefinitely. And so that I guess is going
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  Speaker 1: to be their way of keeping him off television for
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks, maybe even until the Royal Rumble, which
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  Speaker 1: he may win. By the way, again, he is one
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  Speaker 1: of the top three favorites right now, has to be
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  Speaker 1: to win the men's Royal Rumble match. But this might
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  Speaker 1: be their way of kind of keeping them away from
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  Speaker 1: television for a few weeks, kind of like that uncaged animal.
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  Speaker 1: How are we supposed to control this guy? But they
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: introduced an interesting little wrinkle into things when Paul Hayman
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: pointed out the fact that Adam Pierce put his hands
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  Speaker 1: on bron Breaker before bron Breaker put his hands on
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  Speaker 1: Adam Pierce. And as far as what happened, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: into exactly what happened here in a little bit, because
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: you might be wandering away. He put his hands on
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  Speaker 1: Adam Pierce. You know what happened here, we'll talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was a good follow up though to
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  Speaker 1: that the show overall, it was an improvement from last
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  Speaker 1: week's Stranger Things episode, which again maybe we're setting the
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  Speaker 1: bar low here, but it was an improvement. Not every
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: segment on the show was terribly interesting, but it served
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  Speaker 1: a purpose in most cases. And they set up some
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  Speaker 1: championship matches for the show next week. Next week they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be in Ireland, the tour continues, and they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be in Belfast, and they actually set up
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  Speaker 1: another first time ever match which is pretty interesting for
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  Speaker 1: the World Heavyweight Championship, where CM punk is going to
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  Speaker 1: be defending his title against Finn Balor, and we can
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  Speaker 1: sit here and say, well, what has Finn Balor done
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  Speaker 1: lately to get a World Heavyweight Championship match with CM Punk?
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  Speaker 1: But Punk pointed out, as Balor did, that it was
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  Speaker 1: only a couple months ago that Punk pointed out he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to defend his title against people like Finn Balor.
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  Speaker 1: So this is Balor basically showing up and cashing in
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  Speaker 1: his chip and saying, Okay, why don't you put your
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  Speaker 1: money where your mouth is give me a shot at
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  Speaker 1: the World Championship. And it just so happens that the
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  Speaker 1: show next week is in Balor's home country, so they
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  Speaker 1: set that match up for next week. Becky Lynch obviously
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  Speaker 1: also from Ireland, she is going to be defending her
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  Speaker 1: intercontinental title next week. Again, what is this match number five?
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  Speaker 1: I believe with Maxine Dupree. So that was set up
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  Speaker 1: for next week. So again, on the whole, definitely a
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  Speaker 1: better show than the one we got last week. We'll
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  Speaker 1: take it segment by segment here as we always do,
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  Speaker 1: because this is your Raw on Netflix review. It is
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  Speaker 1: January twelve, twenty twenty six. I am the solo monster
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  Speaker 1: Pin Balor. I know Finn doesn't have a chance. Finn
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  Speaker 1: Balor does not have a chance to win the World
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  Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship next week. That is one hundred percent correct.
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  Speaker 1: That does not mean, though, that the two of them
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  Speaker 1: will not go out there and have an entertaining match. See.
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  Speaker 1: I have a feeling I just talked about bron Breaker
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  Speaker 1: right being indefinitely suspended, and maybe that's their way of
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  Speaker 1: taking him off television. I could be wrong about that,
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  Speaker 1: and there could be a very specific spot on the
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  Speaker 1: show next week where we see bron Breaker re emerge.
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  Speaker 1: So it's possible we may not see Pinn Balor if
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  Speaker 1: bron Breaker gets involved next week. If we get no finish,
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  Speaker 1: he might spare Finn Balor from eating the pin next week.
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  Speaker 1: But that's take your pick. It's either Pin Balor or
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  Speaker 1: bron Breaker gets involved, because as you said, Finn Balor
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  Speaker 1: has no chance of leaving Ireland to the World Heavyweight
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  Speaker 1: Champion next week. Babyface finn Or heel fin, he'll be
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  Speaker 1: a baby face next week. He gonna boo him in Belfast.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, I'm not saying they have to boot seem Punk,
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: but they ain't gonna boo Finn Balord next week. Like
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• 8:55
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• 8:57
  Speaker 1: episode nine of the SoundOff, which dropped yesterday, talking the
• 9:03
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• 9:06
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• 9:09
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• 9:17
  Speaker 1: That is up right now for your listening pleasure. But
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: let's get into this show here now. Last week on
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  Speaker 1: the show, they opened the show with a women's tag
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  Speaker 1: team title match. It was Rhea, Ripley and Eosky challenging
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: Osca and Kyrie said and they won the women's tag
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: team titles. So this week we didn't get a match,
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: we got an opening promo from the new champions, Rhea
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: Ripley Eo Sky talking about their win last week. Eo
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: said that Oscar and Kyrie they had no respect, so
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: they had to beat the respect into them. And before
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: Rhea could, she was in the process of extending a
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: challenge out to whoever wanted to step up next. But
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: before she could even get out everything that she was
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: looking to say, Live Morgan in Roxane Perez be to
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: the Punch It Lives said that those titles belonged to
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: her because she never actually lost them. So they can
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: do this the easy way and they can give them
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: to her, or they could do this the hard way
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: and she will take them back. So then Bailey and
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: Lyra Valkyria interrupted and they spoke from the aisle, and
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: the fans sang for Bailey as they do here on
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: these international shows. They love singing for Bailey. She said
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: that she knows Live didn't lose the tag team titles,
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: but her little partner over there did that, being Roxanne,
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: and she pointed out that she just beat Roxanne on
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: Raw a few weeks ago, so if anyone deserves a
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: title opportunity, it is her and Lyra. So Rhea piped
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: up and said, look, we were here to lay down
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: a challenge for anyone. Eo started screaming in Japanese. The
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: Kabuki Warriors showed up. They dragged Ria and Eo out
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  Speaker 1: of the ring. They laid them out. Then they climbed
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  Speaker 1: into the ring and all of the challengers, all the
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: other women that were in the ring, they started brawling
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: until Ria and Eo got back inside. They cleared all
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: of them from the ring. This was as basic an
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: opening segment as you will ever see to open up
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  Speaker 1: an episode of Raw, but it did set up a
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  Speaker 1: number one contenders match for later in the show. So
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: all of the challenging teams that we saw here in
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: the opening segment, they were involved in a three way
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  Speaker 1: later on in the show. Now, so long as Stephanie
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: is out heard. We actually did see Stephanie later in
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: the show, but she's not going to be wrestling for
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: a while yet. These women here then, being involved in
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: the tag team title scene is fine. But when we
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: come out of the Royal Rumble, we come out of
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: the rumble, we're heading into the elimination chamber in WrestleMania.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: You know, when it comes to women like Riha and
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: Eo and even Live quite frankly they really should be
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: doing more than just tussling back and forth for the
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: women's tag team titles. So I'm hoping that, you know,
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: for some of them anyway, this is just a kind
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: of a temporary situation. But once we get really kind
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: of into the road to WrestleMania, some of these women
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: they just have to be doing something else and not
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: just squabbling over the tag belts. Now in the back
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: after Liv Morgan took issue with Finn Balor because in
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  Speaker 1: the judgment day clubhouse, that's still what it is is,
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: it's still considered a clubhouse. But they were back there.
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  Speaker 1: He was still playing two K twenty five right, two
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: K twenty six is coming out soon, but he's in
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  Speaker 1: the back. He's playing the video game as himself against Cody,
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  Speaker 1: who just interviewed him on Cody's podcast. And liv Morgan
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  Speaker 1: took exception to this because he wasn't paying attention to
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  Speaker 1: what they were saying, and evidently he wasn't even paying
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  Speaker 1: attention to what they just did out in the ring,
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  Speaker 1: So she said she thought Finn had said the judgment
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to win all the gold in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: and he's not even paying attention he's more interested in
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  Speaker 1: playing games. So she left and Roxanne got up in
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  Speaker 1: Finn's face and said she has a point, and then
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  Speaker 1: she left, and Balor just told them you just watch girls,
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: you just watch. Honestly, this is probably the most realistic
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  Speaker 1: segment on the entire show. I give them points for
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  Speaker 1: realism here with the woman yelling at the man for
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  Speaker 1: playing video games and not paying any attention to a
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  Speaker 1: word that she's sang. Perhaps some of the writers could
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  Speaker 1: relate to this, but this just this felt like one
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  Speaker 1: of the more realistic cut scenes that we get here
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  Speaker 1: on this show. So in the back, actually, we might
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  Speaker 1: have people watching this right now who could relate to that.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: We go to the back. Jackie Redmond is interviewing Aj
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  Speaker 1: Styles about his match tonight with Gunther. What is it
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  Speaker 1: about Gunther that makes this so personal for him? Aj said,
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  Speaker 1: this business is about respect, respect for the mat, respect
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  Speaker 1: for your opponent, and to those who came for you.
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  Speaker 1: He and John Cena, they didn't exactly see eye to
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  Speaker 1: eye on everything, but said that they bonded over that
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  Speaker 1: word respect, And week after week Gunther disrespects John Cena,
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  Speaker 1: So he slapped the taste out of his mouth. Last
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  Speaker 1: week because John could not tonight, he's going to teach
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  Speaker 1: Gunther about respect that he's going to make Gunther tap
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  Speaker 1: out like a little bitch. We had Javon Evans, the
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  Speaker 1: newest addition to the Monday Night Raw roster, who signed
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: his contract last week during commercial. Javon Evans was here
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  Speaker 1: for his first official match on Raw as a full
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  Speaker 1: timer on Raw against Bravo Americano. With Ryo and El
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  Speaker 1: Grande Americano in his corner. At ringside, Rob says, I
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: am playing two K twenty five right now. I relate, well,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you're playing two K twenty five, but you're
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  Speaker 1: paying attention to what's being said here. Don't pull a finballer.
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  Speaker 1: El Grande attacked Evans after Ryo distracted him. Evans fought back.
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  Speaker 1: He hit Bravo with a leaping dive and a nice
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  Speaker 1: running knee strike for a two count. Bravo responded with
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  Speaker 1: an airplane spin, which Michael Cole said looked familiar. Well,
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: clearly Bravo has been watching Tyler Bait matches. And I
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: don't know where Tyler Bait is, but wherever he is,
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  Speaker 1: I hope he's doing well. At least we know he's
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  Speaker 1: got a fan here and Bravo Americano. So Bravo went
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  Speaker 1: to the top. Evans, though, brought him down with an
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  Speaker 1: avalanche Spanish fly, followed by an og cutter for the win. Man.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: That og cutter, it looks great. He's twenty one, is
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  Speaker 1: that what he is? Twenty one years old. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that the og cutter will be his finish though.
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  Speaker 1: When he's thirty one. I do question that he gets
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  Speaker 1: some really good height and he takes that flat back
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  Speaker 1: from like twelve feet up. It looks great. I just
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  Speaker 1: don't know that he'll be doing that as his finishing
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  Speaker 1: move ten years from now. We'll see, we shall see.
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  Speaker 1: But it got him the win here. El Grande attacked
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  Speaker 1: Evans after the match, threw him over the announced desk.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Evans re emerged on top of the barricade, right behind
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  Speaker 1: the announcers, but he was cornered right. He had nowhere
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  Speaker 1: to go, and so as the Americanos tried to swarm him,
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  Speaker 1: he leapt clear over not just them, but even the
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  Speaker 1: announced desk, and he slid into the ring. They chased
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  Speaker 1: after him. He immediately left the ring and jumped out
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  Speaker 1: over the top rope. And ran down the aisle to safety.
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  Speaker 1: So this was a nice little showcase here for Evans,
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  Speaker 1: who now owns wins over Ryo and Bravo. One would
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  Speaker 1: assume we'll be getting the singles match as soon with
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: him and El Grande. As far as him running away
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: from these guys, I'll allow it. Three on one. He
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: won't be as bouncy at age thirty. No, no, see,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like all of us were somewhat bouncy at
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  Speaker 1: twenty one. By the time you hit thirty one, you're
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  Speaker 1: not really as bouncy as he used to be. By
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  Speaker 1: the time you hit forty one. The only thing bouncing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, are parts of your body that begin to
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  Speaker 1: kind of sag and go in the other direction. Maybe
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: it depends on the sex. I guess what sex you
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  Speaker 1: may be. But like things, they don't bounce, or maybe
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: they do bounce, but it's just in a different way.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: So he could be the bouncy boy right now. But yes,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: eventually that that's going to have to change. So we
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: have Paul Hayman in the back. He approached Adam Pierce.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Pierce told Hayman he asked him where is he? Because
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: we saw the vision earlier but bron Breaker was missing.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: We saw Hayman, we saw Logan, Paul Bronton, Reid Austin theory,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: but there was no bron Breaker. So Pierce wants to
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: know where he is. Where is he? It's like Batman,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: right where is he? He says, if bron Breakers to
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: arrive with bad intentions, he should turn around and go home.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Pierce said he wasn't in the mood. He wasn't going
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: to tolerate it. Haymon said he would relay the message.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: He didn't sound very sincere when he said this. During
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: a commercial break, Jay Usso entered through the crowd to
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: his music to basically cut the same promo he and
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: his brother cut from the crowd the week before. The
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: only difference is this time it was during commercial and
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: it was just Jay and not Jimmy, so it was
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: just for the live crowd, and if you missed it,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: you didn't miss much. After this, we had the World
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: heavyweight Champion. We had CM Punk out to the ring,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: singing his song and encouraging, trying to encourage the crowd
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: to do the same thing because they were not as
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: loud as you would expect, you know, for these international crowds,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: they tend to like to sing, Like if r Orton
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: were to walk out, they probably would be singing his
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: theme song. The people really again, they weren't going crazy
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: or anything. So you could see Punk as he's walking,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: He's like, come on, sing along. He's trying to get
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: them to sing. So he said he plans to be
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: the world champion forever, which I certainly hope is not true.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: But as his good friend Cody Rhodes found out, just
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: because you want that doesn't mean it's going to work
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: out that way. Anything can happen. But the roads to
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania runs through him, and he's looking forward to seeing
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: who's next in line to challenge him for the world
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: heavyweight title. And this is where we got Finn Balor's
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: music to interrupt. And who was it. I think it was.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Robbie from Barstool made a comment which I agree with.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: If it was Balor's old music, this crowd really would
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: have gotten into it. But this newer music that he
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: comes out to, it's kind of hard to really get into.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: But there were a lot of fans who were happy
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: to see him all the same. So he joined Punk
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: in the ring right the godfather of the Bullet Club.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I just talked about Balor on the podcast yesterday, talked
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: about his significance when you consider the fact that he
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: was the one who founded Bullet Club and all that
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: has come out of Bullet Club in terms of some
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: of the bigger names that have come out of the group,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: and some of the other things he's done in his career. Also,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: you know he'll be first ballot Hall of Famer one day.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Not really treated like one, but he will be. So
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: he gets in the ring, said that he's not waiting
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: for the rumble, he's not waiting for the elimination chamber,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: and he's not here asking for a handout. But when
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Punk won that title, he named Balor as someone that
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: he would want to face. So here he is, and
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Punk said that, you're right. I did mention your name
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: is someone I wanted to test myself against, but that
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: was two months ago. Because where have you been? Said,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: you see me, I see you in the back playing
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: video games. Because you're playing video games. You're worried about Dom,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: You're worried about JD. McDonough. Some weeks he would swear
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: he's just shining live. Morgan Shoes said you watched me
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: go through the War Games match at Survivor Series. You
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: saw me go to war last week with bron Breaker
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: for the World Championship. What are you looking to do?
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Pick the bones? You're gonna be facing? Uh? Am I
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: gonna be facing Finn Balor? Or? Am I going to
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: be facing Finn Balor? And the judgment day That was
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the question that Punk wanted to know the answer to,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: because I'm a fan of Finn Balor. And if I
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: said I'm gonna be a fighting champion, then that includes today.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go put my boots on and we're
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: gonna do this tonight right here in Dusseldorf. And oh
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the fans loved hearing that, because these fans thought, for
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: a moment there they were going to get an impromptu
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: World Heavyweight Championship match. Balor said he knows that timing
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: is everything. He's not jumping the line to face him.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Anyone who has watched his career from Europe to Japan
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: to NXT to Monday Night Raw knows that the line
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: starts here. So you don't have to worry about Dom,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about JD. But he's not
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: going to be alone. You see, he watched Punk's career
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: and time and time again, Punk would get home field
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: advantage in Chicago. Well, next week, Raw's going to be
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: in Belfast, Ireland, and it's going to be the Punk
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: against the Prince, and there's going to be a new
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Irish world heavyweight champion. So Punk told the Prince you're on,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: and he apologized to the fans and Dusseldorf because they
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: wanted to see the champion work and he wants to
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: take this moment to apologize to the fans in Belfast,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: to Balor's countrymen for putting Baalor to sleep with a GTS. Well,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: it's about time they gave Finn Balor something important to
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: do on this show. We came into twenty twenty five,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: there were reports that WWE had plans for Finn Balor,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: that he was in line for a big singles push
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, and that singles push never came right.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: He was doing Judgment Day stuff. There was all kinds
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: of drama with the Judgment Day throughout the year he
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: was a World tag team champion. He never got any
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: kind of sustained singles push though, So now people think well,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six is going to be the year, and
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: he's teased it in some of his promos by talking
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: about how this year is going to be different and
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: he's got championship ambitions this year. Nobody believes he's going
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: to go to Ireland next week and win the World
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship, right. I gave WWE credit for at least
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: trying to shake things up on SmackDown with Drew McIntyre
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: beating Cody Rhodes. I weeks ago thought maybe there was
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: a chance a bron Breaker would beat cmpunk to win
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the world title. By the time we got to the
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: week before last week's show, it didn't seem very likely.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: They're not going to turn around and put the world
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: championship on Finn Balor, all right, that's just not gonna happen.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: But it is still an important match for him next week,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: an important singles match, and when was the last time
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: we can honestly say we saw Finn Balor in a
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: significant singles match with any sort of real consequence to it. So,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and the fact that they're doing it in Ireland is
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: great because we know he's going to get a Heroes
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: welcome when he comes out, it's going to feel like
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: a big deal and they're billing it as a first
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: time ever match, which I assume it is. So I'm
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: looking forward to the match. Only question really is the
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: do we get a repeat of last week where Finn
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Balor loses clean to see M Punk as bron Breaker did,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: or are we going to see bron Breaker despite the suspension,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: which I'll get to it a little bit. Are we
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: going to see bron Breakers show up next week and
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: try to extract a measure of revenge on the man
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: who beat him? Now, he didn't go after Punk tonight.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Oddly enough, Punk was in the building. He didn't go
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: after CM Punk, So maybe maybe he won't be so
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: obsessed with Punk next week even if he shows up.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: But I definitely think there's a possibility that he might.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Maybe they did the suspension angle to keep him off
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: of television altogether. There's just again, anybody who has any
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: thought in their head of this going Finn Balor's way
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: next week, I don't know what to say other than
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: not to set yourself up for disappointment. I know Baler's
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: got a lot of fans out there, people that want
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: to see him get pushed again people who think it's
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: very unfair that in all of these years, very much
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: like Kevin Owens, and the only reason Kevin Owens had
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: to run with the Universal title is because Finn Balor
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: got injured. So Baler and Owens have a lot in
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: common in that they got called up to the main roster.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: And it's been about a decade. And outside of that
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: very like initial reign as Universal Champion, which for Balor
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: lasted twenty four hours, neither one of these men have
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: ever held a world title in this company, which is
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: kind of crazy when so many other people have had
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the chance to do so, and they've and they've remain
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: popular after all these years. And I can't sit here
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: and tell you that it will It will never happen
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: for Finn Balor. But there's a reason I call him
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: pinn Balor, and I started calling him that years ago
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: because that's the role that he has been designated to
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: play on this show. He is pin Balor. They use
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: him more often than not to help get other people
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: over and elevate other people and not himself. And maybe
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: they feel like he's popular enough that he can sustain it,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: and it's okay and it doesn't do too much damage,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: but he has been slotted at a certain level. Even
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: though he's wrestling Punk next week. It's a television match, right,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I'm not prepared to say that this is going to
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: suddenly become a regular thing where he's featured in main events.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I don't see that happening. Maybe eventually, when Dom comes back,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: maybe he's the one to take the Intercontinental title from Dom.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's the WrestleMania match. I don't know, but it
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: will not happen next week that I will tell you.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Maybe a hostile crowd though towards CM Punk. We'll see.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I don't think they'll be very hostile towards Balor Punk though.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Could be fifty to fifty, or it could be it
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: could be a crowd that's really not there to see
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: CM Punk. But we had a number one contenders match
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: for the women's tag team titles the Kabuki Warriors Bailey
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: and Lyra Valkyria live Morgan in Roxane, Perez. Those were
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the teams involved. The winner gets a championship match against
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Eosky and Rhea Ripley a week from this Saturday at
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Saturday Night's main event in Montreal. I'm sure Charlotte and Alexa,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Naya and lash are very happy to see that they
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: had a Number One Contenders match without them being involved.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I'm sure they're just elated right now. So the team's
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: all brawled outside until Kyrie wiped everybody out with an
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: insane elbow off the top. There was a big stack
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: power bomb spot out of the corner with everybody except Oscar,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: with Kyrie getting the worst of it. Oscar was not pleased,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: so she hit rock Sand with the German suplex, and
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: then she hit Bailey and Lyra together simultaneously with a
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: double German suplex. Oscar then held Lyra so that Kyrie
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: could go up top and hit the assisted insane elbow,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: which she did, and then she covered her and the
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: referee refused to drop down and make the count, and
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the referee is explaining that Kyrie was not legal, so
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: therefore he can't count the fall, and then it sort
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: of fell apart there for about a minute because Live
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: jumped in to break up the not pin. I guess
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: you would call it, and then you could see, you know,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Bailey is laying there on the mat Osca and they're
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: all sort of communicating with each other, talking to the
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: referee trying to figure out you know where to go
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: next and what to do next, so everybody starts trading
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: moves until Lyra caught Kyrie as she attempted a flying
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: crossbody because she weighs nothing, so she caught her with ease.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Valkyria hit a neck breaker or a backbreaker rather, and
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: then Bailey tagged in, followed with a flying elbow drop.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Oscar broke up the cover. Perez hit Bailey with pop rocks,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: but Kyrie broke that cover up. Kyrie then tossed Perez
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: out of the ring, but then Live Morgan flies in
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: from out of nowhere, and Live Morgan hits oblivion and
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: she gets the pin to win it for the judgment day.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: This made no sense. And I'm going to tell you
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: why this made no sense. If I was following along correctly,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: this makes absolutely no sense. If Kyrie saying was not legal,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: like after that spot that I just described, she never
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: tagged out, but the referee refused to count the fall
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: for her because he claimed, you're not legal, so I
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: can't count this far here. If she wasn't legal, then
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: how the hell can Live Morgan pin? Kyrie saying, what
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: sense does that make again. After the spot earlier, I
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: went back and watched it a second time. Never saw
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Kyrie get tagged out blind tag no tag match just
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: continued with her in the ring, and evidently the referee
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: didn't have any issue with it because and I'm sure
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: what happened is she was supposed to be in the ring,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: and so the referee was sort of like, okay, just
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: forget about what happened and let's just keep keep moving
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: along here. That's realistically probably what happened, but just in
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: the context of what we were watching, it didn't really
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: make any sense. So like Kyrie couldn't make the pin
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: because she wasn't legal, but it's okay for her to
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: take the pin even though she's not legal. It's very stupid.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: So something got fucked up in translation here. But it
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: will be live in Rock Sand. They will be challenging
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: for the women's tag team titles that's coming up on
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the Is it the twenty fourth? I think the twenty fourth,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: they'll be in Montreal. So unless they add additional teams
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: to it from the SmackDown side, right now, it's just
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: gonna be two on two. We had a Becky Lynch
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: video promo that aired, where she complained about Maxine Dupree
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: already getting a rematch for the women's Intercontinental title even
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: though it took her two months to regain her championship.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Wasn't she boycotting the show. That's her own fault for
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: not showing up. There's been a lot of incidents and
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: referees lately, that is true in both companies. I still
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: can't get that Paul Turner thing out of my head
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: from World's End with Okata and Takesha at the end
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: of their match, and how how fucking awful that looked.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, You know, being a referee, it's
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: not it's not an easy job. But it's been a
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: lot of different incidents of late, it feels like. So Anyway,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Becky said that she's gonna be def ending her Intercontinental
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: title one more time against Maxine next week in Belfast,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: in her homeland of Ireland. So we're getting this again
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: that Jackie Redman was backstage with Maxine Dupree, who was
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: with Otis and Akira Tozawa. She has a chance to
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: win it back next week, but where is your head at?
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: That's what Jackie wanted to know, So Maxine admitted that
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: she was disappointed that she lost a championship, but winning
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the title proved that she belongs. And then she turned
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: to Otis and Tozawa and told them that she felt
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: like it was time for the two of them to
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: do the same and believe in themselves and prove to
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: the world that they belong. She said that Becky had
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: to cheat to beat her, and she acknowledges that Becky
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: is great, Becky is, you know, one of the goats
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: and all this stuff. But Becky had to cheat to
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: beat her in their match. So next week she's going
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: to put Becky in an ankle lock and she's going
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: to break her ankle. And she screamed when she said this,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: you know, for added emphasis. Back in the arena, Michael
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Cole had teleported from ringside to the stage area and
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: he was there to introduce Raquel Rodriguez for a special
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: interview to no reaction. He asked her why she attacked
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Stephanie Vicaire last week, since Stephanie is currently injured. Stephanie
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: is sporting a walking boot. They shot this angle last week,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: which to me felt like a way to write Stephanie
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: off television for a few weeks while she heals up
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: from what is a legitimate injury. Her ankle was all
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: bruised up. She posted a photo on her Instagram. It's
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: probably all swollen, So that's what I thought. I didn't
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: think we were going to see Stephanie back on the
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: show for a few weeks, but Raquel said that she
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: remembered being the girl who politely, impatiently waited her turn
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: in line for a shot at the title. But times
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: change and people do too. She's tired of people feeling
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: sorry for Stephanie, so fine, go ahead feel sorry for her,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: but she will not stop. She will keep coming until
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: she gets her one on one in that ring. And
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: when big Sexy Raquel Rodriguez stands tall as the new
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: women's World champion, then they could all feel sorry for her.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Big Sexy You say, it's kind of funny because her
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: career in many ways turned around when Kevin Nash made
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: that comment about how she needs to work big, like
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Raquel sells too much for her opponents who were smaller
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: than her. She needs to work big, and then Raquel
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: took it to heart and she started working big and
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: just the way that she would carry herself in the ring,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: and even it felt like she was selling less and
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: she was being more dominant in her matches, and it
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: made a huge difference. I feel like in her career
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: last year where it really felt like she was like
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: if you were to talk about most improved, like at
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: the end of the year, all the year end awards
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: and stuff, Raquel would win from most Improved. Now she's
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: calling herself big sexy. Now, I wonder where she got
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: that from. Soon, we're gonna have Kevin Nash out there
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: as her manager. You imagine that towering over every everybody
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: in the women's division. She's gonna have Kevin Nash in
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: her corner guiding her and giving her advice. Can you
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: imagine Kevin Nash having to walk down some of these
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: ramps in these aisles and some of these big stadiums,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: on these stadium shows, I feel like it would take
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: a while. So Stephanie's music hits, which I was not expecting,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: and outwalks the women's World champion or limps out still
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: in her walking boot, and she was surrounded by referees
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: who were trying to stop her. Meanwhile, Raquel is escorted
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: like they kept the two of them apart. And Raquel
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: very calmly being surrounded by officials as well, and they
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: guide her to the back, and Stephanie looks into the
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: camera and she said, this would not this being I
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: guess the walking boot will not stop me. Raquel, come
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: get it, she says. Evidently Raquel heard her, because two
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: seconds later she gets ambushed from behind by Raquel Rodriguez,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: who ran back out and attacked her, and she again
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: slammed the injured ankle. She took the foot with the
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: walking boot on it and slammed it against the ground.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: And then she took the women's world title and she
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: reared back with it and with all of her might
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: she slammed it down across the walking boot and then
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Stephanie's on the ground, writhing around in pain. And that's
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: how the segment came to an end. Well, you know,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: if you would have just stayed home and convalesced like
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: you were supposed to, then this wouldn't have happened. So
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: she really doesn't have anybody to blame for her but herself.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: She broke the belt, by the way, when she did that,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Raquel swung that belt so hard and it was the
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: side of the belt that the oh God, the you
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: know the gold buckles, as one side of the belt
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: usually does the tip the gold tip. She slammed that
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: part of the belt against the walking boot in the
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: ground and she broke it. She posted a picture on
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: last Stephanie did of the broken gold tip, just barely
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: still attached to the belt. I hope that was a
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: replica and not the actual thing, because a lot of
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: times on these shows you could tell when they're using
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: a replica. So I mean, look, I thought, as far
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: as the promo itself, not that Raquel had a whole
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: lot to say here, but just in terms of the
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: way that she spoke and the way that she carried herself,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I thought it was good. I think it's the sort
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: of thing we need to see more of, you know,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: her getting some promo time. I said that about Maxine Dupree,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: you know, someone who I don't think would have had
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: nearly the same confidence that she has now on the
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: microphone a year ago. And the only way to get
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: better it is to just get more time to speak
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: live in front of crowd, and not just have these
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: judgment day clubhouse segments in the back. You know, it's
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: good to have a segment like this every now and then,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: so she's gotten herself to a point now where I
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: could believably see her as the women's world champion. I
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: don't think that when they have that match finally, one
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: on one, no Nicki Bella, just one on one, especially
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: with Raquel getting one up on Stephanie every week and
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: leaving her lying on the ground writhing around in pain.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: I don't think that Raquel's winning the title from her,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: but I could envision Raquel Rodriguez at some point here
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: this year being the women's World champion, and maybe that
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: factors into an eventual you know, baby face turn and
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: split from the Judgment day and we eventually get Raquel
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: against Live. I don't see that being a WrestleMania match
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: this year, but I could see that being the eventual
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: direction for later in twenty twenty six. And as far
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: as Stephanie is concerned, I mean, look, it's good that
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: she's at least consistently television showing me just like at
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: least she's consistently on television now each week. She has
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: something now for her to actually sink her teeth into
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: in this feud, which she didn't have any of this
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: for weeks and weeks and weeks she was like just
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: forgotten about here on her own show. Now she has
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: a real feud, and one that doesn't involve Nikki Bella.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not even counting the Nicky Bella few that wasn't
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: even a real feud. That was a match to do
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: to kill time and give Stephanie something to do with
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Survivor series. But here you have somebody who, actually, unlike
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Nicki Bella these days, has some credibility built up, and
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: you know, to match that, people are going to want
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: to see, you know, once Stephanie is able to get
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: medically cleared. So I like it. I just don't see
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Raquel being the one to take that title from her.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: You know, at this point, it feels like, you know, health,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: health permitting, Stephanie should be walking into WrestleMania as the champion.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Quite is, who does she defend against? And to answer
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: that question, we'll we'll have to wait and see who
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: wins the Royal Rumble, and if it's somebody from the
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: SmackDown side, then how do they decide a number one
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: contender On the ROS side. They showed clips of Drew
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: McIntyre's appearance as the WWE champion in Glasgow on Saturday,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Drew had a homecoming with the belt. Everybody was very
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: happy to see him come home with that championship, and
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: they promoted that he will be making an appearance on
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: SmackDown this Friday. They're going to be in I believe Manchester,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: so he will be there. We go backstage and Otis
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: and Tozawa. They approach Jay Usso said they heard Jay
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: putting the division on notice, and they asked Jay, how
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: about us? And Jay said that you're my boys. You
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: know what we said last week. That was more kind
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: of a statement to the rest of the tag team division,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: which honestly is a very shitty thing to say. These
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: are your supposedly your friends. It's like, yeah, you know
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: what we were talking about, give people a title match
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: and warning people about coming after these titles. We weren't
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: talking about you guys like you guys were a bunch
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: of fucking losers, like you guys aren't going to be
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: challenging for these belts. So Otis got serious and he
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: got up in his face, and Jay took his glasses
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: off and he said Mary he would convene with Jimmy,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: but he warned them that they would be standing in
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: the ring with the best tag team in the game.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Otis and Tozau are going to be wrestling Broddo. I'd
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: love to see it. We had Penta and dragon Le
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: teaming up to take on Bronson Reid in Austin Theory.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Dragon Ly hit Reid with a DDT coming out of
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: a commercial break. Penta then made the hot tag. He
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: hit Theory with a backstabber. Dragon and Penta. They handed
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: out super kicks to everybody, including Logan Paul who was
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: out there at ringside. Dragon Lee wiped out Logan and
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Theory with a flip dive and as Dragon Lee was
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: outside the ring, and he's right there at the foot
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: of the aisleway and Dragon Lee is out there and
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he was posing, I don't know
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: if he was just stunned. I don't know what was
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: going on here, because he had plenty of advance warning
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: of what was coming. He had plenty of advanced notice here.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: But out of nowhere, bron Breaker shows up. He ran
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: down that ring, and the first camerangle that we saw
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: we only saw him when he got there, but he
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: speared the fuck out of this guy, just absolutely mowed
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: him down with a spear. He speared him into the
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: upside down and the referee calls for the disqualification. Penta
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: then invited Braun into the ring, so Bron jumped in.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: He speared him as well. So Breaker was about to
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: kill Dragonly with a running spear on the outside. He
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: was about to circle the ring, but as he went
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: to go begin, Adam Pierce showed up out of nowhere,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: and the general manager of Raw he he stands in
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: his way and he stops him and probably saves Dragonly's life,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: and he's yelling at him, admonishing him, and as this
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: is going on, and actually the way they shot this
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: was well done because as he's yelling at Breaker on
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: the outside and Breaker is just listening to what he's saying,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: you could see in the background in the ring Bronson
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Reid has ascended to the top rope and he comes
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: diving off with a tsunami splash to Penta. So then
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Pierce hears this and sees it, and he gets in
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: the ring and he walks right up to Bronson Reid
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: and he admonishes him as well, and he warns him.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: So while he's doing that, Bron Breaker slips into the
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: ring and he delivers another spear to Dragonly. So Adam
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: Pierce walks over to bron Breaker and he grabs him
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: by the shoulder and he spins him around and he
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: gets up in his face and he's telling him, I'm
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: sick of this shit. So bron violently grabs Pearce and
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: he backs him into the corner and he's yelling at him,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? He's threatened. He's basically threatening
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: to murder this man. So the rest of the Vision,
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Paul Hayman, they come over to try to hold back
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Breaker and Pierces yelling at Paul Hayman and the Vision
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: to get him out of here. So he did, and
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: they showed a replay of that running spear after the
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: commercial break, and you're gonna probably see this on social
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: media if you didn't see the show. But it's this
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: great overhead drone shot a bron Breaker when he initially
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: walked out from the very beginning of the aisleway, and
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: the drone very quickly because he's going fast and the
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: drone is just following from overhead and it's a long run.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: He got a real running start, and it makes it
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: look so much more devastating, and then of course he
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: cuts down Dragonly with a spear. Just it looked tremendous,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: absolutely tremendous. So in the back, Penta and Dragonly after this,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: they were being tended to in medical Javon Evans showed
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: up to check on them and reminded them, Hey, if
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: you need my help, I'm here for you. I think
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: they could have used your help a few minutes ago.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Then they cuts a bron breaker. He's walking, he looks
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: like he's leaving. He's walking through the back. Adam Pierce
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: shows up behind him, screaming, I'm not done. We're not
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: done talking yet. So he goes up to a breaker
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: in their face to face and he goes, you know,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: putting your hands on the boss. You know what, You're
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: gonna get some time off because as of this moment,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: you are hereby indefinitely suspended. It's a breaker and him,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: they're like nose to nose, ey'd to eye. Here Pierce
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: had this huge, like lot of spit dripping off his chin.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: He was just freaking out and screaming and losing his mind.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Here Hayman, after a breaker finally walked off. Hayman moses
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: up to Adam Pierce and he tells him, you just
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: made the biggest mistake of your life. And Pierce thought
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: he was talking about bron Breaker. He goes, no, I'm
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: talking about you. You just made the biggest mistake of
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: your life, you know, doing what you did. Because with
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: all due respect, mister general manager, you know from my
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: vantage point, says you put your hands on bron Breaker first,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: not the other way around. In the crowd went ooh,
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: he's right, he is technically right. Adam Pierce put his
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: hands on bron Breaker and spun him around before bron
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Breaker ever put his hands on. Adam peers, that is true,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: and we'll see if there's any repercussions for that. We'll
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: see if maybe maybe this suspension will be overturned very
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: quickly as a result of that. I don't know, but
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Breaker interfering in the match. Look, the match itself was
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: a waste of nine minutes. The purpose that it served
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: was exactly what you saw there at the end. It
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: wasn't even about the match. It wasn't about Austin theory.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: It never is about Austin theory. It wasn't about Bronson
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Reid or you know, Dragonly or anybody like that. It
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: was about how can we get bron Breaker on the
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: show and get him involved in a way that leads
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: us to this interaction with him and Adam Pearce. He
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: has to go crazy, he has to be a wild
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: man out there. You have to give Adam Pierce a
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: reason to come out and yell at him and reprimand him,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: and to have a confrontation between the two of them.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: And so this is what they came up with. The
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: match was a means to an end. It was to
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: set up the angle that came after the match, and
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: the angle I thought was very well done. I think
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Adam Pierce's performance and all this was very good. Again,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: I already talked about the spear the Breaker gave to Dragonly,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: who of course is a smaller man than him, you know,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: ways less. And so when he goes out there and
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: he kills you know, guys like that and they can
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: you know, sell for it or go flying or whatever,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: that makes it even better. But when he gets that
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: running head start again. I love that drone shot. It
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: just made it look so much more devastating. That way
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: he had to come out this week and look like
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: a killer. It would not have been enough for him
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: to just show up and fall in line and be
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: in their corner, you know, during their tag team match. Right,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: he should be furious mostly himself for losing, but he
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: should be furious about losing to see m Punk last week,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: and so this week he was uncontrollable, right, He was
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: the uncontrollable wild man out there until Pierce suspended him.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: So they did what they had to do. I thought
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: it was well done. And now we'll see do we
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: not see him again until the Rumble? Does he show
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: up again next week on the show? Where is the
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: story going to go where Pierce put his hands on
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: him first? Right? Is Pierce going to get into trouble
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: for it? I don't know. But when he lost last
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: weight to see him punk, I said it then that
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: it vaulted him way up to, if not the top
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: of the list, in that top two or three mix
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: like Roman Reigns, bron Breaker like those, right, there have
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: to be the two favorites right now. I'll even throw
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Obafemi in there, because there's always the off chance that
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: they could just shock everybody and have Oba Femi show
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: up in the Rumble and fucking win the whole thing.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna happen, but he's in that
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: top mix right now favorites to win the Royal Rumble
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: because the way things right now are are looking and
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: shaping up, I do think that all roads lead to
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: probably a wrestle many a rematch between CM Punk and
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: bron Breaker. Maybe Seth Rollins is involved. If Rolins can
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: be cleared in time for Mania, they could kind of
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: slip him in there because he never lost the belt.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: He hates Punk, he hates bron Breaker for kicking him
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: out of the Vision, So maybe it turns into a
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: three way, but I think he's gonna be in that mix.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: That's where I think things right now are headed, because
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: if they're not, then I don't know. I don't know
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: what else you would do with him that would make
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: any sense, you know, given the way they're positioning bron
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Breaker so strongly on this show, what else would he
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: be doing that would be considered important on that show,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: if not wrestling for the World Championship. I wouldn't mind
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: it if they did a non title like singles match
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: as an attraction between him and Roman Reigns, not for
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: any titles, I would be okay. With that too. I
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: just I don't know that that's the direction they're going in,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: but he's gonna get his rematch for that title. He's
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: got to earn it, though one way to earn it
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: would be to win the Royal Rumble. We got a
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: brand new video package speaking of Albafemi. We've had the
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: same video package running the last couple of weeks on
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: Raw and SmackDown. We got a new video package and
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: again no date, no message other than his name at
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: the end of it. The reports are out. The belief
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: is that Obafemi is going to Monday Night Raw. They
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: have not said that yet, but it looks like that's
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: where he's gonna be headed. It's just a matter of when.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: At this point, I say, just wait for the Rumble.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: You may as well just debut him in the Royal Rumble.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: But it looks like he's gonna be there on Monday Nights.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: He vacated the NXT Championship after he beat Leon Slater
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: last Tuesday. He left the belt sitting in the middle
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: of the ring. They have announced that on NXT Tomorrow
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: night they will have some sort of announcement to explain
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: how they're going to handle this. Whether it's some sort
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: of you know, like a series of matches that lead
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: to a multimin match to crown a new champion, or
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: just a tournament. Whatever they're gonna do, we'll find out
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: tomorrow on NXT. And then it was time for our
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: main event. First time ever on TV. I can't say
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: first time ever ever, just because I've almost positive these
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: two have had house show matches before. I know for
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: a fact. I remember seeing an image of them in
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: a steel cage match at a live event I think
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: last year, but on television, never done before. AJ Styles
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: one on one against Gunther. Styles was all over Gunther
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: early on. He was targeting Gunther's leg with a series
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: of kicks. Gunther slammed Aj on the apron. Styles fought back.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: Guntherer cut him off again with a clothesline, but AJ
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: kept fighting back until Gunther finally chopped him off the
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: top rope and he fell all the way to the floor,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: and that took us into a commercial break. Gunther held
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: control throughout the break. When they came back, he was
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: chopping the shit out of AJ. Styles, though tried to
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: make a comeback, Gunther took his head off with a lariat,
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: to a big pop. So I should point out here,
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: like clearly Gunther was cheered by the majority of the fans.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: It wasn't anything like overwhelming or anything like that. But
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: you know, when he was coming up on the independence scene,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: I think they pointed this out on commentary. You know,
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: he spent quite a bit of time, you know, working
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: in Germany, and I think what was it the wx
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: W promotion, So you know, it's not just that he's
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: he's a fellow European, like, he has a lot of
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: history and a lot of experience working in Germany, and
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: he has a lot of fans in Germany. AJ was
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: not booed though, you know, it wasn't like he was
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: booed out of the building or anything. But Gunther had
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: the crowd advantage here, so when he would go on offense,
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: he would have a big shop or a big move
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: or a big sequence of moves, the crowd would pop
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: for him. So Gunther did that you can't see me
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: and killing me just like a can't I can see Yeah,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: hey dude, here, I could see you. I could see
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: dude here in that thirteen dollars super chent and same
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: to Callum will also drop one a little while ago.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Thank you brother. Get to your messages here in a
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: little bit, get them on in and we'll read through them.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: So here he did the uh, you can't see me bit,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: and then he told audibly, he told Aj to duck,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: and then he hit the ropes, and wouldn't you know,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: Aj ducked on the clothesline attempt. But as Aj came
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: or as he you know, ducked, he took out Gunther's
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: leg with a low drop kick. Three dragon screws followed.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: Gunther tried for a rain maker clothesline. Styles though countered
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: with a pele kick and he got the calf crusher applied. Now,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: remember he said he was gonna not just beat Gunther
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: in this match, he was going to tap him out.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: That was a story going into this. I'm gonna do
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: this for John Cena and I'm gonna tap you out
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: like a little bitch here in this match. So he
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: got the klf crusher led and Gunther reached the bottom
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: rope to force the break. Styles tried for a springboard
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: and whatever he was going for, it was unsuccessful because
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Gunther chopped him as he went for it. But Aj
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: went back to work on the leg and he set
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: up again for a springboard, but it was a springboard.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: He wasn't going for the phenomenal Forum. He wasn't even
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: going for the springboard four fifty. He did a springboard
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: three sixty into a leg drop across the injured leg,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: which is kind of innovative, and I haven't seen AJ
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: do that before, so that was kind of cool. I
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: enjoyed that. So he went right back to working on
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: that leg, and now now he is setting up for
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: the phenomenal forum. He sprang off the ropes, but Gunther
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: dodged it into a sleeper hole. AJ fell backwards on
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: him though into a pinning combination. Gunther kicked out. Then
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: he dropped AJ with a hard clothes line and he
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: got a power bomb with a deep stat AJ kicked out.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: So at this point the crowd is chanting, this is awesome,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: and Gunther yelled for AJ to slap him, so like
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: slap me now like he did last week. So Gunther
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: slapped AJ, who at this point is on his knees,
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: and he gave him another hard slap. So they traded
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: chops by Gunther forearms by Aj. Styles got another roll
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: through into another calf crusher to the bad leg. Guntherer, though,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: reached over right next to him, grabbed a hold of
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: AJ's head and repeatedly slammed him into the mat. So
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: think about the match that AJ had with Brock Lesner
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: at Survivor Series all those years ago, because that's how
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: Brock got out of the calf crusher. That's what Gunther
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: did to him. Here. Gunher delivered a shotgun drop kick
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: that sent Aj flying backwards. Aj landed on his feet
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: though on a power bomb attempt that followed, and again
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: again he transitioned into a calf crusher. This was what
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: the third one I believe of this match. Styles rolled
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: him over back to the center of the ring, and
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: Gunther is he's trapped. You know, he's in pain. It's
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: a painful hold and he's got nowhere to go. He's
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: in the center of the ring and started telling the
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, Aj releases the hold and jumps
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: to his feet and he starts telling the referee that
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: he tapped. He's going Gumpter tapped right. People are very
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: confused right now what's going on here? But Aj is
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: insistent that this man tapped. He tapped on his thigh.
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: But the referee didn't see it. So the referee goes
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: over to Alicia Taylor to tell her the match is
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: going to continue. Now, I'm not sure why he felt
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: the need to do this. He could have just told AJ,
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: I didn't see it, keep wrestling, but he walked over
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: to the ring announcer to tell her this like, the
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: match is going to continue. I don't think she ever
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: made any kind of announcement either, But it was an
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: excuse to divert the referee's attention because as this was
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: going on, and AJ walked back over to gun Through,
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: guntherro without the referee seeing gave him a low blow
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: and this the crowd booed, so he gave him a
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: low blow. Then came the power bomb with the stack,
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: and this time Gunther picked up the wind. Now, after
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: the match, they showed a replay from a different angle,
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: because from the main television angle you couldn't see it.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: But they showed it from the opposite side, right, because
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: they got cameras all over the place, probably have fucking
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: cameras in space this company. So they showed it from
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: the opposite side, and it was clear as day he
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: was tapping on AJ. It looked like he was tapping
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: that ass, isn't there like a meme. There's a meme.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: It's I don't know what match it's from. But Gunther's
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: on the outside of the ring and he was getting
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: ready to chop somebody. But he's got his hand back
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: like this, and people they memed it and they use
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: it all the time. He looked like he was tapping
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: that ass. He's smacking aj on the ass like over
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: and over, like he's enjoying himself, like multiple times. So
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: of course A thought the guy tapped out, because he
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: did so he released the hold. But it's clear as day,
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: like on the replay, that Gunther tapped out and the
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: referee couldn't see it because his view was obstructed, right,
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: He wasn't on that side, so he couldn't see it,
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: and so Gunher picks up the win way. Barrett on
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: commentary said it was the smartest thing he had ever seen.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: And Gunther was standing on stage and he was all
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: smiles and pumping his fists up in the air, and
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: he was the happiest guy in Dusseldorf, and that is
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: how they went off the air. I thought that it
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: was a I thought that it was a clever way
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: to do that finish to set up for at least
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: one more match, which I think most of us figured.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: You know, this match was announced on one week's notice
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: for television. It can't be the only match obviously, that
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: we're going to get between these two. So I think
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: most of us knew we were going to get at
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: least one more. This feels like it's going to be
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: more than just another match. This should be a whole
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: series of them. But they did the finish in a
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: way that guarantees that were going to get a rematch
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: here between these two, and that's fine because what we
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: got here was excellent. I thought what we got with
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: these two in the time that we had before the
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: fucked finish was very good. And I could see people
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: taking issue with Gunther tapping at all, but as I
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: said at the beginning of the stream, I saw it
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: as Gunher knew what he was doing. He was in pain,
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: he was trapped, and he said, you know what, I'm
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: going to tap on this side so the referee won't
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: see it. And then the off chance that Aj decides
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: to let go of the hold, which of course he did,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: that will give him an opportunity to recuperate and when
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: the referee tells him, hey, I didn't see the tap,
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: Gunther could strike that. He did do the low blow,
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: which is something that Gunther usually doesn't need to resort
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: to when you know, take it a shortcut like that.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: But that's how tough an opponent AJ was for him.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: It puts over AJ and that Gunther was desperate. He knew, shit,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: this is not going to end well for me here
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: if I don't think of something on the fly. And
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: this was his way of getting out of the hold,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: a hold for which there was no escape because he
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: was trapped in the center of the ring for the
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: third time. So I thought it was clever the way
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: they did it. He took the cheap way out, and
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: now they can run this back. When do they run
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: it back? You've got Saturday Night's main event coming up.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: Gunther wrestled on that show last year. He defended the
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: World heavyweight title against jay Uso on Saturday Nights main event.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: I don't even think he worked the Rumble last year,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: so they could do it on that show. They could
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: do it at the Rumble if they want to keep
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: both of them out of the actual Rumble match, they
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: could do it there. It almost has to be on
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: one of those two shows. But one thing also that
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: doing the finish this way shows and I like what
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: they did with the calf crusher respect of it. You know,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: it establishes the calf crusher as a move where you
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: can now believably look at it and go, oh, even
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: guntherer he might tap out from this move, right, He's
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: not going to, but they got you to buy into
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: the possibility now that he might because he did, but
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: the referee just didn't see it. So the next time
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: these guys get in the ring and wrestle, you could
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: add a submission stipulation to it. You can make it
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: a submission match if you want to, because now we
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: know both guys have submission holds that they can rely
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: on Gun through with the sleeper aj with the calf crusher.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: But they have legitimized the calf crusher now, and the
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: eyes of fans who maybe didn't buy into it as
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: a potential finish before, they have legitimized it as a
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: potential finish in a match with Gunther. He tapped once,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: he might tap again. So I like that they did
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: that as well. Are they going to keep this going
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: through to WrestleMania. That's really the question now, because it
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: is January twelfth, WrestleMania is what April eighteenth and nineteenth
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: or April nineteenth and twentieth. Right, we're still a solid
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: three months out from WrestleMania. We've already had match number one,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: We're already talking about match number two potentially being in
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: the next two or three weeks. Can they drag this
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: out to WrestleMania. I believe they can, especially if this
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: all culminates in AJ's final match or AJ putting his
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: career on the line. And we still don't know when
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: AJ is wrestling that final match. I don't want to know.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: I hope that doesn't even leak. I hope they keep
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: that super secret so nobody knows for sure until it
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: actually happens that it's going to be AJ's final match.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: But I absolutely think you can, you know, kind of
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: drag this story out. You got to make it interesting,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: of course, but you can get this to WrestleMania and
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: pay it off there. If that's even the plan for
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: gun through at WrestleMania. It's also possible they're doing this
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: now because they have some other idea in mind for
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: what they want to do with Gunther. Maybe they're gonna
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: do Gunther and brock Lesner, maybe they're gonna do gun
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: Through and somebody else. But I'm just saying, if this
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: was the plan for Mania, you could absolutely get you know,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: get there. It's gonna be incumbent on them, of course,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: to come up with the right story for it and
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: to keep it interesting for long enough. I could see
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: where some people might get tired of it, But I
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: think you could definitely do it. But this was a
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: fine first entry and what will hopefully be a complete
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: series of matches here between these two. Are Is AJ
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: gonna win any of them? I don't think so. Just
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: think about it, like, do you really need Gunther or
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: want Gunther to be forget tapping out just losing in general?
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: Do you really want Gunther to be losing in the
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: very first program he has coming out of the retirement
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: match with John Cena. I mean, that really wouldn't make
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: any sense. Sucks for AJ if he has three matches
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: with this guy and loses all three of them. But
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: I certainly would not be beating guntherer now in January
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: or February or March or even April. I wouldn't be
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even think about beating Gunther until at least
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: SummerSlam put him in there with Ilia Dragonoff at least
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: that long. You want to take full advantage of what
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: you did last month, and you shouldn't be thinking about
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: beating this man. AJ basically did beat him tonight, It's
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: just the referee didn't see it. He got the visual win,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: he just didn't count in the record books. Yeah, I
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: think beating Gunther at all in his very first feud
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: coming out of Saturday Nights made event would be a
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: very suspect decision. And I'm a big AJ Styles fan,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: but he should not be winning. What did you think
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: of Raw from Germany? Fifty eight point five percent thumbs up,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: twenty five point four percent thumbs in the middle, sixteen
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: percent thumbs down. That is an improvement from last week.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: This was a better show than last week. Last week
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: was just overall not a great show. So this was
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: a definite to step up from what we had with
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: Stranger Things in Brooklyn. I hate to say that they
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: gave my fellow New Yorkers the show that they gave
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: them last week, but it can't all be winners, do
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: I think that Live wins the Rumble. No, I do not,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: especially when she's going after the tag team titles a
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: week before the Rumble. She's not going to win the rumble.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: Happy Monday, says Joseph. Happy Monday to everybody. We're starting
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: a new week here. We got shows every night of
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: the week this week. I do anyway, I should say
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: I do because Tomorrow Tuesday Night, Titans will be on
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: JD's channel, not this channel. But we got Raw tonight,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: we got TNT tomorrow, we got Dynamite, the Post Show
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: on Wednesday. I am planning on going live on Thursday night,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: probably about eleven fifteen for the TNA on AMC debut,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: and then live on Friday, probably around eight thirty nine o'clock.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: SmackDown is going. I'm gonna probably watch SmackDown earlier in
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: the day with my VPN, unlike last week. That's a
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: three o'clock Eastern Star, not two o'clock. And that's, by
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: the way, that is the same for Raw next Monday.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: Just be aware of that Raw's airing on Netflix next
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: Monday three pm Eastern. Today it was two pm Eastern.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: Next week, it's gonna be three pm Eastern, So Yeah,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: it gonna be a lot of show, a lot of
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: streaming this week. Hopefully you will join me for all
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: of it. I know Joseph will be here. Joseph's got
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of messages here. He's very happy. It
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: is the sixtieth anniversary to the Batman sixty six show
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: and the surfing contest. I don't remember that. Did you
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: know Clint Eastwood almost played two faces in that show,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: but they cut the character. Can you imagine Clint Eastwood
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: in any kind of Batman production? I can't. I can't
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: even I can't even picture that in my head. I
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: don't have a favorite episode, though, I just I would
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: casually watch it when I was a kid, So I
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: don't have a favorite one. Did I know that Gomez
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Adams himself, John Aston played the Riddler for two episodes?
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: I did not know that. Have I seen the Keanu
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: Reeves movie Johnny Knumonic, No, I remember it, remember hearing
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: about it, never saw it. And I seen Billy Zane
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: superhero movie The Phantom. I did many years ago. I
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: saw The Phantom. I saw dark Man, which had I
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: think Liam Neeson Bugsy the movie Bugsy. That one I
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: did not see. Do you think both Mercedes Monette and
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: Jean Moxley will return to WWE in the future, Well,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: I mean the future is a long time Moxley I
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: could see being an aw lifer. Mercedes, I believe eventually
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: will be in WWE again, but not for many years.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: I think she's very happy where she is right now.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: Do I think Brian Danielson will return to WWE in
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: the future again. I think he's very happy where he is.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say no. And I do not remember
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: that episode Joseph again. Specific episodes, I don't really, there's
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: none that I could think of. It's more just sort
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: of memories of general memories that I pieced together of
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: that show looking back at it. Do you wish Macho
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: Man had won the Royal Rumble. I think it would
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: have been cool. I wish they didn't do him dirty
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: in ninety three by having him look like a fucking
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: geek when he got eliminated by Yoko. I think that is,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: to this day one of the worst Royal Rumble finishes
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: of all time. They did him dirt. I can't believe
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: he agreed to that, Honestly. What was your reaction when
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: Mick Foley made his debut was Dude Love. I had
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: the same look on my face that Steve Austin. Did
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: you remember the look on Steve Austin's face. He had
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: a look on his face like he couldn't believe what
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: he was saying. He didn't really understand what he was saying.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: That was the look I had on my face. Was
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: I a fan of the Dude Love theme song? I was?
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: It was very catchy. Was I a fan of the
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: Ahmed Johnson theme song? I was more a fan of
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: the Ahmed Johnson theme song than I was of Ahmed Johnson.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: So yes. Have you seen the Brad Pitt movie, Troy?
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: I have not known. What are your thoughts on what
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: WWE is doing with Pete Dunn and would you like
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: to see him in AW? No? I mean an AW,
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: He'll be just another guy. I'm not really thrilled with
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: what they're doing with him right now. I think it's
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: a waste of Pete done, So no, I'm not happy
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: with it. Have you seen the Vietnam War movie Platoon
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: with William Dafoe and Charlie Sheen many years ago? I did? Yes.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: Were you a fan of Sean Michaels against mankind a
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: Mine Games in nineteen ninety six. It's one of my
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: favorite matches in Michael's matches of all time. Yes, it's
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: one of my favorites as well. Terrible finish, but the
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: match itself is excellent. I actually believe it's Mick Foley's
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: best match, like as a match, I think it's got
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: It's probably the best match of his career, and I
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: think he would probably say the same thing. I think
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: he was in the best physical shape also for that
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: match of any match in his entire career. It's just
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: a shame that it didn't have a proper finish to it.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: Do you remember Shaw Michaels against Yoko Zuna on Raw
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six. I actually do, and I think
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: Sean beat him with a superkick. If I remember, Joseph says,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: I hope you had a great weekend and have a blessed,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: safe and wonderful week you two you as well, Joseph,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: I appreciate all the love. Death side with an orange
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: super chat, you know we're getting serious when we see
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: the orange ones. I predict Punk will drop the World
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship at the Royal Rumble. Then he goes on
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: to win the Rumble by eliminating Cody. Then at the
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: elimination Chamber, Punk puts his title shot on the line
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: against AJ Styles. Why would he do that? And Cody
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: wins back the WWE title and we get Punk Cody
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: at wrestlemany of forty two. Well, I mean the way
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: that you have outlined this entire scenario is it's creative.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: I'll give you creative points, but I'll bet you that
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: it doesn't work out that way. I don't see it
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: going down that way. Why would Punk? Why would anybody
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: put their shot on the line in a match. It's
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: just so, it's so dumb. I know we've had babyfaces
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: do it before, but they're dumb. They're dumb. You earn
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: that shot? Death Side says, I know I pitched it
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: months ago, but I think it would be a sin
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: if we don't get at least one singles match between
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: CM Punk and AJ Styles before AJ quits. Yeah, I agree,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: I mean you could do it, but just him putting
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: a shot on the line, don't do that. Find some
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: other way to do it, even if it's like a
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: random TV match, just for the sake of doing it
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: like if they find out aj really is wrapping up
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: at Mania and it's like, shit, we only have two
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: months to do this match. I mean, you know, I
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: don't know when the next Saturday Night's main event is
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: after next weekend, not this weekend, but next weekend. Do
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: it on there, do it on Raw. But Punk putting
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: his shot on the line if he gets a shot,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that. JDFVA, Thank you, brother, I hope
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: you're doing well. Death Sithe again says looking back at
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: Wressel Palooza, the main event really should have been Brock
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: sena Cody for the WWE title, and Drew could have
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: tried to cost Cody and or and stops him instead
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: of doing Brock and Sina. Brother, they could have put
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: any match in there and it would have been better
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: than doing Brock and Sina. There was no reason to
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: do that match. It was a waste of a John
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: Cena match. And you will never be able to convince
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: me otherwise. Joey Jojo Junior. I'm pretty sure Rain's eliminated
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: Breaker in last year's Rumble. I'm predicting that they are
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: the final two this year with bron Breaker winning. That
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: would be a nice comeback for breaker. Wouldn't it give
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: it right back to Roman? I like that? Paul van
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: summer And says I can totally get used to europe
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: WWETV that I'm finished watching by seven thirty Eastern. If
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: only I could convince the Yankees to start all home
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: games by four thirty pm, it wouldn't that be nice? Oh, Cheza,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: look at Chessa's with us. Good morning, solo monster from
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: South Africa. Four thirty am Tuesday. Wow, I hope you're
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: getting up for work and you didn't just get up
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: to tune into the stream. It's good to see che
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: Chezza Teja. I'm sure I can't even talk. Chezza. I'm
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: sure does not usually have the chance to join live,
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: so I'm very happy to see how he is with
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: US Live. Alexander thoughts on the Priscilla Kelly controversy. I'm
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: not going to talk about it. I saw she deleted
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: her social media. I think that's stupid. Hopefully she's okay.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: Brian Finelli says only saw the first thirty minutes of
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: today's Raw, but sending love towards the goal. From the
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: middle of the Atlantic en route to the Caribbean, I'm
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: jealous now I wish I was en route to the Caribbean.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: Eight more people on the land can do the same?
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: How many to ninety k solo? Last I checked, it
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: was about eighty right around eighty more and will hit
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: ninety thousand. Well, enjoy your trip, death say says, what
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: do you get when you mix the little blue pill
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: with spinach? A strong finish? Hmm, I'm not familiar with
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: the little blue pill. I have no need for the
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: little blue pill. Maybe you can relate. I don't know,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: Paul Carpenter. So can Lyra go against Becky again for
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: the IC title now that she wanted back? Does it
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: reset the rules of not challenging her for it? That's
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: a good question. I took that to me that so
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: long as Becky Lynch is the Intercontinental Champion, that she
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: can't challenge her for it. But you may be right.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: See it's like a little loophole where WWE basically can
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: do whatever they want, and they can always find a
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: way to explain it away if they want to resume
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: things with Becky and Lyra, which I don't really see
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: the need for them to do, But if they wanted to,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: they could just say it reset when she lost the belt.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: It's a whole new rain. It reset. I took it
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: to mean the other the other thing though, But I
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be too worried about that because I don't see
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: them going back to it. Callum says Hi Solo. Do
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: you have a favorite short sequence from any wrestling match
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: or a perfect minute or so that you find yourself
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: revisiting something like Hogan hulking up against the Rock and
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: Wrestle Media x eight. Well, you just named what I
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: was going to give as an answer. You know, the
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: moment that Rock gave him the rock Bottom and went
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: to pin him, and Hogan kicked out and hulked up
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: that whole sequence. Another one is when Austin did the
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: run in at Backlash in two thousand, first appearing since
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: the next surgery, and he ran out and mowed everybody
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: down with a chair and helped the Rock win the championship.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: That would be another one. Undertaker debuting as the American
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: Badass in the final ninety seconds of the Iron Man
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: match with the clock ticking down, He's going in the
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: ring and beating up all the members of the Mcmahelmsley regime,
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: and time is ticking and people are fucking Louisville are
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: losing their minds. That's another one. There were a bunch
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: of like New Japan, not even just Tokyo Don't but
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: like classic New Japan made events, mostly that involved Okada.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: I mean he was kind of the master of that
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: final sequence. Aj Styles was part of a few of those.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: So yeah, there's a whole bunch of them, but those
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: are a few. Alexander says. Last time Tozawa won a
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: match on Raw was November twenty fifth, twenty twenty four.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: That's actually more recent than I would have guessed. Dude,
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: here seventy three Happy New Year solo. Do you think
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: we still get the Luca brothers in w WE? I
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: like Dragon Lee, but I thought they would bring Phoenix
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: to Raw after the New Year. Instead they put Lee
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: with Penta and Mysterio to face the Vision. Yeah, we'll
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: get it at some point. It's just stupid. I mean,
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: they have Penta teeming with everybody except as Brother. It's
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: just it's dumb at this point. And what are they
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: doing with Phoenix on SmackDown? Nothing? Nothing, But yeah, we'll
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: get it eventually. We were gonna get it at the
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: Triple a show, but Penta wasn't medically clear yet. Dried
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: Ribs and Chickens says Raquel Rodriguez is a bad woman.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: She did some damage on the Women's World belt. She
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: did she she broke off the gold tip. I thought
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: she cracked it down down the middle or something. She
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: tweeted out like I broke the belt, And then I
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: saw the video clip that Stephanie posted on her ig.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: I guess. Alexander says, Gunthar against Oba Femi will slap. Yes,
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: it will, and Obah should win that match. That's why
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it for a while. The Mount Vernon
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: kid says what was for dinner? Solo? I made my
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: brother Malcolm and I lamb chops, mashed potatoes and Mexican corn.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: M Well that was a lot better than what I had.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: I had cereal, So thanks, thanks a lot, he says.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: The Gunther and aj finish was just like the Undertaker
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: against Brock Summer Slam twenty fifteen. Well, I mean not exactly.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: I mean didn't they didn't somebody ring the bell or
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: something during that finish. It was very similar. It was
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: not exactly the same, but it was very similar. Duffsvid says,
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: what do you call a cow's knee, a burger joint?
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: A burger joint? Bass Barris, who is your current female wrestler? Crush?
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: My current female wrestler crush? Kind of crushed is the
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: right word from It's Jade. She is a gorgeous woman.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: So for me, it is Jade. Cargill want your answer,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: there's your answer. Death Side says, I watched Razor and
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: Martel for the vacant Intercontinental title on Raw and I
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: wish it was mister Perfect against Randy Savage, and Savage
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: could have won the title. He could have dropped it
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: to Raiser on the raw where HBK returns. That's not
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: how they did things back then, and by that point,
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: Savage was beyond the intercontinental title anyway. And Horatio Alger
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: who to solo Monster Leave Jr. Or Divon? Well, I
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: don't believe Devon is lying, so hopefully that answers your question.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: I don't believe Devon is a liar. Ace Ataliano says,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: mine is Eo. Sky Punch says mine is Zelina Vega. Okay,
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: that works, that's cool, that's cool. Yeah. Now for me,
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: it's Jade you got Bianca on that list. Of course Stephanie.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: Stephanie has to be on there as well, and Rhea.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: But Bianca and jad are right there at the top. Hmm.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: The Mount Vernon Kid. Once again, bron Breaker throws a
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: temper tantrum for losing in the words, the old man
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: should should angry with his Yeah, this is completely botched,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: but I'm gonna try to read this. I don't know
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: this guy fucked in translation. Here, once again, bron Breaker
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: throws a temper tantrum for lossing to in his words,
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: the old man should angry with his own crew. Okay,
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: all right, I think I get what you're trying to say, though.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: H link Master says, calf crusher has always seemed incredibly painful.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: Oh it is. It is very painful, But so was
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: the figure four. Like if you apply a figure four
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: leg lock. I've had that applied to me when I
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: was younger. It is very painful. It's like bone on bone. Marshall,
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: do you like bagels? I do. I don't eat them
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: much anymore, A lot of carbs and I can't have
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: like cream cheese on it, so it's like I'm toasting
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: them and I could put some jelly on them, but
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: otherwise I'm just eating them plain. It's like, you don't
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: want to be having bagels every day, but I do
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: like bagels. And Bobby means this year's Women's Rumble is
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: going to be unpredictable with all the questions and uncertainties,
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: but the chamber is more uncertain. Uncertainty is a good thing.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: Not everything needs to be so predictable, So I like
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: the uncertainty and death side buy or sell on which
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: match should have made evented a pay per view the
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: most Brett Owen SummerSlam ninety four or Rock Hogan at
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania x eight rock Hogan, I mean they both should
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: have made invented, but rock Hogan. Like, in terms of attractions,
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: outside of doing Hogan Austin, there was no bigger at
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: the time attraction that you could have done, and nothing
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: was going to be able to follow that match. Plus
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: it's Hogan's first time in the SkyDome in so many
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: years since the match Warrior, and just everything like how
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: do you not close with that match? But it's this
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: idea that the title has to close. Of course, they
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: didn't feel the same way about SummerSlam, where the title
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: did not close, but Triple H was like, uh, the
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: title needs to close. Uh for the game. Uh, I'm
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: gonna win anyway. Thank me, uh, thank me, thank you,
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: thank me too. Thank you. Death Sith Sidra type it
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: out in the chat. I don't know why it's not
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: showing what a pain in the ass this thing is.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: It does it doesn't want to show me. It has
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: turned against me. Oh wait, you can copy and paste
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: it into the chat. Hey Marshall, are you a Coke
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: zero sugar or a diet coke guy? Yeah? Anything anything,
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: any of that stuff. Diet tastes like absolute shit, So
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: I'm not a diet coke fan, a diet pepsi fan.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: I'm not a diet anything fan. And Coke zero sugar
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: also sounds just awful, so I'm not a fan of
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: either one of those, don't. I don't drink a lot
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: of soda. I mean, if I'm mixing it in with
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: some whiskey, or if I'm it's someone's house and they're
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: serving soda, fine, but like I don't go out of
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: my way to drink it anymore. The Mount Vernon kid
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: theory feels more irrelevant now. Should have kept the mask
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: on helll You know what, as soon as he took
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: the mask off, You're right, he basically became irrelevant. You're
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: not wrong about that. Cidro said, condoms don't guarantee safe sex.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: A friend of mine was wearing one when he was
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: shot by the woman's husband. PS. Hope you are well, solo,
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: much love. You know, there's a lesson in that. Nothing
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: that I can relate to, but there is a lesson
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: in that. Thank you, Sidra, Hey, Oscar, what's going on.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: I'm having a great night. I hope you are too.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: Duff's VIDs what soda do blind people hate? Pepsi? Pepsi?
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: Oh stupid? What do you call a selfie by an orphan?
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: A family portrait? Oh my god? And how do you
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: surprise a blind person in the bathroom? Leave the plunger
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: up in the toilets. And that's three deplorable superchats right there,
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: all in a row. By Duff's VIDs, they just seem
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: to get progressively worse and link Master Drew needs his
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania moment. He has to retain at Wrestlemy brother, I
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: don't think he's walking into WrestleMania as the champion. I
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: think You're gonna be very disappointed. He can get his
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: wrestlemann in a moment, it's just not gonna be with
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: the belt, all right. So again, gonna be busy week.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: We got TNT tomorrow night and then Wednesday night back
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: here for the Dynamite post show. It is maximum carnage.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: So MJF is gonna be defending the aw World Championship
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: against Bendido Gee. I wonder who's gonna win that match.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: Thursday night, I'll probably be live here after eleven o'clock
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about the debut episode of TNA on amc
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: aj Styles fresh off his loss to gun Through is
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: gonna be in Texas on Impact this Thursday doing what
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: we don't know. But Mike Santana will also be getting
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: his return match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship against
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: Frankie Kazarian, and who knows, who knows what other surprises
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: there may be. And then Friday night will be the
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: SmackDown post show, probably around eight thirty or nine three
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: o'clock Easter and I'll hop on my VPN and watch
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: SmackDown from Manchester and we'll go live a little bit
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: earlier than usual. So I can get you out of
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: here a little earlier than usual on Friday nights and
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: then I can relax. Oh no, I can't because I
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: have to prepare for the podcast on Sunday. So it's
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: always something around the corner. But anyway, be well, stay safe.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: I appreciate all of the support. We will try to
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: hit that four hundred likes and do be the booker
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: on Wednesday. We're gonna have to wait. We're gonna have
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: to wait and see ANDIM try again on Wednesday, but
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: come on back and we'll do it all over again.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: Until then, take care, guys,