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Episode 231 - WWE Evolution Predictions · My Third Place Pod

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  Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of the 90s,
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  welcome to another elbow dropping, steel chair swinging,
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  nostalgia slamming edition of the My Third Place podcast where
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  we grow older but we never grow up.
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  We're taking A tag team break from binge grinding the final
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  days of Marble Rivals. 2.5 Friday, Friday, Friday.
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  You're not going to see me on Friday Dumb sore snacks
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  demolishing controller rage a very real to dive head first
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  into a weekend that's got more billed in a Monday night war
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  main event. That's right this weekend. 2
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  cards, 1M0 chill. Helping me call this night
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  helping me call this two night spectacular straight from parts
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  unknown but always ready to drop a hot take off the top rope.
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  One of my podcast day one rider dies she cutting promos sharper
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  than Brett sunglasses fantasy booking with more flair than the
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  man herself. And yeah, we're trying.
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  We're still trying to get her to give see and Puck more than the
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  side eye Elizabeth to this madness.
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  The leader to this live mic literacy.
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  You already know who it is. Amanda's welcome back to the
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  pod. Hi.
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  Hey, how you doing? I'm doing great.
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  Good, you ready for the week? I am for the weekend.
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  I mean, I'm excited. I'm so excited.
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  This is another. Evolution.
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  I've seen SO. Yes, love it, love it.
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  So now that I gave you a little more lore and back story about
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  CM Punk, what do you think about him?
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  Still on the fence? Oh my goodness.
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  All right. But, you know, I, I kind of
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  like, OK, he's not that bad, OK, he's.
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  He's just, you know. I guess he has to grow on me.
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  Yeah, yeah, he will. He will, He will.
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  Was locked in the cartridge for this weekend.
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  Night one, Saturday night's main event, July 12th, live from the
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  State Farm Arena in Atlanta, GA broadcasting on NBC, streaming
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  on Peacock, and showing up on YouTube worldwide.
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  It's the end of an era, the final match of Goldberg's 28
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  year career. One last jackhammer, one final
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  spear, one more time for the W Faithful Night 2 W Evolution
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  July 13th, the All Woman's Premium Life event is back and
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  we're throwing down predictions, both takes and maybe a few fancy
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  run insurance that should happen, but probably won't.
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  AJ Lee, we're still counting on you.
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  And after the predictions, we're diving to the deep lore, a full
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  blown history lesson under the evolution and the women's
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  wrestling revolution that made it possible.
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  So lace up your boots, grab your folding chair, queue up the Wolf
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  Pack team and let's predict, debate and maybe even swore of
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  the audience with some calls that I'll have you texting in
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  all caps. I hate that this weekend ain't
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  just a wrestling card, it's a nostalgia fuel.
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  Powerbomb to the heart double main event.
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  Let's do this. Ring the bell.
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  Ding Ding. All right, first thing First
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  thing first is what's it called the Saturday night's main event?
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  It's only three matches. Yeah, I.
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  Don't like it? It's only three matches.
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  First match on the card, Randy Orb is Drew McIntyre.
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  It's gonna be a good one, I say. Drew's gonna win.
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  Drew OK. Oh, jeez.
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  Louise, Randy. I got Randy.
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  Randy. Yeah, that's three matches in a
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  row that he loses. Two in a row?
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  No. What else is going on that day?
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  Nothing. So they have the Great American
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  bash that's going on earlier in the day on Saturday.
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  A LA Knight versus Seth Rollins. Yeah, that's what I have.
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  True. I don't know what.
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  Maybe I missed it. What is going on with why LA
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  Knight is with Seth Rollins? He was LA was helping yeet.
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  Oh, OK. VA And then it's something new
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  for him. Actually I like it like.
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  I did too. Event and finally I was going to
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  say early night too. And finally, it was like Jay
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  didn't need to lose his belt at. All.
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  No, definitely not. For this gun fair versus
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  Goldberg, they could have done something and this guy could
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  have done something else for Goldberg and for it to be a
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  retirement match. What if he wins the belt from
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  Gunther? He's still going to retire with
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  it. So that's it.
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  That doesn't. There's no reason for it to
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  happen. Maybe, and I hate to say this,
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  he'll retire with it and then he'll give it up.
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  So now there's got to be what you call it, like a tournament
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  for it. Ruin wrestling, why don't you?
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  That's trying to do his job, huh?
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  John, Cena and Goldberg are really.
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  Wrestling again. OK, here's how it's going to go.
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  OK, Gunther's going to chop him once.
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  Goldberg's going to look at it like, what?
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  Do it again? Go over.
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  Going to look at it like, oh shit.
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  Punch, punch, punch, punch. You know Goldberg does the
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  thing. Swing to the ropes.
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  Gunther goes for a clothesline, Goldberg ducks, goes to the
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  other ropes. Spear pick him up for a
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  Jackhammer 123. It's over.
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  Done. Goldberg wins, huh?
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  That's it. That's we're done.
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  I don't ever want to see Goldberg again.
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  We're done. Yeah.
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  Like give him the belt. Fine, OK, let's get let's get a
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  new belt. No, of course, maybe El Grande
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  Americano will show up and help Gunther.
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  Maybe. I'm sorry, Luba Kaiser.
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  Yeah, exactly. That guy, yeah, that guy.
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  But it's like, I don't see it going over like 5 minutes.
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  Why like go over? Couldn't even get in the ring
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  last time he was well. He got it on Monday and took it
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  to him a little bit, so yeah, OK.
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  I guess who are we going? Who are you going for?
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  I'm, I'm saying Gunther, that's a miracle.
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  I I want Goldberg to win, but I don't.
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  I'm like, I don't know, you know, does he retire with the
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  belt? You know, you would think that
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  he would. You'll go out on top.
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  So that's why I say he wins. So he goes out as champ and then
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  they do a battle royal for the belt or tournament for the belt
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  and maybe that wins or he catches in or.
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  He catches in. So depending on when the his
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  fight is with LA Knight. So I say Goldberg wins, but Seth
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  Rollins cashes in on them. Right.
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  OK, that's there. It is.
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  There you go. That way the belt stays in WWE.
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  But Goldberg retired as champion.
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  OK. True, we could do that.
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  We could work with that. Yeah, and there's no battle
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  royal, so. No battle royal.
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  He just captures it. Yep, no tournament.
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  Tournament No battle royal. All right.
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  In October 2018, the American professional wrestling promotion
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  W held an all women's professional wrestling event
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  called Evolution. This was WS 1st pay-per-view and
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  live streaming event to consist slowly of women's matches and
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  featured women from All Duty's brand divisions at the time.
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  Ross, Smackdown, NXTNXTUK, the latter which was resolved in
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  2022. Over the next few years there
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  had been various comments from people within duty on a
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  potential second Evolution event with support from a number of 30
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  female performers. Before wrestler Mickie James
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  released from duty and April 2021, she had pushed for the
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  company to produce another all female event as well as an all
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  female brand, but said that she was cut off at every
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  opportunity. She claimed an unnamed other.
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  The official told her that women's wrestling doesn't make
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  money and that Evolution was the company's lowest rated
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  pay-per-view ever in the history of the pay per views and that
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  was John Mark Carano probably. In June 2021, former WE wrestler
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  Maria Kanellis also stated that former head of WWE talent
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  relations Mark Carano. There he is.
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  Informed her that there would be no other not be another all
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  female event. Although in the conference call
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  the same month Paul Levy Triple H said that a second evolution
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  was possible but it's not a must have at the moment.
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  After another few years reported murders on March 1625 to West
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  were in fact planning to hold a second evolution event.
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  Body Slam that net stated that the company were aiming to hold
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  the event on July 5th, 2025 at the Moving Sun Arena in
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  Uncasville, Connecticut, but noted that while the event was
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  in the works, the schedule was tentative.
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  On May 12, 2025, a new report from PW Insider stated that
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  company was now looking to hold the event a week later from
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  Atlanta, GA during the same weekend.
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  Saturday Nights Main Event W then confirmed this.
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  This was an announcement during Saturday Nights Main Event 39 on
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  May 24th, with the second all Women's Evolution event is
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  scheduled for Sunday, July 13th at Atlanta State Farm Arena.
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  Saturday night's main event will be held the day before at the
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  same venue, while NXT will hold a Great American Bash in the
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  afternoon or Saturday night's main event at the nearby Center
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  stage. Evolution will be held on the
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  same night as the third part of Beyoncé's Carboy Carter tour
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  emanating from the nearby Mercedes-Benz Stadium, causing
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  concerns in attendance on viewership.
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  Don't worry guys, wrestling fans will be there.
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  You know the true hardcore wrestling grounds.
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  They'll be there rather than the Beyoncé's.
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  We're not for Beyoncé's stuff, you know that.
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  We're not part of the beehive. We're.
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  Not we're not part of the beehive.
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  Nope. For only except for only one
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  song. Actually, no, I take that back.
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  I don't like that song that much, you know, it's not my
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  favorite, but I do like a couple of her songs.
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  But I'm not part of the beehive so.
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  Hey, OK, all right, all right, all right, We know who's.
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  Part of the Beehive for one song.
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  We, we are, we do, we do. First match of the night, JC
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  Jane with Fallon Henley and Jasmine Nix versus Jordan Grace
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  for the NXT Women's Championship.
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  After JC Jane successfully defended the NXT Women's
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  Championship on the June 10th episode of NXTNXT, General
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  Manager Ava announced that on the following episodes, the NXT
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  Women's Championship Evolution Tournament Eliminator would
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  begin this consent to the four matches, with each winner
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  advancing to a fatal four way match on the June 24th episode
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  where the winner of the match would face Jane for the
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  Championship Evolution, the fatal four way was won by Jordan
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  Grace. All right, so JC Jane was
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  joining Grace for the NXT Women's Championship.
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  I haven't seen anything in a while, but I do know.
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  That she won the. Belt like JC Chain won the belt.
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  For those that don't know, JC Jane was part of a stable with
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  Mandy and Gigi Dalan before Mandy was taken released for
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  having NOF. I think so.
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  Or. I don't know, it's it.
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  Was called a fans only. Was it?
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  Yeah, no, it was it was it was kind of like that, but it was a
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  different like it wasn't a fans only it wasn't the only fans.
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  It was something else, but it was along that line where it but
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  from what I heard is she was just having a lot more one on
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  ones with fans. Yeah, and it wasn't anything
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  like sexual, right? You know, it was just she was, I
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  think I want to say it was because she was making money
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  outside of WWE. On the side and yeah, rather
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  than that with them. Right.
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  Yeah. And I and I don't know, and I
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  think it was of course during McMahon, the McMahon era where a
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  lot of times he didn't like the talent making, you know, money
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  on the side. So I think that's why she was
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  let go. But you know.
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  And then so she gets let go. That means JC Jane and Gigi
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  Darling have to fend for themselves as tag team.
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  But then they broke up. Gigi goes space, JC turns heel
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  and she aligns herself with Fallon Hanley and Jasmine Nicks
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  and they become sort of like this last table that she was in.
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  Right. With sexual appeal and
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  everything. But this time, she she's she's a
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  leader of her own group. Right.
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  She wins the NXT Women's Championship and a surprise
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  moment against or Stephanie Vaquer.
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  And since then I haven't seen much of her, like defending it.
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  Like maybe she's a good, I don't know.
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  So far I've seen Mariah May show up, Mariah Monroe, Mariah may
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  show up and stuff. I think it is Blake.
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  Blake. Blake.
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  Blake Monroe. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  About that. But still, Mariah may show up
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  and. Yeah.
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  And like and do all kinds of stuff.
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  And now it's still getting Jordan Gray's like you know
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  what? JC Jane has been in NXT for
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  quite some time as well. They they kicked out our JC or
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  JG Dollar got released when they could have had like this match
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  right here, JC Jane versus JG Dollar for the championship.
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  Like OK, so Juji Dong gets released.
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  Why not just put JC Jane in the main roster or like she's not
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  ready yet since she's like becoming a leader.
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  So let's see what she does with the championship.
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  Jordan Grace just came in. She looks freaking ready.
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  She looks like a champion already Like she could
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  definitely go. She could definitely be like
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  take this belt and like run with it.
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  Yeah. So like, hopefully I'm gonna go
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  with Jordan Grace, yeah. And then Jaycee, hopefully
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  Jaycee can like go to the main roster.
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  Maybe. After SummerSlam around there.
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  Yeah, because isn't the draft supposed to be?
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  I think after SummerSlam. Somewhere around there, yes,
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  Yeah. I don't.
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  Know so I'm going with Jaycee Jane all right.
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  I'm sorry, Jordan. Grace Jordan.
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  Grace. Yeah, Yeah, same.
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  Yeah OK EO Sky versus Ria Ripley for the WWE Women's World
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  Championship. On the March 3rd episode of Raw,
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  EO Sky defeated Ria Ripley to win the Women's World
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  Championship. The.
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  Ripley has then inserted into a match for the title on night 2
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  of WrestleMania 41, where Sky retained.
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  Over the next few months, Ripley set her sights on getting a
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  rematch after victory at Night of Champions.
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  Ripley opened the following episode of Raw where she was
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  confronted by Skye, who said that Raw general manager Adam
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  Pierce allowed her to defend her at her title evolution against
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  an opponent of her choosing, with Sky choosing to defend the
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  title against Ripley at the event.
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  I'm gonna go with Mommy. Yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah, it's time again. We need Ria as a champ again.
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  Yeah, we do. But the same time, you know what
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  it does? It don't matter if he's a
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  champion or not. It's like I'm still going to go
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  with Mommy. Oh yeah, you know that?
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  Yeah. For sure, like when maybe we no
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  can't pick against I did pick they had a mommy like last time,
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  but. This time we're going.
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  With mommy regular. Mommy, I will say that match was
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  pretty good. Yeah, it was amazing.
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  Two tall gas girls just going at it.
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  I loved it. Next match on the card, Raquel
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  Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez versus Alexa Bliss and Charlotte
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  Flair with Sol Ruka Anzaria versus Kabuki Warriors.
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  Oscar and Kyrie Sane. Fatal Four way Women's Taxing
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  Championship On the June 16th episode of Raw W women's taxing
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  champion Liv Morgan suffered A legitimate dislocated shoulder.
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  It's horrible during a match against Kyrie Sane, which
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  requires surgery, ruling Morgan out of action for several
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  months. Around this time, Roxanne Perez
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  began inserting herself into Morgan's faction.
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  The Judgment Day. On the June 30th episode of Raj
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  Judgment Day, members Finn Balor and JD McDonough proposed to
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  Roger the manager and appears smacked engine manager Nick
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  Aldis to have Perez replaced Morgan so that Sheen were
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  killed. Rodriguez could defend the
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  title. Peers and elders were agreed on
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  one condition. Rodriguez and Perez had to
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  defend the Women's Tagging Championship, an evolution
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  against one team from each brand.
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  The fatal forward tag team match Baler McDonough agreed in the
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  match was made official on the July 4th episode Smackdown Alexa
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  Blisser Charles Flair defeated Mitchin and B Fab and the Secret
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  Herbis have a fire Piper Niven to earn a Smackdown spot on the
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  Raw next week. NXT team was announced as Sol
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  Ruka and Zara won the same episode of saying defeated Perez
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  in a singles match followed by a beat down from Rodriguez and
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  Perez. Oscar came to saying aid and
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  reunited the Kabuki. Word there says add it to the
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  match representing Raw. I'm gonna go with Sol, Ruka and
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  Zarya. Yeah, yeah.
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  Because I love them. They're like, OK, I don't know
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  much about NXT, only for a few people.
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  I know it's Wednesday and it's Wednesday.
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  OK. Because it's friends declare
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  rent Sinclair from NXT. She always says it's Wednesday
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  and she does like Instagram stuff, Instagram videos.
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  OK, so I've seen a couple on them.
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  So every time I like check Instagram, it's always her like,
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  Hey, welcome back to Wednesday. I'm like my favorite part of the
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  day Wednesday. But whenever So Ruka or Zar Lee,
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  just so Ruka ever since she debuted, that whole freaking
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  what's it called that whole RKO from?
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  I don't know how she oh. Yeah, I've, I've seen her do it.
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  I don't know either. Doesn't she like flip over and
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  at the time grab some? Yeah.
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  And then, damn, it's been like so great.
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  There's like, yeah, she's just like the neck.
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  And then she's going up with Charlotte Flair.
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  That is like, amazing. We're going to have 2-3 blondes
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  in there. And then, sorry, who who's just
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  be who Them two are just becoming like, this is a great
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  tag team. Mm Hmm.
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  What's it called? Rock Soul.
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  Soul. Soria.
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  Soria Zombie. Yeah.
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  Something like that, yeah. Something like that.
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  They they made a whole name for them.
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  Right. Combine their names and I love
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  them. Alexa Bliss and Charlotte.
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  Charlotte hugging Alexa Bliss. Yeah.
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  Is she becoming a face now? You know, I, I don't know, I
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  think it's, she's kind of that she's toeing the line kind of
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  thing. But honestly I think she does
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  better as a heel. As a heel.
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  No, I think as a heel. And so does.
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  And so does Tiffany Stratton. Yes, she does better as a heel.
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  So now. We.
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  Get Charlotte versus Tiffany Stratton and switch them like
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  with Charlotte becoming the face and Tiffany Stratton becoming
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  healed and you know, I believe it.
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  Yeah. I just don't want to see it
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  again. OK, so I say the Kabuki warriors
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  Kabuki. I would rather.
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  Yeah, alright. Yeah.
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  I like, I love that they're back.
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  Yeah. Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne
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  Perez. Raquel Rodriguez has a history
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  of having short tag team partners.
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  Mm hmm. Well, you can't help that she's
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  6 foot so and then all these other ones are, you know, 5-2,
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  you know, you just can't help that sometimes.
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  Dakota Kai, Lib Morgan and now Roxanne Perez.
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  So like they work out well, the fact that, you know, like she
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  can poist them up in the air and just throw them out.
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  So that works out. But you're right, we need new
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  tag team champions and so you got.
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  We need, yeah, we need women tag teams anyway.
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  Yeah, because let's see out of the ones that are in it.
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  Well, that were so like Secret Herbis.
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  Are they like one of the only tag teams?
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  You know, Meachen and B Fab, they've been A tag team for a
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  little bit, you know, but and, you know, they're they're
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  actually really good together. But it's like Alexa and
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  Charlotte, you know, that's throwing them together.
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  Yeah. I'm surprised Natty wasn't in it
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  with, you know, whoever. I know she's with Maxine Dupree
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  right now. But you know, it's like they
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  just throw all of these women together that aren't real tag
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  teams. I want to see more tag teams of
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  actually teens not just being thrown together.
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  Yeah, like like Fallon Hanley and Jasmine Nicks, why weren't
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  they in there? Yeah, like they're part of the
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  they're part of JC James faction, but still, like,
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  they're right. Yeah, the three of them are, you
• 24:25
  know, A tag team, you know, or you could do 1 as a solo and the
• 24:29
  other two as A tag team. That would be great, you know,
• 24:31
  in a fashion that's fine, but it's like, come on, you know,
• 24:36
  get some, you know? Unfortunately, they let go a
• 24:40
  bunch of tag teams that were actually tag teams.
• 24:44
  They did. So when they did that, they're,
• 24:49
  you know, just shortening the women's tag team division and
• 24:55
  then the Champions just to get to, you know, hold the titles.
• 25:00
  Just to hold titles because there's nobody to fight them.
• 25:05
  Oh wow. So Ruka and Laria, I can't wait
• 25:09
  for them. Yeah.
• 25:12
  I just want. To maybe that come up.
• 25:14
  I just want to see them. Yeah.
• 25:17
  All right. Battle royal for the Women's
• 25:19
  World Championship match at Clash in Paris.
• 25:22
  Announce participants Stephanie Baquer, Ivy Nile, Nya Jacks,
• 25:26
  Nikki Bella and Thalia Maxine Dupree, Kelani Jordan, Jada
• 25:30
  Parker, Lola Vice Last Legend, Lash Legend.
• 25:35
  Izzy Dame. Izzy Dame.
• 25:36
  Or is he? Damn I.
• 25:38
  Think it's Dame? Izzy.
• 25:41
  Damn Izzy. Damn Izzy.
• 25:45
  Dame Tatum, Paxley, Zelena Vega, Julia Candace Larae.
• 25:50
  And it's supposed to be what, 30 or 20?
• 25:53
  Need to catch up on WE. Yeah, you do.
• 25:56
  Maybe. I don't know.
• 25:57
  We'll see. You know, I don't know because
• 25:59
  they, I, I think it might be 25, I think 25, but I don't know.
• 26:07
  Like. They just said it's a battle
• 26:09
  royal, so I don't know that would be.
• 26:11
  I just want to see them. They're all like, put it in
• 26:14
  together. Like, let's put them all
• 26:16
  together and let's put them all in there.
• 26:19
  At the original Evolution in 2018, a battle Royale was held
• 26:21
  where the winner received a future Women's World
• 26:23
  Championship match. On the June 30th episode of Raw
• 26:26
  General Manager Adam Pearson, Smackdown General Manager
• 26:29
  Nicholas announced that the 2025 Evolution would have a battle
• 26:31
  Royale, with the winner earning a title match at Clash in Paris.
• 26:38
  That means it's going to be on early, It's going to be on the
• 26:41
  morning again. Can't wait.
• 26:44
  Is it going to be in France? Can't wait, can't wait.
• 26:50
  Well, last time they were in France it was, yeah.
• 26:55
  You mean stay up till then? Right.
• 26:57
  I tried. I tried.
• 26:58
  That one time, yeah. There's a lot of good people in
• 27:03
  here. Like it feels like a whole Royal
• 27:06
  Rumble in here. So yeah, but they're all going
• 27:08
  to be in there at the same time instead of having like a 10
• 27:11
  count. Yeah, he's.
• 27:12
  Not going to sing Nikki Bella's back.
• 27:16
  So and the reason Nikki Bell is here in the battle Royals
• 27:21
  because of the Lib Morgan was she was supposed to have a match
• 27:26
  against Lib Morgan but Lib Morgan tore her.
• 27:28
  Why? Is she?
• 27:30
  Yeah, she they're supposed to have a match.
• 27:31
  This was the canceled match. Oh, OK again, hold on.
• 27:37
  One match was canceled and was because on the June 9th of the
• 27:40
  Raw Lib Morgan and which was reportedly going to be happening
• 27:44
  at Evolution, either the singles match or the attacking
• 27:51
  championship match with Morgan and Rod Calvary defending
• 27:53
  against the Bella Twins. Maybe.
• 27:56
  Sister Bree could work out a deal, however Morgan suffered
• 27:59
  legitimate dislocate shoulder and a match against Kerry Sane
• 28:01
  the final week, scraping all plans for more in the event
• 28:04
  causing the to write the entire show.
• 28:06
  Rewrite the entire show. So that would've been great to
• 28:11
  see Bree mode. Yeah.
• 28:15
  Excited how? Yeah.
• 28:22
  Yeah, that's the OK because. Because I know that she was on
• 28:28
  Raw and she got, you know, what's that Oblivion?
• 28:35
  You know, she got hit with the oblivion.
• 28:37
  So I figured, yeah, that's that probably would have been, you
• 28:41
  know, the match they would have had.
• 28:43
  But I don't know. We'll see.
• 28:47
  Yeah, there I go. There's.
• 28:50
  Stephanie Vicar in this match. She is I, That's why I'm like
• 28:54
  hell yeah. I yeah, I'm, I'm going to say
• 28:57
  her, all right, I think, you know, I know they've been trying
• 29:03
  to push her, you know, so I'm a go, I'm a say Stephanie vicar.
• 29:08
  I don't know who else is in it, you know, other than who you
• 29:12
  already said, but. Right next match is Tiffany
• 29:17
  Stratton versus Trish Stratus for W Women's Championship.
• 29:22
  During the July 4th episode of Smackdown, Women's Champion
• 29:26
  Tiffany Gradon addressed her schedule the title defense of
• 29:28
  Summer Slam against Queen of the Ring winner Jay Cargill.
• 29:31
  Stratton then revealed she was also defend her title evolution
• 29:34
  and that she was allowed to choose her opponent.
• 29:36
  After Cargo interrupted, Stratton stated that she had a
• 29:38
  surprise, prompting W Hallifamer Trish Stratus come out, who
• 29:42
  Stratton had previously teamed with and was victorious with
• 29:44
  that Elimination Chamber in March.
• 29:46
  Stratton said that she wanted to defend her title against Strat's
• 29:49
  evolution, which Stratus accepted.
• 29:52
  It's Tiffy and Trishy time. Yeah.
• 29:59
  Heel, She's going to turn heel you.
• 30:01
  Think so. Yeah, and then like she has to
• 30:07
  because then she's facing Jay Cargill.
• 30:09
  Yeah, so, you know, we can't turn JD Hill yet.
• 30:14
  She does a match against Naomi. Hell, you never know, I'm saying
• 30:23
  Tiffany Stratton. Yeah, Tiffany Stratton.
• 30:26
  I don't want to see Trish. The.
• 30:29
  Trish is. Just going to be slow.
• 30:32
  It's going to be slow. Trish is getting to the.
• 30:38
  Yeah, that's why she's retired. She was turning 30 when I was
• 30:42
  turning 20. Well, let me tell you something.
• 30:49
  When I saw her live, she was terrible.
• 30:52
  Oh damn. Damn.
• 30:55
  I'm sorry, She's OK. Terrible.
• 30:59
  She was terrible. So she got knocked down, right
• 31:03
  and was in the corner resting for about 5 minutes while I
• 31:10
  think it was who was she with? I think she was with Becky.
• 31:15
  Becky was getting her butt kicked and Trish is just in the
• 31:18
  corner laying down. So I'm like, look at this look.
• 31:22
  At this, look at this shit. Look at this.
• 31:24
  Look at this. Look at this shit.
• 31:25
  Look at this. Somebody come look at this, look
• 31:27
  at this, you know. Somebody come look at this shit.
• 31:29
  Yeah, because it was just too much.
• 31:32
  Like I said, she was terrible, OK?
• 31:34
  And you could tell that she's an older woman because she's
• 31:40
  wrestling super slow. Damn, sorry.
• 31:47
  Sorry to everybody who's a Trish Stratus fan.
• 31:50
  That's my not a fan that's. My childhood right there.
• 31:53
  Well, she she started when I stopped watching she.
• 32:00
  Started when I stopped watching. I had posted over on my wall.
• 32:04
  Ma'am. Well, OK.
• 32:07
  Like OK alright Jay car next mag Jay Cargill versus Naomi in a no
• 32:15
  holds barred match. OK November 22, 2024 episode of
• 32:20
  Smackdown. Jay Cargill was found.
• 32:22
  I read it back to this again. We already know what happened.
• 32:32
  Their rivalry continued after WrestleMania 1 and Car Cargo
• 32:36
  defeating Naomi the Tacky match and Naomi defeating Cargo on a
• 32:38
  triple track qualifying match for a spot in the Money in the
• 32:40
  Bank Ladder match, which Naomi won.
• 32:43
  After Naomi attacked Cargo on the July 4th episode Smackdown
• 32:46
  with her Money in the Bank briefcase and No Hold Barred
• 32:47
  match between the two was scheduled for Evolution Who?
• 32:55
  So Jade. Jade, I don't know.
• 33:00
  You know who else I don't know ever since I guess, I guess I
• 33:05
  have to look at how heal Naomi does, you know, because I kind
• 33:12
  of got tired of, you know, this whole procedure.
• 33:16
  I mean, the glow thing was kind of I was tired of that.
• 33:20
  But she was, you know, she was a face.
• 33:22
  And I don't know if this is the first time she's been healed.
• 33:26
  Or no second like second the first.
• 33:30
  Time I was like. Team bad.
• 33:34
  OK, Horrible. It was a horrible.
• 33:36
  Thing well, but you know. Sasha Banks, Naomi.
• 33:41
  And oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that.
• 33:43
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that.
• 33:47
  And I only knew that because I saw when they were on Total
• 33:51
  Divas. So pretty much, yeah.
• 33:55
  But even even then, I still wasn't watching.
• 33:58
  I just watched. I just knew about them from the
• 34:01
  show. Yeah, but.
• 34:04
  But we'll see how he'll Naomi does.
• 34:08
  Yeah, wow, go with Jade. She has to wear something good
• 34:15
  here. Oh yeah.
• 34:17
  The freaking last one was Storm, Oh my God.
• 34:20
  Yeah, Oh. My God, it was beautiful.
• 34:22
  It was so beautiful. You know, I I love when she
• 34:28
  yeah, she could say cosplays, yeah, you know, or at least
• 34:31
  comes, you know, she's inspired by certain.
• 34:34
  So when she was in AEW, she did Chitara and I was like, yes, I
• 34:40
  was for it. She Hulk.
• 34:42
  She Hulk. Chitara.
• 34:43
  Yeah. There was some other ones too,
• 34:46
  but those are the ones that I remember the most.
• 34:48
  I was like, yes, my cartoons, yeah, Storm here is like, I
• 34:54
  think it's going to stay a storm for a little.
• 34:56
  While yeah, you're probably right.
• 34:59
  Weathering the storm and G cargo being cold.
• 35:02
  Yeah. Or anything that has to do with
• 35:05
  Frozen. Yeah.
• 35:07
  Elsa, Anna. Yeah.
• 35:09
  Anything with anything with cold stuff.
• 35:12
  Anything with frozen? Stuff in there.
• 35:14
  So it's going to be great if she does here too.
• 35:18
  And it's evolution, and she has to do something good for
• 35:22
  evolution because like, you know, got to represent a woman.
• 35:25
  Yeah. And final match, I don't think
• 35:29
  this is going to make him admit but OK.
• 35:31
  Becky Lynch versus Bailey versus Lira Bulkaria triple threat
• 35:34
  Women's Intercontinental Championship.
• 35:37
  Where are we? We already know about their
• 35:41
  feud. We continue over the next few
• 35:42
  weeks, which is saw Bailey return and attack Lynch all set
• 35:46
  her sights on the Women's Interconnect Championship.
• 35:47
  Much about care this May who was also upset with Bailey for not
• 35:51
  speaking her since Lynch attack think got worse on the June 23rd
• 35:54
  episode of Raw where Bailey faced Lynch for the title.
• 35:57
  Well, Kerry tried to help Bailey but after being attacked by
• 36:00
  Lynch about, Kerry attacked Lynch in return, causing Lynch
• 36:03
  to win by DQ and she'll her top almost fell off, thus retaining
• 36:08
  the title. Don't wear tube tops.
• 36:13
  Bailey and Vulgar don't faint each other the following week to
• 36:16
  determine who would challenge Lynch for the title, but the
• 36:19
  match ended in a double pinfall leading to a bra between both
• 36:21
  women. On July 6th, Roger manager Adam
• 36:24
  Here announced that Lynch would defend the title against Bailey
• 36:28
  and Bulgaria and a triple trip match at Evolution.
• 36:35
  That whole double pinfall, I'm like, why did she tell that?
• 36:40
  Why didn't she just say, you know what, we need to recount?
• 36:43
  You know what I mean? But they love doing triple
• 36:48
  threats so. They do.
• 36:51
  You know, because I, I would have, if I was the referee, I
• 36:55
  would be like, hey, we need to redo this, whether it's, you
• 36:59
  know, y'all come back or you know what, because she said both
• 37:05
  shoulders were down. So it's a draw then Why are you
• 37:07
  counting? You know, tell somebody in their
• 37:12
  ear, pick your shoulder out. You know what I mean?
• 37:17
  Coach him somehow. But whatever.
• 37:22
  Becky retains. Yeah, I think.
• 37:26
  I think you're right. And it's going to set up, I
• 37:30
  think, another match between Bailey and Becky.
• 37:37
  But on the plus side, I love that too many eventers are going
• 37:42
  for the Women's Interconnect Championship.
• 37:44
  Mm hmm. Like how we hold the men's
• 37:48
  interconnect championship as like a second, second belt.
• 37:52
  Like, hey, if you can't have the world championship, you can.
• 37:55
  Have the. Championship, but you have to
• 37:57
  make it better, look better and stuff.
• 37:59
  Yeah, same. Here, Becky Lynch versus Bailey
• 38:01
  are two main eventers, The Man and the Role Model.
• 38:06
  We had Alira and I was like. She did good.
• 38:11
  Yeah, I she did good when she had the title.
• 38:15
  She did. You know, I'm just like, I don't
• 38:19
  know. I don't like when they're like,
• 38:21
  you know, kind of well, with me. Look, do what you got to do.
• 38:26
  I don't know. I.
• 38:28
  Love it. I love it.
• 38:29
  I love it. All right, So Becky.
• 38:35
  Yeah, and then Becky too. All right, because, you know,
• 38:40
  ain't no, I mean, you know, I don't know, maybe they're trying
• 38:46
  to give Bailey another push, but I don't know.
• 38:50
  I I'm going to stick with with Becky.
• 38:53
  Stick with Becky. Yep, all.
• 38:59
  Right, hold on evolution start time because I really don't care
• 39:07
  about sorry. Nice.
• 39:08
  Main Event July 13th, 2025 at 5:30 PM.
• 39:14
  You really don't. I really don't.
• 39:24
  Umm, 5:30 PM Central, so 6/7, 3:00 PM Pacific, 6:00 PM
• 39:39
  Eastern, so yours is 3 PM -5 PM. All right, that's good.
• 39:47
  We good, we good, we good, we good.
• 39:51
  And the other one was just whatever.
• 39:53
  So I think it's going to be on prime time.
• 39:56
  Yeah, 8:00. And then we'll like reconvene
• 40:03
  after the show. On Sunday.
• 40:07
  On Sunday. Sunday.
• 40:09
  OK, that's good. We're good.
• 40:10
  We're good. We're good.
• 40:11
  OK. OK, we'll talk about it and all
• 40:14
  that stuff. Hey, how was it?
• 40:15
  Just like, did you like it? Other than that, it is going to
• 40:23
  be a great night, a great main. Too late.
• 40:28
  I'm not so fond of that night. Main event because nothing ever
• 40:31
  happens. Yeah.
• 40:33
  But evolution? Let's go.
• 40:38
  All right, Are you ready for women's evolution?
• 40:41
  Deep dive Since he requested it, yes.
• 40:44
  All right, The rise and fall and return of a revolution from a
• 40:50
  From bra and panties to iron women.
• 40:52
  Before we get to evolution, we need to understand the context.
• 40:55
  For decades, women's wrestling in the US treated as a sideshow,
• 40:59
  often marketed for sex appeal, resident athletism matches for
• 41:02
  short, gimmicky, forgotten. But slowly the ties turn early
• 41:06
  Trail Blazers, fabulous Mullah and me young in the territory
• 41:09
  area along the blaze of bull versus bull.
• 41:12
  Makano in 1990s Trish Stratus leader Mickey James Victoria
• 41:15
  began to read the Five things in 2000.
• 41:18
  But the true shift began when the fans got sick of the Divas
• 41:21
  era. The catalyst?
• 41:22
  Get Hashtag Give Divas a chance in 2015.
• 41:28
  On the 20 February 23rd 2015 episode W Monday Night Raw,
• 41:32
  there was a 32nd tag team match, The Bella Twins, Nikki and Brie
• 41:35
  versus Paige and Emma. It was barely a match blank and
• 41:39
  you missed it. Fans already aware of the
• 41:41
  women's longer matches, NXT finally had enough.
• 41:44
  Who was involved? Nikki Bella, the US Champion of
• 41:47
  time Brie Bella Paige, an early fan favorite who had NXT cred.
• 41:51
  Emma, known for comedic timing and underrated ring skills.
• 41:55
  She had no ring skills. Emma really hated everything
• 42:00
  about her. The match itself wasn't the only
• 42:03
  issue. It was a final straw and a long
• 42:05
  standing pattern. Disrespect.
• 42:07
  Women's matches regularly cut for time segments focus on
• 42:10
  romance angles, not competition. Rarely where women given main
• 42:14
  event status are fused with death.
• 42:17
  So the Internet strikes back. After the match, fans flooded
• 42:20
  Twitter with hashtag Give the Chance and it trended for over
• 42:24
  24 hours. Even Mick Foley, AJ Lee and
• 42:27
  women's sports advocates chimed in.
• 42:29
  Most shockingly, Chris McMahon responds on Twitter.
• 42:32
  We hear you keep watching hashtag give Divas a chance.
• 42:37
  That was the first real public acknowledgement that change
• 42:39
  might be coming. I was at work the next day and
• 42:44
  when my coworkers was telling me about it, she saw it is like she
• 42:49
  was telling me all about it's like, did you see that match
• 42:52
  last night? What match?
• 42:54
  And this much like, yeah, so I was like freaking 30 seconds,
• 42:56
  like, yeah. And then after that we were all
• 42:58
  on Twitter and they're like saying, you know, give me the
• 43:01
  chance and all that stuff. So we there's a hashtag.
• 43:03
  It's the thing like, oh, that's cool.
• 43:05
  Yeah, so give to you the chance like, okay, stop yelling at me.
• 43:13
  Add to the four horsemen. Horsewomen, I'm sorry.
• 43:15
  Add to the four Horsewomen, the engine of the revolution.
• 43:18
  Who were they? Charlotte Flair, the Queen
• 43:21
  carrying legacy athletic dominance.
• 43:22
  Sasha Banks, the boss technician with style and Fire.
• 43:27
  Becky Lynch, the other dog Don't work.
• 43:29
  Horse, the eventual fan favorite and Bailey the Hugger, the heart
• 43:33
  and emotional core of NXT's division.
• 43:36
  They earned the name for HORSE Women, a nod to Ric Flair stable
• 43:39
  because they redefined women's wrestling and NXT, putting on
• 43:42
  classic after classic between 2014 and 2015.
• 43:46
  Their team NXT matches are set the stage Charlotte versus
• 43:49
  Natalia NXT Takeover May 2014, the turning point for fans.
• 43:56
  So if you haven't watched any of these yet, make sure you watch
• 43:59
  them on the Network Network. Is there a network still or is
• 44:04
  that? No, we think you have to watch
• 44:06
  on Peacock. All right, so just look for NXT
• 44:09
  Takeover May 2014 Sasha Banks versus Becky Lynch.
• 44:15
  NXT Takeover Unstoppable May 2015 as a technical masterpiece.
• 44:21
  They they're freaking amazing. Sasha versus Bailey and his NXT
• 44:25
  Takeover Brooklyn August 2015 a five star match fan shaking
• 44:30
  event Bailey versus Sasha Banks Iron Woman match Annexi takeover
• 44:37
  respect October 2015 The only reason I'm like rolling my eyes
• 44:42
  over Iron woman because I was only 30 minutes OK, an Iron Man
• 44:48
  is an hour, but an iron woman is 30 minutes.
• 44:52
  But it was the first ever female main event for a takeover, and
• 44:56
  it was a 30 minute classic. It was.
• 44:59
  Was it as meant like in the Iron Man, as many pinfalls in an
• 45:04
  hour, or in their case? In 30 minutes, which was like,
• 45:11
  it feels like a regular match. Why?
• 45:12
  Just why not just call it a regular match?
• 45:15
  If you're really going to do an Iron Woman, just do it like an
• 45:18
  hour, full hour or 45 minutes at least.
• 45:22
  That's like 15 minute extra minutes to them, you know?
• 45:25
  Mm hmm. Sorry, 2015 and 2018 for
• 45:31
  Revolution the Evolution 2015 Divas no more.
• 45:34
  Stephanie McMahon brands it. The Women's Revolution main
• 45:38
  roster call up of Charlotte, Sasha and Becky.
• 45:40
  July 13, 2015 are raw Divas terms still used but losing
• 45:44
  steam. So we're like not calling it
• 45:46
  anymore Divas. Like, you know, I think
• 45:52
  Charlotte made a made a saying about it.
• 45:57
  She told who, I don't know who she told it was a while back.
• 46:00
  I have to look for it. But she told somebody that like
• 46:08
  the reason she's champion is because she's a women's champion
• 46:13
  and not part of the Divas. And like, it was something,
• 46:20
  something along those lines where she called her, I think it
• 46:24
  was Michelle Mccool or Mickie James or she said like, you
• 46:30
  know, back when Divas was something.
• 46:33
  And then the Woman's Survivor Series match got decent time as
• 46:36
  well. Like there was a 5 on 5/20/16,
• 46:41
  redefining the division. Divas Championship retired at
• 46:44
  WrestleMania 32, replaced by the Women's W Women's Championship.
• 46:49
  They put them all backstage, they had the belt and Stephanie
• 46:54
  told them like, we're doing something and Lita presented
• 46:59
  them with the belt and she said like, we're no longer calling
• 47:02
  you Divas. We're calling you wrestlers,
• 47:05
  superstars. We're calling you the same thing
• 47:07
  as we're calling the men. And they're they're all like, Oh
• 47:11
  my God. And then they they unveiled a
• 47:14
  belt. It was beautiful.
• 47:17
  At the time, Charlotte and Sasha Banks became began a legendary
• 47:20
  feud going back and forth with the belt.
• 47:24
  Even New Day was like, you know, at if they keep going, if they
• 47:31
  keep going against each other week by week at like in a month,
• 47:35
  Sasha Banks going to be like 10 time world champion because they
• 47:40
  were just going back and forth with.
• 47:41
  The Oh yeah, OK. Main event of Raw, first time in
• 47:45
  12 years, first ever WWE, first ever women's held in a cell.
• 47:49
  Match held in a cell 2016. You gotta watch that as well.
• 47:54
  Becky become first Smack Down women's champion.
• 47:58
  Think that was the time when The Man came out.
• 48:02
  OK, around there 27 before they had Division One, they just had
• 48:07
  one belt and it was across either just like the women tag
• 48:12
  team. Yeah, it could go from it either
• 48:15
  brand. Yeah, OK.
• 48:17
  And then Charlotte where Sasha was the whole thing back and
• 48:20
  forth, back and forth until they're like Becky got tired of
• 48:23
  it. Like can we just get a belt on
• 48:25
  Smackdown? Like, sure, like you can become
• 48:30
  the first woman champion. I was like, alright.
• 48:34
  And of course think it's like at that time when they for they
• 48:38
  started hating each other and stuff.
• 48:40
  So. When they like switched brands
• 48:44
  and everything, they had to switch the belts.
• 48:46
  OK. So Becky was trying to give
• 48:48
  Charlotte her belt, but, you know, Charlotte was trying to
• 48:52
  give Becky her belt, and Becky was trying to give Charlotte her
• 48:54
  belt, but Becky wanted a moment with both belts on her
• 48:57
  shoulders. And you know, Becky, 2 belts.
• 49:00
  Yeah. So Charlotte is like, here, come
• 49:04
  on, take it, I'm here, You know, playing with her and everything.
• 49:08
  And then it's like threw it on the ground like whatever. 2017
• 49:15
  first everywhere, first women's Money in the Bank ladder match
• 49:18
  in June, the May Young Classic tournament. 32 women from around
• 49:22
  the world compete. The classic, it was classic, my
• 49:28
  first introduction to mommy. It was a blonde mommy also.
• 49:34
  Yeah, I I seen her and she had long blonde.
• 49:37
  Hair too. She she was so innocent.
• 49:39
  I love her. Who knew she would be like mommy
• 49:43
  let's go. But first introduction for
• 49:47
  everyone had actually freaking Nixon Newell just messes up her
• 49:56
  freaking knee on both May Young classic tournament.
• 49:59
  On the first one, she couldn't compete.
• 50:01
  On the second one, Mommy killed her.
• 50:03
  Who was that? Nixon Newell.
• 50:08
  Yeah, You don't know that is anymore.
• 50:11
  Tegan Knox. Tegan Knox.
• 50:13
  Yeah, Next. To new Tegan Knox.
• 50:15
  Yeah, Who's that? Forgot, but I could go watch.
• 50:21
  I could go back and watch it over again.
• 50:23
  It was such a freaking. It was like a classic
• 50:26
  tournament. I loved it.
• 50:27
  It introduced a lot of girls in there, a lot of freaking new
• 50:31
  talent. Oscar debuts on main roster.
• 50:35
  Undisputed streak looms large. Her undustrious streak went from
• 50:41
  NXT to ROD. Then they like killed it at
• 50:44
  WrestleMania. Royal Rumble 2018 announced
• 50:48
  first ever Woman's version 2018 Built to Evolution.
• 50:52
  Oscar wins 2018 Women's Royal Rumble, which got ruined by
• 50:56
  Ronda Rousey's debut, but it brought major sports media
• 51:00
  attention. Becky Lynch rises as The Man
• 51:03
  after turning on Charlotte at SummerSlam.
• 51:06
  WWE announced its evolution October 28, 2018.
• 51:11
  So the first evolution in October 28, 2018 at the location
• 51:15
  was the Nassau Coliseum in New York.
• 51:17
  Commentary was Beth Phoenix, Renee Young and Michelle Michael
• 51:21
  Cole and attendance was like around 10,000 people.
• 51:26
  Viewership critically acclaimed. The card included Trish Tres and
• 51:30
  Lita versus Micky James, and Alicia Fox stands out because
• 51:35
  Alicia Fox was drunk that night. Really.
• 51:39
  Yeah, and it stands out because that's the night that Alicia Fox
• 51:43
  got fired, and so did Aaron Anderson because he let her go
• 51:46
  out there. So yeah, oops.
• 51:52
  But it is battle Royal featuring legends and NXT standouts.
• 52:00
  Kyrie Sane versus Shayna Basler for the NXT Women's
• 52:03
  championship, Tony Storm versus Yoshirai if for the million
• 52:07
  classic final, which Ayoshirai win?
• 52:13
  Forgot who won that night, but Tony Storm is introduction to
• 52:17
  Tony Storm. Oh my God I love it.
• 52:22
  Ronda Rousey was Nikki Bella main event for the Raw Women's
• 52:26
  title is whatever the last the main event of the night?
• 52:34
  Becky Live versus Charlotte Flair for the last woman
• 52:36
  standing at Evolution. A brutal, emotional historic war
• 52:40
  proved woman could deliver Match of the year level content set up
• 52:43
  Becky for eventual WrestleMania rise.
• 52:45
  And of course, these two hate each other in real life, so
• 52:49
  it's. Like you know what?
• 52:50
  Let's give them a hell of a good match.
• 52:53
  Why it matters first, many roster all women paper in the
• 52:56
  history prove that woman could draw, deliver and headline.
• 53:00
  Fans overwhelmingly supported critically and financially.
• 53:03
  Historic moments elevated Becky Lynch to the man's status and a
• 53:07
  set table for the women to main event WrestleMania five months
• 53:10
  later at WrestleMania 35, which was historic, I think it was
• 53:18
  Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch and Ronda Rousey.
• 53:25
  Is that when Becky won both belts?
• 53:29
  Yeah, Becky, 2 belts. Yeah, the disappearance and
• 53:35
  disappointment. Despite success though, he never
• 53:37
  held a second evolution event because it shifted priorities.
• 53:42
  A return of Crown jewel and Saudi deals.
• 53:46
  Roster cuts during pandemic years.
• 53:50
  I don't know why focus on crossover stars like Ronda not
• 53:54
  Depto building a lack of commitment from upper management
• 53:58
  at the time. So basically Mark Hirono?
• 54:03
  No we're not going to have it. Nobody wants to watch it.
• 54:05
  Like, yes, they do shut the fuck up.
• 54:10
  Like Mark Herono, shut up. You don't know what you're
• 54:12
  saying. Stephanie McMahon, vocal
• 54:15
  advocate, stepped away. Fans felt though he had dropped
• 54:17
  the belt, the ball. They did.
• 54:20
  They dropped the ball big time. Because you know what?
• 54:23
  And it's those that what, 2019 at the time when all the scandal
• 54:29
  was going on. So you know that Stephanie
• 54:33
  McMahon's going a step away. I have nothing to do with this.
• 54:38
  And she leaves the return of Evolution 2025.
• 54:42
  Now that it's coming back, it symbolizes a reset, a chance for
• 54:45
  W to reinvest in the legacy they once teased, then paused.
• 54:49
  Would it mean the recognition for an evolving women's
• 54:52
  division, Bailey, EO, Sky, Bianca Bel Air, Roxanne Perez,
• 54:55
  Lib Morgan, Jay Cargill, NIA Jax, Keanu James and return of
• 54:58
  Mercedes Monet? Perhaps.
• 55:02
  Not really. Not exactly.
• 55:03
  I don't think so. A new platform to feature NHD
• 55:07
  women legends and rising international stars.
• 55:09
  Oh, soul and Zarya. Yeah.
• 55:15
  And now the branch. To fans who felt women's
• 55:17
  wrestling was being deemphasized.
• 55:21
  The return of evolution means unfinished business just got
• 55:23
  rebooked. Women's matches from 2018 to
• 55:27
  2020. That changed the game.
• 55:29
  Ronda Rousey versus Charlotte Flair versus Becky Lynch.
• 55:32
  WrestleMania 35 April 2019 first ever women's main event at
• 55:36
  WrestleMania high stakes storyline rich triple threat
• 55:39
  Becky walks out Becky 2 belts Bailey with Sasha banks helmet S
• 55:44
  2021 of the best storyline arcs in modern WE history.
• 55:48
  Friends turn enemies emotional and physical cemented both as
• 55:52
  top tier workers not just top tier women.
• 55:55
  And if the woman stealing the show 2018 to 2020 Yoshi Rivors
• 55:59
  kansler ray takeover matches stole the show every time Ria
• 56:05
  Ripley versus Charlotte Flair WrestleMania 36 Bianca Beller's
• 56:09
  rise from May young classic to Royal Rumble 2021 winner.
• 56:14
  Beyond the all other all women's promotions and events Shimmer
• 56:18
  Women's athletes USA 22,005 to 2021 based on Chicago Co founded
• 56:25
  by Dave prazak featured top indie stars before they hit it
• 56:28
  big. Becky Lynch, Bailey, Mercedes
• 56:31
  Monet, Sasha, Oscar Shimmer was the proving ground.
• 56:35
  Stardom Japan premier women's promotion globally.
• 56:39
  Founded in 2010 by Rossi Ogawa, known for high work rate and
• 56:43
  producing stars like Yoshirai Kyrie Saying Julia and Maya
• 56:46
  Watani. Acquired by Bujiro, same company
• 56:51
  that owns New Japan Pro Wrestling.
• 56:56
  Wow. Woman Wrestling, founded by
• 56:58
  David McClain, who also created GLOW.
• 57:01
  Hey, I know that. Nice.
• 57:04
  Plus it's always on. On Saturdays it's.
• 57:08
  Yeah. Basic TV, basic cable.
• 57:11
  I, I've tried to watch it once and it's like, Oh yeah, this is
• 57:14
  Glow. Never mind.
• 57:17
  It's so cheesy. Like I tried, I tried watching
• 57:20
  it. It's so cheesy.
• 57:21
  But you know, there's some Bloodline girls in there.
• 57:27
  Relaunched multiple times with focus on superheroes and then
• 57:30
  larger than life personas. More spectacle based than in
• 57:34
  ring, but still crucial visibility.
• 57:35
  And I tried watching it with AJ Lee was still around.
• 57:39
  OK. Now just singing N.W.A Empower
• 57:42
  2021 produced by Mickie James and N.W.A branded old Women's
• 57:46
  pay-per-view featured women from AW Impact N.W.A and indie scenes
• 57:51
  critically praised but never followed up so they did the same
• 57:55
  and then the AW women's division.
• 57:57
  We know all about that don't we? They don't have a woman all
• 58:02
  women favorite but Tony Khan has teased it.
• 58:05
  Forbidden door style shows featuring stardom stars hand at
• 58:09
  potential Mercedes Monet may push for more female centric
• 58:13
  cards. Final words the 32nd match on
• 58:19
  rod and just create a trending hashtag and broke a system.
• 58:22
  The years between cash that gave you the chance in the evolution
• 58:26
  represent one of the most transformational peers in
• 58:29
  wrestling history. It showed that fans had power
• 58:32
  that women could headline and outshine that representation
• 58:35
  matters not just for show but for legacy.
• 58:38
  From Ellen Page to The Man in the Boss, the story of women's
• 58:41
  wrestling is no longer a footnote.
• 58:43
  It's the main event there's. Your.
• 58:50
  Lore behind? Awesome.
• 58:53
  Evolution. Thank you.
• 58:56
  Enjoyed that, Hope you enjoyed that, hope you enjoyed that
• 59:00
  little story lore behind the main evolution that's coming up
• 59:05
  next this Saturday, this Saturday, Sunday, Sunday,
• 59:09
  Sunday, Sunday, this Sunday. Remember, go watch it instead of
• 59:15
  what's it called, Beyoncé. Yeah.
• 59:21
  Anyways, Cowboy Carter, Yeah. Cowboy Carter and all right,
• 59:30
  Leanna says she loved it. Thank you, Leanna.
• 59:32
  I appreciate that. Hi Leanna, I know she can't see
• 59:39
  me either. Right.
• 59:43
  All right. Anything else we need to add?
• 59:46
  That's it, right? We're done.
• 59:48
  Yeah, we're done. OK.
• 59:50
  You ready to go? Yeah.
• 59:52
  She said, hi Menace and that's the final bell.
• 59:59
  I'll be there soon. And that's the final bell.
• 1:00:03
  Faye the pyro hit the entered music and somebody check on Earl
• 1:00:05
  Hebner because we just pulled off a Montreal level mic drop.
• 1:00:09
  We laid out predictions like folding tables at the Lee Boys
• 1:00:12
  family reunion. Big up to Menace for tagging
• 1:00:15
  back in with hot takes. Heel turns.
• 1:00:18
  And fantasy booking that might have made events raise an
• 1:00:21
  eyebrow. We may not always agree, but
• 1:00:24
  hey, that's why the rings got ropes, not walls.
• 1:00:29
  Whether you were cheering for the wrong Undertaker in 94 like
• 1:00:32
  it was a supernatural telenovela, convinced the
• 1:00:35
  $1,000,000 man had a real bank account tied to that belt,
• 1:00:38
  Sneaking your friends VCR to record a paper industry copies
• 1:00:42
  like a backyard blockbuster. You belong here.
• 1:00:45
  Because in my third place, we don't just love wrestling, we
• 1:00:48
  cave fave harder than Kane in the boardroom.
• 1:00:51
  We are the ones who host Nitro parties like it was a Royal
• 1:00:54
  Rumble. Told teachers to suck it with
• 1:00:57
  full DX form, no context needed. I'm sorry teachers, I this is
• 1:01:04
  not how you guys wanted me to live out my life.
• 1:01:07
  But you know, hey, I'm still telling you how to suck it from
• 1:01:14
  a fucking podcast so it's all good.
• 1:01:18
  Stuttered our siblings on the trampoline, called it a
• 1:01:21
  technical clinic. Flashed the too sweet when
• 1:01:24
  friendship meant something. So did kayfabe Too sweet me
• 1:01:31
  smash that follow button like you just pinned the rock in a
• 1:01:34
  four Wheeler mission match and tag that friend who still
• 1:01:36
  shouts. And that's the bottom line,
• 1:01:38
  because Stone Cold said. So we keep it 100 like a
• 1:01:42
  wrinkled Austin 316 T at the bottom of your laundry basket.
• 1:01:47
  A search. Yes.
• 1:01:53
  Oh yeah. A search can wedge it next to
• 1:01:57
  your joke cola stash. The one lunch period when you
• 1:02:01
  were sure Sting was dropping from the stealing of your school
• 1:02:04
  gym catches 9G TikTok threads, blue sky or pages like a 1997
• 1:02:09
  year workshop and your promo in the mirror to the games theme
• 1:02:11
  music. Got a match, a feud, a stable or
• 1:02:15
  wrestler, a whole promotion using deserves the MP3M3P deep
• 1:02:19
  dive treatment. Drop.
• 1:02:21
  Let's say that again, what the fuck?
• 1:02:25
  You got a match, a feud, a stable or wrestler or whole
• 1:02:28
  promotion using deserves the M3P deep dive treatment.
• 1:02:32
  Drop it in the comments, DM us or cousin's voicemail like it's
• 1:02:35
  a Roz war. We'll bring it down with like
• 1:02:37
  Junior with a mic in a grudge. Until next time, stay fresh,
• 1:02:41
  stay reckless, and never trust anyone.
• 1:02:42
  Says they never walked me in the room and heard their theme music
• 1:02:45
  in their head. What was your theme music?
• 1:02:53
  Actually, what was it? Yeah, I don't have any.
• 1:03:00
  You know, you know, you know, listen to your toes.
• 1:03:03
  Did you? We didn't.
• 1:03:04
  Wasn't that one of the questions I asked you?
• 1:03:06
  Like before we when I interviewed you?
• 1:03:08
  For the job, no. When I interviewed you for this
• 1:03:13
  job, didn't I ask you this? No.
• 1:03:15
  Was your theme music? Man, Oh my theme music.
• 1:03:19
  I thought you said my demons. I was like, what?
• 1:03:21
  Your demon? Yeah.
• 1:03:23
  Your theme? Your.
• 1:03:23
  Demons in your head. Wow.
• 1:03:28
  I'm like didn't. I interview you for this job.
• 1:03:31
  Man, my theme music remember is Roman so.
• 1:03:37
  Yeah, of course, right. And he's coming back.
• 1:03:43
  He has to do Street Fighter first.
• 1:03:46
  True true Menace is always a pleasure stepping in a square
• 1:03:52
  circle with you and to the entire M3P universe.
• 1:03:56
  Whether you're vibing from guerrilla position, scrolling
• 1:03:58
  from the announce table, or running a full heal promo on
• 1:04:01
  that group chat, this is my third place podcast where
• 1:04:04
  community creativity in just a round amount of chair shot chaos
• 1:04:09
  always collide. Menace, thank you for stopping
• 1:04:13
  in. Appreciate you.
• 1:04:14
  You've been awesome. Yes, I love this.
• 1:04:17
  You know, this is my favorite. So I I know what's the next one
• 1:04:25
  summer slam, the next one summer slam, the next one all.
• 1:04:29
  Right, we're going to get A and that's a 2 nighter so.
• 1:04:33
  We're going to have a WrestleMania night.
• 1:04:35
  WrestleMania and so. We're going to do the same as
• 1:04:38
  WrestleMania night one, Night 2. So yeah, they have until August.
• 1:04:44
  So I have until August to catch up on everything and find out if
• 1:04:49
  they're doing like something like they did with WrestleMania.
• 1:04:51
  It's like meet and greets and stuff.
• 1:04:53
  Oh, yeah. OK.
• 1:04:56
  All right. Yeah, they probably might seem,
• 1:04:58
  seeing as it's the first time it's two nights.
• 1:05:02
  Yeah, that's true. All right.
• 1:05:05
  Think you're hanging out with me as?
• 1:05:07
  Always, always, always. More interviews are coming.
• 1:05:12
  For your job. Oh, OK then I guess this is bye.
• 1:05:22
  All right, I'll see you later. Have a great.
• 1:05:24
  Night. Who else are you going to get to
• 1:05:25
  come out here 30 times and still like being with them?
• 1:05:30
  OK. She has a point, all right.
• 1:05:37
  OK. So you still on the fence about
• 1:05:40
  CM Punk or? Yeah, OK.
• 1:05:44
  I told you I have to, you know, have to watch me some more.
• 1:05:48
  All right, all right, all right. You know, it's not a, a, a
• 1:05:53
  podcast if I don't get you on CM Punk's side, that's all right.
• 1:05:57
  So. All right.
• 1:05:59
  I tried another night I tried. Yeah.
• 1:06:01
  All right. Yes, it's time to go.
• 1:06:03
  I understand. You heard him.
• 1:06:07
  I heard him. All right, buddy.
• 1:06:09
  Alright, give that boy my love and you have a wonderful night,
• 1:06:13
  OK? Love you, love your face.
• 1:06:15
  Bye.